Day 45 of 170: And the winner is… Emeka Okafor

Categorized as: Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball
Posted on: December 12th, 2008

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Line of the Night: So, turns out the real winner of the Suns/Bobcats trade is: Emeka Okafor (1.08). Okafor had 27 and 17, shot 70% from the field, and blocked 3 shots.

Honorable Mentions: Mehmet Okur (1.05) was pretty close to Okafor with his 27 and 10. He also had 2 three-pointers and made all 7 free throws, once again proving that he’s the perfect Small Ball Center.

Paul Pierce (0.82) had a good Paul Pierce Game with 22/6/8 with 2 steals and a block. Dirk Nowitzki (0.76) had 23 and 13 with 3 threes.

There were some other decent performances, but nothing really outstanding or noteworthy, y’know, like someone scoring 33 points in a quarter.

Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Juan Dixon (0.62) had another good game for the Wizards with 17 points and 7 assists, but I think once Mike James starts playing more than 10 minutes, Dixon’s fantasy value will be back to Negligible.

Eddie House (0.41) made 4 threes in 18 minutes for the Celtics, but that was in a blowout against the aforementioned Wizards, and he only has a game like that every 5 or 6 games.

Tony Allen (0.16) had a statistically decent game, but, once again, blowout win, and look at that game score. Pretty low.

The Biggest Loser: DeShawn Stevenson (-0.81) tops the list when sorted in reverse order. Stevenson played 22 minutes, missing all 4 shots he took, getting 1 rebound, 2 assists, and 4 turnovers. Of course, he’s only owned in 10% of Yahoo leagues, so he’s not hurting a lot of owners.

Greg Oden (-0.38) on the other hand is owned in 86% of leagues. I’m not sure how his 8 and 9 performance got such a low rating, but he did have 3 turnovers and missed all three of his free throws. He made 67% from the field, though, and if you’ve got Oden, you probably shouldn’t be looking for good free throw shooting in the first place, or there might have been something more than slightly flawed in your draft strategy.

All Eyez On Me: Another packed Friday night! I’ll be up on the Bulls v. Grizzlies game, if for no other reason than to see if Marko Jaric’s fiance on hand.

Watching LeBron James and the Cavs stay undefeated at home against Philadelphia will probably be as exciting as a slam dunk content.

New Orleans @ Boston is bound to have at least one impressive fantasy performance.

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Tags: DeShawn Stevenson, Dirk Nowitzki, Eddie House, Emeka Okafor, Greg Oden, Juan Dixon, Mehmet Okur, Paul Pierce, Tony Allen