59 points.
59 points in 4 quarters.
At the end of Wednesday night, every team had scored more than 59 points in 3 quarters except 2 (who were close)
So if the Bobcats had played 3 quarters of any other team in the NBA, they still would have lost. We knew that the Bobcats were going to be a team that relied on defense - Larry Brown has made no secret about that - but 59 points?
The team leader, Gerald Wallace, was the only player in double figures with 10 points. The team as a whole shot 31 percent from the field. The average +/- of the starting five was -24.
How did this team go from a few tough losses out of the playoffs to looking like one of the worst teams in the NBA. I thought I was going to get my retribution in the Chandler/Okafor trade. We dumped a giant contract and what I thought was an injury prone season waiting to happen on New Orleans and got an athletic, experienced winner fresh off a supposedly "successful" rehab.
Well guess what? I think that Chandler might be too good for our point guards right now. On more that one handful of occasions, I saw Chandler slip a screen and roll to the basket for one of his typical alley-oops that he used to catch from Chris Paul. For whatever reason, whether it be that they couldn't see him, they aren't in rhythm yet, whatever. Something has got to change.
Chandler played 20:34 and went 0-5 with 3 TO's. (Charlotte Observer)
Now, not all hope is lost. A beatable Knicks team comes to the DVR Dome on Friday. The only reason for concern is that the Knicks put up points. It's just a fact that the Knicks will most likely score close to 100 points. Which means that the Bobcats will have to double their output to win the game. I trust that things will turn around though, because this is what the Bobcats do, as Matt Moore said, the Bobcats are "Not dominant but dangerous."
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