Best Hypothetical Star Addition To This Team?

[Snakebites]

I get the feeling the “player who will contribute to the playoffs” is no longer part of the league worse Pelicans ask for Trey.

I do think there’s a reasonable case to be made that it actually makes sense for them to keep Trey though.

[MotownMadness]

They probably wouldn’t move Murphy. Dumars has never really been a tanker and already traded his pick.

[tmorgan]

I realize they have execs that haven’t been sensible at times, but it seems like the direction for NOLA is pretty clear.

Build around Fears and Queen. The former is a dynamic, athletic scoring PG that’s still working on his passing skills and defense — think Ja-lite, without being a total moron off the court. The latter is a smaller Jokic-(very) lite, with unimpressive athletic ability and defense but a very strong feel for the game as a playmaking big.

What do you put around those guys? Shooting and defense. Herb and Trey are good fits already, no real reason to move them. Queen will be a godawful defensive center, he needs to be a 4 and you live with the defense there. They need a strong defensive center, which probably isn’t Missi, but he’s fine for now. Zion needs to be gone. The bench is smaller stuff to work on.

It would be pretty dumb to trade Trey unless the offer is a Bane-level overpay. We don’t want to do that, I imagine.