What a brutal game to watch last night, just zero defense at all. The Hornets didn’t even attempt to play defense as we dropped our 4th straight to Memphis. The most frustrating part of the loss was the Grizzlies kept doing the same damn thing and we just kept letting them shoot 3 pointers. The Grizzlies hit 23 threes on us at a 47% rate, most of them were uncontested or at the very most lightly contested. The 6’ tall Tyus Jones even went ¾ from deep. For context Jones is shooting 28% from 3 this year and only had 14 made threes on the season before tonight. 18% of Jones’ threes on the season were last night…. If I was a corny ass high school coach I would say the games that teams’ shoot poorly against us are fools gold because they missed the shot, we didn’t make them miss the shot(aka we got lucky they missed shots).
Terry, Miles, and LaMelo are the only Hornets that played worth a damn. Miles had 30% of our rebounds while Zeller was busy getting outrebounded by Jonas Valanciunas 16-3. We might need some help at PF/C coach. The Hornets didn’t even play bad on offense at all, we made a lot of difficult shots and had some great offensive sets, but when the other team is having a glorified 3-point contest on the other end you don’t really have any chance.
-Are we trying to make the playoffs Yes or No? if yes, please trade for a big man ASAP. If not lets start tanking our way to the lottery, but my vote is for playoffs.
-Its not that fun watching Kyle Anderson and his slow methodical ass work us all game long. If we do scouting reports he should have been on the top because he did this to us earlier in the year.
-I would LOVE to know what the designed switching and closeout schemes are.
-Borrego should start pulling people as soon as they don’t get to shooters or something. If players are supposed to be closing out hard on shooters, it’s his job as a coach to hold them accountable to that. If they aren’t supposed to be closing out hard idk wtf to say besides we need to be.
-Grayson Allen doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt on ANY tripping calls, that sequence was kinda funny. He cant even be that mad about it, something something you reap what you sow
-We are still in 7th in the east and 1st in the southeast. If the playoffs started today that would probably be a success, but it’s frustrating because it seems like we could be so much better with a better defensive scheme
Hugo CLT 