Hornets Hype

Oh, an addendum to my last post. I showed the much vaunted Hornets tickets. As you know, we at HornetsHype have tabulated the more likely than not tenuously-connected “Ticket-Face-to-Result” statistic. (Who says we don’t do stats here?) Readers also know, we fear the jinx. So we didn’t mention that Mo-Pete was on the ticket-face for Game 7 against the Spurs. Below are the regular season Ticket-Face-to-Result stats:

• Team Photo: 1-0 (1.000)
• D-West: 5-0 (1.000)
• CP3: 8-2 (0.800)
• Peja: 4-1 (0.800)
• Tyson: 7-3 (0.700)
• Byron: 3-2 (0.600)
• Mo-Pete: 2-3 (0.400)

So, as you can see, despite all the actual basketball stats pointing to the contrary, I was skeptical heading into Game 7 for this reason. Playoffs? Playoffs? Those games looked like this:

• D-West: 2-0 (1.000)
• CP3: 2-0 (1.000)
• Peja: 1-0 (1.000)
• Tyson: 1-0 (1.000)
• Mo-Pete 0-1 ( 0.000)

Of course, these are only the home games. Had we progressed in the 2nd round against the Lakers, with only three games at the Hive, it would have been CP3, Tyson, and D-West on the ticket-faces. Which, of course, would have meant three wins. Stats don’t lie. But, we would have needed to steal at least one in L.A. to move on. As you can see from the images below, the same would have been true in the Finals. Against the C’s we would have only had 3 home games, so it would have been CP3, D-West, and Peja. Ah well. I will say this, however: Spurs, my checking account desperately thanks you. Them tickets weren’t getting any cheaper.