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  • The Pels want transition defense – are they getting it?

    Gentry – and his coaching tree – are big proponents of transition offense.  You heard all about pace in the off-season, and the general reason for that is transition attempts are generally worth about 1.09 points per possesion, or .1 more points per possession than their half-court conterparts. The flipside of that is that the […]

  • Omer Asik and Defending the 2-Point Shot

    I get it. I get the three-point thing. I get why teams do it (it’s efficient, adds entropy to the offense). I get why analysts grab onto it with a white-knuckled grip (it’s efficient, it’s pretty, and it’s a very, very easy analysis). The truth of the matter, however, is that if all a team […]

  • Dreadful Basketball . . oh and Game On @ Utah

    Tonight the Pelicans go into Utah – and I have no idea if they are going to win or lose.  Utah hasn’t won a game yet – indeed are losing by 14 points a game – and I don’t have any confidence that the Pelicans are going to win. It’s not the back to back.  […]

  • The Pelicans Defense – and why they can’t hold a lead

    The season is young, and game to game numbers can shift fairly dramatically as the Pelicans run into teams that are hot – or not – or having babies like they did last night.(Congrats, Z-Bo!)  As the Pelicans stand today, they are scoring 104.4 points per 100 posessions – and giving up 103.3 points per […]

  • Jrue Holiday and the Turnover Problem

    Jrue Holiday isn’t an advanced statistician’s dream player.  Scoring, rebounding, stealing – these are all areas in which he’s only performed at an average level over the full course of a season.  (If you take his season last year before Doug Collins threw the whole team under the bus, he looks fantastic, but as a […]

  • The Hornets’ Broken Defense

    Welcome to the first part of the 2013 season Moratorium.

  • Projecting the Hornets’ Rotations

    In preparation for his wins prediction for the Hornets, Ryan tries to anticipate rotations for the coming season.

  • AFA: The reason why the Hornets won’t miss Ariza

    Ryan uses numbers to break down the impact Aminu has on the Hornets while comparing him to the departed Trevor Ariza.  Is Aminu the small forward of the future?

  • Making the Jump: Jarrett Jack’s Improvement This Season

    Jake Madison analyzes Jarrett Jack’s stats and improvement this season.

  • The Hornets are not a good Defensive Team

    At least the Hornets are one of the top defensive teams, right? Not so fast!

  • Digging in: Analyzing the Hornets’ Shot Selection

    Ryan Schwan analyzes the numbers around the Hornets shot selection.

  • The Hornets Defense – or Why New Orleans is 5-0

    This morning, the Hornets awake sporting the 5th most efficient defense in the league.  While that sounds good, I want to put it in perspective.  Unlike many teams sporting tough defenses, the Hornets have now played the 4th, 6th, 11th, 15th and 29th ranked offenses in the league.  The average efficiency of those five teams […]

  • The State of the Rotation

    Sifting through what Monty Williams has said(and not said) to the media the past couple days, I think we’re pretty close to a preliminary rotation.  Here’s what I think Coach Williams is hinting at – and I have my own thoughts, of course. The Starting Lineup PG: Chris Paul – There’s not much to say […]

  • Live From Hornets Media Day

    Hornets media day is today, signaling the start of training camp and the return of competitive basketball to our daily lives. The team goes into the start of camp with 18 players trying to fill out 15 regular season roster spots. If you have any questions for the players or coaches (preferably not Paul since […]

  • Welcome Back, Jannero Pargo

    So the Hornets have signed Jannero Pargo back to the team.  I’ve been so gloomy about personnel moves, that I think I’ll take a different tack this time.  Yay!  Fond memories of 2007-2008.  At least the end of it.  Except for the missed shot to tie the game against the Spurs in game 7.  And […]

  • Hornets trade Brackins, Songaila for Willie Green and Jason Smith

    This is the second personnel move this off-season that has left me scratching my head and feeling vaguely dissatisfied.  The Hornets just sent out Brackins and Songaila for the 76ers Willie Green and Jason Smith. Now, I wasn’t a fan of the Brackins pick, (clearly neither was Demps) as I made abundantly clear earlier in […]

  • Lots of Random Thoughts as we Approach Training Camp

    As training camp approaches (wow, already?) there have been a few things that cropped up recently I wanted to talk about. Rudy David Aldridge reported on NBA.com that Rudy Fernandez rejected a trade from Portland to the Hornets.  Now, there is a lot unsaid in that report that we can’t know about.  I don’t know […]

  • Hornets bring in DJ Strawberry and Darryl Watkins

    The Hornets signed two more players to non-guaranteed contracts this week, bringing the roster to 14 as training camp approaches.  The D-League focused blog Ridiculous Upside broke down each player. On guard DJ Strawberry: Strawberry has primarily been known to be a defensive presence, but he showcased a few new skills in the D-League this […]

  • Building the Greatest Hornets Team of All Time

    ESPN has put up a fun little tool that allows you to build the Greatest Hornets Team of all time.  Therefore, it’s time for me to make my picks and then defend them here. First, I decided I needed to apply rules.  I settled on three completely arbitrary ones: I’m building a team, not just […]

  • Projecting the Hornets in 2010-2011

    It’s the time of year for us to make predictions.  The rosters are generally settled, so now line-ups can be extrapolated.  The Hornets are a bit of an enigma at this point.  Though not much is expected of them, no one wants to dismiss them out of hand either, because they still have Chris Paul.  […]

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