Larry Hughes isn't happy

[From the FanShots. Listen, we had to know that Larry Hughes would eventually sabotage the team, and the organization (who from the GM to the announcing crew refuse to treat this guy as the garbage-time player he now is) would be complicit in it. I guess we didn't have to know this, but this is the Bulls after all. -ed.]

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Does this explain his starting role tonight?

Since when does a scrub player get a full article about his lack of playing time? Tomorrow, Cedric Simmons will be upset that he is getting so many DNP-CD.

My hope is Larry demands a trade…

"The whole leverage thing, it's a difficult thing to gauge" -Paxson

by Dionysus2.0 on Nov 19, 2008 11:25 PM CST 0 recs

The problem is the media keeps acting like he's not a scrub

When he was out it seemed like every analyst I saw kept mentioning how Hughes would be back and they’d have to make minutes for him. Some even talked like he’d be another big addition when he came back. He must throw some awesome parties or give great birthday presents or something. The blogs and fans rip him apart, but he seems to get a total pass from the media despite being absolute trash.

by BoxingHideout on Nov 20, 2008 2:00 AM CST up 0 recs

Couldn't agree more.

It’s strange, he gets total star treatment from all the media people. When he went down it was made into a fairly big deal. And when they have practice interviews he’s one of their go-to guys.

by Juiceboxjerry on Nov 20, 2008 2:11 AM CST up 0 recs

this is like a high school team

maybe he should have his mom talk to the coach.

by oakdale on Nov 19, 2008 11:31 PM CST 0 recs

What NBA team would give this guy a starting gig right from the jump?

Seriously, llike where is this magical place where Larry Hughes’ value is realized? Washington? I just don’t get it. He has to know he’s not good.

by Juiceboxjerry on Nov 19, 2008 11:37 PM CST 0 recs

contract buyouy

we can only pray. knowing Reinsdorf wouldnt do that though would he????

by Sambossanova on Nov 19, 2008 11:37 PM CST 0 recs

also douche move

He added he hadn’t approached coach Vinny Del Negro.

at least talk to the coach before being an ass to the media

by Jaina on Nov 19, 2008 11:44 PM CST 1 recs

yes

exactly!

by macdren on Nov 20, 2008 12:49 PM CST up 0 recs

Wonder what Vinny

will think when he reads this? I hope he parks Larry’s ass on the bench.

by sue369 on Nov 20, 2008 4:11 PM CST up 0 recs

see ya Larry

by NormVanBeer on Nov 20, 2008 12:14 AM CST 0 recs

F@ck Larry Hughes!

Homecoming

by illwill on Nov 20, 2008 12:21 AM CST 0 recs

What an asshole

The man is making 12? million a year and he’s got the nerve to pull this “me first” shit with the media, and not even approach VDN first.

by Tobo on Nov 20, 2008 12:22 AM CST 0 recs

I would love to be able to sit at the end of the Bulls bench

every game for 1% of Larry “Chucker” Hughes’s salary.

I promise not to complain about getting a “DNP-CD” every game. ;)

by Granny Waiters on Nov 20, 2008 7:38 PM CST up 0 recs

The odds on favorite to complain about playing time

What did anyone here expect?

by Option27 on Nov 20, 2008 1:26 AM CST 0 recs

Stop ragging on Larry the Loser

Tonight Larry had the 2nd best (+/-) of the Bulls starters…….(-26) in just a little over 21 minutes of crapdom. Our supersized center Aaron Gray was our top performer with a -25. Rose was 3rd with -33 floowed by Gooden at -35 and Gordon at -36.

Once again Hughes had zero assists for the 3rd time in 4 games. To be fair he did rack up 2 big ones in his 3rd game back, so with more minutes he could bring his assist total to almost 1 per game. No wonder he’s bitching about playing time.

Since we have nothing coming from our bigs, maybe Larry can play the 4 or the 5, to get his minutes. The way the team is sucking right now, I don’t hink it would make any difference.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost. You can still call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard

by Tyrusmancrush on Nov 20, 2008 6:00 AM CST 0 recs

Larry's a joke

He jacks up shots and is a true impediment to the team. Go slip on some ice Larry!

by Playboy_Bull on Nov 20, 2008 6:26 AM CST 0 recs

I look at it like this

If Hughes isn’t happy, then I’m happy.

by Protocol on Nov 20, 2008 7:32 AM CST 0 recs

I'm unhappy too Larry

It upsets me that someone who is shooting 37% from the field and averaging half of an assist a game is allowed to put on a Bulls jersey.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: hand this assclown a mop and make him captain of the custodial team at the United Center. He’d be somewhat closer to deserving his absurd contract.

by darksmokepuncher on Nov 20, 2008 8:09 AM CST 0 recs

Bad idea suggesting Larry F%Kng Hughes be made captain of anything.

