The Hornets are familiar with these questions as they return at 8 to the Charlotte Coliseum, trying to fight back in their playoff series with Milwaukee. However, they won't have any answers until they get onto the court. I know personally that's what I'm looking forward to, going home and having our 20,000 people yelling and screaming.
Teams can feed off crowds.
Milwaukee coach George Karl said as much before the series began. But obviously at this level you've got to have it. Not too long ago the Hornets did, and it was obvious from one end of the bench to the other as they steamrolled Miami right out of the playoffs in a 3-0 sweep. Then came a nine-day delay before the start of this Eastern Conference semifinal series, and somewhere along the way the oomph went out of their game. The bench isn't jumping around like in the Miami series.