Larry Hughes (UPDATED WITH LINK)

TheChosen1 · Post #1 » by **TheChosen1** » Sun Nov 9, 2008 4:45 am

Would you guys be willing to have him back? The wiz backcourt is terrible and i think LH could help, it would make gil really happy too. Who knows he may return to the old Larry.

Gil
Larry
Caron
Jamison
whoever at center

i think that would be a solid lineup as soon as Arenas gets back.

The bulls would be happy to trade Hughes for Songaila and Daniels i heard.

yungal07 · Post #2 » by **yungal07** » Sun Nov 9, 2008 5:03 am

I'd consider Songalia, Stevenson, and Thomas for Hughes. That would be a decent salary dump in 2010.

mohammed10 · Post #3 » by **mohammed10** » Sun Nov 9, 2008 4:05 pm

yungal07 wrote:I'd consider Songalia, Stevenson, and Thomas for Hughes. That would be a decent salary dump in 2010.

+1

TheChosen1 · Post #4 » by **TheChosen1** » Sun Nov 9, 2008 4:17 pm

No way Chicago does that trade. A rumour is floating around that says the wiz are interested in getting Hughes back. Washington has always been my second team and i think it would be great for us if we got Hughes back for our unneeded forwards i loved him when he was here and i think he can play well again here.

pancakes3 · Post #5 » by **pancakes3** » Sun Nov 9, 2008 6:01 pm

so bullsfever, are you a bulls fan first? Ideally the 'zards would dump songalia, etan, and DS but i don't see chicago going for it unless it was AD/Thomas for Hughes, which i'm hesitant to pull the trigger on given the recent emergence of Nick Young as a scoring threat. I would much rather have one of you many athletic forwards to back up Butler/Jamison.

Maybe we can work out a Etan/Blatche/Songaila for Nocioni/Noah/Gray

AgentOvechkin08 · Post #6 » by **AgentOvechkin08** » Sun Nov 9, 2008 6:01 pm

The problem is he is injury prone. He would be an upgrade over Stevenson though, the way D. Steve is playing right now.

Chocolate City Jordanaire · Post #7 » by **Chocolate City Jordanaire** » Sun Nov 9, 2008 6:09 pm

yungal07 wrote:I'd consider Songalia, Stevenson, and Thomas for Hughes. That would be a decent salary dump in 2010.

+2

I doubt Chicago takes on longterm salary and two additional roster spots, however.

I think a deal that might work is Daniels/Thomas for Hughes/Simmons and a round 2 pick from Chicago. Simmons expires this season.

hands11 · Post #8 » by **hands11** » Sun Nov 9, 2008 7:52 pm

Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:
yungal07 wrote:I'd consider Songalia, Stevenson, and Thomas for Hughes. That would be a decent salary dump in 2010.

+2

I doubt Chicago takes on longterm salary and two additional roster spots, however.

I think a deal that might work is Daniels/Thomas for Hughes/Simmons and a round 2 pick from Chicago. Simmons expires this season.

This is the year we are more likely to see these kind of moves during the season.

But first things first. We need to get a new coach.

TheChosen1 · Post #9 » by **TheChosen1** » Sun Nov 9, 2008 8:03 pm

pancakes3 wrote:so bullsfever, are you a bulls fan first? Ideally the 'zards would dump songalia, etan, and DS but i don't see chicago going for it unless it was AD/Thomas for Hughes, which i'm hesitant to pull the trigger on given the recent emergence of Nick Young as a scoring threat. I would much rather have one of you many athletic forwards to back up Butler/Jamison.

Maybe we can work out a Etan/Blatche/Songaila for Nocioni/Noah/Gray

I was born in Washington but i live in Chicago right now. Currently i am more of a bulls fans because the injuries over the years and Washington's current record.

The deal on the table that is being discussed in Thomas and Daniels for Hughes, no other trade will happen if it happens that will be the trade. Right now it's on Chicago to accept the deal because we offered it.

Nick Young is getting better but he's not a consistent option if we get Hughes for the useless Thomas and the so- so Daniels we would be better and possibly have a decent record till Gil returns. I love the trade for both teams and i hope it happens.

A threesome of Caron-Larry-Jamison would be nice for the time being.