If he was directing the cleanup crews he probably would be using the wrong end of the mop and based on the leadership skils he has shown in the past, the United Center would wind up eventually being condemned by the health department.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost. You can still call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard

by Tyrusmancrush on Nov 20, 2008 10:23 AM CST up 0 recs

Eat shit Larry

De gustibus non est disputandum

by Sports2 on Nov 20, 2008 8:38 AM CST 0 recs

Seriously. What a douche.

When I watch NBA games I often call the fouls before the referees do. Sometimes it’s a gift. Most of the time it's troublesome. - NBA Observer

by Illini15 on Nov 20, 2008 1:08 PM CST up 0 recs

Dear Vinny Del Negro

Larry Hughes sucks.

Not only does he suck, he’s an a-hole.

He complained about his minutes to the media without talking to you.

If you have any balls whatsoever(or Pax does), then you will start treating this utter douchebag like the Knicks are treating Marbury.

KEEP HIM AWAY FROM ROSE BEFORE HE RUINS HIM.

by JacksonM on Nov 20, 2008 8:43 AM CST 0 recs

He arleady caved to him

why do you think he started over nocioni?

by silentpete on Nov 20, 2008 9:02 AM CST up 0 recs

that was pretty much unbelievable.

by Jaina on Nov 20, 2008 9:14 AM CST up 0 recs

Oh, I thought...

This was culled from the post-game news conference?

In any case…let’s stab him.

by JacksonM on Nov 20, 2008 9:24 AM CST up 0 recs

Can we hire Bill Cartwright

to elbow Hughes in the head?

by Granny Waiters on Nov 20, 2008 7:41 PM CST up 0 recs

wrong

by Know on Nov 22, 2008 12:33 AM CST up 0 recs

I guess we know who the president

of the Larry Hughes Fan Club is.

One good offensive game a month does not erase all the other negatives.

by Granny Waiters on Nov 22, 2008 6:38 AM CST up 0 recs

I hate to bring up D'Antoni again,

but at least he’s kept that cancerous Marbury and bloated Curry away from the floor. VDN’s shown a total lack of balls. And results.

The poster formerly known as Freethefro.

by MPG on Nov 20, 2008 8:53 AM CST 1 recs

unfortunately, I agree.

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by your friendly BullsBlogger on Nov 20, 2008 9:22 AM CST up 0 recs

and actually

if it was D’Antoni who decided to push Tyrus and Noah towards the end of the bench because they couldn’t play…I’d actually be ok with it. I’m not convinced that VDN has those kind of evaluations, and that he just thinks Nocioni/Gray/Gooden actually works. And that Larry Hughes is a starting SF

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by your friendly BullsBlogger on Nov 20, 2008 9:23 AM CST up 0 recs

Yeah...

It would be nice to have a coach/GM that we weren’t all totally convinced we could outperform at their job duties in every instance.

Them’s the breaks.

by JacksonM on Nov 20, 2008 9:28 AM CST up 0 recs

Experience counts

Vinny has none. You’d think Del or Bernie could help him out here.

In a trust with Vinny Del Negro.

by NBA Observer on Nov 20, 2008 10:35 AM CST up 0 recs

of course not

they want him to fail. Then they get a shot at being interim coach, and with their backgrounds could potential keep the job.

by silentpete on Nov 20, 2008 11:20 AM CST up 0 recs

Del doesn't want another head coaching job

And Bernie probably doesn’t either.

by KT on Nov 20, 2008 12:12 PM CST up 0 recs

this notion is pretty preposterous

vinny’s failure isn’t some consipiracy by our assistant coaches.

by Jaina on Nov 20, 2008 12:32 PM CST up 0 recs

I feel like if Bernie and Del didn't threaten to resign the moment VDN started

considering starting both Gray and Hughes they were certainly conspiring against VDN.

by silentpete on Nov 20, 2008 5:10 PM CST up 0 recs

Let's be reasonable here

The biggest knock on Larry Hughes that I am aware of has been his poor shot selection and poor shooting. I don’t recall him ever being labeled a team cancer or viewed as a player who is so disrespectful of his profession that he cannot stay in shape. By all indications that I’ve seen and read, the man is a good teammate and a hard worker.

by messwiththebull on Nov 20, 2008 7:43 PM CST up 0 recs

If you take actually being good out of being a "good teammate"

De gustibus non est disputandum

by Sports2 on Nov 21, 2008 7:23 AM CST up 0 recs

Except that when he came to the Bulls he said he'd rather get his than sacrifice and win...

