Game 12 vs Portland Trail Blazers (7-3)

[MechaZain]

An update on Melo would be nice. Estimated recovery was 1-2 weeks and it's been a month.

 

[JVic]

The injury report for the Hornets should simply read ...

Players - No Hearts

Coaches - No Brains

[MechaZain]

I posted the wrong report my bad. DSJ is not on it and Cody's upgraded to doubtful.

[MechaZain]

plumlee bumly 

[33inNC]

Oubre is an absolute liability. He does not know when to stop jacking up bad shots. 

The constants with this team, Oubre shooting bricks and Hayward missing more than half the games. 

[MechaZain]

Lost all 3 of these home games

[33inNC]

So, what was the point in firing JB and re-hiring Clifford?  This team still absolutely collapses every game and still play like a bunch of selfish kids. 

[frankw]

28 minutes ago, 33inNC said:

So, what was the point in firing JB and re-hiring Clifford?  This team still absolutely collapses every game and still play like a bunch of selfish kids. 

Probably time to just face facts. Jordan stinks as an NBA owner and it may never get much better.

[Shocker]

8 minutes ago, frankw said:

Probably time to just face facts. Jordan stinks as an NBA owner and it may never get much better.

Man that time was a very long time ago.  This team has been terrible or at best a ball of mediocrity since he bought the team.  

[Prowler2k18]

Hornets are in free fall. Retread coaches and past prime players on bad contracts are handicapping this team.

[jayboogieman]

11 hours ago, 33inNC said:

So, what was the point in firing JB and re-hiring Clifford?

Probably the only guy they could get after the Warriors' assistant backed out of the job.

[Ornias]

59 minutes ago, jayboogieman said:

Probably the only guy they could get after the Warriors' assistant backed out of the job.

I would have rather rolled the dice on an assistant. 

[MechaZain]

Hindsight's 20/20. Without Clifford we likely wouldn't have found someone by the start of the season and would be legitimately tanking, which sounds appealing now but was less so back before Miles fugged everything up. Likewise we may have kept Jalen Duren if we had known about Miles then. 

I still think he was the right choice this team is just completely lost without LaMelo. He forces the pace and his teammates have to stay alert on offense when he's on the court. As well as DSJ is playing, no one in the league can replicate the way LaMelo moves the ball and that's our entire offense. I'm still optimistic that when he's back that high tempo offense + Clifford will lead to high effort on defense. 

[33inNC]

3 hours ago, jayboogieman said:

Probably the only guy they could get after the Warriors' assistant backed out of the job.

That is a reason, but MJ and his emotional ass decisions are the bigger one. Why fire JB if you don't have a better situation (or two) lined up?

It's like his stupid ass draft "meddling" picks. He needs to stay out of all personnel items, haven't his constant failures there taught him something?

I want to have hope in this franchise, but their constant collapses make it hard.