Every organization in trouble eventually forms a committee. It’s what you do when nobody can fix the problem alone. You convene. You deliberate. You eat the sheet cake. And at the end, someone in the back asks whether anybody booked the room for next week.

The Charlotte Hornets have been talking about committees since September.

“I think first and foremost, we’ve got to do it by committee,” Coby White said at media day, back when the committee was supposed to be the supporting cast. Then White strained his left calf in training camp, and the committee got a little bigger.

On Sunday it got a lot bigger. The Hornets said Kon Knueppel has a left hamstring strain and will be reevaluated in four weeks. It’s the same hamstring that kept him out of the preseason and the first eight games, and he lasted about six minutes into his season debut in Brooklyn last Wednesday before he had to leave. This is the player who led the league in 3-pointers as a rookie and finished second to Cooper Flagg for Rookie of the Year, so the Kon Knueppel injury isn’t a footnote. It’s the headline. Then the second shoe dropped. Dennis Schröder, who’d been the steady hand at point guard while everyone else was in the training room, also has a left hamstring strain and will be reevaluated in two weeks. Both are out Monday against Cleveland. So are Brandon Miller (hip strain) and Grant Williams.

That is an awful lot of hamstrings for one Sunday.

None of this is landing on a team that was cruising. Charlotte started 3-1 and has lost six straight, the last a 119-80 NBA Cup loss in Boston on Friday in which it made 11 of 50 3-pointers. Coming into that game, the Hornets had been launching nearly 44 threes a night and making 29.6 percent of them. The offense was already short on shooting, and the best shooter just went back to the training room.

Which brings us to the question for anyone squinting at a Hornets prop board this week: who actually takes those minutes and shots?

Start with the obvious. With Schröder out, the ball belongs to White. He made his season debut against Detroit on Nov. 2 and played 16 minutes (7 points, 3-of-9 shooting) at the start of what was described as a ramp-up, then went 1-of-6 from three in Boston. Schröder had been averaging 10.2 points and 4.9 assists, with 5, 8, 7, 1 and 5 assists over his last five games. Those assists don’t vanish. They get handed to the next person in the meeting, and White is sitting closest to the door. The thing to watch isn’t his talent. It’s his workload. How fast the ramp-up ends is a question for the Hornets’ injury report, and I’m not going to guess at it.

Then there’s Grayson Allen, who has had a very Grayson Allen fortnight. In the opener in Brooklyn he came off the bench and scored 21 points on 5-of-8 from three in 28:48. In Boston, slotted in as a projected starter with Knueppel out, he went scoreless in 21:35, 0-for-4 from deep. That’s the whole range of outcomes for a shooter, two weeks apart. When you’re betting on an Allen points line you aren’t really betting on his minutes. You’re betting on which of those two nights shows up.

Sion James might be the quietest beneficiary. He started the opener next to Schröder and shot 1-of-7 in nearly 27 minutes. Against Boston he scored 11 points without missing a shot, 4-of-4, all of it in the third quarter. Royce O’Neale, who came over from Phoenix with Allen in the Miles Bridges trade, is also in the mix on the wing, and Miller’s absence opens wing minutes as well as guard minutes.

(Then there are the kids: Liam McNeeley, Tidjane Salaün and the rookie Christian Anderson Jr. Salaün came into the Boston game with the team’s second-best 3-point percentage, 39.1. Their minutes are the most volatile thing on this whole board, and a blowout in either direction can double them.)

Is there a clean read here?

Honestly, no, and that’s the read. When a rotation goes to a committee, the minutes get passed around like the last slices of sheet cake at an office party: everybody gets a piece, nobody gets a meal, and the person who arrived late sometimes walks off with two. The steadiest exposure is the player who has to handle the ball because nobody else is left to do it, which right now is White. For everyone else, the useful habit is boring and reliable: check the final injury report before tip, see who actually starts, and treat any single hot night from a role player as one night, not a trend. After the opener, Charles Lee said the team needs “everybody.” He wasn’t kidding.

Knueppel’s reevaluation is four weeks out and Schröder’s is two. Until then the Hornets aren’t using a committee to support the team.

The committee is the team. Somebody book the room for next week.