Chapter 3: The Beginning of the Rise

Although the Bobcats brought in the super scorer Jason Richardson in the 2007-2008 season, the team's record did not improve in the slightest, this season, the Bobcats won 32 games under the leadership of Sam Vincent, the second coach in team history, although Gerald Wallace only played 62 games due to injury, and Sean May was also reimbursed for the season due to injury, but this result was certainly not what the team management wanted to see, so at the end of the season, Vincent resigned, Michael Jordan, who has been promoted to Bobcats management, said that the 76ers' vice president of basketball affairs, Larry Brown, came out of the mountains and personally ** young Charlotte Bobcats.

In the 2008 NBA draft, the Bobcats used the No. 9 pick in the first round to select DJ Augustin, a short point guard from the University of Texas - Augustin, Augustin has a sharp breakthrough, excellent shooting ability, and often has a magic stroke, but Augustin is 183 cm tall, even shorter than Filton, but he is not as strong as Filton, and his short and thin figure makes Augustin almost exploded on the defensive end, This has also allowed Augustin, who has good offensive ability, to be in a state of flux throughout his career.

The twentieth pick in the first round, the Bobcats selected Jacquelisis Akinsa, a high school forward from France, Akinsa is a talented player, very good physical fitness, 218 cm tall, it is rumored that he was able to kiss the basket, known as France's Garnett, but this guy was thirteen years old before playing extreme BMX, and later had to switch to the basketball court because of his skyrocketing height. Excellent talent makes Atkinsa a very good basket protector, able to complete amazing blocks, but on the offensive end, he has no other effective means of scoring except for dunks under the basket and the close-range mid-range shots that he developed later, and more importantly, Atkinsa has no ability to carry the back of the basket, and his body is relatively thin, and he can't carry these muscles in the NBA at all, which makes his development very limited.

In addition to Augustin and Akinsa, the Bobcats also gained Kyle Weaver, who has good defensive ability, with the 18th pick in the second round, don't get me wrong, this brother is not the "Weaver" who was once unbeatable on the Rockets, the full name of the latter is Wayne Weaver, six weeks later, the Hornets traded Weaver to the Thunder, and the performance was not bad, but he became known to the public because he exposed his girlfriend's nude photos......

In the 2008 offseason, the Bobcats signed jumping king Shannon Brown for the league's lowest salary of $800,000 a year, and at that time, Brown had not yet shown what he could do with the Lakers in the later stages, averaging only 10 minutes per game in 30 games.

Before the February trade deadline this season, the Bobcats completed a number of trades, sending Ryan Hollins, who had little chance to perform, and Matt Carroll, who had little chance of performance, to the Mavericks, and got the interior defensive gate Desaguena Diogu, who is 213 cm tall and weighs 127 kilograms, in a sense, Diogu and Atkinsa are the same type of players, Diogu only started to play basketball at the age of 15, after achieving very good results in high school, He skipped the draft in college, so he basically didn't have the ability to attack with the ball on the offensive end, but he was able to help the team defensively with his huge height and weight.

After sending away Hollins and Carroll, the Bobcats sent the newly signed Shannon Brown and Adam Morrison, who was in serious decline, to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Vladimir Radmanovich, Radmanovic is an outside player with the height of an interior player, a very conscientious three-point shooter on the court, and his early career three-point shooting rate exceeded 40%, and his performance in the new season of the Bobcats is decent, playing as a super sixth man, and he can score 8.3 points per game.

In the middle of the season, the team's biggest trade was in the middle of the season, sending the team's scoring champions Jason Richardson and Jarred Dudley to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for the all-around small inside Boris Dior, defensive stalwart Ragabel, and Sheehan Singetree, the third player is completely an addition, and his career is only two years. With an average of 2.3 points per game, Dior and Bale are the favorite players of the Bobcats, and the two players quickly occupied the position of the team's starting power forward and starting scoring guard after coming to the Bobcats, Dior is a very special player, known as "the most flexible dead fat man in NBA history", he plays full of artistic sense, although his body is plump, but he never holds the ball like the American muscle ** and carries it inside, but it is very agile and pleasing to the eye. And there is a good passing kung fu in the new season Dior can average 15.1 points, 5.9 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game, Raga Bell needless to say, in the 2005 playoffs Raga Belle locked Kobe Bryant to make him famous, and at the same time Bell also has a good three-point shooting kung fu, in the first season of the Bobcats, Bell was able to score 13 points per game, and the three-point shooting rate was 39.5%

It is worth mentioning that the Bobcats also signed the veteran Juwan Howard in the new season, mainly to help the growth of young players, Uncle Huo left the Rockets after the Mavericks, Timberwolves, Diggers, and finally went to the Bobcats to rub a little pension, the new season Huo Ershu only played 39 games, averaging 4.4 points per game.

