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Yeah it would work out for both parties. Orlando has no playmaker and is severely lacking someone who can shoot and drive and have plenty of touches. He would also be playing with people who could cover for his defensive liabilities. It allows Orlando to address the point guard position either next draft or via trade.

I honestly don't think Orlando will be awful this year if we get a point guard. We had a shit ton of injuries last year. Our best 6 players missed more games last year than the previous 4 seasons combined. Fournier, Vuc, Gordon all missed 20+ games. Ross missed almost the entire season. Isaac looked great when he played except he only played 25 games. By the time people got healthy, season was too far gone to actually try win games.

With Thomas we'd line up something like:

Thomas
Fournier
Isaac
Gordon
Bamba

Rotation: Simmons, Ross, Vucevic, Augustin

That isn't awful and is fringe playoffs in the east but likely missing out (mid 30s for wins). Last year for large swathes of the year we were rolling out teams from Augustin, Hezonja, Simmons, Iwundu, Biyombo, Mack, Afflalo, Speights and D-leaguers (Purvis, Birch, Payne) with like 1 or 2 of our actual starters