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Dell is a good GM, he just made mistakes trying to build a winner over night and that led to some mistakes. He's made good moves minus the Asik contract and getting rid of Lopez to sign Tyreke.

It's taken awhile for things to come together.

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but all the team needs is a quality SF to be a legit contender.

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Bruh

If that SF's name doesn't start with LeBron, they're not a legit contender.

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If that SF's name doesn't start with LeBron, they're not a legit contender.

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I strongly disagree with this statement. Durant, Kawhi, George, Hayward, Butler, and The Greek Freak all make the Pels a legit contender also. You can't tell me a team with Rondo/Jrue/George/AD/Cousins isn't a contending team.

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Robert Covington would make them a contending team.

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I like Covington, he would be a great fit, so would Middleton. People don't seem to like Harrison Barnes, but he would be a huge upgrade.

We’re in a hell of a lot better position today than we were two years ago. We had zero traceable assets then. Now we have some reasonably attractive offers we can out together, should the right player come available.

I don’t see how that’s necessarily the case. They’d have movable assets (including Boogie) if that situation presented itself.

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In a perfect world, Mirotic+Hill for Barnes.
Then Moore+Ajinca+1st for Kemba.

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Might as well go after LeBron if we are talking impossibilities.

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Would be awesome if niko/Ajinca and a pick could land us a legit SF.

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Niko and Ajinca will be 17.5 mill expiring. Add Miller's 2.1 mill, the team will have 19.6 mill in expiring contracts and their 2019 first round pick. 1st round picks and expiring contracts are very valuable trade chips, the Pels are in good shape in both of those categories.

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It’s kind of a buzzkill on here, as many could care less about the playoffs,

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You really like making mountains out of mole hills. There is indeed a recent thread where someone ponders if the team would be better off missing the playoffs to get rid of Gentry. Most people have chosen to ignore such a silly thread and the vast majority of people that did participate in it told the OP they didn't agree with him. Exactly 2 people chimed in as "could care less about the playoffs", not "many". But that doesn't matter to you because for some reason you think that if you shame the small group of hardcore fans on this board hard enough that thousands of casual fans will just magically start going to games more often.

While I do think we have the power to impact the topic of the day among Pelicans fans by being one of the few viable Pels message boards, we don't have the power to pack the SKC. So please stop attacking us thinking you're getting closer to your goal, you aren't, you're just pissing off your fellow hardcore fans for no good reason.

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Dell and Gentry have done solid jobs this year.

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I'd clean house for a potential top 5 coach but I don't think any other level of replacement will do as well as this staff has done. For everything that Gentry lacks, one of his bigger attributes when he was hired was that he will listen to and work with his staff, and I think they've assembled a strong staff to support him. When I look at what the Pels need to do to improve, X's and O's and even game management is usually pretty far down the list of problems.

To me the roster is where the opportunity for improvement lies, not the coaching and schemes. Whoever the GM is will have their options pretty limited unless/until you are ready to blow up the AD/DC era and start over.

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all the team needs is a quality SF to be a legit contender.

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I think they need another starting caliber guard too. Maybe the right SF minimizes that need, but Rondo has too many holes in his game to be the every night solution at PG, and Jrue plays better when he has at least some creation and ball handling help.

Things can change quickly in the NBA, at this point last year I don't think anyone expected Kyrie Irving to be traded during the summer. So I think the team should hold out waiting for a disgruntled star to be available. If there isn't a disgruntled star though, not many playoff teams would be willing to trade a starting caliber player on a reasonable contract for future assets and not many bad teams have reasonably paid starters that are available.

With the assets the Pels have a player like Fournier seems to be one of the few available options. I don't think Dragic will be available as the Heat paid a lot to be a mediocre also ran playoff team which they need Dragic for. Philly is interesting because they have a lot of players that play the same position. Could you get a Covington or Saric for some package of Ajinca/Niko/Moore and a pick? Maybe get a 3rd team involved to take one or both of Niko/Moore and send a 2nd pick to Philly?