The Charlotte Bobcats vs. Portland Trail Blazers 2/1/10
The Bobcats played the Trail Blazers with their star (Brandon Roy) side-lined with a hamstring injury. It did not seem to matter. The Trail Blazers beat the visiting Bobcats by 19 points. Despite another double-double (17 points and 10 rebounds) from all-star forward Gerald Wallace the Bobcats played a very “sloppy” game. It is hard (if not impossible) to win with 21 turn-overs and poor shooting (40.6%), when you allow your opponent to shoot over 50% (53.3%), and you’re playing …

The Bobcats coughed up a 16 point comeback to lose in overtime, 106-95

Welcome to the 3 game win streak, by round of applause how do you feel?
 
It’s Stand Up Month on Comedy Central.  Last weekend I laid on the couch and ended a run of pretty good comedians with the biggest name in comedy from about 8 years ago.  Dane Cook is lame as hell but he took one of my original ideas for “BigCat: The Stand Up Experience.”   It drives me crazy that an acceptable form of communication is “WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”  Sort of like the greeting “Hey.”  Anyway, he made the point that no where …

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     One of the many tragic elements of prolific author David Halberstam’s death last year is that right now would have been the perfect time for him to write another basketball book. Halberstam’s first take on hoops, the vaunted The Breaks of the Game, profiled the nascent League in the throes of its 1970s growing pains. In 1998’s Playing For Keeps, Halberstam analyzed in deft detail the Jordan-era League that was cresting in popularity yet already wary of the void soon to come with 23’s retirement. This year—an even decade …

The latest from long time BobcatsPlanet member TheBeagle on his March Madness / Charlotte Bobcats weekend.
A crazy, bewildering, fun whirlwind weekend wraps up. My love of the NCAA tournament and Tar Heel basketball is not something I conceal, so the fact that this past weekend played out like it did would be incredible in and of itself, but add in to that the fact that my dad’s old Army buddy (whose name I won’t drop here, out of modesty and privacy) who is longstanding icon of …

Just about everything from Saturday night’s game against Seattle went perfectly.  First, traveling across the country, coming off a double-OT game the night before, playing the dreaded 4th game in 5 nights, and in general sucking, the Sonics were handed to us on a silver platter.  Second, Charlotte continued to defeat the teams that it should defeat.  Third, Jason Richardson justified my love by asserting his ability to dominate, drilling 4 3-pointers for 14 points in three minutes during the 3rd quarter and thereby catalyzing a victory.  Fourth, Ryan Hollins put …

Portland is coming to Charlotte on Monday November 19th, for a showdown with the Bobcats.  They bring a 4-6 record into the game, as well as a 3 game losing streak…which follows a 4 game winning streak…which itself followed another 3 game losing skid.  Hey, at least they are consistent (for a few games at a time).  The question is, which team are they?  The world-beaters who have already knocked off New Orleans, Dallas, and Detroit?  Or the high-lotto team who has already been blown out by those same Hornets, …

Holy crap, not one but THREE people commented on my last entry!  I was getting so worried that no one ever read this thing that my next blog was just going to be, "Echo!" Anyway, quick update of fake news on this fake draft: the fake Trail Blazers fakely selected Greg Oden (no surprise), and the virtual Sonics took a Durant hologram.  Then the pseudo- Atlanta Hawks–and I swear I'm NOT making this up–selected Al Horfod rather than a point guard.  Makes me wonder if it's actually the real Hawks front …

Okay, okay, I take it all back what I said a few games ago about not wanting Vince Carter. I would take Vince Carter. Hell, I’d take Jimmy Carter at this point, if I thought it could help. I’d do anything to avoid having to endure another game like last night’s debacle in Portland. Once again without Woods and Prior—I mean, Okafor and May—the Bobcats were blown away by 37 points, their second-worst deficit ever (and that’s saying something; in terms of severity, it’s comparable to DMX’s second worst run-in …

The Bobcats lost in overtime to the Trail Blazers Friday night, and in the face of wrenching disappointment I—like any good American—immediately searched for someone to blame.  Fortunately, I found him: Adam Morrison; clearly, it’s all his fault.  It’s Morrison’s fault that Charlotte blew a late lead, that we’re in last place, that attendance is so low, that the country is trapped in two un-winnable Middle East conflicts, that Nas hasn’t been able to put together one good album since Illmatic, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that Super Bowl …