Charlotte Hornets: Good Shorthanded Win over Bucks

The Charlotte Hornets beat the Milwaukee Bucks despite the absence of Spencer Hawes.

The Charlotte Hornets entered last night’s game with the Milwaukee Bucks in yet another predicament. Courtney Lee was not quite ready to go for the team with limited practice time. Spencer Hawes was injured because it is written that one Hornets rotation member must always be injured. So the Hornets had to build on momentum from before the All Star break with another new lineup and a series of road games.

So Coach Steve Clifford started Frank Kaminsky at center, Cody Zeller at power forward, and moved Marvin Williams over to small forward for some of the game action. He was fortunate enough to have Al Jefferson coming back from injury to bring off the bench. These moves enabled the Hornets to keep their starting back court of Kemba Walker and Nicolas Batum intact.

Walker proved decisive as usual. He guard scored twenty-five points including two free throws to ice a 98-95 victory over the Bucks.

His primary help came from Zeller who took advantage of the poor interior defense of the Bucks to score twenty-three of his own. The Bucks have had trouble all season stopping foes when using a post duo of Jabari Parker and Greg Monroe. Despite starting Miles Plumlee, the story was the same against the Hornets.