Mo Williams to Cleveland Roundup

Categorized as: Fantasy Basketball
Posted on: August 14th, 2008

Here’s the AP article with quotes from players and talk about impact on the teams involved.

Points in the Paint focuses on the PGs in the trade, and while the PGs are certainly the most important, I think overlooking Joe Smith in this trade is a fault. While Smith won’t be high on anyone’s fantasy hit list, he is still a decent PF, and could be a valuable Free Agent pick up during the season. PitP talks a lot about Mo Williams, so you should read that, and then he hits this money quote about Loo Rid and Earl Watson:

Luke Ridnour and Earl Watson – These guys were competing for playing the time last couple of years like 40 year old virgins at a party at the PLAYBOY mansion.

I’ve always like Luke, but the Bucks are stupid if they don’t let Ramon Sessions start, at least at the beginning of the season. They also picked up Damon Jones in the trade and Tyronn Lue as a Free Agent, so the backup PG spot is going to be a mess.

Hoops Fantasy’s Stephen Kersey has a quick, balanced analysis.

Here’s my take, basically Mo Williams was right at the edge of the Top 50 fantasy players. That won’t change up or down, really. Ridnour will continue to wallow in fantasy obscurity unless Sessions gets injured or can’t perform. Desmond Mason is always a pretty big question mark. Kevin Durant and Jeff Green are not going to give up enough minutes for Mason be worth drafting, and he doesn’t really provide any unique stats that you’ll want to fill holes in your lineup. Joe Smith, as I mentioned, could be a decent bench fantasy player if Nick Collison or Chris Wilcox get injured (or if OKC decides to give him more time than Collison).

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