There are many good ways to spend a Saturday evening. Unfortunately for us Bobcats fans, none of those ways involved anything that happened in last night’s Bobcats game.
For starters, we had Emeka Okafor come back to town. Emeka is a nice guy, and to be honest with you he was one of my favorite players during his time as a Bobcat. With that being said, it was more than a little bit painful watching him put up 16 points, 7 rebounds, 2 blocked shots and 1 steal while playing solid …

Hey guys, TooCool here with my first blog post. Hope you all enjoy it, and that I don’t bore you to death.
Defence to the Bobcats and our beloved coaching staff can be summed up in a single quote. “Larry Brown teaches, preaches, and even craps defence” – Along13. Defence is what makes the world go round, for Larry Brown anyway. Defence doesn’t revolve around the players. It revolves around Larry Brown’s head. They say that Defence wins championships. That statement is completely true. Without being able to get stops on …

I love the movie Bull Durham.  Kevin Costner calls Tim Robbins “meat” the whole time.  You know what he means but “Nuke” doesn’t.  My old roommate and I started calling Chuck James from the Braves “Meat” a couple years ago.  Every time he’d step out there it was like, “How long before somebody just rocks him and he’s got that holy-crap-did-that-just-happen-AGAIN looks on his face?”  You just knew the guy was set up to lose or something but you knew he had a few flashes or hopefully wouldn’t be out …

Rick Bonnell reports here that it is a done deal and will become official Tuesday morning.
There are 3 people who have averaged a double-double in each of the last 5 seasons:

Tim Duncan
Dwight Howard
Emeka Okafor

That’s the list… Chandler has done it once in his entire career.
In the forums, fans are less than happy with this deal because it has this the stench of Bob Johnson dumping salary.
Me… Well, I’m completely baffled how this deal will make us a better team and get us closer to making the playoffs next season.
If you …

It was a rough night for Greg. First he had to deal with getting posterized by Emeka Okafor.

 
Next on the list of bad things to happen to 7
foot rookies who can pass for 47 years old: Greg goes up for a dunk and gets his shot blocked by Adam Morrison.
 
Yes, you read that right.
 
The final humiliation in Greg’s night was the highlight reel dunk that Gerald Wallace graced him with.
 
It was truly a thing of beauty. Enjoy.
 

 
All in all it was a good night for the Bobcats, …

Restricted free agent Emeka Okafor’s contract negotiations has been the primary topic of discussion for Bobcats fans for the past few weeks. So today we decided to bring you something completely different. Drumroll please…………….
The Emeka Okafor Photoshop Tribute
Pope-afor - I believe that Emeka would make a good Pope. I can guarantee you that Pope Benedict XVI can’t do this to Ronny Turiaf.

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News, rumor, lies, truths, half-truths and innuendo concerning the Emeka Okafor / Charlotte Bobcats contract negotiations which are rumored to be falling apart by the second.
Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer gives us a few sign and trade options in case a deal with Okafor cannot be worked out. How would Shawn Marion float your boat?
Rufus on Fire says ”do not trade Emeka at any costs”. He also says  that the main problem with people’s perception of Emeka is that he isn’t Dwight Howard… but then again, who is?
Over at Hoopsvibe, some uninformed …

As the season winds down and limps to a series of meaningless results, I thought I’d take a look at one of our most significant moves (or non-moves) of the upcoming off-season: what to do about Emeka Okafor. The two key numbers floating around the situation are his $5.4 million expiring contract and the $13 million dollar extension he refused at the start of the season. That was 4 months and another terrible-team-performance-in-a-mediocre-conference ago. Assuming the bridges haven’t been burnt between Okafor and management, Charlotte can still …

I found some quality Youtubedness for you folks today. I’m not sure if my favorite part of this video was Emeka smothering Shaq’s dunk attempt, spiking Paul Pierce’s shot or cleaning swatting The Big Fundamental Tim Duncan… Judge for yourself.

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In today’s Charlotte Observer Sam Vincent had this to say 

"We don’t need 26 3-point shots. We need to get to the rim," coach
Sam Vincent said of his Bobcats’ love affair with 25-footers. "We don’t
need jumpers when we’re trying to get the ball to Emeka."

That
would be center Emeka Okafor, who is shooting 54 percent from the field
this season. Not that his teammates recognize that. Okafor took all of
seven shots (making four).

Backup PG Jeff McInnis followed that comment up with this:

"I love playing with a big man. He makes things easy," …

This was the lone Bobcats highlight from an otherwise ugly performance in last night’s game against the Heat.

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Who Helped Emeka Get His Points

PGs on the Court
Time (mins)
Total Points
FGA/Poss
Points for Emeka/Poss
FG%

Just Ray
1261.15
459
0.1529
0.1950
52.5%

Just Brevin
228.23
109
0.2036
0.2438
49.5%

Just McInnis
176.50
73
0.1562
0.2192
61.5%

At Least Ray
1829.01
722
0.1644
0.2097
52.3%

At Least Brevin
704.17
321
0.1913
0.2362
50.0%

At Least McInnis
289.30
138
0.1755
0.2523
60.4%

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 Enjoy this fantastic freestyle  by Papoose found via Youtube!

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In every contest there must be a loser (bonus points to anyone who recognizes that quote) - even if that competition were merely theoretical and in my head.  What contest am I talking about?  Well, I started thinking about the centerpieces of the Bobcats’ team and Gerald and Emeka were the first to come to my mind.  And I started to wonder – who is more important to the success of the team? 

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