Day 136 of 170: Beard Up.

Categorized as: Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball, Golden State Warriors, NBA Cheerleaders
Posted on: March 14th, 2008

Today’s Out of Context Quote: “Right from the start we had no sharpness to ourselves at all… I’m lost… I don’t get this game”

-Portland coach Nate McMillen (more or less)

Line of the Night: Technically, today it’s a tie. But since I like Baron Davis’ (6.4) 38/9/8 line with 6 threes and 3 steals a lot more than Amare Stoudemire’s (6.4) 36 and 11 with 4 blocks (10-12 from the line), I’ll give this one to Davis despite the fact that the Warriors lost to the Suns 123-115 yesterday.

Honorable Mentions: Amare; Ron Artest (5.4) is a simple man who likes to shoot the ball (22 points) and rip the ball from your cold, preferably dead, hands (6 steals); 21 points with 13 assists and 4 threes for the (Steve) Nashster (5.2); and Brandon Roy (4.6) had 21/9/6 with a couple steals.

Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Aleksandar “Sasha” Pavlovic (3.9). Like the Sonics, the Cleveland Cavaliers have learned that the best place for Wally Szczerbiak (2.0) is anywhere but on the basketball court. Yesterday, Devin Brown got some play and earned the WWLotN, and today it’s Pavlovic who appears to have been fully worked back into the Cavs rotation. He got 28 minutes last night and finished with 5 threes and 24 points.

Also Rising: If Delonte West (4.1) is available in your league, pick him up, because he shouldn’t be; as Farid of Fantasy Basketball Pros noticed a couple days ago, Mickael Pietrus (3.7) is starting for the Warriors over Andris Biedrins and has been putting up some good board and steal numbers (8 and 2 yesterday); and, I’m just throwing this out there, do whatever you want with this information, but the Vanilla Gorilla Joel Przybilla (3.6) had 10 rebounds and 3 blocks. I’m just saying.

Welcome Back: Caron Butler (2.6) returned to the Wizards on his birthday and played a whopping 42 minutes, scoring 19 and adding 6 boards. I’m all for getting the guy back on the court, but 42 minutes after missing the previous 16 games? Isn’t that a tiny bit excessive?

The Biggest Loser: Today, it’s Kevin Martin (1.8) by the distance a Zach Randolph three misses the rim; it’s not even close. Martin scored 6 points off 2-11 shooting, adding 2 rebounds, 1 assist and 4 turnovers in 25 minutes of play. You can blame this one on Tom Ziller, who predicted Martin would go off against the Blazers (it was almost as good as my Louis Williams prediction).

Friday’s Tiny Dancer: I will try and do Nels proud with today’s selection. In honor of Baron Davis, today we have Golden State Warrior Girl Alexis.

There’s a lot to like about Alexis. Not only does she blog, but her favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber, her favorite food is hamburgers, and her favorite kind of dancing is street jazz. Yes, street jazz. That’s my favorite too! We should meet, I’m a big fan of hamburgers as well. Oh, and I almost forgot, Alexis has a twin sister named Lauren. Mmmmmmmmmm……….

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