Day 142 of 170: Vince Carter Still Matters?

Categorized as: Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball, New Jersey Nets
Posted on: March 20th, 2008

The second in an ongoing series of randomly distributed Where Are They Now? posts.

Line of the Night: On a night when both Chris Paul and LeBron James played the game of basketball, neither of them had a performance that matched that of Half-Man Half-Retired Vince Carter (5.43). Carter has been sort of middling around in the regions of fantasy relevancy, and while his #45 rating for the season puts him in the early-middle rounds for next year, his 39 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists, and 2 threes on 17/26 shooting made him #1 for a night.

Honorable Mentions: Yowza! Hedo Turkoglu (5.24) also had 39 points! Much of that came from his 7 threes, and 10/14 free throws. He also had 6 rebs, 3 asts, 1 stl, and 1 blk. Antawn Jamison (5.12) also decided to score a bunch of points, with 31 with 3 threes, and also pull down 11 rebounds and 4 steals. Steve Nash (4.79) had 23 and 11 (assists), with 5 threes; Troy Murphy (4.78) had 23 and 13 (rebounds) with 3 threes and 3 blocks; finally we get to LeBron (4.75) who had 30/7/6; Devin Harris (4.71) bounced back from a 4 point outing with 26 points, 9 assists, 3 threes, and 3 steals.

Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Bonzi Wells (4.22) has had 2 decent games in a row now, scoring 25 points with 2 steals and 3 blocks last night. We all know (or should know) that Bonzi can score when he gets the chance, but the steals and blocks are surprising.

The Biggest Loser: This was kind of a tough one, but I’m going to select Shaquille O’Neal (1.64) today for his 9 point, 8 rebound outing. That’s not terrible by itself, but the big fella only shot 4/9 from the field, and 1/5 from the free throw line. He had no assists, no steals, and no blocks, and 4 turnovers. Now those 9 points and 8 rebounds are looking a little hard to swallow.

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