How to balance this Pelicans team?

[jbent87]

How about Kyle Lowry > Holiday? That's a nice improvement, if you can drop one of those bad contacts (Asik, Hill, Moore) you can add some additional help in Gay, if you can drop two of them you could add Reddick! Now you're cookin haha!

Lowry
Reddick
Hill?
Davis
Cousins

how do you do that though? Where is the infinite amount of cap space coming from to make this team work?

[Euphonetiks]

Create Cap space and acquire a draft pick by trading Asik

Turn Ajinca into a first round pick and draft Sindarius Thorwell

What is this dark magic you speak of?

[mvpelicans]

trade Cousins + Asik for Mozgov + Clarkson + draft 2 ----> Josh Jackson
then if Holiday leaves, sign and trade for Rubio.

Rubio Clarkson Jackson Davis Mozgov
Frazier Moore Crawford Hill Diallo Ajinca

[Mrakar]

Try to resign Holiday and sign Teodosic from Europe and play Holiday as 2 guard.
Teodosic
Holiday
Hill
Davis
Cousins

Now u have some good floor spacing and great playmaker in Teodosic and u hope other 4 guys can hide him on defense.

[Hoopz Afrik]

trade Cousins + Asik for Mozgov + Clarkson + draft 2 ----> Josh Jackson
then if Holiday leaves, sign and trade for Rubio.

Rubio Clarkson Jackson Davis Mozgov
Frazier Moore Crawford Hill Diallo Ajinca

(Almost) every scenario in which you move Cousins before the season starts is a fail.