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The Bobcats' Path to the Playoffs

Assume a win over Miami tomorrow, putting the Bobcats at 31-31 and the Heat at 32-32. How will the Cats do the rest of the season? Turn to the schedule, and here are the ostensible chalk results, with wins in bold.

MARCH

@Philadelphia
Los Angeles Clippers
@Orlando
@Indiana
Oklahoma City
@Atlanta
@Miami
@Washington
Minnesota
Washington
Toronto
Philadelphia

Star-divide

 

APRIL

Milwaukee
@Chicago
Atlanta
@New Orleans (2nd half of a back to back)
@Houston
Detroit
@New Jersey
Chicago

 

This is admittedly crude, but if the Bobcats go 10-10 the rest of the way, that leaves them at... 41-41, or better than what I thought they'd be at the start of the season, and better than what I thought they'd achieve after picking up Stephen Jackson.

Eyeballing Chicago's schedule, they're in the midst of a brutal nine-game stretch in which they could easily lose every game, and they only have three gimmes the rest of the way. Meanwhile, Miami has a far easier stretch run. All seven games in April are easily winnable, and the rest of March ain't exactly a test of spirit.

Obviously, anything can happen, but from the looks of things, the Cats will need wins the last three games to sneak in to the playoffs with the eight seed, behind the Heat and ahead of the Bulls.

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@Philadelphia – W
Los Angeles Clippers – W (can’t get swept by the Clips right?)
@Orlando – L
@Indiana – W
Oklahoma City – L
@Atlanta – L
@Miami – L
@Washington – W
Minnesota – W
Washington – W
Toronto – W
Philadelphia – L

"I could never be a thug, they don't dress this well." - Malice

by Julius Coxswain on Mar 8, 2010 11:49 AM EST reply actions  

I'll make this a fanshot too

Tuesday. Bobcats vs Miami. Big game, right? Well, here’s everyone’s chance to go. The Cats are having a playoff push sale thingy. Upper level seats- $10 lower level baseline seats- $25 lower level mid court seats- $85. I just bought the cheaper lower level seats. Let’s get some Bobcats fan support out there! I don’t want to here a bunch of cheers for Wade so let’s get some real Cats fan in there!

Here’s how you do it:

1. Go to this link: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0E0042DEFA40AAFB?artistid=931493&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=7

2. Go to “Playoff Push Discount” and select the number of tickets and the price you want to pay.

3. Buy those tickets. Done

Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is.

by WhatAboutBob_cats on Mar 8, 2010 4:49 PM EST reply actions  

theres nothing I would rather be doing tuesday night

but my boss seems to schedule me for every friggin home game.

by MR. MANN on Mar 8, 2010 5:28 PM EST up reply actions  

my thoughts:

Philadelphia-W Los Angeles Clippers-W (im with Coxswain—cant get swept)
@Orlando-L
@Indiana-W
Oklahoma City-L
@Atlanta-L
@Miami-W
@Washington-W
Minnesota-W
Washington-W
Toronto-L
Philadelphia-W
Milwaukee-W
@Chicago-W
Atlanta-L
@New Orleans (2nd half of a back to back)-L
@Houston-L
Detroit-W
@New Jersey-W (PLEASE????)
Chicago-W

so i have them at 42-39. respectable and possible; we just really have to get the games we SHOULD win coughNETScough and its doable.

sorry ive been slack on the game threads lately. i just havent had the time. i totally missed the warriors one, but apparently, nobody was there.

is there any stroke of luck that somebody has an extra “gerald wallace shooting sleeve” they wouldnt mind giving me? i may be able to pay for it—but itd have to be with cash and in an envelope. and of corse, not a redonkulous price.
im curious as to how the thing looks…

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

by StudMuffin15 on Mar 8, 2010 5:34 PM EST reply actions  

no miami win for bobcats

wut makes yall think todays game will be easy to will were on a 3 game winning streak beatin the lakers in overtime then beatin hawks we aint gonna lose we got dwade the all star mvp and beasy

by Dwade4Mvp on Mar 9, 2010 9:49 AM EST reply actions  

ok... I'm not saying it's an easy win but since you're so sure that the Heat'll win, here's some things you may want to remember

January 20, 2010— Bobcats- 104 Heat- 65
January 2, 2010— Bobcats- 107 Heat- 97

Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is.

by WhatAboutBob_cats on Mar 9, 2010 10:57 AM EST up reply actions   1 recs

Burn....

