Two more nights until the end of the NBA regular season. It’s sad but it had to end sometime. Today’s post is my usual daily player notes post but when the season ends I’ll be doing a roundup of the top 20 fantasy players at each position according to ESPN’s player rater compared to my pre-season projections. ESPN’s player rater being the most objective end of season rankings to compare my projections to. Hey, I gots to put my money where my mouth is now and take some responsibility for my rankings. I think they ended up aaiigghtt for the most part. I’ll admit I missed badly on Ryan Anderson but you can’t get ‘em all right. I was sure Glen Davis would cut into his time but that just never came to fruition. Speaking of fruition, I don’t think Big Baby eats any. Here’s what I saw in fantasy basketball last night:
Gustavo Ayon – 13/7/4 with 4 blocks in 29 minutes. Could do worse on Thursday for a center.
Kyrie Irving – Mr. Mister’s favorite player is doubtful for tonight so go ahead and stream Donald Sloan.
Chris Paul – Playing it out to the end. Yeah baby!
Nick Young – Limping home. Drop if you haven’t for a streamer assuming Chris Paul plays tonight which he should because the Paper Clips needs to win for seeding purposes.
Randy Foye – See Nick Young.
Eric Gordon – Done for the year. Finally! What an f’n saga this year. Ugh.
Travis Outlaw – With Marcus Thornton screwing his owners one final screw (and not the good kind!), TO started last night and dropped 20/7/1 with 4 steals and a 2 threes in 33 minutes. MT will probably sit out again so go ahead and grab Travis. Just keep it realz on his expected production.
Daequan Cook – 19/5/1 with 4 threes. On Monday I told you to stream him with James Harden out. Oh, yes I did, mmm-hmmm.
Thadeus Young – Apparently he too isn’t going to play the Sixers’ final two games so lose him quick, quick. Evan Turner, Jodie Meeks and Lou Williams should be productive so give them a look-gander. They’ll get minutes anyway.
Derrick Rose – Allegedly he’ll play limited minutes tonight. It’s so damn hard to sit him though because he can still go 20/4/5 or something like that in just 25 minutes of burn. I don’t know, sit him if you only have real options getting 35 minutes of run.
Sasha Pavlovic – You’re a Boston Celtics season ticket holder and the season schedule said MIAMI last week of the season! Wowza, that’s gonna be a dandy, can’t wait, maybe I’ll sell my tickets for hundreds of dollars! Yeah, nah that didn’t happen. Consider streaming Sasha in deeeep leagues on Thursday if everyone sits again.
Norris Cole – See Sasha Pavlovic 1/4 inch above.
Jeremy Tyler – Played 40 minutes last night and dropped 13/8/2 with a steal. 40 minutes!!
Channing Frye – Done. Lose him quick quick.
I was thinking of starting a fantasy playoff league for the top teams of my 13 team roto league. I’ve never tried a playoff league before. since there are less teams/players in the playoffs, how many teams should I allow for this playoff league? I was thinking six??
for the final day tomorrow, which six players below would you play from the list below? I need help in PTS STLS ASTS and 3PM. Josh Smith and Joe Johnson seem like a lock to me(since they are still playing for home court advantage). I’m worried about M.Conley, Jammy Nelson, P.Gasol, and Gallo being rested. I like B.Rush, but the Warriors are trying to tank so bad that they only gave him 17min last night. what are your thoughts? thank you thank you… have I thanked you yet??
Josh Smith vDAL
Mike Conley vORL
Danilo Gallinari @MIN
Pau Gasol @SAC
Joe Johnson vDAL
Brandon Rush vSAN
DeMar DeRozan vNJ
Jameer Nelson @MEM
Amare Stoudemire @CHA
Derrick Brown vNY
Chandler Parsons vNOR
Daniel Green @GS
@Adge: I’m not sure about the number of teams for a playoff league. I’m sure the wonderful world of Google might have some information on that. Let me know, I’m curious to know myself. As far as who to start tomorrow: Josh Smith, Joe Johnson, Conley (if he plays), Nelson (if he plays), Parsons and probably Gallo. Brown if Conley doesn’t play. Rush if Nelson also doesn’t play. Given that you don’t need boards or blocks, I’d just go ahead and sit Gasol and Amare but I’d go Amare before Gasol if I had to choose since Amare still needs minutes in his legs. Good luck!
Hey Hecman, first off thanks for all the good stuff!
I was just wondering which two I should bench tonight(I’m esp looking for treys, assists, steals): Tristan Thompson (@Chi)
Jason Thompson (LAL)
Kyle Korver (Cle)
Richard Hamilton (Cle)
Charles Jenkins (SA)
Iman Shumpert (@Cha)
Right now I’m thinking about benching Tristan Thompson and Richard Hamilton (but am conflicted between either benching Hamilton or Korver). What do you think?
Thanks!
@Colonel Kitchen: If you’re looking for 3s, dimes, steals then bench both Thompsons. If you want one big man then bench Rip and Tristan. Good luck!