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First Live Hornets game
So many of you may have noticed from the comments section that my first live Hornets game was last night against the Spurs. I grew in Florida an NBA orphan, young and spoiled by the Bulls. The Magic and Heat were of no concern to me (although my baseball and football alliegances lie in FL.) […]
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The Hornets beat the Spurs
Electric times at the Arena tonight. I hadn’t felt that buzz since the playoffs last May. The crowd was into it from the opening tip, went nuts when Chris Paul claimed a piece of history, and somehow found an even higher pitch when the Hornets made that kick-ass run down the stretch. Let’s dive right […]
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Game On: Spurs @ Hornets
Big game tonight in New Orleans, as the villainous Spurs return to the Crescent City for the first time since Game 7 of the playoffs last season. Que the boos. After a 2-5 start, the Spurs are back to not sucking. Having won their last six games, they now sport a 15-8 record, putting them […]
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Paul sets a record, Spurs Arrive to Try and Rain on his Parade
Last night, Chris Paul stole the ball five times, he and a generous scorekeeper making extra certain that he tied Alvin Robertson for the record of 105 consecutive NBA Regular Season games with at least one steal. Honestly, it’s a bit of a silly record, but nonetheless it’s still cool, so I went and took […]
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The Hornets beat the Grizzlies
The Comments section of the game thread was smoking tonight as the Hornets held off the Grizzlies in the fourth and pulled out a seven point win. The Hornets put together a stink fest from anywhere within the three point line offensively, but Butler, Posey and at the end, Peja, dropped enough threes to sink […]
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Game On: Hornets @ Grizzlies
The Hornets roll into Memphis tonight (7pm tippage) for their last road game before Christmas (everybody say “Yay!”). We saw and beat the Grizz not even two weeks ago here in New Orleans, but they haven’t lost since, defeating Houston, OKC, Chicago and Miami to improve their record to a mighty 9-15. As a side […]
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The DVR League Pass Report #8
My League Pass almost always shows the broadcast for the team opposite the Hornets, so I’m going to make note of some of my favorite bits from the announcers here. (Note: All my journals will be late as I’m almost always watching the game the following morning. I perform live comedy most nights in Austin, […]
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The Wingmen of New Orleans
The Hornets started the year comfortable with their wing position. They had signed James Posey, Julian Wright was entering his second year and promised a lot, Morris Peterson had proven solid the year before, and Peja had just delivered a career year as far as accuracy from deep. The Hornets also had afterthought Rasual Butler, […]
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I like what I see (for the most part)
With the slow start behind us, we’ve yet again gone 4-1 in our last 5 games which gives us a record of 13-7 (4th West, 2nd Southwest). Hornets’ last 5 games: vs. Phoenix, W 104-91 vs. Memphis, W 106-87 vs. Charlotte, W 105-89 at Boston, L 82-94 at Toronto, W 99-91 Maybe it’s just me but it […]
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The Hornets beat the Raptors
The game was fairly low energy, which isn’t too surprising for a game that kicked off at 12:30 pm local time. Many NBA players are just getting up around then. During the game, Toronto made a concerted effort to collapse on drives into the paint, which, of course, left the perimeter open, and the Hornets […]
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Party On: Hornets @ Raptors
The Hornets try to bounce back from their loss in Boston when they take on the Raps North of the border this afternoon (11:30am tip). The Raptors are 10-12 on the season, 5-5 at home, coming off wins over the Pacers and Nets. (They held Vince Carter scoreless in the latter. Gotta love that after […]
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Anyone Know if Raptor-hide Makes a Nice Pair of Boots?
Matchup: Hornets(12-7) @ Raptors (10-12) Off Efficiency: Hornets 107.5(5th), Raptors 102.7(20th)Def Efficiency: Hornets 103.1(14th), Raptors 105.6(20th) Early, early game in Toronto tomorrow, as the Hornets arrive to take on the all the Raptors in Canada just a little after lunchtime. Hopefully the dino’s will have been fed. The Raptors sport one of the best scoring […]
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Hornets-Raptors watch party tomorrow
Just wanted to remind everyone about our holiday watch party for tomorrow’s game at Handsome Willy’s. It’s all set to be the best party in the history of the universe. We’ll be getting started at about 10:30am, game tips an hour later. There’ll be good food, cheap drink, cool people, a few giveaways (Ryan Bowen […]
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The Celtics beat the Hornets
The Hornets didn’t go down without a fight tonight. They came into the house of the defending champs, a team that had won 13 straight games, and gave it all they had. The first half was nice to watch, with the Hornets playing some nice D, coming up with loose balls and running the break […]
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If you were GM…
If you were the Hornets GM, what moves would you make to try to make our team a contender THIS YEAR? It was a contention in the off-season after last year that we were missing a shooting guard, and we definitely still are. Who would you get? And how would you go about getting them? […]
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Devin Brown.. WHY?!
Ok, I didn’t understand why Mike James wasn’t playing and the Hornets were allowing Devin Brown to run the point guard position in the first place. So then, the Hornets go out and make moves to get a (another) solid back-up point guard but yet Devin Brown is still the second string point guard… WHY?! […]
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Game On: Hornets @ Celtics
The Hornets get tested big-time tonight when they square off with the defending champion Celtics in Boston (7 Central, ESPN). Boston have the NBA’s best record at 21-2, they’ve won 13 straight overall, and 7 straight at home. Not gonna be easy. Apparently new Hornet Antonio Daniels won’t be available to play tonight, but everyone […]
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Who’s on your all-star team? December Edition
First of all, I recognize this is a New Orleans Hornets blog. With that, I understand that there will be some bias toward the four Hornets that are up for all-star positions. What I’d like is for everyone to put aside their team biases, and come with an objective list of who would be on […]
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Lets Make like Caesar and Conquer the Celts
Matchup: Hornets(12-6) @ Celtics(21-2) Off Efficiency: Hornets 108.5(4th), Celtics 106.9(7th)Def Efficiency: Hornets 103.0(12th), Celtics 95.4(1st) Tonight the Hornets play the Boston Celtics, defending champions, 21-2 record, and owners of a 13 game winning streak. During that streak, there has been one resounding truth about them: when they were playing good teams like Orlando, Portland, Detroit, […]
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The DVR League Pass Report #7
My League Pass almost always shows the broadcast for the team opposite the Hornets, so I’m going to make note of some of my favorite bits from the announcers here. (Note: All my journals will be late as I’m almost always watching the game the following morning. I perform live comedy most nights in Austin, […]