The Bobcats Were So, So Awful Last Night

While Raymond Felton was ruining the end of an otherwise good Nets-Knicks game for a national audience, the Charlotte Bobcats were quietly having a statement game of their own—plunging deep into the depths of basketball shittiness during a 114-69 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Going into the game, Charlotte was a surprising 7-5 and was even being held up as a foil to the bottomlessly dysfunctional Washington Wizards. Here's what the box score tells us about how embarrassing last night was for the Bobcats:

They were down by 40 points at halftime after scoring just 24 points in the first two quarters

They were outscored 36-12 in the second quarter

They scored their 24th point of the game with 2:53 left in the second quarter, and then did not score again until the 9:34 mark of the third quarter

They shot 29 percent from the field and were outrebounded 54-37

Jeffrey Taylor led the team in scoring with 10 points

They had 12 total assists

The combined +/- of the team's starting five was -175

Kemba Walker started at point guard, and shot 0-6 from the field while dishing out two assists and two turnovers in 20 minutes

The Thunder pulled its starters just five minutes into the second half

The Bobcats let Hasheem Thabeet do this:

Maybe we shouldn't be so quick to label the Wizards as the worst team in the league. The Bobcats still have plenty of suck in them.