is anyone worried about... Winning too many games?

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Originally Posted by Stylesg1234

If the plan is to tank seasons until we draft a superstar ala Kobe / Lebron / Durant (or whoever u want to pick) .then Im jumping ship as a fan right now ..not only is it a bassakwards way of looking at things ( who doesn't want their team to win games and be successful no matter when or how it is ? ) but it's also nearly unrealistic ..we have had what 8 or 9 drafts all with pretty high picks and have we drafted a superstar yet ?? Nope sure haven't ..so if u guys wanna go thru 8 or 9 more years of crap hoping we get a star then I wouldn't want any part of that team ..and even then there isn't a guarantee ..we may have had a chance w Davis this year but missed that so our odds may be even worse then 8 or 9 more years ..no thanks ..I would rather keep growing and use the picks we end up with and the $$ we will have starting next year and build a quality team that can get a #3-6 seed and see what happens ..all ya gotta do it get to the dance with some home court advantage

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1. Good thing you weren't an OKC fan or else you would've jumped ship as Cho helped them tank while picking Durant, Westbrook, Harden, and Ibaka.

2. The majority of our draft picks have fallen in the 8-12 range where getting a superstar is very rare. Or first time back in the top the and we get MKG. imagine what another year or two of top picks will do for the team.

3. Cho's plan all along was to tank for multiple years not 8 or 9 like you seem to think, so at any rate you should be prepared for our slide back to bottom 4ish team.

4. Its called ”delayed gratification” guys. While winning is nice, I'd rather build a real championship contender. And for a team like Charlotte, that's really only possible with high draft picks.

They didn't really tank after getting Durant, he was just a massive chucker and Jeff Green was a bust

MKG is a much better player than rookie Durant.

SWedd there is a big difference is not having talent and just sucking and tanking a season or season on pupose just so u can gamble on a draft pick....u make absolutely zero sense

They tanked. The method might not be the same, but they still did it for a total of three years. I would gladly suck for three years if that put our team anywhere near the stratosphere of the Thunder afterwards.


And each and every single one of you would do the same.

Forever wanting to have a lack of success in hopes that it pays off down the road is no way to run anything where there is human involvement. The Cats are coming through a precarious situation with the general Charlotte-area fanbase and are very fortunate to have a low bar based mostly on the ineptitude of the Panthers. To not capitalize on that would be insanely foolish. Our FO has to show the talent we have accrued that there's a reason to not long for their free agency (or a trade). Our FO also has to show any coaching staff that their work is valued - I certainly don't think you can ask this staff to play our scrubbiests to make sure we get the possibility for the potential to hit a lotto ball and then hope to avoid drafting a Greg Oden.

I personally don't even buy that there is any reason to be thinking about who, let alone plotting how to get some low pick for 2013 when we are nine or even 30 games into this season. That's the kind of thing you do when the season is out of hand and you have a chance to drop with a handful of games on the schedule remaining (NOT when you have a handful of games in the books). It's taking a video game mentality to the real world and things rarely if ever work out in real life like they do in a world of 1's and 0's.

I think this is the best coached, most bought-in team I have ever seen in Bobcats uniforms. This seems to be a team of fighters and I want to see them claw for everything they can on the court. It's good for their souls, and it's certainly good for the fans of pro-sports in Charlotte and the surrounding area.

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Originally Posted by Stylesg1234

SWedd there is a big difference is not having talent and just sucking and tanking a season or season on pupose just so u can gamble on a draft pick....u make absolutely zero sense

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so far, i haven't read anybody advocate tanking. the only thing close was a trading sessions for assets. if you move pieces to get better pieces down the road, i don't consider that tanking. tanking is sitting players with fake injuries and purposefully mismanaging games. we didn't do it last year and we haven't done it this year. silas did not mismanage games, he is a shitty coach who had a bunch of craptastic players and legit injuries.

and to your # 2 point.....the majority of our draft picks have not been 8-12...Oakfor = #2...Morrison = # 3...Felton = # 5..MKG = # 2 ..and u can even throw Biz in @ # 7...so thats 4 drafts for sure and honestly 5 drafts out of 8 where we picked 2-7...so your majority argument is null and void

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Originally Posted by Adam42R

I think this is the best coached, most bought-in team I have ever seen in Bobcats uniforms. This seems to be a team of fighters and I want to see them claw for everything they can on the court. It's good for their souls, and it's certainly good for the fans of pro-sports in Charlotte and the surrounding area.

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the larry brown playoff team was better coached and everyone was definitely dialed in. a few of the seasons with bickerstaff, felton, crash and mek were easily better than this season. be careful not to only compare this season to the shit sandwich of last season.

Damn i can keep going....now your #3 point......Cho did not plan on tanking for 4 years..if that was the case he wouldnt have made the trades / draft picks and free agent signings that he has which has have made us a really good team alot faster then any1 expected

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Originally Posted by Chef

the larry brown playoff team was better coached and everyone was definitely dialed in. a few of the seasons with bickerstaff, felton, crash and mek were easily better than this season. be careful not to only compare this season to the shit sandwich of last season.

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I disagree that Coach Brown's team was better "coached" - they were undeniably better talent and had more collective years in the league but with the pass-o-rama plays that would end w/ the shot clock buzzer and DJ curled up in an emotional ball, I don't see how we had a better "coached" team under Brown. He might very well be a better coach than Dunlap but he didn't pull out enough of a showing in his first dozen games to compare to what Dunlap has.