Day 151 of 170: Dwyane Wade Will Lead Them

Categorized as: Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball, Miami Heat
Posted on: March 26th, 2011

Line of the Night: When the Heat won the NBA Championship in 2006, they basically piled a bunch of players on the backs of Dwyane Wade (3.28), gave him a Superman-type sidekick in Shaquille O’Neal and let Wade lead them. Can I convince anyone that LeBron James is no more dominant as a second fiddle than Shaq was 5 years ago? That’s the kind of heady stuff that should probably be reserved for a separate post, but for the sake of brevity, let’s just say you could probably hang a jury arguing that one. Meanwhile, though, Wade scored 39 points with 11 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 steals, and 5 blocks. His score of 3.28 is one of the highest I’ve seen this season, and it comes on a night when there were a lot of games being played. That is also some heady stuff. So, while LeBron might not have the mental toughness or requisite man parts to take a team all the way, Wade has done it before with a team that would probably take his current team to triple overtime if they simulated it on the Playstation or Xbox 360 in one of those NBA 2K games. Wade gives the Heat as good a chance at a championship as any other team has.

Honorable Mentions: Monta Ellis (2.66) was part of a 38 points rout of the Raptors, contributing 27 points (3 threes, 6-6 from the line), 10 assists, and 4 steals. Andrew Bogut (2.58) is trying to keep the Bucks in the playoffs with his 21 points, 17 rebounds, 2 steals, and 4 blocks. Is he helping your team in the playoffs? Wade’s court jester (see what I did there?) LeBron James (2.24) had 32 points (11-17 from the field, 9-9 from the line), 10 rebounds, and 3 steals. J.J. Hickson (2.01) reminded us that he is capable of putting up not just one, but two double-doubles in a row with 24 points (9-13 from the field, 6-6 from the line), 15 rebounds, and even 2 steals. The youngest member of the Miami Heat championship team, Dorell Wright (2.00), hasn’t done too bad for himself. Of course, anyone lucky enough to play for the Warriors can make mediocrity look like magic. Wright got his piece of the 138 point pie with 26 points (9-11 from the field), adding 4 steals. Another Anthony Randolph (1.86) sighting! That makes two in a row after this 24 points (6-6 from the line), 15 rebounds, and 2 block outburst. Now everyone can get their hopes to draft him next year. One more Warrior to get in there: David Lee (1.80) had 21 points (8-9 from the field, 4-4 from the line), 7 rebounds, and 4 assists. The Warriors were over 100 points some time in the 3rd quarter.

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Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Speaking of reminding people that he can put up double-doubles (I spoke of it above in case you skipped that part) Chris Andersen (2.34) put up 17 points (7-7 from the field), 11 rebounds, 2 steals, and of course: 5 blocks (12% owned). It was Anderson’s first good game in a couple week, so he’s probably not worth of a pick-up at this point. (No, I don’t count 3 points, 1 steal, and 5 blocks as a good game even though 5 blocks are nice any time you can get them)

Pick Up Lines: I guess SVG felt that Ryan Anderson (1.99) matched up better with Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend than Brandon Bass, so Anderson got 30 minutes and ended up with 15 points (5 threes, 5-8 from the field), 9 rebounds, and 2 steals (34% owned). Either that, or he had to take Sasha “Fierce” Vujacic who is evidently the new SF for the Nets. Either way, I get to post a picture of Kim Kardashian now right?

Francisco Garcia (1.79) had a nice game: 16 points (7-11 from the field), 4 steals, and 3 blocks (34% owned). Inconsistency. Wait for next year on Garcia.

I still remember (and may never forget) buying into Erik’s Austin Daye (1.64) hype. Well, Daye didn’t buy into his own hype, but when he gets the PT, he can put up some nice lines like this: 12 points, 7 rebounds, 2 steals, and 3 blocks (6% owned). Maybe he’ll go somewhere he can be better utilized next season.

Ekpe Udoh (1.35) had 10 points (5-7 from the field), 5 rebounds, and 4 blocks (4% owned). It took him 29 minutes to get that much going, though, in a game where the final score for his team was 138. Sleeper for next season?

This makes 2 games now for Jarrett Jack (1.32), so get on the 17 points (7-11 from the field), 5 assists, and 2 steals cause there’s probably another 3-4 games of that before he goes back to playing 15 minutes a game (26% owned). You can take that risk if you’re in the Consolation bracket of your league, but because I have to think this has to relate to David West’s season-ending ACL injury, it might actually be a viable streak. Or it might just be because the Hornets were up against the Suns who also play a pretty small lineup except for one big man in the middle. If your league sucks continues through the end of the real NBA season, the Hornets are a very average team for the next two and a half weeks.

Biggest Loser: Steve Nash (-0.74) struggled against the Hornets (of course, it didn’t help that Vince Carter was sick and could only play 10 ineffective minutes). Nash ended up with 3 points, 4 rebounds, and 8 assists to 5 turnovers and 1-9 from the field. Nash had 20 assists in the 3OT game against the Lakers earlier, which really just means that you’ve probably already won Assists and the 5 turnovers and 1-9 from the field are hurting you in those categories while the assists are just widening the lead…

In The Bonus: Kris HUMPhries.

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