You have Gordon being the main value in a DeRozan trade. That's not a flier at that point. It's deciding to take him rather than a more amorphous asset. I don't think you do that when you're blowing it up. If he is good, he's helping you win too many games. If he's not he's definitely not helping more than a future pick would. I definitely don't think you can call trading DeRozan, LMA and Gay a path towards winning now. At best, they're like the 2017-2018 Spurs but with an All-NBA Aldridge or anyone like him providing the baseline offense needed to make a defense-first team work.