The Phoenix Suns versus the Charlotte Bobcats 1/16/10
The Bobcats pounced an unsuspecting Suns team (125-99) with Gerald Wallace leading the way. Wallace was the story of the game with 29 points and 13 rebounds. Stephen Jackson also scored 29 for the game and chipped in with 8 assist. The team played stifling defense against the leagues most prolific offensive road team. The Suns came into the game with an NBA high 106 points per game on the road. The Bobcats allowed the Suns none of that! The Bobcats record now …

Bobcats travel to Phoenix    
 
This biggest of the Bobcats 3 major trades this season was a 3 for 3 swap with the Phoenix Suns.  Former coach Terry Porter wasn’t using Boris Diaw or Raja Bell the way they once were and the players and teams seemed prime for a divorce.  In come the Bobcats and the Suns seeming need for a wing shooter and before you know it former Chicago Bulls Golden Years teammates Michael Jordan and Steve Kerr had swapped Jason Richardson, Jared Dudley and a 2nd rounder to Phoenix …

Yeah, I know that the Phoenix Suns  have been putting up about 5,000 points per in their last few games, They’ve been looking a lot like the run and gun Mike D’Antoni squad that was not only fun to watch but damned difficult to beat. The Bobcats on the other hand have looked pretty bad in their last couple of games. The last two games in particular have arguably been some of the ugliest Bobcats ball of the post-Ham Biscuit era.Poor ball movement, bad shot selection… It has not been …

You ever have a day where you see something good, then something bad and it’s so bad that you really can’t remember the good thing?  Well the benches for the Bobcats and the Suns did that to me today.  I’m so freakin congested I think the badness of the 4th quarter has gotten stuck in there.  I keep reminding myself that the Bobcats were up by 30+ against a pretty good Phoenix team for most of the game.  3 minutes into the game was the last tie.  What’s the story …

If you’ve got to trade someone, you traded the right guy….I guess
I can’t say I fully agree with the recent trade between the Suns and the Bobcats. As a Bobcats fan, I feel like we kind of got screwed with one caveat: We really weren’t lighting the world on fire with J-Rich and Dudley. The 3 players received in return, Diaw, Bell and Singletary add up to more than Jason Richardson and Jared Dudley and a 2nd round pick in 2010. It just sucks when everyone who knows …

This afternoon The Phoenix Suns have completed a deal to send Shawn Marion to the Miami Heat in exchange for Shaquille O’neal. The 53 year old Shaq is currently weighing in at a robust 446 pounds and hasn’t been completely healthy since the early days of the Richard Nixon administration… Seems like a great fit for Phoenix’s run and gun offense to me. Throwing in the fact that Shaq carries a cap figure that would make Bill Gates blush means that this is a lock to go down as the …

The Bobcats were in Phoenix on Wednesday night, coincidentally just a day after I finished reading Jack McCallum’s revealing look at last year’s Suns team, 7 Seconds or Less.  I plan to do a full-blown review of the book in the next few days, but in short I would highly recommend it to anyone (other than my ignorant neighbor, the kind of guy who is immovable from the “basketball players are thugs” stance and who routinely cites the Latrell Sprewell choking incident like it happened ten days ago, rather than …