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bobcats move out for DNC
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:16 pm
by fatlever
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/0 ... ntion.html“They’ve assured us we get our building back on the 26th (of September) just as they found it,” said Bobcats president Fred Whitfield. “That was our biggest concern.”
Technically, August and September are the off-season, but in reality this is the Bobcats’ ramp-up time, both on and off the court. Players assemble in Charlotte by Labor Day for weeks of daily pickup games preparing for training camp. The business side is in a final push to sell tickets before the team opens the regular season in November.
Whitfield and his staff started planning this move-out six months ago. The single biggest concern: Not disrupting the players’ preparation. The Bobcats have a new coach in Mike Dunlap and a slew of new players via the draft, free-agency and trades.
They’re hoping for significant improvement after last season’s 7-59 record, worst in NBA history.
“Especially with Mike Dunlap’s player-development agenda and our players getting into the mindset of coming in every day (of the off-season), we wanted to have a system in place where it would be very easy for them to go through their normal regimen,” Whitfield said.
So the Bobcats arranged to use Johnson & Wales’ gymnasium on the edge of uptown as their temporary training facility. The college will turn over the gym, two locker rooms, their training room and a player lounge to the Bobcats’ exclusive use from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., until fall classes begin the second week of September.
For the rest of September, the Bobcats will get Johnson & Wales’ gym two hours each morning. As a perk, J&W students will be invited to watch pickup games from the gym’s bleachers.Read more here:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/0 ... rylink=cpy
do we have any posters from johnson and wales? if so, you guys need to get to those pick up games and report some info.
Re: bobcats move out for DNC
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:34 pm
by Bassman
Unreal. If it's not a stupid horse show causing major interruptions, it's the Marxist invasion forcing our team into a rat hole to refine their game.
I sometimes think the Bobcats are the NBA's equivalent to the Cubs.
Re: bobcats move out for DNC
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:53 pm
by Liver_Pooty
I think its great for the city in general. I don't think it will be that big of a deal personally.
Re: bobcats move out for DNC
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 12:12 am
by MKG14
Bassman wrote:Unreal. If it's not a stupid horse show causing major interruptions, it's the Marxist invasion forcing our team into a rat hole to refine their game.
I sometimes think the Bobcats are the NBA's equivalent to the Cubs.
Don't you think the DNC had to ask first?
Re: bobcats move out for DNC
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:33 pm
by Vanderbilt_Grad
The DNC is going to be a pain in the wazoo for that week for lot's of folks, not just the Bobcats.
I hope that it's really good for the City, but it's a high risk kind of thing. Kind of like drafting a guy with a lot of potential but no idea if he's going to actually work out or not.
The best case is that things go well and the City gets a lot of good press. On the other hand something could go wrong and the City looks foolish. Worst case is that things go badly wrong (riots, infrastructure failure, etc.) and that people actually die.
It's a very high stakes gamble.
Re: bobcats move out for DNC
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 4:13 pm
by fatlever
i saw two cops on dirtbikes riding down the street CHiPs style today. bikes looked brand new. i've never seen that before. surely new bikes bought with some DNC money to be used for getting around traffic jams.
Re: bobcats move out for DNC
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 4:29 pm
by countryboi
The bobcats are being paid very very well to move out for the DNC... anyone in there right mind would have done the same thing
Re: bobcats move out for DNC
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 5:33 pm
by SWedd523
countryboi wrote:The bobcats are being paid very very well to move out for the DNC... anyone in there right mind would have done the same thing
Exactly. MJ is getting PAID to move out for a couple of months.
All they're really going to be missing is pickup basketball time anyway, and they could takeover the local Y and still have plenty of opportunity to run
Re: bobcats move out for DNC
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 5:55 pm
by e4Nf6
Any J&W students here that would be willing to "rent" me your student ID?
I'm definitely going to try and sneak in...
Re: bobcats move out for DNC
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 4:18 pm
by Walt Cronkite
fatlever wrote:i saw two cops on dirtbikes riding down the street CHiPs style today. bikes looked brand new. i've never seen that before. surely new bikes bought with some DNC money to be used for getting around traffic jams.
Do you guys have Segway cops in Charlotte?
Re: bobcats move out for DNC
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 4:48 pm
by fatlever
if we do i havent seen them, but i rarely go to uptown.
Re: bobcats move out for DNC
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 3:25 pm
by Walt Cronkite
They have them in Raleigh, it's silly. Haven't seen any in Boston.
Re: bobcats move out for DNC
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 4:35 pm
by Rich4114
Hopefully the DNC will help with something. I was just on vacation in Myrtle Beach and went into one of those sports stores that sells all kinds of team apparel. Not a single bobcats item. Not even a lolCats hat or anything.
Re: bobcats move out for DNC
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 5:22 pm
by SWedd523
I did the same thing the other week. I was down at Myrtle with my girl and we stopped by one of those Tanger Outlets places. Decided to stop by a Lids store just for **** and gigs to see if they'd have anything Bobcats. Just one in a lower corner where you could hardly notice it