Tip-In Points: Danny And The Juniors
Anyone can suggest adds and drops for the NBA fantasy fans out there, but few make those suggestions from the gut. We’ve also sprinkled in tons of helpful stats for all fantasy formats too. Because that’s the kind of fantasy help you deserve.
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Danny Granger, IND By now there should be no doubt what side of the Danny Granger fence this blog is on. But that’s the funny thing about fences, not everyone agrees on which side’s grass is greener. But this confusion just seems silly. No one who made it rain as much as Granger did on Tuesday has sickly grass. In a team-high 37 minutes, the Lone Granger had 36 points on 27 shots. He also had a team high nine boards, team-high five assists and a game-high seven tres. That’s some green, green grass.
The following guys have nice lawns too, if not a little patchy in a few spots.
Kevin Durant, OKC We’ll get to other Thunder (Thunders? Thundai?) later in the program, but I wanted Kevin Durant to immediately follow Granger as they were often chosen one right after the other in many drafts. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind keeping them intertwined all season. I’m building rivalries, people! Kid Dynamite scored 28 on the Jazz, giving him 407 points in 15 games (27.1). LeBron, Shaq and Jordan are the only others to score 400 points in the first 15 games of the season before turning 21. Stats!
Chris Bosh, TOR 16 points / 12 Rebas / 4 assists / 1 steal / 4 blocks / awful percentages/ serpentine face.
Jose Calderon, TOR Perfect from the line? Check. Season-high 21 points? Check. Seven assists? Check. Vague appearance of someone who’d rather be playing tennis? Check.
Jarrett Jack, TOR Swooped in off the bench, went 7-for-7 from the field (including 3-for-3 from the arc) and 1-for-1 from the free throw stripe. Even in Canada, that’s good-for-good.
Monta Ellis, Anthony Morrow, Stephen Curry, Anthony Randolph, GSW I’m calling Tuesday’s Warriors game the Oprah match because … YOU get inflated stats! And YOU get inflated stats! And YOU get inflated stats! And Monta Ellis gets a season-high 11 turnovers to go with a season-high 37 points and has played 127 consecutive minutes!
Jason Kidd, DAL Hey! Kidd shot free throws! Well lookit that, just the second time all year. 2-for-2 from the line. Ten rebounds and 13 assists to boot. Ain’t that just prettier than eyelashes on a bull steer? I don’t know what that means.
Drew Gooden, DAL Gooden averaged 14.8 minutes in his first five games with the Mavs this year. He grabbed a total of 15 rebounds and scored 23 points. Since Erick Dampier went down with a mysterious illness, Gooden has never played fewer than 30 minutes, never grabbed fewer than 11 rebounds and is averaging 14.6 points. No one seems to know what Dampier’s illness is, but I bet we can start narrowing down where it came from. On the count of three let’s all accusingly glare at Drew Gooden.
Nick Young, WAS Shazaam! A season-high 21 points. Shazaam! It was the second game of his season.
Caron Butler, WAS Shelved. Sore ankle. He was warned about his ballet pregame rituals.
Louis Williams, PHI Looey-Looey has led his team in scoring in three straight games. Until they re-animate Elton Brand’s 2006 body, this trend should continue.
Elton Brand, PHI The reports of Elton Brand’s 2006 body being re-animated have been greatly exaggerated. After three solid games this week, Sir Elton had the worst game of his season. Read it and gently weep: 4 pts / 7 reebs / 1 blk / 1-for-9
Samuel Dalembert, PHI 15 pts / 9 reb / 3 ast / 1 stl / 4 blk. Kudos to those who started him. But to those who started him, might I pose the question: why did you do that?
Russell Westbrook, OKC Komodo’s stats are up across the board. Up in FG%, up in 3P%, up in FTA, up in defensive rebounds, up in assists, up in blocks, up in points, up in ups. Seriously, he jumped over a bus the other day.
Carlos Boozer, UTA 26/ 7/ 3. Perfect from the line, 11-for-15 from the field. No blocks, so stop askin’.
Mehmet Okur, UTA Returned from sickness. Played sickly: 13 points on 13 shots.
Nene Hilario, DEN 17 points, 9 rebounds and he picked the Nets’ pockets six times. And shame on the Nets. They’re from New Jersey, they should be able to anticiapte that.
Chauncey Billups, DEN Billups looks old. Like regular old man-old. Rec league old. Like, Ty Lawson needs to mature faster than we thought -old. Every single major stat is down from last year. He’s like Benjamin Button in reverse.
Chris Douglas-Roberts, NJ Remember how you picked CDR off the free agency pool thinking “hey, the team ain’t got much else going on. The Nets suck but someone’s got to score.” No. No, they don’t. 1-for-6 shooting with 3 reebs and 2 assists from CDR. I think there’s some T-wolves still available if you still don’t believe me.
Courtney Lee, NJ He’s returned after missing seven games just in time for the rest of his team to ty to convince him to go back to being injured. It wasn’t so bad, was it? The Nets are 0-14, which has little bearing on fantasy sports, except that the Warriors – being shorthanded as the Nets have been – beat the Mavericks using only six players. Are the Nets so bad that they can’t find six players to pound in that first win?
Brook Lopez, NJ Brook, I want you to get out of your chair, walk over to your window, open it and yell, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!” Go ahead, Brook. No? Not much of a yeller, huh? Well, how ’bout you just score 5 points, grab a rebound or two and shoot poorly? That’ll show ‘em.
LINE OF THE NIGHT
Antawn Jamison, WAS 32 pts / 14 reb / 3 ast / 1 3PM / 1 stl / 2 to / .565 FG% / .833 FT%. Jamison has 100 points and 43 boards in four games this season. It’s the most grabs he’s had in his first four games of a season and the second-most points.
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