Game 33: Hornets at Bulls

[Eastley]

Game 33: Hornets at Bulls

[system]

Originally sent in Game 33: Hornets at Bulls

spectre

Miles has it going early

Eastley

How many times can we miss shots right under the shadow of the rim?

Oooh, Zach Levine, that's our potential Sabonis of the night

spectre

II think we’re going to find that out tonight!

Eastley

hilarious shot making there

spectre

oh wow

thats never us. Maybe a harbinger of things to come

Eastley

Man I love Miller's game

Love you DoZachus

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spectre

I love mensah getting early burn. He needs to learn how to set a screen tho. He moves every time

GoBobcats24

This is officially a Hornets game now. We turned the ball over in our first ATO play

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spectre

Omg mensah lol

Eastley

Playing Ish in the middle of the paint as a quasi post up wasn't on my bingo card tonight

Realize he called his own number there so credit to him but that was just not expected

And we're down a PF now, that figures

spectre

and there goes PJ

GoBobcats24

Also officially a Hornets game: one of our players goes to locker room before end of 1st quarter

Eastley

The Moar Thor movement has now re-entered the building

spectre

i did see Lamelo is slated to come back on the 8th. Not holding my breath but fingers crossed

Eastley

8th of what?

spectre

LOL! Fair point it could have meant 2025

but ya January

Eastley

oh wowza that PJ ankle roll looked bad

spectre

Yeah it did

Eastley

Man I love the look of both NSJ and Miller's three ball

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spectre

He almost missed that lol

Eastley

but he didn't lol, and sometimes we just need lucky bounces like that

Ok Mensa, I love the idea but we got to work on the technique

spectre

yessir. Terry seems to be struggling somewhat

Eastley

Drummond looks like he ate a full Andre Drummond these days

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spectre

watch him he moves early on every screen

if we only had a big man coach…

nice block tho he’s pretty decent in the paint

Eastley

I just get so dejected watching Nick just walking around on offense - it's concerning

spectre

Just makes the decision to ride with only 2 centers really stand out

Eastley

You see it, right? He just lopes around on offense kinda taking a stroll from one position to the next

At first when I saw it, I thought it was just an economy of energy but it's hard to unsee now as anything but unmotivated

spectre

Yeah I did he was just roaming right then

GoBobcats24

Miller sat for 20 minutes and gets targeted with a bang bang foul as soon as he comes in

Going to play less than 10 mins in the first half

spectre

Cuz we have no idea how to rotate and especially for in game situations

not defending the guy at all but you know we don’t have offensive plays ran for most guys and probably none for him. One every once and a while might keep him more engaged

Terry still scoreless. Great having cody back tho

Eastley

Maybe we're in for one of those games where Terry scores 21 points but 18 come in the 2nd half and 14 are in the 4th quarter

Weird, I thought Susan Lucci passed away; maybe it was that she retired

spectre

He’s scoreless but we’re right in it. You’re probably right he’s known to shine in the 4th

Eastley

Man, these Charlotte kids missing Bojangles… they do not know the power of the Buscuitville

Kept out of the 704 by Big Biscuit (looking at you Bo)

Bet Cody knows where it's at biscuit-wise

GoBobcats24

Miller got his 2nd foul so instead of playing NSJ we play McGowens who totally sucks on both ends for the next 5 minutes…ok

Just when I thought Nick had passed Bryce in the rotation

spectre

Im pretty sure Cliff just pulls names out of a hat for each nights rotation

Eastley

very curious if we come out of the locker room for the 3rd quarter or just lay down like we have done so often this year

spectre

Talking about Richards got me thinking about pick/roll and Kemba and Biz lol. The only way Kemba could be sure Biz would catch it was throw it right at his face

we sure have had some pitiful centers. Remember Primoz?

We used to call him pillow cuz he was so soft

Eastley

I do wonder if there's any way to look at Nick's play and see if he's more/less likely to finish (like on that) through contact if he's engaged and active prior in the play, vs. when he's sleep walking

spectre

Not a great start so far

Eastley

6 points in 4 mins, that's better than our recent average

spectre

there he is

Eastley

I feel like Drummond went to the Boris Diaw diet plan - he looks so … sizely

can we ever outscore a team in the 3rd?