…a championship. That he wasn’t happy running PG duties and being 3rd fiddle to LBJ and Zydrunas. And now he’s bitching? Really?

Viva la nuance! Reading comprehension rules!!!

by tyger1147 on Nov 21, 2008 7:37 PM CST up 0 recs

Ya, that why he won the Austin Carr Award in Cleveland

For the best player in their treatment of the community and the media, you are correct.
Shot selection, every player is going to take shots, you get hot, you knock down 30-40 and Hughes has done that plenty of times, but you have to try during a game and you have to find your stroke.
I think we got a good deal for Ben Wallace. Most is left over Cleveland Trash, remember, they thought the deserved a Championship for Hughes salary. They got to the finals, for the only time since Lebron has played, but promised Hughes that he didn’t have to play point. Remember, not too many people can even play point, #2 and small forward. So he said I would like to be traded (not in the press). Del Negro and these assistants, many who could be head coach also will help the bulls alot, but shit, what is it, under 15 games and blog a bullshit wants trades, coaching staff fired.
Takes 2 months for a team to gel in the NBA, if you don’t know that, coupled with all the injuries, maybe checkers is a sport some should seek. Have a little reason, common sense, look up a little history.

by Know on Nov 22, 2008 12:32 AM CST up 0 recs

"Remember, not too many people can even play point, #2 and small forward."

plenty can play none of the above, including the esteemed Mr. Hughes.

He’s literally one of of the worst players in the entire league (mostly because those worse than him don’t get the minutes he does)

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by your friendly BullsBlogger on Nov 22, 2008 1:29 PM CST up 0 recs

every Bull is unhappy.

I really didn’t need Larry to tell the Media, and then the Media to tell me that Larry is unhappy.

Larry is shooting (I’m assuming) 17%, and he was abysmally important to the Blazers romping of the Bulls. Yea, I can figure out for myself that Larry is unhappy.

Larry, shut up and play. It’s your job, that’s why you get (over) paid.

by chicago-homesick-blues on Nov 20, 2008 11:27 AM CST 0 recs

If we double Hughes's playing time

to 38 minutes a game, he could raise his assists to 1 per game!

Link

by Granny Waiters on Nov 20, 2008 7:47 PM CST up 0 recs

Poor guy.

by RogersPark Kris on Nov 20, 2008 12:00 PM CST 0 recs

With all due respect Larry

Suck a d*ck

"You’re caught up in basketball. Get caught up in life" - Starbury's Head Tattoo

by Belize on Nov 20, 2008 12:17 PM CST 0 recs

I want more PT too

and my lack thereof is a complete failure on the part of the coaching staff.

Asked what kind of player he expects to be in the next five years, he said: "Not a star, but like, a superstar. Something around, like, Chris Paul, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, something like that."

by BigBenign on Nov 20, 2008 12:32 PM CST 0 recs

Give Hughes credit - his tactic worked

VDN proved that he’s nothing but a doormat. Expect more players to start bitching to the newspapers now.

Why resort to name calling?
-Dionysus2.0

because I wish to insult you personally
-your friendly BullsBlogger

by Big D on Nov 20, 2008 12:51 PM CST 0 recs

It sure looks that way, doesn't it. Which really, really sucks.

De gustibus non est disputandum

by Sports2 on Nov 20, 2008 2:13 PM CST up 0 recs

it really does

every little moan, groan, and gripe is getting consideration (someone moans for a tall shooting guard, and magically Thabo is the opening day starter despite doing NOTHING in the preseason…someone (probably Johhn Kerr) moaned for Gray to get minutes and now he’s starting)

What the hell…someone in this org has to go…and it starts at the top with JR

by NormVanBeer on Nov 20, 2008 2:44 PM CST up 0 recs

Just go ahead and buy this whiny loser out, JR. Please.

