Charlotte Bobcats: All of the pressure is on the Orlando Magic in this series

[jdsingar]

Tonight is the night, as long as Hughes doesn't play more than 8 - 10 minutes.

...well I guess tonight's not the night.

[biz]

That's such bullshit. Everyone in the rotation except DJ and Ray has been to the playoffs before, just about all of them multiple times.

And 2/3rds of our whole team has made it. Ugh.

Rest of the article is good, though. Love TC's quote

Exactly Teej, I actually wrote Simmons the following on this subject when Adande said "it will be the first time in the playoffs for most of our guys" and that we are inexperienced as justification for us not doing anything in the playoffs.

I was happy to hear your thoughts about the Bobcats on the Adande podcast and I felt the need to clear up a rather popular misconception that Adande brought up, the Bobcats experience (or lack thereof). They have secretly become a semi-veteran team. Outside of Felton and Augustin every key contributer has 8+ years of NBA experience and besides the same 2 every contributer has playoff experience.

Here's the player by player break down:

Raymond Felton: 25, 5th season

Stephen Jackson: 31, 10th season, played in 54 playoff games, and won a championship with the Spurs in 03.

Gerald Wallace: 27, 9th season, played sparingly in 15 playoff games

Boris Diaw: 27, 8th season, played in 35 playoff games.

Nazr Mohammed: 32, 12th season, played in 40 playoff games, won an NBA championship with the Spurs in 05.

Tyson Chandler: 27, 9th season, played in 28 playoff games.

Flip Murray: 30, 8th season, played in 40 playoff games.

It is very easy to make the assumption Adande made, that the Bobcats are this young, up-start team full of inexperienced players longing for their first shot at the playoffs, as a majority of people do, because its what the Bobcats were for the majority of their history. But it is no longer true. As it seems a fairly sure bet that the Bobcats are going to make the playoffs, I'm sure you are going to hear this claim again in the future. Hopefully now whenever someone throws out this reckless assumption you have the ammo to refute their claim and impress them with your expansive knowledge of the Charlotte Bobcats.

Obviously the roster is different, but the point remains true, in fact its probably more true even now. Flip is gone, but was traded for Tyrus - another player with playoff experience. Flip Murray was replaced by Larry Hughes - a veteran player with extensive playoff experience. Theo is now our starting center, but he too is a veteran player who has extensive playoff experience.

[Mustachio]

Tonight is the night, as long as Hughes doesn't play more than 8 - 10 minutes.

forget hughes. as long as NAZR doesnt play. He killed us in his limited time.

[ammofan]

forget hughes. as long as NAZR doesnt play. He killed us in his limited time.

Yes sir! Activate Alexis!!!!!!! lol