Play-in Game 2: CHA at ORL

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Play-in game chat: Chat #Play-in Game 2: CHA at ORL

Let’s get this one

Game	Crew Chief	Referee	Umpire	Alternate
Charlotte @ Orlando	Marc Davis (#8)	Sean Wright (#4)	Justin Van Duyne (#64)	Marat Kogut (#32)
Golden State @ Phoenix	Scott Foster (#48)	Mitchell Ervin (#27)	Tre Maddox (#23)	Aaron Smith (#51)

[tnhornetsfan]

Really need Moussa for this one.

https://x.com/HornetsPR/status/2044883306714370136

[powellrmp]

For some reason I had it in my head that this game was to be on Friday night. And then first round started Sunday/monday. That’s what I get for not reading the schedule

[cltblkhscoach]

The game is Friday Night, lol. That’s tonight

[GeraldWallaceMVP]

We also if win would be playing the Pistons on Sunday for game 1

[powellrmp]

Man I’m a clusterfuck. I’ve been so busy lately

[Vet_Picksetter]

No worries, Powell. I do the same from time to time. Now, where are my keys? I need to go find a bar that’s showing the final four this weekend…

[Mich_Mercer]

Any word on Moussa yet? I do not want to see X tonight.

Edit: He’s playing!!

[TheDorkLord]

This took 22 rolls to get this luck… oh well

[Icky_Thump]

Do we get extra rolls for such an ass kicking loss to finish the year?

[system]

Originally sent in Play-in Game 2: CHA at ORL

tnhornetsfan

Same announcers as Tuesday. Mute.

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woodsy23

Dreadful

meloFan

Here to say the same thing but in a more vulgar way

TheDorkLord

work it Moose

tnhornetsfan

Slow start

Mich_Mercer

Tough start. Why can’t Kon be good again.

meloFan

We should play the whistle more. At least two more fouls they couldve called

cltblkhscoach

2 Miles 3's is not what we need to start

Mich_Mercer

We need to pass the ball… find some closer shots

We seem to just throw up whatever lately. Like taking turns

cltblkhscoach

The other side, probably more important, we can't just let them get in the paint so easily

Chef

Tight on moving screens

meloFan

These fucking refs calling the screens too easy

powellrmp

Which is bad, because we set some of the most screens

Kon has to find himself again or it’s over. Period.

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Chef

Charlotte is rattled

powellrmp

Yep

Mich_Mercer

Will Kon ever make a 3 again. We don’t do well with physical play

powellrmp

Fucking garbage ass basketball

Total garbage

Get kon out

Chef

Kaulk is a good sub here

Melo

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powellrmp

Kon is shooting like 30% or less over his last 5-7 games. He’s confidence is gone. And he looks toast. Kon needs to sit and watch

cltblkhscoach

Brandon hot to start

Mich_Mercer

Feed Him

TheDorkLord

they are knocking the crap out of us

Chef

Melo is struggling

powellrmp

Man I want a center to shoot that shot that Kalkbrenner had

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meloFan

Lamelo horrible selection

Mich_Mercer

Lamelo has to chill…

powellrmp

Where the fuck is Coby white

Mich_Mercer

He’s not hitting them. Pass it around for good shots

cltblkhscoach

Fuckin serious

Mich_Mercer

Why aren’t we ready to play?

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meloFan

Why are these announcers so

Lee come on man chirp at those refs

powellrmp

This game is over

Chef

Sure seems like it

Mich_Mercer

Sadly… you couldn’t be right. We don’t seem ready to play

woodsy23

Just havent turned up

Chef

Orlando definitely took that last loss personally. Their defense is way turned up

GoBobcats24

Orlando is holding us

Steelmatic

No focus. No intensity.

Chef

Loss to char

GoBobcats24

We will come back

Mich_Mercer

Omg man… what are we doing. This is how we’ve been over the last month.

powellrmp

I’m done watching tonight. Fucking garbage

Done.

Classic hornets basketball

GoBobcats24

I mean they are legit making every single shot

Mich_Mercer

How are we not playing hard?

What is this…

GoBobcats24

Don't give up on em

meloFan

Now that Powell is out we go on a 18-0 run? /s

woodsy23

Brandon’s prone to being way too casual with it

Chef

It's the price of not having offensive bigs.

cltblkhscoach

They really haven't broken the lineup yet. Lee did sub earlier than usual knowing that

Mich_Mercer

Moussa will develop a shot over the summer… he has to.

