It’s somewhat depressing to look at it this way, but the 2020-2021 NBA season is already 1/7th of the way over. What’s not depressing; the Charlotte Hornets sitting pretty at sixth place in the East with a 6-6 record through 12 games. Gordon Hayward has exceeded expectations and LaMelo Ball has already established that he went two spots too low at third overall in the 2020 Draft. There’s not much to fuss about... yet.
If the Hornets keep things up, avenues for making the team a formidable playoff contender could be explored. Even though they’ve been okay to start the year, most of us can agree that they aren’t ready to win a playoff series; that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to make themselves ready to win a playoff series, though.