Milwaukee Bucks at Charlotte 1/15

[CaptainCrunch]

Sorry ziggy I went ahead and made the thread for you, Bobcats seem to be on a roll (it must be that new leather ball) can we keep it going today at 1 against the Bucks on MLK day? I have a dream today that the bobcats can go on a 4 game win streak and win 6 out of the last 7 games.

[tamburello]

Yes we have fairly good chance to make 4 in row. Since Bucks are extremely shorthanded, and we're rolling well, we're the favourites.

By the way, I'm mentioning for the third time in this forum and I'll go on anyway. Keep your eyes on Ersan İlyasova. He is very very versatile player. He has superstar potential.

Bucks will play tonight without Michael Redd, Maurice Williams, Bobby Simmons and Charlie Villanueva. And we'll play without Melvin Ely, Brevin Knight and probably Gerald Wallace.

Also they are the unique team in the East that we haven't beaten yet. We should take advantage. Go Bobcats. Please this time don't forget to add McInnis' name on the list

[tamburello]

52-51 down in the first half. 5 three-pointers and 20 points by Matt is the one of few positive things in the half. We gave 12 offensive rebounds, and Boykins and Bogut scored too much.

[ziggy]

Sorry ziggy I went ahead and made the thread for you, Bobcats seem to be on a roll (it must be that new leather ball) can we keep it going today at 1 against the Bucks on MLK day? I have a dream today that the bobcats can go on a 4 game win streak and win 6 out of the last 7 games.

No problem at all starting the thread. Feel free to start it anytime.

[tamburello]

God damn it... 99-91. Matt Carroll sank 5-9 from 3pt, but rest of the team was 0-12 Very very bad loss. I can't believe we let Boykins+Bogut score 57 points.

[ziggy]

Adam Morrison / Raymond Felton / Derek Anderson were combined 10-36 from that field. Thats not going to get it done against anybody.

Did anybody on the board go to the game today? If so how bad was it in person.

[dav7z]

Sorry i let my son and his grilfrind have mine . But it had to be bad. I know the anouncer on the raido kept asking why carrol wasent in the game , With about 3 mins to go . The other guy was saying Matt was getting dubbled ever time he touched the ball. If you getting dubbled leaves some one open. DOH
So it had to be bad..........

[123together]

close game, the energy was high, but too bad they couldn't pull through. hopefully they'll continue to play well

[sc0Nes]

this game was pretty bad, probably one of the worst i have ever seen in person. they actually gave a pretty good energy level, HOWEVER the bucks also had a good energy level so our advantage was negated in that regard.

matt carroll shot the ball really well in the 1st half, so the bucks played him real close on the perimeter in the 2nd half. for some reason carroll was much more tentative in the 2nd, he could have driven and shot the ball more but chose not to. kind of a head-scratcher there.

felton, morrison, brezec, anderson and even may seemed totally content to settle for jumpers. the few times that we got in the lane we had a lot of success, especially felton, but for the most part we just kept shooting 20 footers. this was probably the most frustrating part of the game because okafor was working hard down low and just didn't get any touches.

our team defense was atrocious, it always seemed like carroll and morrison were losing their men on screens and then their man would hit an open shot. bogut looked like a freaking all-star, i don't think i've ever seen him play so well, it didn't matter who was guarding him. boykins just abused us all day long on the pick-and-roll, once he got our bigs isolated he either drove around them or just shot over them.

just a tough loss because this team is one of the few that we are better than on paper, we had a 3-game win streak going, and we just didn't get it done. outplayed in almost all aspects of the game. just gotta move on and try to forget this one

[dvdbumpus]

Dissappointing that we lost, but regardless we've won 5 of 8.

We should kick back and start dominating.

This next week we play:
New Jersey
Atlanta (twice in a row)
Toronto
Detroit

I say we win 3 of 5. I think we could even manage 4, or even 5 wins.