Post#299 » by powerforward » Mon Jul 1, 2019 4:52 pm
This is me venting....
I have been Hornets fan since day one in 88, went thru the excitement watching the building of a team, getting LJ and then Zo- beating the celts in playoffs of buzzer beater. The low of trading Zo then LJ- then rice- then Eddie- then the worst we lost the team.
This nearly killed my life long love of the NBA.
Then the news that we were getting a team back- the hope-(didn't care the team name was dumb) Some early moves to move up to Get Emeka. Got Wallace. Bad drafts then began, but we managed to put together a decent team- Jordan buys team- more exactment. More bad drafts- but continually I defended the team. Tanked and wound up with MKG instead of AD- but I was a MKG guy- he started great then got hurt against NO and it seems it has went downhill since.
We have missed on every draft pick except one- and we just let him go. We overpay marginal guys- none of whom are top 3- 4 guys on championship contenders. We just want to make playoffs and yet can't even do that.
Every move seemed shortsighted but I held out hope they knew more than I did- that there was a plan- But no, turned down multiple picks so we can draft Frank ( I know it wasn't the 4 1sts that were reported but pretty sure one of those picks was used on Terry Rozier so there you go) I disagreed when people ranked us as team with worst future outlook- and that was with Kemba- now I agree and don't know how anyone could think that we have anything than a bleak future.
New management- new hope. Then this. We could have traded Kemba but held on to him in my opinion because of the Allstar game. But we let him walk instead of give him less than the max- and compounded it by signing a backup quality guy to 20 mill year. We are a laughingstock, and we have no talent to build around (Miles, Monk, PJ, Bacon these guys at best project to high end role players)
Maybe we get high pick- but we will not be relevant for a decade. Look at suns, kings, wolves, cavs (before LeBron) this is our future and worst yet we have no plan in place, I see no indication of what direction we are going.
I think I am checking out - I will check on high lights every once in awhile, but I don' t think I can follow the hornets or the NBA for awhile, too disappointing for something that should be a fun distraction.