Was there a full moon tonight? Detroit lost to the Knicks. Boston needed overtime to barely beat Milwaukee. And the Miami Heat won a game.
Meanwhile we were forced to watch the stultifyingly ugly… thing… that was the Hornets losing to the Jazz 77-66. Chris Paul played the worst game, possibly, of his career, scoring only 4 points. Entire minutes went by with both teams having turnover after turnover without resulting in points. Peja inexplicably sat in the moments he should have played. The officiating was stifling to the flow of the game in the 2nd, only to disappear in the 4th. Everyone was grabbing and bumping everyone. It was like… slogging through a field of mud for 48 minutes straight. And every time the mud starts to thin out and you pick up some speed, you trip over a rock. And at the end of it, you feel annoyed, slow, and dirty. Shit, the Jazz didn’t even play well. It was sort of like a pileup on the highway.
I think my little world will be happier if I pretend I was abducted by aliens for those missing 3 hours of my life… but I guess I can’t, because I just saw myself on the NBATV highlights. Which seems, unfortunately, to shoot all kinds of holes in the theory that I wasn’t there.
No, Chris! Tyson has it right. Whatever you do, don’t look at it!
The Truth Is Out There. (Doo doo doo doo doo)
it was brutal to watch,and your right utah played as bad as we did.I give no excuses for the loss execpt that we dont match up well against the jazz.hopefully we’ll be back on track tonight and hold on to our division lead to the end of the season.oh and ticktock, being abducted by aliens would of been better than watching the game,but only if there were bugs bunny and Michael Jordan.OH and a soundtrack by SEAL
At least the Lakers lost to Portland.
are the hornets prepared for physical playoff basketball? cp3 certainly doesn’t seem comfortable in grabby tough match-ups like last night. the playoffs will be officiated more like the 4th than 2nd quarter, and i think thats something the hornets should be concerned with.
Well, they’ve played the Spurs tough before in that type of matchup. The Jazz matchup gives them trouble, and in my opinion it would be huge to avoid it in the playoffs. As for CP3, it is one of his few weaknesses… he’s scrappy for his size, and he plays aggressive. But he can be taken out of games by frustration, sometimes from not getting the calls he thinks he should get. Utah does it to him, and Boston did it to him. (And the Hornets, as an “unestablished” bunch, don’t generally get the calls other stars get, so they need to get over it.)
The fourth quarter wasn’t the problem… I think the Hornets are capable. This game had a lot of unevenness to the officiating. Each team hardly got to the line. Each team had players getting mauled, and then they’d call a touch foul. Later in the game when it became apparent what kind of game was going to be played, Coach Scott went small (CP, James, Pargo), which we thought was a questionable decision considering that people were getting knocked around out there. You need to adjust better when it’s been established that you’re not going to get the calls. I am sort of worried about some weird coaching decisions that were made late.
I agree. When the Hornets have been at their best this season, they’ve won despite strange officiating. You can rarely blame a game on officiating, only the failure of a team to adapt to the style of calls. That is, if they’re whistling every touch foul, you have to play soft defense. If they’re not calling anything, like last night, you gotta go hard on both ends of the floor. Although part of what was so inexplicable last night is you kept getting CP and D-West getting called for pushes or clear outs with their arms on the offensive end after almost every other trip they were getting hacked without a call. I mean this kind of went both ways, but you can see why it befuddled them.
I just want to win a damn championship.
You know what… I AM gonna blame the officiating, one official in particular. If I have to single you out, you really suck, and should begin thinking about an alternate career choice.
Message to #40, Leon Wood, your performance last night was absolute garbage. You are the most pitiful excuse for an NBA official that I’ve seen in a long time. I think that Billy Crystal from “Forget Paris” could’ve done a better job. Its true the game last night was sloppy, but you had as much to do with that as the players did. You single-handedly took away 2 Jazz possessions, and took 8 points away from the Hornets. Some of your non-calls were mind-boggling, which is why you got frowny faces from almost every player and coach at some point. I’ve never seen an official take over a game like you did last night. Even Joey Crawford is wondering what’s wrong with you. You should be ashamed of your performance last night.
Is that the same bald guy who has sucked previously? Or are there multiple of them?