WORD re last bullet-point. I would take the rescinded Wilcox and Joe Smith bench help PLUS our rotation of bigs sans a perpetually hampered Tyson any day of the week now, instead of what we’re going to have to deal with now. The offense ran much faster/efficiently than it did/will do again with Tyson didn’t it? Maybe an easy observation, & I’m not going to take a stab at quanitfying it. Perhaps it’s attributable that the Magic don’t have a starting PG to speak of, but I thought CP & co looked much more fluid & in a groove that they didn’t have to hold up for Tyson to lumber down, which stands to happen exponentially more given his injury’s apparently recurrent

our interior defense is worse without Tyson. No question. No one denies Tyson is a good defender. In the long run (ignoring cap issues), we’re way better with him, and 98% of Hornets fans, many of whom understand the game intricately, are ecstatic to hear he is back.

Thought I saw Chris Wilcox playing last night, but I think it must have been Melvin Ely right? Wilcox under NBA rules wasn’t allowed to play until Chandler passed (knowing he failed) his physical correct?

Confused Nuggets fan …

“That is just dumb. Your saying that based on LAST NIGHTS RESULTS. Tyson is better then them with his eyes closed. Puh-lease!”

Good argument.

“our interior defense is worse without Tyson. No question. No one denies Tyson is a good defender. In the long run (ignoring cap issues), we’re way better with him, and 98% of Hornets fans, many of whom understand the game intricately, are ecstatic to hear he is back.”

This is more palatable, slightly.

“In the long run (ignoring cap issues), we’re way better with him” – Umm the cap issues are the focal point of this entire situation, this season, next season, & Chandler being Bower’s only chip to play. I read your previous comments and you suggested we should trade an unused wing and a backup big man we don’t like. I know of no team that will take Peja unless we trade him for virtually nothing, or Mo-Pete and his $5,784,480, $6,212,960, $6,641,440 over the next 3 years

Can either of you name ANY names?: http://hoopshype.com/salaries/new_orleans.htm

Your arguments are predicated on either ignoring the salary cap situation or dreamweaving retention of Chandler as if you can dump bad salaries like it’s a video game with the cheats on.

Are you playing NBA2K9 because I don’t know what planet these trade alternatives to Tyson are remotely plausible. How that makes sense I do not know

“and 98% of Hornets fans, many of whom understand the game intricately, are ecstatic to hear he is back.” – Hahaha WHAT? Our fans know the game intricately. Haha! What does that even MEAN?

And you want to certify the valence of your claim by ignoring that it’s inevitable the Hornets financial situation compels them to trim the team payroll to avoid the lux tax? I almost forgot, AND further qualifying it by saying that the fans are ecstatic. Oh and saying (whatever the hell this means) that they know the game intricately.

How is this even close to a serious argument???

A) Grammar, word selection, or spelling? I fail to see how anyone’s been reamed for bad spelling or sentence structure. I’d ask you to chill out but you’re frontin that pretty well cool cat, keep frontin

B) But I misspoke, and that is on me. What I refer to is the salary cap, not the luxury tax. This might have been inferrable but that’s a moot point. If we explode the threshold limits of the allowable salary cap, we pay 6$+ mil in taxes, which will not make B.1) Ownership more willing to think liberally or creatively about the team’s future/moves to make this team more competitive and will B.2) Likely turn Shinn-into-Don Sterling & ownership will clutch their benjamins for the foreseeable future (he has no trouble alienating fans for money, re: Charlotte)

C) Your arg is that a hurt Tyson, going forward, possibly getting hurt worse and regressively productive, can help us win a playoff series. I’ve asked for any citation of a prominent player with turf toe (let alone recurrent turf toe and an ankle injury bad enough to make Presti axe a trade he’s probably wanted to pull the trigger on since Seattle) in ANY sport recover sufficient form to be consistently good. So far all I’ve heard is “I think, and many others think, TC will help us play defense against good oppo big men”, with no past proof whatsoever, except for more ad homs.

I say again, no key player in any major sport, NFL, MLB, nobody, has spontaneously recovered from this recurrent & debilitating injury in-season without significant time off. And by significant, I mean over 3 months. I also do not understand your final arg about the season tickets contract situation, and am frankly mystified about where you’re going with that chief. I’m sorry you invested in the team thinking it might be better but investments carry inherent risks so I don’t see how your contract has been “betrayed”, since that the team would be good is an assumption you made, not a promise the team made to you.

Take it easy there billy badass, don’t blow a gasket with those .. .. ..