As the team has looked stronger and more coherent over these past 3 games thanks to improving health and the luxury of playing Cleveland twice, it's starting to look like we can make a serious push for the playoffs in the ridiculous West this year. I think it's more realistic and probably smarter for the team (and its fans) to look for a smaller move that can help fill our lack of depth on the wing while not sacrificing too many of our future assets.
I'm keeping up with the Lakers and Pistons game right now and while it sucks the Pistons can't give the Lakers a much wanted loss to help our standing out West, I am thinking Pistons might be sellers near the deadline. After a blazing hot 4-0 start, the Pistons are now about to be 17-22 and out of the playoffs out East. Given that the Pistons are nowhere near close to contenders and haven't been for a while, I don't imagine any player besides Griffin and Drummond is untouchable for them. With that in mind, I think it would make a lot of sense for this team to try to make a move at Reggie Bullock.
He is a 6'7 SG/SF that is an absolute deadeye from 3. Thanks to his long arms and super quick release, he's able to get off a high volume of quality 3PA coming in at over 6 attempts per game this year (a career high) while still being right around 40%. This also limits the amount of dribbling (something he is not bad at either) he has to do in order to be effective and keeps his TO% low. When I see him play, I'm reminded very much of a taller Anthony Morrow (6'5) who played great for the Thunder for a while and the Pelicans too. It's always a nice x factor to have some capable of just going off for 15-20 on super high efficiency on any given night. Obviously, he's not perfect and won't help much defensively and definitely wouldn't help with rebounding, but I think in spite of this he would definitely make our squad better. Despite our offense being one of the most efficient and fast paced in the league, we are near the bottom of the NBA in both 3 point percentage and attempts.
I think a trade of Darius Miller & a 2019 Pelicans 2nd round draft pick for Reggie Bullock would make sense for both teams and is the type of trade the Pelicans should go for. Reggie Bullock immediately can take all of Darius' minutes along with the random minutes given to Williams/Solo/Johnson and fit a great need of a 3pt shooter. Meanwhile, the Pistons get a player that they can use to while they pretend to try to win and collect a future asset along the way. Reggie Bullock is a UFA this summer anyways and players like him move usually move around a lot of teams since their shooting is always so coveted. At least this way the Pistons will have a more long term asset. Honestly, I'm such a Bullock fan I'd be willing to give up two 2nd rounders but it's always hard to gauge players' value as a fan since we're dealing with incomplete information - namely value perceive through the lens of all 30 NBA GMs.
I'd like to hear what you guys can come up with that could pick up a similar type of player! I think small moves like this that don't lose flexibility while improving current winning chances would be best if possible. Memphis just did something similar to get Justin Holiday and maybe we should too.