Helen Cunningham came to San Francisco State in search of a dream.
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Helen Cunningham came to San Francisco State in search of a dream.
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There are four stipulations to thinking this is one of the best shows on TV.
4) You have to have HBO
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Sorry, all you readers out there. There aren't enough hours in the day, nor is their enough incentive to keep this thing going.
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Will Bynum — Detroit (0% Ownership)
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Channing Frye — Portland (1% Ownership)
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Nenad Krstic — Oklahoma City (11% Ownership)
Washington @ OKC, 8 p.m. EST tip
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Charlie Bell — Milwaukee (14%)
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I’m trying my best. Still plugging along. Made some good picks and some not so good ones this week. And I started putting my NBA package to good use by watching some of these performances, so there’s a little extra insider knowledge for you guys in this one.
I made a new installment to the Sleeper of the Day Review this week in which I list the top three waiver wire performances of the day underneath my chosen player’s performance. This gives anyone interested a tiny window into the stat sheets of the hottest players on the wire. I had this epiphany Tuesday night, which explains its absence for Monday's review.
There’s a miniature terms key below just in case you can’t follow the lingo.
What ensues is a night by night log I kept of each player’s performance last week.
It’s colorful, it’s bright and it will give you a little insight. Hope you enjoy!
Key Terms:
* (%) = percent of Yahoo! leagues a WW player is owned in. Can’t be over 20%.
* Hindsight Performance Meter uses a 1 – 10 scale
Mon Feb 23 — Never go back on your picks. Stick to your guns.
I should learn these words and learn them well. As you may recall, I picked Fred Jones originally but after three glasses of wine and having my mind washed over from the Oscars, I made a late switch to Jones’ teammate DeAndre Jordan. Guess who did better?
1) Fred Jones: Started and saw big minutes. Now I remember why I picked him.
Sleeper Line: 37 minutes, 11 points (5-of-8 FG, 1-of-2 FT), six rebounds, four assists, one steal, one block
Hindsight Performance Meter: 6.5
2) DeAndre Jordan: I think Brandon put it best when he said never pick a Clipper. Both Cambyman and Randolph were back for this one. Ouch.
Sleeper Line: DNP
Hindsight Performance Meter: N/A
Tues Feb 24 — J.J. Barea: In a futile effort to get the Mavs back in the game, Barea went on a bit of a tear in the fourth quarter, reeling off 12 points, if I recall correctly. It didn’t help the Mavs much but was the only thing that saved this from being another awful pick.
Sleeper Line: 26 minutes, 16 points (7-of-15 FG, 2-of-5 FT), one rebound, three assists, one turnover
Hindsight Performance Meter: 5
Top 3 WW Performaces:
Wed Feb 25 — Leon Powe: Despite the bigger opportunity to put up better stats, Powe was a rather large disappointment in this one, as Glen Davis started and finished the game for the Celts. In the perfect scenario to give Powe some burn, Rivers once against sentenced him to the bench. Doc, what have you got against my boy, Leon Powe?
Sleeper Line: 24 minutes, three points (1-of-6 FG, 1-of-4 FT), nine rebounds, one assist, one steal, two blocks, two turnovers
Hindsight Performance Meter: 3
Top 3 WW Performaces:
Thurs Feb 26 – Luke Walton: I’m not gonna lie, this pick has got me pretty down right now. Rooting for a Laker was tough enough, but to witness L.A. blow out Phoenix and Walton only see 19 minutes of action was downright brutal. I said I was “guessing/hoping” Phoenix would stay in this one. Well, my guessing needs work and I’m starting to find (maybe a little late) there’s no room for hope in this game. Final score: 132 – 106 and to my best recollection not a single starter saw the floor in the fourth quarter, and if any did it was for but only a few minutes. The only thing that prevented this from being a horrible pick was the shallowness of options on a Thursday.
Sleeper Line: 19 minutes, six points (3-of-6 FG), one rebound, three assists, one block
Hindsight Performance Meter: 3
Top 3 WW Performances:
Fri Feb 27 – Bobby Jackson: In a rare blowout victory for the Kings, Jackson was the team’s best player, racking up more minutes and a higher +/- ratio than anyone else. When the backup point guard starts and outplays Baron Davis, you know your team has a great shot at a win, even if they only started the night with 12 of them. It could have gone better for B Jack in this one too. A couple of teammates blew layups that would have boosted his assists total and a few loose balls took funny hops and avoided his hands. And thus I finished just one spot out of the money Friday, as Jackson earned only the fourth best waiver wire performance.
Sleeper Line: 37 minutes, 18 points (6-of-8 FG, 3-of-4 FT), three 3-pointers, four rebounds, three assists, two steals, one block, one turnover
Hindsight Performance Meter: 9
Top 3 WW Performances:
Sat Feb 28 — Andray Blatche: Blatche was a complete non-factor in this one. The Bucks went up big early, Coach Tapscott elected to sit him most of the first half while there was still a chance at competing, then decided to throw him in for most of the second half when the team was all but out of it. Blatche didn’t do much with the time he was allotted, playing weak-side off the ball, standing around the three point arc, while his teammates took all the shots.
