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Hornets(12-13) @ Grizzlies(9-10) [Preview]

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Had to add an extra picture up top, in a second you’ll understand why I couldn’t have Diets’ ass up top

The Southeast Division leading Hornets are headed nine and a half hours west on I40 to face off against what’s left of the Grizzlies (or a 1.5 hour flight but that’s not as fun). The Grizzlies have 7 “players” listed as out for tonight’s game, none of them are COVID related either, yeeeeesh. Lead athletic trainer for the Grizzlies, Jeff Diets, is probably feeling about as comfortable as he looks in his Linkedin profile pic.

The reduced roster works in our favor as for the second game in a row the Hornets are playing a team with only one real big man, NO Kyle Anderson doesn’t count as a big man and NO Gorgui Deng doesn’t count as a player in general. This should allow the Hornets to play their game and win this one to get back to .500 on the season. The Hornets got smacked by the Grizzlies early as hell in the season but those were different times, we only had half a big man at the time and he(Bismack) started. That said, I do not look forward to watching Kyle Anderson euro step past shotty defense at a clip of 4 inches per hour. Anyone else ever notice how slow and methodical Anderson moves? It’s very frustrating to watch him because it feels like everything he does is either a travel or delay of game or something, but it’s not. I’m not scared of this matchup at all because Zeller is back, LaMelo is feeling himself, and moist Monk is wet.  the Hornets should beat the Grizzlies ass. Devonte’ is out this game, so Borrego will not have any difficult decisions to make, which also plays  in our favor.

Charlotte Keys

Gangerr – Monk has been a consistent bucket off the bench, and Miles hasn’t been too far behind. If LaMelo and his gang(err) are on tonight the Grizzlies don’t have any shot. “my youngin quick to shoot, he gotta stupid jumper”-LaMelo Balls most recent instagram – Rio Da yung OG.

Big runs – This feels like a game where a long ass run could demoralize the Grizzlies.

Memphis Keys

Ja – Hornets fans should remember Ja hitting the game winner against us in Charlotte last year, he’ll need to do something similar in this one.

Ja’s game winner all over our asses

Xavier Tillman – Xavier who? Exactly my point, it’s been a few games since we let a random ass player drag his nuts all over us.

Prop Bets HugoCLT’s overall record(16-9)

Gordon Hayward OVER4.5assists (+102)

Cody Zeller OVER21.5points+rebounds+assists (-119)

Jonas Valanciunas OVER2.5assists (+127)

Hornets-129 Heat-121 [Wrap-up]

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3 in a row! All three wins versus 2020 playoff teams to boot (wtf are the origins of this saying(it’s not interesting something about ye olde English law)). Malik Monk had a career game, including 36 points on  61% shooting from the field. Monk looked as confident and comfortable as I have ever seen him in the NBA. We needed Monk to make up for Rozier being out with an ankle injury, we really fucking needed Monk when PJ went down in the second half. Monk had our back. Hornets’ players being able to catch fire might be one of this teams’ greatest strengths. Bridges, Ball, Graham, Rozier, Hayward and now Monk have all had games where they went TF off and took over, most of the time from 3 point range too.

I did think Jimmy G(g stands for gets) Buckets had us in the fourth quarter when he rattled off 4 shots in a row immediately followed by a 3 from Duncan Robinson, putting the Hornets down 10 with 3:49 left in the game. Monk followed with an and one that caused Spoelstra to call a time out and design a play for Herro to hit a 3, which he did. Gordon had enough of Herro so he decided to bully the shit out of him on the next two possessions for two easy layups. Heat missed a few more threes (died by it last night), Graham hit a 3 and pair of free throws that brought the game to within 3 with 38 seconds left. Iggy missed a three and the Hornets headed the other way. Borrego made a smart move in letting the guys have 10 or so seconds of run to see if they could get an open shot. Even though the Hornets didn’t get a clean look and had to call a timeout this was one of the smarter moves Borrego has made this year, especially considering Spoelstra is on the other side. Borrego drew up a play for Monk that worked to perfection, and Monk and his steel balls tied the game up at 113. Butler settled for a 3 and missed it to end regulation.

OT was rather chill for the Hornets. Hornets started off with a dime from Ball to Zeller, then bullied Herro some more, then made we last 4 free throws to wrap up the game.

-Eric Collins and Del are a delight to listen to on the broadcast

-Confident Malik is here to stay

-Random ass Max Strus lit us up for 19 points, but we still won, because Monk lit them up more. Is Max Strus Big Truss????

LaMelo started off slow but did not let it ruin the rest of the game for him. 3 TOs in the first half, 0 in the second. Ball once again showed us his ability to affect the game in other ways than scoring.

Pacers(10-7) @ Hornets(7-10) [Preview]

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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.