Bobcats Mid Season Report Card

[BigSlam]

Here is what NBA.com has to say:

The Bobcats aren't this bad, but they're not the team that pulled a surprise and finally broke through the playoff ceiling last season. They're still looking for a big-time star and gate attraction, and no, owner Michael Jordan doesn't qualify.
If Thomas was more consistent the season would hold greater intrigue, but as of now, put the Bobcats among the big disappoints of the season's first half.

http://www.nba.com/reportcard/midseason/2011/bobcats/

What do you have to say?

Frontcourt:

Backcourt:

Defense:

Bench:

Coaching:

Overall Grade: (options: A=Superior B=Above Average C=Average D=Below Average F=Failing)

Summary:

[countryboi]

Frontcourt: B: Kwame has turned himself in to a very serviceable center, Diaw has been well himself he is a 60/40 type of player... 60 percent good 40 percent bad....on a good night you think he could be one of the best in the league but on a bad one he is passing up lay ups for contested jumpers. this grade could be higher but wallace has been invisible for most of the season......and honestly has not looked like the same player since the all star game.....at 28 and never playing more than 3/4s of any season i feel like his best years maybe behind him.

Backcourt: C = DJ has really come around and been playing at a high level since LB was canned but because of his height and poor defense i dont know if he can ever be more than a first man off the bench type.....jackson has been stalling the offense and taking poor shots all season and at 32 he still gets job done and is sadly still the best player on the team......i would trade him for the best deal i could get like yesterday.


Defense: C = this grade has alot to do with DJs on ball defense being just awful...this the place were we miss felton and pussyfoot the most...cause for the most part jackson and wallace have been decent and diaw post defense has always been top notch..

Bench: C = the good part is TT has been great off the bench he bring energy and scoring , henderson seems to be really coming around and nazr is also good off the bench and can sub in and out of the starting unit...the bad is everyone else sucks....livingston is normally the first or second off the bench but he stinks and couldnt set up anyone to save his life.

Coaching: LB = F- its his way or the highway.....he only knows one way to play and will pigeon hole all of his players to fit his style wither is working or not. Silas = B- while silas has been a breath of fresh air he is still working with the flawed team that larry built....but his staff has really been working with kwame and the big men and it shows in their rebounding and scoring...DJ seems to have new life and is turning a corner but on the floor the team seems to like to fall make in to the larry brown slow the ball type ways even though we are completely awful at it.......that said I feel like silas is doing the best he can with the hand he was given

Overall Grade: C

Summary: This team is getting better but still pretty medicore ....I am really want say just blow it up and give the keys to TT and DJ but who wants to watch that? if this team stays intact the way its set up right now they maybe able to slide in as the 7th or 8th team but i feel like someone major is going to get traded before that happens

[Bassman]

Frontcourt: C- Diaw has been better during portions of the season, but logs his usual mimimum impact games as well. Kwame's work of late has been promising, but most of the year the 5 has grossly underperformed. Crash has had a below average season, and with some injury time, adds to the diminished grade.

Backcourt: C+ I was nearly giving a B- here, but overall, the grade still doesn't rise above an average mark. DJ has only recently been freed from the LB hell-hole, and he is showing the promise of a lottery pick. Jax has at times been our best player, and at times shot us right out of victory and into defeat. He is indeed a better SF, but his time has been spent at the 2.

Defense: C Hard to get into B territory with the number of stinker performances we've had. This team can play better D, but at times it deserved an F.

Bench: D Tyrus provides enough lift to keep this group from being an F. I mean really, over the course of this season, the bench has been a poor performing unit. Granted LB did little to help this. But considering the output apart from Tyrus, there is little strength here.

Coaching: F Yes Silas has done some super things to help refresh the squad, but his record cannot lift the LB disaster beyond failure (at least to this point). The fact is LB did not want to be here, was miserable from well before training camp, was a destructive force to everything that had been built from last season, and likely pushed this team back at least 2 years in our development.

