Charlotte
Hornets (11-8) got back to their winning ways tonight with an ugly win against
the Dallas Mavericks (3-15). This game was a tough game to watch, not a lot of
scoring, sloppy and quite a few turnovers from both team’s turnovers. Due to the
Mavericks injury’s including Andrew Bogut(rest), Seth Curry(knee) and Devin
Harris(toe) the Mavericks played slow for most of the game, and was successful
by not letting the Hornets go up-tempo and go out and run for most the game. The
Hornets could never really pull away until the very end of the game, when Kemba
hit back-to-back three pointers and a Jeremy Lamb and-1 play.
The
bench for the Hornets played excellent out-scoring the Mavericks bench 43 to 35
tonight. But in my opinion the biggest reason Charlotte won was of their
defense, they held Dallas to just 34.7% shooting the ball and forced 11
turnovers for the entire game. Also, tallied 6 blocks and 5 steals. Charlotte
only turned the ball over once in the first quarter, which helped them get out
to an early lead and keep that lead throughout the game. All ten players who
played in the first half for the Hornets scored, the Hornets do need to work on
their free throws, missing 22 free throws in tonight game. Frank Kaminsky has been
in a slump lately scoring one point in 22 minutes of playing-time. Wesley
Matthews from the Dallas Mavericks also had a bad game only shooting 4-15 with
14 points and 3 rebounds in 39 minutes of play.
The
Charlotte Hornets MVP for tonight game for me would be Roy Hibbert, with 11
points, 4 rebounds and 2 blocks. This was the best game he has played for Charlotte
since the first game of the year against the Milwaukee Bucks. They gave him the
ball down low on the block and he made great decisions, either going to work
and scoring or passing the ball to the right teammate for the easy bucket.
Other leading scorer are Kemba Walker with 18 points, 5 assist, Nicolas Batum
with 12 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assist, Jeremy Lamb with 12 points, 6 rebounds. Dallas
Mavericks top scorers was Harrison Harnes with 17 points, 9 rebounds, Justin
Anderson who gave the Mavericks a spark off the bench with 15 points, 3-3 from
three-point and 4-4 from the free throw. The Charlotte Hornets (11-8) play
again this Saturday at 7p.m. at the Spectrum arena against a good young
Minnesota Timberwolves (5-13) team.
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