I was on the optimistic side before the season began when analyzing the prospects of the Charlotte Bobcats for the first month of the season. I was criticized a bit for predicting a 6-9 November start, and while I freely admit it was a bit of a reach at the time, it turns out my lofty expectations of a young (but talented) team weren’t so far fetched, after all. In fact, the Bobcats topped my prediction, and finished the first month of the season at 7-8.

They kickoff the month of December tonight against the Portland Trail Blazers, so it only made sense to get back to the magic eight ball and try to predict how the team will do over the course of the next month. It’s a month of giving, cheer, and holiday. Let’s see if the Bobcats will be spending it in a good mood or not as we break down and predict each game:

1. 12/3 – vs. Portland Trail Blazers (Loss)

Portland is inconsistent, but they’re bigger and stronger than Charlotte. This one could get messy at home.

2. 12/5 – vs. New York Knicks (Loss)

New York has struggled on the road a bit, but they shouldn’t in this one. They spread out the floor with the best of them and can hurt you inside and out. Their offense will simply be too much for the Bobcats in this one, as they start December 0-2.

3. 12/7 – @ Milwaukee Bucks (Win)

They’ve beaten Milwaukee before and the Bucks are a pretty inconsistent team. Charlotte can bang down low with them and they matchup well at the guard spots. It’ll be close, but I think the Bobcats get their first win of the Christmas season here.

Hello Bobcats fans! I know I haven’t written for a long time, no it is nothing to do with me feeling too Depressed during this emphatic losing streak. I have had University exams for the last month which have been long and hard, a bit like the bobcats season.
I believe Reggie Williams deserves some LOVE right now from me, you and all the Bobcats fans. In a stretch where we have very few bright spots this guy has given me a reason to watch the games. However, I think he has been underappreciated by the BCP faithful, yeah I said it! Reggie Williams was undrafted in 2008 but was picked up by the warriors in 2010 as they looked for some offensive punch off their bench. Reggie delivered this, and much more. Reggie quickly became known for his 3 point shooting (44% last season); this is why the bobcats picked him up. Improvement in 3 point shooters was one of Silas’s top requests for the offseason, after missing out on Mike Dunleavy the Bobcats landed Reggie for a staggering 2.5 million over 2 years. Now in the NBA there are not many instances of pure value for money, but I believe this to be pretty close!
Unfortunately, Reggie has been out with the injury that seems to plague this team. As Ziggy’s caption says, “the Charlotte Bobcats: Where torn meniscuses happen”. This injury seems ever more prevalent in the NBA today, it is for this reason that I believe we should speak of torn meniscuses like harry Potter speaks of Voldermort in an effort to keep these injuries away. From now on it will be called “the you know what” instead of torn meniscus. But anyway, back to the point.

My goal is to always remain optimistic without being completely unrealistic when I write my posts, but I have to say that the Charlotte Bobcats are making it awful hard to do that these days.

The scene from White Men Can’t Jump where Wesley Snipes is getting hustled by Woody Harrelson keeps coming to mind when I think of this team. I picture Wesley in a Bobcats uniform with his hand in the air going, “It’s pretty! It’s so pretty!”

Then Rosie Perez stands up and yells out (in her best Puerto Rican accent), “Oh no it ain’t! Go pay your taxes!”

For those of you that do watch the Bobcats I am sure I don’t need to tell you how bad things have been. I think the game Wednesday night against the Portland Trailblazers should be treated like Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series; it will be “the game that will not be named.”

We knew that this season would be a tough one, but this is starting to hurt to watch; 3-20 and in the midst of an 11 game losing streak following Saturday’s game with the Phoenix Suns. When will the pain end? When will these guys win another game?

Before we figure out the best chance for that let’s take a look at what these guys are capable of and how they stack up to the rest of the league:

The Bobcats are two games into the worst road trip out west since The Shining.  And just as it did with Jack Torrance, dementia is starting to spread in and around the team.  Midway through the second quarter against the Lakers, with the Bobcats clinging to a semi-respectable 16-point deficit, color analyst Dell Curry speculated, “If the Bobcats can just keep Bryant, Bynum, and Gasol in check, and close out on the perimeter shooters, they could make this interesting.”  Whatever you say, Wardell!  It was a little like listening to Newt Gingrich describe his plans for colonizing the Moon.  Curry might as well have been encouraging a guy in a wheelchair to just jump a little higher.  Of course, the Bobcats did none of the above and lost by 33 in a game that should have been hauled off in a straitjacket.

Then in the following night’s contest, a 44-point castration at the hands of Portland, Coach Paul Silas issued this completely deranged analogy, spectacular in its inaptness: “If I had a full squad and we were losing this way, it would be awful.  But you take (LaMarcus) Aldridge and (Gerald) Wallace off their team and see what kind of team you’d have.”  Then his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he began growling “Redrum” over and over.  First of all, I love how he considers the worst loss in team history to not be awful.  Second, Silas was presumably attempting to compare DJ Augustin and Corey Maggette to Aldridge and (Saint) Wallace, which is so funny by itself that I can’t even add anything, so instead I’ll just end this sentence by linking to one of my favorite t-shirts.

Apparently getting embarrassed in Orlando, Denver and Los Angeles wasn’t enough. The Charlotte Bobcats, missing captain Stephen Jackson, made it a perfect 4-for-4 of disgrace on their road trip, being trampled by the Portland Trail Blazers 93-69. Gerald Henderson led the Bobcats with 16 points, and that’s all you need to say to know it was a bad night.

Post All-Star break/ Wallace & Nazr trade

First off Gerald “Crash” Wallace, You will be missed. Any true Bobcats fan has appreciated your effort which has continued from day one after the expansion draft. So my inaugural blog pooping goes to the Bobcats front office. But this poop I might just seal in a bag and wait on throwing. No TheGayKid but I love Gerald Wallace. He has been my favorite Bobcat since day one. He’s the working mans player. Blue collar basketball skills. Basically this teams skinny Oakley. But getting two 1st rounders from a team thats going through it’s own type of rebuild without Brandon Roy in their future. Those picks depending how structured, could end up pretty high. I know for one I will be rooting against Portland like they are Duke for the next couple years.
And I F*CKING HATE DUKE!