preseason: Charlotte Bobcats at Milwaukee Bucks

[pegsue123]

http://www.nba.com/broadband/alp_sch...ration_url=ALP
pick the Milwaukee feed. It is real good Audio

[Chrystos]

I wonder if it's that the Cats don't care about the preseason, or if it's that there gonna suck this season.

[ohara831]

I wonder if it's that the Cats don't care about the preseason, or if it's that there gonna suck this season.

I hope it is the former, but fear it is the latter.

[SWedd523]

It's ALWAYS been the former, for just about every team in the league. This doom and gloom pre-season crap is getting a little over the top guys

[Toocool]

Crash 29 minutes
Hendo 10 minutes when he's balling well (from stats anyway)
DJ 2 assists (expect more out of him)
Crittenton on the court

[Fred Williamson]

Ish Smith just had a great game with the Rockets (yep, that guy who worked out for our team) and our 3rd point guard dropped 1-8 tonight with the 2 turnovers. fml

[CatNation]

sucks to be a NC professional sports team fan right now. At least the Canes look decent..

[teej]

sucks to be a NC professional sports team fan right now. At least the Canes look decent..

Yeah, although the Wild could just be terrible. Those games in Helsinki were wayyyyy too close. Cam Ward was shaky at times in both games. Sutter is a beast though, and Skinner too.

Back on topic...who gives a fuck about the preseason. It's where the starters get back into game shape and the scrubs battle for a spot, which means the scores are distorted. Until Crash is playing 40 mpg and Jack is taking 20 shots per game, it doesn't matter.

[Lex23]

The lack of pre-season wins doesn't bother me. Right now they are not totally focused on help defense and the Bobcats must figure out the point guard issue. It seems like every other starter has more assists than D.J. in these meaningless games.

[spectre]

The lack of pre-season wins doesn't bother me. Right now they are not totally focused on help defense and the Bobcats must figure out the point guard issue. It seems like every other starter has more assists than D.J. in these meaningless games.

DJ has never racked up a lot of assists. The team doesn't expect a big jump (all the talk about running the O thru Jax/Boris) so we probably shouldn't expect it either.

What concerns me is the defense. Last year Felton had a couple of competent Cs to help him out in P&R...this year we expect Gana and Kwame to play that role. When you get opponent PGs who can drive like last night DJ really doesn't stand a chance...and why Jennings was able to score 13 in a row (10 on DJ). We seemed to do better with Westbrook; however it also seemed that he wasn't driving to the hole like he normally does in that game.

We've debated on which spot is of more concern. Thing is they also affect each other.

I wish Tyrus had played. It'd be interesting to "see" if Gooden could have scored at will against him.

Y'all who are saying preseason is meaningless. I don't necessarilly disagree...but looking at our last couple years when we sucked in preseason we also sucked out the gate until we made a trade to right the ship.

LB's now something like 2 of 15 in preseason in now his 3rd season, right?

*In 08 we started out the 1st month 5 - 11. The losing continued until we made the Phoenix trade.

*In 09 we started out 3 of 9 until we made the Jax trade and he got adjusted.

I don't think preseason can totally be ignored. It's not a definite precursor...but it's pretty obvious this group isn't running like a team who's main components have been together for as long as they have.