The team has won 35 games this season, but still failed to make the playoffs, although there have been many personnel changes, but this group of Bobcats still has the highest number of wins in team history, Gerald Wallace averaged 16.6 points and 7.8 rebounds per game, Felton averaged 14.2 points and 6.7 assists per game, Okafor averaged 13.2 points and 10.1 rebounds per game, and DJ Augustin played in 72 games, starting 12 of them, averaging 11.8 points and 3.5 assists per game.

A big reason why the team has been shut out of the playoffs year after year is that the team lacks a super scorer, Gerard Wallace, Dio, Felton, and even Okafor are not players who are primarily capable of scoring, all previous seasons, the Bobcats' 2009-2010 season.

In the 2009 NBA Draft, the Bobcats selected Gerald Henderson from Duke University with the twelfth pick, and he was also a mess of his three-point shots, dribbling, and passing, but Henderson's attitude to play was very positive, and Henderson's basic skills were also very solid, and the mid-range was very accurate.

Henderson is not the only gain of the Bobcats in this draft, the tenth pick in the second round, the Bobcats won a small forward from Sylvie University, Derrick Brown, Brown is also a player who is stronger than offensive, and can swing three positions, which greatly complements the depth of the Bobcats' bench, and in terms of the trajectory of post-development, the two players selected by the Bobcats this year have very good abilities, but unfortunately, they met Larry Brown, who once played a ** The academy head coach of the Pistons is notoriously notoriously unusable in the league, and the fall of Dali Milicic in 2003 has nothing to do with Brown, let alone two first-rounders, both of whom played under Brown for less than 10 minutes per game.

As soon as the NBA draft ended, the Bobcats made a big deal, they sent Emeka Okafor, who had not improved for several years, to the New Orleans Hornets, in exchange for the interior defensive gate Tyson Chandler, the first generation of the Bobcats left Charlotte, as of March 14, 2016, Emeka Okafor picked up a total of 2573 rebounds for the Bobcats, ranking first in team history, 621 blocks, and also occupied the top position in team history, playing in 330 games, Ranked sixth in team history, with a total score of 4630 points, ranking fifth in team history.

After just nine games to start the new season, the Bobcats made another blockbuster trade, the Bobcats sent Ragabel and Rademanovic to the Warriors, got troubled outside scorer Stephen Jackson, and Asilao, and then in the last trade in the middle of the year, the Bobcats sent Asilao and another role player, Ronani Murray, to the Bulls to get physical male Tyrences Williams.

This season, the Bobcats ushered in a season of transformation, Stephen Jackson averaged 21.1 points and 5.1 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game, becoming the team's most fierce outside firepower, Raymond Filton averaged 12.1 points and 5.6 assists per game, and it was rare that he averaged 45.9% shooting per game, Boris Dio started 82 games in full attendance, Averaging 11.3 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game, the arrival of Terrence Thomas added vitality to the Hornets' bench, averaging 10.1 points and 6.1 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game, Tyson Chandler had mixed performances throughout the season due to back injuries, averaging only 6.5 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, Gerald Wallace played the pinnacle of his career, averaging 18.2 points, 10.0 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.1 blocks per game, shooting 48.4 from the fieldThis performance earned him a selection to the All-Star team this season, making him the first All-Star in Bobcats history.

This season, the Bobcats won a record 44 games, ranked seventh in the East, and reached the playoffs for the first time in team history, and their first-round opponent was the very powerful Orlando Magic, look at the Magic team's lineup, starting No. 1 Jameel Nelson, starting No. 2 Vince Carter, starting No. 3 Matt Barnes, starting No. 4 Rashad Lewis, starting No. 5 is Dwight Howard, known as "Warcraft", and JJ Redick is still sitting on the bench, Ryan Anderson's two major scorers, Michael Petrus, Brandon Buss, Jason Williams and Marcin Gortat also have very good strength, you can see the tactics of the Magic team at that time from the lineup, Warcraft inside hard chisel, four muskets on the outside lined up in turns, Howard as the treasure of the town, averaged 18.5 points, 13.2 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 2.8 blocks per game, shooting rate as high as 61.2%, this data is almost to see who explodes, but coincidentally, The Bobcats have an inside defensive gate, Tyson Chandler, who entered the playoffs and his injury is almost healed, so what kind of performance can he show against the Monsters at this time? In the face of the strong rival Magic, how did the Hornets leave this season?