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Indiana (0-1) Vs Charlotte (0-1)
@ Time Warner Arena, Charlotte, NC


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Starting Lineup



Bench Players


Rotation

PG- Collison/Ford
SG- Dunleavy/George
SF- Granger/George/Posey
PF- McRoberts/Hansbrough/Posey
Cc- Hibbert/Foster/S.Jones

Looking to rebound from a tough opening loss, the Pacers will look to utilize it's quickfire offense to catch the Bobcats off guard. A high shooting percentage will be required in yet another tough away fixture.


Starting Lineup




Bench Players


Rotation

PG- Augustin/Livingston/Collins
SG- Jackson/Henderson/McGuire
SF- Wallace/D.Brown/Carroll
PF- Diaw/Thomas/Najera
Cc- Mohammed/Diop/K.Brown

The Bobcats will also be looking to open their winning acccount for the 2010/11 season after going down to the Mavs away from home turf. A great defensive team from last season, they'll hope to thwart Indiana's chances of putting up a high score.

Injury Reports

Pacers

-Brandon Rush- Suspended.
-AJ Price- DTD

Bobcats

N/A

Preview

Via ESPN.com

After setting a franchise record for home wins in 2009-10, the Charlotte Bobcats should be excited to begin play at Time Warner Cable Arena this season.

The Bobcats look to carry over that success as they open their home schedule Friday night against the Indiana Pacers.

Charlotte went 44-38 last season and made the playoffs for the first time in its six-year history. The Bobcats recorded 31 of those victories at home, where they averaged 98.3 points -- 6.1 more than they did while going 13-28 on the road.

Poised to make another run to the playoffs, the Bobcats get the chance to build on that home success Friday -- their only home date of their first five games.

Charlotte has held the Pacers to 96.0 points per game while winning four of five at home in the series, but needs to show improvement after a 101-86 loss at Dallas on Wednesday. Tyrus Thomas had 22 points off the bench while Gerald Wallace added 16 and nine boards, but the Bobcats shot 39.7 percent and committed 20 turnovers.

More efforts like that won't be tolerated by a team with such high expectations.

"With everybody having the taste of the playoffs last year, I think the drive is here and everybody wants to get back there," veteran swingman Stephen Jackson told the Bobcats' official website.

A former Pacer, Jackson has totaled 42 points in his last two games against Indiana. However, he had 10 during a 104-88 home win over the Pacers on Nov. 22. That was Charlotte's only victory in three games versus Indiana last season.

Third-year center Roy Hibbert has 32 points and 18 rebounds in six career games versus Charlotte, but appears ready to break out after posting 28 and nine boards during Indiana's 122-109 loss at San Antonio on Wednesday.

"Offensively I feel like I'm coming into my own, but defensively I need to get better," Hibbert said.

Pacers star Danny Granger had 26 points against the Spurs, and has averaged 25.1 points in his last seven games against the Bobcats.

Indiana won the season series with Charlotte in 2009-10, despite committing 52 turnovers. After averaging 15.0 turnovers last season, Indiana was especially sloppy versus the Spurs, committing 23 in the loss.

"Our main focus now is turnovers," Granger told the Pacers' official website. "We knew before the game that if we turned the ball over, especially 23 times, that we were going to lose. "That's the way it is as we simply can't turn the ball over that many times. That's going to be our biggest challenge this year."

Acquired in a five-player, four-team trade in August, Darren Collison had 19 points and seven assists as the Pacers' new point guard.

Collison scored 24 points in each of his two games against Charlotte as a rookie with New Orleans last season. He shot 17 of 31 in those contests.

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viewforum.php?f=53 (Behind enemy lines- Be Nice)

Let's Go Pacers!!!!!

I think the Bobcats could end up being a terrible team this year. I mean, they kind of peaked last year, played as well as they possibly could, and snuck into the playoffs. Can they really recapture that lightning in a bottle, even after losing Chandler and Felton? I highly doubt it.

Let's see the Pacers open a can of whoopass on this poor pathetic team.

After having it happen to the Pacers every year where we get pencilled in as a win, I'm not taking anything for granted.

This will be tough. Gerald Wallace and Stephen Jackson are still here, and they were the keys for the playoffs for this team. If there was ever a time to play Hansbrough, North Carolina might be the place. Bench will be key this game.

Nice thread, Gremz!

Miller4ever wrote:After having it happen to the Pacers every year where we get pencilled in as a win, I'm not taking anything for granted.

This will be tough. Gerald Wallace and Stephen Jackson are still here, and they were the keys for the playoffs for this team. If there was ever a time to play Hansbrough, North Carolina might be the place. Bench will be key this game.

Nice thread, Gremz!

The thought of Dunleavy guarding either Jackson or Wallace is pretty ugly. Good test, can we overcome that matchup by scoring too many point for the Bobcats to match?

Awesome thread. I will be away this weekend on a business trip to Atlanta and will miss both games and probably won't be on line much, although i will try, i may hit up a bar to see the game, but i probably won't be much of help to the GDTs. I will do the GDT for next Friday's game though. I don't want to sign up for Wed since i arrive back on Tuesday, not sure how tired i'll be.

Charlotte is really tough at home. at least they were last season. Wallace and Jackson have the potential to abuse us, but I think Collison is going to have a really big game tonight. I say to win we need a bench player or dunleavey to step up and have a big game.

IrishLuck31 wrote:Charlotte is really tough at home. at least they were last season. Wallace and Jackson have the potential to abuse us, but I think Collison is going to have a really big game tonight. I say to win we need a bench player or dunleavey to step up and have a big game.

They just got whooped last night, so i would expect them to come out flying tomorrow night. If the Pacers don't have a good start on defense, it could be a long night for the Pacers.

Rebounds could be the key of the game, Gerald Wallace and Tyrus Thomas are very athletic and they can do very much damage in the zone.

Last couple seasons, we lost these types of games. If we're going to make it to the playoffs, cant lose these games.

Can we cut Dunleavy?

Nice thread, man.


I think Pacers are going to win today. 23 Turnovers certainly won't cut it though.

Nice D, PG.

Every one of their players is posting up and Pacers can't do anything about it it seems

Paul with D again. O'Brien needs to make an adjustment to the starting line-up.

Dunleavy doesn't box out and gives wallace a wide-open putback.

Lance rockin the Cavi tee.

Lord, when Augustin is hitting big threes, we're in trouble.

Oh my god Granger's 3 + foul was so sick. cold blooded.

Collison ??? 2:57 left and he is riding the bench.

Well he needs to be on the bench so Ford can miss key free throws, ya know.