Do the Hornets have some serious buzz?
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Now, Ben, uh, the Wizards missed the playoffs last year.
The sort of Hornets, Sixers, Nets, and Raptors, of those teams, are the Wizards the team you're most bullish on in the future?
I, I'm gonna zag and say the Hornets.
Oh boy.
And just because I think they're still the laughingstock and pointed to as the worst one organization, you forget they did get sold.
And so, uh, they, they have a former Bucks assistant as their head coach.
Uh, I think he did seem to do a great job last year, and I think they're aware that they have a LaMelo problem and there's just a bit of sort of treading water and getting pieces until then.
Taking a Con Canipple, is he gonna be a superstar in the league?
No.
Is he gonna be a very solid starter in the long run?
Yeah, like Brandon Miller and Con Canipel as your two wings if you can get the right choice on.
Uh, total accident.
But the right sort of straw to sort of the drink.
Uh, can I, and can I double down on that as a Wizards fan watching the Wizards try to play four-dimensional chess and trade for every bad contract in the league and then clear $100 million in cap space next summer, God only knows what they're gonna do with that.
I look at the Hornets, they're just making solid move after solid move, hitting singles and doubles.
The caveat with the Hornets' optimism is like the shot diet for LaMelo and Brandon Miller.
Their shooting profiles alone is evidence that the NBA needs to do something about the three-point addiction in the league because Brandon Miller will go out there and take like 52s and 17 3s.
LaMelo is even worse because the threes he's taking are horrible shots and they're contested.
Driven though, after Milwaukee goes to Boston under Missoula, it's like very Missoula ball.
And I don't want to watch that stuff, man.
Um, so I guess I will hang my hat on that.
I'm, I'm not gonna watch Trey Johnson take 17 3s next year.
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