Post by Lucas Lutkus on May 23, 2012 4:08:19 GMT
5th straight loss: Bobcats lose to the Mavericks, 90-77
What to do when your team just can't win? The Bobcats lost to the Mavs in a complete domination. After the Mavericks closed the 1st quarter winning by 36-18, the Bobcats never got close again.
Rodman used a weird formation, putting Kemba Walker, Bismack Biyombo and Byron Mullens on the bench, but it didn't worked, Kemba scored only 2 points, shooting 1-9 and the best player on the Bobcats was the veteran Andre Miller, that scored 10 pts, gave 7 assists and 4 steals.
After the game, Michael Jordan was visibly sad and said:
'This is a new team, new GM, new coach, new players, we're still rebuilding, let's give some time to this guys.'
The Before-Game: Going to Miami
Before the legendary game, the Bobcats was coming from a tough loss against the Mavericks. They went straight to the airport and conceded some interviews.
Dennis Rodman said:
'Yeah man, we're tired you know, it was a tough game and a tough loss at home, we hope that we can get a W against the Miami sHeat'
Rodman's lack of 'f*cks' was the sign that showed how tired he was, it was a calm flight, with everyone, except for Jamario Moon sleeping, when asked why, he said:
'Well, i have fear of airplanes, so i never sleep, instead, i watch the other team games on my iPad and try to pay attention in some things that i can do, LeBron James is going to have some work against me (laughs).'
The Bobcats arrived in Miami at 3AM, they went to a hotel to get some sleep before the next day.
In the next day, we found Michael Jordan and Lucas Lutkus walking on the beach while the Bobcats were on the hotel, getting ready for the game.
In an exclusive interview, Lutkus said that the team is still rebuilding for the next season and that the main target for future trades is the draft picks:
'Yes man, we need some draft picks, we need some future talent, we really like what we have in Kemba, Bismack and Mullens mixing with the experience of Andre Miller, Birdman and Kirk Hinrich.'
About the new tactical assistant coach, he said:
'Yeah, we're still looking for some, Rodman was against John Hollinger, that was one of the options, so we're studying our field.'
After the walk on the beach, they went to Mariott Miami Airport, the place where the Bobcats team were.
Jordan and Rodman gave a beautiful speech, saying about how they lived in the Bulls, the travels, the tough teams, tough crowds and at the end, everyone applauded them.
The Bobcats arrived to the American Airlines Arena and began to work out. Rodman announced the starting five:
'Well bitches, tonight we're going to repeat what we did against Dallas, i know we sucked, but this time is going to be different! The starting five is: Pachulia is the center, Birdman and Moon are the forwards, Young and Hinrich are the guards. Bench mob, i want you ready, because you're going to be the key to kill the Heat, understood niggas?'
'YES BITCH' the Bobcats squad answered.
'Just like i teached you' Rodman laughed.
After some work out, the Bobcats went to the court, and the game was about to start.
The Game: Bobcats, in a legendary night, defeated the Miami Heat by 100-97
12:00. The 1st quarter starts, the Bobcats won the tipoff and in the first possession, Nick Young scored a jumpshot, giving 2-0 to the Bobcats. They never stayed behind after that.
An all-scoring 1st quarter, with high percentage of shots made by Nick Young and Jamario Moon closed the quarter with the Bobcats winning by 36-32.
The Miami came back hungry, looking to take the game back, and they almost did, staying 1 point behind in the mid of the 2nd, 47-46. But Pat Riley took LeBron and Bosh off and the Bobcats put their young trio in, and they destroyed.
Just in the 2nd quarter, Kemba Walker and Andre Miller combined for 10 points in the final 5 minutes, leading the Bobcats to a 61-56 lead at the half time.
In the locker room, Michael Jordan went there to congratulate the team, Dennis Rodman's speech was:
'Hey guys, so, tonight i met Isiah Thomas, my former team mate and one of the best players i ever played with, he and Jordan were beasts man! And then i remembered when we used to play together. We played with guys like Jordan you know? We weren't that good, but we did know how to stop them! And that's how you're going to stop these f*cking bitches in the 2nd half! You're going to f*cking stay in front of them and don't let them f*cking shoot! I want some hard defense, i want some dirty fouls, i don't want to see anybody of their team running with the ball, we're winning and i want full court pressure bitches! We're the Bobcats, we're tired of the people making fun of us! LET'S GIVE THE HEAT THE LOSS THEY DESERVE AND LET'S WIN THIS MOTHERF*CKING GAME BITCHES!!!! 1...2...3...BOBCATS!!!!!!'
