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Archive for January, 2009

A Small Percentage of Help: The Best and Worst Shooters in the NBA

Posted by Patrick on January 31st, 2009 filed in Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Strategy

By this point in the regular season, you know where you’re fantasy team stands. You know its strengths and weaknesses, the categories your strong in and weak, and for the most part, the type of performance you can expect from most players here on out. The good news is that there is still plenty of [...]

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Day 96 of 170: Ice Ice Baby

Posted by Patrick on January 31st, 2009 filed in Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball

In the spirit of white boys who can jump, the fantasy gods decided to throw out a whitewash of lines today. Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up. Line of the Night: It was a season high 30 points for Mike Dunleavy (1.25), who in his 13th game back from injury, finally, finally found his [...]

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Day 95 of 170: Gino-mite!

Posted by Nels on January 30th, 2009 filed in Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball, San Antonio Spurs

I might have to set Yahoo Sports to my home page so I will make sure I see these roster warnings every day. I didn’t know they did that until today. Oh, please don’t go out of business Yahoo… Speaking of fantasy tools, SignAndTrade.com has seven different fantasy analysis tools. I’ve had the email sitting [...]

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Day 94 of 170: Eddie House has a plus/minus of +29

Posted by Nels on January 29th, 2009 filed in Author: Nels, Boston Celtics, Detroit Pistons, Fantasy Basketball

Image by [ Zenat El3ain ]™ via Flickr Line of the Night: Rasheed Wallace (1.31) was actually the player of the night with 25 oints (2 threes, 56%, 83%), 10 rebounds, and 5 steals. But, his +/- was only +11. Honorable Mentions: Eddie House (1.25) made 8 three pointers (and it wasn’t even that much [...]

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White Men CAN Jump!

Posted by Erik on January 29th, 2009 filed in Author: Erik, Fantasy Basketball

I’ve had this post idea in draft-I’m-feeling-too-lazy-to-write-about-it-mode for about a couple of weeks now, but Matt Bonner’s (PF/C, San Antonio Spurs) recent 20-point, 70% FG, 6 trey, 2 steal, no turnover performance versus the Utah Jazz; sort of jump started my writing juices once again. Matt’s performance made me exclaim: “Man! That was one hot [...]

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Day 93 of 170: This Is Why The Cavs Wanted Mo Williams

Posted by Nels on January 28th, 2009 filed in Author: Nels, Cleveland Cavaliers, Fantasy Basketball

Line of the Night: Mo Williams (1.58) made 7 three-pointers en route to 43 points on 62.5% shooting from the field, and 6-6 from the free throw line. He also had 8 rebounds and 11 assists. That’s a LeBron James-type line (except for the free throw part). Honorable Mentions: Kevin Martin (1.40) is trying to [...]

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