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November 03, 2007
Stray thoughts after Friday's Bobcats win
- Not that you want any starter to be a free-throw liability, but you REALLY don't want Emeka Okafor missing constant foul shots. He's this team's only true low-post threat. If he continues the way he was Friday (3-of-13) in the Bobcats' 102-99 win against the Bucks, he's inviting the opposing team to hack him every time the potential for a dunk or layup is there. - Coach Sam Vincent is finessing a situation where Jeff McInnis is this team's primary ballhandler at the end of games. Vincent likes McInnis and Raymond Felton to share the backcourt, and that usually means Felton is off the ball, shooting jump shots. The only difference between that and the Brevin Knight-Felton backcourt is Knight wasn't big enough to guard shooting guards (the way McInnis can.) -The Bobcats listed attendance Friday at 16,368, but any eyeball estimate would suggest there were far fewer live bodies in the arena. Remember: "Attendance" by NBA count is tickets distributed. Looks like many of those tickets went unused. -You can't argue with the result - they won - but isn't it strange that Matt Carroll - one of the best foul shooters in the NBA - played fewer than three minutes of the fourth quarter Friday, when the Bobcats biggest problems was foul shooting?
Posted by rbonnell on November 3, 2007 at 01:49 AM | Permalink
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Where are the positive comments?
Posted by: LeeL | Nov 3, 2007 2:24:37 AM
Bonnell doesn't know how to write those.
Posted by: Nope | Nov 3, 2007 2:36:00 AM
it was actually a very good win in disguise if you think about it... the game showed how strong the bobcats are this season.. had they made only their free throws, they could have won the game by more than twenty points easy the way their going.. they were fortunate to win but they are really serious in their playoff run this year.. watch out.
Posted by: wil | Nov 3, 2007 6:14:38 AM
and btw, matt carroll maybe a good foul shooter, but the game was not a foul shooting contest, it was an nba basketball game.. so bringing up ft percentage is a pointless observation..
Posted by: wil | Nov 3, 2007 6:22:30 AM
and in addition, j-rich, wallace n especially emeka was terrible at the line, but would you insert matt carroll to replace any of them in the end game?? he may nt even get to the line w/ his game.. he's limited to the perimeter.
Posted by: wil | Nov 3, 2007 6:30:30 AM
Ricky wants the Bobcats to fail so he can go back to his previous job of writing celebrity gossip. Rick, you are the worst beat writer in the history of sports. Do us all a favor and give it up.
Posted by: darryl | Nov 3, 2007 7:35:31 AM
I have to agree there wasn't 16,000 in the arena. Though there wasn't it was very loud and live regardless. The cats hung in there and pulled it off. 1-0!
Posted by: T-Bro | Nov 3, 2007 11:39:36 AM
I live in greensboro, NC and it's painfully obvious the writers in Charlotte hate the Bobcats. No the arena wasn't full, bt I could see the "accounced attendance" being over 16k b/c alot of the season ticketholers seats were empty on the lower level. Why try to discredit your own's team numbers anyway. It was the Bucks for crying out loud. I didnt want to see the Bucks, but b/c it was a season opener I went. Our team won the game despite missing 21 of 43 FT's. If you look at fact alone, we played an aggressive game. We shot 43 FT's for the game compared to 14 for the Bucks. You don't get those attempts unless you play aggressive basketball by going to the hoop. That's why Matt only played 3 mins in the 4th b/c he's a perimeter player. We got those FT's by getting fouled on putbacks, post ups, and taking it hard to the hoop. Most teams don't win missing 21 FT's. We had four players in double figures and three over 20 points. That's awesome! Gerald could have easily went above 30 b/c he missed some easy shots and of course FT's. It was a good game and the experience was great last night. Me and my girl enjoyed the game. We laughed and the entertainment was good.
Posted by: Bobcats fan | Nov 3, 2007 12:42:35 PM
I represent one of the empty seats last night. I will not be at any of the 41 games again this year.
A friday night and not a full house. Sounds like there will be more to come.
Not to worry the Panthers will be back next week.
Did anyone see Bobcat Johnson or Mikie?
Will always informs us that Bobcat Johnson attends almost all games and has a home here. Did anyone see him last night?
Posted by: jason | Nov 3, 2007 12:53:36 PM
It's nice after SEVEN weeks of the NFL and one game of the NBA, we finally have a pro sports team that can win in front of the home fans, eh?
Posted by: Will | Nov 3, 2007 1:05:00 PM
Okay, where's the positives of last night's game??? They won didn't they?! Go Bobcats! 1-0!!!!
Posted by: Mel | Nov 3, 2007 1:10:56 PM
Bonnel you need to start backing this team and get people excited to go to a game. Why would they want to go if the play a great exciting game like last night, and all you talk about is what they did wrong. GO BOBCATS!
Posted by: chris | Nov 3, 2007 1:10:57 PM
Jason you should go to a game especially if you have a season ticket... if not you're just wasting money.
Bobcats rocked last night. Couldn't be there but the box score looked great (besides ft's) and the place sounded alive on the radio. GO BOBCATS!
Posted by: Stupid | Nov 3, 2007 1:22:47 PM
I am a homo. I have nothing to do but put the Panthers down, by the way I have never had enough money to attend a game.