Chef

Not a shot. Hornets need post play to take advantage of the spacing and prevent the overplaying up top

GoBobcats24

Gotta attempt to get Kon going

Mich_Mercer

He needs to. He basically kills us when he’s in the game.

cltblkhscoach

The one thing that should happen is their outside shooting should cool off. But we gotta get into the offense faster

woodsy23

Lamelo needs to cool it down too, start playing smarter

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Chef

Can't expect him to change now. We saw the top in Feb and March. This is the other side

Mich_Mercer

We just aren’t as good as we were in January and Feb and some of March though.

Steelmatic

We can’t go out like this. We dug a big hole but we gotta show some fight.

Mich_Mercer

What are they doing

dnbman

I blame it all on SVG. Total vibe killer

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cltblkhscoach

There we go

Chef

They have the answer for that double high stagger screen. Lee needs another action off of it

woodsy23

Inbound to diabate at the 3pt line with a second on the clock

Mich_Mercer

He got closer than some players do when they shoot. Ha

woodsy23

Ye to be fair, closer than most of Kon’s shots over the last month

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TheDorkLord

ouch, this is looking bad

GoBobcats24

Ok we get it refs everyone hates us

Mich_Mercer

We are like a high school team playing a college team

woodsy23

But still crazy

Mich_Mercer

We can’t do a thing

How did we come out so shitty.

Where is the intensity

meloFan

Sga would have had 10 fts already

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Chef

There is some truth to this

Mich_Mercer

He can’t even shooot free throws

Kon

woodsy23

Just jumped on tankathon and simmed the lottery a few times in the hopes of cheering myself up

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Mich_Mercer

“Wow”…Shut up Stan.

woodsy23

Rolled the dice 15 times and we stayed at 14th each time

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Mich_Mercer

I hope my wife doesn’t walk in here ask ask me how the game is going.

Steelmatic

This is painful to watch. Literally

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meloFan

What would turn this game around for me is a Lamelo no look pass to SVG, just like he did with Brunson lol

We have 0 defense and 0 offense, come on Lee

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Mich_Mercer

I feel like we aren’t upset. And Lee isn’t making adjustments

woodsy23

Na this is horrendous, on both sides of the court - think I’m going to call it too

cltblkhscoach

Well, this looks like the play-in of the past

meloFan

We need Cody and Lamelo at the same time

GoBobcats24

We have sat Lamelo and Miller way too long being down most of the quarter IMO

Mich_Mercer

Cody Martin?

cltblkhscoach

It's gotta start on defense

meloFan

Coby

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[system]

Originally sent in Play-in Game 2: CHA at ORL

Mich_Mercer

We need to start over.

meloFan

Somebody go grab the mop bucket, this team needs to wake the f up

tnhornetsfan

We've seen during the season how on ball pressure has given us trouble. And they're all over us everywhere. If the refs are going to let that go, we've got to learn to play like that for next year

Steelmatic

They say you can’t win a game in the first quarter, but you can lose one. Smh

Mich_Mercer

They’ll let it go but not if we did it

That’s the issue

cltblkhscoach

I think what has happened is a young team that doesn't know how to handle prosperity yet

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Mich_Mercer

But we need to be able to handle it anyway. Seems we aren’t passing the balll around

Took Charles long enough to say something .

meloFan

How many screen fouls?

Mich_Mercer

I can be a coach

cltblkhscoach

Smh what the hell on these screens

TheDorkLord

jeez

cltblkhscoach

BS foul

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Chef

They need another offensive set. They need downhill penetration from someone other than Coby

Mich_Mercer

And we can’t play tough

Foul… very late call

powellrmp

This is the perfect ending to a hornets season. Get our hopes up, get to an optimal spot and then revert back to regular hornets disappointment

Mich_Mercer

Yep… that way we feel even worse. Bc Kon can’t shoot now either

Like… why are they playing harder??? I don’t get it

powellrmp

Hornets law

cltblkhscoach

The Magic had so much trash talked about them it was a motivator

Mich_Mercer

I’d think we’d be motivated to… but no.

TheDorkLord

wow, a travel was called

Mich_Mercer

We just aren’t playing as hard

cltblkhscoach

Let's go Kon

TheDorkLord

whew

Mich_Mercer

He made one.

dnbman

checked out for a little bit but then saw the Kon 3.

