We - regardless of how you see this whole thing - have to address the issue of player health. If this doesn’t lead to a complete and very public overhaul of our strength and conditioning plus our medical whatever, I worry how that ends up being something that sticks with us like honey on a countertop.
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I agree completely, but didn’t we supposedly do that this past offseason?
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Yeah, which has me stuck at what you do. Didn’t the lead medical guy quit in Jan though?
Yes he did. Which I am now questioning the merits of him quitting.
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This just got super interesting
Good article by Scott Fowler
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/charlotte-hornets/article300009044.html
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Despite my strong belief that good article and Scott Fowler is an oxymoron, I am curious. What’s the high level (it doesn’t like our ad-block)?
For reference. Dude left to go back home to Michigan because of a “family matter”. Hornets said they would not replace him.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/charlotte-hornets/article298438048.html
Just kind of rehashed everything. Called the Hornets statement a joke. And pretty much agreed that this was a “Hornet-ty” thing - a synonym for Hornets Law.
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…if he still wants to be in Charlotte after being traded. Sigh. Bad bad all around.
Fowler’s article offers nothing new. It’s just his typical laughable arrogance wanting to enter the chat. Times like these you realize having Rick Bonnell was a gift.
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Fowler has always been an empty shirt. He’s never shown a real ability to offer thoughtful insights into anything (maybe he does for golf but not really something I would bother a care). However he goes from being empty to concerning when he weighs in w/ such limited circumspection. His article recommending Kemba leave us was so much of this and I don’t think I could ever see his name in print the same way again.
When a medical professional quits like that, there often means something going on behind the scenes that we don’t know about. I know a lot of medical professionals that have quit over the years and have just gone the private practice route. I am one of them.
It’s pretty striking that he basically up and quit. Maybe something internally that stunk, or the franchise wasn’t allowing him to do his job to the appropriate degree…or maybe they just weren’t listening. Lots of medical professionals dealing with moral quandaries and limitations to do their jobs within the confines of systemic restraints.
I’m absolutely not trying to open up a healthcare in the United States discussion, and much of that above could be conjecture on my part. But it is striking he quit given we all know that our medical/PT team is basically a skeleton crew.
With Kenny opting out to hang out with his family and this guy leaving nearly immediately for family matters (assuming not for a rerun marathon of the show), the writing is on the wall that we have one or more significant internal problems.
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Fuck this is a bad situation. Nebulous as well in terms of the levels of uncertainty and ambiguity floating around. Many layers of the onion to peel back on this one.
At best, the new ownership and front office inherited an absolute clown car from Mitch and Michael. At worst… I actually don’t know or want to speculate.
Conspiracy
Medical malpractice causes all players to flee. League makes team relocate to Vegas or Mexico city
The emotional whiplash that’s occurred within the span of three days is textbook Hornets Law. Though, even by Hornets Law standards, this is unprecedented. I don’t want to call it one of our all time lows because I don’t want to further aggravate Hornets Law. Coming off a relative high this week from having cleaned the slate to open a new dawn of Charlotte hornets basketball (via a competent front office)…to only being left with a great profoundly of misery and confusion.
On Thursday, as hornets fans, we finally had some answers, a plan, and clarity. By Saturday evening, that’s all gone. And what were left with is so much worse than where we started 48 hours prior.
The hornets finally did the right things and hired the right people, but is the franchise still unable to shake the ghosts of previous mistakes? What sins have we not yet atoned for as a franchise? Maybe this trade failure has exposed this. The information released in the following days will be important.
Maybe there’s still more work required to exercise those demons. Not fully sure what that is, but I can confidently say we’ve suffered enough. Is that not penance? Apparently not. More suffering ahead.
I think we absolutely still need Nurkic. We know Mark is going to miss games. He almost certainly won’t ever play back to backs (no pun intended) so we need to have quality depth at C. I think the combo of Nurk and Moussa gives us that.
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