Quote :

"This losing is good for us... if we get a top 4 pick we're guaranteed to get a good big man between oden, durant, noel, wright (even though i dont think wright will be particularly good)"

I know you meant Noah instead of Noel. Don't worry. Anyway, if it was the time to make the lottery this might be the year with all the big guys coming out early.

3/2/2007 4:09:47 PM

i have said it before and i will say it again

if we draft Joakim fucking Noah I will no longer be a Bobcats fan

period

i cant stand him and I dont think his upside is as high as Wrights... but he would need to go on Weight Gain 5000 before he will be a force, and i dont even know if he will come out or not...

3/2/2007 4:13:14 PM

^^ haha yes i did mean noah.... clearly not referring to david noel


^ Why? He's a real energy guy that would pair nicely with Okafor i think...

here's an excerpt that i like referring to him

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"Q: This is what you wrote about Joakim Noah in your most recent blog: "He's a winner, he's always in the right place at the right time, he always makes the right decision on either end, he doesn't care about stats, he's immensely fun to play with and he makes 5-6 important plays per game that will not be reflected in the stats." Couldn't that exact, I mean EXACT, same thing have been said about Shane Battier in 2001? Do you still think Noah should be a top-four pick knowing that? --Neil A. Johnson, Peoria, Ill. SG: Hell yeah! What's wrong with Shane Battier? Is he not having a big enough impact on Houston's season for you? He's the most underrated Intangibles Guy in the entire league -- you can't measure him by stats, you can only measure him by watching the games and seeing all the little things he does from game to game. And he's a fantastic locker room guy. That's why I was such a big proponent of the Battier-for-Gay/Swift trade last summer. If you did the 2001 Draft over again (which was seriously loaded, by the way) and every team got a do-over for its pick, here's how the top 11 would go: 1. Wash -- Gilbert Arenas (No. 30 originally) 2. Clips -- Pau Gasol (3) 3. Atlanta -- Tony Parker (28) 4. Chicago -- Joe Johnson (10) 5. G-State -- Mehmet Okur (37) 6. Grizz -- Zach Randolph (19) 7. Jersey -- Eddy Curry (4) 8. Cleveland -- Shane Battier (6) 9. Detroit -- Jason Richardson (5) 10. Boston -- Gerald Wallace (25) 11. Boston -- Richard Jefferson (13) So let's say Noah evolves into a more talented, big man's version of Battier ... why would this be a bad thing?"

3/2/2007 4:39:57 PM

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"I was starting to think i was the only person still using this thread"

might want to check out the forums at bobcatsplanet.com ive been posting over there a lot lately...

the guy who writes the game by game blogs is pretty funny and gives a good write up which i appreciate since i dont get to see many games

3/2/2007 9:59:36 PM

Ill give it one more plug since i find his writing to be pretty informative/humorous. the forums over there could use a few more posters too.

http://www.bobcatsplanet.com

Quote :

"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 with the cops ever). For a large portion of the second half we were down by over 40—40!—man, I want to drink my 40’s, not trail by them. Every Rose Arena has its thorn, and for the Bobcats it was LeMarcus Aldridge, who scored 30 points on 12-19 shooting (and sat most of the 4th). Of course, it’s hard to miss when every other shot is an unopposed alley-oop. I already compared our defense to a bowling alley last night, so where do I go from there? The Maginot Line? Arena football? Saddam Hussein’s lawyers? I’m taking requests. Martell Webster (20 points) also steamrolled over the Bobcats’ crumbling infrastructure early and often, and the only remaining suspense after the first quarter was when commentator Matt Devlin would realize that Webster’s first name wasn’t “Martin.” (answer: with ten minutes to go in the second quarter, but give Matt credit: he then jokingly asked if Martell “was Daniel’s brother,” and it’s that sort of brilliant humor that lets me laugh through my tears.) Meanwhile, Zach Randolph (20 points) picked his teeth with Primoz Brezec and Ryan Hollins, and I think it’s safe to say at this point that Brandon Roy (14 points, 9 assists, 8 rebounds) has the inside track on Adam Morrison for Rookie of the Year. Then, to put the icing on the turd, we learned that Okafor is headed back to Charlotte to get an MRI on his calf and may be gone 6 weeks?!? What in the world!? I never thought of the calf as a very sophisticated part of the human anatomy. What is it with this team and seemingly innocuous injuries that end up knocking out players for weeks? Sean May has a sore knee and he’s out indefinitely, Brevin Knight pulls his groin and they end up cutting out his stomach…Jesus, at this point, I’ll just be happy if they find out Emeka doesn’t have cancer. I guess we’ll all be getting a good look at Hollins then. He had 6 points through the first half, but he didn’t get any more after that, and unfortunately his fouls caught up and eventually tied with his scoring. And where was Derek Anderson? With all those young guys on the Blazers, they should have been ripe for some of Anderson’s veteran bamboozling. Instead: 0 points in 7 minutes? It was the worst “DA” performance since Mike Nifong. Forget it, this hurts too much. I’d rather think about something less depressing right now, like Darfur. I just hope I can contain my excitement until the Bobcats next game on Sunday in Seattle. Will we be able to stay within 40? Will we at least hold the Sonics to under 30 points for one of the quarters? Will Okafor need to have his leg amputated? Tune in to find out…"