Mich_Mercer

Why are they calling so many fouls on us

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GoBobcats24

That's an absolute touch foul

meloFan

That is a BS SOFT foul

Steelmatic

It’s BS

Mich_Mercer

Foul foul foul foul foul

Every play

Steelmatic

If we touch them it’s a foul.

dnbman

Meanwhile, at least earlier, all kinds of hands on our guys

Chef

I don't agree with that. Can't let him bang and then call marginal contact.

Stan is right on what he saying

TheDorkLord

they will overturn this though

Mich_Mercer

They will call it on us

Just bc

Bc nothing can go our way

Chef

That's coming back. Even though I don't think it's fair to ever call a block on a euro

TheDorkLord

well, the NFL draft is next week

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GoBobcats24

Refs making sure we can't make a run by mucking up the game

I feared we were in trouble earlier today when I saw Marc Davis and Sean Wright on the call

But I still beelieve

That's an elbow to the face btw

powellrmp

At least we’re going to have a shot at a good draft pick in the lottery. Which we need. This team is miles away from being series in the actual playoffs

GoBobcats24

No moving up from 13 or 14 so would have to package to move up. Can still get good players in that range, let's hope it's the Suns and magic picks in that range and not ours

So better not be overturned

borntorun86

This shit is embarrassing

cltblkhscoach

At least they can't challenge anymore

Mich_Mercer

Or we can trade the 13-14 to move back next year.

Chef

Melo is done

TheDorkLord

wow

powellrmp

I want to see if we can lose by more than 30

I’m cooking. I don’t think I can handle watching. Occasionally looking et the box score

Chef

So you are saying you want basket by basket score updates

powellrmp

Nah. I’ll glance to see the chat when I want to feel bad

Mich_Mercer

I feeel like we only have a 5 second shot clock

Steelmatic

Were tentative and tight as hell.

cltblkhscoach

We take too long to get into the offense

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GoBobcats24

THAT IS NOT SIDE OUT

HE WAS SHOOTING

Mich_Mercer

lol we are the hornets. No

cltblkhscoach

Have to play faster

Mich_Mercer

Brick brick brick

Miller needs to shoot more

He’s hot

cltblkhscoach

Can't miss that blockout

GoBobcats24

Oh wow but that was shooting huh?

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Chef

Melo is currently back to AWFUL defender

Mich_Mercer

They are out working us

TheDorkLord

we really need a little run before half

Mich_Mercer

We get more open shots for Grant than Miller.

Of course it’s offensive

Put Tilllman in I guess

meloFan

Huh?

TheDorkLord

I didn't see that

Mich_Mercer

They call so much stuff on us

meloFan

We should just start each period with automatic 5 fouls, with how refs are calling it

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Mich_Mercer

Tillman > everyone else on our team

meloFan

League making sure we dont make it to playoffs

Mich_Mercer

I don’t get why they let some teams play physical and some not

meloFan

Its called favoritism

SVG CAN GO CHOKE ON A BAG OF DS

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Mich_Mercer

They won’t let us be physical… even if we tried

Stan just said it was a Miami Heat guy.

Icky_Thump

Well it was a fun season guys

powellrmp

The charlotte hornets lied to us

This is the ultimate hornets law

woodsy23

Hornets law

dnbman

If you can't make 3s and you can't get rebounds, you ain't winning much

powellrmp

And we’re all stupid

meloFan

We are shooting 27%

Mich_Mercer

Why can we get miller some shots?

powellrmp

It’s such a beautiful reminder of how dumb and gullible we are

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Mich_Mercer

Maybe we will make the playoffs next year.

GoBobcats24

Not true Powell

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tnhornetsfan

I'm out. See you guys in the off-season.

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woodsy23

They’ll be trash again against the pistons

Mich_Mercer

3-4. … get him the ball. Take over

GoBobcats24

Outlier game where we are not allowed to match their physicality

Marc davis and Sean wright, both rigged refs

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woodsy23

if grant throws up another 3 I'm going to cry

GoBobcats24

Maybe we could play thru our best players though

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Mich_Mercer

He’s building a house. I just don’t get why miller isn’t more aggressive

powellrmp

Why would we play kon? He can’t hit the broad side of a barn. I turned off after the first quarter. There’s a reason why he was benched in the Heat game. I love Kon but he’s not right

dnbman

We're not a 1 guy takes over team. We're a team that's successful because we have generally have multiple guys in rhythm that make defense hard. Right now defense for Orlando is easy.

cltblkhscoach

70 percent of the money coming in was on us

Vegas always wins

Mich_Mercer

I feel like Brandon should be able to do that… take over.

powellrmp

This game makes our season look like a huge fucking joke.

