I turned on the Charlotte-Portland game the other night and even though I have a big TV, and my eyes are OK, I moved closer when I saw the score because I didn't believe the Bobcats could be down by 40. Then I watched.
The game was not as close as the score.
But what did you expect? I've written this several times, but it's still true: the Bobcats are the 2010 Carolina Panthers. The Panthers were unwatchable most of the season. They couldn't score. They were the worst team in the league.
After a good start, the Bobcats have become unwatchable. They can't score. They are the worst team in the league.
Some of you want to blame head coach Paul Silas. That's like blaming the waiter because the food is bad. The fellows in the kitchen gave Silas little to work with.
Dinner might not be served, but the Bobcats are. There's a price to getting a high draft pick. The Bobcats and their fans are paying it.
Some of you loudly threaten to abandon the team. The loud fans are never the customers a team has to worry about. Loud fans announce during a labor impasse that they'll never be back. They always come back.
It's the apathetic fans a team has to worry about.
This shortened NBA season is going to be long. But you knew that.
Charlotte still has a basketball team?
Posted by: Nosebleed Fan | February 03, 2012 at 11:28 AM
I love how all these idiotic journalists keep comparing the Bobcats to the 2010 Panthers. Uh, no. The 2010 Panthers were better than the 2012 Bobcats, even winning two games. It's not even a comparison, so stop doing it.
Posted by: Curry | February 03, 2012 at 11:34 AM
No they are definitely comparable. I agree with Tom
Posted by: jiyugh | February 03, 2012 at 11:40 AM
This is why I was hoping the labor dispute would last the whole season. The present-day NBA at its finest is barely watchable. This crap isn't worth reading about, much less watching.
Posted by: Authority | February 03, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Tom,
I can't abandon a team I was never with.
NBA Basketball is dead.
Posted by: charles in charge | February 03, 2012 at 11:47 AM
NBA Basketball is dead? To who? You? The ratings have never been higher. If anything NBA basketball is thriving.
Posted by: Mike | February 03, 2012 at 11:56 AM
You know what, you're right! In many ways the 2010 Panthers were actually WORSE than the Bobcats are this year. I must've been remembering those Panthers with rose-colored glasses, geez, but the numbers tell the truth.
I felt like the 2010 Panthers were in many of the games they lost. The Bobcats? They seem to be getting DRILLED every week. Didya see that game against Portland? The Blazers aren't even that good! But the Panthers weren't any better:
2010 Panthers Results
@NYG - L - 31-18
TB - L - 21-7
CIN - L - 20-7
@NO - L - 16-14
CHI - L - 23-6
SF - W - 23-20
@StL - L - 20-10
NO - L - 34-3
@TB - L - 31-16
BAL - L - 37-13
@CLE - L - 24-23
@SEA - L - 31-14
ATL - L - 31-10
ARI - W - 19-12
@PIT - L - 27-3
@ATL - L - 31-10
Now, let's constitute when a blowout is on. I'd say more than two scores in football, so 17+ points and 20+ points in basketball.
That gives the 2010 Panthers 7 blowout losses, accounting for 44% of their games. For the season they had a winning percentage of 12.5%.
The Bobcats lost by 21 to Orlando, 39 to Miami, 22 to Indiana, 30 to Atlanta, 33 to NY, 33 to LAL, and 44 to Portland. Seven games also, accounting for 30% of their games. Thus far in the season, they have a winning percentage of 13%.
So, the Bobcats actually need to keep getting blown out to sink to 2010 Panther levels.
My bad, Tom, I takes it all back.
Posted by: Curry | February 03, 2012 at 12:41 PM
They had two high draft picks in 2011. Look what they drafted. Why would 2012 be any better?
Posted by: SuperGuru | February 03, 2012 at 08:36 PM
It's like fans around here have never heard of the term "rebuilding year."
When you blow up the roster and start from scratch, that's what you're doing.
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