GT: HORNETS vs THUNDER SAT DEC 28 6PM

[MasterIchiro]

This franchise is a joke. New owners same old Hornets.

Guys sitting out after playing last game. Young 20 year old kids need load management smh.

We are obviously tanking.

I still wonder why any fans think otherwise. We are now tanking more aggressively.

We really want one of the high lottery talents and we are rubber-stamping it.

We will add that player then secure 6 first round picks available for upgrades.

I'm hoping it's Harper joining LaMelo & Miller as top options. Mark Williams looks at least like a starter and Miles could easily become a solid baseline matching salary if we attach firsts to him for that 5th starter slot.

Braggins has said Lauri. It will be someone really freaking good given our draft cupboard and movable contracts.

[SWedd523]

We're pretty easily the worst team in the league.

They're playing hard tonight. Not much to complain about IMO other than just not being good

[EmpireFalls]

I've heard other team fans complain about OKC getting away with a ton of physicality and now I get it. The refs are allowing a lot of contact

Superstar calls happen mostly on the defensive end… once you see it you never unsee it. How do you think Draymond and AD and Duncan and all these great defenders seem to always contest and never foul… hint - it’s not just because they’re always great.

Once you get a good defensive reputation you get to be even more physical than average. OG and Josh Hart are prime examples of it.

[Liver_Pooty]

Actually look better tonight than if we had Miller and Lamelo if we’re being honest.

[Liver_Pooty]

I’m perfectly fine with the way we played. We played hard but were obviously completely outmatched beyond measure.

I am however pissed off that we had a sold out crowd tonight at home and we essentially did load management. I know they had a little soreness but come on.

[GoBobs]

Not sure how we wouldn’t get fined for this other than the league just not even caring to investigate

They don’t think about us at all

[GoBobs]

We all kind of knew this might be a smart time to pick up one final piece from the draft before we start going all in on trying to win, still sucks to go through it.

[Liver_Pooty]

Not sure how we wouldn’t get fined for this other than the league just not even caring to investigate

They don’t think about us at all

Lamelo **** an entire family and didn’t even get fined until he did it a couple more times after lol

[wilson115]

Nick Richards with 1 point. Been looking invisible lately.

[MasterIchiro]

Nick Richards with 1 point. Been looking invisible lately.

In the dog house where he belongs.

[Robot Rock]

Why do this for home games. Such a **** you to the fans.



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Losing and ineptitude aside, it's crap like this that drives me further and further away from them.

[Diop]

Why do this for home games. Such a **** you to the fans.



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Losing and ineptitude aside, it's crap like this that drives me further and further away from them.

but you can't stay away from us

[Diop]

Bring back Mason Plumlee!!

[Robot Rock]

Why do this for home games. Such a **** you to the fans.



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Losing and ineptitude aside, it's crap like this that drives me further and further away from them.

but you can't stay away from us

If star players won't take the court but once every three games and the team won't win but once every 15 games, the least I can do is take the forum twice every three games.

[Robot Rock]

This season's really made me lose all the respect I had for the malingering "stars" on this team as well as the hands-off crooks who own it. Lee hasn't had much to work with and he's the worst head coach in the league by a country mile, so expecting more than one more win before the ASG break is akin to praying the sun will rise in the west tomorrow. But what does two or three wins do anyway? Nothing.

It's never gonna get better with this franchise. The fish rots from the head.

Trash ownership, trash coaching, trash players who don't expect to win and shrug when they lose (assuming they even play; most of the time a paper cut leads to a three-week paid vacation). And it's all for the greatest prizes:

- a historic losing streak
- a barrage of "haha Hornets suck" on social media when the logo pops up with the fifth pick on draft lottery night
- another raw, unproven rookie to get thrown to the wolves
- more empty seats and a 30th-place attendance ranking
- another injury-filled, defense-free, 82-game three-point clanging contest next year.

Then lather, rinse, repeat for another couple decades. Three decades of definitely only being a year or two away.

