LaMelo Ball & Charles Lee Clash in Latest Frustrating Charlotte Hornets Defeat

Can the Hornets regroup after a blowout against the Timberwolves?

The Charlotte Hornets faced their toughest loss of the season with a 114-93 blowout by the Minnesota Timberwolves. Once again LaMelo Ball’s fouls and turnovers were a story, leading to a VERY interesting public display of correction from Charles Lee and his star player. We explore how the absence of big men hurt Charlotte’s ability to handle Minnesota’s size and why the Hornets’ three-point attempts missed the mark. Is there hope for the Hornets to bounce back?

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21 comments

  2. For the record this is something we see every year. Teams play stellar defense for the first 10 games of the season, then things fall back to normalcy. Its just early season energy.

  4. Ball is a 5 year pro making a huge salary. He shouldn’t be making these stupid fouls and decisions. He doesn’t appear to have matured at all in 5 years. People use to give Cliff a hard time. Many times the team didn’t accept his coaching. I hope this doesn’t continue with Lee.

  6. We had three games in a row vs 2 of the best if not the best in the league. Let’s relax a little bit and tailor our expectations. I think the only people overreacting are the ones that thought we would be a playoff team this year. Only game I honestly feel they should’ve won was against the Hawks. Can you guess who fouled out late in that 5 point loss?

  7. Look, I do understand that LaMelo Ball is having some issues with foul trouble that’s understandably , but we all know that the way the coach it’s given minutes to this players it’s fucking ridiculous bro, why are you having your superstar playing only 25 minutes I don’t understand yeah he did gat and some foul trouble last night but why you didn’t play him again I don’t care that we were losing by 18 points 20 points. Put the man back in the game to me he doesn’t know how to coach. He thinks he’s coaching a high school team and that’s the problem.

  9. Not once did I hear you guys question Charles’s Lee terrible rotations. You cut the lead to 8 points in the 3rd quarter and you bench both of your stars 5 minutes into the 3rd.

  10. I think this shows the value of rim protection. Not having nick or mark is damning for this team. Our perimeter defenders get put into a position of overcomission

  11. Lamelos going through these growing pains now because your shitty organization decided to prioritize Davante Graham and Terry Rozier over their #3 pick, Lamelo should’ve been the only priority.

  17. People are surprised we lost🤣 we have 0 bigs agaisnt the best big team whom is also a great defensive team. Our wings are on minutes restrictions, 0 bigs, and you can't trust melo to play extended minutes because of foul trouble so lee can't have a legit rotation and stagger minutes

  19. Think the Hornets should look into trading for Walker Kessler. Tired of seeing Mark Williams sit on the bench again with never ending excuses for a small injury to stretch into weeks or months. Worst case, end up with two competent centers competing for the starting job. Also, weary of low iq basketball plays with sloppy ball handling, errant passes and wild shots.

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