Larry Hughes Builds a House

There are fewer and fewer players these days who you can let stand behind the 3-point line without fear that they can shootan open three pointer. While most post players will still be looking for the nearest guy to pass it to, perhaps one-third of post players can take the open jumper. Everyone else can shoot a three, or at least they think they can. There are no guards that fall into that characterization of players who simply feel as though they can not shoot an open three pointer. But that shouldn’t be the case. Larry Hughes should never shoot a 3-pointer! I have always been a Hughes fan. He had a great ‘fro and was exciting in Golden State showed potential in Philly, and helped my fantasy team take the crown over Farfel while Hughes was in Washington. Yesterday he took two jumpers that hit the backboard and nothing else. That’s unbelievable. I believe that even an air ball is closer than the two he put up yesterday. This wasn’t an aberration either; Hughes shoots 28.1% from behind the arch for his career. Last season he averaged 28.2% while taking 3.4 per game! He has improved, I guess. In his first four seasons he shot 69- 345, that’s 20%. He led the comeback yesterday in LeBron’s absence, so I doubt anyone is going to make too big of a deal of his brick laying. If this guy had a jumper, he would be hot. Guys can’t stay in front of him as it is, if they had to respect his jumper then he’d be an all-star.    - nutlow