The Bobcats came back more psyched up than never, the Heat came back on fire too, LeBron, Wade and Bosh made all of the Miami Heat 21 points in the quarter, but the Bobcats lock-up defense didn't let anyone else of the Miami Heat squad to score any point. Kirk Hinrich, who had 10 points so far, started to shine. He completely stopped Mario Chalmers and scored another 10 points, 6 of them coming from 3-pointers! At the end of the third, Bobcats 85-77 Heat. And the Miami Heat fans were shocked.
Rodman gave just one instruction for his team to the 4th quarter:
'Let's shoot threes.'
And they did, they shot 12 3-pointers, scoring 5 of them, but the game wasn't easy.
The Miami Heat came pressuring, forcing the Bobcats to lose the ball and getting only 1 point behind several times in the 4th quarter, but Kirk Hinrich, Kemba Walker and Nick Young showed up and scored all the points of the Bobcats in the quarter, all 3-pointers.
In the last minute of the game, 97-92 to the Bobcats, the Heat has just called a timeout, the Bobcats team were: Zaza Pachulia, Bismack Biyombo, Jamario Moon, Kirk Hinrich and Kemba Walker.
Ball to the Heat, LeBron tipped in to Mario Chalmers, who lost the ball, Kemba went for the layup, but he got blocked by behind by LeBron, who passed to Wade, that scored a 2-pointer. 97-94.
Ball to the Bobcats, Miami was pressuring a lot, LeBron was on Kemba Walker and Kemba passed to Hinrich, that passed to Biyombo, he returned to Hinrich that shot a 3-pointer alone. Missed. Mario Chalmers rebounded and Pat Riley called time. 29 seconds left.
LeBron tipped in to Wade. Wade back to LeBron. 24 seconds. LeBron infiltrates, Biyombo and Pachulia closes it up. He passes to Bosh, Hinrich tries to steal the ball, Bosh sees Wade wide open, 18 seconds. Ball to Wade. 3-pointer. Made it. 97-97 and timeout for the Bobcats, the American Airlines were on fire!
'M-V-P! M-V-P' chants for Wade.
Rodman was very nervous:
'OKAY GUYS! THAT'S IT! THAT'S THE F*CKING TIME OF OUR LIFES! IT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT 15 SECONDS OF YOUR F*CKING LIFES! LET'S GIVE THE F*CKING BALL TO HINRICH, WHO'S GOING TO INFILTRATE, HE PASSES TO MOON, WHO F*CKING FAKES THE SHOT, OK MOON? THEN HE GIVES IT TO KEMBA THAT INFILTRATES, GETS THE F*CKING LAYUP OVER TURIAF AND THE F*CKING FOUL, OK? LET'S DO IT BITCHES! MAKE ME PROUD! I LOVE YOU MOTHERF*CKERS!'
Both teams came back visibly tired and visibly on fire. Ball to the Bobcats, Pachulia is tipping in.
Ball in Kirk Hinrich, Kirk tries to infiltrate... LeBron tips the ball, Kirk falls, Bosh grabs it, Bismack Biyombo grabs Bosh, but he passes it to Wade! Moon fouls Wade! Rodman put his hands in the head, the American Airlines is going down!
Wade is going to shoot two, the crowd is in complete silence to Wade to concentrate, suddenly, out of nowhere, a man starts screaming:
'SUCK MY C*CK! SUCK MY C*CK! SUCK MY C*CK!'
It's Dennis Rodman, he stops when he sees the refs looking mad to him. Dennis then yells for the last time:
'He's going to miss, he isn't any Dennis Rodman!'
Wade on the first throw... Missed! Dennis Rodman is crazy!
'HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH! YOU'RE MISSING THE SECOND TWO BABY!'
Wade looks to Rodman, he looks mad, LeBron says to him to calm down, Wade says 'relax', Wade receives the ball, looks to the basket... shoots...misses! Jamario Moon with the rebound! Foul on him! 8 seconds left! Moon is going to the line! Rodman screams on the bench:
'I TRUST YOU MOTHERF*CKER!'
Moon is on the line, the Miami Heat crowd starts chanting:
'SUCK MY C*CK! SUCK MY C*CK!'
Rodman laughs a little bit, but stays serious.
Moon on the shot. Did it! He looks extremely relieved! Bobcats ahead by 1!
Second shot, Moon looks to the basket, breathes very deeply, shoots... MISSED! Pachulia with the rebound and the dunk! The Miami fans can't believe it! Bobcats ahead 100-97 with 7 seconds left! Miami doesn't have any timeouts left! Bosh tips in to Wade, Wade passes to LeBron, 4 seconds, LeBron dribbles going to the 3 point shot, 2 seconds, LeBron shoots... misses! Biyombo grabs the rebound! End of the game! The Charlotte Bobcats defeats the Miami Heat!
