Brandon Miller

But I don't think that's about to happen.

Meanwhile, Brandon Miller left with some groin soreness late in the second quarter.

Hopefully that ends up being precautionary because they were down a lot.

But I'm not convinced that it was exclusively precautionary.

If Brandon Miller has to miss time, on top of the fact that Con Canepo is back to being basically week to week after re-aggravating his leg stuff, This team changes quite a lot.

Kobe White's going to get a million usage percentage points for the 20 minutes that he's going to be allowed to play in a ballgame right now.

Grayson Allen, who was absolutely horrible in this one, is going to have to, I would think, probably start in that scenario because they just need somebody else that can run an offense a little bit.

Zero points on 0-5 shooting is obviously disgusting, but the role is going to be there until Knipple gets back.

Brandon Miller also left this game.

Now they are saying it's soreness.

They aren't saying this is anything significant.

So we'll have to see if they do the get back.

That's what they did with the Hornets, right? They lost the first one to the Hornets when Brandon Miller went off against them.

Then they had a home game against them and they beat them by 20.

Partly because they shot atrociously from threes.

It's been... been an experience

someone who did not receive the least bit of consideration it might appear if we get to gather steps later brandon miller's bumming me out this year i'm not gonna lie man uh michael speaking of michael porter jr though he was like i consider him more than a franz wagner or or brandon miller he's just averaging 21 points shooting 39 on nine three-point attempts per game like it's 57 on twos i don't know if he's gonna finish the season in brooklyn he clearly scored more than he did last year but he's rebounding at a higher clip this season the nets are just so bad that you can't select him but we kind of have proof of concept that he wasn't some byproduct of the nuggets a lot of people worry that he wouldn't be able to sustain without these high-level creators around him and that's clearly not true

it's yeah he's yeah it would have been easy to just to just say well he's scalable because the shooting but like there's he can get his own stuff and and you're never going to know that until you get away from denver and yokich most guys in his situation have not done what he's done let's put it he's kind of the maybe he's the exception that proves the rule

i was also waiting for you to tell me that i picked the wrong timberwolf

I can't wait to see it.

Um, what else? Oh, can we, we didn't get to this last time.

Is anyone else concerned about Brandon Miller? And then I guess the Hornets writ large because country nipple came back and promptly injured his hamstring again.

Yeah.

It could have been 60 if they really felt like it.

That was how that game went, especially with Brandon Miller leaving early due to injury.

Paul George wasn't even really Paul George, at least offensively, compared to what we've been seeing this year.

And it's still... absolute layup and so boston is out to a seven and two start right now which is just a half game behind you guessed it philadelphia sitting at eight and two coming off a loss of its own a blowout at the hands of the cavaliers and these two teams are going to match up on tuesday before our next show we got a back-to-back on the way so exciting times obviously keith but since this is I believe, anyway.

And you throw him and Tatum together, that's your wings, essentially, along with Jordan Walsh.

Like, that's... that's a nightmare for passing lanes, especially for teams like the Hornets that just can't separate or have guys that can get into the paint to begin with right now outside of Brandon Miller.

So yeah, just again, more good things defensively for this group.

Again, they're, these opponents they've had by and large have been pretty awful offensively for most of the year so be intrigued to see how they fare against um tougher teams outside of you know the houston detroit matchups that we've seen so far but again like george is there um pretty much rarely making mistakes all year and making those high iq plays you're pointing out jay

math.

cup win jason tatum monster win in charlotte shocker uh and brandon miller got hurt connie knippel was already out this is this is a brutal state of hornets basketball which i suppose they knew was kind of coming when they made a little mellow trade um one step back two steps forward type beat but the step back hurts for them and the celtics capitalized that's

what the i'm talking about honestly This is what you dream of as a Celtics fan and an NBA Cup fan, right? How many times have you watched the Celtics go up 22 points, 20 points? And you're just like, ah, they won't lose this.

And then they lose it.

Charlotte.

And listen, Charlotte is in a little bit of a season from hell tailspin right now.

They just lost Brandon Miller, like you said, and Khan has missed every game except for one quarter the other day, and they were without Kobe White for a while, but it has been not fun for them.

I think Zach Cox put out, I don't remember the exact thing, but I think Tatum had created points and assists, 42 points at the half.

Six straight losses and a 39-point defeat to show for it as the Charlotte Hornets went down in agony.

There's no luck in the Spectrum Center tonight as they went against the Boston Celtics and ended up having not only their pride taken away But also the fact of the matter that Brandon Miller will be now out for some time, maybe probably going to be out for maybe a game or two.

But a new injury piles up once again.

Charlotte simply just cannot catch a break.

The Hornets are now 0-2 in NBA Cup play, of course, sitting at the bottom of Group C, an abysmal loss.

Point differential of negative 55, the worst in the NBA as of right now.

But is the losing streak that is the biggest concern to a lot of Charlotte Hornets fans as of right now? Or is the numbers telling us that there is a much more bigger problem that's going on? We're going to discuss about Brandon Miller's injury, of course.

We're going to be talking about the current Charlotte Hornets offense.

We have not heard anything to indicate those are long-term at all, so we're not going to speculate that they are, but They did not play in that last contest.

And then Brandon Miller exiting in the second quarter with a groin injury that not only took him out of the game, but also prevented him from stretching his franchise record streak of contests with a made three from 68.

So he'll hit the reset button for his next game, which will hopefully be Monday against Cleveland.

When it rains, it pours.

So the season's by no means over, but this doesn't feel great right now.

No, it doesn't.

And I think a lot of it, too, goes back to the expectations that I think you and I and a lot of the fan base and basically everybody had for this team coming into the season based off of last year's results, the momentum and moving things in the right direction and having a healthy Brandon Miller coming back or a healthy Brandon Miller at the time after yesterday's injury.

Unfortunately, those are the things that are looking forward to.