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TNT Gives Bobcats No Respect

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I was watching Inside NBA on TNT and the guys just utterly disrespected the Bobcats.

- Here is the preface, Ernie Johnson brought up the Eastern Conference Playoffs.

- Chuck then said that Toronto was a scary team and that they were going to win a series.

- EJ replied, that the matchup would be Charlotte vs. Toronto.

- Shaq laughed, Chuck said that Toronto was going to beat Charlotte.

- To be fair, Kenny picked Charlotte to beat Toronto.

We're still getting no respect... it's time to kick ass and prove the haters wrong.

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We are still the laughing stock of american sports. There's no reason for anyone to give us any respect.

I'll just be glad when the season is over and we are officially the Hornets. The Bobcats name just has too much negative crap associated with it.

You've said a lot of things I disagree with, but this is dead on.

I wouldn't consider most NBA fans as avid fans, most are just bandwagon and because of this the Bobcats name gets associated with sucking no matter how well we play.

I still see comments like "how are the Knicks losing to the Bobcats?"

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You've said a lot of things I disagree with, but this is dead on.

I wouldn't consider most NBA fans as avid fans, most are just bandwagon and because of this the Bobcats name gets associated with sucking no matter how well we play.

I still see comments like "how are the Knicks losing to the Bobcats?"

Go check out the Wizards forums. They were wanting their coach fired yesterday after losing to "a shitty ass joke of a team" they were mad that their Wizards lost 3 of 4 to the crappy Bobcats who they view as a far inferior team.

A lot of it is just ignorance of people who know nothing, but it is also simply the Bobcats brand being associated with losing for a decade and thus it's entire existence. Each league has it; NFL- Jaguars, MLB- Royals, NBA- Bobcats.

The good news is the Hornets name is one of the most popular and liked across the country. Causal fans of teams all over the country were happy to see the Charlotte Hornets return. As long as the team keeps winning the stigma and reputation will quickly disappear.

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It honestly doesn't matter to me that people still disrespect the Bobcats for two reasons:

 

(1) we're less than two full seasons removed from a season where we only won 7 games, and last season was rough too.  I can't get too annoyed with non-fans that are biased against a franchise that has recently had historically awful seasons and has an extended history of being a sub-average team.

 

(2) I know that times have changed, and our current worse case scenario is now treadmill late seed playoff team.  I'm all in on Clifford and our core, and we still have players developing and assets to enhance the roster.  The days of being an NBA laughing stock are over.

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How is Barkley's opinion, that a team with a better record than yours will beat you, disrespect? You even said another's opinion was that the Cats would win.

It wasn't the fact that he thought they would win, it was the way he dismissed the possibility of us even being in the series.

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We are still the laughing stock of american sports. There's no reason for anyone to give us any respect.

I'll just be glad when the season is over and we are officially the Hornets. The Bobcats name just has too much negative crap associated with it.

I wouldn't say we're the laughing stock of american sports.  I think we have more fans then the Jags.

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How is Barkley's opinion, that a team with a better record than yours will beat you, disrespect? You even said another's opinion was that the Cats would win.

It was more or less the way it was said...

Ernie had to look down on his paper to check the standings to see who Toronto would play and once he found it, he said Charlotte and while Shaq laughed, Barkley said "oh, they gonna beat them."

Completely writing us off, giving us no chance... yet he thinks Memphis stands a chance against the Spurs.

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