At this point in the season it’s all but over for the Charlotte Bobcats as they prepare to host playoff-bound Memphis on Friday night. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Date\/Time: 7:00 PM ET, Friday, April 20, 2012 Matchup<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Nevertheless, the Bobcats will aim to end their franchise-record losing streak, which has no reached an embarrassing 18 games in route to an ugly 7-54 overall record.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Memphis (37-25) clinched a playoff spot for the second straight season after defeating the New Orleans Hornets on Wednesday, sitting comfortably in fifth place in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n Much of the team’s success has come from the play of forward Rudy Gay who missed the Grizzlies\u2019 spectacular playoff run last season after suffering a season-ending shoulder injury.<\/p>\n This season Gay is tearing up the hardwood, leading the Cats’ with 19.1 PPG and has scored 24 or more points in six of the last eight games, including a 26-point effort against New Orleans.\u00a0\u00a0[soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n Memphis and Charlotte are meeting for the only time this season, with the two splitting a pair of contests last season. Memphis is 22-9 when Gay scores 20 or more points, not good for a Charlotte team that needs to win at least one of its final five games to avoid having the worst winning percentage in NBA history.<\/p>\n Making matters worse, the Bobcats have lost 11 consecutive home games and is just 4-26 at Time Warner Cable Arena.<\/p>\n Their offense is non-existent and it just keeps getting worse as they shot a season-low percentage from the field in each of its last two games including going just 29.8 percent losing 100-68 to the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday.<\/p>\n That pushes the Cat’s to nine game they have now lost by 30 or more points.<\/p>\n Free Pick: Memphis- <\/strong>The Bobcats are last in the NBA in scoring (87.2) and field-goal percentage (41.4). Memphis on the other hand is scoring 95 PPG and are only allowing a 7th best 93.4 PPG. If Gay goes off for one of his 20-plus performances here, I just don’t see any possible way for Charlotte to win this one.<\/p>\n NBA Basketball Matchup: Grizzlies\u00a0vs\u00a0Bobcats At this point in the season it’s all but over for the Charlotte Bobcats as they prepare to host playoff-bound Memphis on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":27638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[43091,209,296,5381,5922,4580,2551,3092,42465,5148,749,3925],"class_list":["post-50646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-bet-nba-basketball","tag-bobcats","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-bobcats","tag-free-nba-pick","tag-grizzlies","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-memphis-grizzlies-vs-charlotte-bobcats","tag-nba-gambling-online","tag-nba-odds","tag-nba-predictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50664,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646\/revisions\/50664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVenue: Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte, North Carolina
\nBroadcast: SportSouth
\nSpread: Grizzlies -14
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