3/3/2007 6:09:46 PM

im at the beach and havent really been able to update this thread

keep it alive bobcats people

3/6/2007 11:48:18 AM

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"and I think it’s safe to say at this point that Brandon Roy (14 points, 9 assists, 8 rebounds) has the inside track on Adam Morrison for Rookie of the Year."

This was something me and rally argued people at the beginning of the year. Roy is going to be a beast, I really wish we could have gotten him.

3/6/2007 11:51:34 AM

^Roy didn't want to play in Charlotte and while it would be nice to have him, fuck 'em.

and WTF Felton? 3-10 last night? .382 FG% on the year. That is bloody awful.

3/6/2007 1:02:25 PM

Hanging in there with the Suns.

3/7/2007 11:01:33 PM

wtf offensive foul?! .4 seconds left tied at 98

Wow. That alley-oop was close. Going to OT. Great game.

[Edited on March 7, 2007 at 11:18 PM. Reason : ,gb]

3/7/2007 11:17:01 PM

they gaw lose again

allan bristow is rolling over in his grave

3/7/2007 11:30:09 PM

i wish the celtics and grizzlies weren't so terrible

3/8/2007 2:10:14 AM

man you cant do anything about Phoenix hitting 19 3-pointers but holy shit there were some terrible calls in overtime...Wallace goes up with contact, no foul...Voskuhl rebound putback with contact, no foul...Nash goes up near a Bobcat, oh Nash was hacked

3/8/2007 10:40:09 AM

119-108 win over the Orlando Tragic tonight

May was back for 28 min, 14 pts, 4 reb, 2 asst, 1 blk, 2 stl

Bobcats lights out from 3, 14-22

check out the rest of the box score

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=270312030

3/12/2007 9:22:18 PM

i was at this one...rode the elevator down to the 1st floor with steve martin, the radio play by play guy. he started talkin about the unc/ncsu game, and i flashed the wolfpack hand signal and said "go pack". thats my exciting story of the night.

3/12/2007 9:33:09 PM

can't figure this team out

hopefully may will continue to produce like i think he shall

3/12/2007 10:17:55 PM

next year

keep losing this year

3/12/2007 10:21:20 PM

I was at the game...great change of pace from the 0-6 road trip

Derek Anderson was killin it...Keith Bogans and Carlos Arroyo had some kind of beef going where they were mocking each other on the court and wouldnt sit next to each other on the bench lol

3/12/2007 11:09:38 PM

BICKERSTAFF OUT AS COACH....NEXT YEAR.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-bobcats-bickerstaff&prov=ap&type=lgns

the article says he will stay with the teacm in some capacity though.

3/13/2007 2:40:38 PM

they're talking on the Packman show about replacement possibilities

funny stuff for some of them...there are retards emailing him saying Dean Smith

3/13/2007 3:45:33 PM

^^ SUCCESS

at least they're pulling the trigger now rather than later

3/13/2007 4:18:08 PM

i'm sure a lot of other coaches would've had much better success in the first 3 years of a brand new franchise

I mean what did you expect from the Bobcats? If we had a different coach this year would our record be that much better?

3/13/2007 4:29:42 PM

in some games

like the Portland OT game

yes, a better coach would have probably lead to a win

3/13/2007 4:32:17 PM

i just think Bernie has gotten too much criticism

How many wins is a team supposed to get in its first couple seasons? Seems like mid-20s is about right

3/13/2007 4:33:12 PM

i agree

but three years is long enough

its time to make a move

or they are going to start to lose people

3/13/2007 4:34:45 PM

Quote :

"[Larry] Brown confidants say he will coach again, possibly for his buddy Michael Jordan in Charlotte"

quoted from 11/9/06 and now the rumors are starting back up with Bickerstaff being out at the end of the year.

Personally, I'm for this, even though sooner or later we're gonna be UNC Pro version (especially if we were to draft Wright).

3/13/2007 5:05:02 PM

ahahaha MJ just said he's taking a SERIOUS look at Coach K for the RobertCats head coaching job.

3/13/2007 5:06:27 PM

if K doesn't leave for the Lakers, there's not a snowflake's chance in hell he'll leave for the Bobcats

and I think Bickerstaff has proven over the years that he's not capable of building a long-term consistent winner, ~1000 games and a fourhundredsomething-fivehundredsomething record oughta be able to tell you something

3/13/2007 5:21:43 PM

Hell, why not look at Roy? At least he'd know how to use Felton, and I don't hate him as much as the rat.

