If the Bobcats' recent success is any indicator, turnovers don't automatically hinder a team's ability to win.
The Bobcats are 4-4 since the trade that brought Boris Diaw and Raja Bell to Charlotte. While they've clearly been a better team for that deal, they've also been a team more prone to giving up the ball. The Bobcats have averaged 24 turnovers since the trade with Phoenix. They hadn't reached 25 turnovers in the seven games that preceded that trade.
Coach Larry Brown doesn't have a problem with that if those turnovers are about aggressive play rather than laziness.
"Sometimes a bad shot is a turnover, in my mind," Brown said before Saturday's game with the New Jersey Nets.
"Some turnovers really eat you up. But other times, (a player is) trying to do the right thing (and it doesn't work out)."
NETS 114, BOBCATS 103 (OT): The Bobcats gave up allowed New Jersey to make six of seven shots in overtime, and five of those baskets came from Nets reserves. When Gerald Wallace fouled out with 51 seconds left in OT, this one was over. Wallace finished with 32 points and nine rebounds.
