I agree with this. None of them is worth something without a couple of stars that gets them going. We are still getting role players before stars.
I'd be happy to ship Lee and either pick to CHI for Noah. Of course, if Martin's also on the way out, plus maybe Lowry, I'd say we should use our other pick on a SG, and still trade for another one (or a PG).
Chicago is thinking about trading Lol Deng and Asik? That's definitely news to me. I haven't seen that anywhere.
If the choices are payin Asik 8M for CLee or Pau 19M and giving up pieces... I'd jus assume pay Okafor his 13M and pocket the #10 pick...for spare parts (Sam/PPat/Bud...).
I know you like Asik CH, but he's a zero on offense. I also wonder about him as a starter. At least gortat showed great flashes as howards backup. If nash leaves, I would prefer a trade for gortat vs paying asik perkins money. Gortat is a much better player. Asik really wouldn't improve the rockets team imo.
Asik is NOT that good, remmeber the Fysenko hype back in the day I would rather go with Drummond or Zeller, not some backup maxed out big(who has no jumpshot, and no post game)