Charlotte at Atlanta Hawks 11/29

[Mustachio]

ITS GAME DAY! The Bobcats (4-10) coming off a good win against the Nets, in which they finally held a lead. (just barely). Can we make it an outstanding 5-10 record. Tonight we have a good chance.

Tonight they face the 5-7 Atlanta Hawks.
Felton looks to be back in the starting lineup. so were going small again. Knight, Felton, Morrison, Wallace, and Oakafor. The hawks have lost 6 of the last seven games.

Their lineup isnt great at all. We will have to worry about Joe Johnson who is on a tear lately and rookie Shelden Williams. Who has been a suprise.

Can the bobcats shut down Joe Johnson, can adam morrison continue his scoring. I read onNBA.com , that Ammo has been the leading scorer in 3 of our 4 wins. I look for bernie to go directly to Morrison early and often and try and jumpstart our climb out of the hole weve dug.

[dvdbumpus]

PG Brevin Knight VS. PG Speedy Claxton
SG Raymond Felton VS. SG Joe Johnson
SF Adam Morrison VS. SF Josh Smith
PF Gerald Wallace VS. PF Shelden Williams
C Mek Okafor VS. C Zaza Pachulia


So. We definitely have the advantage in all positions except for SG and Joe Johnson. Felton will not be able to defend him, so I look forward to seeing Derek Anderson coming off the bench and contributing greatly. I also look for Felton and Knight to alternate tonight depening on who\'s on fire.

Derek will be able to provide the height and hopefully the intensity and defense.


If this lineup fails, I see the cats going to last nights lineup at halftime - Knight, Wallace, Morrison, Okafor, Brezec.

I also am going to guess Morrison will get into early foul trouble and we\'ll need to move Wallace to his spot and pop in MAY!!!

[Wallace15]

I dont understand why we keep going with the small line-up. We played really good last night with Felton coming off the bench. So why cant we bring Knight off the bench tonight and the starting line-up be Felton, Wallace, Morrison, Okafor, and Brezec. We\'d also have May coming off the bench.

[dvdbumpus]

Wallace15 wrote:

I dont understand why we keep going with the small line-up. We played really good last night with Felton coming off the bench. So why cant we bring Knight off the bench tonight and the starting line-up be Felton, Wallace, Morrison, Okafor, and Brezec. We\'d also have May coming off the bench.

I agree. I do also agree that if Bernie really wants to play Brevin, promise the players with the hot hand to be the starters. THis would probably bring a competitive nature to the team that we haven\'t had for a while.

If brevin is tearing up, let him play. If vice versa, Raydar will. This might sort out some issues. One way or another, we will develop a stronger bench this way and force everyone that wants to play to rise to their potential.

Kind of a reward system, but we need something other than having players play just because.

[Dead_Real]

If we can contain Joe Johnson we can improve to 5 wins tonight. I wonder if McMay will get extended minutes after his performance last night.

[dav7z]

good to be back on the board.Been real sick and missed a lot of games.Can some one tell me why Burnie dont want to play Felton and May in crunch time .Seams like he all ways wants B.K, To take the crunch shots and that allways so seems to be how we lose leads.Feltons going to get killed to night because of Bernies stupid small line up.Whats up with Bernie and BK.

[ziggy]

Thanks for starting the thread for me guys!!!

I was trapped in corporate hell today selling my soul to \"the man\" and didn\'t get a chance to start it up. Feel free to start it anytime.

With that being said, I have a good feeling that this is going to be the beginning of our 1st wining streak of the season.


Also: glad you\'re feeling better dav7z. Bernie is up to his usual nonsense with Brevin... He has serious man-love for him and he just can\'t give him up.

[Mustachio]

Sorry Ziggy.

I was worried about starting it. but i was at work and bored and wanted to think about tonights game, so i went ahead and started it.

20 minutes till game time. man that adam morrison benching rumor has gotten me pissed off. i wont be able to look at bernie tonight

[Dead_Real]

On a bad note Adrian Branch is back doing commentary

[Wallace15]

The games not televised where I am so can someone tell what the hell is up with the 0-11 shooting to start off the game