GT: Hornets vs Heat / Game 6 / 8PM / Let's Do It!

[Hugo The Hornet]

GAME 6

Charlotte Hornets can finish the job and advance to the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Friday night, if they will win Dwyane Wade's Miami Heat at "The Hive". The 6th game of the first-round playoff series starts at 8p.m. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN and locally on FOX Sports Southeast.

GAME NOTES

Charlotte Hornets: http://www.nba.com/gamenotes/hornets.pdf
Miami Heat: http://www.nba.com/gamenotes/heat.pdf

INJURY UPDATES

Charlotte Hornets

Nicolas Batum will (again) come off the bench tomorrow, while he still didn't fully recover from his left leg injury.
Spencer Hawes is out for Game 6, after went to MRI revealing a right knee sprain.
Cody Zeller is listed as questionable after he went to the locker room during Game 5 to get treatment.
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist will return only in 2016-17 season as he is recovering from shoulder surgery.

Miami Heat

Tyler Johnson is questionable for Game 6 with a discomfort in his shoulder.
Chris Bosh is still out indefinitely with blood clots in his leg. He's expected to return only next year.

[fafan]

Just have another COOL WIN!!!!

[fatlever]

[fatlever]

What kind of impact will Tyler Johnson have if he returns?

[Hugo The Hornet]

What kind of impact will Tyler Johnson have if he returns?

He's just a reserve player, I don't believe he'll play even if he'll be available.

[fatlever]

What kind of impact will Tyler Johnson have if he returns?

He's just a reserve player, I don't believe he'll play even if he'll be available.

I dunno, I think they could have used him last night. Clearly Spo didnt trust Dragic to defend Kemba which is why JRich played so many minutes. TJ can do a lot of the same things defensively and shooting as JRich, but perhaps with more playmaking and poise in a big game. Then again, JRich did hit a couple of monster 3. At the very least, it gives them another wing defender to run at Kemba/Lin. They could even alternate JRich and TJ picking our guys up full court and rotating them for rest. I remember Boston did that to us a last year with Smart, Bradley and Pressey rotating on Kemba every few minutes.

[Zombiesonics]

If cody is out i'm afraid CHA will drop this game @ home, Jefferson was just getting demolished in that time when zeller went to the locker room. The thing with jefferson is, he literally cannot jump ( or doesn't want to), many times youll see an offensive player attack the rim vs him and he wont even contest/rim protect. If i were clifford I would seriously consider using a lineup of Marv at the 5 in game 6 if cody is out, surprisingly he's never done that despite its intrigue (whiteside would be rendered ineffective , chasing marvin around the perimeter).

[bws94]

Man down? Hawes. Looking for info.

[bws94]

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INJURY UPDATE: Spencer Hawes underwent MRI revealing R knee sprain, listed OUT for Game 6

[Zombiesonics]

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INJURY UPDATE: Spencer Hawes underwent MRI revealing R knee sprain, listed OUT for Game 6

wow , not good... think my plea early ITT for marv @ the 5 was a bit clairvoyant, although this really hurts the bench too. I mean who is playing the 4 now in the second unit? If cody's out then CHA has Jefferson , kaminsky and Hansborough as far as real bigs on the active roster.

[bws94]

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INJURY UPDATE: Spencer Hawes underwent MRI revealing R knee sprain, listed OUT for Game 6

wow , not good... think my plea early ITT for marv @ the 5 was a bit clairvoyant, although this really hurts the bench too. I mean who is playing the 4 now in the second unit? If cody's out then CHA has Jefferson , kaminsky and Hansborough as far as real bigs on the active roster.

Cody is hobbling whether he plays or not. I think he probably will try to due to Hawes being out. We can put Psycho out there as a big body for short stretches I guess. I hope we can pull off the win and advance tomorrow. Hawes will be out for a week according to a lot of reports I've seen out there.

[HornetJail]

What kind of impact will Tyler Johnson have if he returns?

He's just a reserve player, I don't believe he'll play even if he'll be available.

He averaged 24mpg this season when he played (shot 49/39/80 and averaged 9ppg), but I read that he's available tomorrow on "an emergency basis".

[Vae Victus]

With the number of walking wounded we got its gonna require a Kemba Skywalker and/or Linsanity game to win. Literally no bigs worth a damn available as Cody has been key and Hawes has played well for the most part.

Kemba cant have another Original Recipe Kemba Walker chuckfest game and Lin needs to **** man up and go Linsane. Gonna need to rain the 3s again to win as the defense is gonna be utterly terrible if Al gets 32+ mins. Win Game 6, pray that Indy can push Game 7 to buy as much time as possible to rest up the cripples.

[yosemiteben]

All these injuries got me real nervous. Time to finish this thing off.

[LofJ]

Cody isn't listed as questionable anywhere. He's not 100%, but barely anyone is this time of year. Whiteside isn't 100% either fwiw.

Depending on what the Heat do with their lineup I don't think it would be a bad idea to play Lamb/Hansbrough as our 9th guy tomorrow night. We could use a set of fresh legs.

[MasterIchiro]

Would be sweet to see Lamb see time and make some big shots.

[jtsmith]

damn... can't wait for this.

gotta feeling it's gonna be alfense for first 5 minutes.

[nbnn]

Good Luck Pokemon Cards. Wish I had time to make more for the rest of the players, but here are few:







Let's finish Heats off!

[Flip Murray]

Good Luck Pokemon Cards. Wish I had time to make more for the rest of the players, but here are few:

Spoiler:

Let's finish Heats off!

Awesome first post hopefully it brings us the luck we need

[driveandkick]

Damn. No Hawes is a bummer, by far our most physical big this series.