Bobcats Sink Clippers 106-98

by David A. Arnott on Mar 12, 2010 9:25 PM EST Comment 23 comments

Though the Charlotte Bobcats defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 106-98 without much issue, the big story was All Star Gerald Wallace's ankle injury, suffered just before the end of the first half on a Baron Davis flagrant foul. Stephanie Ready reported just after the break that the injury was only a sprain, and not a break, which is good news. But losing their best player for any stretch of time will hamper the Cats' run at a playoff spot.

Game thread comments, lowlights, and highlights after the jump.

GAME THREAD COMMENTS

PoAshton -- 10 7 7 8 7 8 4 8 11 8 2 = 7.27/game. This is our teams blocks per game since Tyrus and Theo have come aboard. For the season the league leader is Chicago with 5.9/game. While a small sample size, the last 11 games have been pretty interesting block-wise.

Ourdaywillcome -- This is the first time Wallace has left a game or missed a game this season where the entire room didn’t spazz out. Our team has grown up to the point we can handle being without our Terminator for a night.

BAD

-- Gerald Wallace's injury will affect everything with this team. Heaven forfend Stephen Graham making his way back into the starting lineup. The best case scenario would be Gerald Henderson getting twenty-some minutes per game as the starting SG with Stephen Jackson moving to SF. Obviously, that's not a playoff-caliber starting lineup, but if Gerald misses games, they may as well get the rook his badly-needed PT.

-- The Cats are lucky the Clips turned it over more than 20 times. Some of that was their doing, of course, but they also gave up 58% shooting from the field and 47% from three (and those were with desperation threes getting launched in the fourth).

GOOD

-- Before leaving, Gerald was 7-8 shooting for 17 points and he pulled down 6 rebounds. I'll be upset if he doesn't finish top ten in MVP voting.

-- Tyson Chandler is back. I picked on him in the game thread photo caption, but when the dude plays, he's capable of contributing in ways specifically good for this team that most other centers in the league wouldn't be able to do.

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Bravo on the game thread...

OurDay…I figured you would be resting…

This game was watched in my son’s room, while everyone else was in the living room watching Spongebob on the big TV.

Amazed that we held our own in the 2nd half without Gerald…
We need to be looking to the other Gerald at SG and Jax at SF, just like was mentioned in the thread. Very smart move to make at this juncture…

by andrewlail76 on Mar 12, 2010 10:23 PM EST reply actions

I made it for part of the 2nd half.

I can’t really lie down because I have electronics generators strapped to my back. I figured since I was forced to sit, I might as well try to join in. They couldn’t knock me out. I had to be awake the whole time and it is the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced. I had to be able to tell them if they “missed” their targets – and they did… several times. I’ll spare you the uglier details, but it took about 2 hours and they warned me it’s going to be at least a couple of days before I’ll even be able to find out if the equipment will work or not because I’m going to be too sore and tender from the procedure. So for the time being I’m pretty spaced out on some massive medications.

So on Sunday afternoon, I’ll connect the wires and distributor to the batteries and programmer beside me and begin the week-long trial. I feel like a used freakin’ car. Next Friday afternoon I go back and they jerk the roughly 10 feel of wiring back out of my body and I can finally heal. Then I have to decide whether to have everything placed permanently in my spine and abdomen. At least for THAT procedure, they’ll knock me out.

Anyway, I’m very sore, need assistance to stand and walk, and can’t really lay down to sleep until next Friday. I already am a bit steadier on my feet than yesterday and the pain is diminishing, so I’m hopeful that I’ll be well enough tomorrow to start giving this thing an honest shot at working.

I’ll be around – maybe not as coherent as usual, but I’ll be here for games and the occasional fanpost. The time I spend on the gameday threads with y’all actaully takes my mind off things a bit and in that sense is a kind of therapy. Laughter really is good medicine and right now I need all I can get.

by Ourdaywillcome on Mar 13, 2010 12:57 PM EST up reply actions

Hey, check it out...I'm first to break the Larry Hughs signing on here...I wonder if David will write something too, or if He'll bump mine to the main column

by andrewlail76 on Mar 13, 2010 1:01 PM EST up reply actions

I think we will ignore the Larry Hughes signing

Some day he will mysteriously appear at the end of the bench. I hear his skills at backgammon, battleship, and Uno are far superior than Acie Law.

by Ft.Mill Bobcat on Mar 13, 2010 1:26 PM EST up reply actions

Poor Hendo...

Just when he thought the Uno Championship was a lock for him.

by andrewlail76 on Mar 13, 2010 2:40 PM EST up reply actions

Baron Davis foul on Gerald Wallace was a Cheap Shot

http://www.nba.com/games/20100312/LACCHA/gameinfo.html?ls=gt2hp0020900964
See the link. Baron needs a suspension or at least and ass-whooping by the RoF crowd.

by Ft.Mill Bobcat on Mar 12, 2010 10:50 PM EST reply actions

im down with the ass-whooping.

