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Game On: Bulls at Hornets
Home sweet Dome. Or next door at least. Hornets back in the Big Easy tonight to take on a Devin Brown’s new ball club. Game tips at 7 Central. The Bulls are 22-22 on the season, 8-15 on the road. They’ve been looking good recently with a 4-game winning streak, all of those wins coming […]
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The Price of Fiscal Sanity
I’ve been pretty open that I really like what Jeff Bower did with the roster this season. Over the summer, pundits were talking armageddon for the Hornets, insisting that they weren’t likely to be able to get under the Luxury Tax line without trading David West – or more ridiculously – Chris Paul. Instead, Bower […]
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The Hornets beat the Warriors
The Hornets wrapped up their four-game road trip with a 123-110 win over the Warriors tonight. There’s an unusually big gap there in the final score, but rest assured that the Hornets tried their best to make it a close game by letting a 27-point lead with 7 minutes remaining be whittled down to as […]
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Game On: Hornets @ Warriors
Tonight will be the last game of what has been a highly-entertaining road trip so far for the Hornets. Anyone expecting a blowout? Me neither. The Warriors are 13-30 on the season, 9-11 at home. They’ve lost six of their last eight, the two wins coming against the visiting Bulls and Nets. G-State are still […]
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Can a team build a championship contender around a point guard?
It’s pretty well known that the Hornets feature an other-worldly talent at point guard in Chris Paul. This journal is in no way an indictment on him or the way he plays. If he continues his career at the kind of level of production we’ve all become accustomed, who knows what will be said about CP […]
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Words on Aaron Gray
We asked Matt McHale of Bulls’ blog By The Horns (also part of the TrueHoop Network) to give us his expert take on big man Aaron Gray, who the Hornets acquired from Chicago on Monday in exchange for Devin Brown. McHale kindly obliged: Aaron Gray didn’t see many minutes in Chicago, and there are reasons […]
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The Devin Brown Trade and Aaron Gray
First, we need to address one thing: The trade for Aaron Gray was not financially motivated. With no Ike Diogu, and Hilton Armstrong a bust, the Hornets wanted a backup center, but didn’t want to move any real pieces. So they got what they could for a 32-year old Devin Brown who is probably at […]
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The Hornets beat the Blazers
Ah, them Hornets. Completely and utterly incapable of playing a boring game of basketball these days. Tonight’s one-point victory in Portland was their ninth win by five points or less… this month! To boot, they’ve only lost four games in January, at most by 7 points, and two of those losses were in OT. Ain’t […]
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Devin Brown Traded again??
Nola.com is reporting that Devin Brown is being traded for Aaron Gray http://www.nola.com/hornets/index.ssf/2010/01/new_orleans_hornets_trading_de.html here is the scouting report on him A big, slow center who likes to play on the block, Gray’s best skill is his ability to pass out of the post. If it were accompanied by scoring ability, he’d be a tremendous force […]
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Game On: Hornets @ Blazers
As New Orleans basks in the unprecedented glow of the Saints being Superbowl-bound, the Hornets are some 2000 miles Northwest and about to do battle with the Portland Trail Blazers. Game tips at 9 p.m. Central. The Blazers are 27-18 overall, but just 6-5 in January. They’re 16-7 at home this season and coming off […]
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Measuring How the Hornets Create and Finish Shots
Basketball is a deceptively simple game. On offense, five guys work together to generate a good shot for a player who can knock it down. On defense, five guys work together to try and make the opposing team take bad shots, and miss them. Simple, right? The concept may be simple, but for a long […]
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Post-Game Journal Report: Game 43: Hornets @ Nuggets
Hornets lose in an OT thriller against the Nuggets @ Denver. Game 43: Hornets 110 @ Nuggets 116 –Even without David West, the Hornets held their own tonight against the Nuggets, at Denver mind you. After the first quarter, I knew it was going to be a high scoring game after the Hornets led by […]
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The Nuggets beat the Hornets
On the second night of a back to back, the Hornets went into Denver to take on a team that has only lost 3 times on its home court. Missing David West, they took the game to overtime, and then fell short as the guy they were leaving to double Carmelo(Afflalo) hit two big threes […]
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Game On: Hornets @ Nuggets
A tougher test for the the Hornets tonight as they take on the Denver Nuggets way up in the Rockies. Segababa, coming off two skin-of-your-teeth wins, should be fun. Game tips at 8 Central. The 28-14 Nuggets are flying high at the top of the Western Conference, trailing only the defending champs. They’ve won five […]
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The Hornets edged the Timberwolves
I can’t help but smile a big stupid smile after that game. 48 hours after knocking in the buzzer-beating game-winner against the Grizzlies, James Posey came through again in the clutch, faking a hand off to Chris Paul with three seconds left before creaking down the lane and scoring the layup to beat the T’Wolves. […]
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Post-Game Journal Report: Game 42: Hornets @ Wolves
POSE KNOWS…AGAIN!!! James Posey is credited with the game-winning layup for the second straight game. Hornets knew they had to step it up with David West out with he sprained his ankle late in the second quarter. Game 42: Hornets 96 @ Wolves 94 –With a team that has a record of 9-35, this should […]
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Game On: Hornets @ T’Wolves
The Hornets get started on their four-game road trip tonight, visiting the Timberwolves in Minneapolis. Game tips at 7 Central. The T’Wolves are the worst team in the Western Conference. Losing ten of their last twelve puts their record at 9-34 on the season. They’re scoring 9.4 points less than their opponents per game, which […]
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The Hornets edged the Grizzlies
Another game down to the wire in New Orleans Arena, and since it was in New Orleans, it ended up a win. The Grizzlies had a few mental errors at the end (That lob play at the end was TERRIBLE, and putting rookie Carroll on Posey? Really?) and the Hornets capitalized on them like the […]
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Post-Game Journal Report: Game 41: Grizzlies @ Hornets
POSE KNOWS tonight as he had the winning layup with 1.1 second left to get the W for the Hornets at the Hive. Hornets continue to have great home-court wins. We are now halfway through the season and the Hornets are now 22-19. Game 41: Grizzlies 111 @ Hornets 113 –Hornets were down late 9 […]
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Game On: Grizzlies @ Hornets
Tonight we’ll see the first meeting of the season between New Orleans and division rivals Memphis, game tipping at 7 Central. The Grizz have been turning a lot of heads lately, knocking off top teams, winning 12 of their last 15 games and now sitting a game ahead of the Hornets in the standings with […]