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Day 150 of 170: Ok, I admit it. Tony Parker is a Moderately Decent Point Guard

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Categorized as: Author: Patrick, Diatribes, Fantasy Basketball, Player News
Posted on: March 26th, 2009

…and a sexy, sexy man.

Line of the Night: It took the return of Manu Ginobili to push Tony Parker (1.18) to a LotN performance. Parker scored 42 points off 18-25 shooting and had 10 assists in the Spurs win over the Hawks. It probably helped Parker’s game that Duncan sat in this one, but Parker has now scored 20+ points in the Spurs last 10 games. Parker is at #72 on the 9-cat GMTR rater on the year, but #53 over the last 10 games.

Tony Parker
A little something for our female readers. Wait, we have female readers, right?

Honorable Mentions: Dwight Howard (1.17) scored 24 and pulled down 21 rebounds as the Magic beat the Celtics to clinch the Southeast Division; and Chauncey Billups (1.08) out-dueled Chris Paul, as he scored 26 points, hit 5 threes and added 6 boards and 6 assists in a 101-88 Nuggets win over the Hornets.

Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Can you believe that someone named Mike Taylor (0.98) had the best fantasy game out of everyone playing in the Clippers/Knicks 140-135 overtime game? Taylor scored 35 points and had 8 rebounds off the bench for the Clippers (which was good for the 4th best line of yesterday). Seeing that it’s the Clippers, I thought they might have pulled someone out of the stands 15 minutes before the game and handed them a uniform, but Mike is a rookie out of Iowa State who was originally drafted in the second round by the Blazers. 35 points is – you guessed it – a career high for Taylor.

The Waiver Wire Honorable Mentions: Rodney Carney (0.92) scored 21 in his first start of the season for the Wolves, and Charlie Bell (0.73) went for 20/6/7 off the bench for the Bucks.

The Biggest Loser: Other than Vanessa Bryant? Ok, how about Marcus Camby (-0.66). Camby played all of 15 minutes against the Knicks, taking and missing one shot and finishing with no points and 3 rebounds.

All Eyez on Me: Three games tonight, starting with Los Angeles (56-14) at Detroit (34-36. Both teams have plenty of low end fantasy options that are probably available in your league (like Will Bynum and Trevor Ariza).

Miami (38-33) at Chicago (34-38) – Derrick Rose is questionable and probably will sit out of this game with a bruised wrist. I know it feels good Derrick, but time to slow down a little on the masturbation.

The late game pits Phoenix (40-31) at Portland (44-27) – I’m legitimately curious to see the Shaquille O’Neal vs. Greg Oden matchup. Hopefully, it works out a little bit better for Oden than their first two matchups, where he racked up 10 fouls in 31 minutes. But it probably won’t.

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