Bulls are our best trade partner for Jrue.

If we trade Jrue for Rondo I will never watch a pelican game again. I don't care if we get their next three firsts. It's a puss move to trade like that.

Besides son we are in contention too

The worst thing a small market team can do is let expiring players with value walk for nothing. See EG and Ryno.

Should 100% resign Jrue.

We've seen that he can't stay healthy here.
and we've seen that we are better with Tyreke running the point than Jrue running the point.

Tyreke is effective running the P&R, but that's not what Gentry wants to do. The board turning on Tyreke like it has has been more about Gentry than Tyreke.

If I did the Bulls trade I'd turn it into a 3 teamer and get Dragic to replace Holiday. You probably have to let Miami get the Sac pick and you just get Portis or Valentine, but I'd try to sell Miami on our Philly 2nd and Portis and we keep the Sac pick.

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If resigning Jrue isn't an option

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Short of CP3 walking from the Clippers, which I don't see happening with the new rules CP3 hand wrote into the CBA, I just don't see a team Holiday would leave us for assuming we match money/years. The question isn't whether the Pels can resign Holiday IMO, it's whether Demps gets fired and his replacement would be willing to pay market value for him.

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Evans is a good player. he's a good ball handler. yet, if he's your primary playmaker, your ceiling is capped as a 6-8 seed.

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I really would have loved to see what Thibs could have done with him, but yeah, he'd just be a stopgap, but if you're going to move Holiday I think you need a better plan for replacing him than Frazier and a rookie.

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i have faith the Kings will implode spectacularly and keep the pick

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True, they are only a few losses out of keeping the pick now and the odds are good they'll trade Rudy Gay at some point and get worse.

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But please keep telling me that it's ok to trade away our second best player while we are still in contention.

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just b/c he's our 2nd best player doesn't make him our savior, or worthy of $20+ million a year long term contract. He needs to be our 2A or 2B or 3rd best player if we want to get better and contend in the playoffs. With Jrue as our 2nd best player we are no better than a 7 or 8 seed at best, and that's assuming he and AD dont' miss 20+ games each.

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Btw, Jrue allows .32 points per possession and 20% from the field when it comes to iso d. That leads the league.

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We started the season out pretty shitty from the defensive side of the ball, but we've been moving our way up the stat boards on that end. But i guess we really need Asik in there to help with that some more

No, the worst thing we can do is trade for a guy like Rondo who has never gotten along with any coach he's had.

Id rather take my chances on not being able to re-sign him than trade for that lunatic.

Take Rondo out of that deal.

For all we bitch about Ajinca/Hill/Asik deals the fact Demps got NOTHING for Ryno/Gordon last year may in fact be a bigger indictment of his standing in the league. I wonder if he's a running joke to the other GMs.