It’s no secret this Charlotte Hornets season is teetering on the brink.
Three straight losses have the team desperately clinging to the final playoff spot in a weak Eastern Conference, and with one of the NBA’s most difficult remaining schedules, there’s no obvious relief on the horizon. More than half of Charlotte’s remaining 21 games are against teams that could make the postseason.
So, yeah, just about the worst possible time to be backsliding into an old bad habit.
And yet here the Hornets are, a supposed “new” team — this is the first year for both coach James Borrego and general manager Mitch Kupchak — struggling with the same issue that has hamstrung the organization for years:
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