1. We need to make a trade. This team needs new life, someone to bring in a different perspective. I’d prefer a PG and Jason Kidd would do the trick immediately, but he likely would not get traded within the East. Andre Miller would be a fine addition to the team although I’m not willing to trade Gooden to get him. At this point, I would welcome Bostjan Nachbar.
2. I officially, officially…. HATE Larry Hughes. I really did try to like him after the past few games. I tried to be positive about him. I don’t care if he averages 40 a game for the rest of the season, I will never like Larry Hughes. Please know this when reading my blog posts from now on.To be fair, I will do my best to not mention Larry Hughes when he goes 24/29 from the field and when he goes 3/19 from the field. This will be my final (I hope) break down of Hughes. I. Hate. Him.
First of all, before we even go into his horrific offense, I’m tired of everyone thinking that this guy (Hughes) is a premier defensive player. He is an average defensive player at best. I’ve been saying it since last year. Yesterday he took on the “challenge” of guarding Vince Carter and was totally annihilated. I know VC is a great player, but that would not have happened against Ron Artest, AK-47, Bruce Bowen, even Lebron James would have done a better job of body-ing him up. Hughes is not physical enough to be a great defender. He has long hands, gets steals and is generally annoying but can easily be pushed around. I don’t even want to talk about his 30% shooting. In 34 minutes Larry Hughes also had one assist and brought down a solid zero rebounds. He is not still growing as a player, he is injury prone, and overall brings down the team more than he helps it when on the court. He did not get to the free throw line once. This is our top shooting guard!!?
Boobie (Matt’s whipping boy), on the other hand, did a great job defending Jason Kidd and hit 75% of his shots. He only took 4 shots, but that’s because Hughes was out there “creating”.
Mike Brown did a horrible job coaching this game. We were purposely fouling Boone with 4 minutes left and down by 4. The last five minutes of the game we were getting completely out hustled. So why not bring our hustle guy (Varejao) off the bench to grab some rebounds and knock some people down?
I’m also convinced that Lebron doesn’t like Coach Brown. Those off-balance three pointers that he was taking at the end of the game were obviously not what the coach drew up. So either Lebron is selfish, or he realizes that his coach is an idiot and that he has to do it by himself. I’ll go with the latter, as it is obvious that Lebron is generally not selfish on the court.
Tonight against the 76’s. We should win this one and get a good look at Andre Miller. Let’s just hope that Hughes doesn’t take the “challenge” of guarding Iguodala.
