Day 118 of 170: Continuing Fantasy Basketball Analysis

Categorized as: Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball, Memphis Grizzlies
Posted on: February 22nd, 2010

Sorry, unless I missed something, nothing exciting – and fantasy relevant – happened yesterday. If you think I’m making an omission, please, let me hear it in the comments.

Line of the Night: OJ Mayo (1.34) wasn’t really blowing anyone away, but he put a very solid line including 24 points, 3 threes, 6 rebounds, 7 assists and 4 steals.

Honorable Mentions: Kevin Durant (0.98) continues whatever the streak is the he evidently has going by scoring 32 points (2 threes). He also had 6 rebounds, a steal, and 2 blocks. And there’s the 14-15 from the line. That’s how points get scored, and KD is good at it. Keep that in mind when drafting next season.

Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Chase Budinger (0.69) put in a strong performance for the Rockets in only 24 minutes. Bud had 18 points, 3 threes, 5 rebounds, with a steal and 2 blocks. He’s a pretty decent source of threes with some occasional extras. Probably a better pick mostly in deeper leagues because of the merely “occasional” extras.

The Biggest Loser: The Cleveland Cavaliers. I realize they’re still 2-1 against the Magic, but if Antawn Jamison thinks that fouling out of a game is going to help them more than, well, not fouling out, then LeBron James might end up thinking that leaving Cleveland is better than, well, not leaving Cleveland. If the Cavs don’t at least get to the Finals, is it over for LeBron in Cleveland?

The real biggest loser was actually Anthony Morrow (-0.46), who contributed very little to the Warriors upset of the Hawks. Morrow was out there for 27 minutes, but scored only 10 points on 38% shooting, adding 3 rebounds and an assist. Much like the Line of the Night and the Waiver Wire Line of the Night, it was not a spectacular (-ly bad) line, but it was what it was.

All Eyez On Me: Milwaukee’s visit to New York should provide a good opportunity for Act 2 of The Tracy McGrady Show.

Atlanta continues their road trip in Utah… see if they can bounce back from the loss to the Warriors.

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Tags: Anthony Morrow, Chase Budinger, Kevin Durant, OJ Mayo