larry hughes playing efficient basketball doesn't exactly make sense.  he came into the league in 1998 and has played for six different teams, and has not lasted longer than three years anywhere.  he has always had low shooting percentages, and high shooting volume.  shooting roughly once every two minutes is major.  he has shot 31% from beyond the arc for his career and in two games this year is right on target shooting 33%.  despite the none too pretty shooting from distance, he is still shooting 62% overall.

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yes jared, larry has the flattest shot on the team.  and he turns the ball over some.  and he doesn't get huge assist numbers (too busy shooting).  but he is in control with the rock, and never seems flustered by pressure defense.  on the other side, larry consistently makes very nice, clean swipes, and he does it at a pretty high clip.  in his best year, statistically, larry was scoring 22 a game, getting 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals, and 2.5 turnovers while getting to the line 7 times in 38 minutes a game.  that is rather exceptional (except for the shooting %'s) i know it's only been two games so far, but it's impossible to ignore larry's production, and with nate out for two weeks, we (as fanatics) have to consider what to expect from larry hughes.

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It would be nice to sign David Lee.  I think it would also be very nice to sign Nate Robinson.  I like those two and I want them on the team, and they deserve to be on the team.  Apart from any bartering and argument, they have paid their dues to the franchise.  Furthermore, it would be nice to sign Ramon Sessions.

Another nice thing would be to trade Eddy Curry to a slower paced environment.  A town without all the rush and the hustle and the expectations.  A new home where he could re-focus himself and clear out his mind, start fresh.  He needs the open space, and he deserves it.  With all Eddy has gone through, it would be nice to see him land on his feet.  He had a harder year than most of us can even possibly imagine.  After those nice things, i'd love to ship Jared Jeffries and one year of on-call-anytime hand jobs to Siberia for a conditional second round pick, a carton of cigarettes, and money for cheap whiskey.  Yeeaaap... That would be nice!

Then we could watch Larry Hughes disappear, and Al Harrington's contract would evaporate.  Chris Duhon will move on.  Cuttino Mobley will come off the cap.  Oh it would be nice!  Perhaps Toney Douglas matures quickly into a force.  Jordan Hill figures out a thing or two, and makes some real progress each day.  Darko Milicic becomes the man he was expected to be when he was just a boy.  So many nice things!  

I like nice things!  I really do.  You know, though, what would be really nice, and absolutely attainable... how about some new uniforms for whoever the bunch of clowns we got is.  I'm sayin:  could i get a mufuckin cursive new york jersey out this bitch somewheres in here or what?  yo.  for real, can we rock a new logo, or like a updated one or somehting?  i mean, the whole style we got is kinda chump.  i can dig the color scheme.  mattera fact.  keep that.  for definite.  but i'm saying....

just cursive my new york across the cest, and rock some cursive last names on the back.  you could cursive up the numbers a little somethin, and we're good.  just like that.  boom!   cursive.

It started out simple enough.  There i was in the city council meeting with all the other people who just like to see a shit-show.  the crowd is the usual new york crowd:  insatiably unimpressed.  Every now and then a comment gets a rise out of a few muttering clusters.  Work it up enough and a few people can make a decent wisecrack to temporarily shatter the council's dominance.  But all in all, the council goes from old business to new business and not much changes.  

That's when the Hassidic contingent from South WIlliamsburg bumrushed the stage and took the microphone's hostage.

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