Charlotte Bobcats at Miami Heat 11/4

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This evening at 6:00pm we face the Miami Heat.

Miami is still without Wade, so we'll be matching up against the less than fearsome lineup of:

Jason "White Chocolate" Williams
Ricky Davis
Dorrell Wrright
Udonis Haslem
and Shaquille Oneal who is getting older, slower and more irrelevant by the millisecond.

Without Wade, the Heat have nothing (and that includes Shaq) that should scare us. I don't see any reason that we shouldn't be 2-0 by the end of the night.

If you want to spy on the Heat's game thread, you can check it out here

If you 'd like to join others in our chat room during the game, you can do that right here.

[dav7z]

Truble in the Heat camp and they know it.
If we concead Shaq will play better than Ok. [I don't think he will] Davis and Williams,Wrright, Haslem CAN'T run with .
Felton , Rich, Wallace, all so Herrmann matches up well in this game. We just let the butter fly Hack on Shaq awhile to start the game. To keep OK out of foul truble.

Bobcats by 12 anyway we are for real.

[tamburello]

I'm now having some off time with an internet connection, so I'd like to contribute to my beloved Bobcats site by creating a "hardwood" game thread just like I did at the later stages of the last season. You can use this pattern for the further games of this month. I don't know how long I'm inavailable, I'm afraid

Sidenote: I don't know why but the page cannot show all the pictures on my PC. Maybe the pictures took so much memory.


AT


Venue:
American Airlines Arena


Time:

Bobcats(1-0) Line-Up

PG #20 Raymond Felton


SG #23 Jason Richardson


SF #3 Gerald Wallace


PF #50 Emeka Okafor


C #7 Primoz Brezec


Heat(0-2) Line-Up
PG #55 Jason Williams


SG #31 Ricky Davis


SF #1 Dorell Wright


PF #40 Udonis Haslem


C #32 Shaquille O'Neal


Bench


Bobcats
Walter Herrmann, Derek Anderson, Jared Dudley, Ryan Hollins, Jermareo Davidson, Matt Carroll, Jeff McInnis

Heat
Smush Parker, Mark Blount, Alonzo Mourning, Daquean Cook, Anfernee Hardaway, Alexander Johnson, Dwyane Wade

Coaches


Bobcats
Sam Vincent: 1 season as head coach(1 with Bobcats)(1-0)


Bulls
Pat Riley: 24 seasons as head coach(11 with Heat)(1182-620)


Injuries


Bobcats
(out)Sean May(microfracture surgery - knee)

(doubtful)Othella Harrington (athroscopic surgery - knee)

(out)Adam Morrison(torn ACL - knee)


Heat
(doubtful)Dwyane Wade(dislocated shoulder surgery - shoulder)


Previous meetings this season
First meeting

[Dead_Real]

From what I hear Wade was activated on Friday but did not play so it's still up in the air whether he'll play tonight or not.

Hopefully we can somehow contain Shaq if he dominates our bigs we'll be in for a LONG day.

Player of the game = J-Rich

[ohara831]

I read they plan to let Wade practice starting Monday. So, they should be without him tonight. Not that I fear him or anything (?) - OK, he's a great player - but I'd much rather play Miami without Wade.

[Wallace15]

Even if Wade somehow plays tonight I still see us winning. If he plays it'll be his first game back. He'll have to get back in the swing of things. I just don't think he'll have a good game if he plays. If we contain Shaq and keep Okafor out of foul trouble I see us winning this 90-101 .

Player of the game-Gerald Wallace, 24pts, 11rbs, 3 blcoks, and 3 stls.

Even though with having GW, Felt, JRich, and Oak, I can see anyone one of them winning player of the game on any day, but G-Force is my pick tonight.

[chabber]

Never underestimate the power of a flopping D Wade and his control over the officials.....

Nah, we should definitely win this one but that is why I'm kinda scared. I can see Haslem causing problems on the boards and Williams and Davis stepping up. If they don't however we'll win pretty easily.

Also like Dav said if we try we should be able to run this team out of the gym. They just don't have the guys to keep up.

[ammofan]

I think we have a better team right now! seriously.....the only thing they have on us right now is shaq(until wade is back) Were gonna win!

[spectre]

Don't forget Zo. Our guys who drive must be cognizant of who's in the paint for their side. Hopefully Felts will look to pull him away from Mek and we'll get a bunch of nasty dunks.

[Alex]

We can win this game. The Heat are a slow team without Wade and even with him since only like two or three players can run on that team. With Felton, Wallace and Richardson we should be able to kill them on the fast break.

Shaq always has good games against Primoz though if I remember correctly so I'm not sure if he's gonna be the non-factor he's been the first two games.

GO BOBCATS!