Flame me all you like (to be honest, I'd rather read that than watch these idiots fake injuries and get paid $25 million to miss threes for two hours). The game is not fun to watch when it's ASG-level running up and down and praying your team clangs one less three than the other team over 48 minutes. And that's the good teams.

It's the awful way the NBA games are played that sucks, this team's eternal ineptitude on the court, off the court and even during halftime, and it's the "hey coach y'know I ain't playing tonight, I need to rest and I played last night so gimme a week or two off" that's turning me off of this stupid league for good.

And while y'all may hate to read negative things that cloud your eternal optimism, we share enough of an investment in this team that we log in here whether we're spouting positive or negative comments. It's the investment that counts. You can turn a fan from positive to negative but as long as he's not apathetic and tuning out, you're OK.

Well, I'm becoming just apathetic. And I've never been apathetic about this team since I first picked up a ball. But there are far too many options in sports and entertainment for me to continue wasting my time with a league I don't like featuring malingering players I don't respect playing for an inept franchise that hates its fans.

[Diop]

If Lamelo hadn’t cranked up his defense I would have absolutely turned on him by now.

His relaxed carefree style looks so undisciplined at times, but I believe he is trying.

Can only hope and wish they have a string of games without injury and figure some of this **** out. There is not much other hope.

[Liver_Pooty]

This season's really made me lose all the respect I had for the malingering "stars" on this team as well as the hands-off crooks who own it. Lee hasn't had much to work with and he's the worst head coach in the league by a country mile, so expecting more than one more win before the ASG break is akin to praying the sun will rise in the west tomorrow. But what does two or three wins do anyway? Nothing.

It's never gonna get better with this franchise. The fish rots from the head.

Trash ownership, trash coaching, trash players who don't expect to win and shrug when they lose (assuming they even play; most of the time a paper cut leads to a three-week paid vacation). And it's all for the greatest prizes:

- a historic losing streak
- a barrage of "haha Hornets suck" on social media when the logo pops up with the fifth pick on draft lottery night
- another raw, unproven rookie to get thrown to the wolves
- more empty seats and a 30th-place attendance ranking
- another injury-filled, defense-free, 82-game three-point clanging contest next year.

Then lather, rinse, repeat for another couple decades. Three decades of definitely only being a year or two away.

Flame me all you like (to be honest, I'd rather read that than watch these idiots fake injuries and get paid $25 million to miss threes for two hours). The game is not fun to watch when it's ASG-level running up and down and praying your team clangs one less three than the other team over 48 minutes. And that's the good teams.

It's the awful way the NBA games are played that sucks, this team's eternal ineptitude on the court, off the court and even during halftime, and it's the "hey coach y'know I ain't playing tonight, I need to rest and I played last night so gimme a week or two off" that's turning me off of this stupid league for good.

And while y'all may hate to read negative things that cloud your eternal optimism, we share enough of an investment in this team that we log in here whether we're spouting positive or negative comments. It's the investment that counts. You can turn a fan from positive to negative but as long as he's not apathetic and tuning out, you're OK.

Well, I'm becoming just apathetic. And I've never been apathetic about this team since I first picked up a ball. But there are far too many options in sports and entertainment for me to continue wasting my time with a league I don't like featuring malingering players I don't respect playing for an inept franchise that hates its fans.

Not flaming this comment. I agree with 90 percent of what you said. The other 10 is just here or there.

[Liver_Pooty]

This season's really made me lose all the respect I had for the malingering "stars" on this team as well as the hands-off crooks who own it. Lee hasn't had much to work with and he's the worst head coach in the league by a country mile, so expecting more than one more win before the ASG break is akin to praying the sun will rise in the west tomorrow. But what does two or three wins do anyway? Nothing.

It's never gonna get better with this franchise. The fish rots from the head.

Trash ownership, trash coaching, trash players who don't expect to win and shrug when they lose (assuming they even play; most of the time a paper cut leads to a three-week paid vacation). And it's all for the greatest prizes:

- a historic losing streak
- a barrage of "haha Hornets suck" on social media when the logo pops up with the fifth pick on draft lottery night
- another raw, unproven rookie to get thrown to the wolves
- more empty seats and a 30th-place attendance ranking
- another injury-filled, defense-free, 82-game three-point clanging contest next year.

