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Offseason Prescriptions for the Capped-Out Cats (Part 1)

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Chapter I: Diagnosis
First Number of Interest: $680,000.
It’s the number you get when you take the Bobcats $69.24 million in salaries for the ’09-’10 season and subtract it from last year’s $69.92 million luxury tax threshold.  Six hundred and eighty K.  That’s approximately how close the Bobcats came to paying the luxury tax last season.  I [...]

Magic Complete Sweep Of Bobcats

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Baseline Observations: Bobcats vs Magic Game 4, 4/26/10

The Charlotte Bobcats were swept out of the first round by the Orlando Magic 99-90 on Monday night at the Cable Box.  Again, the Cats were able to limit Dwight Howard’s minutes due to foul trouble, and again it really didn’t matter.  Again, the Cats got decent play [...]

Close, But No Cigar; Magic Go Up 3-0

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Baseline Observations: Bobcats vs Magic, Game 3, 4/24/10

Playoff basketball returned to Charlotte on Saturday, but the inspired Bobcats still couldn’t quite get over the hump and fell to the Orlando Magic 90-86.  Jameer Nelson continued his domination of the Bobcats with another 32 point effort.
AP recap here |  Box score here
Game 3 is usually the [...]

Bobcats Can’t Handle Magic; Go Down 0-2

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Baseline Observations: Bobcats @ Magic Game 2, 4/21/10

The Orlando Magic scored another definitive victory over the Charlotte Bobcats, 92-77, in Game 2 of their first round playoff series on Wednesday night.  Stephen Jackson led the Bobcats with 27 and keyed a fourth quarter rally that briefly made things interesting late, but the Magic ultimately led [...]

Bobcats Fall To Bulls In Regular Season Finale

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Baseline Observations: Bobcats vs Bulls, 4/14/10

The Charlotte Bobcats wrapped up their regular season by losing to the Bulls 98-89 on Wednesday night at the Cable Box.  Derrick Rose led all scorers with 27 points.
AP recap here |  Box score here
Pretty simple analysis for this one, folks.  This game was completely meaningless for the Bobcats, but [...]