Day 2 of 170: The Danny Granger Experience – Coming to a Town Near You

Categorized as: Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball
Posted on: October 30th, 2008

Oh, glorious NBA action is back in our lives. With the first full day of NBA games behind us, lets roll on with the fantasy lines.

Line of the Night: Danny Granger (1.02). The Danny Granger Experience™ is off fantastic start. For those of you who took a chance on Granger in the second/third round of your drafts, you’ve got to be happy with this line: 33 points/10-16 from the floor/5 rebounds/2 steals/3 blocks. The Pacers will be Mike Dunleavy-less for the next couple weeks, which means that Granger is going to have to handle the scoring duties of two men until Dunleavy returns. I think he’s capable.

Honorable Mentions: Josh Smith (0.93) came in a close second with 17 and 10, adding 4 steals and 5 blocks. Corey Maggette (0.76) had a nice and efficient debut for the Warriors, scoring 27 points off 8-11 shooting.

Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Spencer Hawes (0.74). Really. The dude finished with the fourth best line of last night thanks to a career-high 14 rebounds along with 12 points and 6 blocks! At this point, Spencer is still only a short-term add as he is (temporarily?) starting while Brad Miller serves a five game suspension for some marijuana tokage. But, if he can continue to play at that level, the Kings starting center spot might become his sooner than we anticipated.

Jarvis Hayes had 14 points, 5 boards and 3 steals for New Jersey against his former team the Wizards. But most important was the 30 minutes he got off the bench compared to Bobby Simmons 18. Don’t count on Simmons keeping that starting gig for much longer.

The Biggest Loser: Greg Oden owners. If you were one of the unlucky people to draft Greg Oden, do you give up on your season now, or do you wait a month until he hurts himself again? I’m just curious.

In actual on the court news, did Jamario Moon (-0.4) catch lightening in a bottle last year? I was hoping for a little more from him than his performance last night: 6 points and 1 rebound. Mike Bibby put on a nice shooting performance if you dig masonry work, going 4-15 from the floor (0-6 from three) with 4 assists. And Antawn Jamison (-0.1) was 1-8 from three and finished with only 3 rebounds.

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