Collin Sexton’s SURPRISING Leadership | Exorcising the Hornets’ DEMONS! | Ace Bailey regret?
Welcome to a “silly season style episode” where the Sicko Satchel is overflowing with questions from the fans. We start by considering what would be the best possible omen for the Hornets this preseason, a question that leads to an evaluation of Tidjane Salaun’s development, or lack thereof, and how Kon Knueppel is making the landing a bit softer. We also touch on the veteran presence making this team “serious people,” with a specific focus on how quickly Collin Sexton has become a respected leader with his “competitive joy”.
Then, things get interesting as we ponder what we would be willing to sacrifice for the Hornets to make a finals run, even with no championship guaranteed. That sends us down a rabbit hole to an even bigger question: what evil spirit is haunting the Spectrum Center?. We explore potential curses, from the Nick Batum guarantee against the “Process” 76ers to the long-forgotten Air Hugo blimp disaster, and even begin a hunt for the team’s scattered “Horcruxes”. Finally, we tackle the big topic of the week: is there any jealousy over the way Ace Bailey has performed for the Utah Jazz?. We look at his impressive preseason stats and consider if the Hornets made the right call for the locker room and the team’s future
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29 Comments
Yes, I would regret not drafting Ace Baily coz if you're already bad, why not gamble one last time?
Bro Ace Bailey did not want to come to Charlotte
I wanted Charlotte to draft the guard from the Texas longhorns Johnson
Kon solid AF. No going back. Lets move forward. This year if we in the lottery… we pick the guy with starpower… no projects, no high floor… star potential. Just like Melo and Miller.
Wait Doug is actually real asf, I came across a video of the full game 6 vs Miami, and the Doris Burke Kemba intro b4 tipoff gave me chills then when I was 11, and even more now😢Hive was rocking with hope and excitement we gonna get back there this year I feel it!!!!🐝
don't apologize for the engagement bait. that's the fun stuff. and no, Colin Sexton came in with Kon Knueppel and Ace doesn't play modern winning basketball settling for 2s.
Who cares we have Kon. He's our guy. Ace is Utah's guy.
Lol if the fans turn on Kon over preseason basketball, they should just go be utah fans. Kon has shown far more flashes of on-ball juice and better off-ball movement than Ace has, and every point Ace has scored has been off of play-finishing. If all you want from a player is scoring, take Ace, if you want someone who's good at basically everything on the court, Kon wins.
hornets fan for life babbyyyyyyyyy
Love the pivot of my Q
I wanted Ace. Wasn't a big fan of Kon but I hope he is what you guys think he is.
Ace good. But i wanted vj 😢
I wanted Tre Johnson… Not really a fan of Ace game
Who the hell buys just a pint of ice cream
I think TJ Salaune looked promising. Defense, rebounding and effort all looked good, offense still kind of terrible. But I felt his handle looks a bit tighter, the shot not as high arching as before and he looks pretty strong considering his age
Kon is not the flashiest player actually we have that in Melo his a blue collar nba player. A coaches player who will go in there do what we need go help the team win. Every team needs a Kon and we got him
Batums career looked to be over in 2018. He’s still playing. He could never be over criticized. He quit on this team with all the money in his pocket.
You guys admittedly said you need content and will talk about ridiculous stuff but maybe you could have waited a few weeks into the season for the Kon vs. Ace stuff. Come on. You guys are better than this. At least that’s what I keep telling myself but y’all always go for the lowest hanging fruit. 🤷🏻♂️✌️
"Thats 69 percent….nice…"
😂😂😂
There’s a hornetscrux in Mason Plumlee
TJ is Jeff Peterson's first strike. He has 2 left!!!
Great podcast Walker and Doug 🏀. Looking forward to tonight’s game against the Grizzlies, it’ll be interesting to see who starts at center and also SG 👍🏻
Does purple shirt guy still come to the games lmao
Another stupid pick from my favorite nba team
Let’s Go!!!
I don’t regret getting Kon. I like Ace, but he’s just a worse version of Brandon Miller, we don’t need him. The Celtics are the only team that’s made the “redundant star wings” pairing work en route to real deep playoff winning. It’s not a generally successful method of team building. Yk what is possible and usually works. What the Thunder and pacers did. You got 2 stars that complement each other and a bunch of extremely high level role players that compete at a high level
I say no to Ace bc he wasn’t a fit
i completely forget purple shirt guy was a charlotte hornet lore piece
we should of drafted ace. huge mistake.