Hornets Updates, 2/6

Although I’m not a big Kaman supporter, his attitude has been great through this entire process.

Lance Thomas will probably get the start.

SBNation generally has a great list of writers from what I can tell but this isn’t an example of it. That’s all I’ll say against it.

I expected much more from another SB contributor.

I think a bit of relaxation is in order. Chill pills and such. Packey intended no offense to Jason Smiff, Starl Landry or the Hornets in general. He wasn’t celebrating their injuries. It didn’t matter who the player was or what jersey they were wearing, that Jonas Jerebko push-off was awesome.

Over at DetroitBadBoys, we give our players greater personalities than they actually have. Greg Monroe is The Monroad Warrior at away games, Monrobocop in Detroit. Jerebko is Ivan Drago, and also the handsomest player to ever play the game. When he does something Drago- or Laimbeer-ish, we celebrate. During the game thread that night, I asked:

“What’s the over/under on how many of us will watch that Jonas highlight on repeat with our pants down? I’m thinking 20.”

The last thing any of us at DBB want is for any player other than Kevin Garnett to get injured. The only ill will I would wish upon Jason Smith is that someone would pin him down and shave that goofy tuft of hair off his forehead. And Carl Landry, man that sucks… I’ve always liked him, and I regret that a lottery-bound team (just like Detroit) should lose a player like that. Is it kind of funny that Jason Maxiell’s fat ass took him out of the game? Yes. We also laughed when our own Charlie Villanueva broke his nose on Ben Wallace’s ass. True story. But none of us, especially Packey, would celebrate any of these injuries and that wasn’t Packey’s intent.

We will celebrate when Jonas Jerebko does something bad ass. That push off on Smith was bad-ass. And it was also a foul.

(also in olive-branchy notes— the Hornet’s commentators are some of the most fair and balanced folks I’ve heard, it was a welcome surprise when most of the league’s commentators are asshats to the opposition)

It looked intentional but, as you said, it’s certainly open to interpretation. What did him in, in my opinion, was his comment after the game about it being an accident like when Scola accidentally hit him in the cojones trying to get the ball to go out of bounds on Love. He said something along the lines of “it just happened to be his face just like it happened to be my groin last time.”

No need to turn this into a 1st amendement argument. My only problem was that it doesn’t really fit SB nation. Most of the blogs on here (and I’ve been to practically all of them) hold themselves to a certain standard and I’ve come to expect it. If I’m looking for fluff I can always visit the forums at realgm or inside hoops.

Having said that, I think we have a right to take offense. Not in the sense that we should be “offended” or take it personally, but in the sense that the original post on the Detroit site was basically at the expense of one of our guys.

I’ll certainly be rooting for Smith to step on Jerebko’s face next time there is a rematch, which I think won’t be until next season unfortunately.