h2thaizzo wrote:
It was only a bad signing because Hughes failed to live up to expectations. He was a good scorer, not shooter, and he was tremendous defensively, but didn't improve, nor maintain while he was here. Problem with scorers is that they don't tend to do well while playing with superstars. Hughes needed almost 18 shots to get 22 points his last season as a Wizard, and LeBron is really the only guy at the time that could be a high volume shooter, thus, Hughes FG attempts per game went down, as well as his scoring.
If you remember correctly, Redd resigned with Milwaukee, Ray Allen I think was the other big name free agent, and he elected to re-sign with Seattle, which left us only Hughes. While today it seems like a terrible deal, we had to sign someone, no way Cleveland fans could have made it through another season without a #2 option, and we had to pay Hughes a little more than Washington was willing to offer him in order to get him to leave. Problem ended up being that we were expecting Scotty Pippen and ended up getting more like Jamal Crawford.
Larry Hughes was dog shit in every phase of the game. Comparing Highes to Crawford?
LBJs first order of business to the GM..."get that piece of shit Hughes off my team".
As expected, Hughes is getting minimal p.t. in NY these days.
