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    • Day 23 of 170: Shaq Twitters Um Um Um

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    Categorized as: Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball
    Posted on: November 20th, 2008

    Line of the Night:On a night full of good performance, it was Chris Kaman’s (1.57) 25 points, 14 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 blocks that can be held up as a shining beacon of sweet, sweet goodness. While Kaman’s dominate game came against the OKC’s non-stopper Robert (can I call you Bob) Swift, you have to feel good about Kaman’s fantasy performance up to this point in the season. He’s had double-digit rebounding totals in 8 of LA’s 11 games and has had double-doubles in 7 of those games. His rebounding is down about 2/game from last year, which is not all too bad considering he is now competing with Marcus Camby for boards.

    Honorable Mentions: Dwyane Wade (1.52) was edged out by Kaman for LotN despite throwing down 40 points and 11 assists in a loss to Toronto; The Wizards are hugely disappointing, but don’t blame Caron Butler (1.48) and his 32 points and 4 threes; Andrei Kirilenko (1.14) played some point for the Jazz yesterday. Hey, whatever works. AK the PG had 5 steals and 4 blocks; and a career-high 14 rebounds for Marvin Williams (1.02), who also hit the go-ahead three for the Hawks with 26 seconds left in the game.

    Waiver Wire Line of the Night:Andrea Bargnani (0.93) is owned in only 48% of Yahoo leagues, so I guess he kind of counts as a waiver wire guy (or free agent, if you subscribe to the Nels’ school of Linguistics). A season high 25 points and 37 for A-Barg. He’s also starting now at the expense of Jamario Moon and his poor, stupid owners, so he seems like a safe buy.

    In deeper leagues, my boy Joel Przybilla (0.9) had 14 and 9. Of course, it came against the super sucktastic Bulls’ centers, so I’d advise against picking him up. Especially with Greg Oden (11 and 10) looking strong and ready to take back his starting role.

    In an amazing display of space and time, Damien Wilkins (0.7) scored 17 points, had 5 rebounds, 2 threes and 2 steals in less than 21 minutes on the court. Wilkins has been out of the Thunder’s rotation this season, but with Desmond Mason injured and out for the next two weeks or so, he could be a decent short-term add if you’re fairly desperate for offense stats.

    Biggest Loser: With a blazing start to his career, the expectations for Derrick Rose (-0.51) have been ramped up a notch. But, he’s still a rookie, which means there will be inconsistent games this season. Yesterday, he shot 1-8 from the field and had 6 points and 1 assist in 30 minutes.

    Dishonorable Mentions: Mehmet Okur (-0.36) only played 20 minutes yesterday, missed all three shots he took and scored 1 point.

    All Eyez on Me: Nels gets all the easy daily recaps… Only two games tonight, but they are good ones:

    Detroit @ Boston – the return of KG off his one game suspension and a possible preview of the Eastern Conference Championship series. The one thing I know: this will not be a game full of great fantasy performances, with the possible exception of Paul Pierce, who I predict will take 132 free throws tonight.

    LA Lakers @ Phoenix – And the question on everyone’s mind is – what’s on Shaq’s mind? Yes, the real Shaq is apparently Twittering. Don’t confuse it with the new GMTR Twitter feed, or more accurately, Nels’ GMTR Twitter. Don’t worry Nels, I’ll sign up and give it a try, although I’m not sure I can write a coherent thought in less than 1000 words.

    Anyway, a taste of what’s currently on the real Shaq’s mind:

    Im at dinner wit the wifey deluxe burger in phoenix, um um um

    ABOUT TO EAT DINNER, I PASSED UP 20 MCDONALDS TODAY. I COULDNT DO IT I’M ON A DIET,BUT MCDONALDS FRIES R THE BEST UM UM UM

    I just texted gary payton, one of the greatest point guards ever

    Don’t get yourself in too deep, cause you won’t be able to get the smell off.

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    • seanlb

      the best part of my day yesterday was the two hour span in which i started following shaq and GMTR on twitter.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/BrendanK BrendanK

      What's the over-under on Shaq caring about his Twitter account? 9 days?

      Man do I hate that guy.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/nelswadycki Nels

      While Okur may be a loser last night, I'm just glad to see he's back in the country.

      As for Marvin Williams – that was a positively Marionesque line last night: 21/14/4 with the three you mentioned, 2 steals, and a block. He shot 50% and 100%. Oh, did I pick him in the Readers' League? I believe I did. Look at that.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/nelswadycki Nels

      I'm still looking for the over-under on if that's even really Shaq.

    • Kevin

      Hey guys, need some free agent/waiver advice. I'm running a small ball team in a standard 12man h2h league. Someones just dropped david lee and shane battier is available as a free agent. My teams consists of:

      Billups
      iverson
      hamilton
      melo
      marion
      jason thompson
      rasheed wallace
      oden
      alston
      ridnour
      chalmers
      duhon
      devin harris

      There are reports that shane battier will be back next week or so, I can afford to drop one of my guys this week as I've built a sizeable lead this week. Now my quesiton is, who do you guys think the better pick up is, lee or battier? (i've got the second waiver priority but I'm not sure if I wanna use it on lee ). In terms of which point guard to drop its between ridnour and chalmers, I was leaning towards….ridnour as I like chalmers upside and steals. What do you guys think?

      Thanks in advance

    • Kevin

      or even dropping ridnour + thompson for both lee and battier?

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/biggs0 Patrick

      Well, you certainly have an extra point guard or three on your team. Yes, I'd target Battier for a pickup if he's available. In terms of droppability, I'd order it:

      1) chalmers, 2) ridnour, 3) thompson

      It wouldn't surprise me to see Chalmers lose his starting job at some point in the season. Ridnour doesn't carry the excitement of Chalmers, but they've had about the same value so far this season and Ridnour will see more consistent minutes (well, until he gets hurt, in which case, drop him).

      Based on where he stands on the GMTR player rater, I wouldn't drop anyone you have for Lee at the moment. He seems to be the odd man out of that Knicks rotation with the emergence of Wilson Chandler. Keep an eye on him just in case, though.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/biggs0 Patrick

      I thought about giving a pass to Okur today for that very reason. Ultimately, I'm an asshole.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/biggs0 Patrick

      I promise to start giving daily updates about what food I'm eating um um um.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/BrendanK BrendanK

      Didn't I draft him the mock league? Okay, just making sure I'm any good at fantasy at all after how my year has started EVERYWHERE ELSE.

    • http://www.pregnancy123.com/ Andrea

      Boy he is really interesting huh. I thought him and his wife were getting a divorce. i wonder if they are going to have another baby or two. Why not, they can afford it.

    • http://www.pregnancy123.com/ Andrea

      Boy he is really interesting huh. I thought him and his wife were getting a divorce. i wonder if they are going to have another baby or two. Why not, they can afford it.

    • http://www.pregnancy123.com/ Andrea

      Boy he is really interesting huh. I thought him and his wife were getting a divorce. i wonder if they are going to have another baby or two. Why not, they can afford it.

    • http://www.pregnancy123.com/ Andrea

      Boy he is really interesting huh. I thought him and his wife were getting a divorce. i wonder if they are going to have another baby or two. Why not, they can afford it.