re: Looking back, where could all of this been prevented?

Not sure a S&T was ever on the table from the Suns. I remember reading the Suns never offered one. They were just trying to steal an asset. Losing Lopez did put into motion the Asik debacle. Asik played very well in Houston before Howard arrived. But resigning him for that stupid contract when you could have signed guys like Zaza, javale McGee or Biyombo that year for hardly nothing was just stupid. He should have never signed long term contracts (Moore, hill, Asik) and kept the roster flexible.

Honestly think the only thing that coulda kept AD here was drafting the Greek freak or Gobert the year we traded for Jrue. We needed to have guys break in on our team from the beginning. Instead of getting guys that are not happy to be traded here.