Paul will probably come out of the conference invigorated and "pleased in the direction the team is going".......then demand a trade halfway into the season because the Hornets sit on their asses.
And yet,
besides blowing smoke up his ass,
what the hell are the Hornets going to say that shows substantive plans to significantly improve the team?
Name the ideas, cause I am saying they got shit.
The substance they have is the same thing they already played: ie, "Paul, we can be a good team if we just have our health. You, Collison, Thorton, West, Okafor, that's a good roster."
Paul already knows this. He knows too, that even with perfect health, that is not a contending roster. And they are too far away to think it could be easy or quick to fix. They need a good SF to replace the Peja/Posey disaster. They need one more good big to make a solid big rotation. That is too much to ask for a team that WILL (no matter what) be shedding salary in the upcoming seasons.
Maybe Paul comes out of the meeting and gives quotes to the press that says he is going to give the team a chance to make improvements, etc. But then, his agents and "people" will spend a little time trying to figure out what options the Hornets have and what they could pull off given their resources and financial constraints. It won't take long, nor a rocket scientist to come to the conclusion that the anwer is: "Not much".
