Comments on: Baby Bugs Win in OT!

By: saltandcarbon

saltandcarbon — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:40:56 +0000

Anyone else hear the announcer at the end of the last Summerleague game recap the score as the Charlotte Hornets 79 to the Cleveland Cavaliers 78?
Oh, they’ll know where we are when CP and Professor Scott are holding up that trophy…

By: mW

mW — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:44:00 +0000

It is my understanding that most summer league guys can sign with anyone.

By: C-Town

C-Town — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:50:36 +0000

Where did bobby brown come from? do we have the rights to him but have not actually signed him to a contract?

By: saltandcarbon

saltandcarbon — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:44:42 +0000

I guess I was floating the idea of Jannero and Bobby playing in the same backcourt - as solid as Jannero is at backup point, he seems more naturally a shooting guard to me. That backcourt would obviously be undersized, but with Hilton and Chris next to each other couldn’t that work as a solid shortstop line of defence, a la what Camby did for Denver? That seems within our reach and makes sense to me as a pretty damn solid second unit, but I’m honestly not that well informed about our realistic options.

By: mW

mW — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:45:00 +0000

@ saltandcarbon: of course, that’s assuming we re-sign Pargo or Anderson. But unless they end up trading James, and with BB’s play in Vegas, I’m not sure it makes sense to sign Pargo. On the other hand, we still need help at the 4/5. So I’m not sure why they wouldn’t sign Anderson, as giving Posey the full MLE precludes getting help from just about anyone else.

By: saltandcarbon

saltandcarbon — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:49:13 +0000

I like the Whitneyfier. Its not like his misses from beyond the arc were airballs, or even necessarily bad shots. And he was clutch on the fourth and OT. I’ll take the risk of giving him minimum to come in behind CP, next to Pargo. Second unit of BB, Jannero, Posey, Armstrong and Andersen seems pretty solid to me.
Doesn’t anyone want Mike James’ lameass contract. The Grizz front office seem pretty dumb. So do the Bobcats. Maybe we could trade them James for Okafor. Or Okafor’s granddad. Might do more for us than James.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:42:55 +0000

You guys should start a new movement to go with this one, NBA needs to put out good hornets merchandise, I’m tired of seeing awesome stuff for other teams and I can’t get jack for the Hornets, I want Hornets everything but they only half ass Hornets merchandise I mean c’mon

By: mW

mW — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:07:20 +0000

Figures. Damn ESPN.

By: ticktock6

ticktock6 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:17:47 +0000

Technically Henry Abbott is on vacation, so it’s not his fault.

But we can still blame ESPN. Hilton beasted today.

By: mW

mW — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:07:03 +0000

Hmmmmm….usually we at Hornets Hype love Henry Abbott’s ESPN blog over at True Hoop, but he kind of blew it today: http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-33-62/NBA-Summer-League–Liveblogging-Day-7.html. First, he fails to list Hilton in the day’s top 5 scorers, despite having what appears to be the 3rd best scoring title (something he strangely acknowledges further down the page). Then he adds that Bobby Brown “helped build the brick house by going 7-for-18.” Really? That’s not exactly miserable. Especially since he went 0-4 from long range, or in other words, he went 7-14 from inside the 3-point line, which is pretty good for a guard.

Incidentally, Mr. It’s His Prerogative did make the front cover image of NBA.com’s Summer League web page! Not bad for someone no one had heard of before Vegas.