I don’t mean to speak for the masses, but it’s safe to say that the last few weeks of Charlotte Hornets basketball have not been overly compelling.
Naturally, that shifts the discourse surrounding the team towards the long-term rather than analyzing the product on a night-to-night basis. A team being 7-19 in late December with its best player injured and a host of others battling through pain just to keep things afloat will do that. If this were the first year of never-ending bad luck, it’d be one thing. Sadly, it’s not. With the head coach and general manager on expiring contracts and new ownership putting its fingerprints on the organization, it can be difficult not to zone out of the current on-court product in anticipation of sweeping changes.