On the TV screen, the commentator was also talking about this matter, but unlike Felton, who spoke well, they were stating the facts—among the eight higher-seeded teams in the first round this year, the Hornets were the only team to be upset.
To lose is the original sin, and Paul's performance was already hard to improve on. If you consider individual players, he might have been the best performer in the first round, averaging 25 points and 10 assists per game.
But if you want to nitpick, you surely can. For instance, in Game 5, the Battle at Mountaintop, when switching to guard Artest, he failed to stop him, allowing Artest to drive and almost score the winning shot, and then when he tried to shoot a game-winner, it clanked off; at the start of the fourth quarter of Game 3, he tried to duel with Ellis but couldn't keep up...
