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Charlotte Bobcats 2009 NBA Basketball Future Lines

October 2, 2009 By Lawrence Paul
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Charlotte Bobcats Betting Odds – NBA Basketball Future Lines

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Let’s take a look at the numbers:

Sportsbook.com NBA Basketball Betting Odds – Charlotte Bobcats Odds To Win NBA Title – 100/1

The Bobcats have their feet firmly planted as the cement slowly hardens.

These guys are an mediocre bunch without either a focus or a go-to player in the backcourt or on the front line. Charlotte Bobcats 2009 NBA Basketball Future Lines

Key players added – Gerald Henderson, Tyson Chandler

Key players lost – Emeka Okafor

Ray Felton and Raja Bell are OK, Tyson Chandler (brought in from New Orleans because coach Larry Brown had had it with Emeka Okafor) is OK, Gerald Wallace and Boris Diaw are OK. But none are good enough to carry a team to the playoffs, let alone challenge for a title.

Dealing Okafor to New Orleans raised eyebrows throughout the NBA, and was made when Brown grew tired of trying to motivate the former overall No. 2 pick (gee, that’s unusual…an NBA player who really doesn’t care that much). Chandler has injury issues, but is bigger than Okafor and better fits Brown’s defensive philosophy.

Brown loves challenges, but with this team’s mediocre talent base it’s hard to envision anything but a last-place finish in the Southeast Conference. Now that Washington is getting healthy, who can Charlotte beat?

Surprising stat: The Bobcats were one of the better teams in the league ATS last season, going 46-36.

Strengths: Brown has high hopes for Gerald Henderson, a steady but unspectacular guard who could get big minutes off the bench. Ray Felton can move into the upper echelon of point guards with another good season.

Weaknesses: The Bobcats are a boring bunch that controls tempo and tries to keep the score in the 80s, or even below that. With little talent, they have no choice.

Playoffs? These guys are still two or three lottery drafts away from Atlanta Hawks territory.

Win total projection for 2009-10 — 25

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Lawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling and travel writer from Massachusetts.

About Lawrence Paul

Lawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling expert from Massachusetts. A knack for predicting when a team will have a letdown! Stick with our resident gambling experts sports betting tips all season long!

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Comments

  • BOBCATSIN09

    you guys must be smoking something really, really good. This is the only team in the eastern conference to consistently beat the Lakers year end and year out. Chandler was a great pickup, Felton will be one of the top 2 guards in the league and they play a very even schedule down the stretch (10 home 10 away last 20 games). Give the Cats some love. They were in the playoff race deep last season and we expect them to do it again.

  • http://www.capperspicks.com Qbin Missile Crisis

    Not smoking anything, but if you run across something really really good, pass it along. You can’t beat someone with no one, and the Bobcats will eventually get to the point in a lot of games where they need a score, and can’t get one. They slow the ball down because Larry Brown knows he doesn’t have the talent to run with decent teams. The Bobcats have a ton of below- average to average players, none of whom demand double-teams in a half-court set. The eastern Conference is getting better, and Charlotte seems to be standing still.

    Lawrence Paul

  • Mike James

    I have to agree with the post by bobcatsin09. You miss the whole point and you probaly have never been to a Bobcat game or even have followed this team for the past 4-5 years.

    People could have said the same thing about Detroit. That team became a collection of good players they weren’t all great players when they got there. Chauncy had been all over the league, MJ had just shipped Rip to Detroit for Stackhouse, Prince was out of college and no one expected him to be the player he has turned out to be and come to find out the missing piece was Larry Brown and Rashed Wallace. You were probaly one of the people who said Rashed would not be a good fit for them.

    Basketball is a team sport and Detroit showed the league how to win and compete without a superstar. Larry Brown will have this team in the playoffs this year because he understands how to get a team to compete every night.

    You said they will win 25 games and I say they will win 43 and make the playoffs at the end of the season holla back and see who knows more about the Bobcats or the NBA.

  • http://www.capperspicks.com Qbin Missile Crisis

    Even if the Bobcats are improved, so are many of the teams in the Eastern Conference. Of the following teams, one has to not make the playoffs for Charlotte to get in:

    Boston — playoff lock
    Orlando — playoff lock
    Cleveland — playoff lock
    Atlanta — on the rise
    Miami — better talent than Charlotte
    Philadelphia — With Brand back, they’re in

    That leaves Detroit and Chicago. The Pistons are the more likely out as they are saving cap space for a big free agent spalsh next summer.

    And this assumes that the Knicks and Nets stink again, and Washington doesn’t get completely healthy.

    Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t see Charlotte making a big move. And I did see the Bobcats in Boston last year. They badly needed a victory to stay in the playoff hunt, and blew several big leads. Boston didn’t have Garnett and was playing out the strong, and still won.

    Lawrence Paul

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