<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">During the club?s current four-game losing streak, the Hornets (8-7) have produced 83, 79, 73 and 77 points, an average of just 78 points per game. In that same quartet of games, New Orleans/Oklahoma City has not shot better than 41.6 percent. For a team filled with several proven pro scorers, why are the Hornets struggling so much offensively, even after factoring in the absences of David West and Peja Stojakovic? ?Let me go through the list for you,? Hornets head coach Byron Scott explained at his Tuesday postgame press conference. ?(We are) not setting good screens. Not getting good setups. Not running through the plays hard enough ? in other words, not cutting hard enough (away from the ball). Settling for nothing but jump shots, instead of attacking the basket. If you do all those things, you?re going to struggle." ?The other thing is just being smarter. Because if you missed a few jump shots ? at least back in my day ? you?d (try to drive) and take the ball to the rim,? Scott continued, before adding sarcastically: ?Maybe we were smarter in the 1980s? I don?t know? we only won a few championships (in Los Angeles with the Lakers).?</div> Source
