Need to get rid of Asik and make a run at Deandre Jordan

Nah

You mean get rid of Asik+one or more of Gordon/Tyreke/Ryno?

Nah

The new scheme may suit Ryno and Gordon. I don't think we can afford Jordan if we keep both Ryno and Girdin. We would wreck the boards with Jordan.

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Get this idea out of your head right now. Going after any $20 million player besides a superstar like KD isnt' worth the cost. To clear that much cap space you have to let Asik walk, drop the MLE, Ajinca's bird righta and Gordon.

DeAndre Jordon or Goran Dragic
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Asik/Gordon/Ajinca/Gerald Green

It is not nearly as simple as "replacing" Asik with Jordan. And that's assuming you can dump Gordon. If you can't dump Gordon then you have to dump Tyreke or Ryno and since they make less than Gordon you'd have to sacrifice Cole and Pondexter as well.

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While I tend to agree for the most part, let me play around on the other side.

Demps is fantastic at getting 7th, 8th, 9th men out of thin air. If you can get a stud, why not go get him and trust Dell to do it again.

Let's say you let Asik walk and can find a suitor for Gordon where you get nothing back, and that's how you land Jordan. Then, you just have the Room Exception after that. You would have

Jrue/Cole
Reke/
Q-Pon/
AD/Ryno
Jordan/

You would have the 56th pick, the Room Exception and minimum deals to fill out the roster. Not ideal, but at that point you trust in Dell to eventually work his magic and fill out spots 8-10 by February at the latest.

Again, not saying I am 100% on board with this plan, but I can make the argument.

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Jrue/Cole 
Reke/ 
Q-Pon/ 
AD/Ryno 
Jordan/ 

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We let go of Cunningham?


And if we do this, could we trade Anderson to help fill out the roster

No. We should get rid of Asik though.

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Demps is fantastic at getting 7th, 8th, 9th men out of thin air.

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While true, this is an exaggeration of sorts. Austin Rivers was worthless to us by the time we traded him, but it took the #10 pick to get him. Same thing can be said of Juju for Belinelli. Jason Smith took a late 1st (Brackens), so did Vasquez (Pondexter). Lopez took cap space that was available because we dumped Jack (the proceeds from trading our 1st for Bayless). I'm not saying he couldn't, just that we're running out of the "trash", which typically starts out as a C level asset, that he can turn into treasure.

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Again, not saying I am 100% on board with this plan, but I can make the argument.

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Asik/Gordon is definitely the only option. You lose too much for sure if you can't find a taker for Gordon.

If Deandre showed interest in us then we'd be foolish not to at least explore getting the space for him. But he more than likely will not and it certainly wouldn't be worth it to lose Asik+Gordon and the MLE for a chance at him.

People are retarded.

And you're right, you don't make that drastic a move unless it's to get a superstar (KD). Deandre is not that.

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He turned Salmons into Cole.

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He turned the Room Level Exception into Cole.

Of the other guys you listed, Cunningham is the only one that had an immediate impact and he had highly unusual circumstances. Everyone else that he got for a minimum deal, true trash, took at least half a season and an offseason of assimilation to become useful pieces. I'm a Demps fan, I just don't think he can turn minimum contracts into immediate rotation players. All the minimum guys have taken time to work their way into the rotation. Now maybe Gentry will be quicker to trust guys than Monty was, I just think if you go this route, you better be ok with being 7 deep this season.