GT charlotte vs boston 6PM EST

[LofJ]

James Borrego needs to fall on the grenade and tell the franchise Batum is useless. The correlation between him playing and rhe hornets losing is amazing. Playing him any more than 10 minutes a game is borderline criminal.

You cant convince the young guys that the best guys are playing when you have a guy averaging 5 ppg playing 30 minutes a game. If nothing else, mkg should get those minutes to butter him up for a 2nd rounder at the trade deadline.

They know that Batum is useless. He's a great tank commander, and I'm fine with him helping us lose until his ass is gone the summer of 2021.

There's better ways to tank. Batum is like shoving a knife in the fans. I would rather have a guy give his all and be garbage than a guy not give a damn and be garbage any day of the week.

I'd much rather see Martin or even MKG on the floor, but they aren't going to permanently bench Batum when he's healthy and still has another full year on his contract.

[BigSlam]

It was funny watching Terry bully Walker on the boards in the 1st. It kinda looked like JB was trying to exploit Walker's size all game - getting switches on offence and having Miles drive on him when ever Walker switched off and was left guarding him.

Nice to see Miles straight line drive some more and not resort to those looping, off balance, low percentage poor angle drives.

I don't think that the line up JB had in the 1st with Rozier - Monk - Thing #1 - Marv - CZ is a good one. No real facilitator and too little ball movement. He quickly shifted to Tae - Monk - Thing #1 - Marv - CZ and the results were almost instant with movement instantly much better.

Tae with the 1st qtr Golden Shower.

I wanna see Biz start taking open 3's from the top of the arc instead of facilitating hand offs all the time. WHO'S WITH ME?!?!?!?!

That was Bridges 2nd five second inbound violation in the past month (although I think this one was a super quick count). Either way, that should NEVER happen. Who is more at fault there: The 1 person in-bounding the ball, or the 4 guys on the court not getting open?

Tatum looks like he doesn't even try. Not in a Batum way, more in a "it comes so easy to him" way. Maybe missing that killer DNA is the thing that keeps him from being a superstar?

So it's official - Thing #1 has taken all of Bake's PT?

Better in game dunker: Bridges or Monk? You'd think Bridges, but Monk can rama-dama-ding-dong with serious air and power.

How many times a week do you think JB gets his hair cut? Seriously, does it ever look even slightly different? It's always exactly the same. That's some serious upkeep.

Having to endure the Cleveland announcers and the Boston announcers within a week of each other is excruciating for me. I'm a Chicago announcers game before Boxing Day away from a complete melt down.