Throughout the first quarter of the season, Hornets Head Coach James Borrego has continued to stress urgency for more physicality and intensity on the defensive end of the floor. Lately, veteran Bismack Biyombo has delivered precisely what the team’s been lacking when it needed it most.
Across his last five outings, the ninth-year center is averaging 10.8 PPG, 7.4 RPG (2.8 OREB), 1.4 APG and 1.2 BPG in 24.6 MPG (3 GS). Amongst players who have appeared in all five games since Nov. 22, Biyombo leads the Hornets in screen assists points (7.0), defensive rating (106.9) and net rating (7.