Day 1 of 170: Drew Gooden for MVP!

Categorized as: Fantasy Basketball
Posted on: October 29th, 2008

I breathed a Windy City sigh this morning when I went to NBA.com and found that while they still offer their sortable statistics including Fantasy Ratings, it looks like someone forgot to flip the ON switch. So, instead, I head to the ever reliable Basketball Monster.

Let’s see if I can remember all the daily categories off the top of my head…

Line of the Night: Drew Gooden bitchez! He had a 0.86 which doesn’t sound like a lot, but only 29 players were above 0 last night, so there’s that. Gooden had 13 and 8 with 3 steals and a block, and only turned the ball over once. He also shot 57% from the field and made all 5 free throws. I’ll take it! I’m starting him on my Battle of the Bloggers league team and now that Greg Oden is out and since I also have Manu Ginobli on that team, I’m going to need Gooden to continue getting LotN pretty much every game.

Honorable Mentions: Rudy Fernandez (0.83) had 16/2/4 with 3 threes and 2 steals – I’m sure everyone who took him in the last round is happy now; Michael Redd (0.72) made 4 threes on 52% shooting en route to 30 points, and in typical Michael Redd style, there wasn’t much else; Kobe (0.64) came in 4th with 23/11/5 which normally would be a LotN style line, but he had 5 turnovers. Still, that’s what you expect from Kobe, and the kind of performance you look for from your first rounder.

Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Trevor Ariza (0.62) came off the bench for LA and got pretty close to Kobe in the rankings. He’s probably still be available in normal-sized leagues. His 11/2/1 isn’t much, but the 2 threes, 1 steal, and 2 blocks with 0 turnovers is good cross-category filler.

Jordan Farmar (0.35) was another Laker who made the Top 12 last night with 9/6/6. He only shot 25% from the field, but made all 4 free throws.

The Biggest Loser: Greg Oden (-0.66). Ouch. Literally. 5 rebounds and a block isn’t bad for 13 minutes of play from the big guy, but we’ll have to wait to see how injured he is after only 1 game in the league. Visions of Sam Bowie anyone?

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