The league's first 20 wins of the new season did not come easy. On December 17th, at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, the Bobcats lost to the Pacers 95 to 102, ending their three-game winning streak with a record of 19 wins and 4 losses.
Apart from Okafor, who made 7 out of 13 shots and 4 out of 5 free throws for 18 points and 10 rebounds; and Zhang Yang, who scored 35 points from 12 out of 28 shots, including 1 of 3 three-pointers, and 10 out of 11 free throws, the rest of the Bobcats had a terrible shooting performance tonight.
As a team, they made 34 out of 83 shots, which means that aside from Okafor and Zhang Yang, everyone else combined shot 15 out of 42, a mere 35% success rate.
Meanwhile, the Pacers made 39 out of 79 attempts, reaching a shooting accuracy of 49.3%...
On December 19th, the Bobcats went to the Verizon Center in Washington to challenge the Wizards.