3/13/2007 6:04:03 PM

none of the tobacco road ACC guys are going anydamnplace

3/13/2007 6:41:20 PM

I would hate to see us get Larry Brown

3/14/2007 1:37:42 PM

so would i

i thought it had always been said he doesnt like young teams

Furious George Karl would be a better pick if it HAD to be a unc guy

3/14/2007 5:13:09 PM

If we spend $3-$5 million a year to get Larry Brown but we won't spend $10 mil to re-sign Gerald Wallace or $14-15 mil to get Vince Carter I am going to be PISSED

Maybe pissed enough to find a new team.


Fuck a coach, any old ast coach around the league will do. We need PLAYERS

look how well random guys like D'Antoni and Avery Johnson are doing.

3/14/2007 5:15:56 PM

Rick Adelman, the old Kings coach

3/14/2007 5:57:05 PM

I guess I can understand some of the Brown-bashing (no, I'm not talking about the ACC title game thread), but as I said before, I see Brown as a coach who can elevate our level of play from a basement dwelling doormat to a borderline playoff team. Stages people, stages.

Obviously we need some more elite level talent. Tell you the truth, do we even have what most would consider an "elite" caliber player?

3/14/2007 6:27:32 PM

beat the kings tonight

3/14/2007 10:07:42 PM

ugh, stop winning.

May is actually pretty sick. Too bad his knees are never gonna allow him to play more than 30-40 games a year

3/15/2007 3:34:55 AM

May played awesome tonight

hitting his jumper and going 2-2 from the 3pt line

20 points, 12 rebounds

3/15/2007 8:34:25 AM

haha it looks like shareef is doing his hair or something

3/15/2007 9:17:49 AM

Quote :

"Look for Brown on Bobcats sideline Asking around recently about the Bobcats' coaching vacancy — Michael Jordan last week said that Bernie Bickerstaff won't be back on the bench next season — brought the same response from several sources whose opinions I trust: Larry Brown wants the job badly and likely will get it. Brown has been classically passive-aggressive about the Charlotte job. He is happy, he insists, as executive vice-president in the basketball operations department in Philadelphia, where he made one of eight stops in an NBA coaching career that has produced 1,010 victories (he had 229 wins coaching two ABA teams), but little contentment. In the next breath, Brown says he has not heard from Jordan and has no idea if Jordan is interested in talking to him about the job that will open in Charlotte at season's end. Then he adds that he would have a hard time saying no to Jordan if Jordan did ask him to coach the Bobcats because, well, he loves Jordan and would have a hard time saying no to any request. It's a Carolina thing. Jordan isn't saying much about his plans to hire a new coach. He has not handled the situation in Charlotte with any sort of finesse. In a letter assuring season ticket holders the club was committed to doing whatever it takes in the future to put a winning team on the court, there was nary a mention of Bickerstaff, merely one of owner Bob Johnson's first hires after he was awarded the expansion franchise. Bickerstaff was left to twist in the wind. At least he knows now what most of us suspected after he was omitted from the letter about the club's future. Curiously, Jordan insists he wants Bickerstaff to remain involved in the basketball operations of the Bobcats. In what capacity, he won't say. But will the new coach really want the old coach hanging around the office? Especially if Brown is the new coach? "

3/19/2007 8:06:15 AM

Bobcats were fined 15,000 dollars by the NBA for comments made by Jordan regarding Kevin Durant.

3/19/2007 4:00:49 PM

haha what did he say? was this after texas lost?

3/19/2007 4:08:13 PM

yeah, i dont see how you can be fined if you were baited into saying something

3/19/2007 4:39:27 PM

tim hardaway kind of got fired for being baited into something (perhaps)

3/19/2007 4:45:16 PM

i would agree he was somewhat baited

the way Dan LeRetard slid that question in right before he got off the phone when none of the rest of the interview had anything to do with it

i feel really bad for Tim

[Edited on March 19, 2007 at 4:53 PM. Reason : i hate gay people]

3/19/2007 4:52:56 PM

NY Post/Hoopshype saying Brown not coming to Charlotte.

You can all exhale.

3/20/2007 9:43:44 AM

thank god

3/20/2007 9:46:04 AM

they would be saying that

im saying he is coming

mark it down

3/20/2007 10:14:59 AM

Why would we want Larry Brown?

He moves to a new team every two years and isn't even THAT good of a coach.

Look at the Knicks.....same team as last year and yet what 7 more wins already under Isaiah, who is an awful coach.

3/20/2007 11:29:09 AM

yeah and not only does his track record say he doesnt stick around long, but he's also not as good with younger players...if we had a team of veterans i think he would fit better but not with our current makeup

3/20/2007 11:37:54 AM