If you had to trade one, who would it be?

[Destin]

Orlando must get better at starting PF. Either Oladipo or Fournier is the future at SG: only one and not both. One of these two needs to be shipped. So together I conclude that some sort of trade must be made with either Oladipo or Fournier plus Gordon with a future 1st is a path to get a Cousins type. Let's call it Oladipo, as the Magic need scoring. And yes I believe that Cousins can play PF and would complement Vučević.

Oladipo and Gordon plus the Magic's 2016 1st for Cousins seems fair to me.

Resultant team:
Payton/Napier/Watson
Fournier/Hezonja
Harris/Marble
Cousins/Frye/Nicholson
Vučević/Smith/Dedmon

This is a balanced, deep team that can win an NBA title.

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SF Mario Hezonja

This dude sucks. He is not good at all, he is soft, he shoots like garbage, he's VERY lost. Right now, he is my very least favorite on this team besides Devyn Marble. I get that he is new but this kid is so far out of his league and it shows every time he steps foot on the court. Hope he proves me wrong

[drsd]

All Rookies suck. He is not good at all, he is soft, he shoots like garbage, he's VERY lost.

Type in "horrible rookie seasons" or look at the PER for all rookies this year, and you will see that there is no case to be made for playing a rookie. Even overall #1's have hurt their teams over the last 20 years. Rookies are always historically bad.

Indeed by real plus/minus the worst player in the league is Jahlil Okafor and Emmanuel Mudiay is the 3rd worst player in the league. Heck, Hezonja is "only" the 396th worst player in the league, which is some 20 places above the cellar.


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