2026 Charlotte Hornets

[Jackie Lee]

The lack of discipline has seriously been our downfall the last month. Seems like we just went off course this last month and Lee won't address it. You can't just live and die by the 3 when you can attack the paint and at worst draw a foul

[frankw]

At this point I just want to defeat the Heat. Anything else is a bonus.

[toldozer]

4 hours ago, Jackie Lee said:

The lack of discipline has seriously been our downfall the last month. Seems like we just went off course this last month and Lee won't address it. You can't just live and die by the 3 when you can attack the paint and at worst draw a foul

The top 2 in the league and 3 of the top 21 in 3 pointers made. It isn't the last month it's how they play. I'm fine with them shooting a ton of threes but they need to tweak the formula a bit. When they have a big lead they need to start driving to the basket, when games get tight down the stretch they need to start driving to the fuging basket. Miller needs to be the guy. Ball is afraid of getting hurt and Kon is a rookie.

[carpanfan96]

45 minutes ago, toldozer said:

The top 2 in the league and 3 of the top 21 in 3 pointers made. It isn't the last month it's how they play. I'm fine with them shooting a ton of threes but they need to tweak the formula a bit. When they have a big lead they need to start driving to the basket, when games get tight down the stretch they need to start driving to the fuging basket. Miller needs to be the guy. Ball is afraid of getting hurt and Kon is a rookie.

Ball also takes an absurd amount of contact with no calls driving to the basket, so I kinda get why he doesn't want to do it. 

[frankw]

59 minutes ago, toldozer said:

when games get tight down the stretch they need to start driving to the fuging basket. Miller needs to be the guy. Ball is afraid of getting hurt and Kon is a rookie

Hornets fans are probably the worst homers in the NBA when it comes to LaMelo. Buddy is a supermax player and the entire offense goes through him. If he can't drive to the basket contact or no contact what are we even doing?

[PanthersNCSU]

1 hour ago, frankw said:

At this point I just want to defeat the Heat. Anything else is a bonus.

IF they can get in, I think they can make the Detroit series closer than it should be. Really like the idea of being the 8, taking a couple games off the 1 seed to build momentum into next year. They're obviously not ready to do much more yet, but think a little playoff success would do wonders to cap this year. 

 

[jfra78]

6 hours ago, frankw said:

Hornets fans are probably the worst homers in the NBA when it comes to LaMelo. Buddy is a supermax player and the entire offense goes through him. If he can't drive to the basket contact or no contact what are we even doing?

LaMelo gets the Cam treatment from the refs.  If they treated him as the superstar that he is, this whole team would look totally different.

[frankw]

1 hour ago, jfra78 said:

LaMelo gets the Cam treatment from the refs.  If they treated him as the superstar that he is, this whole team would look totally different.

I don't really get the Cam parallels. Cam was a monster and even with the refs not giving him his due he still ate. Where it finally had an impact was when they let defenses headhunt him.

There are probably some refs that don't like LaMelo for reasons people can determine on their own. But I think most of the noncalls are due to us being a small market team and the league and the refs just giving zero fưcks if we continue to exist.

At the end of the day it's up to LaMelo to rise above it all. Nobody is out there trying to take his head off. He needs to add some bulk in the offseason assert himself and get physical in the paint and take any fouls that might come along the way and gradually you will see the tide turn. But nothing is going to change for the better for him or the team if he just continues to limit himself to acrobatic threes from halfcourt. That's just the reality of the situation.

[frankw]

There are 97 NBA players that have more points in the paint than our superstar.

That isn't a ref problem.

Edited Monday at 08:36 PM by frankw

[carpanfan96]

strange and weird statistic of the week. 

 

BPI at 5.3% has the Hornets with the forth best odds in the Eastern conferences to make the finals.

[L-TownCat]

On 4/13/2026 at 8:27 AM, carpanfan96 said:

Ball also takes an absurd amount of contact with no calls driving to the basket, so I kinda get why he doesn't want to do it. 

The refs called very few fouls on our last 4 opponents.  Or at least it felt that way.  Kon was getting mugged 

[t96]

Oddly feeling really good about tonight. fug the heat

[MechaZain]

22 hours ago, frankw said:

There are 97 NBA players that have more points in the paint than our superstar.

That isn't a ref problem.

You're being a bit hard on him here bro. He drives plenty but he uses it to draw defenses and assist/lob more often than not and it's working. It's not a fluke that so much of the team is shooting well. The game revolves around LaMelo and he's feeding them. We also have a lot of guys who are good at driving to the basket so we don't need him to be Derrick Rose out there.

You may have a point with the three chucking but it's too early to call that a huge problem. This is the best the team has looked since Shinn left town.

 

 

[toldozer]

Would like to see white Kon and melo to combine for 30 3 point attempts. 

Miller Williams green and miles to have about 12-15 with most of those being miller and williams

0 for James kalk and moose

I think 40-45 attempts is where we want to be. Up over 50 is too many unless they are just making everything