Back in September, I was undecided who was the Charlotte Hornets’ second-best player. It didn’t seem like a big deal that that was to-be-determined entering training camp.
It’s March and it’s still unclear who is second to Kemba Walker. Losses like Sunday’s to the Portland Trail Blazers make that uncertainty a very big deal.
For the Hornets to win, All-Star Walker generally has to be somewhere between great and magnificent. Sunday he wasn’t. He went 5-of-21 shooting from the field in a 118-108 home loss that knocked the Hornets out of the top eight in the Eastern Conference.