Game 37: TOR at CHA

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Another heart breaker. That’s 5-6 recent fourth quarter collapses in the last month or so. Would feel very different with another 5 wins in our current record

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:100: agree. While my heart is broken with these losses that could be wins, my mind reminds me that we’re still another draft, off-season and trade deadline away from competing in the East. Patience is difficult for those who have been without for so long.

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Most teams actually play their best lineups in the 4th. We try our best not to. We wait until the 4 minute mark of the quarter to get serious lineups in in close games. You have got to execute the last 8 minutes of a game properly. Lamelo and Moussa go in at the 4 min mark last night and we win. No excuses for this level of lineup mismanagement down the stretch of games, unless of course we are tanking.

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For whatever reason, it seemed like Lee was holding Melo out until Toronto put Barnes back in the game. Maybe it was a matchup thing or something, but I think Lee needs a veteran assistant coach on his staff. We gotta remember he’s young too.

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Lamelo is one thing but Moussa is not on a mins restriction that anyone knows of so no excuse there. But Lee rode the “hot hand” in PJ hall and Sexton (his words)

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That’s certainly a theme, Lee getting a little too cute and overthinking the rotation. Especially in the 4th. Another game we should’ve won. That’s around 6 games (or a few more?) in the recent month+ that we probably should’ve won.

If we were able to convert 5 of those whiffs into wins, hornets are basically a .500 team. I don’t want to be too negative, because the competitiveness is what we’ve been begging for since…forever? But it still stings.

This one hurts because we play the pacers and jazz next. If you go back the the warriors game that we blew, followed by the Bucks game that we blew, and now the Raptors game that we blew (all in the 4th). Say that we beat the pacers and Jazz…that would’ve been a 7 game winning streak….yeah. Ouch.

After the pacers and jazz, we see a four game west coast stretch of : clips, lakers, warriors, nuggets and cap it off with Cavs and Magic. That’s a brutal stretch.

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spectre

Kon is just a pleasure to watch

That had to be one of the quickest hottest starts to can’t throw it in the ocean in history

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woodsy23

Painful few minutes to close out the half

Wow

At least we have Kon

spectre

This 5 on the floor rn

woodsy23

Wild that this is still even a game, they’re shooting 11% from 3

17 turnovers will be the reason

spectre

Moose is loose!

Chef

The hoofed one. The ungulate. Mooooussa

Eric Collins is a national treasure. A throwback to professional broadcasting

spectre

Such a nasty O game

GoBobcats24

Can't stand the way Charles Lee manages leafs

Leads

And leafs

TheDorkLord

our old enemy: "the inbounds play"

meloFan

Our other old enemy: competent coaching staff

spectre

Someone should ask Collins to delve into that as we most likely hold the record

GoBobcats24

I'm so tired of the whole let's sit LaMelo and Kon at the same time for extended periods shit

We got a squeak this one out

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TheDorkLord

PJ playing their game. lol

Chef

Good d

spectre

Damn needed that by sexton

meloFan

Why is Lamelo still not in? Are we saving him for OT? /s

spectre

Same question

TheDorkLord

Coach Lee … jeez

Chef

Kon just not making them tonight

spectre

Probably a lot due to raptor’s in your face D

Steelmatic

I couldn’t find Melo on the bench all that time but he’s in now.

Chef

Tough shot

Coach lee going with the clogged toilet bridges set and it somehow worked

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TheDorkLord

Melo

spectre

Ok tie or win

Ice dude!

Chef

I thought they went too late. Nice finish

spectre

So…1.6 seconds. No time to dribble right?

meloFan

And WE LOSE

Thanks Coach LEE

WELL DONE

Chef

Terrible d

spectre

Wow

GoBobcats24

We lost this game because we can't play Lamelo in the 4th

meloFan

Has to do with Coach…

TheDorkLord

crap

meloFan

Lamelo 25 mins +17
makes you wonder why he only played 25 minutes tho

Chef

Lost the game because we can't guard an inbound.

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Mich_Mercer

Damnit. Of course

woodsy23

Horrific

tnhornetsfan

Heartbreaker.

Mich_Mercer

We can’t inbound the bal and we can’t guard an inbound play.

tnhornetsfan

I'm getting less confident with coach Lee

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woodsy23

They couldn’t buy a 3 all night, no reason whatsoever for that to come down to the final possession, not even going to mention the defense on the inbound

Chef

If Kon even comes close to a normal shooting night, they win by 10

TheDorkLord

I was thinking the same thing Chef, Kon just had a bad night

Chef

The team is improving which is better than anything over the last 4 years

cltblkhscoach

All in all, it was a throwback game. Tough defense and physical play. Sometimes you just gotta tip your cap, that was a hell of a shot

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Mich_Mercer

I still feel pretty good though. No miller tonight. The team still played pretty well.

GoBobcats24

We put Lamelo in at 3 minutes we win

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