No, they shouldn’t.
Maybe I’ll have to revisit this post in a few months and admit I was wrong, but hear me out.
Going into the season, the Charlotte Hornets looked poised for their best season in a long, long time. They added Dwight Howard—a player still within his prime when healthy and a close friend of Hornets head coach Steve Clifford—and managed to keep a solid, young-ish core composed of Kemba Walker, Nicolas Batum, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Cody Zeller, and Frank Kaminsky.