Hornacek didn't sound thrilled with Melo and his 7-25 night. Said he had it going last night but not tonight, said he's our guy but it is what it is and you move on.
Always felt Melo was never shy about shooting even if he he was having an obvious off night and it was detrimental to the team. I had the feeling Horn feels the same way listening to his post game.
These two games were simple.... Melo was making shots in the win and he wasn't in the loss. The other guys made plays here and there but the fact is that nobody but Melo was the difference in these games. Lee were awful.... Noah invisible, KP did nothing in the fourth quarter (unlike Kaminsky he sank 2 killer threes). Anthony missed a ton of shots but it wasn't costing the other guys, who were missing their own shots.
We shot under 38% tonight....
We should've featured KP more down the stretch.... but by that point it was over. The MVP was the ref Ford.
officials like him shouldn't have a job... he called way too many fouls. Down the stretch he basically gifted CHA 6 free points. Then, he ignores a blatant travel on Kaminsky and then ignores a few CHA fouls. That whistle around Ford's neck was a +10 for Hornets the final 5 minutes.
This is the story of the season.... it's tough winning games when the opponent is constantly attempting 20 more free throws a game. We foul way to much and this means refs call
some bogus fouls because we make them whistle happy. Then it looks worse bc so many touch fouls are called on us that we get upset when we don't get the touch foul.
but.... we lost this game bc we started off slow and couldn't finish it. Melo missing nearly 20 shots and Rose went 6-20 and KP went 7-16.... had Melo hit more shots or had KP and Rose hit shots in the 4th.... we win.
But.... we were outrebounded in the 4th 13-4 and we let a winnable game slip through our fingers.
1-6 on the road is alarming. Monday will be another sign of what direction we could head... we have a brutal DEC coming up.... 9/14 on road at one point, including a 5 game West coast trip.
If we lose Monday we might not get above .500 until Jan.