I support the BET (Black Every Time) owned team. I work for the man better know as the absent, racist owner of the blackcats.
Did I mention that the reason I always talk about rednecks is that my mama raised me in a trailor park, my daddie left, and I have to put everyone down to make myself feel better.
Oh yeah, I am a homo.
Posted by: will | Nov 3, 2007 1:28:10 PM
Can we petition to get this guy moved to cover the Charlotte Checkers. I'm serious! If we get enough people together, we can get this idiot moved! He's not a Bobcat fan, so why the hell is he writing about the team. All he writes about is the team screw ups. He rarely looks at the positives of the team.
LETS PETITION TO GET THIS GUY MOVED!
Posted by: Bobcats fan | Nov 3, 2007 1:28:18 PM
Does anyone know when the Bobcats are going to launch their new website layout?
Also did anyone notice if the blue in the main logo on the court was different from the rest of the blue on the court? It looked different from the highlights and if that's true then that bugs me.
Posted by: Website | Nov 3, 2007 1:28:45 PM
I don't know about Mr. Johnson, but Mr. Jordan, as reported in another column about the game, was not in attendance as he was attending an event with his son, which I believe might be the Illinois basketball team scrimmage at Whitney Young High School in Chicago where Mr. Jordan's younger son, Marcus, is a junior and where his older son, Jeff, will be playing in the Illinois scrimmage game.
Posted by: Illini/Bobcat fan | Nov 3, 2007 3:20:48 PM
Why is Bonnell spending time noting the attendance??? He is one of the reasons why the Hornets left town. The local media needs to support local sports. Has the Observer ever fired a Sports writer? Ever in the past 25 years? Bonnell might be a good choice for the next Dr. Traffic. We need a snarly ass in that role to get better roads.
Posted by: Primo | Nov 3, 2007 3:22:18 PM
Yes, Bob Johnson was there and can you please get off this man's back? It's getting old! Could somebody explain what Bob Johnson has done to deserve all the negativity?
Anyway, you suck Bonnell! You didn't mention that there were 3 players with double-doubles. The Cats played very good last night and they were in control the whole game. I think the biggest lead the Bucks had was by 3.
Posted by: DS | Nov 3, 2007 3:46:43 PM
Let's petition to move Bonnell from covering the Bobcats!!
Posted by: Bobcats Fan | Nov 3, 2007 3:49:53 PM
Would that be the same Matt Carroll whose "perimeter"-only game had him taking the 4th-highest rate of FTs on the team out of anybody who played any minutes of consequence last year (ahead of slashing luminaries like Ray Felton and Adam Morrison)??? Also, for anyone to have questioned the fact that there were less than 16,000 there last night is a fool. The arena wasn't halfway full at tip, and it wasn't 2/3 full at its peak.
Posted by: Michael Procton | Nov 3, 2007 3:51:28 PM
no - Bonnell doesn't have to be a fan of teh team, ya moron.
however, he doesn't do himself any favors when he makes constant errors (like the team's final preseason record, how do you screw that up?).
my guess: Bonnell just doesn't give a damn any more. and regardless of how he feels about the team, the Observer should get someone in thios position that might actually give a (hoot) about providing quality coverage. His work is obvioulsy pretty half-arse.
Posted by: wilson | Nov 3, 2007 4:12:03 PM
Does anyone know when the Bobcats are going to launch their new website layout?
Also did anyone notice if the blue in the main logo on the court was different from the rest of the blue on the court? It looked different from the highlights and if that's true then that bugs me.
Posted by: Website | Nov 3, 2007 4:49:39 PM
RobertCat Johnson has forced a paying public that voted down his arena to pay for it anyway.
RobertCat Johnson has named the team after himself because he's a pompous, arrogant prick.
RobertCat Johnson has tried to set up the most ghetto NBA experience in the NBA despite the fact that the vast majority of Charlotte doesn't want to have to put up with a drum line, a step team, a chain gang, an AND1 reject PA announcer, and all the other crap that goes with going to a game.
RobertCat Johnson has fired every white executive in the organization and replaced them with blacks, regardles of capability, skills, or experience.
Posted by: THIS is what he's done | Nov 3, 2007 4:54:04 PM
Cornrows, baseball caps perched sideways, ebonics, hip hop, gansta rap, BET, sagging pants, tatoos...all that urban crap has no place in Charlotte. Play basketball. Keep the experience race neutral. People will come. Want the bus station crowd? Just keep feeding us that South Side of Chicago BET experience and we'll never come back. Give us a wholesome evening out to watch an advanced athletic competition and we'll come. No one lives in Charlotte for the Urban Experience. But, the crowd was awful for a home opener and generally that's the best crowd of the first quarter of the year. Interesting that a scrimmage kept Michael away. If he doesn't care, I guess no one should care. By the way, I love the Bonnell comments from the Bobcats employees...Rick, you are driving them crazy with your fair and impartial observations! They want you to sell the team for them. Remember: Rap and Urban = low turnout, less money. More wholesome experience and no gansta rap = more of the people with money come and more money. Anybody listening in the front office? Or, is this too foreign a concept for the BET Execs?
Posted by: Randy Wilcox | Nov 3, 2007 5:02:45 PM
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