Unfortunately, the Hornets haven’t been good on the defensive end of the floor so far in the pre-season, landing them in the bottom half of nearly every defensive metric that exists on NBA.com/stats. The pre-season doesn’t predict anything, necessarily, but it can foreshadow.
With such a young roster, it’s sort of a given that the team will struggle at times defensively. Young players tend to have the mental lapses that result in easy buckets that veterans typically do not. Last season, the team toted the 23rd overall defense. I’ll leave it to the reader to determine whether or not they think that number will improve with a lineup that may look something like this:
Terry Rozier: Terry Rozier’s defense is pretty interesting to unravel.