Good lord is Charlotte’s NBA franchise in the midst of a horrible losing streak!
Bobcats beat writer Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer said earlier via twitter, “A particularly telling number from Bobcats’ two losses by a combined 50 points: They have given up 104 points in the lane. That’s soft.”
That got me thinking; What else have the Bobcats been doing terribly wrong over the past few games?
For one, during Charlotte’s six game losing streak, the team’s been out-rebounded by 50. What once was the team’s strength has been thrown into the Bobcat’s bag of seemingly endless weaknesses.
Because of their recent rebounding deficiency, the ‘Cats have lost out on possessions. To get around that, all the team has to do is shoot well… Which they haven’t.
In its last six games Charlotte shot an average of 42.3 percent from the field and 24.2 percent from behind the Arc.
But that’s ok. I mean, if they get to the line enough, the Bobcats would just have to shoot a solid free-throw percentage to stay in the game… I think you see where I’m going with this.
Over their last six games the ‘Cats have missed 38 shots from the charity stripe.
This team really isn’t doing much of anything well.
On an individual level, though, Gerald Henderson is picking things up. He’s averaging career highs in every important statistical category, and has scored 20 or more points in three of his last six games. The Bobcats picked up his 2012-2013 option Wednesday, and will be able to make him a restricted free agent when his contract is up.
Also, Tyrus Thomas finally had a good game Wednesday night against the Wizards.
Boris Diaw, however, has been nothing short of atrocious this season, Byron Mullens has regressed lately and with injuries to Corey Magette and D.J. Augustin, an already thin roster is being dragged through the mud in a shortened, grueling NBA season.
To make a long story short, the Bobcats are not a very good basketball team.
Its the lack of a Pre-Season, for a young team like ours it just hurt too bad to overcome. The only thing we can focus on now, is getting our young Superstars, particularly Kemba and Bismack, as much playing time as possible, so they can grow and improve. Obviously Hendo and Mullens need to be out there as much as possible also, certainly Henderson is showing a lot more evidnece of improvement than Byron right now, Mullens needs to step it up bigtime. I do like our chances of improvement, particularly once our star guys get healthy again. But for now the single most important thing has to be just getting our young guys the playing time they need to reach the next level. Then the other problems will take care of themselves.
Yes, PLAY BISMACK. He’s hungry and eager to learn. Great attitude, great motor, awesome length . . .
I really don’t get why Silas won’t give him more PT. It’s not like he’d be detrimental to the teams success this year. How can Bismack or any rookie for that matter get better on the bench, especially in a shortenned season.