Chef

No it doesn't. You're upset but that's not true. The comeback from 4-17 was huge. The Miami win was franchise turning

Steelmatic

Just hate to see the season end like this. After all the great momentum. Getting over some big humps. It’s still gonna ultimately end with a playin blowout.

dnbman

shut up svg

woodsy23

Shows why that 7/8 position was so important too

Mich_Mercer

Gotta say… we saw this coming for how we’ve looked the past 3 weeks or so. Haven’t been great

cltblkhscoach

Brandon is locked tf in

Mich_Mercer

Miller man. Give him the ball. I keep
Saying it

cltblkhscoach

Now the bench wants to get into it. Damn be like that from the start

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dnbman

I'm still reasonably confident this game will become competitive

cltblkhscoach

Miami's bench stood all night on Tuesday

Mich_Mercer

Foul again bc we played too hard

powellrmp

We’re getting dick kicked by a shitty, rudderless Orlando team. With a Orlando coach who should’ve fired

Steelmatic

Get it to 15 by the half.

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Mich_Mercer

Get Miller shots and we will

powellrmp

This team is farther away than we want them to be

Chef

I feel like they are exactly where I thought they were. They are missing two starters in the front court and probably could investigate cashing in on melo

GoBobcats24

How the hell is that not offensive

Mich_Mercer

Foul foul foul

TheDorkLord

BS

cltblkhscoach

Lol how can they mug us

And it's all good

Fuck Van Gundy too. How do we get him twice

Steelmatic

You can’t tell me that’s not a foul on bane

Chef

Desmond bane is a guy you can't stand if he's not on your team.

Bridges is getting tossed for the pumch

dnbman

ughhh…

I get Bridges frustration, but can't do that

cltblkhscoach

Man at this point just whoop their ass 1980# style

powellrmp

What happened

cltblkhscoach

Here we got with this BS about Melo and Bam

Mich_Mercer

They are going to go this a punch. Watch

Chef

It definitely was a punch

dnbman

little sucker punch to dude while on the ground. Pointless and stupid.

But Bridges did get hipchecked before that and then had dudes all over him.

Chef

True but ya can't punch

powellrmp

Fuck it I’ll watch again

meloFan

I turned it off, thats all folks GGs.

dnbman

can't

powellrmp

Oh, that’s a flagrant 1 to miles

dnbman

Not justified, I just understand, people mugging you and nobody doing anything about it. Got to be smarter than that though.

GeraldWallaceMVP

This one hurts

cltblkhscoach

I mean that's a fair call

dnbman

Best we could have hoped for

Chef

Serious question: would you have rather them not beat Miami and Orlando lose to Miami given hornets two lotto picks or beat Miami and this.

I still take the win

dnbman

Now just start calling fouls on Orlando

cltblkhscoach

Why is Sion at point guard

dnbman

Take the win.

cltblkhscoach

Damn a lotto pick man lol

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dnbman

End the season with some sugar and some salt.

cltblkhscoach

I blame this on all those dumbasses hung up on having #14 vs #17

Who gives a damn

All those lotto picks have really helped js

Us

dnbman

LET'S GO! TECHNICAL FOUL!

Chef

Miami is the perfect rig team for this years lottery though.

powellrmp

I hate this team

A bunch of soft losers

woodsy23

Miller’s so damn casual with the ball

dnbman

I love this team. Currently, situation is terrible. But I do love we have cooking

Steelmatic

Another playin blowout. No coming back from this one.

Chef

Powell is the best

meloFan

We need an actual star that wants to win, like Giannis

Steelmatic

This effort might take us off the giannis list.

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cltblkhscoach

Moussa with a jumper. Lol

woodsy23

I take back my previous criticism

TheDorkLord

I just don't think Giannis is the right thing for us to do. everything it would cost us and with his age and his fit … it's a no fo rme

Mich_Mercer

We are so ass.

meloFan

Just let me know if I should turn back on at any point

cltblkhscoach

I used to tell my teams at halftime when we were down 30 that we could go out and do the exact thing to them they did to us in the first half.

