Game 1 - Charlotte Hornets @ San Antonio Spurs - 8PM

[Jackie Lee]

These are the jags I remember

[Jackie Lee]

This is going to be our best game of the season

[CarolinaRideorDie]

Just FYI, Jalen Duren put up a double double with Detroit tonight. We drafted this dude and shipped him away at the center position but drafted Mark Williams to sit on the bench? Why does the Hornets front office always suck no matter who takes over? 

 

[Jackie Lee]

Who is this Smith guy? It's something different at the least

[jayboogieman]

This is a classic Steve Clifford team. They look good against lesser teams, but as they showed in preseason, will struggle to beat equal teams, and have no chance against better teams.

[jayboogieman]

Playing starters this late in the fourth up that much is dumb. But as I said earlier, Cliff wouldn't play the young guys much if any.

Edited October 20, 2022 by jayboogieman

[Jackie Lee]

5 minutes ago, jayboogieman said:

This is a classic Steve Clifford team. They look good against lesser teams, but as they showed in preseason, will struggle to beat equal teams, and have no chance against better teams.

They honestly look better than Borrego era with the same guys, but the Spurs suck and Lamelo isn't really a major game changer when he comes back. It's the kinda roster prime Lebron could win with but we're not gonna have anyone step up anywhere near that. Miles maybe if he didn't fug up his career

[Jackie Lee]

1 minute ago, jayboogieman said:

Playing starters this late in the fourth up that much is dumb. But as I said earlier, Cliff wouldn't play the young guys much if any.

Richards is the only guy I like seeing getting the garbage minutes because he didn't get enough last year

[Jackie Lee]

Give that Fox thing some pants

[Butterflyj30]

Wow the Hornets are up big time 

[Jackie Lee]

Team looks more disciplined I guess? Hard to say because pretty sure the Spurs just suck

[jayboogieman]

4 minutes ago, Jackie Lee said:

They honestly look better than Borrego era with the same guys, but the Spurs suck and Lamelo isn't really a major game changer when he comes back. It's the kinda roster prime Lebron could win with but we're not gonna have anyone step up anywhere near that. Miles maybe if he didn't fug up his career

This Spurs team looks bad enough that they might have trouble beating college teams, so I'm not putting much stock in how they look tonight. I don't think Lebron could win with this roster. Like you said, there really isn't anyone that could step up enough. Lebron, like Jordan, needed others to get him over the hump.

[jayboogieman]

7 minutes ago, Jackie Lee said:

Richards is the only guy I like seeing getting the garbage minutes because he didn't get enough last year

Richards outplayed Plumlee, but that doesn't seem to be that hard to do.

[Jackie Lee]

1 minute ago, jayboogieman said:

Richards outplayed Plumlee, but that doesn't seem to be that hard to do.

Yeah any NBA player being 7' and giving 50% effort seems to outdo Plumlee