Excellent analysis here.
Our blog happens to agree. The chemistry on this team has been key all season. It might be dangerous to mess that up by bringing in someone who wouldn’t fit into the clean-cut, attitude-free group of guys the Hornets have. Plus the team seems to genuinely like each other. While our bench is weaker, how many minutes is the bench really going to get come playoff time? And not everyone is in the position to make the type of blockbuster some of the other teams in the West have made. What parts do the Hornets have that other teams want? What players are left who would be a fit for us? Looking at the Hornets’ core, David West came up slowly, but has been with the Hornets since he was drafted. Chris Paul was also drafted. Even though it seems sometimes like Byron Scott plays the younger players infuriatingly little, it would be a shame to let them go before we even know what they can do. Imagine if Marcus Vinicious or Julian Wright became our “one that got away” like Tyson Chandler is for the Bulls today.
Besides, as much as I’m loving this season, our core is also the youngest of all the playoff-contending West teams, except for Portland. We don’t need to win this year. Or next.
Scott said there are 11 or 12 players on his 14-man roster whom he does not want to lose, and General Manager Jeff Bower said Tuesday that he does not feel any pressure to be involved in a transaction before Thursday’s deadline. “I don’t have any pieces I’d like to part with,” Bower said. “As a team, honestly, we like our players, and there’s not one guy here that we want to get rid of, that we want to trade away.”
I wonder who the 2 or 3 are who are in the doghouse. Could probably take a stab at that…
At any rate, huge game tonight. Geaux Hornets!
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