If that happens tonight, I will keep Hornets Planet going for the next year. That's a promise

If it doesn't, I don't know. Lol

Mich_Mercer

lol I’m ready to just stop supporting this team at this point. It’s bad for my health.

At least play like you want it…

meloFan

At least look at the positive, Ohtani could be with Angels still, life would really suck then

TheDorkLord

we have been teased this year, but we are not there yet

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dnbman

That's kind of where I'm at: we're good but have been overperforming. I think if we lose, we're still in a great position. We have a whole squad who tasted a playoff atmosphere win but then what real physicality is like in the playoffs. Given we don't make a run, good lesson to learn and hopefully give us a chip on the shoulder for the off season.

powellrmp

I want the loss to be as bad as possible. To put more pressure on the owners to make changes

TheDorkLord

I would at least like to see Kon have a great second half

cltblkhscoach

I think Charles Lee is saying the right things. This is fully on the players not having the right mindset. Grant Williams is about the only rotation guy who has won something. We need a real vet rotation guy

Real talk, we are gonna lose. But how we co.e out of that locker room will say a lot

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Mich_Mercer

We didn’t learn in the other playin games. Why would we now?

dnbman

We've got several players who are either rookies or just emerged this year. Different situation than previous years.

cltblkhscoach

*come

Mich_Mercer

Always get blown off the flooor on the road

But we’ve looked shitty for a while… I said that last week

You could see this coming

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TheDorkLord

I think we've been a good road team this year

cltblkhscoach

We're all gonna cope but I don't think that's fair

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cltblkhscoach

Losing to the Pistons and Celtics isn't a shitty loss

Philly at full strength isn't a shitty loss

Mich_Mercer

But we looked shitty doing it

We can’t handle pressure

The 4th quarter in those game is what we are doing this game

dnbman

We have one of the youngest teams in the NBA. We can learn that.

Mich_Mercer

Ok… I’m in again. Ready for them to rip my heart out some more

TheDorkLord

yeah, we've played those 4th quarters this whole game

cltblkhscoach

We definitely have to get stronger. The pain of tonight will hurt for a little bit. But it'll be fine

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Mich_Mercer

Ok. I trust you.

cltblkhscoach

Lol trust them brother I don't mean shit

Mich_Mercer

So…. We need to get this down to 15 in the 3rd

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dnbman

btw… on Kon. for better or worse, he's been one of the better players tonight.

Mich_Mercer

Ewwww… welll that’s not good

Miller has been hot but aren’t getting him shots. Hes too passive

powellrmp

You guys can give me a hard time for being really negative. That’s cool, I get it. But I mean this earnestly, us getting curb stomped tonight is a huge gift to this team/management

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Chef

I agree, the team has major holes that we knew were there.

TheDorkLord

Brandon has been our best player and Kon 2nd… sad night

cltblkhscoach

If you want to go super optimist, defense has to be the key. Obviously

They gotta speed the game up

powellrmp

It’s a wake up call that playoff basketball is a different game. And our roster is woefully prepared

Mich_Mercer

But the refs have to let us play

cltblkhscoach

Press and trap, break their rhythm.

Mich_Mercer

Refs have to let us do that… I’m
Not sure they will.

Imagine if we won one more game this season. We would have been the 8 in the standings… right? :(

powellrmp

Once I worked behind the frustration, I’m actually glad the ass kicking happened now instead of against Detroit

Mich_Mercer

I’d rather it happen in the playoffs so we can make it to the playoffs

It would have been better for us than this bullshit

powellrmp

The wake up call to management is more significant by getting manhandled by Orlando by 40 in the playin-opposed to making the playoffs

meloFan

Soft calls, this is over

Mich_Mercer

How many and 1s can they have?

powellrmp

Nooo. The wake up call is more significant if we get curb stomped by 40 in the playin l

Chef

Hornets would have been swept by Detroit. I thought that before tonight

dnbman

Powell, outside of better front court, what do you want to see happen in the off season?

Chef

Melo should be traded. He won't but he should.

powellrmp

Well apparently Melo is now a super dirty player or whatever

dnbman

Bridges

powellrmp

Playoff basketball is a different world and we’re not prepared

dnbman

But what are the big changes you'd make?

powellrmp

I’m not management

Mich_Mercer

That miles 3 was crazy

But they have to stop calling these soft fouls man

dnbman

Chef, you want another PG to replace him or get another great player and start White?

