So, Kemba Walker, you last played in a lineup like this when?.
“Never,” Walker said with a laugh.
Perhaps it was unprecedented in All-Star Walker’s seven-season NBA career, but I’m confident saying this won’t be the last time the Charlotte Hornets play small ball to such a degree.
After the starters embarrassed themselves in the first quarter, coach James Borrego went extreme. A lineup that had 6-foot-7 Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and 6-8 Nic Batum as the Hornets’ “big men” brought them back from a 20-point deficit.
They had the ball for what would have been a winning possession, but in the last four seconds Walker missed a layup and Batum missed a follow-up 3-pointer, allowing the Milwaukee Bucks to escape with a 113-112 victory at Spectrum Center.