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What i find funny and also depressing at the same time is this:

We look at other teams who appear to have the same financial issues and the same roster issues, yet they find ways to overcome it and add good better players. Just watch, the Suns will find a way to get out of this hole. 

Look at what the Lakers did at the trade deadline. That was masterful. They were headed towards outside of play-in range and had the terrible Westbrook contract that everyone ripped them for.

Somehow how they pulled off the Hachimura trade as well as getting Russell, Vanderbilt, and Beasley for Westbrook.  

When are we going to make a trade that adds assets and adds talents and not the other way around.

I still think we are in better situation than Suns and that our trade for Kyrie is way better than theirs for KD.

Sending all your depth and good young player who is not so far behind KD with all your picks for 35 old KD is desperate move and try to get a ring in next 1-2 seasons. After that what? 

Hopefully, this season Nuggets will do the job and kick them out. Next season, Paul is going to 1 year older and is declining. They will desperately need a pg and they are without assets. 

In my opinion, i wouldn't do any deal with them (Kyrie), because that deal makes them immediately better than us. 

Agree with Lakers trade, but Westbrook was expiring and is younger than Paul, that's why i don't think they can pull a similar thing.

We are not so bad as the results show this season. We changed direction from the team who was builded to grow up for years and together achieve results (JB), to the later Kyrie trade (win now mode).

We didn't lose all our depth and draft picks with that trade, but our roster become really imbalanced. And this offseason is going to be good task for FO to adress this.

With resigned Kyrie our roster in my opinion have much more depth than most of the others contenders. We lack of players on 4-5 and that's it.

Hopefully, we will solve 1 problem in this years draft. Maybe we can add some depth at the 4 in the offseason (Crowder, DFS, O'neal) and wait if we can pull a trade for a center until TDL, and with that i can see us becoming contender a next season.