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I cant believe he is making 12mill+ a year... He should be on a vets minimum contract... How is he such garbage?

over paying for a guy who isn't very good
its been done before

He does have some miserable shooting nights, that's for sure. In 17 games this season for the Cavs, he's only shot .400 or better in 6 games.

Kwame Brown = 9 mil/yr.

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Larry only plays during contract years

We wasn't really that good. He was the product of playing with 2 great scorers on a really up tempo Wizards team. The he goes to a grind it out Cavs team and ends up shooting jumpers instead of slashing and getting easier shots. Toss in a injury bug and the fact he is a "ball in hand" type scorer not a "move without the ball type" and you got current overpaid worthless ass Hughes.

If i'm not mistaken he's also trying to play PG for the Cav's which is definitely not his best position. When he was a PG on the Sixers way back in the day he was almost as useless as he is now. To be effective he needs to play off the ball in the SG role like he did in Washington and in his later days in GS

I could be completely off, but I think they play Larry at the point in hopes that would help jump start his overall game. And I reckon because its not like they have much better at the current PG spot.

I will not discuss this...Seriously, the pain runs too deep..

Milkdud wrote:I could be completely off, but I think they play Larry at the point in hopes that would help jump start his overall game. And I reckon because its not like they have much better at the current PG spot.

Very good point, it seems on the Cavs it's either a SG in Larry Hughes, a shoot first undersized shooting guard in Daniel Gibson, or the 900 year old Eric Snow. They definitely need some new players at the PG position.

re: those RealGM posters who frequently claim that Gilbert Arenas does not make his teammates better.

see:

Milkdud wrote:We wasn't really that good. He was the product of playing with 2 great scorers on a really up tempo Wizards team. The he goes to a grind it out Cavs team and ends up shooting jumpers instead of slashing and getting easier shots. Toss in a injury bug and the fact he is a "ball in hand" type scorer not a "move without the ball type" and you got current overpaid worthless ass Hughes.

There are other factors, sure, but playing with Arenas sure made Larry Hughes look pretty good. Also, while I feel Hughes wouldn't have regressed this terribly if he'd stayed in Washington in a system that fit him... I do love these threads about his awful play because it reminds me how narrowly my Wizards dodged a bullet when it came to re-signing him after that monster contract year.

like rick james said of cocaine, "contract years a hell of a thing"

Well he has this newly found disease called suckiness.

He was an efficient player even before his contract year.

The reason he got his contract was because of Gilbert. People say Arenas doesn't make his teammates better. How do you explain all the players who have come to Washington and elevated there play so much?

Sure some credit can go to the coaches, but Gilbert also deserves a lot of it. He makes things hell of a lot easier for his teammates.

Its a combination of a lot of things, many already mentioned.

Poor fit in the non-tempo offense, playing PG, injury bug......

Honestly you have to consider Larry Hughes a complimentary player, in all the stops of his career he has had talent around him.

The Cavs roster isn't exactly loaded with talent, Hughes was oft-injured and didn't exactly keep himself in the best shape.

Just bad management decision, that's all.

He sucks that is what's wrong with him. The guy should be coming off the bench on a championship team..never starting
Danny Ferry is one lucky mofo that he still has LeBron on his team, because signing Larry Hughes to that fat contract was one of the dumbest decisions in the past 10 years of basketball

i hate larry

Injuries have robbed Hughes of his athleticism and he was never a good jumpshooter. Take a guy who can no longer finish at the rim OR shoot a jumpshot, what do you have? = Larry Hughes.

Right now he is basically not an NBA caliber player. However on the Cavs, we don't have any other option but to play him. His backcourt mate Sasha Pavlovic is actually playing WORSE.

And those two get wide open shot after wide open shot playing off Lebron..imagine if they had to create their own offense

Just ask Bobby Simmons...