I swear I didn’t make this website just to shit on Borrego but what the hell is going on here?
We are heading into the rest of the season with ONE player on the roster taller than 6’9”?!? and that player is Cody Zeller off an injury? What’s the plan if him or Biz go down? Small ball 24/7 and tank?
If Borrego can run it back so can I, damnit
Part of the reason I have been pressing to get Richards and Carey some tick is because we are already so slim at big men that we need to get those guys NBA experience just in case. Fuck that noise I guess…. We’ll just keep running it back and expect a different result?
The Pacers come to Charlotte tonight for their first of 2 games at the spectrum center. The Hornets look to close the gap and move up to the upper echelon of 10 loss teams in the east. The Hornets have been playing underwhelming, uninspiring, dogshit basketball under Borrego the past few weeks. Borrego needs to do change something; maybe switch defenses, change rotations, play different bigs, yell at the players, bark at the refs, throw a chair, SOMETHING. His monotone reflections before and after games almost makes me understand the players lack of enthusiasm, a coach should be a motivator or at least evoke some sort of emotions. The Hornets have been playing flat as hell, might be time to start photoshopping cigs into Borrego’s mouth a la Jay Cutler because it really seems like he “don’t careeeee”.
The Pacers should not be as upset as the Hornets because they are sitting pretty at 4th in the eastern conference and only a half game behind the Bucks in the central. The Pacers also received tremendous news that Caris LeVert’s kidney growth has been successfully operated on with no future treatment needed, after the trade that may have quite literally saved his life. I could see Domantas Sabonis being a real problem for the Hornets tonight but he is listed as a game time decision so it may not come to that. Just checked Sabonis’ stat line for the last matchup against us and whoooof, lets hope he doesn’t put up another +39 on us shooting 80% from the field.
Hornets Keys
Emotion – Playing with emotion is very clearly not going to happen because of Borrego but someone has to step up and give us some enthusiasm (or something).
Defend 3’s – can I get a closeout? Please? Anyone? If the hornets can hold them to under 43% (not asking for much here) from three I would be happy and stfu about the closeouts, at least temporarily.
Bigs – If Carey and Richards cannot give us anything better than current Bizmack then we might as well send their asses to Greensboro (I don’t think they suck that bad, Hornets just need to see what they have here)
Pacers Keys
Myles Turner – With Sabonis likely out, Myles Turner needs to take advantage of the Hornets poor post defense.
Defend Gordon – The Pacers do not matchup versus Hayward very well and he has been on a heater lately.
The bottom of the eastern conference is muddied with average ass teams. Two of those teams, Hornets and Magic, play tonight right off Interstate 4 in Orlando Florida. The Hornets have dropped 4 straight and are looking less and less like the promising team of a couple weeks ago. The Magic must be feeling somewhat similar because they started the season 6-2 and have faded off to 1-7 their last 8 games. Vucevic’ needs to be held to under his normal 20pts 10rbs, for the Hornets to win easily. Rozier and LaMelo having a high number of assists also gives the Hornets a great shot of taking this one against the Magic.
Charlotte Keys
Make the easy pass – Limit turnovers and don’t be stupid with the ball
Biz’s defense – Biyombo needs to play good on and off the ball defense on Vuc’ and rebound the ball defensively
Don’t let the role players beat us – Garrett frickin’ temple had 15pts on us last game
Magic Keys
Aaron Gordon – Gordon has been a + player in the last three games (includes 2 losses) and that consistency is needed desperately by the magic
Rebounding – The Hornets have a bad habit of playing good (enough) defense but then forgetting to rebound the damn ball, the Magic need to grab some Offensive rebounds.
Hugo CLT 