I'd love to have Noel, but #3 is also a stiff price for 1 year of control. Maybe if we could nab a shooter and trade on future picks in the following fantasy:
#3, #31 for #5 (Hield) + future 1st (Minnesota)
#23, BRK17 for Noel
Smart, #16, MIN1st, MEM1st, BRK18 <=> Cousins
Then we'd be potentially trotting out:
Thomas / Hield / Crowder / Cousins / Noel
That's a lot of scoring with IT/Hield/Cousins, and a lot of defensive potential as well with Bradley coming off the bench and Crowder/Cousins/Noel all very good defenders. Hield hopefully above average with time defensively. KO, Jerebko, Rozier, Hunter, Mickey off the bench with decisions to make on Sully and Turner.
Noel gets big money next summer, but he'll be on the lower scale and Cousins underpaid.
And of course this is real sexy:
Thomas / Hield / DURANT / Cousins / Noel