Building the rest of the Pelicans

Asik is unmoveable, he’s worthless, even so he has a horribly huge contract… you can’t just swap him… especially for a useable guard like Shumpert… Jeez…. Yearly 11 M until 2020, impossible to trade unless you throws in at least one first rounder. And Cunningham also not a sweetener, just a garbage tweener…
Solomon Hill is also horribly bad, but is more moveable since the 3-and-D fiction, maybe with a pick and Jones but not for a decent SF, just to unload him…
I’m high on TJ, but nobody wanted him past offseason (that’s why he’s on that minimum contract), so he’s worth is close to nothing as a 2 month rental…
The sad true is that the Pelicans roster is full of garbage on bad contracts, all assets they had (that isn’t much) are now in Sacto…
That’s an uphill battle to make soemthing out of this roster, NOLA should be happy they have now the 2 best bigs in the league, until the deadline they can only do some makeups, but can’t nearly complete a decent roster

 The rest of their roster outside of Holiday (maybe Caspi now) should be dumped/traded. Really. They need to grab some shooters, both on the wing and behind their bigs. You don’t want to tire DMC and Davis out with 40 minsgame so its important to keep the scoring coming in the front court when they hit the bench. Jrue is a good defender but they need to get him some help now in the back-court. Good news is that they can create more cap room and sign some vets. This move helped their attractiveness as a potential desitination for free-agents this off season.

The Cavs are basically building their team to beat the Warriors.  Asik would get no minutes against the Warriors and Shumpert would be way more valuable.

The Pelicans really can’t make that many moves with their current roster.  They shouldn’t get too ahead of themselves as they are not winning the league this season so they need to be patient.  If they can somehow convince some team to take on some of their bad contracts and a 2nd round pick or two for expiring deals they could build in the offseason and use their mid level exception.

Players like JJ Redick or Jodie Meeks might be tempted in free agency.

It’s not going to be easy but management somehow made their future a lot better over the last couple of days.

And who the hell thought giving Solomon Hill $12,000,000 a year was a good idea!?  His and Asik’s contracts are going to hurt this team. 

 they should sign lance stephenson and matt barnes.

they can go for jimmer fredette and tony wroten also. 

i still got some hope for archie goodwin also.

Holiday Stephenson Barnes Davis Cousins would be near championship level.

They have too many bad contracts to do much. Next season $86mill and they still gotta pay Holiday. Then, later need to sign Cousins.

Holiday and Davis are injury prone, at best they have three decent starters and not much else. No draft pick this year, then next year will be borderline playoff team so not good enough to draft a star impact player.

You still have chemistry issues with Cousins. Multiple GMs around the league said they wouldn’t touch him in a trade – even if he was free !!!

 see New Orleans re-sell the All Star Center in another Block-buster trade a year from now.

If New Orleans feels as though the Brow & the Boog don’t mesh well they can still turn around & trade Boogie for a Gigantic haul.

Think about it. What if Boogie & Brow just don’t mesh well & that is entirely possible b/c of Boogie’s "Brid Rights" going to whichever team owns Boogie’s rights or it is even possible that Boggie could verbally agree to an extension 

I’m just throwing this out there – if you don’t like it – send it right on back! 😉

 I’m not saying I believe this Will happen but over the last couple we’ve all debated who is to blame in Sac-town: Boogie or Kings Upper Management & Ownership? 

Now we’ll get a chance to find out the answer. 

 If Lance Stephenson joins this team 5hey will be personally one of my favourite teams to watch all time.  He really fits perfectly as well with Boogie and AD being two mobile big with perimeter games.

 I sense the same delusion some people had when the Warriors signed KD and people worried ‘oh no how will they fill the roster!"

Obviously not exact parallels but the point is talent trumps ALL. When you have front line horses plural you quickly find out how the guys who ‘suck’ can quickly become ‘role players ‘ and ‘glue guys’. They’re often the same guy! You just ask the guy that sucks to do LESS surrounded by stars. See James Posey. See Trevor Ariza. So Solomon Hill just got better. Jrue Holiday just got better. Matt Barnes could be an immediate  starter or 6th man. It will NOT be that hard lol

Yea it’ll be tough to get them to ‘they can win a title ‘ level bc that will require a 4th high caliber guy, but look at the Rockets roster and how Harden lifts them all up. Next year with a tweak here or there NO should be in play for a top 3 seed 

Short term: Resign Jrue, Hope Solomon Hill makes it happen at the 3, sign a starting quality 2 who can create a lil

Long term: gotta get rid of those contracts and sign a all star caliber wing 

 Well the Clippers are going nowhere and history would imply they fall off before they magically improve , wth the SAME exact team for almost 5 years now. 

Also, fun fact,  they are not currently a top 3 seed. And Blake Griffin is a FA 

Your inclusion of Houston and Utah, 2 teams who have made a significant rise up the standings from last year to this, actually prove my point. Thanks

And yea I’m willing to bank that Cousins can make as much as an impact of Eric Gordon  for Houston and George Hill and Boris Diaw  for Utah. Call me crazy

note: Hayward is also a FA