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Day 37 of 170: Where The Nets Go 0-18

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Categorized as: Author: Patrick, NBA Teams, New Jersey Nets
Posted on: December 3rd, 2009

Line of the Night: Jason Kidd (1.38). No, we’re not just recycling Day 35 from Tuesday. The ageless Kidd notches his second line of the night in three days with 16 points, 10 assists, 8 rebounds and 5 steals in a win over the officially historically inept 0-18 New Jersey Nets. The Mavs shot 80% from the field in the first half of this game and 59% overall, compared to 44% from the Nets (and that’s a good day of shooting for the Nets). I think at this point the Nets’ roster might as well pull a Ron Artest and start drinking during games.

Mavericks Nets Basketball

Honorable Mentions: Kevin Durant (1.27) filled up the box score against the Sixers with a 33 point, 5 rebound, 5 three, 3 steal night; Marcus Camby (1.21) grabbed 19 boards with 5 steals against the Rockets; and Rashard Lewis (1.15) had a 20 and 11 with 5 threes against the Knicks.

Waiver Wire Line of the Night: I think it’s fair to say that most people had given up on Mike Conley (0.94). And rightly so – through the first month of the season Conley was averaging 8 points and 4.8 assists in about 27 minutes a game. But with Iverson officially out of the picture now that he’s signed with Philadelphia, Conley can stop waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under him and focus on playing basketball. In last night’s win over the Wolves, Conley got 33 minutes of burn, scoring 20 points while hitting 4-7 from three. More than 3 assists would have been nice, but we’ll take what we can get from Conley.

Desperate for Free Agents? Mickael Pietrus (0.58) got his 10th consecutive start at SF for the Magic and scored 17 points; and Chase Budinger (0.47) had 19 points and 5 rebounds in 27 minutes off the bench for the Rockets.

Yes, Heeeeeeeeee’s Back: Allen Iverson is returning to the Sixers after signing with the team yesterday. He’s expected to join the team for next Monday’s game against Denver and will start in place of the injured Lou Williams. While I am personally not in love with Iverson’s game, I guess you have to pick him up if he’s available in your league since he’ll be starting (and therefore happy) as long as Williams is out. But when Sweet Lou returns, things could be ugly again.

The Biggest Loser: I thought T.J. Ford (-0.67) might have gotten hurt when I saw this line: 0 points, 0-4 from the floor, 0 rebounds and 1 assist in 20 minutes. Nope, not hurt. Just all bad.

Chris Bosh (-0.62) wasn’t hurt either. Instead, he battled foul trouble early and then sat a lot of the second half as the Hawks ran away with a 146-115 win. Bosh finished with a season low 2 points, adding 5 boards in 16 minutes.

All Eyez on Me: Three games tonight:

Boston (14-4) at San Antonio (9-6) – In the epic battle of which team can be the oldest, the Celtics deftly countered the Spurs’ Antonio McDyess signing this offseason by bringing in Rasheed Wallace. And while the Spurs could argue they are basically getting what they expected out of McDyess, I don’t think there is any argument to be made for Sheed’s 9 points and 4 rebounds a game for Boston. Hopefully you didn’t draft Wallace expecting him to put up a line similar to what he had done with the Pistons.

Miami (10-7) at Denver (13-5) – It was somewhat of a shaky start to the year, but Michael Beasley has come on strong, scoring in double-digits in each of the Heat’s last 7 games. He’s also averaging about 9 rebounds a game over that span.

The Golden Ticket: Houston (10-8) at Golden State (6-11) – The Dream Shake looks at what is wrong with the Rocket’s defense. But what I really want to know is if the Warriors have even heard Don Nelson say the word defense at any point during this season.

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  • Name

    I need your help basketball gurus.

    I am in a pretty competative 12 man league 9 cat roto league where I have done some trading which has left my team a little stacked. I need one more trad I think to put me over the hump. Here is my current team:

    Pg: Calderon
    G: Roy
    SG: Kobe
    PF: Dirk
    F: Wallace
    SF: J. Johnson
    C: Bogut
    C: Dalembert
    Util: Rashard Lewis
    Util: L. Deng

    Bench: Caron Butler
    Bench: Dalembert
    Bench: B Udrih
    Bench: M. Bibby

    Yes I know the team looks stacked (except center). because it is a keep four league I traded away some good keepers to get to the spot I am in now. I am hurting a little on field goal as I had salmons at beggining of year and he couldn;t shot at all but I am slowly climbing back.

    My thought is to package Butler and Jose for Deron Williams if possible or package Butler and Dalembert for a better center.

    Who should I target and who should start for me in the meantime as Butler is kinda just sitting there…

    i like the Deron trade as it is an upgrade at Pg and gives good percentages (with a fair amount of shots for a pt gd) but maybe I should just stick with jose and just suffer the disappointing lines

  • Name

    oops the bench is dampier not dalembert

  • Terrance

    not going to lie. i came for the iverson roundup….

    maybe he really isn't a factor anymore.

