Hornets Playoff Watch

Liver_Pooty · Post #301 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 1:46 am

Mondays game is huge. Miami plays at Cleveland which is almost a loss, and we play at Utah. Have to win that one.

catch20two · Post #302 » by **catch20two** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:07 am

Liver_Pooty wrote:Mondays game is huge. Miami plays at Cleveland which is almost a loss, and we play at Utah. Have to win that one.

Utah is the hottest team in the league of late. They're 8-2 over their last 10 games.

Liver_Pooty · Post #303 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:08 am

catch20two wrote:
Liver_Pooty wrote:Mondays game is huge. Miami plays at Cleveland which is almost a loss, and we play at Utah. Have to win that one.

Utah is the hottest team in the league of late. They're 8-2 over their last 10 games.

Indeed.

Post #304 » by **yosemiteben** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:30 am

I think we match up relatively well against Utah. MKG can defend his natural positron, we don't really have to worry about their PGs scoring, and if Al is back and healthy he will be a really hard cover for Gobert and might be able to get him in foul trouble. Favors is going to be a load without Cody though.

catch20two · Post #305 » by **catch20two** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:44 am

yosemiteben wrote:I think we match up relatively well against Utah. MKG can defend his natural positron, we don't really have to worry about their PGs scoring, and if Al is back and healthy he will be a really hard cover for Gobert and might be able to get him in foul trouble. Favors is going to be a load without Cody though.

Lol. Al will struggle with Gobert on both sides of the ball. Al don't draw fouls anyway.

Liver_Pooty · Post #306 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:45 am

catch20two wrote:
yosemiteben wrote:I think we match up relatively well against Utah. MKG can defend his natural positron, we don't really have to worry about their PGs scoring, and if Al is back and healthy he will be a really hard cover for Gobert and might be able to get him in foul trouble. Favors is going to be a load without Cody though.

Lol. Al will struggle with Gobert on both sides of the ball. Al don't draw fouls anyway.

Al will do great against Gobert in my opinion. He excels against shot blocking centers. He only struggles against massive bruisers like Gasol and Cousins.

Post #307 » by **yosemiteben** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 4:04 am

Boston plays Indiana tomorrow. Not sure who I'd prefer to win, but I'll view it as a good thing whichever way it goes.

Memphis also plays Milwaukee after losing their last two. Memphis really needs to win to keep their seeding but Conley is still out for them. Hopefully they don't lay an egg. Memphis wins and we will only have three more losses than Milwaukee.

Post #308 » by **Diop** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 4:21 am

Liver_Pooty wrote:
catch20two wrote:
yosemiteben wrote:I think we match up relatively well against Utah. MKG can defend his natural positron, we don't really have to worry about their PGs scoring, and if Al is back and healthy he will be a really hard cover for Gobert and might be able to get him in foul trouble. Favors is going to be a load without Cody though.

Lol. Al will struggle with Gobert on both sides of the ball. Al don't draw fouls anyway.

Al will do great against Gobert in my opinion. He excels against shot blocking centers. He only struggles against massive bruisers like Gasol and Cousins.

I got the impression that Al likes going up against the Utah Jazz bigs

tondi123 · Post #309 » by **tondi123** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:28 am

Liver_Pooty wrote:
catch20two wrote:
yosemiteben wrote:I think we match up relatively well against Utah. MKG can defend his natural positron, we don't really have to worry about their PGs scoring, and if Al is back and healthy he will be a really hard cover for Gobert and might be able to get him in foul trouble. Favors is going to be a load without Cody though.

Lol. Al will struggle with Gobert on both sides of the ball. Al don't draw fouls anyway.

Al will do great against Gobert in my opinion. He excels against shot blocking centers. He only struggles against massive bruisers like Gasol and Cousins.

Especially the younger ones who haven't played against him much. On the other end, I sure hope Gobert doesn't have any kind of mid range game or Al is screwed.

Liver_Pooty · Post #310 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 1:39 am

Boston beat Indiana. Milwaukee losing to Memphis

Post #311 » by **yosemiteben** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 2:31 am

[tweet]https://twitter.com/rick_bonnell/status/576929189300944897[/tweet]

Unreal.

BeesWax · Post #312 » by **BeesWax** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 2:37 am

yosemiteben wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/rick_bonnell/status/576929189300944897[/tweet]

Unreal.

Brooklyn is in 11th and 3 games behind us. Not only and Rick not report well he can't count either. We are a game out of tenth.

Hornet Mania · Post #313 » by **Hornet Mania** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 2:44 am

Yeah, that didn't seem right to me either. Still crazy regardless. Gonna be a crap shoot all the way til the last day I'm afraid.

Liver_Pooty · Post #314 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 2:47 am

jdm3 wrote:
yosemiteben wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/rick_bonnell/status/576929189300944897[/tweet]

Unreal.

Brooklyn is in 11th and 3 games behind us. Not only and Rick not report well he can't count either. We are a game out of tenth.

Just went I start to give Bonnell praises for a really nice article on MKG he goes off and gets drunk with some stupid ass stat like that. Terrible.

Post #315 » by **yosemiteben** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 2:48 am

Haha, whoops, I should have checked the standings. It's still crazy how 7 - 10 are so close right and now the 6 seed is a legit possibility for a bunch of different teams.

Liver_Pooty · Post #316 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 2:50 am

yosemiteben wrote:Haha, whoops, I should have checked the standings. It's still crazy how 7 - 10 are so close right and now the 6 seed is a legit possibility for a bunch of different teams.

The last 4 or 5 games of the season I might be cheering for us to lose. I do not want the 7 seed at all.

W_HAMILTON · Post #317 » by **W_HAMILTON** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 4:20 am

I've gotten to where I usually just look at the loss column to gauge where everything is, because that's all that matters in the end. IND is technically a half game ahead of us, but that's because they've played one more game (which they won), but we're tied in the loss column with 35 losses. You can make up wins, but you can't shed losses.

So, looking at it that way, we're basically:

- Three games behind MIL
- Tied with IND
- One game up on MIA/BOS
- Three games up on BKN

W_HAMILTON · Post #318 » by **W_HAMILTON** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 4:19 pm

Kinda a crappy NBA day, since there's really no scoreboard watching to be done that impacts us at all. Maybe I should start rooting for teams like CHI and TOR to win so that they can overtake CLE for the #2 spot?

Post #319 » by **yosemiteben** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:28 pm

W_HAMILTON wrote:Kinda a crappy NBA day, since there's really no scoreboard watching to be done that impacts us at all. Maybe I should start rooting for teams like CHI and TOR to win so that they can overtake CLE for the #2 spot?

Had the same thought.

Is it possible for Toronto or Washington or Chicago to lose enough for the five seed to be in play?

Liver_Pooty · Post #320 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:47 pm

yosemiteben wrote:
W_HAMILTON wrote:Kinda a crappy NBA day, since there's really no scoreboard watching to be done that impacts us at all. Maybe I should start rooting for teams like CHI and TOR to win so that they can overtake CLE for the #2 spot?

Had the same thought.

Is it possible for Toronto or Washington or Chicago to lose enough for the five seed to be in play?

I doubt it. Washington is on a little winning streak. Maybe the Raptors, but still doubtful.