Blowing up this Charlotte Hornets roster will be costly and painful, and could take years to reassemble into a viable team on the rise in the Eastern Conference.
But an implosion of some sort has to happen. These parts don’t fit together, and the last two games suggest they never will.
Hornets coach Steve Clifford called Thursday’s 125-111 home loss to the Brooklyn Nets, on the heels of a blowout Tuesday at the hands of the Philadelphia 76ers, “totally unacceptable.”
“We owe it to each other, to the organization, to (owner) Michael (Jordan), and to our fans that we don’t play like that,” Clifford said postgame.