WashWiz54 · Post #10 » by **WashWiz54** » Sun Nov 9, 2008 11:28 pm

I'd probably do it. Gets rid of Etan, lets the young guys play, and we get a guy who once scored 20 PPG in our system. If he doesn't pan out he would be a fat expiring contract in '10 we could deal or let expire.

PG- Hughes (30), Dixon (18)
SG- DSteve (24), Younng (24)
SF- Butler (35), Johnson* (13)
PF- Jamison (35). Pecherov (18)
C- McGee (26), Blatche (22)

DNP- Brown, Songalia (Songalia and Pecherov are interchangeable.)

IR- Arenas, Haywood

DLeague- McGuire

* We would sign Dermarr Johnson. With this deal we would save enough to sign him and keep him on the roster without hitting luxury tax. Or we could sign Justin Williams who I really like as another big off the bench and let McGuire backup at SF. Or if we want a veteran bring back recently waived Juwan Howard! It'd get the most emotion out of the Verizon Center all season to see him on the court.

It's different and gets the youngsters on the court. Abe would have to accept this as a growing year for the young players which I doubt he's ready to do.

tkunit · Post #11 » by **tkunit** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 1:40 am

I'd move Etan and AD for Hughes. Put hughes in as the pg and let him run with young, bulter, jamison and mcgee.

newslowsad · Post #12 » by **newslowsad** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 1:56 am

No thanks, we have enough fragile people on this team.

zardsfan · Post #13 » by **zardsfan** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 2:00 am

I would pull the trigger on that trade...

Worse case scenerio... you end up trading two over-paid players who will never help you win anything for one over-paid player who will, most likely, never stay healthy enough to help you win anything.

long suffrin' boulez fan · Post #14 » by **long suffrin' boulez fan** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 2:32 am

bullsfever23 wrote:
pancakes3 wrote:
The deal on the table that is being discussed in Thomas and Daniels for Hughes, no other trade will happen if it happens that will be the trade. Right now it's on Chicago to accept the deal because we offered it.

I would trade Etan for a cup of bad coffee. Any minute he is on the floor is a minute the Wiz are not developing McGee.

I would love this trade. I realize there are a lot of Hughes haters on the board and he is very, very unlikely ever to give you a full season... however, the Wiz were better with Hughes and Arenas in the backcourt then they've been since. In fact, they were better four seasons ago than in any year over the course of the past 2 1/2 decades.

Hughes has a tremendous knack for knocking down shots at huge moments in the game... he is an opponent's run killer, is really good in EJ's offense and had tremendous chemistry with Gil and Haywood. If this trade happened, and if the Wiz could tread water for a couple of months and if Gil and big Wood do come back healthy, the Wiz could sneak into the playoffs and be a force once they get there.... ok, ok, I realize those are a lot of ifs.

mohammed10 · Post #15 » by **mohammed10** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:13 am

zardsfan wrote:
Worse case scenerio... you end up trading two over-paid players who will never help you win anything for one over-paid player who will, most likely, never stay healthy enough to help you win anything.

You mean like what we have now w/ GA?

Post #16 » by **nate33** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:15 am

I'd definitely trade Daniels + Songaila for Hughes. I'd trade Daniels + Songaila for ANY combination of players with contracts expiring in 2010. It's a pure salary dump of Songaila. The fact that we get back a combo guard who knows our system and plays some D is gravy.

toughjuice03 · Post #17 » by **toughjuice03** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:23 am

I would love to get Larry back,but this trade couldn't go down till Larry's healthy right?

Benjammin · Post #18 » by **Benjammin** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 1:42 pm

toughjuice03 wrote:I would love to get Larry back,but this trade couldn't go down till Larry's healthy right?

And when would that be? I imagine at some point there will be some brief window of time when LH is healthy in between injuries.

long suffrin' boulez fan · Post #19 » by **long suffrin' boulez fan** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:51 pm

So, is there anything real about this thread? That is, is there a sense that there have been discussions? Or is this just idle chatter in forum land?

MJG · Post #20 » by **MJG** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:27 pm

long suffrin' boulez fan wrote:So, is there anything real about this thread? That is, is there a sense that there have been discussions? Or is this just idle chatter in forum land?

Some of the ideas in this thread are based off of real rumors. Sadly though, those rumors usually belong to other teams, and the posts are geared towards getting the Wizards involved in the rumor. I mean really, when was the last time we heard real trade rumors about our team? When Kwame was a free agent?