--(insert quote, lyric, or joke here)

by StudMuffin15 on Mar 13, 2010 12:26 AM EST up reply actions

This is from the comments on the Observer page:

Per zenoflip-

Last year after flagrant 2 on fisher

“My intent wasn’t to hurt anybody out there, especially my good friend Derek Fisher. It’s the playoffs, there’s a lot of contact out there. …I don’t know why all eyes are on us. There’s a other things going on in other series that are just as physical.”

This year after flagrant on Wallace:

“I had no intentions of trying to hurt him or flagrant foul somebody, especially when they’re fighting for a playoff position. … I was just trying to give a foul to stop a basket. I guess his momentum was just carrying him too fast, and I kind of misjudged it.”

Sounds like B-Diddy has his story down. "I had no intentions of murdering the guy. You know – passion of the moment and the gun just went off."

FYI, second flagrant for Davis this year, tying him for #2 in the league with stand up citizens like Andres Nocioni and Josh Smith.

by milky C on Mar 13, 2010 11:44 AM EST up reply actions

Blatent disregard for another's safety.

BD was beaten, just back the hell off…but nooooo

The cellar dweller has to run into him and give the foul…not like the game was even close at that juncture anyway.

I bet if he would have done it to Lebron, Kobe, Paul Pierce, KG, or Dirk, it would have been a F2 and a suspension

by andrewlail76 on Mar 13, 2010 12:43 PM EST up reply actions

Lol,

you guys just absolutely HATE Stephen Graham. I’m not that big of a fan of him, but he seems not to be screwing up too bad when he’s in there. In a starter’s role, I’m sure he could average 10 ppg, 4 rpg. The biggest thing right now is to make sure Gerald is healthy. We can’t rush and bring him back early 2 or 3 games with Chicago being on the slide they’re on. However, we’ve got a big test against Orlando, so I kinda want him back already. But I agree though, Henderson has earned more burn.

by Charlotte Bobcat on Mar 13, 2010 9:43 AM EST reply actions

It's just fun to poke fun at Graham.

We have all grown past the obviuos that LB isn’t going to change. We just want some more Hendo…

by andrewlail76 on Mar 13, 2010 12:44 PM EST up reply actions

Speak for yourself there slice.

There are people on this blog that are still hollering for more OKAFOR!
Although I agree that Graham isn’t quite worthy of the constant hammering we give him, I think the real reason we do it is because every single other option the Bobcats have instead of Graham is a better choice. You’re right Andrew – LB is NOT going to change. Since he won’t change, I recommend that we don’t either. In that spirit, I think we should start up an official line of ROF gear to make some extra coin. We could sell things like dart boards with Graham’s picture on them…
Chia pets of Chandler’s head where the sprouts grow out of the chin… and tshirts with the following quote written on them:

“Rookie? What’s a Rookie? Isn’t that what Chewbakka was on that Star Wars movie?” (Larry Brown)

by Ourdaywillcome on Mar 13, 2010 1:37 PM EST up reply actions

I guess I'm saying that we don't HATE...Hate is such a strong word...

by andrewlail76 on Mar 13, 2010 2:44 PM EST up reply actions

Although nothing spectaular, Graham's a good role player and an asset to the team.

I think some RoFers are foaming at the mouth so hard to see Hendo play that Graham became the RoF bunching bag for rookie minutes.

by Ft.Mill Bobcat on Mar 13, 2010 1:23 PM EST up reply actions

No...Graham is about as good of a role player as Procton is.

Nothing more than a pain in the…bench

by andrewlail76 on Mar 13, 2010 2:45 PM EST up reply actions

His short arms give me night sweats.

And not the good kind.

by Spider Jerusalem on Mar 13, 2010 8:06 PM EST up reply actions

Wallace means everything to the bobcats, but i believe the other players have matured enough not to fall apart over a short period of time. however, over a longer period, time only will tell. anyway good win 2 games over trying really hard and playing tough. go Bobcats!!! NCSU and BOBCATS fan

by beef g on Mar 13, 2010 10:09 AM EST reply actions

I'm with ya on that....

Go ’Cats…Go Pack!!!

by andrewlail76 on Mar 13, 2010 12:44 PM EST up reply actions

i'm a midwesterner

GO IOWA! hahaha. our basketball team is PATHETIC. Too bad we KICK ASS at Football. we bitchmade Georgia Tech. lol @ the triple option Adrian Clayborn thinks it’s pathetic.

"Smokey this isn't 'Nam this is bowling. There are rules!"

by HAWKEYESBABY on Mar 13, 2010 7:24 PM EST up reply actions