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Stat’s All, Folks: Dirk Is Getting Dirrrrty!
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Disses, H2H, Injuries, Props, Rookies, Roto, Site Features, Talent,
Stat’s All Folks will be a week-to-week stock market look at the standard cumulative categories – points, assists, rebounds, three-pointers made, steals, and blocks. I’ll be calling out the “bulls” and “bears” in each category, in order to help you assess your portfolio of players on your fantasy basketball team(s) and whether you should sell, hold, and/or diversify your assets.
Note that you won’t always see the superstar player written about in this column, otherwise it would be LeBron James or Steve Nash every week. So, check out who’s bullish and who’s bearish coming into the week.
Statistics are from January 12 - January 19th.
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Dirk Nowitzki, PF, Dallas Mavericks
Last Week’s Numbers of Note: 4 G; 34.5 PPG; 51.6 FG%; 87.5 FT%
How does Nowitzki come back from a poor 11-point performance against the less than impressive Portland Trailblazers? Score a season-high 43 points the next game and continue to hang points on the opposition in the next three games, which Dirk did in the past week. Not only has he been impressive shooting the ball, but rebounding it as well averaging 10.8 glass cleaning in the same period. Nowitzki is going good right now in all facets of his game, which is helping his stroke. Obviously, don’t ever worry about low-scoring performances from Dirk (did you know he had two games where he only scored six points!) because he isn’t an elite fantasy player for nothing and will definitely come back strong.
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Stat’s All Folks: Small Sample Sized Meal
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Disses, Editorial, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Props, Site Features, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent, Waiver Pick Ups,
Only three days of NBA action have been in play, which may cause a crisis when you’re writing a weekly article and you want as many samples of performance as you can, but have no fear. Sometimes, it’s the early jump on players that can make a difference to a team that wins a fantasy basketball championship and a team that doesn’t. Ask those that picked up David West or Boris Diaw last season. And what’s the value now of that underperforming early round draft pick and what will it be moving forward? Relax, it’s only been a few days, but it doesn’t hurt to note who’s doing what.
Stat’s All Folks will be a stock market look at the standard cumulative categories – points, assists, rebounds, three-pointers made, steals, and blocks. I’ll be calling out the “bulls” and “bears” in each category, in order to help you assess your portfolio of players on your fantasy basketball team(s) and whether you should sell, hold, and/or diversify your assets.
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Stat’s All Folks: Doing It Preseason Style!
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Atlantic Division, Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, Toronto Raptors, Central Division, Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks, H2H, Northwest Division, Portland Trailblazers, Seattle Supersonics, Pacific Division, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Sacramento Kings, Roto, Site Features, Southeast Division, Charlotte Bobcats, Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, Southwest Division, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Hornets,
I have to admit, I was brainstorming and thinking of different ways to write an introductory paragraph about how the NBA was back, but for some reason I just couldn’t come up with anything. I wrote out the ubiquitous Star Wars reference about Episode V, but didn’t want to appear too fanboyish the first time out. Then Apocalypse Now hit my head with that whole “I love the smell of…,” but thought of the connotations and chucked that idea. Then the Rodney Dangerfield classic, Back to School came to mind and how the NBA doesn’t get any respect, but didn’t want to go on a diatribe validating the League.
So, what am I saying?
I watch entirely too many movies, but I’m also way too excited about the NBA being back to think straight. However, I’ll pop in Brad Pitt’s Meet Joe Black into the DVD player to bore me and calm my nerves enough to write this article.
(Ten minutes later; yeah, that quickly)
During the regular season, the aim of Stat’s All Folks will be to take a stock market look at the standard cumulative categories – points, assists, rebounds, three-pointers made, steals, and blocks. I’ll be calling out the “bulls” and “bears” in each category, in order to help you assess your portfolio of players on your fantasy basketball team(s) and whether you should sell, hold, and/or diversify your assets.
Here’s the preseason installment of Stat’s All Folks. Jagshemash, NB and A!
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