Sorry – I have to get this out of my system – JAMES POSEY, BITCH! Okay, I’m good now.  I think the good folks over at HornetsHype may be rubbing off on me. Once again, the wounded Hornets simply out-executed their opponent, beating LeBron’s Cavaliers in their only visit to the New Orleans Arena this […]

Matchup: Cleveland Cavaliers @ New Orleans Hornets Vile Non-Hornet Bloggers: Cavalier Attitude, Waiting for Next Year Tonight matches up the best player in the NBA against some cat named LeBron James.  That’s right, you heard me. The Cavaliers lost by five to Boston in Boston and then walloped the Charlotte Bobcats in their home opener […]

Matchup: Hornets(1-0) @ Suns(1-0) Efficiencies: Gonna skip these for a couple weeks.  Until we get a bigger sample size, these are meaningless.Suns Blogger: Bright Side of the Sun The Hornets fly into Pheonix today to take on the Suns in the desert.  Some of my favorite games last year were in the Desert, so I […]

In preparation for Tonight’s battle against the Phoenix Suns, I traded questions with Phoenix Stan from the excellent blog The Bright Side of the Sun.  The questions he asked me can be found here.  Below are several burning questions I had for him about the Suns.  Enjoy. H247: Grant Hill is sliding to the bench […]

After a hard fought game, the Hornets took until the last 29 seconds to finally close out the Golden State Warriors.  The game was a nail-biter and had my buddy complaining that he was gonna need blood pressure medicine during that final minute. Before I get to the observations, I first need to declare that […]

Matchup: Warriors v Hornets Def Efficiency: Nothin’ YetOff Efficiency: Nothin’ YetRelevant Bloggers: Golden State of Mind The Hornets open up tonight on the Golden State Warriors, something that has me gurgling with happiness.  I’ll be honest, this matchup has lost a lot of the flavor it once had now that Baron Davis has gone elsewhere.  […]

One day, I was driving into work listening to the book The Wisdom of Crowds. The book was nothing if not convincing about the power of a group of experts, appropriately isolated, to pick the correct answer more often than a single or pair of experts. So – I figured if all of us blogger-types […]

Bower isn’t an active, sexy GM like Kevin Pritchard of the Blazers or Bryan Colangelo of the Raptors – men who are as skilled with the press as they are with building a team.  He gives short answers during interviews, and isn’t interested in engaging in active dialogue.  Several times I’ve been told by journalists […]

The Wizards got back Antawn Jamison, Antonio Daniels and Juan Dixon for this game, but the ending score was even worse than the previous game for them.  The Hornets grabbed a lead in the first quarter behind the Human Scalpel, Chris Paul, and never let go.  Even when Caron Butler went nuts in the third […]

The Hornets played the Washington Wizards Tuesday in Berlin, the first of their pair of games in Europe.  The next one will be Friday in Barcelona, and again it will be against the Washington Wizards.  I would expect the Wizards to come out pretty hard considering the absolute beating they took Tuesday.  It was shockingly […]

A prime basketball maxim is that for a player to experience succes, they "Must play with Confidence."  Last year, the Hornets schedule was custom built to breed that very attribute in the Hornets.  For the first two months of the season, 31 games in all, Chris Paul's team only faced six games against teams that […]

Hey, don't take my word for it.  Take John Hollinger's of ESPN.  He released his mathematical projections for the NBA a couple days ago, and they predict that Chris Paul will have the best PER of any player in the league. Of course, take that with a grain of salt.  He's also stated that there […]

Last Years Record: 56-26 Key Losses: Jannero Pargo, Bonzi Wells Key Additions: James Posey, Devin Brown 1. What significant moves were made during the offseason? Ron: The biggest move for the Hornets this past summer was getting a new deal worked out with Chris Paul, ensuring he'll be running point in New Orleans through at […]

No – I'm not there, unfortunately, but NBA TV broadcast about two hours of the Hornets training camp a couple nights ago, putting mikes on Chris Paul, James Posey and Byron Scott during the workout.  As you'd expect, most of the two hours wasn't all that exciting, since it was a lot of running, weaving, […]

The Golden State Warriors ain't looking that good after the defection of Baron Davis and off-season injury to Monta Ellis that will keep him off the court for a few months.  So you'd could probably assume that the Hornets will smack them when they roll into town October 5th for the Hornet's opening pre-season game. […]

I'm going to try and throw sentiment to the wind today, and address something I've seen suggested in a few quarters, and I'll admit, considered briefly myself when I was throwing out posts earlier this summer about what I'd like to see in the off-season. Should the Hornets have traded Peja Stojakovic? This particular question […]

I'm a bit at loose ends at the moment.  Typically the middle of Septemember is when I'm getting in full swing, pointing out to all who will listen how ridiculous the Season Previews of places like ESPN and SI are.  Like last year, when almost every big site insisted that the Hornets got better by […]

A couple of weeks ago my TIVO recorded an old Charlotte Hornets game that was being rerun on ESPN Classic.  In need of a basketball fix, I fired it up recently, and was immediately immersed in memories both good and bad.  It was Game 5 of the 2002 Eastern Conference Semi-Finals against the eventual Finals […]

One of the first posts I ever made as a blogger was a number-cruncher predicting that last year's Hornets would win 50 games.  At the time, it seemed a pretty crazy number, and I backed off of it later when I did a Season Preview, dropping the number to 48.  With Sean Marks on board, […]

These Olympics have provided me with an interesting conjunction of two of my favorite hobbies – Basketball and Ancient Chinese History.  Ever since I was young, I've been a big fan of chaotic periods of the early Chinese Empire, and have eagerly devoured translations of some of the most influential Chinese Historical texts as they've […]