The Charlotte Hornets have the fewest road wins among Eastern Conference teams contending for the playoffs.
The Hornets are a bad rebounding team.
These are not unrelated facts.
The way the Boston Celtics shot Sunday the Hornets probably would have lost regardless of how they rebounded. But the pounding the Hornets took in a 119-103 humiliation at TD Garden was so amplified by their lax rebounding and so illustrative of why they are 4-9 away from Charlotte.
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