Frank Kaminsky breaks out of slump on advice from Jordan, Ewing

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two days ago, Charlotte Hornets associate coach Patrick Ewing approached head coach Steve Clifford with a suggestion about rookie Frank Kaminsky.

“We got to post Frank some,” Ewing told him, echoing a point he’d made several times in the past.

“And he’s right,” Clifford said after the Hornets’ 96-80 victory over the Miami Heat in Game 3. “And I always go into the game thinking we’re going to post Frank and I don’t always get to it.”

A day later, Clifford said he “communicated” with Hornets owner Michael Jordan.

“I’d think about posting Frank some,” Jordan told him.

Clifford, again, agreed.

“You have two first-ballot Hall of Famers and you average four a game [in high school] at Maine, Farmington, and they both say, ‘Post Frank?’” Clifford said. “Hell, s—, you’ve got to post Frank.”

On Saturday morning, the first thing Kaminsky saw when he woke up was a text message from his head coach.

“I had the chance to think about it all day,” he said. “I talked to him a little before shootaround, er walkthrough, this morning, and he said, ‘When you get it in the post, be patient, go right at ‘em.’”

Kaminsky struggled in the Hornets’ first two games of their first-round series. He didn’t attempt a shot in Game 1, and he missed the one shot he took in Game 2. Kaminsky was the only Hornets player to finish with a positive plus-minus in both games, but nerves, he admitted, got to him.

His third game …

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