Day 30 of 170: Talking Turkey

Categorized as: Fantasy Basketball
Posted on: November 26th, 2009

Line of the Night/Waiver Wire Line of the Night: With Beno Udrih out of this game because of a virus, the Kings shifted Tyreke Evans to the point, Andres Nocioni to SG, and started Donte Greene (1.95) at SF. The changed worked for at least one night against the Knicks, as the Kings won 111-97 and Donte Greene registered career highs across the board: 24 points, 6-7 from three, with 6 blocked shots. Greene is uber athletic and can be a great defensive stopper type, but I order you to officially temper your expectations. One, Udrih should be back any day now, likely pushing Greene back to the bench. Two, the game came against the Knicks. Three, Greene shot 26% from three last season, so he’s not going to be taking or (especially) making that many threes again any time soon.

The rest of Greene’s game, however? That is legit.

Honorable Mentions: Monta Ellis (1.62) is thankful that his shot was falling against the Spurs, as he dropped 42 points and shot 16-25 from the floor and 9-10 from the line; Gerald Wallace (1.38) is thankful he hasn’t missed a game yet this season, which has let him put up crazy stacked lines like this: 31 points, 13 boards, 2 steals and 2 blocks; Dallas is thankful that Jason Terry (1.32) is not Allen Iverson and he can happily come off the bench to score 27 points on 10-11 shooting (4-4 from three) with 10 assists; and Tim Thomas (1.31) is thankful he’s still getting a paycheck – the 24 points he scored in 24 minutes off the bench for the Mavs yesterday is just gravy.

It’s Official: Speaking of Allen Iverson, the man just announced his retirement from the NBA. After a failing to find a role to his liking on the ~~Bobcats~~ Grizzlies, then quitting on the team only to discover that no one else wanted his services, Iverson announced his retired in a statement that he released directly to Stephen A. Smith. Iverson has hinted that he’d be willing to unretire if any team was interested, which of course, no one is.

The Biggest Loser: What does Eric Gordon (-0.63) have to be thankful for? Well… ah… geez. Gordon scored 6 points on 2-7 shooting against the Pacers, grabbing 2 rebounds with 0 assists and 3 turnovers in 2 minutes off the bench. The entire Clippers team finished the game with 73 points. Last I checked, that’s not a good way to win basketball games.

All Eyez on Me: Who needs football? The NBA has two Thanksgiving Day games:

Orlando (11-4) at Atlanta (11-3) – The Magic travel to Atlanta to face the team with the best record in the Eastern Conference – that’s right – your Atlanta Hawks. If he’s available in your league, check out Jason Williams who has averaged 20.5 points and 5 assists in the Magic’s last two games.

Chicago (6-7) at Utah (7-7) – A battle of two teams who are strug-ga-ling. Joakim Noah is one of GMTR’s surprise-players-who-will-continue-to-be-good. He and Luol Deng are just about the only two Bulls who are exceeding our expectations this year.

A happy Thanksgiving Day to everyone out there.

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DowJones

any read on what's wrong with Captain Kirk? I've got him on my 20-man monster league…but he's been horribly under-performing, do you think this is a short term thing or do you think he's stuck being marginally useful until he gets traded?
http://givemetherock.com/ Patrick

Hinrich's problem is that he's currently shooting 37% from the field and 68% from the line to start the season. And now word is that he's questionable for tonight's game with left thumb sprain. The thumb sprain would at least explain why he can't buy a basket this year and also give you an excuse to drop him. Without knowing who's available in your league (and it's probably not much), it's tough to give you a definite recommendation, but Hinrich at his best is marginally useful. If his thumb does turn out to be ok, the shooting should improve slightly to and his scoring will get better as a result. If not, then expect him to either miss a number of games like he did last year or continue to shoot about as well as my grandfather.
DowJones

Such a depressing diagnosis….any chance I should drop him for Serge Ilkala (he's got 30 mins garbage time against LAL and then, a more meaningful, 20-min outing next game. With Kristic being…..white, think he'll get steady playtime to contribute in rebs/blks?) or Jrue Holiday (mentally hitting myself for dropping him for James Jones last night before i knew the extent of Lou Williams's injury)??

The league's pretty competitive so it's been a struggle trying to go for waiver pickups. =[

On the bright side, I just got big Al and Terence Williams for B-easy and Butler!
http://givemetherock.com/ Patrick

Nice job with the Big Al trade, especially since you were able to flip the injury prone and underperforming Butler.

Jrue Holiday is definitely your man, grab him immediately if you can. With Williams going to miss the next 8 weeks after surgery, Holiday is going to start at the point for the Sixers. Serge is an ok short term pickup who will give you some mediocre points/boards, but his increase in playing time is because Nick Collison missed the Thunder's last two games. Collison is day-to-day as far as I know, so Serge's value will likely be short-term.

If your really hard up for big men, you can check out Amir Johnson. He's been crazy inconsistent, but just play him every other game and you should be fine
DowJones

lol, let's hope no one else gets Holiday off of waivers…since I dropped him last night =P

Where do you think Willie Green will stand with the injury to Williams? Taking into account EJ's aversion to playing rookies…think he can get enough burn to help with 3's and points?
http://givemetherock.com/ Patrick

Personally, I wouldn't expect much from Willie. At least based on the Sixers' last game, Jason Kapono benefited a lot more minutes-wise than Green. Green is one of those undersized shooting guard types who can't really shoot that well and doesn't do much else on the court. If you're really desperate and miss out on Jrue, go with Kapono over Green. That least that dude can shoot the trey.
Habeeb El-Salaam

Iverson was on the Grizzlies, not the Bobcats… Get your bottom feeders straight! (For some reason, I always confuse those two teams as well… why is that?)
http://givemetherock.com/ Patrick

Thanks for the correction. I also tend to confuse the Bucks and the Wolves too. Must be that they are both from places that begin with “M”.

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