TheDorkLord

Melo's trade value has been hurt a little recently

meloFan

I don't know what you will get back for Melo tbh. Maybe Melo + couple picks for a good player?

dnbman

Little bit of spirit out there

powellrmp

Man. Losing by 40 would be more helpful than losing by 20

dnbman

At risk of sounding crusty, how was that not a travel on Paulo

Chef

Travels are out of control in nba

TheDorkLord

how many steps was he allowed? and then they called a foul on us

Chef

Probably the second. Cant think of the guard that would be so much better. For me it is melo not knowing how to play and lead.

I would use melo to get frontcourt player/s

dnbman

I don't mind getting a game changing PF and then draft a young PG.

meloFan

SOFT ASS CALL

Mich_Mercer

He took like 10 steps

Only got the call bc he complained I guess

TheDorkLord

The best thing that could happen to me is there is no easy route to watch the games next year… LOL

powellrmp

Soft as fuck

TheDorkLord

jeez!!!

Chef

He could have dunked that on an 11 ft rim there

TheDorkLord

Orlando doesn't even need the help the refs are giving them

powellrmp

I don’t think the refs have been all that crazy

dnbman

Let Coby run it.

I do fully acknowledge that Melo is a special player though.

powellrmp

We are setting bad screens. We’ve been doing it all year

Chef

Regular season teams let you set that high screen thing they do because of lack of effort. Different when they start fighting you on them and through them

TheDorkLord

We need a better starting center and a taller, better, PF

dnbman

26 rebounds to 14

powellrmp

Yes exactly

meloFan

such easy calls for Orlando

For whatever they cannot make it refs have been making it up

Mich_Mercer

These calls are so late

And where was the foul?

meloFan

Back in Miami

powellrmp

Holy shit Kon wow

cltblkhscoach

All these fouls have slowed this game to a crawl

Chef

From a product standpoint the NBA lacks so much for how big it is. We watch most every night, pacing is such an issue for games and stoppages

powellrmp

Jesus this is crazy at this point

cltblkhscoach

Can't believe it's 638 in the 3rd lol

Hey man. All we can do is laugh the rest of the way

Some of this shit is unbelievable

This emotion from Melo would have been great early

meloFan

Can this dsucker SVG please shut up

cltblkhscoach

How is that not a goal tend

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TheDorkLord

goal tending!

meloFan

Because it is orlando

Mich_Mercer

I had a little faith and then Lamelo with a stupid turnover

Almost got it to 20.

cltblkhscoach

That was a foul on Bane for what it's worth

dnbman

kind of gross to watch now

Mich_Mercer

That was it.

cltblkhscoach

Yeah that was it

Mich_Mercer

Kon had an open 3’ams didn’t take it

cltblkhscoach

I'll say this. Those sorry as fans don't deserve shit

Ass

They turned on their team and wanted the season to end

Mich_Mercer

What did Hornets fans do to deserve this every time we get to the playin

cltblkhscoach

I wish I knew man. I really do

meloFan

I never want to hear SVG again

Mich_Mercer

Maybe we’lll get lucky in the lottery

cltblkhscoach

Yeah I'm with you

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cltblkhscoach

About SVG. Cause good lord

If I hear about how strong Orlando is one more time I'm gonna make it a drinking game

Mich_Mercer

My stupid ass was beginning to think we could win a title this season, in Feb. lol

cltblkhscoach

Hey man you're allowed to dream

Mich_Mercer

They realy got my thinking that… to make a Pacers run

dnbman

At this point, I'm shopping for things that I don't need online

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Mich_Mercer

I’m trying to figure out which ps5 game I want to buy. lol

This is why I’m so annoyed. They keep doing this

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cltblkhscoach

What people forget is that Pacers team had been together for a little while

They also brought in a playoff tested veteran to get to the next level

Mich_Mercer

But instead… get blown out in a playing. Where has Coby white been tonight?

Pragmata or Mouse for Hire. Ha

cltblkhscoach

Lol Coby told him to sit down

dnbman

Kon's gotta keep shooting

cltblkhscoach

Bad game for Coby. Sheesh

dnbman

Now SVG giving us our flowers.

meloFan

He must've seen my NBA on Amazon Prime official complaint

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cltblkhscoach

Fuck him

dnbman

"Now that you have been disciplined for your deeds, I will reward you with a treat."

