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Day 145 of 170: Watch the Kings… For Fantasy Purposes Only, Of Course

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Categorized as: Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball
Posted on: March 23rd, 2008

A Happy Easter to all those celebrating! Now on to yesterday’s games.

Line of the Night: Joe Johnson’s (5.2) line isn’t a wower, it’s just all-around good. Johnson shot 12-20 from the floor, 7-7 from the line, and finished with 34/5/7, 3 steals and a block as the Hawks beat the Magic 98-90.

Honorable Mentions: Squatters’ Rights? Amare Stoudemire (5.1) spent his night at the free throw line, going 20-20 and finishing with 38 points, 13 rebounds, and 4 blocks; Mo Williams (4.6) was 9-11 from the floor, scoring 29 with 13 assists; Andre Iguodala (4.2) went for 28/7/5 with 3 steals; why won’t Mike Dunleavy (4.1) stop being good? Yesterday he had 25/4/4 with 3 threes; and my boy Troy Murphy (4.0) hit 5 threes on his way to 24 points (Troy, thanks, but I need boards).

Waiver Wire Line of the Night: If your team is desperately in need of threes, then Juan Carlos Navarro (3.8) is your man. Yesterday, he was 6-9 for three and scored 22 points in only 29 minutes. He’s not going to get you much else, but trust La Bomba for those threes.

With both Ron Artest and Brad Miller and Beno Udrih racking up DNPs for the Kings latest game, both Francisco Garcia (3.6) and Spencer Hawes (3.6) came ready to play. Garcia played 31 minutes and was 7-13 from the floor, finishing with 15/4/4, 3 steals and a couple blocks. Hawes had 19 and 12 with 3 blocks in 38 minutes of action. I know no one wants to pay attention to the Kings, but if Artest or Miller were to miss any significant time, these two guys could have a lot of value.

And yesterday, Jeff Green (3.5) showcased an all around game that demonstrated why he could be a sleeper pick NEXT year, with 23 points, 7 boards, 3 assists, a couple threes and a block in 34 minutes on the court.

The Biggest Loser: As a Richard Jefferson (1.8) owner, I expect exactly one thing from him – good percentages. And while he was 5-5 from the line yesterday, he also shot 3-15 from the floor and finished with 11 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists while playing 44 minutes.

Dishonorable Mentions: Andrei Kirilenko (2.0) shot 1-7 from the field and scored 7 points in 30 minutes (although he did have 6 boards and 4 assists); and you’d think Al Thornton (1.5) could do better with 39 minutes than 2-11, 5 points, 6 rebounds, and 1 assist.

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  • Leonard

    No joke about Jeff Green being a sleeper NEXT year. He’s been this year’s Rudy Gay for me where I’m sure next year is going to go very late and be amazing.

    Beno Udrih or Agent Zero?

    If I’m not wrong they both will be back tomorrow. At the moment I have a bye week so have a little time for them to get better. I have Agent Zero and someone dropped Beno yesterday but I know he’s not going to be on the wire by tomorrow.

  • http://www.fantasybasketballpros.com Farid

    any idea what’s going on with artest? i’m too lazy to look it up

  • Nasir

    How did Przybilla’s game rate on your player rater?

  • http://www.givemetherock.com Patrick

    @Leonard, I’m totally with you on Jeff Green. Now I just need some kind of plan to remember what I said about him come next October. Regarding Arenas vs Beno, both have 4 games on the week and both may or may not play in their team’s next game. If you’re going to take the chance with one of them, I’d go with Arenas. He’s been practicing for a while now and has a new contract to play for, so I think he’s going to come out of the gate gunning.

    @Farid, without looking it up, Artest has a sore something or other (knee, back, head) and was sat to rest it. Sounds like one of those day-to-day injuries that veterans on non-playoff teams get all the time. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him miss a few more games while he “rests”.

    @Nasir – Przybilla came in at number 9 on the GMTR player rater for yesterday’s games, right behind Vince Carter. His game was probably hurt by the fact that he had no assists, steals, threes or FTs. Still, 25 boards is impressive. I actually didn’t notice his line or I would have mentioned something. I love when guys do crazy stuff like that.