Game 2: CHA at ATL

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No Brandon, or Mark. The former will be revaluated in a week.

Looks like we are going to lose tonight

Too much to overcome the injuries and Melos foul trouble. Micic has to go. Clifford’s Hornets would get back in games only to fold under pressure. These guys are not giving in late. Win or lose I love the fight till the end. I can’t wait till we are healthy.

We could use a little home cookin. Can’t get closer than 1. Proud of this team win or lose.

Originally sent in Game 2: CHA at ATL
Mich_Mercer

Hope we can stay healthy for tonight’s game… my whole attitude is… “who’s getting hurt tonight?”

dnbman

Hopefully, the Hawks' feelings.

Right now it's just my feelings.

Pretty sure Young's hair situation is a Fallout preset.

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Mich_Mercer

Trey Young is the most annoying player to me.

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spectre

Josh Green CHA premiere

GoBobcats24

Refs not on our side so far tonight

dnbman

I will admi, the Tre i nickname is pretty sick.

spectre

allen iverson lite what a great compliment

dnbman

If Tre Mann gets that mid range step back going, he's my new favorite player.

spectre

Rims aren’t liking us atm

dnbman

Who was most common AI running mate? Eric Snow?

spectre

Ha sounds right that was a long time ago

I remember when they got stackhouse. That was a good duo

Bulls played 76ers preseason in Carmichael the year they drafted him. MJ vs those 2. I remember stack stealing it from Jordan and getting a layup

nah that was prob dean smith ctr. Anyway big high for me

Pretty ugly so far

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GoBobcats24

Diabate showing defensive/rebounding signs. Not much offense

spectre

Lucky to be down only 12

dnbman

nice pass by Cody Martin. :grimacing:

No thing going down.

spectre

Love melo driving getting FTs

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dnbman

Yes. This is the way. Especially since it seems like we're not doing a good job getting open.

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spectre

Finally miles driving too

without bmill hes gotta step up

dnbman

That Melo quick fire 3 has NO business being as lethal as it is.

Mich_Mercer

Everything seems so hard on offense tonight.

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dnbman

When Micic was in earlier it was like we weren't moving.

Not putting that on Micic, just didn't seem like guys could get open.

spectre

Ain’t gonna lie I feel better with Mann being backup pg

Chef

I really enjoy trey Mann's dribble drive

spectre

AI Lite

lol what EC called him

GoBobcats24

You would think Grant Williams would have learned by now they are calling a foul every time we touch them

And Cody Martin absolutely sucks

Mich_Mercer

Yeah… we kept the wrong one. That said… I don’t really want either of them.

spectre

Ha awesome

Chef

More stop and go then ai. He reminds of a younger Chris Paul, maybe a rajon rondo. Definitely a 2000-2010 type pg. He is more of a scores mentality than either cp or rondo though.

spectre

Yeah man’s game doesn’t really remind me of AI either. Poor mans CP style but certainly not great passing/vision

Sure wish he’d hit that

Mich_Mercer

They need to hustle for the rebounds man.

But Lamelo can really shoot guys.

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spectre

Well at least we didn’t wait til the 2nd half

GoBobcats24

How many illegal screens will Grant williams have this year damn

spectre

Just goes to show how worthless +/- is. Grant really only positive with 10. Now even with his screwups he definitely contributed defensively…but still

powellrmp

Grant Williams wants to give Nick Richards a run for who sets the most bad screens

i appreciate teammates who can support and push each other to greatness

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Eastley

Tre reminds me of a peak Jeff Teague with more defensive effort

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GoBobcats24

Cody martin killing us both ends

Eastley

Lamelo's scoring reminds me of Wallace's rebounding. Like he might have none and you glance up and he's got a dozen and rolling

Why don't they score it an assist when a pass leads to a shooting foul? I've never understood that.

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GoBobcats24

Literally can't score without Lamelo in the game

spectre

Ugh gotta stop putting it in micics hands end of the clock

Eastley

Or middle of the clock

GoBobcats24

That also is true. That has happened consistently each time he is in the first 2 games

Chef

Something I meant to say on the mann 3 in the first half. There was a shot of lee and him talking coming back from commercial on the grant review. You see man ask him with hand gestures about switch screen at the top. They come in and run it. He buries the jumper. Pretty cool

Eastley

I really like how Diabate fights for rebounds

Wow that reverse by Green

Liking what Green is giving right now.

"Need you to wake up Josh, it's not a dream, you did get traded to Charlotte, let's get going" :slight_smile:

Damn Mann! That was swanky

spectre

Heck ya power

dnbman

Tre Mann the closer

Eastley

2 bounces go our way and we're up by a pair right now

GoBobcats24

Looks like Lamelo kind of got a stinger in his back or something

I mean that was a pretty hard foul

Eastley

A hard fall for sure. Not sure it was a particularly hard foul

I so like this where we let Melo play off ball. Helps free up other shooters, helps take some heat off Melo

spectre

Uh walk

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Eastley

No shit

spectre

lol how do you not call that

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Mich_Mercer

Trey Young is such a little bitch

Eastley

You know how they always say, if he was in your team, you'd love him? Nah, not close.

