Hornets Gameday Thread

[GeorgeHanson]

Good win tonight. 

Brooklyn is a solid squad, clearly they were looking past the Bobcats/Hornets.

[Eazy-E]

2 hours ago, Thelt said:

I think $10 million per is way more than he would get.  I am not sure he gets another NBA contract once his current one expires.  If he does it will be for around the minimum.

He is a mle player at this point

[MillionDollarCam]

Dwayne Bacon needs more minutes.

He was crucial to the win tonight.

He hit some big shots and played some really good defense. In fact he was on Beal as Beal attempted and missed the game winning shot.

[My Goodness My Guinness]

1 hour ago, MillionDollarCam said:

Dwayne Bacon needs more minutes.

He was crucial to the win tonight.

He hit some big shots and played some really good defense. In fact he was on Beal as Beal attempted and missed the game winning shot.

I'm not sure why he doesn't see more playing time. Every time I see him in the game I feel like he plays well. 

[My Goodness My Guinness]

The second team got into a really good rhythm there at the end of the 1st. I hope Bacon keeps getting minutes to close out the season. Frank has looked good as of late as well surprisingly. 

[Proudiddy]

Big game @ the Heat...  Batum is soooooo bad.

[Eazy-E]

Put a fork in it boys. Season is officially over.

[Shocker]

Yeah, thats it for the playoffs now.  Lotto incoming.

[Eazy-E]

James Borrego is not a NBA head coach. I doubt he gets fired but there isn’t really anything else I need to see.

[carpanfan96]

Welp, kemba is gone. Back to back lotto picks. Whats the worst the Hornets can finish for lotto purposes. 

[Eazy-E]

2 minutes ago, carpanfan96 said:

Welp, kemba is gone. Back to back lotto picks. Whats the worst the Hornets can finish for lotto purposes. 

If we lose out we will be around pick 8-12 with a few extra percentage points of getting insanely lucky and jumping into the top 3.

It’s better to just go ahead and accept we will be picking 11th again so we can draft another guy that will barely play.

[OldNorthPowell]

YAY! Another wasted season, which will lead to another wasted season when we are finally forced to tank. Instead of having one bad year and maybe some hope, we are going to have a bad season to pick a MEH player and tank next season. This is a so simple to see, and yet nobody in the Hornets' front office picked up on it. Mitch is obviously in a bad spot, so I tend to blame him less than I should.

[Proudiddy]

Dell and Eric were still encouraging optimism at the end, saying "this isn't it.  Season's not over."

Man, I'm tired of the cycle.  We do this every year...  cheering, hoping, and pulling for our team to win, knowing they aren't very good.  And we get to the end, still hanging onto that thread of playoff hope, only for games like this to throw just how insultingly bad our team actually is in our collective faces.  And, then once we realize we're really just spinning our wheels on a treadmill of failure, we have to re-live all of those emotions all over again with the now added reality that we just screwed ourselves out of a high draft pick.  Smh...

After hearing him talk after he was hired, I really thought Borrego was different.  Nope.  Here we are again...  giving PT to guys based off incumbency rather than merit or potential.

 

[Proudiddy]

2 minutes ago, bull123 said:

Playoff hopes ending with last miami game in CLT, actually end when we choked away the game against the clippers in CLT a few weeks ago

we scored 15 pts in Q4 today...yet another dismal showing in crunch time

26-83 from field 31%...7-36 from 3 pt...just pathetic 

monk played 4 minutes. Bridges played 10

and Miami is not that good

if we could have gotten a couple of first rounders and some players in a Kemba trade we should have pulled the trigger

our team is an embarrassment...our players just totally suck

 

Yup.  It's a sad, harsh reality.

James Johnson, Waiters, and Whiteside looking like actual players, while guys like Marvin and Batum throw up wide open bricks.  And I know a lot of people like Lamb, but I'm just not a big fan...  when the momentum starts shifting in the opponent's favor, he seems always willing to help with settling for step back threes.  I believe Kupchack said after the trade deadline that Lamb was our second option...  welp, that sums up our team in a nutshell, I guess.

And as you said, still not playing our young guys.  I just don't get it.