Overall Grade: D

Summary: The Bobcats may be within sniffing distance of the 8th seed, but that's largely due to how bad the East's lower echelon teams are so far. The horrible start (again!) and LB debacle nearly drove the team into it's grave. Silas is helping, and we're more competitive, but the players have yet to demonstrate they can beat any good team other than the Bulls. Fact is the Cats don't have the talent necessary to compete, and changes are on the way.

[captaincrunk]

Frontcourt:
C+ Wallace coming back pulls us from a C- to a C+ at least. With only Kwame and Tyrus out there rebounding we were hurting. Even last night our rebounding as a team was poor.

Backcourt:
B. Clearly they haven't seen DJ and Jackson playing ball. DJ is doing about as well as felton did last year. Yeah Felton is doing better than he was, but that doesn't make DJ's play any worse.

Defense:
I agree. B sounds about right. We're above average but nothing to write home about.

Bench:
B Tyrus is better than they give him credit for. Our other players spot starting recently have performed well too.

Coaching:
I don't really know how to grade this.

Overall Grade:
B-

[fatlever]

frontcourt C+
boris has been the rock of the frontcourt and i would give him a B. however, the center position has been far too inconsistent and wallace has been a disappointment.

backcourt B-
jax and dj have been our two best offensive players in most games. when jax is good he is an A and when he is bad he is a D.

bench D
tryrus has been the only reliable option on the bench.

defense B
not as good as last year, but still pretty good

offense D
showing some signs of improving, but its two steps forward, one step back with this bunch

coaching larry F/silas B
larry was a disaster. lost the team quickly after it was obvious he didnt want to be here. silas has done well to rebuild confidence, but there is only so much he can do with no training camp and a patchwork coaching staff.

overall C-

[Eoghan]

Frontcourt: B Boris and TT are solid at the 4, the 5's are pretty bad, and we're stacked at the 3.

Backcourt: C DJ is above average at the 1 but everybody else isn't. Jax IMO at this stage of his career needs to be a 3 in most lineups.

Defense: D Transition D is not very good for some reason and Boris is the best man defender on the squad, Kwame 2nd, which is not ideal.

Bench: F Our best bench player has been racking up DNP-CDs lately b/c our bench is strongest at the position that is needed the least. Just bad roster management/picks not panning out (not necessarily Henderson but Ajinca).

Coaching: B I think it's a great 1-2 combo of motivators in Paul Silas and Oak with a good X-Os guy in Stephen Silas and the players are responding much better.

Overall Grade: C

Summary:
I don't really feel like describing mediocrity in detail so here's a pic of a kitten.

[BigSlam]

Maybe we should do two report cards? One under LB and the other under Coach Silas - because we are basically two different teams?

[countryboi]

the one under LB would be all F though

[W_HAMILTON]

Frontcourt: C-

Backcourt: B-

Defense: B

Bench: D+

Coaching: D

Overall Grade: C-

Summary: Disappointing start to the season, but we've had some injuries and a near coach-inspired mutiny. We've been above .500 since the coaching change, and grades should improve the further away we get from the Larry Brown era.

I'm looking for maybe a B- and a playoff berth.

[August Us Seazr]

Frontcourt: C-

Backcourt: B-

Defense: B

Bench: D+

Coaching: D

Overall Grade: C-

Summary: Disappointing start to the season, but we've had some injuries and a near coach-inspired mutiny. We've been above .500 since the coaching change, and grades should improve the further away we get from the Larry Brown era.

I'm looking for maybe a B- and a playoff berth.

I'm going to have to agree with Ham that this is straightening out under "The Silas Administration". This season was a TOTAL disaster for the time that Larry Brown botched this team up this season. I don't think that the stink LB created can be totally erased by the team this year, but I do think Paul Silas will move them a lot closer to fresher air as this season winds down... especially if MJ and the front office do GOOD things to reconstruct the team. On second thought, make that if the reconstruction grades out at an A- or better.

BTW, it's good to be back. I'll explain later.

August

[fatlever]

good to see you around august