Bobcats in this weeks Sports Illustrated

[nfcchamp2004]

Article's Title is "Charlotte's Web" by Jack McCallum

Heres the link
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1148518/1/index.htm

[spectre_]

"The only time I think about how old he is," says reserve swingman Matt Carroll, "is when he calls me Adam Morrison." (Brown's explanation? "I tell Matt and Adam [who shares Carroll's role] that I'm not used to coaching white guys," he jokes.)

[RichBoy923]

Article's Title is "Charlotte's Web" by Jack McCallum

Heres the link
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1148518/1/index.htm

Unrelated to the article, but when we awarded the organization and coming up with possible team names, I wanted Spiders. And like when we had the Hive with the Hornets, we could have called it Charlotte's Web, I know corny.

[fatlever]

great article. the truth hurts a little.

[fluffernutter]

I thought this was very revealing:

"In some ways the Bobcats are the perfect team for Brown in that they are so manifestly imperfect, a lump of clay waiting to be shaped by the master artisan. "The things they don't know boggle my mind," says Brown. Such as? "Like when you're on the weak side [on defense] and you have to see man and ball. Like talking on defense. Like denying one pass away. Or if a guy drives baseline on you, how you have to fold back and take the big guy off the board. Like throwing it to the first open free man instead of faking to that guy. There's a reason he's open, right?" The list goes on, but time is short."

This is exactly what I always thought about this team.

They really don't know how to play basketball -- at least the details.

In a strange way, this gives me hope.

Because they are now being taught.

It's up to them to embrace it, learn it, and use it.

[BigSlam]

We do things during a basketball game that just makes me shake my head. That might not be too bad but it happens wayyyyyyyy to often.

Even my wife questions why we don't pass when when we should or why we allow easy rebounds or why we don't rotate on D - and she knows nothing about basketball (other than that DJ is beautiful)

[freakon0mics]

Great article and a little disturbing I might add. Whats disturbing is that Brown is saying that this team doesn't really know how to play the game. I'm just glad Brown is here to pick things up. He's seeing the weaknesses of this ball club and can hopefully shape this team to be at least competitors in this league.