It’s really, really hard to be a Bobcats fan — the team is bad in so many different ways and offers so little hope for the future. The latest case in point: The Bobcats fired Mike Dunlap, their head coach, after a mere 10 months on the job. At some level this hardly comes as a surprise. As I observed back in June when Dunlap was hired:

Michael Jordan and the Bobcats, accustomed to doing the wrong thing, do so again, this time by hiring someone as obscure as Mike Dunlap to be their head coach. As much as anything else, what the Bobcats need to present to their fans now is hope, the promise that they will get better in the future. Dunlap’s hiring most certainly doesn’t send that message. Rather it suggests that the Bobcats know that they will be bad for the foreseeable future, so they might as well cheap out in their hiring to (literal) cut their losses.

The same group that thought Dunlap was the right guy 10 months ago and now think he should go are the same people that will also hire Dunlap’s replacement. Which is to say that there’s every reason to think the Bobcats will continue to drift about with no coherent direction. It’s also uncertain why anyone with any sort of coaching resume would want the Bocbat’s job.

Bonus observation I: Scott Fowler’s column on Dunlap getting canned is worth a read.

Bonus observation II: We’re still waiting on some word on whether the Bobcats will become the Hornets. As Rush (music group, not the talk radio personality) wrote: “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice” — and for MJ the choice of indecision merely reinforces the perception that this team is rudderless.