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Who: Charlotte Hornets @ Phoenix Suns

When: Wednesday, February 24th @ 7:00pm (9:00ET), FSNAZ

Where: PHX arena, Phoenix, AZ








Charlotte Hornets starting lineup:


C- Zeller

F- Washington

F- Hayward

G- Rozier

G- Ball



Reserves: M. Bridges (different Bridges I assume, definitely not ours) /Monk/McDaniels/Biyombo/Riller





Phoenix Suns starting lineup:


C- Ayton

F- Kaminsky

F- Bridges

G- Booker

G- CP3



Reserves: Saric/Crowder/Cam/Payne/Moore


One Mission
One Goal
This Is What We Play For






Three certain things in life:
-Death
-Taxes
- Suns going undefeated with Kaminsky starting

Let's make it #10 baby!!!

Lamelo going to Mikal Jail.

Lamelo isn’t a concern, Rozier is the real threat on the Hornets. He’s averaging 21 pts, 4 rebounds and 4 assists on 50/45/80 efficiency.

I’m thinking they’ll put Bridges on Hayward, CP3 on Rozier and Book on Lamelo. Almost just direct positional matchups.

Kaminsky revenge game! Gonna be weird for Hornets fans to see Kaminsky as the starter on a team with a top 4 record in the league lol.

We are 20-10

Really important to win these next 3 against Charlotte, Chicago and Minnesota. All games we SHOULD win, but we HAVE to take care of business. The Lakers have Utah, Portland and GSW across those same span of games before they face us.

Not inconceivable for us to go 3-0 and the Lakers to go 1-2, then we beat the LAL and we end up 2 games ahead of them going into the ASG. That HAS to be the goal. I'm not sweating the Clippers at the moment, but LAL are vulnerable with Davis missing time and we need to capitalize on that and get ourselves into a higher seed.

Sounds like Hayward got banged up in their last game, so there's a chance they'll be without him tomorrow.

Excited to see more of this Hornet teams. LaMelo has been a very exciting player, and they've been an entertaining team to watch when nothing else is on.

We need to close out this last stretch strong. I'd say they're all winnable, and it'd be great if we could build some more cushion or overtake a higher seed.

darealjuice wrote:Sounds like Hayward got banged up in their last game, so there's a chance they'll be without him tomorrow.

Excited to see more of this Hornet teams. LaMelo has been a very exciting player, and they've been an entertaining team to watch when nothing else is on.

We need to close out this last stretch strong. I'd say they're all winnable, and it'd be great if we could build some more cushion or overtake a higher seed.

I think 4-1 is a realistic expectation based on how we've played of late and the level of opposition. But the 1 we lose cant be the game against the Lakers. That's a MUST win.

There are no must wins right now. Got a nice cushion, healthy, and playing great. I would not mind sitting CP for a game this week. Get Payne some more reps can’t hurt. Moore is no slouch either.

Considering today's the reservers announcement. I'm expecting both Book and CP to make it. One as a replacement of AD. That'd be nice to see.

Suns look to be playing the best ball in the west right now.

TouchPassDario wrote:There are no must wins right now. Got a nice cushion, healthy, and playing great. I would not mind sitting CP for a game this week. Get Payne some more reps can’t hurt. Moore is no slouch either.

We've done well against top EC opposition, but if we want to really view ourselves as a team that has a chance at a title, then it starts with beating the best in the West in the regular season.

Barkley6 wrote:

TouchPassDario wrote:There are no must wins right now. Got a nice cushion, healthy, and playing great. I would not mind sitting CP for a game this week. Get Payne some more reps can’t hurt. Moore is no slouch either.

We've done well against top EC opposition, but if we want to really view ourselves as a team that has a chance at a title, then it starts with beating the best in the West in the regular season.

Lakers w/o AD are a borderline playoff team.
Member LeBron’s first year in LA?

As long as we don’t go 1-3 or 0-4, the next four games will be ~fine. 2-2 would be disappointing, 3-1 would be expected, 4-0 would be very good.

TouchPassDario wrote:

Barkley6 wrote:

TouchPassDario wrote:There are no must wins right now. Got a nice cushion, healthy, and playing great. I would not mind sitting CP for a game this week. Get Payne some more reps can’t hurt. Moore is no slouch either.

We've done well against top EC opposition, but if we want to really view ourselves as a team that has a chance at a title, then it starts with beating the best in the West in the regular season.

Lakers w/o AD are a borderline playoff team.
Member LeBron’s first year in LA?

So you're saying it's ok to lose to a borderline playoff team? C'mon now. With AD gone there is no way we should lose that one!

We would be in 2nd place in the west right now if we hadn’t blown that Brooklyn game

Crives wrote:We would be in 2nd place in the west right now if we hadn’t blown that Brooklyn game

Or Pistons game. Or won one of the two overtime games against the nuggies.

All teams lose matches, we are where we are and let's look forward.

Barkley6 wrote:

TouchPassDario wrote:

Barkley6 wrote:
We've done well against top EC opposition, but if we want to really view ourselves as a team that has a chance at a title, then it starts with beating the best in the West in the regular season.

Lakers w/o AD are a borderline playoff team.
Member LeBron’s first year in LA?

So you're saying it's ok to lose to a borderline playoff team? C'mon now. With AD gone there is no way we should lose that one!

What? I didn’t say that.

You said we gotta beat the best in the west to prove ourselves. Lakers are like the 12th best team in the league without AD. Seems like you’ve conceded the point.

Crives wrote:We would be in 2nd place in the west right now if we hadn’t blown that Brooklyn game

Dont forget losing to Detroit in Detroit!!!

sunskerr wrote:We are 20-10

Should be 22-8. That's what even crazier hahaha