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November 21, 2008

Day 24 of 170: Revel While You Can Rajon Rondo

Filed under: Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball — Nels @ 10:52 am

Wow. While I probably would have rather been watching basketball than helping my friend change a tire last night, I don’t feel like I missed much.

Line of the Night: That’s right, Rajon Rondo (0.83) topped the list last night. Granted, it was only a list of 46 players, but he led them all with 18 points, 8 assists, a three, and 3 steals.

Honorable Mentions: Not a lot of excitement since there were only two games… Vladimir Radmanovic (0.82) was right behind Rondo last night with 15 points, all of which came on three-pointers. He also had 5 rebounds and 2 steals.

Tony Allen (0.78) was third on the night, but the Celtics game wasn’t all that competitive after the 2nd quarter, so I’m not going to go into detail.

Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Well, Vlad Rad and Tony Allen are probably both available in any sufficiently small league (12 teams or less). But since this was Vlad’s first good game of the season (despite starting all of them), and only Tony’s second decent game,

The Biggest Loser: Tayshaun Prince (-0.30) had another fairly horrible game, going 2/9 from the field while playing 33 minutes. His second disappointing 33 minute game in a row. He did have 7 rebounds and 3 assists, but I’m sure that’s not what people were expecting when they drafted him.

All Eyez On Me: Well, from the way things are going, I have to think that someone on Golden State is going to take home LotN for Day 25 (hint: they’re playing the Bulls).

If I had to pick a game to watch, I’d be going with Indiana vs. Orlando. Can’t go wrong with Danny Granger and Dwight Howard.

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are we going to see that much of matt barns on a regular basis? i believe he was playing a lot before the game was in blow out mode. maybe not.

Comment by seanlb — November 21, 2008 @ 5:08 am

Barnes apparently hurt his back in last night's game, but decided to play through it. That doesn't answer your question, but it seems like it might be relevant information to someone.

And I have Vlad Rad on my CBS 30-man team. It's amazing that he's been one of my better starters. And by better, I mean not a complete disaster.

Comment by Patrick — November 21, 2008 @ 5:44 am

This is a negative impact on crawford, not huge, but still negative. Only because the warriors have a few more players who demand the ball. NY and GS are 1 and 2 so far this season in posesions a game.

Crawford had zach randolph to take shots from him. But the offense didnt run though randolph, it ran through crawford. Now in GS, it runs through jackson. Whos the 2nd option? Maggette or Crawford? How about when ellis gets back? Whos the 3rd and 4th option?

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/po...

""It makes for a fun watch, but we should have just assumed the deal was for Crawford all along. The guy earned his Warriors uniform years ago. ""

This is mainly a joke, but Id love to have biedrins, all those shooters FG%s are under 40% right now, and crawford may be right there with them in a few weeks. Lots of boards for biedrins. I like the trade for harrington.

Comment by Terrance — November 21, 2008 @ 9:16 am

and the zach randolph trade. This one has been in the making for awhile. I read on hoopshype on monday that talks stalled because the knicks wanted camby. That didnt mean that the knicks were still not going to move randolph. Randolphs value couldnt have been any high. I packaged randolph with richard jefferson for carmelo (whos been down so far) and ginobili.

Im glad this deal worked out for me. Heres my fantasy impacts, and i cant get too in depth because Ive told my entire league about GMTR. But mobley benefits by sliding into the two in NY and i expect nate robinson to still come off the bench. Something about a 5-9 SG starting that i dont like. But hes a great 6th man!

Comment by terrance — November 21, 2008 @ 10:52 am

Randolph takes a hit due to there being three big men in the LAC rotation and only three spots. Randolph does score the rock though and can "create" his own shot. Thornton can score but is still too young to be depended on nightly. So Baron Davis and Randolph will have lots of plays ran for them and kaman and thornton will be secondary options. Camby will continue to clean glass and get easy put backs. Thornton owns the SF positon now and should see some (the most important word in my opinion in fantasy basketball) "consistency" with his minutes and game overall. But he still needs time to mature his game, right now hes a points guy with a little something else, but not much yet.

IN real life, the clippers have agreat deal here. Randolph doesnt block and never gave a damn about playing D. With kaman and camby, theres a big man backing randolph up. I like this move for the clippers. It doesnt take them to the top of the Western Conf. But theyre legit to make the playoffs, if they can overcome this horrendous start.

Comment by Terrance — November 21, 2008 @ 10:52 am

Here I was about to drop Mobley in the GMTR Monster league. I'll be interested to see if you're right, but since he'll be taking Crawford's place in NY, he should be able to put up similar numbers.

Comment by Nels — November 21, 2008 @ 11:08 am

[...] my quick impression of the Knicks’ trades this afternoon because it’s Friday, I’m sick, and Terrance has already done a bang up review of the trade. I’ll probably have some more comments later, when my nose doesn’t feel like it’s going to [...]

Pingback by Give Me The Rock » Knicks Clean House: Patiently Wait for the Summer of LeBron — November 21, 2008 @ 7:35 pm

what does score the rock mean? never heard that before

Comment by Lance — December 3, 2008 @ 7:22 am

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