Those aren't really great assets. Reke doesn't have a future with this team. Ajinca is just a guy. We're all excited about Diallo, but that's mostly based on a handful of Summer League games. You hope to get a contributor in that 31-35 range, but it's a longshot.

The problem is that the move would cut down on our cap space next season. If we use Jrue's cap hold to spend as much money as possible before going over the cap, this move would drop us from ~$13m down to about $6-7m. Not really much more than the MLE. And I would feel kind of bad for Jones, but whatever.

If healthy, Faried's deal is reasonable. It just kind of feels like the Asik/Reke type signings that we seem to be getting away from rather than the under the radar ones we made this offseason. It also kind of kills the whole Hill as a small-ball PF idea and would leave him nearly exclusively at the SF spot, but that's not really a big deal. I really don't know what I would do, but I wouldn't be upset if we did it.

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Posted by MrPel

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Posted on 8/3/16 at 12:31 pm to THRILLHO

I'm not giving up jrue or our first in a deal for Faried. They aren't taking Asik. Which leaves Evans and Ajinca. I'm fully confident Tim Frazier can be our full time back up pg. He distributes the ball on offense in a way that Evans never has or never will be able too. Plus we have Moore who will also be helping the 2nd unit. Plus who says one day buddy won't be bringing the ball up? Evans needs to be traded at this point but his injuries will make that hard.

We need nobody on this roster who plays hero ball. Ball movement and spacing is what we need- Evans does neither. He can't shoot and he doesn't move the ball around at all. Frazier does both, you have to respect his jump shot.

We trade Evans for another solid big (faried/Monroe/Vucevic) this offseason goes from an A to an A++

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