Hornets on the Internets: Our Defense is Awesome Editon

by Rohan on Jan 24, 2011 3:10 AM CST in Links

Your morning links. Happy Monday.

Let's start off with this gif posted in the recap thread of Chris Paul breaking Tony Parker's ankles.
Staying with At the Hive links, check out Red Hopeful's quick summary of Chris Paul's appearance on Inside the NBA last week.
Jimmy Smith writes for the Times-Pic that Trevor Ariza stepped up against the Spurs despite the tendinitis in his right ankle.
With the Hornets playing their final home game today before the end of the attendance benchmark measurement interval, an announcement is expected today about the team's future in New Orleans.
Joel Brigham writes for HoopsWorld that though San Antonio and Los Angeles are considered the best teams in the west, the Hornets are starting to make a case for themselves.
Rob Mahoney writes for the New York Times blog that the Hornets are staying relevant with an elite defense.
Finally, here's a random one: did you know Chris Paul visited Lil Wayne when Wayne was in jail?

Tweet Comment 4 comments | 0 recs |

Do you like this story?

Comments

Trevor's ankle

if he has indeed had some measurable degree of pain then we shouldn’t be surprised by “some” of his shooting performances. If you’ve ever played basketball with any part of your leg hurting due to cramp, injury or whatever, you know it does affect your overall performance.

What is the most impressive thing about our defense? How about the fact we do it better than anyone else despite our somewhat limited resources. We’ll never be in the conversation for the biggest, fastest nor most athletic teams. However, we do make up for it by showing fantastic heart and executing very well. Just seems like a perfect future home for CP3, no?

by RedHopeful on Jan 24, 2011 9:45 AM CST reply actions

The Hornets Defense

I think is helped because the team is relatively quick. Most great defensive teams are either quick enough to swarm players for the full court or they’re long enough to keep teams from coming inside (Dwight Howard is amazing). Basically, the Hornets are a great team because they’re quick enough to rotate on open shooters and Okafor’s just been amazing down low. I find it amazing that Monty Williams has been able to coach this team to becoming a great defensive team. That’s reall an impressive job on his part and the lack of credit he’s getting around the league for it is dissapointing.

As for Chris Paul meeting Lil Wayne in jail, there’s a reason why Wayne called LeBron and Wade “ditch mass triggas” (except the phrase that rhymes with that) in the latest issue of Rolling Stone but had no such words to use for Chris Paul!

"You play to win the game."

by MrWayneKeller on Jan 24, 2011 9:58 AM CST reply actions