Second option as in backup 2 guard.
He's cheap, he's a good defender, he can spot up and score, he's improving and he's still young. I'm not saying he's an amazing player I know he is not good and unpolished but he has some ceiling. What did Larry Hughes do for us this year on 27 mpg average? Sweet **** all is what. And he is on a 12 million contract.
He's a sophomore guy who stunk up his first year no doubt. But he has improved decently and I don't see why you expect a sophomore to come out and play great consistent ball after being backup to Pietrus and Lee all season.
Reddick = Hughes but younger and for less money.
He is not a sophomore any more that was last year. He is been around for three years now(06-07, 07-08, 08-09) and he is 25 already ( his b-day is next week). That is his ceiling.
If you want to see Hughes stats when he was 25 I will help you(that's y he got paid that much and not by us.)
38.7 MPG, 22 PPG 4.7 APG, 6.2 RPG 2.9 SPG
Hughes 2008-2009 seasson stats are still better than reddick's.
Young reddick is worse then 30 year old and broken hughes. If is about money I rather stick with Joe Crawford. He is also 25 and given reddick minutes will prolly put same numbers if not better. He also makes less than 500k.
PS. We only got hughes just so we can drop Jerome James contract.