04/27/2009 - 12:46
Looking to Tie It Up
by Devon Jeffreys

Behind 0-2 in their best-of-seven series, Ty and the Hornets needed a cure for what ailed them.

Ty and the Hornets gave fans something to clap about on Saturday (Getty Images).

They found it Saturday afternoon at New Orleans Arena, holding on to defeat the Denver Nuggets, 95-93.

“In the NBA, some teams are road teams and some are home teams,” Tyson told the Denver Post. “We play very well at home.”

Early and constant foul trouble doomed TC to just 18, minutes, two points, and three boards and The Big Easy fouled out of the game altogether with 4:39 left in the game.

But the Hornets managed to pull out the victory and afterwards, Tyson explained his own performance, as quoted by New Orleans Channel 2:

“The way I’ve been able to practice and the way I’ve been able to move, I know I’m not going to be myself,” Chandler said. “Sean [Marks] deserved to be on the floor more than me, so I was just trying to make my presence felt while I was out there. He played great. He was huge for us. He played excellent at a time where we really needed it.”

CP TAKES OVER
With his teammates fending off foul calls left and right, Chris Paul took over the game, scoring 32 points to lead the Bees to victory. After Sunday’s practice, TC complimented the one and only CP3, as quoted by The Canadian Press:

“It’s the playoffs. There’s nothing to save and Chris is such a passionate player, he wants to be out there…It’s like you almost have to peal him off the court. He does a good job of letting coaches know when he’s really gassed so he can get a breather and get back out there.”

Despite playing nearly 46 minutes on Saturday, Paul picked up only one foul. The only other player with less than two was backup guard Antonio Daniels, who played less than 15 minutes.

GETTING RILED UP
Though picking up early fouls isn’t something to be celebrated, it’s hard to blame Ty for being aggressive and a few of the calls could have gone either way. That’s the way things go in the playoffs. In the Denver Post, TC was quoted about being a presence on the floor, despite his injury:

“I can’t cut the way I want to,” Chandler said. “I can’t sprint the way I want to. I can’t even jump the way I want to. My timing is off. But the thing I can do is just make my presence felt out there.”

No. 6 got in the face and all over both Carmello Anthony and Dahntay Jones during the game, not to mention his ongoing war with Nene, but in Game 3 the refs were calling the game so that that any misstep went for a foul.

In total, Tyson was one of four players to foul out and the teams combined for an unbelievable 58 fouls. That being said, if Tyson wants to be on the floor, he’ll need to be more careful come Game 4 tonight. As Jim Eichenhofer noted after game, the foul trouble was the only thing that kept Ty off the floor:

“He said after the game that his ankle felt about the same today as it did in Game 2, so no change there. His minutes were limited today based on foul trouble, but Chandler said he could’ve played 30 to 35 minutes were it not for the fouls.”

Game 4 tips off tonight at 5:30 PST and the action can be seen on CST in New Orleans or on NBA TV, where available.

TY UP YOUR DESKTOP
Talented graphic designer and Hornets enthusiast Dariuz Ejkiewicz is back at it with two more Tyson Chandler wallpapers that you can download here:

Check them out along with these words from Dariuz, posted on Hornets247.com:

The series is my present for all the die hard Hornets fans who always believe in the team. The ones that stay up all night and not always are in love with the best player but with the one that has the biggest heart for the game.

So if you are a person supporting what Sean Marks is doing then you can place his wallpaper on your desktop like you never did before.
The Series took me a lot of time and were based on the idea of the wallpaper I did about Hilton Armstrong. The whole thing is a sum up of a great Hornets season that I have experienced this year, this sums up what I was able to accomplish with my works and a little dot in the hornets247.com rise to the top of the nba basketball blogging. 



I hope that my wallpapers and banners this year made the Hornet experience a bit more exciting for all you fans. Please let me know if you wish for the banners and wallpapers to be continued here next year. Thank you for all the kind words and the support, it makes this work worth while.

RELATED STORIES
Nuggets at Hornets Box Score (NBA.com, April 26, 2009)
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Hornets 2008-2009 Wallpaper series (Hornets247.com, April 25, 2009)
http://www.hornets247.com/blog/2009/04/25/hornets-200809-wallpaper-serie...
Game 3 recap: Hornets 95, Nuggets 93 (Big Easy Buzz Blog, April 26, 2009)
http://neworleanshornetsblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/game-3-recap-hornets-9...
Karl’s Nuggets respond to challenges (Denver Post, April 25, 2009)
http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_12213924
Hornets riding hot hand of Chris Paul as far as he can go (The Canadian Press, April 26, 2009)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iXEuP0som-1...
Hornets aim to keep momentum going vs. Nuggets (2theadvocate.com, April 27, 2009)
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Bruised elbow won’t stop Carmello (Denver Post, April 27, 2009)
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