{"id":700188,"date":"2026-04-05T20:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700188\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:41:16","slug":"are-the-hornets-ready-to-compete-in-the-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700188\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Hornets ready to compete in the postseason?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOC breaks down the Hornets who have the best statistical lineup in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-show-transcript\">View more<\/p>\n<p>Video Transcript<\/p>\n<p>The Hornets, they have the NBA&#8217;s best statistical lineup.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s, it&#8217;s hard to fathom, Joe, that we&#8217;re at this point- I know but the five-man lineup of LaMelo Ball, Brandon Miller, Kon Knipple, Miles Bridges, and Moussa Diabate have the best net rating of teams, of lineups with- Yeah 200-plus minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>They have a 136.8 offensive rating, a 107.3 defensive rating.<\/p>\n<p>Number one in the NBA with a 29.5 net rating, ahead of the Pistons, Suns, Wolves, Rockets five-man lineups.<\/p>\n<p>Who could&#8217;ve seen this coming this soon, Joe?<\/p>\n<p>Nobody, and it&#8217;s funny because for years people like, I&#8217;d be embarrassed to tell people, like, &#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;m a Hornets fan,&#8221; and they&#8217;re like, &#8220;Oh, man, ah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They, they feel bad.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m like, &#8220;Finally, finally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m like, we&#8217;re getting a good team, we&#8217;re healthy, which has been I think the number one problem is it&#8217;s been tough to, to have a good five-man when every other game, or especially year with Brandon Miller, there&#8217;s always something going on.<\/p>\n<p>And now that we have a healthy roster, Charles Lee might be contender for Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m like, &#8220;Dude, we&#8217;re ballin&#8217;,&#8221; and I&#8217;m just stoked, man<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-hide-transcript\">Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KOC breaks down the Hornets who have the best statistical lineup in the NBA. View more Video Transcript&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,685,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-700188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlottehornets","12":"tag-hornets","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116354042467472576","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}