When I watch NBA games I often call the fouls before the referees do. Sometimes it’s a gift. Most of the time it's troublesome. - NBA Observer

by Illini15 on Nov 20, 2008 3:01 PM CST 0 recs

he was right about one thing:

“Something’s got to change…”
Yeah, his ass shipped out, and until that
time, sit-down, shut-up, cash the checks…
Cancer/Black Hole/Shoot-First
SCREW him and his big mouth.
He is part of the problem, not the solution!

Just wondering, anybody left on that Tyrus bandwagon…
anyone….?
Didn’t think so.

Now can we use the “B” word, finally?
HE IS A BUST!

by rtblues on Nov 20, 2008 5:31 PM CST 0 recs

I think Tyrus has a chance

just not in Chicago…

by Protocol on Nov 20, 2008 7:05 PM CST up 0 recs

Didn't BG pretty much say the same thing?

They have to do something about the crowded backcourt? Everyone saw this coming yet we go apeshit when it happens.

by messwiththebull on Nov 20, 2008 7:45 PM CST up 0 recs

no Gordon did not

Gordon never complained about his playing time or even said that he wanted to start. His exact words were that maybe the coaches needed to “mix something up”. That’s nowhere close to what Hughes just said.

by NormVanBeer on Nov 20, 2008 9:09 PM CST up 0 recs

i think you're thinking of a different quote

if you’re talking about the one where he was “criticizing” the play of the starters. iirc there was something earlier on about the guard glut he did say. but it was far less inflammatory than hughes’ comments.

by Jaina on Nov 20, 2008 10:06 PM CST up 0 recs

LOL!!

The guys on CTL are trashing Hughes on the show. Funny stuff.

Larry could make this really ugly before it’s over. Sad part is I think Vinny does like him as a player.

by sue369 on Nov 20, 2008 6:10 PM CST 0 recs

They played together!!!

Of course he loves him. ;-P

Viva la nuance! Reading comprehension rules!!!

by tyger1147 on Nov 21, 2008 7:38 PM CST up 0 recs

Bull's Saga

If you’re a guy and read BaB, you can never say you don’t like soap operas.

man up!

by exult463 on Nov 21, 2008 11:53 AM CST 0 recs

BaB "Where.... drama ....happens"

lol

"I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying." -- Michael Jordan

by bennythebull on Nov 21, 2008 1:03 PM CST up 0 recs

Will looks like most of you just got STUFFED

Hughes is happier than can be, the coaching staff knows they are going to use him
now he just got 1 win on a tough road trip after still coming back and nursing a shoulder injury. Bullshit on always out, he has nearly 3000 points going into his 11th year in the league (thats a short list for you make believe know it alls). Plus ranks as one of the better defense players (even out rebounding these sad centers in games this year already).
IF your pissed about the salary, then go earn it yourself, when you average nearly 15 points a game over 10 years and lead or nearly lead the league in steals, sink 3000 points, thats what you get when superstar LeBron says “get him” for my team. So if this is the bitch a bull board great. Also, we got the best coaching staff in 7 years and people bitch about that. Look who is backing up Del Negro, then you will figure this team will make progress way above last years in wins. Accept not trying, quote from Jordon, another idiot, for Jordon played and wanted Hughes on the Wizards, another poor lack of knowlege. No, he isn’t a superstar, a Lebron a Kobe, a Wade, but he is not the end of the bulls bench. Stupid stuff like release him, thats beautiful, just remember to buck up the 30 million for this year and next. He didn’t demand the money, it was offered to lure him away from the Wizards. Get over it, many blow out a knee and its all over. Plus, the man is no prick, he probably is the most generous player to the community you will have.
I live in Chicago, never played past college, but played Hughes back in the 90’s in St. Louis and followed his career now since the one year at SLUH. A plain shame you don’t know what you have, but know you have coaches that do, so get ready to eat your keystrokes. Get ready for an average of about 14.5 pts per game and steals and rebounds that equal the rookie centers. Deerfield, OUT

by Know on Nov 22, 2008 12:22 AM CST 0 recs

I think regardless of our comments regarding LH

we’ll be pleasantly surprise if his performance tonight continues with some consistency.
If so, I’m positive he’ll be welcome with kinder words and support. Hope you understand
because with Missourians we adopt the Mizzouri state approach …. “show me first”

man up!

by exult463 on Nov 22, 2008 1:10 AM CST up 0 recs