Mich_Mercer

I don’t care we had the best net rating. We came out tonight not being ready to play

It makes me even more annoyed

I wish I could watch my team win a playoff series before I’m dead.

Not sure that will ever happen. lol

meloFan

ProTip, support a different team

dnbman

One thing I remember being a turning point for the Bulls was they didn't let the Pistons get to them. That's what we have to learn.

Mich_Mercer

Lamelo crying?

cltblkhscoach

Should have been here in the 90s. Lol

Mich_Mercer

I was born in 1983. I was here. Ha

I admit… I was a big Kobe fan. But also… when I was a kid, I’d always have different favorite players so it wasn’t always the Hornets.

Penny Hardaway was my other guy so I loved the magic in middle school… which makes this even worse. Ha

dnbman

I got back into basketball as an adult with the Pierce/Walker Celtics. Then the Bobcats were announced.

cltblkhscoach

Orlando playing their starters is playing with fire now

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Chef

Loved Paul pierce

meloFan

And the game is on Sunday for them

dnbman

Yeah, he was my favorite.

Mich_Mercer

I feel like Moussa wasn’t himself tonight either.

dnbman

What are the chances Salaun becomes a legend over the next 7:45?

meloFan

I give it 0.2%

Chef

One in a million

Mich_Mercer

I won’t even be able to watch the Playoffs this year.

cltblkhscoach

I won't watch until the 2nd round

Mich_Mercer

I wish Charles Lee would get thrown out.

cltblkhscoach

I always have to take a round off if we get knocked out

Mich_Mercer

So every year?

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meloFan

Yeah Knicks Celtics maybe and Spurs Nuggets

cltblkhscoach

If someone said we would win 44 games and a play in game at the beginning of the season I would have taken it

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Mich_Mercer

I think I said 45-48 games before the season. lol

I think it will be the Celtics against the Thunder… with Boston winning it.

meloFan

Look, I dislike the Celtics as much as any other guy, but I rather have Celtics over Thunder

dnbman

Just saw a post: "rest in peace 2025-26 hornets you were a strange basketball team."

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Mich_Mercer

Bc I’m an idiot… but I was almost spot on. I always thought injuries were the problem

TheDorkLord

Before we got the Hornets I was a Celtics fan growing up

meloFan

We have salaun x-man and Tre, they have Banchero Carter Bane etc.

Mich_Mercer

We were either the best team of all time or we could not play at all.

meloFan

I think Mosley is asking for an injury

Mich_Mercer

The Magic don’t even like their coach and they kicked our ass.

TheDorkLord

we played like all the media said the magic would play…

cltblkhscoach

Teams with turmoil but talent can put it together at times. We got beat by the big head and the disrespect everyone gave Orlando

It never has gone well when people heap praise on us. And that's our franchise history

We've never had that happen with this group. And they thought Orlando would just lay down. No one does that in the play-in or the playoffs

And they learned that lesson in a hard way

dnbman

Let us all remember our last game ended with an in depth discussion of the number 93.

cltblkhscoach

These are the moments you gotta remember in the offseason

I forgot SVG was an Orlando guy. No wonder

Half full building celebrating. Smh

TheDorkLord

if we were Dallas we would have played Flagg the whole 4th quarter and fed him the ball nonstop

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dnbman

LOL at TJ

cltblkhscoach

I love it. Fuckem

Grant and Miles only ones shaking hands

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Mich_Mercer

I’d like to see the whole team shake hands. That’s kind of lame if that’s the case.

GoBobcats24

Wait so is that how Hornets planet.com ends?

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cltblkhscoach

Maybe. I don't know if I will take it over. Have to take a look this weekend

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Mich_Mercer

It’s very fitting though, as a Hornets fan. I guess we’ll have the discourd either way right?

GoBobcats24

Also Go Warriors!

Only way our pick is above 14

TheDorkLord

we won't get the pick since we lost to Orlando. I this we will end up at 14 and 17

GoBobcats24

If Phoenix had lost our pick would have been 13 instead of 14 this bumping up our odds.

TheDorkLord

we needed the Magic and the Suns to lose for us to get a lottery out of those guys. Now we have our lottery pick and Orlando's number this I think will be at 17