Larry Hughes
Larry Hughes
Larry Darnell Hughesis an American former professional basketball player who played for eight different teams during a 14-year career in the National Basketball Association. Hughes attended Saint Louis University before being selected with the eighth overall pick in the 1998 NBA draft...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth23 January 1979
CitySt. Louis, MO
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I definitely want to win so I talk a little smack to those guys. I was one of the oldest guys on that team and they kind of looked up to me.
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It was going pretty good until the other night when he had 17 free throws. That's tough to contain a guy who is already potent on the other end. I have to continue to force him into our help, get a hand up on his jump shot and sometimes make him play a little defense on the other end.
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Not a lot of guys in their career win 50 games. It's a new team and a new staff from top to bottom. To come in and put up 50 wins in a season I think that's a great confidence booster for the time that everyone is here.
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It will be good for us. We're ready. We know what's at hand. We aren't planning on walking to the playoffs because we have the fourth spot.
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The first thing we have to realize is, they're a perimeter team. We have to understand their guards are going to do the majority of the work. We have to take those options away.
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The doctors didn't put any limitations on me.
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An alternative would be to have a longer teacher work day once a week to accommodate training and communications needs, ... The difference is that teachers would adjust schedules once a week, not students and families. As a result, far fewer are impacted.
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It hurt. That initial sting and me having the history of it you have to make sure everything is good.
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I will ask for him and guard him,
If you don't tell your students, they will tell you.
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For everyone else, it's a crazy shot. He makes it on a regular basis.
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Their generosity has provided this program with the momentum that it might not otherwise have gotten.
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We were able to get six games in, which is what we needed to do.
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(Winning 50 games) is a big goal. We feel like that's the mark we want to get to. We feel like if we get to 50 wins, we had a good season. And then the second season starts.