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dnbman

Damn Melo

spectre

Holy hell keep feeding that man

Mich_Mercer

But Lamelo man…. Too good

GoBobcats24

God they were trying so hard to get Lamelo for a foul

That Trae Young one was bullshit

spectre

They succeeded

GoBobcats24

5 fouls on Lamelo, game might be over

He is a one man band right now it feels like

Mich_Mercer

They get new that guy… they call a foul. They let him walk anywhere he wants on the court to.

GoBobcats24

What an unbelievable talent

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Eastley

BDL!

Mich_Mercer

Such bullshit foul calls

Eastley

We got to play through the whistles

Ouch

GoBobcats24

That is some absolute bullshit

Eastley

Ok Tre, it's on you bud

dnbman

well… let's see what happensw.

Mich_Mercer

Wow… are you kidding me.

spectre

Damm

Mich_Mercer

And he’ll be out next game… watch

GoBobcats24

W3 ARE GETTING FUCKING HOSED

Mich_Mercer

Calling every foul on us.

dnbman

PRetty sure Young just looked up and asked for a call.

and got it

Eastley

I feel I'm reading "lower back contusion" already

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spectre

I think I like this guy least in the entire league

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dnbman

Erbodys fouling out!

Originally sent in Game 2: CHA at ATL
Eastley

I'd get Nick out. He's not doing much out there at this point

GoBobcats24

Can't be too upset about this loss. Couldn't touch a Hawk tonight

That last Lamelo foul was an absolute horse shit call

spectre

Wiping sweat off ball-hornets delay game lmao

GoBobcats24

Sums up our 5 on 8 evening

Eastley

I so loathe Young

Mich_Mercer

He makes me mad just looking at him.

Eastley

Man, LaMelo with the notorious double double

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spectre

Def been sloppy

Eastley

Where's the foul there?

GoBobcats24

There wasn't one

Eastley

I clearly don't understand nba fouls

GoBobcats24

They are protecting spread

Lamelo was getting hacked all night probably 3 turnovers were missed fouls

Also he was the only reason other than Miles that we were in it

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Mich_Mercer

It’s just so aggravating that we can’t have a healthy team. So frustrating… and then the calls can’t ever go our way either.

Eastley

Tre has played well even though shots where not falling

I liked sparks of what Josh showed tonight

Grant and Set were decent. Didn't get much out of the C position

dnbman

ON a positive note, we have clearly not played well, and we're a few points away from being 2-0. So, if we can get people healthy and get it together, can definitely be good.

Eastley

And Cody seems to be back to healthy which will be good for us

Didn’t get to watch much. Black out rules suck. Had to visit the Black Pearl. Could never get over the hump. Played hard. Hope Lamelo will be ok tomorrow. Going to be fun if they ever get healthy.

I watched most of this and first off, the officiating was pretty shite. From what I saw. It was hard to not notice. At least we got the challenge call reversed!

Mostly importantly, despite the loss, I feel really happy with it. I see the new life of the team and believe in what coach Lee is installing. I’m very much a believer. It’s a game that we absolutely have in the bag with a healthy Brandon miller and mark Williams.

And because of that, I’m going to feel even more fatigued as time goes on from saying “if only we had these players healthy”. I mean, we’re already all fatigued from saying that. But if the injuries continue, I think it’ll be a different frustration this season.

Or, in two weeks we could have a healthy mark and Brandon. And find a way to mostly stay healthy this season! I’m just fatigued from having injuries as the central theme of yet another season. It would sting this season in particular.

Good game though. No doom or gloom at all. I just see this team being able to get over the hump (FINALLY) if healthy. We’ve all been through too much to see another season go down the tubes via injuries

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I feel Micic has regressed so much. Is it bc he was already an older player? He’s not playing like the same guy as last year. Pretty disappointed with him so far.

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He has looked slow out there. He’s never been an elusive guy but can use head fake/eye fake along with stop/start moves to get to the basket. I haven’t seen much driving to the basket from him.

I think he just looks heavy and slow, and will quickly trim down in a month or so IMO. At least I hope. I think he had a lot of fun in Paris and a lot non-basketball/exercising downtime while not in Paris.

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Yeah, the injury fatigue is real. While I do like the changes the organization has made, injuries/unavailability are really the primary thing that has held us back the past several years. No one likes to hear that as an excuse but it can’t be ignored. The previous two seasons Lamelo, Terry and Miles only played 5 games together. And Mark played with the 3 of them only once last season. It seems we can only ever theorize how good we can be because we never actually get to see it.

While his interviews make me cringe, one thing that’s clear is that Lamelo is a superstar talent. Brandon is tracking towards being a future all-star. I truly hope we will get to see them play together for more than one half this season.

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