Category: Game Wrap-ups

It was nice to have the whole squad back together, would have been nicer if we didn’t NEED everyone… At this point in the rebuilding process (or is it just building since the Hornets have never really been shit?) it is probably a little obnoxious to get upset at wins but this one could have easily gone the Pistons way if Rozier didn’t dad dick the hell out of the net in the last couple minutes. I’d like to just chalk it up to the first game after the Allstar break but a few things in particular bothered me.

• SLOW FUCKING CLOSEOUTS, I don’t give a shit if I’m annoying you by rehashing this every other game because there’s no way that’s more annoying then watching Saddiq Bey hit four threes on 50 year old YMCA ass closeouts from Ball
• 3^rd Quarter – normally we are fine in the third but last night we let the Pistons back in the game. We let them back in this game 100%, the Pistons didn’t play well, hit contested shots, or even play all that hard. But we did play lax defense, turn the ball over, and let the 13 point lead get completely erased quick af
• Rotations, I just don’t see the pattern or reasoning. Yes I understand everyone is healthy and there are only 240 minutes… BUT there is zero reason to play Biz for 13 minutes. Your telling me Carey Jr or Richards could not have put up this fucking stat line???

•  If that’s true send their asses to Europe or China or something because they aren’t built for the NBA, but that’s the thing we don’t fucking know because they never get the reps!!!!!

First MJ sighting of the year, and Terry did his best job imitating Mike down the stretch, scoring our final 8 points. Gotta think he made sure to be there to see us win out 12^th straight against the Pistons. Jordan hates the Pistons (I noted this in case any zoomers who haven’t watched the last dance are reading)

It was fun watching a game where the outcome was not 100% determined by 3 pointers. We did a good job moving things towards the rim when the 3s were not dropping

The power flashed on and off mid game in the arena, weird.

Boy are the timberwolves shitty and boy did it feel good to win a game handily. The Hornets previous 4 wins were by a combined 10 points, and we have been alternating wins and losses since February 8^th… idk what else so say about the timberwolves(yes I am intentionally not capitalizing “timberwolves” because they don’t deserve it) besides that they are a completely broken franchise and team. Anthony Edwards continued his shooting spree by putting up 23 shots, but was only able to make 8 of them. To be fair to him that is only 2% lower than he has been shooting the rest of the season. Idk maybe there is such thing as a bad shot? Rubio played the best out of any wolf last night, and guess what, he hates the team and thinks they suck too… I bet the franchise is wishing they didn’t burn every bridge they had with KG by buying out his stake of the team and disrespecting the recently deceased Flip Saunders. You know what, KAT is literally the exact opposite type of a player as KG. KG was strong willed, ultra-competitive, and tenacious; where (kitty)KAT lets worse players put up more shots than him, not very competitive (in games or practices from the sounds of it, right Jimmy?), and tedious. I’d be concerned about building around a guy who is afraid to shoot the amount of times he probably should.

Enough about the timberwolves, Terry had another Klay ass quarter and essentially closed out the game with his 18 points(5 3s) in the third quarter. It was a great surprise to have Gordon back in the lineup, his presence seemed to allow the Hornets to be a little more chill on the offensive end in general. Everybody(important) got theirs for the us last night, even Biz, so there’s not too much to dig into on the offensive end. It will be great to get back into the arena to watch some live games after the break, hopefully the Hornets can even get above 500 again, and stay there too!

What the hell was that ending? I do not believe the Kings are actively tanking (yet) but holy shit did it look like they were at the end of the game. The game should have been over when LaMelo committed a flagrant foul but the Kings figured it’d be more interesting to miss 5 free throws in the last minute of game play, and I think they were right. It was a ridiculous “comeback” but please miss me with the win probability bull shit. Idk how they compute it but its not a fun stat to me because it’s the same dogshit every time, they only had a .4% chance of winning?!?! Says who, some fucking algo? Does that algo factor in a teams culture or lack there of? I doubt it because if they did then Kings’ opponents win % should never drop below like 5% until the final whistle, Kings gonna Kings.

The real story of the night should be PJ fucking Washington, who went off for a career high 42 points on 15 of 23 points from the field. PJ also had 9 rebounds and 2 blocks and 2 steals to complete his historic night. This got me thinking, how many damn career highs have we had this season? Terry, Gordon, LaMelo, Malik, and now PJ. No wonder this team is having so much fun on the court, Borrego has them playing like a team on offense for sure.

-Moist Monk with another 20 point performance off the bench. Malik is really doing his best job at making me feel better about writing a blog saying we should probably trade Terry if anything… Also he absolutely dad dicked Buddy on his game winning layup, Monk later said that he was actually going up for a dunk at first, which might make it even more impressive.

-How many times are we going to be 1 game under 500?

-I miss devonte’

-Tyrese Haliburton was injured so we didn’t get to see LaMelo and him side by side, which will allow Kings fans and NBA reddit to keep talking Tyrese>LaMelo trash… I mean who wouldn’t want the 13-3-5 player over the younger 15-6-6 player (Hint LaMelo has the better stats and always will because he’s the better player)