1. “Yay, we’re 11-1!!! We are a serious contender!! Look how good these bench guys are!! Monty is the greatest!!! We can play defense!! 2.  “Boo, we lost 3 of 12…. We’re not making the playoffs!!!!!! We overestimated our talent!! No way we can do damage with this lineup!! Why isn’t Monty playing him!!!!! We need […]

Throughout the season, we have seen our team mixed and matched more times than Mark Cuban’s stock portfolio. We made several significant trades, changing our lineup, rotations, and roles on the team. Each one of our guys has individual skills, and it has been Monty’s job to evaluate each individual talent and utilize them to […]

In typical Simmons Fashion… ANY TRADE THAT RESULTS IN A MARK CUBAN TIRADE: A-minus When New Orleans (owned and operated by the other 29 owners) traded Marcus Thornton for Carl Landry and absorbed $2.24 million of additional payroll, Cuban rightfully flipped out, wondering, “There’s no way, with their payroll, having to dump salary before they […]

With a young core and budding superstars, a solid young coach and a great systematic style of basketball, the Hornets are on the upswing. Assuming we can stabilize the ownership situation and have the freedom to make moves, we should be players next year to sign some free agents and make a run at a […]

Hey Hornets Nation, I’m a longtimeHornets fan living in Philly (which is extremely disheartening, since no one on the east coast would trade a small fry for a hornets ticket). Sound off on where your from, let’s see the scope of Hornets Nation. 

The only way to keep Cp3 is to win, win early, win often, and win against the best. I have taken the approach to entertain all sorts of trade ideas, but the bottom line is we have a completely new staff, a completely new system, and a (knock on wood) healthy roster. This time last […]

I realize that this late in the season, when the hornets desperately need to make a playoff push, so this entry may be poorly timed. However, I have gotten so sick of hearing of hearing that the team is in irreversible financial doom that I decided to compile some of my ideas from the comments […]

I have been a fan of the game for 18 years. I have been a fan of the hornets for ten. I though I had seen it all in terms of a basketball fan’s emotion, but this season is, by far, the most confusing and strange. Now, the all star break is over and I […]