Ironic, no?

Blogging at Ridiculous Upside, where my terrible writing meets people's eyes.

by Aisander D on Mar 9, 2010 3:09 PM EST up reply actions  

And now...

March 9, 2010— Bobcats- 83 Heat- 78

Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is.

by WhatAboutBob_cats on Mar 10, 2010 10:24 AM EST up reply actions  

The miami heat really are not that good of a team. Wade is awesome. Haslem is reliable. Besides that, everyone is mediocre. Enjoy the heat for the next 15 games though because after that you will probably be a Chicago fan.

by MR. MANN on Mar 10, 2010 1:26 PM EST up reply actions  

Get ’em Bob! BTW, reading your post gave me a headache DWade4mvp.

"It's a bad day to have a bad day" - Coach John Fox of the Carolina Panthers

by D.W.G. on Mar 9, 2010 11:36 AM EST reply actions  

Dude failed to use capitalization or punctuation...sad really

"I could never be a thug, they don't dress this well." - Malice

by Julius Coxswain on Mar 9, 2010 11:54 AM EST up reply actions  

yo dude

ima girl and who cares about capitalization and punctuation dis isnt english class homie

by Dwade4Mvp on Mar 9, 2010 1:34 PM EST up reply actions  

So?

You do understand that learning decent grammar in school isn’t just so you speak and write well in just school, right?

Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is.

by WhatAboutBob_cats on Mar 9, 2010 2:23 PM EST up reply actions  

english class

an thatz the trooth g its never rilly cleer enymoor wen sumwun is faking illiteracy cuz in the hood gurlz wut spell good cant get no cred not in the joint neither do they still call it the joint or is it sumthin kooler these dayz or is it like text shorthand omg rotflmao is the new offishal langauge 4 the peeps when weer all pretending 2 be illiterate no1 can idennify who rilly is illiterate n whoz jes playin see u dancin n the roonz

by bugjackblue on Mar 9, 2010 2:41 PM EST up reply actions  

You got Coxswained Coxswain!!!

Blogging at Ridiculous Upside, where my terrible writing meets people's eyes.

by Aisander D on Mar 9, 2010 3:09 PM EST up reply actions  

It happens. Just trying to help dude out...

"I could never be a thug, they don't dress this well." - Malice

by Julius Coxswain on Mar 9, 2010 3:50 PM EST up reply actions  

"understand what I'm sayin'?"

Had this guy in one of my classes. I suspected (with some evidence) that he may have been close to illiterate. He was a whirling bundle of lame excuses… why he was always late, why he wasn’t ever prepared, why he did poorly on the exam… And whenever he tried to sell me his usual b.s.— which was all the time, even though he knew I didn’t believe a word he said and was obviously patronizing him from his first transparent word to last— couldn’t help but conclude each of his increasingly desperate assertions with “you understand what I’m sayin’?” “You understand what I’m sayin? YOU understand what I’m sayin’? You underSTAND what I’m sayin’? You understand what I’m SAYIN’?” Hoping that eventually he’d hit on just the right pronunciation which would get the bemused liquor store clerk to accept the 3rd-party check. Which of course he never quite did. However I imagine he must have carried around quite a bit of street-cred in his own neighborhood; he always seemed so surprised, no… truly shocked, that I never quite understood what he was sayin’.

by bugjackblue on Mar 10, 2010 12:17 AM EST reply actions  

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