Day 125 of 170: Andray Blatche is Going to Make Some Guy Very Happy

Categorized as: Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball, Washington Wizards
Posted on: March 1st, 2010

And that guy is going to be a keeper league owner who took him late in his fantasy draft this year.

Line of the Night: Even with enough players to fill a league playing last night, it was Andray Blatche (1.07) who had the stupidest verse. (This is one of those cases where stupid means good) Blatche scored 36 points on 54% shooting, pulled down 15 rebounds, and had 2 steals and 2 blocks. I’m thinking the Wizards could just turn off the Hibachi and build a new BBQ with Blatche as the prime rib. Perhaps instead of dining on heartache, they could taste victory. (Did I go to far with that?)

Honorable Mentions: Dirk Nowitzki (1.05) led the Mavs to victory with 36 points of his own, adding 8 rebounds and 7 assists. Emeka Okafor (1.04) had a Marcus Camby kind of game with 8 points, 17 rebounds, 5 steals and 3 blocks. Forget the scoring, Mek, that’s the kind of line you were made for. Ron Artest (0.99) had 17 points, 4 threes, and 6 steals, but more importantly, sealed the Lakers victory by drawing an offensive foul on Carmelo Anthony to take him out of the game. (Of course Carmelo helped him out by getting his 5th foul on a stupid bump of Kobe Bryant on a breakaway play) The John Salmons Fishoutofwater Revival (0.90) stopped to play Atlanta last night, where John himself had 32 points and 8 rebounds.

Waiver Wire Line of the Night: You have to reach a little to get down to Rafer Alston (0.54), and you also have to wonder how many more games Dwyane Wade is going to be out. Alston himself just missed three games, but in his second game back, he turned in 15 points on the strength of 5-8 from the field including 4 threes. He only had 2 assists, which is not something you want from a PG, especially not one capable of averaging 4-5 a game, and since Wade is only supposed to be back on Tuesday, the clock might have run out on Rafer Alston.

Another guy to look at – on the complete opposite end of the spectrum – is Serge Ibaka (0.50). It seems about time for Ibaka to start getting regular minutes backing up Nenad Krstic (yeah, what do the OKC fans think about those names on their team compared to Kevin Durant, Jeff Green, and Russel Westbrook?) His 13 and 10 with 4 blocks last night was no joke.

The Biggest Loser: This one goes to Kenyon Martin (-0.49) on technical merit for his 6 points, 9 rebounds with 27% shooting and 2 missed free throws, but I think his teammate Carmelo Anthony (-0.48), deserves it every bit as much despite scoring 21 points because he did shoot 37%, only had 5 rebounds to go with 1 assist and 1 steal, and then just blew things up with his 8 turnovers – including the tiny bump on Kobe and the offensive-foul-that-probably-shouldn’t-have-been-an-offensive-foul-but-you-need-to-recognize-when-they’re-calling-the-game-pretty-tight foul.

But, whatever happened, happened and now we march on into March.

The Golden Ticket: The Knicks are in Cleveland, so not only does LeBron get to chat with his next-year teammates, but he probably gets Line of the Night as well.

Denver tries to bounce back against Phoenix, while Phoenix tries to bounce back against Denver. And remember, there’s only 5.5 games separating 2nd (Denver) from 8th (Portland) in the West. (Just for comparison’s sake, it’s 10.5 games in the East)

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Tags: Andray Blatche, Carmelo Anthony, Dirk Nowitzki, Emeka Okafor, John Salmons, Kenyon Martin, Rafer Alston, Ron Artest, Serge Ibaka