ya know i can accept losing the orlando game...i knew it was going to be an ass clincher. but the houston game gives me pause after head-splitting anger. to dominate the hornets the way they did for 3.5 quarters and being the better team to boot, i just don't fuking get it. i'm from louisiana...i know the hornets better than most teams...they shouldn't have been capable of doing this to a playoff caliber team. this is why i don't want to hear another team from the west whine about how it's so much harder to make the playoffs because the top 8 teams are stronger than those from the east. it may be me but the only time i seem to see this sort of breakdown or malfunction out of an "elite" east team is when they are either riddled with injuries or on the 2nd of a b2b on the road. i can give you countless examples of west teams doing this in this season alone and not just against other west teams