If I had been told what Marcus Thornton’s numbers would be (13 ppg on 46% shooting, 39% from deep in 18(!) minutes) before the season started, it would have been pretty obvious who the Hornets’ starting shooting guard should be.  Particularly since last year Devin Brown was the whipping boy for everything wrong with the […]

It was an ugly game, that’s for sure.  39% shooting for the Hornets vs. 52% for the Heat.  A nine free-throw disadvantage.  Okafor struggling all game with foul trouble.  Despite that, the Hornets were right in there at the end as fought hard,  dragging down 11 offensive rebounds to the Heat’s 4, forced five more […]

Once again, the Hornets get to face a team that walloped them just a week ago, as the Eastern Conference-leading Hawks come to the Hive tonight.  In the previous game(Jeff Bowers first without CP) the Hornets displayed the first glimmerings of fight all season, fighting off runs and keeping in contact with the Hawks until […]

Tonight, the Hornets simply out-hustled the Phoenix Suns and evened Jeff Bower’s head coaching record at 2-2.  The Hornets owned a +18 edge on the glass and had an astonishing 25 offensive rebounds – one more than the total number of defensive rebounds the Suns had.  The Hornets now stand at 5-8, hardly an impressive […]

The Hornets play the Suns tonight.  I did a preview of this matchup last week before the Hornets went into Phoenix and were absolutely destroyed.  Phoenix has continued its strong play and now stands at the top of the Western Conference at 10-2.  The good news is the weaknesses I listed in the last game […]

There’s a lot of doom and gloom as the team struggles to get some sort of consistency going.  That has, of course, inspired a storm of commentary and crazy on the internet.  There are people trying to suggest trading Paul makes sense. (You never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever trade a top 5 talent.  Ever.) […]

One step forward, two steps back.  Tonight the Hornets took on a sharp and confident Hawks team and didn’t lose contact until most of the starters came in a few minutes into the fourth.  Then their starters came in, and the Hornets were quickly swamped.  There were a few highlights, a lot of lowlights, and […]

After watching this game, I’m torn.  On one hand, for the first time this season, I turned off a game after a loss and I was fine with it.  Not only was I fine with it, I felt like I had hope that the season would turn around for the first time.  Yes, Paul was […]

Point Differential There are a bunch of reasons why Byron was fired, but lets be real.  The primary reason was the number -4.7.  That’s the Hornet’s current efficiency differential, meaning that for every 100 posessions the Hornets play, they give up almost 5 more points than they score.  5 points doesn’t seem like much, but […]

Matchup: Hornets(3-5) @ Suns(7-1) Off Efficiency: Hornets 105.0(15th), Suns 110.6(3rd)Def Efficiency: Hornets 107.7(22nd), Suns 106.0(20th) The Suns have defied expectations and came storming out of the gate so far this season.  In a flashback to three years ago, they are blitzing teams with a fast pace(100 posessions per game) and a storm of threes.  Like […]

The Hornets lost again tonight in rather embarassing fashion as the Lakers took it to them early, and then never let them threaten again.  Blowouts appear to be the norm this season for opponents of the Hornets.  Good times.  Good times. For them. Now, you can say “But it’s the Lakers!” but both Pau Gasol […]

Matchup: Raptors(2-2) @ Hornets(2-3) Off Efficiency: Raptors 114.0(3rd), Hornets 106.1(10th)Def Efficiency: Raptors 111.2(28th), Hornets 108.1(25th) The Raptors are explosive offensively.  114.0 efficiency so far is pretty crazy, and it’s all being generated by the Raptor frontcourt of Bosh, Bargnani and Turkoglu.  All three have been on a shooting tear, with Bargnani earning a blistering 1.6 […]

Now THAT was a barnburner.  When West got that technical in the fourth, with the Hornets down 3, I was certain that game was done.  Then, Wow.  Three missed Dallas free-throws later, Peja, drills a slightly off-balance three, his first and only made shot of the night, West moves his feet and gets a steal, […]

Before you get to the preview, be sure to watch Niall’s excellent first stab at video analysis as he reviews the pick and roll being run by Okafor and Paul. Game Preview Matchup: Mavericks(3-1) @ Hornets(1-3) Dallas has opened the season in impressive fashion, falling in their first game to a hot-shooting Wizards team, but […]

I missed most of the first half of the game, since League Pass has yet to play a game on the channel it says its going to play it on – making life hard on TiVO and me.  Anyways, I still had some observations, and if you feel anything is missing, Mr. Kennedy’s started producing […]

The Hornets led at the start, kept it close the rest of the game, and then were out-executed by the Celtics when the Boston starting five entered with a few minutes left.  As usual, there was some good, some bad, and some ugly, but the guys played hard, displayed improving familiarity with one another, and […]

The Kings roll into New Orleans tonight to take on the Hornets in the home opener for New Orleans.  Both teams are 0-1, but both teams have wildly differing expectations for the season.  The Hornets are expected to make the playoffs, the Kings are expected to push to be the worst team in the league. […]

After the LiveBlog and game were over, I went back and watched the game again, wanting to closely watch Wright and Okafor’s performance, and then determine what caused the blowout.  After seeing it the second time, I actually felt a lot better than I did during the game, because what caused the Hornet’s downfall is […]

Opening Night!  I might need to wear a bib to handle all my anticipatory drool for the game.  Anyways, it’s a new season, so we’re going to try something new tonight.  I’ll be co-hosting a LiveBlog with at least one of our good buddies over at the Truehoop Network’s Spurs Blog 48 Minutes of Hell.  […]

I’m sure you all remember the Yahoo! article by Marc Spears about Okafor, alleging that he was not working hard at returning from his toe injury, and that at least one Hornet was saying Okafor could “lose the team” if he didn’t work out last Sunday. Well, Okafor worked out Sunday, and Jimmy Smith of […]