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Categorized as: Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball, Miami Heat
Posted on: December 7th, 2009

Just looking at the final scores and the basketball monster scores, last night seemed kind of ho-hum. So, let me interject my own personal record for yesterday: I watched 6 movies in 1 day. That broke my previous record of 5 in one day, set back in 1997. I would say it was a Lazy Sunday, but you have to get up pretty early to get in 6 movies. Needless to say, I didn’t watch any basketball yesterday. Perhaps that’s why my fantasy teams are all doing so horribly right now. It’s not like I even need Wolverin’s healing ability to help out with injuries. I just picked players who are not performing like I thought they would. Which is starting to actually be more frustrating than if I just had someone who was sitting on the bench in a suit for a while.

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Line of the Night: Dwyane Wade (1.69) scored 34 points in 39 minutes, and also had 10 assists, and 4 blocks.

Honorable Mentions: Chris Douglas-Roberts (0.94) came through with the second-best performance, putting up 26 points, with 2 threes, 2 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals, and a block. Nothing too exciting, just one of those all-around performances. Ron Artest (0.91) also did a good job of multi-category contribution with 15 points, 3 threes, 3 rebounds, 5 assists, and 5 steals. He only shot 36% from the field, but… 5 steals. That’ll do it.

Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Do you remember Dorrell Wright (0.76)? He plays for the Heat. He’s gone from 8 minutes on December 1st to 28 minutes last night. And in those 28 minutes, he had 19 points (1 three), 2 rebounds, 5 assists, a steal and a block. His 69% just barely gets him in under Patrick’s 70% rule. And it looks like he’s currently available in EVERY Yahoo league there is. Of course, this was against Sacramento, who somehow have a 9-10 record despite being what I would call one of the weaker teams in the league. Maybe they have lax defense and allow a lot of good fantasy performances…

The Biggest Loser: Me and owners in 78% of leagues were kind of hoping that Spencer Hawes (-0.73) wouldn’t crap his pants to finish off the week (as he is all too capable of doing). We were, of course, let down by his 8 point, 3 rebound performance. Guess I’ll have to wait another couple games to try to ship him out as a attempt to dramatically restructure all of my losing fantasy teams. Which is, well, all of my fantasy teams.

All Eyez On Me: San Antonio and Utah looks to be the best match up tonight “record”-wise. Not sure that I’d actually want to watch that game, though.

The Golden Ticket: Greg Oden-less Portland heads into NY today. Let’s see if Pryzbilla and Brandon Roy can take advantage of lots of possessions to make their fantasy owners happy.

Denver is in Philadelphia. Is that irony or just coincidence? Or neither. Whatever the case, Allen Iverson’s 76ers will take on the only other team he actually played for. Boom, roasted.

Golden State rolls into OKC. Young Guns vs. Fast Team should be good for fantasy owners.

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  • DowJones

    Lol Nels…racking up 53 stls last wk, is that some kind of record?

    Gotta say tat half of my fantasy teams did very well last week with 13-2 and 7-2 respectively while the other two teams went 4-5 (Wade single handedly saved Tippy (final Margin: +0.004% FG, +2 pts, +1 STL for Tippy…thanks Gil…for sucking) and 0-10 since everyone on that team decided to take a week off (that league counts A/T instead of TO so yeah…)

    What's your take on Amare, think he'll ever return to his old dominating ways…at all? Or is it time to start shopping him in hopes of getting someone worthawhile?

  • menorikey

    The guys I have healthy are underperforming and the guys I have injured were my top picks. Now Granger is probably out for awhile. I feel your pain.

  • http://givemetherock.com/ Patrick

    Amare? Short answer: No.

    Longer Answer: No, at least if you're expecting the 2007-08 version of Amar'e. I'd guess his rebounding numbers increase back to his career levels, but his scoring will probably never reach 25 points a game again. Back in 07-08, D'Antoni ran the Suns offense through Amar'e, resulting in 15 shots a game for the big guy. Now with Alvin Gentry, the ball is being spread around more and Amar'e is taking a near career low 12.7 shots a game. I don't expect that to increase all that much either.

  • http://givemetherock.com/ Patrick

    6 movies? Wow, that actually does sound like a lot of work. I'd probably be wiped after 3. Would you care to share with us what 6 movies you watched? What does the Nels' Netflix queue look like?

  • http://nelswadycki.com nelswadycki

    I realized about an hour after I'd published the post that I should have somehow worked clues to the movies into the post… I did that with one of them, but it didn't occur to me to do the rest…

    Anyway… 3 of them were my picks and 3 were my wife's:
    1. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    2. Tropic Thunder
    3. America the Beautiful
    4. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    5. Broken English
    6. The Maltese Falcon

  • http://nelswadycki.com nelswadycki

    Oh, to follow up: All of the movies were good for what they were. I wouldn't say any of them were must-see movies, but they were all decent representations of their genres.

  • http://givemetherock.com/ Patrick

    Wow, never has the rift between husband and wife been so large as that list of those 6 movies. Although I do hear Hugh Jackman is this generations Humphrey Bogart. Ok, I've never heard that.

  • lesterslegends

    6 movies. that's nuts. I did watch the godfather triology in college one day which is like 4.5 or 5 movies worth of time. That was great, but I should have just stopped after II.

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  • http://nelswadycki.com nelswadycki

    Well, both Wolverine and the Maltese Falcon were my picks. I like the old movies… though I much prefer Hitchcock.

    Val actually kind of liked Wolverine. I think it's because comics are basically like soap operas for boys (or men). Not that she actually watches soap operas (unless you count Gossip Girl and Top Model), but I think the basic idea is somehow programmed into the female psyche.

  • http://givemetherock.com/ Patrick

    Wow, you surprised me there Nels. I would have pegged you for Wolverine, Tropic Thunder and The King of Kong.

    I actually liked The King of Kong quite a bit, maybe because it's basically an autobiography of my life. Nice to see my psyche so perfectly captured.

  • http://nelswadycki.com nelswadycki

    Yeah, my wife likes the documentaries. I usually don't _want_ to see them, but then I end up liking them when I do. I was worried that King of Kong would piss me off because I heard how nice the challenger guy was and what an a-hole the champion was. It was true, but to the extreme that I thought it would be.

    And as for autobiography, I assume you mean you're the guy who runs around telling people there's going to be a Donkey Kong kill screen.

    http://www.thegamergene.com/culture/donkey-kong...

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