Zach Lowe's take on the 2017-18 Hornets

[TheKingofSting]

http://es.pn/2DeVtRS

You can't copy and paste from the ESPN app, scroll down to #8.

I couldn't find an existing thread category that it fit into but if it needs to be moved then that's fine mods.


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[fatlever]

8. Nic Batum to Dwight Howard, sure
Batum and Howard have a nice wink-wink chemistry on lobs:


After previous "likes" for Walker's jitterbug clowning and Jeremy Lamb's solid season, this concludes the list of happy things we can say about the 2017-18 Charlotte Hornets.

What a strange season. None of their players have been abjectly bad, save for Batum in his first month back from injury. Even he has looked decent since, though we haven't seen anything close to Contract Year Batum. Marvin Williams is shooting 43 percent from deep. Frank Kaminsky is up to a career-best 37 percent on 3s. Howard has been better than the Hornets expected, though raw numbers mask massive underlying weaknesses on both ends.

And yet: The team is not good. (You might not know it watching their Pravda-esque local broadcast, in which Howard is 2011 Dwight and Walker is referred to as "the captain" more often than apex Derek Jeter ever was.) they do annoy me with the homer takes at times.

A five-game losing streak has obliterated their faint playoff hopes. Charlotte has the league's easiest remaining schedule, but they are six games back of the No. 8 spot with severe tiebreaker disadvantages. Good thing they're almost at the luxury tax.

[Vanderbilt_Grad]

tl:dr - the whole is less than the sum of it's parts

[TheKingofSting]

8. Nic Batum to Dwight Howard, sure
Batum and Howard have a nice wink-wink chemistry on lobs:


After previous "likes" for Walker's jitterbug clowning and Jeremy Lamb's solid season, this concludes the list of happy things we can say about the 2017-18 Charlotte Hornets.

What a strange season. None of their players have been abjectly bad, save for Batum in his first month back from injury. Even he has looked decent since, though we haven't seen anything close to Contract Year Batum. Marvin Williams is shooting 43 percent from deep. Frank Kaminsky is up to a career-best 37 percent on 3s. Howard has been better than the Hornets expected, though raw numbers mask massive underlying weaknesses on both ends.

And yet: The team is not good. (You might not know it watching their Pravda-esque local broadcast, in which Howard is 2011 Dwight and Walker is referred to as "the captain" more often than apex Derek Jeter ever was.) they do annoy me with the homer takes at times.

A five-game losing streak has obliterated their faint playoff hopes. Charlotte has the league's easiest remaining schedule, but they are six games back of the No. 8 spot with severe tiebreaker disadvantages. Good thing they're almost at the luxury tax.

Thanks fats!


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[yosemiteben]

tl:dr - the whole is less than the sum of it's parts

Yep

[Braggins]

tl:dr - the whole is less than the sum of it's parts

Which is one the most obvious signs of bad coaching.

[catch20two]

8. Nic Batum to Dwight Howard, sure
Batum and Howard have a nice wink-wink chemistry on lobs:


After previous "likes" for Walker's jitterbug clowning and Jeremy Lamb's solid season, this concludes the list of happy things we can say about the 2017-18 Charlotte Hornets.

What a strange season. None of their players have been abjectly bad, save for Batum in his first month back from injury. Even he has looked decent since, though we haven't seen anything close to Contract Year Batum. Marvin Williams is shooting 43 percent from deep. Frank Kaminsky is up to a career-best 37 percent on 3s. Howard has been better than the Hornets expected, though raw numbers mask massive underlying weaknesses on both ends.

And yet: The team is not good. (You might not know it watching their Pravda-esque local broadcast, in which Howard is 2011 Dwight and Walker is referred to as "the captain" more often than apex Derek Jeter ever was.)

A five-game losing streak has obliterated their faint playoff hopes. Charlotte has the league's easiest remaining schedule, but they are six games back of the No. 8 spot with severe tiebreaker disadvantages. Good thing they're almost at the luxury tax.

I agree with most of what he said but he must’ve didn’t see MCW so I’ll take some of this hot take with a grain of salt.

[DY_nasty]

i seriously think having a competent pg over MCW is worth 10 or more games

[catch20two]

We’re so bad even Vegas overrated us by several games.