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Dropping Dimes Staff Week Seven Position Rankings
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: H2H, Roto, Site Features, Talent, Boston Celtics, New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks, Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Bobcats, Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Hornets, San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Portland Trailblazers, Seattle Supersonics, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Sacramento Kings,
Well, there’s a lot going on with the Dropping Dimes team, so it looks like there won’t be enough diversity in the rankings with myself and Sarge being the only ones able to drop rankings. But, have no fear, we’re still the best fantasy basketball team out there (along with the fine folks at Give Me The Rock), so peep the rankings for Week Seven, but first check the number of games for each team. Word.
Atlanta Hawks - 4; Boston Celtics - 4; Charlotte Bobcats - 3; Chicago Bulls - 4; Cleveland Cavaliers - 4; Dallas Mavericks - 4; Denver Nuggets - 4; Detroit Pistons - 3; Golden State Warriors - 4; Houston Rockets - 4; Indiana Pacers - 4; Los Angeles Clippers - 4; Los Angeles Lakers - 4; Memphis Grizzlies - 4; Miami Heat - 4; Milwaukee Bucks - 4; Minnesota Timberwolves - 3; New Jersey Nets - 4; New Orleans Hornets - 3; New York Knicks - 4; Orlando Magic - 4; Philadelphia 76ers - 4; Phoenix Suns - 4; Portland Trail Blazers - 3; Sacramento Kings - 3; San Antonio Spurs - 4; Seattle Supersonics - 4; Toronto Raptors - 4; Utah Jazz - 4; Washington Wizards - 3
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Stat’s All Folks: Let’s Get Spicy!
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: H2H, Rookies, Roto, Site Features, Talent, Boston Celtics, New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks, Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Bobcats, Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Hornets, San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Portland Trailblazers, Seattle Supersonics, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Sacramento Kings,
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 through November 29th – December 5th.
POINTS
BULLISH
Eddy Curry, C, New York Knicks
Last Week’s Numbers of Note: 4 G; 25.3 PPG; 60.3 FG%; 60.8 FT%
I’ll admit and say that I was a non-believer. And to some degree I still am – I’ll chalk that up to me being a disgruntled Knicks fan. But, I simply could not believe that Eddy Curry scoring as much as he was the week before was the real deal. If Howie Mandel was in front of me, I would have emphatically said, “NO DEAL!” But, you can’t argue with seven games in a row of 20+ points because instead of Curry’s physique blowing up, his post game is. Buy into it because head coach Isiah Thomas has, recently saying that Curry was the key to the team and that’s music to every Curry owner’s ears. Hopefully it doesn’t turn out to sound like an American Idol tryout.
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Injury Lowdown: Surprise, Surprise Shaq Is Out!
Posted by Ron Chow Categories: Atlantic Division, Boston Celtics, New Jersey Nets, Central Division, Milwaukee Bucks, Injuries, Northwest Division, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Site Features, Southeast Division, Miami Heat, Southwest Division, Dallas Mavericks, New Orleans Hornets,
It was reported on Friday November 17, Miami Heat Center Shaquille O’Neal will need surgery to repair torn cartilage in his left knee and will be out four to six weeks. It was originally diagnosed that Shaq was out due to a hyperextended left knee. Shaq has already missed five of the Heat’s nine game played so far.
Reported earlier this week on November 16, Milwaukee Bucks Forward Charlie Villanueva will miss at least four weeks due to a torn ligament in his left elbow. He suffered the injury on Tuesday’s game against Atlanta when he took a hard fall on his elbow.
The Denver Nuggets’ Kenyon Martin is done like a Thanksgiving turkey after the leftovers are taken to lunch the week after Thanksgiving. K-Mart had microfracture surgery on his right knee and will be out for the rest of the season. Kenyon had microfracture surgery on his left knee 18 months ago. It is hard enough to recover from microfracture surgery on one knee but for both knees?! I hope this is not the end of Kenyon Martin’s career.
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Injury Lowdown: Stomach Pains - Al Jefferson Out For 2-3 Weeks
Posted by Ron Chow Categories: Atlantic Division, Boston Celtics, Injuries, Site Features,
Boston Celtic PF/C Al Jefferson had emergency surgery to have his appendix removed on Wednesday, November 8th. Danny Ainge is expecting Al Jefferson to be back at 100% in 2 to 3 weeks.
(Note: Denver Nuggets PF Kenyon Martin will need arthroscopic surgery on his right knee. Keep on eye out for a future Injury Lowdown to see how long K-Mart will be out.)
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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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Sargent Says: 10.18.2006
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Editorial, H2H, Props, Roto, Site Features, Talent, Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Orlando Magic, Portland Trailblazers, Golden State Warriors,
Holy Dwight Howard, Batman!
The 10 boards are money in the bank. However, the 27 points, three blocks and six assists definitely made me say, “whoa” when I checked out the box scores this morning. Add center eligibility to this guy, and you should have yourself a top-15 player before it’s all said and done…
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Dropping Dimes Draft Blog: Round 6, Pick 10
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Atlantic Division, Boston Celtics, H2H, Injuries, Props, Roto, Site Features,
Round 6, Pick 10: Wally Szczerbiak, SG/SF, Boston Celtics
Wally Szczerbiak? Wally Szczerbiak?!?!?!?! Yes, Wally Szczerbiak.
While Szczerbiak isn’t exactly that “sexy” name you’d like to keep getting in your draft, the fact is, around now is the time to start complementing the team of players you’ve already chosen as your core group. Szczerbiak does a lot of things well, such as putting up a decent amount of points, treys, and percentages. Of course, we have to keep in mind the splits Szczerbiak had since he was traded in midseason from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Celtics.
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Dropping Dimes Draft Blog: Round 2, Pick 4
Posted by Ron Chow Categories: Atlantic Division, Boston Celtics, H2H, Props, Roto, Site Features,
Round 2, Pick 4 Paul Pierce, SG/SF, Boston Celtics
Last year there were rumors that Celtic’s GM Danny Ainge was contemplating a youth movement and Paul Pierce was being shopped around the league. So, “The Truth” took stock of the situation and played like a man on a mission last season. “You can’t handle the truth” was made famous by Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, and Pierce proved it last season against those defending him by averaging 26.8 points/game, which was 6th in the NBA, as well as a career high for Pierce. He will be styling in Celtic green a while longer after he signed a contract extension this past summer.
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The Business of Turnovers
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Atlantic Division, Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, Central Division, Cleveland Cavaliers, Editorial, H2H, Northwest Division, Denver Nuggets, Pacific Division, Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Roto, Southeast Division, Atlanta Hawks, Miami Heat, Washington Wizards, Southwest Division, San Antonio Spurs,
So, a friend of mine always seems to bring up turnovers when considering drafting a player and while I can understand why (as it is one of the nine basic categories in fantasy basketball) I can’t help but to say the following:
Who cares.
No disrespect to my friend, as he does know his fantasy hoops, but I just don’t care so much about this business of turnovers. I’m not saying to knowingly punt the category, but I am saying don’t care about it as much as you do points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, 3-pointers made, and the percentages when you draft. Why you ask?
Let me give you my $0.10.
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