The Bobcats team starts to hug each other, they all climb Rodman and they all give him a Gatorade bath, it seems that the Bobcats are the new NBA Champions! The only two Bobcats fan goes to the bench and the team thanks them, Zaza Pachulia is giving an interview about his dunk:
'I don't know how it happened man. I just saw the ball coming out and jumped for it, when i saw that i could dunk, i dunked. It's hard to describe what i'm feeling right now.'
The Heat team also addressed the journalists:
Lebron: "Man, you know you can't win them all. That's what the NBA is all about taking the tough loses and learning from them and getting better after them. And we will get better."
Pat Riley: "We just got out played, out coached, and out hustled. Our bench didn't play well and that's my fault. I didn't get the right players to mesh at the right times. This is a great learning experience for our guys, prevents them from getting the "Big Head". We'll learn from this and get better."
Isiah Thomas: "I gotta give all the credit to D-Rod, you know he had all his guys ready to play, and ready for the upset. We were looking forward to going 8-0 but 7-1 aint that bad. If we were going to lose I would prefer it be to a former teammate and a former Bad Boy. We're making moves to make the Heat better so that this doesn't happen again."
In the post-game conference, Rodman answered a few questions:
Espn: What is your honestly assessment of the Heat? They came to play, and lets be honest your team sucks, but manage to defeat them.
Dennis Rodman: Well son, you know, (starts rapping) behind of every great man, there's a great woman and behind of 12 basketball players, there's DENNIS F*CKING RODMAN! (stops rapping) Before the game, to shut the f*ck up of your ESPN mate, John A**hollinger, i studied the Heat and made a rotation that would let them without knowing what to do. Our main goal wasn't to stop LeBron, Wade or Bosh, but to don't let anyone else play and to destroy then when the trio was on bench. That's why Kemba, BisMonster Biyombo and the man of the pornstache, Byron Mullens came from the bench. We showed the weaknesses of the Heat tonight baby!
Deadspin: Rodman is there any truth about the allegations of a mental breakdown after your first loss this season?
Follow up question is there ant truth at all about the allegations that you and jordan bet on every bobcats game?
Dennis Rodman: 'What? Shut up! After our first loss i didn't had anything except for a whiskey on one hand and a cigarette on another! I needed to relax, that's all! I've been a player before and trust me, it's almost the same happiness and sadness when it comes to wins and losses man.
And about the bets, well, Jordan and I do it since our Bulls era, but before we betted about who's going to do better, him on points or i in rebounds. Nowadays it is for how much we're going to win. If we lose, the bets stay for next game. This game no one came close. I betted 24 points and he betted 23, as always. He won this time, but in the next i'm winning this!'
Kirk Hinrich also answered a few questions about his excellent performance:
'Well, we studied a lot the Heat and i'm happy that i was able to stop Mario Chalmers like i did, he's a good player and i was able to show my game, do my 3-pointers, grab some rebounds, make some assists and steal some balls, i'm really happy with my performance tonight, i honestly think that it was one of the top 3 of my career.'
Post-Game: The Arrival In Charlotte
Back to Charlotte, the team were received with this incredible crowd, Rodman asked for a microphone.
'WELL F*CKING BOBCATS FANS! ARE YOU F*CKING HAPPY?! I F*CKING KNOW THAT WE LOST A F*CKING LOT OF HOME GAMES, BUT I F*CKING PROMISE YOU THAT THE THINGS ARE GOING TO GET A LOT BETTER! YOU'RE F*CKING GOING TO SEE THIS F*CKING TEAM GOING TO THE F*CKING OFFS, YOU'RE F*CKING GOING TO SEE THIS F*CKING TEAM BEATING THE SH*T OUT OF A LOT OF OTHER TEAMS! YOU'RE F*CKING GOING TO SEE THE F*CKING BOBCATS BEING THE F*CKING KINGS OF THE NBA! THANKS FOR THE F*CKING SUPPORT BITCHES! I LOVE YOU!'
Now the Bobcats starts the preparation to play against another title contender, the Orlando Magic. The lineup is probably going to be:
Center - Byron Mullens
Forwards - Bismack Biyombo, Travis Outlaw
Guards - Kirk Hinrich, Kemba Walker
Speaking in real life now: Guys, i spent over an hour to do this haha, sorry if it is too long, but i got excited while i write, hope you like it!