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Day 68 of 170: It’s Tyrus Thomas Time

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Posted on: January 4th, 2009

Line of the Night/Waiver Wire Line of the Night: When it rains, it pours for Tyrus Thomas (1.5), who in his sixth start in a row, played 34 minutes and scored 15 points, with 8 boards and a career-high 8 blocks. With the exception of Dec 27 against the Hawks, Thomas’ other starts have been pretty crappy and with the return of Drew Gooden to the Bulls’ lineup any day now, you can leave Thomas and his occasional explosions as a free agent.

Honorable Mentions: Kevin Martin (1.26) is back baby, like officially back, with 45 points and 7 threes of the bench for the Kings (the big loser in the return of Martin is Beno Udrih, who got the classic 12 minute “start” yesterday; Shawn Marion who? After averaging about 8 minutes a game in December, Yakhouba Diawara (0.81) got 35 minutes for the Heat as Marion sat with back spasms. He hit 5 threes on his way to 19 points. It should go without saying that I would not pick him up; Andre Miller (0.74) shot 12-14 from the floor and finished with a super efficient 28 points (although the Sixers still lost); and Andre Iguodala (0.73) was 10-15 from the floor for a efficient 25 points, while adding 8 boards and 8 assists (and yet the Sixers still lost, those poor bastards).

The Biggest Loser: Samuel Dalembert (-0.34), for undoing all the goodness his Sixers teammates brought to the table by scoring 2 points and grabbing 3 boards in 16 minutes on the court. It’s been a very down year for Dalembert, especially offensively where he’s averaging less than 6 points a game, and word is that the Sixers are shopping him around to other teams.

All Eyez on Me: Best game of the day goes to Portland (20-13) at Los Angeles (26-5), though the competition isn’t strong, unless you’re a fan of Boston (29-5) at New York (12-19) or Orlando (26-7) at Toronto (13-20) or just like watching LeBron – Cleveland (26-5) at Washington (6-25). Yeah expect LeBron to run wild on the Wizards, although Anderson Varejao should drop back to earth after scoring 26 on the Bulls a couple days ago (it was the Bulls, after all).

Brandon Roy is going to miss Portland’s next few games with a strained hamstring, which likely means a lot of threes for Rudy Fernandez. Play him.

All Eye on Me (for the week): Two game schedules this upcoming week for those of you in weekly changes leagues: Cleveland and Portland.

You might be tempted to throw Anderson Varejao in your lineup now that Big Z is out for a month. But with only 2 games for Cleveland, I’d highly recommend you hold off on that strategy for at least a week.

And what’s up with Houston: Tracy McGrady and Ron Artest are day-to-day (with T-Mac obviously being the more risky option to start this week) and Shane Battier is out for the week at least. I’d recommend someone to pick up, but the situation is so crazy in Houston, I have no idea who’d that be. Would you feel comfortable starting Von Wafer this week? I wouldn’t.

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