Then lather, rinse, repeat for another couple decades. Three decades of definitely only being a year or two away.

Flame me all you like (to be honest, I'd rather read that than watch these idiots fake injuries and get paid $25 million to miss threes for two hours). The game is not fun to watch when it's ASG-level running up and down and praying your team clangs one less three than the other team over 48 minutes. And that's the good teams.

It's the awful way the NBA games are played that sucks, this team's eternal ineptitude on the court, off the court and even during halftime, and it's the "hey coach y'know I ain't playing tonight, I need to rest and I played last night so gimme a week or two off" that's turning me off of this stupid league for good.

And while y'all may hate to read negative things that cloud your eternal optimism, we share enough of an investment in this team that we log in here whether we're spouting positive or negative comments. It's the investment that counts. You can turn a fan from positive to negative but as long as he's not apathetic and tuning out, you're OK.

Well, I'm becoming just apathetic. And I've never been apathetic about this team since I first picked up a ball. But there are far too many options in sports and entertainment for me to continue wasting my time with a league I don't like featuring malingering players I don't respect playing for an inept franchise that hates its fans.

Going to reply again. This was a very though out post. I’m always optimistic, but it’s hard to be these days to honest. We have talent. But I don’t think we have as much talent as we as fans think we have.

[Robot Rock]

This season's really made me lose all the respect I had for the malingering "stars" on this team as well as the hands-off crooks who own it. Lee hasn't had much to work with and he's the worst head coach in the league by a country mile, so expecting more than one more win before the ASG break is akin to praying the sun will rise in the west tomorrow. But what does two or three wins do anyway? Nothing.

It's never gonna get better with this franchise. The fish rots from the head.

Trash ownership, trash coaching, trash players who don't expect to win and shrug when they lose (assuming they even play; most of the time a paper cut leads to a three-week paid vacation). And it's all for the greatest prizes:

- a historic losing streak
- a barrage of "haha Hornets suck" on social media when the logo pops up with the fifth pick on draft lottery night
- another raw, unproven rookie to get thrown to the wolves
- more empty seats and a 30th-place attendance ranking
- another injury-filled, defense-free, 82-game three-point clanging contest next year.

Then lather, rinse, repeat for another couple decades. Three decades of definitely only being a year or two away.

Flame me all you like (to be honest, I'd rather read that than watch these idiots fake injuries and get paid $25 million to miss threes for two hours). The game is not fun to watch when it's ASG-level running up and down and praying your team clangs one less three than the other team over 48 minutes. And that's the good teams.

It's the awful way the NBA games are played that sucks, this team's eternal ineptitude on the court, off the court and even during halftime, and it's the "hey coach y'know I ain't playing tonight, I need to rest and I played last night so gimme a week or two off" that's turning me off of this stupid league for good.

And while y'all may hate to read negative things that cloud your eternal optimism, we share enough of an investment in this team that we log in here whether we're spouting positive or negative comments. It's the investment that counts. You can turn a fan from positive to negative but as long as he's not apathetic and tuning out, you're OK.

Well, I'm becoming just apathetic. And I've never been apathetic about this team since I first picked up a ball. But there are far too many options in sports and entertainment for me to continue wasting my time with a league I don't like featuring malingering players I don't respect playing for an inept franchise that hates its fans.

Going to reply again. This was a very though out post. I’m always optimistic, but it’s hard to be these days to honest. We have talent. But I don’t think we have as much talent as we as fans think we have.

Enough talent to not have the league's worst record and longest losing streak. Not enough coaching to overcome it. Not enough desire from me to buy tickets/invest in watching games, as a result.

[JMAC3]

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at least miles is not taking easy way out and sitting in street clothes... but oof.

The hunt to blame everything on Miles is in full court press mode, Hornets going to Hornet.