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Bobby Jackson is out indefinately with a strained right achilles tendon. This comes at a bad time for the Hornets who are battling for the #8 spot in the Western Conference playoff race. Jackson has played in 46 games this season and he has averaged 23.7 minutes, 10.5 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game. He does need to shoot a little better as he’s only hit 39% of his shots from the floor this season.
Forward Marcus Vinicius will miss the rest of the season after tearing his ACL recently. His rookie season ended before he even started to get anything going. He only played in 8 games and averaged 6.3 minutes, 1.4 points, 0.3 rebounds and 0.4 assists.
Bobby Jackson is a trooper. He’s been playing even though he has five cracked ribs. Jackson is averaging 23.3 minutes, 10.6 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game this season. The Hornets are lucky that Jackson is tough because they can’t afford to lose another good player with Chris Paul, Peja Stojakovic and David West all out.
The Hornets will be without their best player, Chris Paul, for 4 weeks with a severely sprained right ankle. Paul has averaged 18.4 points, 4.4 rebounds, 9.0 assists and 1.8 steals per game so far this season. Jannero Pargo will run the point until Paul returns, but he’s nowhere near the point guard that Paul is. Pargo is averaging 9.6 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game so far this season.
The Hornets have lost two key starting players for while. Peja Stojakovic (major back surgery) and David West (arthoscopic elbow surgery) will both miss alot of time in the near future. The Hornets are banking on guys like Rasual Butler, Hilton Armstrong, Cedric Simmons and Marc Jackson to provide big-time minutes until the pair of stars return…..and it doesn’t look pretty.
Stojakovic had major back surgery last Sunday to remove a disc fragment in his back. He will miss up to 2 months with this injury. Stojakovic was averaging 17.8 points and 4.2 rebounds per game. He also was hitting an outstanding 40.5% of his 3-pointers, which will be very hard for the Hornets to replace.
David West had arthoscopic surgery on his right elbow on Wednesday morning and will miss the next 2-8 weeks. He was averaging 17.4 points, 8.3 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game this season.