    I think he'll be a decent comtributor in philly. my half assed projections are

    14 points-5 assists, 1 three, 43%FG, 1.5 stls. In 31 min/game. when lou williams gets back, look for the minutes to drop to 28 or so.

  • Name

    I need your help basketball gurus.

    I am in a pretty competative 12 man league 9 cat roto league where I have done some trading which has left my team a little stacked. I need one more trad I think to put me over the hump. Here is my current team:

    Pg: Calderon
    G: Roy
    SG: Kobe
    PF: Dirk
    F: Wallace
    SF: J. Johnson
    C: Bogut
    C: Dalembert
    Util: Rashard Lewis
    Util: L. Deng

    Bench: Caron Butler
    Bench: Dalembert
    Bench: B Udrih
    Bench: M. Bibby

    Yes I know the team looks stacked (except center). because it is a keep four league I traded away some good keepers to get to the spot I am in now. I am hurting a little on field goal as I had salmons at beggining of year and he couldn;t shot at all but I am slowly climbing back.

    My thought is to package Butler and Jose for Deron Williams if possible or package Butler and Dalembert for a better center.

    Who should I target and who should start for me in the meantime as Butler is kinda just sitting there…

    i like the Deron trade as it is an upgrade at Pg and gives good percentages (with a fair amount of shots for a pt gd) but maybe I should just stick with jose and just suffer the disappointing lines

  • Name

    oops the bench is dampier not dalembert

  • brendank

    Don't forget about Andre Iguodala. He put up another across the board performance last night, and has been generally performing to his appropriate value as a mid/late 2nd round pick. He's been one of the best fantasy wing players not named Durant or Granger this year, and a lot of people probably got him in round 3. Damn.

  • Terrance

    not going to lie. i came for the iverson roundup….

    maybe he really isn’t a factor anymore.

    I think he’ll be a decent comtributor in philly. my half assed projections are

    14 points-5 assists, 1 three, 43%FG, 1.5 stls. In 31 min/game. when lou williams gets back, look for the minutes to drop to 28 or so.

  • Patrick

    Well, with that lineup, you probably don't NEED a trade, but if trading has gotten you this far, then your doing something right.

    Sure, if you can package Butler and Calderon for Williams, I'd do that. Butler is wasting away on your bench and you have plenty of SF types in Lewis, Deng and Wallace. Plus, anytime you get the best player in a deal, you almost always come away with the better side of the deal.

    As far as centers go, you might be able to buy someone like Brook Lopez (who has really nice percentages) for Butler plus something else. Mehmet Okur is a risker buy, but you might be able to get him on the cheap from a frustrated owner. After two bad games in a row, you might be able to steal Marc Gasol from an owner who is scared that his start to the year was a fluke. But overall, the Bogut/Dampier/Dalembert trio can work at center, because you're getting the boards and blocks you need out of them from that position.

  • Patrick

    I was considering doing a separate post about Iverson, but time got away from me today.

    My half-assed prediction? About 30-33 minutes a game while Lou Williams is out – 15 points, 42% shooting percentage, 6.5 – 7 assists, 0.8 threes, and 1.5 steals . That does make him well worth owning in fantasy leagues in the short-term, however, I do think things will get ugly fast when Williams is set to return. Maybe the Sixers continue to start Iverson when Williams gets back, I guess it depends on how he performs over the next few weeks.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget about Andre Iguodala. He put up another across the board performance last night, and has been generally performing to his appropriate value as a mid/late 2nd round pick. He’s been one of the best fantasy wing players not named Durant or Granger this year, and a lot of people probably got him in round 3. Damn.

  • Patrick

    Well, with that lineup, you probably don’t NEED a trade, but if trading has gotten you this far, then your doing something right.

    Sure, if you can package Butler and Calderon for Williams, I’d do that. Butler is wasting away on your bench and you have plenty of SF types in Lewis, Deng and Wallace. Plus, anytime you get the best player in a deal, you almost always come away with the better side of the deal.

    As far as centers go, you might be able to buy someone like Brook Lopez (who has really nice percentages) for Butler plus something else. Mehmet Okur is a risker buy, but you might be able to get him on the cheap from a frustrated owner. After two bad games in a row, you might be able to steal Marc Gasol from an owner who is scared that his start to the year was a fluke. But overall, the Bogut/Dampier/Dalembert trio can work at center, because you’re getting the boards and blocks you need out of them from that position.

  • Patrick

    I was considering doing a separate post about Iverson, but time got away from me today.

    My half-assed prediction? About 30-33 minutes a game while Lou Williams is out – 15 points, 42% shooting percentage, 6.5 – 7 assists, 0.8 threes, and 1.5 steals . That does make him well worth owning in fantasy leagues in the short-term, however, I do think things will get ugly fast when Williams is set to return. Maybe the Sixers continue to start Iverson when Williams gets back, I guess it depends on how he performs over the next few weeks.

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