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**girllovesthegame** · 01-15-2010, 11:44 AM

Finding niche has center more assertive offensively

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AUBURN HILLS, MICH. -- During the past few weeks, Hornets center Emeka Okafor has spent extra time talking with point guard Chris Paul about finding better ways to execute pick-and-roll plays.

It appears their discussions have made a difference, because Paul is going often to Okafor, who is making a bigger impact offensively than he did in the first month of the season. With Okafor's recent assertiveness, the Hornets don't have to rely so heavily on forward David West and Paul for scoring.

West and Paul missed a combined 10 of 14 shots in the first half against the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night at the New Orleans Arena, but the Hornets still led 50-48 at halftime before pushing to a 21-point lead in the fourth quarter en route to winning 108-94. Taking advantage of the Clippers' poor defense of the pick-and-roll, Okafor scored a game-high 21 points.

http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index...630.xml&coll=1

I've always considered him to be a month behind seeing as he missed all of training camp and pre-season. He's starting to gel more now.

**Diable** · 01-15-2010, 12:52 PM

Aside from the size of his contract Okafor is a very solid player. Chandler has just been woeful for the Cats, but of course we made the deal because of the contract and we knew that Chandler wasn't very good. Last couple of games I've watched CP has gotten him a lot of good looks with the bounce pass...seems like the other team respects Chris a bit more than they respect him honestly.

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