How Do We Define Success?Defining a successful season for an NBA team can be difficult. Sometimes success is winning a championship, sometimes it's making a deep playoff run, and sometimes just making the playoffs at all is considered a successful season. For the Bobcats, I think we can all safely say that none of those 3 options look very realistic at the halfway point. So assuming the 4-29 Cats don't make a playoff run, how should we determine success for the 2012-13 season?
Before we go too far, I realize that some of you think this season can only be described as an undeniable disaster and the mere concept of classifying any part of this season as successful is unfathomable. To some degree, I understand that logic. The Bobcats have undoubtedly been the worst team in the league and are on a record pace for 30-point losses in a season. It has been bad basketball, occasionally terrible basketball. But with 33 games left to play, we can't throw in the towel and...
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Gerald Henderson,
Kemba Walker,
Bismack Biyombo,
D.J. White,
Reggie Williams,
Tyrus Thomas,
D.J. Augustin,
Byron Mullens,
Derrick Brown,
Matt Carroll,
Boris Diaw,
Cory Higgins,
Corey Maggette
TEAMS: Charlotte Bobcats
TEAMS: Charlotte Bobcats
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