I'm not pleased with the results of my photo-taking this trip ... blurry, grainy ... but I'll give you a few of what I took. Before the game started, we were asked not to use flash ... and it's amazing, by comparison, how that teeny-weeny flash might help with edges and blur, though I'd not have expected it. Guess I'll be forced to get a new camera when I have the dough ... but here's some pics ... mostly of the bees, crowd ... the actual game pics with the players were too blurry to even post. Sorry.

Hugo and the Bees and the Crowd were into the game, near sellout crowd at 18,508 of 19,163, I think perhaps more than the players were (maybe with the exception of Speedy Claxton and maybe Desmond Mason) ... lots of missed dunks and not very good off the boards and perhaps a lack of enthusiasm ... but maybe I'm wrong about that.

http://www.dougloudenback.com/hornets/11.9.06.hugo.jpg

http://www.dougloudenback.com/hornets/11.9.05.crowd1.jpg

http://www.dougloudenback.com/hornets/11.9.05.crowd2.jpg

http://www.dougloudenback.com/hornets/11.9.05.court1.jpg

http://www.dougloudenback.com/hornets/11.9.05.bees1.jpg

http://www.dougloudenback.com/hornets/11.9.05.bees1a.jpg

http://www.dougloudenback.com/hornets/11.9.05.bees2.jpg

http://www.dougloudenback.com/hornets/11.9.05.bees2a.jpg

http://www.dougloudenback.com/hornets/11.9.05.bees3.jpg

http://www.dougloudenback.com/hornets/11.9.05.bees4.jpg

http://www.dougloudenback.com/hornets/11.9.05.bees5.jpg

We lost, 83-88, after a good start, but a something less-than-that rest of the game. But, we were there, and our team, I hope, knew that we were there, supporting them, and us!

Go Hornets!