The Hornets survived lately on defense; Sunday that resolve flickered against Hawks

It has been a while since an NBA scorer made the Charlotte Hornets look silly. For long stretches of Sunday’s game, Atlanta Hawk Bogdan Bogdanovic made the Hornets look silly. Bogdanovic made a 30-footer Sunday that could have been launched from Gastonia and still fallen through. He made eight 3-pointers in totaling 32 points, as Atlanta won this game 105-101. The Hornets’ biggest flaw Sunday was a terrible start offensively. They missed eight of their first nine shots and trailed 24-7 eight minutes into this game. Despite that, they recovered to lead by 10. That the Hornets were even in this …

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