jayboogieman

PJ will play the four more with Gordon out anyway. His minutes will be fine unless he gets traded.

That's very possible too.

The Hornets have been in a funk for weeks now. Maybe some bookies are paying them to tank.

I meant it should be the earlier of the two picks. Even if NO makes the playoffs, Miami should go further and therefore have the later pick of the two.

The game is on ESPN and on Bally as usual tonight.

I'm not a fan of any of those trade ideas. The Hornets still have a logjam at PF even without Washington. Trading NO's protected first, which should be higher than Miami's if it conveys, for Miami's doesn't seem that smart. Gutting the guard depth for Wood also doesn't seem like a smart move.

Between that and the OC issue, he has an excuse for another year or two. Then add in that if the team wins 1-2 more games, he can claim improvement and that they are on schedule to turn things around after the QB and OC issues. On top of that, add in that Tepper seems sold on Rhule and wants to be proved right, he could easily get 4+ years.

I've always felt Rhule would get at least 4 years.

Just a little food for thought.

I'm not sure which team got the better of that deal. Sabonis can be an offensive force while Haliburton has proven to be a fairly good guard. Hield adds decent scoring too.

Would love to see Jones and Thor some minutes tonight, but I doubt it happens though. JB will probably just play Hayward, Oubre, Bridges, and Washington more.

If the Panthers were able to land him, Brown will become a bigger and more expensive version of post extension CMC.

I agreed with a lot of your responses until this one. The team has four guards, Ish, Terry, LaMelo, and Bouk. Well, five if you count Cody Martin, though he plays mostly SF. Forward is where the team has a logjam. McDaniels, Bridges, Washington, Hayward, Thor, Oubre, Martin, and Jones. If you want to say Plumlee is more a 4 than a 5, then toss another onto the pile. Also, there have been several games this season where everyone went cold that JB had in the rotation, especially from three. Instead of giving Bouknight, or one of the other rookies, a chance to see if he could create a spark JB just kept running with his normal rotations. The streakiness is why I'm not upset that none of the lads were selected as an all-star. There have been too many games where all of them have disappeared more than once and none of them have the name recognition to counter the production issues yet. LaMelo and Miles will get there though. I could see one, if not both of them, take that step next season.

I know there have been some good crowds at the Hive lately, but it sounds like the opposing teams get louder cheers than the Hornets do. I sort of can see it with the Lakers, but the Cavs and Heat too? Come on.

Is Vegas in charge of this one? Duke has started playing like crap while the Heels have started making shots.

This one might be over already.

The Heels look like they are trying to gift wrap this one for K.

I think K and his boys want this one badly.

It confirms his Tepper bias and therefore ok.

Tepper was a minority owner of the Steelers for close to a decade. If he didn't learn anything from one of the best run NFL franchises in all that time, he's a moron.

Thankfully BOA is not Rome and Tepper isn't Nero.

Officials in every sport beg to differ, as does a bunch of management types.