The Bobcats vs. the 76ers 3/31/10
The Bobcats are capable of giving every fan a reason to pause, usually in the third or fourth quarter of a game. When the ‘Cats let the 76ers go off on a (9-2) scoring run in the third quarter it gave me a little pause. I began to think the ‘Cats were determined to let the 76ers back into the game. Instead, the Bobcats started to pull away and never looked back. Gerald Wallace put together his thirty-third double-double of the season (24 points …

Back-to-back games are always hard on teams particularly when the second game is a road game. One thing that a visiting team can do to be successful in that situation is come out strong, especially when your opponent has been struggling to win. That is exactly what the Bobcats did tonight. They had a very strong first quarter scoring 37 points and limiting the 76ers to 23 first quarter points. Gerald Wallace led the ‘Cats scorers with 28 points but the Bobcats balanced their offensive attack …

Every time I think try to think about the last two minutes of the Bobcats/Sixers game last night I get this really bad vomit sensation in the back of my throat… So rather than risk cleaning chunks of last night’s chili out of my keyboard attempting to write up a long recap, I’m going to take the lazy way out and link you to those that have a much stronger digestive system than mine. Enjoy.
Highlights via the magic of Youtube

Queen City Hoops - Bobcats vs 76ers recap by the numbers
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The title says it all…
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Cats Win; City Rejoices 
The Charlotte Bobcats, in Steve Martin’s words (announcer.  Not the actor/comedian), led almost wire to wire against one of the top teams in the East.  Philadelphia and the Bobcats traded the lead the whole 2nd half.  At halftime, when I started paying attention, the Bobcats were smoking Philly on FG % but tied.  That kind of confused me.  I looked on down the stats and saw that Philly had 12 or so more points in the paint and about …

Bobcats at Home Tonight against Philadelphia 
“WHOOOOOOO FREAKINNNN CARRREES!!!!?” 
I just asked the guy who I share season tickets with if he wanted to go he said “No.”  quickly with no explanation.  I said “Ok…..oh is it because you’re a Packers fan and they are on Monday Night Football?”  His response: “That and I mean come on.  It’s a Monday night game against Philly.  I’d rather not waste my time.”  I wonder if the Bobcats feel the same way? 
The Sixers are pretty good.  …

For everyone’s reading pleasure I decided to submit my list of the best 2-3 combos in the East to see where exactly this team ranks with all the others. I took into consideration if a team has a reserve with starting caliber talent. Feel free to argue with anything and everything…

 Boston (Pierce/Allen)
 Miami (Marion/Wade)
 Milwaukee (Jefferson/Redd/Mason)
 Detroit (Prince/Hamilton)
 Cleveland (James/Szczerbiak)
 Chicago (Deng/Hughes/Gordon)
 New Jersey (Carter/Simmons)
 BOBCATS (Wallace/Richardson/Morrison?)
 Washington (Butler/Stevenson)
)Orlando (Turkoglu/Pietrus/Bogans)
Atlanta (Johnson/Evans)
Philadelphia (Iguodala/Young)
New York (Richardson/Crawford)
Toronto (Kapono/Parker)
Indiana (Dunleavy/Granger/Daniels)

There you have it, what is widely …

The Bobcats turned in two stomach-churning performances over the weekend, thereby splitting a pair of games that were both highly winnable.  The disappointments in both games were varied in type, size, and scope, but their common let-down has been a sickening fixture all season.  Against the Bulls and—more detrimentally—the Sixers, Charlotte ceded a deplorable 14 and 17 offensive boards, respectively.  If the Bobcats, currently 25th in the league in offensive rebounds allowed per game, don’t start denying teams second chance points ASAP, do you realize what will happen?  I’ll tell you …

My top 5 most disturbing images

5. Demonic Monkey

4.  Hawk Dog

3. This pimp decked out in green. Doesn’t this pimp realize that all of the truly  pimpalicious pimptastic pimps are wearing turquoise this year?

2. this goth kid.  Why didn’t his Mom enroll this kid into military school? Pushups at 5:00am would have done this clown some good.

1. The image thats burned into my brain from the  Bobcats’ 31 point loss to the 76ers. In this game, our "uptempo" offense  managed only 63 points, while shooting a paltry 30.7% from the field. …

Whether or not there is true cause for optimism with this Charlotte Bobcats team could be largely decided right away this season.
After an off-season of improvements across the board in the Eastern Conference, there is plenty of uncertainty as to how this season will shake out.  For the ‘Cats, said improvements occurred largely internally.  While the addition of Jason Richardson will provide immediate scoring help and a veteran presence, it is the re-signing of Gerald Wallace and the worth of an added year of experience for youngsters Ray Felton, Emeka …

Sorry I didn’t get a chance to comment on Friday night’s game against the Sixers. I’m in a Forecasting class at school right now and I was working on an insanely difficult assignment–the handout for the project itself was 9 pages of single-spaced, 10-font instructions. I took this class ostensibly to help me predict things like market share but secretly to help me pick football games (in the final project we have to take a series of data sets—of our choosing—and use software to help us make predictions—hmmm, wonder what …

First of all, rest in peace Dennis Johnson.  For anyone too young to remember, Johnson was a fabulous two-way scoring/defending point guard.  I’d take an in-his-prime DJ on the Bobcats over any number of today’s superstar guards, including Allen Iverson, Steve Nash, Jason Kidd…even Jeff McInnis.  Also, get well, Dwyane Wade.  You’re the superstar I love to hate, but you’re also magnificent—the question is, now that Pat Riley’s already missed his customary half-season, what’s coaching’s version of Roger Clemens going to do now?   Next order of business: kudos to management …

Who says the Bobcats and the 76ers are among the worst teams in the league? I do, after watching last night’s fiasco between them. In general, it was an atrocity of a game, almost like a Suck Relay Race: each team took a Suck Lap then passed the Suck Baton off to the other. The Bobcats ran the first leg of the Suck-a-thon by playing a horrendous 1st quarter that saw them trail by as many as 17 points. Then it was Philly’s turn to suck, as we cut the …

At long last we got to play the woeful 76ers Sunday night, a team that was down and ripe for the kicking. With the football Eagles playing at about the same time, this game was probably viewed by about 200 people in Philadelphia (an estimated three of whom don’t actually work for the 76ers). Sixers coach Mo Cheeks has got to be presiding over one of the worst situations in the League right now, as his team has no go-to players at all; I can only imagine his pep talks: …