spectre

We’re at what, 9 points in 6 minutes now

Eastley

16, 7.5 mins in

sorry, 15

actually within 2 points of the opponent so that little run made quick work of the deficit

spectre

look at mensah blocking out drummond

Eastley

nice Thor action there

spectre

wow no kidding

Eastley

feel like we're seconds away from Cliff pulling Miller for 15 mins

spectre

We sure are an optimistic bunch lol

Eastley

El Oh El ish

spectre

That was pretty

Eastley

It barely made sense

There's the parking of Miller

too bad because he's one of our best defenders out there

spectre

this lineup doesn’t make sense to me

wow

Eastley

I would have pulled Ish instead of Miller. They know he won't shoot from three and he cannot defend like Miller so it's a negative all the way around there.

spectre

yup

The bulls looked like we normally do at the end of the qtr lol

Eastley

geez, we're shooting 37.1% from the field

32.0% from 3

spectre

We’d be ahead if we could actually hit some shots

overall we look worse then normal. End of a long road trip maybe coming into play

Eastley

but that might have been one of two 3rds we won in the last 10 games

spectre

behind 11 by Terry tho. Everyone else…

GoBobcats24

Turnover out of a timeout

Eastley

Well give the ball to Nick in the post during one of his sleepwalks

GoBobcats24

Gotta be like 50% turnover rate out of timeouts

Eastley

You think we're that efficient?

an optimist

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spectre

except mensah I’m ready to move him to the starting lineup

GoBobcats24

Like its the worst in the NBA by far don't need advanced stats for that

Eastley

Clifford is routing part of his checks to the NBA stats folks to suppress that one

GoBobcats24

Mensah is so much better defensively than Nick its not funny

Eastley

LOL, we looked like one of those football tables that buzzes guys around on defense. Noone knew where to be

GoBobcats24

Cody Martin is still the king of dumb fouls

Eastley

I don't know, that has been Nick's forte lately; especially on the bad screen front.

spectre

Wow what a train wreck

GoBobcats24

We won't put Mensah back in we will ride Richards to a 20 pt loss

[system]

Originally sent in Game 33: Hornets at Bulls

spectre

that pass was the length of the court of course it was going to be picked

Eastley

Terry is not having a good night

but thank the good Lord we're keeping Miller on ice. Especially with that game … in 3 days coming up

spectre

He has an excuse sick as hell supposedly then balls out in Sac.

Eastley

ah! Miller is back in. Good - only out 6 game minutes

spectre

but ya not much hope without a scary terry going off

Eastley

Haha, Cody with the completely meaningless foul there

GoBobcats24

My point exactly

I remember he always used to foul intentionally when we had over 4 team fouls

Eastley

Yeah, that was effin' inexcusable

spectre

Down by 16 we’re coming back!

Eastley

Time to put Bryce back in

Why the fuck are we pulling Miller?

WTF?

Glad Nick is in but I don't get the Miller sub out - dude got less than 2 mins in the 4th

All in the service of letting Cody airball a 3 and immediately foul on the other end. Nice

GoBobcats24

He has had an off night but still. We gotta save him for Monday I guess. Lol

Eastley

I'd still trust him on defense more than anyone on the court right now for us

spectre

I keep saying it’s detrimental to not change coaches yesterday. The longer we keep Cliff the more work the next guy has

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Eastley

and the more damage done to players unnecessarily.

spectre

Exactly

Eastley

someone has to explain how Cody is the better bet out there than Miller if you want NSJ out there for offense

spectre

Good luck with that

we can’t even get a straight answer on marks back injury

Eastley

And someone asked about Kuminga coming here … man he'd be insane to not poison the hell out of that notion

spectre

he won’t come here

im not even sure we’re more desirable than Detroit other than weather

Eastley

did you go outside this morning?

spectre

actually no i worked from home…too cold out lol

Eastley

whew, glad we put Miller in amber, he might have … I dunno … helped out there

spectre

im trying to set a precedent of only coming in when the temp is over freezing

GoBobcats24

Its clear that Cody Martin has passed Miller in the rotation… GREAT

Eastley

more little Nick energy

Glad he got those fans a hot dog

GoBobcats24

I am very tired of Nick Richards

Eastley

It's common to osmotically pick up on that tiredness watching him asleep out there.

GoBobcats24

Question: will we take a shot clock violation tonight end of game?

LOSER ASS MENTALITY

We are losers

Take a fucking shot clock violation down 13 at the end of a fucking game

Eastley

that look on those guys faces is telling as hell

GoBobcats24

Not much pisses me off more

Honestly I have never seen this team with more if a loser mentality than right now

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spectre

Ugh well Monday another game

[Eastley]

Ugh, that was gross. If we lost Cliff and his luggage at the airport, I’d be ok with that.