Team playing terrible?

[Chef]

acie law just makes the deal work. plus, we could move raymond later in the year as well as raja for picks, young talent. yes jackson is a big contract for an aging player and i am not seeing him as the answer. i value crash way more than him. biedrins is a very good center who can go a long way to making us actual contenders as opposed to tyson. randolph, jackson and biedrins will keep us competitive if not better in the short term and could help us rebuild long term with some luck in the draft without having to throw away 3 seasons. if i was gm i would insist on a first round pick in this deal preferably for next year top 3 protected. just throwing around ideas, it just seems like gerald is the only asset we have that can give us a good return.

[BRNC]

Well Jackson made some clarifications the day after his agent ripped Nelson a new one...one of those clarifications was he still does not want to come to Charlotte...and from what I read he was saying "I do not want to go to a team rebuilding...I could just stay here if that is what I wanted"...I know I'm paraphrasing but the bottom line is he does not want to come here...

...as for dumping salaries for picks...every team in the league wants to dump salaries...if we go into "dump" mode we will be taken to the cleaners...

The best options we have:

1) Play the hand we've been dealt and hope we can bluff our way into the playoffs...doubtful at this point IMO...

2) Look for a trade (probably a three team) were we facilitate Jackson out of GS but we pick up something in the deal...

3) Play the rooks and see what we have with the hope that a contender comes knocking for a vet we have as a piece and take an expiring and a pick back...very doubtful if LB is here...

4) Try to find a straight up deal with another team that will help both teams...and I do not see GS as that team so pick any other...

I think number two is the most likely but to be honest the teams that have some interest in Jackson (mutual to his desires) have very little that I can see coming back to us...NY has nothing we really want, the Tx teams are pretty set with vets they do not want to deal...Boston and the Cavws have little to offer us...and we'd have to send one of our players out to pull it off...and please...none of those teams will take Diop so don't bother suggesting it...Vlad is probably the least we could give (and not sure that would bring much)....Diaw and either AA or DJ is probably more likely...

[nfcchamp2004]

When you rebuild, you don't take on gargantuan contracts which will last for 5 years or sth. You try to get rid of them if you have any.

I pray that Jackson would be traded somewhere else as soon as possible so that my fellow Bobcats fans stop regarding Jackson as the man who will save the franchise. We're bad (mediocre at best), we're deep in sh.t. I really don't understand how come it's so hard to see this. This franchise cannot be saved with a trade of two.

I hate tankers but the only possible way to clear the near future is to do what Knicks did. Send 2-3 seasons to trash bin, and pray for a miracle that will land a superstar like LeBron in CHA.

I totally agree. We don't need Jackson. We should try and emulate Portland and OKC and build through the draft. It kinda sucks that we traded that conditional pick to Denver/Minn. We really need to get lucky like Portland (nyk traded for randolph) and rid some of our bad contracts. I don't expect us to be so luck unless we part with Wallace to help get that done.

[SWedd523]

http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#1nJQRl...Daft_Punk.swf/

[BRNC]

swedd that was a hoot...

[Marvel]

Aaaaaahh what did i say come on this isn't about pessimism this is realism WE SUCK face it.TC is a lost cause who still has a hard head to believe TC will get better huh.He stinks right now time and time again he's been lost on the weak side help.To me he looks like he doesn't have that fire anymore that he had in New Orleans i don't know if it's Charlotte or what.

[Chef]

what is the deal with the draft pick? where is it protected? perhaps, the best thing is to go into tank mode to assure a top 5 pick, trade raja and maybe felton later in the season for picks/talent, maybe trade boris if a contender comes knocking for picks and cap relief and start over.

[BobCatsFanInTx]

The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!! Stop watching this terrible team they will be a lottery team i tell you!!!

[Chrystos]

I totally agree. We don't need Jackson. We should try and emulate Portland and OKC and build through the draft. It kinda sucks that we traded that conditional pick to Denver/Minn. We really need to get lucky like Portland (nyk traded for randolph) and rid some of our bad contracts. I don't expect us to be so luck unless we part with Wallace to help get that done.

We might not need Jackson but we really need a scorer. Maybe someone like Monta Ellis.

[ohara831]

I sure as hell dont want Jackson here. He'd have his mouthpiece idiot Agent run th FO, fans and his teammates down constantly and I already dont like agents to start. Dont need that extra trouble.