Although ESPN predicted a New Orleans victory over the LA Clippers last night, I must admit that I was not extremely confident. The first two games of the Jeff Bower era did not look much different then the last few games of the Byron Scott era.
Poor defense against Portland and Atlanta led to little offense. Players were standing around as if they were lost in a London fog.
In last night's victory over the Clippers, the Hornets looked like a completely different team. They played with energy, effort, and actually looked like a professional basketball team.
This, in spite the fact that they are playing without all-star point guard Chris Paul. Last night's game made clear quite a few interesting things. In this article I discuss the top five things illuminated from the play this game
1. The LA Clippers are not a very good team .
To make things crystal clear, the Hornets beat a poor team last night. There is just no doubt about it. This should be intuitively obvious to the most casual basketball observer.
I was going to write that the Clippers looked like a high school team last night. However, that wou ...
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Five Things the Hornets’ Win Over the LA Clippers Reveals
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