Paul Silas Unhappy with Bobcats’ Effort

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Alphawolf

Riding an 8 game losing streak and holding the worst record in the league, the Charlotte Bobcats (3-18) are a serious work in progress.  The team is dead last in defense and 4th worst in offense and rebounding as well as being tied for the worst point differential in the league with the Sacramento Kings (-11.7).

 

Fed up with his teams lackadaisical play this year, head coach Paul Silas had a few choice statements about his squad’s effort, saying:

 

“A lot of them don’t really concentrate on the game – how to play it and how to really do well with the game. That’s my message to them; that the game is what’s most important. Nothing else. Not how much money you’re making or the travel. It’s the game, itself.”

 

“You have to want to be the best possible player you can be, and you just don’t see that a lot anymore…You ask guys sometimes, ‘Do you want to be an All-Star?’ And they say, ‘Oh….maybe.’ It’s not ingrained in them.”

 

“I tell them all the time: ‘Guys, when you were younger, you played every day all day. And you didn’t get tired. Why? Because your mind was in it. You were ready. And now you can’t give me an hour (of hard practice)?”

 

Sadly, it doesn’t look like the team’s losing streak will end anytime soon as they are about to begin a 4 game road trip Tuesday.  The Bobcats are scheduled to play the Los Angeles Lakers, Portland Trailblazers, Phoenix Suns, and Boston Celtics within a week’s span.