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Should Hornets rookie James Bouknight play more? Showing against Toronto suggests it

Something just isn’t right.

Hefty deficits have been the norm in the last two games for the Charlotte Hornets. They’ve drawn technical fouls. And they’ve accumulated ejections in consecutive outings.

Most of their frustrations can be directly attributed to one thing.

“Just starting the game off playing defense,” Mason Plumlee said. “We tried to turn it on there at the start of the third quarter, but we definitely dug ourselves a hole. So we’ve just got to have four quarters of defense.”

That hasn’t happened lately for the Hornets, certainly not in their 125-113 loss to Toronto at Scotiabank Arena on Tuesday night.