"Aside from the fact that Wednesday night's horror show at the New Orleans Arena presented evidence of one team's top-to-bottom depth and the other's lack of the same, the Chicago Bulls' runaway victory over the Hornets also put on display the importance of continuity and repetition to an NBA team's execution. Hornets Coach Monty Williams has admitted that this season he has been forced to scale back his offensive playbook, for the simple reason that the roster he has had to work with isn't yet capable of assimilating and executing what last season's team did.

As he prepared to face the Bulls, the team with the best record in the NBA, Williams was noticing how Coach Tom Thibodeau had integrated into the Chicago offense plays with which his players might have thrived in other systems, an advantage the Hornets this season do not have.

"They're a team that doesn't have any holes," Williams said. "You can't think of one thing they don't have. They have a post game. They have transition. They have guard play. The one thing I like that Thibs has done is he has taken different offenses from teams that his players have come from and incorporated it into their offense.

"You'll see the cross screen and the flex from Utah. You'll see an old Chicago play. You'll see the Memphis play they ran for Kyle Korver when he was in Philly. They brought a lot of good stuff from other teams. And all those guys are used to it."

The playbooks Williams can use as offensive references this season include the NBA Development League's Erie Bayhawks or Austin Toros, and the Spanish ACB League's Fuenlabrada of Madrid."