NEW ORLEANS HORNETS Advanced Stats: PACE #29 90.7 OFFENSE: #19 103.8 DEFENSE: #09 102.5 Talking about the Hornets’ last season is a mere exercise of futility because going for this season, the Hornets have lost their two best players not only from the last season, but of the whole franchise. Monty Williams did a terrific job with the Hornets in his first year as a coach! The Hornets improved dramatically... Read more

2009/10 Review: The New Orleans Hornets entered last season with very high expectations. They were coming from 56 and 49 wins in the last two regular seasons and with a healthy Tyson Chandler starting the season and a solid draft yielded productive rookies, the Hornets were a virtual lock to go through the Playoffs, but they fell short of such main objective by winning “just” 37 games. Of course playing... Read more

The New Orleans Hornets were the biggest surprise of the league two years ago when they battled with the Lakers for the best record in the Western Conference and with their postseason ending with a dramatic elimination in 7 games against the Spurs. They had legit expectations for last season and despite winning 49 games, their season was a disappointment. We simply can't forget the way the Hornets were completely... Read more

On my last season's preview of the Hornets, I wrote two sentences that it makes sense to remind them right now: "After analyzing the probable starting lineup the preview is clear: if these guys stay healthy, Hornets will make some damage." and "This season can be Chris Paul's Prime time in NBA". One year has passed and I can say the Hornets have done what I predicted and they even did better than what the most optimistic... Read more

If in the Eastern conference we know that Detroit will be in the conference final and that we will probably know what to expect from the series between Boston and Cleveland after tonight's Game 4, the Western conference semi finals are on-fire with both series being tied at 2-2 right now, with the home team winning all eight games and covering the spread at the same time. And with so very little separating the quality... Read more

Saturday matchups: DETROIT VS ORLANDO Detroit and Orlando will play one of the semi finals of the Eastern conference and this series is expected to be way more closer than the series between these two teams last season, in which Detroit won by 4-0. The factor that we have to highlight in here is that Orlando is stronger this season, as not only they have a better roster, as Dwight Howard is playing at a level way... Read more

LAKERS VS DENVER The Lakers finished the regular season with the top seed in the West and so, they will face the 8th seed Denver in the first round of the playoffs. Bynum won't probably play during this series and I actually doubt he will play again this season. It is rare to find a difference of seven games between the 1st and the 8th in a conference, but this has happened in this wild Western conference... Read more

Western Conference: 5. New Orleans Hornets I know it seems weird to put the best team of the West in the 5th position, but the Hornets start these final 30 games of the regular season without something the other teams possess: experience! They will play 12 games against rivals of the West and in these games certainly they will suffer some huge losses and the way they will react to these losses will be the... Read more