Side Note: My bad for thinking the Bucks go small. That was an misguided assertion based on one or two games as there was usually a true center on the court throughout the game. It’s funny. It took me like an extra hour to find this pick, why, I’m not exactly sure and I still managed to under research. This is a tough task I’ve given myself.
Sleeper Line: 22 minutes, eight points (2-of-6 FG, 4-of-4 FT), one rebound, two blocks
Hindsight Performance Meter: 2.5
Top 3 WW Performances:
Sun Mar 1 – Michael Finley: The Spurs got blown out in this one, so Coach Pop decided to sit Finley for most of this contest. In the 15 minutes he played he did next to nothing. Sometimes random things like this happen. Who would’ve known the Spurs would get blown out in Tim Duncan’s return when they had beaten the same team handily two games ago without him?
Sleeper Line: 15 minutes, zero points (0-for-1 FG), one assist
Hindsight Performance Meter: 1
Top 3 Waiver Wire Performances:
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A new week, and a new month brings back an old pick. This time with a vengeance.
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Well we're through the first month, which Bobby Jackson, last night, helped come to a close with a bang. Who is in store for Sunday? Here goes...
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Andray Blatche — Washington (19% Ownership)
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Bobby Jackson — Sacramento (1% Ownership)
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Luke Walton — L.A. Lakers (3% Ownership)
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Tue, Feb 24 Scalabrine, who injured his neck on Monday night, has flown back to Boston for precautionary reasons, the Boston Globe reports.
Recommendation: Scalabrine will not be with the team for Wednesday night's road finale against the Clippers. Celtics team president Danny Ainge said Scalabrine was suffering from concussion-like symptoms. Scalabrine was sidelined with a concussion earlier this season.
(RotoWire.com)
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How does that old maxim go? "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." With those words in mind, my first returning Sleeper of the Day is....
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Jose Juan Barea — Dallas (4% Ownership)
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Fred Jones — LAC (3% Ownership), DeAndre Jordan — LAC (3% Ownership)
Game: Golden State @ Los Angeles, 10:30 EST
You know,
I'm not even going to make a big deal out of it anymore. Like I do in all of my real
leagues I'm going to exploit the easiest fantasy defense in the league. Don't
care that they happen to be my team because there's no such thing as team loyalty in fantasy
and there's not room for weakness. That's why Jones is impossible for me to pass up in
this one. Not to mention he's hot, having averaged 30 minutes and
scored in double digits in each of his
last three games. In Baron Davis' first game against his old team look for him to try to take over and hopefully Jones can play Robin to his Batman. Jones will likely see 25 - 30 minutes in this one and try to get up and run against a fast-paced Warriors squad.
(A few hours later) Who am I kidding? Jones isn't going to break me out of this funk. I'm writing this at like 10 p.m. before game night, so this is after the fact, but if I could change my pick I'd likely go with DeAndre Jordan in the same game. He should be available on most wires and isn't the type of player who usually has success against the Warriors due to his likely inability to keep up with their fast-paced style and thus stay in the game. But he's coming off of two very good games and I could see him getting some burn in this one as the Clippers might have little place elsewhere to turn. His success is contingent on one very big IF, which is a 50-50, that Marcus Camby misses this game. If he gets a chance at big minutes he could pull down close to 20 boards. If you've been watching the Warriors all season you'd know that's not as outlandish a feat as it seems.
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I'm going to be brutally honest with myself like I always try to be. I tried my best and failed miserably. My picks this week were nothing short of horrible. The one good pick I did make came at about 9:30 p.m., the night before the game. He was a late add, my third for the day, and I knew I had to get him on here to have any success this week. Aaron Brooks' great game last week against Dallas was as close to a sure thing as you'll get in this game.
This week's picks make last week's look like two of the best streams of the year, which they most definitely were not.
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Leon Powe - Boston (5% Ownership)
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Alright, I've still got an hour until I reach my 8 p.m. deadline. Let's go...
Thabo Sefolosha - Oklahoma City (3% Ownership)
Game: Oklahoma City @ Golden State, tipoff at 10:30 p.m. EST
Aye
vey. He said he wouldn't to it, but look at him. He caved. That I did, random italicized
voice, that I did. I've resorted to the lowest common denominator: picking a
match up against my favorite squad because if all goes according to plan, it's
the best option out there. The first half of tonight's Thunder game
is almost
over and Sefolosha still has yet to play, but I’m going to chalk that up to the
fact that he was just dealt yesterday and he’s still dealing with passing the
OKC physical, which Tyson Chandler proved earlier this week is no easy feat.
Thabo, in only his third NBA season, has proven that he has a solid all around
fantasy game when given the chance. His shot needs work but he helps out in
more ways than scoring. His line in 40 career games as a starter is: 28 min, 44
FG%, 76 FT%, 0.5 3PTM, 9.4 PPG, 5.2 RPG, 2.3 APG, 1.3 SPG, 0.6 BPG and 1.9 TO.
Like Boris Diaw and Vlaidmir Radmonavic have shown already this season, role
players on loaded teams can make for good fantasy sleepers on lesser squads. If
he plays tomorrow night, which is still somewhat in question and few people
know the answer, he should thrive against a Warriors squad that has the
friendliest defense to opposing fantasy players. Athletic guys like Sefolosha
always seem to do well against my team. If I were you I’d roll the dice.
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