The Hornets begin a three-game road trip when they take on the Clippers tonight in L.A. at 9:30 Central. The Clips currently have the third-worst record in the NBA universe (2-11). They also have our old friend Baron Davis of the Davises. Tonight’s game isn’t on CST, so go find yourself some League Passness or […]

The 4th edition of the Blogger Power Rankings is up over at The Bright Side of the Sun, and not too surprisingly the Hornets have fallen all the way to 10th. I’m pretty surprised the Pistons are still in the top 10, and that Portland is rated over the Hornets, but I don’t find most […]

Hornets(7-5) @ Clippers(2-11) Offensive Efficiency: Hornets 106.7(4th), Clippers 94.9(29th)Defensive Efficiency: Hornets 102.6(13th), Clippers 105.2(24th) The Clippers should roll out their newest acquisition tonight against the Hornets: Zach Randolph, recently acquired from the New York Knicks for Cat Mobley and Tim Thomas.  That trade brought them yet another big man to pair with Camby and Kaman, […]

Ho hum. That’s pretty much my reaction to the game tonight. We certainly didn’t dominate like we did last night in Oklahoma City, but it was a pretty good game for the fans, Chirs Paul and David West put up sexy numbers, and there’s free Popeyes chicken wraps for anyone who wants one. Let’s get […]

Not much new to say here. We just saw these guys last night in OKC. They sucked pretty bad. We won by 25. Their coach got fired after the game. I’d expect more of the same (sans the pink slip) tonight. This is a nice stretch for our guys to get some confidence back and […]

Well, that felt good.  Blowing out an opponent for the first time this season was nice, even if it was the lowly Thunder.  The Hornets won by 25, and none of our starters played more than 29 minutes.  Bullety goodness: I don’t think Chris Paul broke a sweat tonight.  Not once did he put on […]

I’m not a religious man, but please oh please oh please god don’t let us lose to the Thunder tonight. Amen. Game tips a little after 8:30pm, late start because ESPN are doing the televisual thing. I’ll be checking in on the comments regularly throughout the evening. Linkage: Ryan’s game preview / analysis of the […]

The Game Tonight(Hornets @ Thunder) Yes – we have a game tonight against the Oklahoma City Thunder, and another game against them tomorrow night too.  I probably should be writing about that, but I’m not going to, because the disaster that is the Thunder is much less interesting to me than the struggles of the […]

With the Hornets sitting at .500 after losing five of seven, now would probably be a good time for a distraction. So here’s some head-scratchers. Have at ’em. Which player has scored the most points against the Hornets so far this season? Who the hell is Rob Bacage? Which fish gives Tyson Chandler the most […]

I guess it gets worse before it gets better. The odds couldn’t have been much more in the Hornets’ favor tonight. We were hosting a 4-8 Kings team — playing without a pair of starters and a key reserve — that had been blown out the night before in Memphis. Our guys hadn’t played since […]

The Hornets take on the Sacramento Kings at New Orleans Arena tonight, game tipping a little after 7pm. We’ve lost four of six, they’ve lost four of five, so it should be a good old-fashioned battle to determine who sucks less. Seriously though, I’m expecting a much better showing by the Hornets tonight. The players […]

I started gathering research so I could open up this preview with an analysis of the Hornets defense.  Most of the focus over the past couple weeks has been the Hornets lack of creative scoring, but as you can see below, the Hornets defense has been arguably even worse, ranking only 15th overall in defensive […]

The Hornets have lost four of their past six games. In that stretch, we’ve managed to score 100 points just once, against a visiting Miami Heat team who have given up an average of 102.5 points in their other four road games this season, three of them losses. Through those same six games, we’ve witnessed […]

Over the last week or so our posts have been getting progressively morose.  Tonight ain’t going to be an exception.  The Hornets were handled in Houston.  They never challenged.  Indeed, they never even made a push. Bullets: There were a few bright spots tonight.  The first was Devin Brown, who played aggressively and was big […]

Okay, I’m being lazy today and I’m not going to produce a proper game preview.  Something to do with playing Fallout 3 after the game until late last night and stuff.  The Rockets are 5-4, and we are 5-3.  Both teams played last night – the Hornets winning against Portland, the Rockets losing to San […]

Before we dive into bullet mode, let me say that the win over the Blazers tonight doesn’t do much to wash away the bad taste left by the loss to the Lakers on Wednesday. I’ll repeat the comment I left on Ryan’s recap of that game: The Lakers are running a much more sophisticated offense […]

The Hornets will try bounce back from that deflating loss to the Lakers on Wednesday as they host the Portland Trail Blazers this evening, game tipping a little after 7pm. The visitors got Greg Oden back from injury on Wednesday and are currently 5-3 on the season. They lost their first three games on the […]

Trail Blazers(5-3) @ Hornets(4-3) Off Efficiency: Blazers 109.0(2nd), Hornets 104.9(9th)Def Efficiency: Blazers 109.5(29th), Hornets 102.6(16th) The Trail Blazers come into New Orleans on a four game winning streak, having picked off two patsies(Miami, Minnesota) and two decent teams(Rockets, Magic) during that stretch.  The Hornets are set to meet them, having received an ugly drubbing at […]

One of my favorite little tools has made its re-appearance at ESPN for this season:  John Hollinger’s Power Rankings. The tool takes into account no author bias whatsoever, using entirely point differentials and strength of schedule(i.e. how tough the opposition is) in determining a team’s overall rank.  I’ve found this system to be highly realistic […]

The first half of that game made me absolutely furious.  Spitting, hopping mad furious.  However, I make it a point not to talk about officiating, so let’s get on to the players. We lost by 7 in a game we shot 5-17 from three – and a lot of those shots were not contested.  Seriously, […]