re: Dell Demps

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1. Accept the Houston trade for Gordon (Motie, Martin and 1st round pick). Basically the same trade OKC got for Harden. Gordon would be gone and the team would have gained a couple of nice pieces..

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lol. What? That Houston trade was for Odom, Scola, Martin, and three farts in a brown paper bag.

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Not trade or let Jack or Landry go. This would include trading Ayon for Anderson. For the same money we are playing for Anderson, we could have kept the other 3.

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Dude, I was Ayon's biggest fan, but this is dumb. Jack was horrible running a team. I got so tired of watching him dribbling as the shot clock expired. You don't need that kind of "leadership" around a young team. Jack is only marginally better than Gravy, if at all (I think not).

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3. Not move Ariza and Okafor in a salary dump. I didn't like either player, but they both play solid defense. Plus they would have been more attractive this season for other teams in a salary dump.

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So, you're basically opinion that we should have screwed the rebuild to stay slightly worse than mediocre?

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The team would have looked like this..

Vasquez/Jack/Roberts
Martin/Rivers
Aminu/Ariza/Miller
Davis/Landry/Ayon
Okafor/Motie/Smith

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Really? We don't get Davis OR Rivers if we take the Houston trade.

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This offseason, we would have two late lottery picks, not much cap space (which we probably won't use anyway), but nice trade pieces. Just a bit better foundation to build around Davis.

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You don't have Davis to build around.