No mention of Carmello? O-7 and 1pt! But 11reb and 4asts.

Keep it up R. Anderson, M. Gortat and T. Chandler! They’re all my centers.  I proposed a trade for K. Mart + S. Ibaka for my D. Granger + T. Duncan, is this a steal? I need 3′s, steals and blocks!

I have very little forward eligibility. Im looking to trade Shumpert, westbrook, martin, thorton, jennings,or miller, for a forward/center type guy. As you see I have a few guards and just trying to get the best value for any of them. the guys in this league trade based on yahoo rankings so sometimes its tough to trade but other times can get great value. If anyone has any ideas on who I can target with one of these guards please let me know, i really appreciate your help. Thanks

I wouldn’t stay that’s a steal, but it’s a positive trade for you. Duncan is definitely underpeforming this year, and that will probably continue since I think the Spurs will limit his minutes as they have been so far. Hard to say if Ibaka keeps blocking 2.6 shots per game, but it doesn’t seem like he wants to do anything else… The trade actually hurts you in steals though, but helps in 3s and blocks… so 2/3…

I guess the 11 rebounds and 4 assists pleased the Player Rater enough to put him at 67 / 115 last night.

I’d keep Landry, drop Mullens.

I’d go in this order for pickups (Fields and Crawford are the lowest ranked on normal category stats, but they get more assists than the other guys):
Splitter
James Johnson
Fields

Crawford

Barbosa
Camby

Matthews is playing the easier defense with GSW tonight… but it’s not the golden ticket it used to be. I’d stick with Leandro for now until Wes makes some shots.

I’d probably keep Scola in since at least he shoots decently from the field and he’s playing the Bucks who are evidently going to start Luc Mbah Moute against Scola, so he might be able to get some rebounds.

i agree and I’m going to keep scols in there, but I have to disagree about the boards. set the over-under at 6 and im taking under

Scola has had one 6+ board game out of his last five. Insane. Even Andrea Bargnani is shaking his head. 

Hey Joe – are you having a bit of trouble in this league since the Horford injury? With a healthy Dirk, I’ve got you as a decent steals, threes and FG% team (thanks to all the guards), but sort of averagish in everything else. 

If your having a bit of trouble, you may want to embrace the smallness of your team and actually try and improve your position in points and assists while not worrying too much about rebounds. In which case, you can target scoring type forwards like Paul Pierce, Hedo Turkoglu, try and buy low on Danny Granger or Dorell Wright, or even target the namesake of today’s post, Andrea Bargnani. Trevor Ariza makes an ok waiver wire pickup for you if he’s available. 

In terms of who to trade, all your guards more or else fit your team style (which make sense since your running small), so I’d target a guy you like and then find the best guy on your team to trade based on what you think you could get for him. 

hate to nag, but would you mind taking a look at my post? thanks!!

If you’re in a league that gives you the opportunity to stash him then, Yes. Gordon’s injury prone, but there’s no doubt whether he’s capable of producing Top-30 value or not.

The problem with Mullens is that if his shot isn’t falling, he doesn’t do much else for you (as his recent game logs show).

In a points based league like yours, you basically want to focus on points, boards and assists since those are the stats guys rack up most often and don’t worry about much else. So as much as I love James Johnson, he doesn’t fit your league’s scoring system. Splitter is hot right now, but I don’t trust him to keep it up. Fields has probably been the best of these guys recently because he’s averaging over 4 assists a game during the past couple of weeks. You may want to ride him until Baron Davis returns. 

And while Jordan Crawford isn’t great for a regular fantasy league, he should be decent in yours since he’s scoring about 17 points a game recently.

Thanks for the advice! I can potentially swap Aldridge + Lee for both Ellis and Lowry. I won last year using a guard heavy approach so I might want to go back to that this year. Would this be a good trade for me as well? I think it would be. I’d be strong in assists and steals as well as points, probably FT%, and 3s as well. Thanks again!

Hey guys need criticism’s for my team this is a 14 team, 9-cat, H2H weekly changes with 10 players. Here is my current lineup: 

Jason Kidd
James Harden
Trever Ariza 
Shawn Marion
Josh Smith
Nicolas Batum
Channing Frye
Al Jefferson
Markieff Morris
Wesley Matthews 
Udonis Haslem
Chuck Hayes
Jason Smith

In which direction should I bring my team? What changes could I make to help in my chances of making the playoffs I am currently last in this league and really need help. Thanks!

Well, it’s going to depend a lot on Danny Granger and if he bounces back to what we expected of him this year. As it stands right now, you pick up a little bit of points, blocks and threes and a big bump in FT% for losses in rebounds, assists, steals and FG%. Sort of an even trade if you can take the 3 assists a game loss going from AI to Granger. 

However, if Granger bounces back you’ll get a really nice bump in points and the rebounding difference more or less goes away – and you’ll be the pretty clear winner in the trade.

Tough one man. You have the unfortunate situation of being neither a big nor small team and have a number of underperforming guys like Kidd and Channing Frye. I’ve got you as being great in TOs and maybe some minor strengths in boards and blocks, but everything else is either average of below average.

Sounds like it’s time to blow it all up and have some fun with things. I think you can go one of two ways with your team. One, build around your two best players in Jefferson and Smith and go big and really focus in on boards, blocks, TOs and FG%. In this case, you are definitely going to want to improve your FG%. So say goodbye to Kidd despite the fact that he fits a big ball team in other ways. Trade him for whatever you can get and maybe see if you can get a guy like Mario Chalmers. You’ll also want to pick up another shot rebounder/shot blocker to strengthen your position in those categories. You don’t have a ton of tradeable value on your team, so you might have to flip a guy like Harden, who doesn’t really match your strengths. You can also try to pick up a shot blocker off waivers like Bismack Biyombo if he’s available. 

The other option would be to use your two most tradable assets (Jefferson and Smith) to complete revamp your team around percentages, TOs and whatever else you could get (maybe points and threes). This would take more work, but you could use your tradable guys to bring in players like Danilo Gallinari, Chris Bosh, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, or Greg Monroe. In this scenario, Kidd has to go again as well as Trevor Ariza. 

I wish I had better news for you, but either way it looks like you’ve got some work ahead if you want to be a playoff team. Good luck.