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Inviting You To Be Our MySpace Friend!!
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Editorial, Site Announcements, Site Features,
Hey guys! I hope you’re all enjoying a great start to this weekend. If you live in the Midwest or East coast, enjoy the weather while it’s here! It may not be long before you’re forced to stay inside and watch sports all day on the trusty television. Rough life, I know. But while you are inside, I recommend adding DroppingDimes.com to your neverending page of friends over at MySpace.com
Not only do you get to then go out and tell all your boys that you’re “friends” with some of the best Fantasy Hoops writers on the planet, but you also get our glorious bulletins with our updated material - letting you know when something new has been added! Talk about resourceful, eh?
Just look at all the famous people that you’ll be associated with simply by clicking here, while logged in (of course)...
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Stat’s All Folks: T-Mac Is Back!
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, H2H, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Props, Roto, Site Features, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent, Waiver Pick Ups,
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 December 28th – January 3rd.
POINTSBULLISH
Tracy McGrady, SG/SF, Houston Rockets
Last Week’s Numbers of Note: 3 G; 33.3 PPG; 56.5 FG%; 55.6 FT%
In the past week, McGrady has been playing like the T-Mac of old and not like an old T-Mac. In each of his three games, McGrady has scored 31, 38, and 31 points, respectively. And it hasn’t even been a fluke sort of deal where he just jacked up forty or more shots to get his points. Look at the field goal percentage above too. Taking 23 shot attempts per game on average is a lot, but again, look at that percentage from the floor! No wonder McGrady’s been scoring so much and it speaks well for his health as well, being able to hit that many baskets at a high rate. I won’t declare him “back” because of the lingering prospect of back spasms that sidelined T-Mac earlier this season, so throw out some feeler deals for more durable players. Otherwise, hold T-Mac and hope he stays healthy.
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Dropping Dimes On The Daily: January 5, 2007
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Editorial, H2H, Props, Roto, Site Features,
Dropping Dimes On The Daily is all about me looking at the previous night’s performances and mentioning those that did pretty goodly and those that did pretty badly. Goodly is a word, right? Anyway, this will be a quick look around the league, so don’t expect a ton of text, just some daily fantasy basketball goodness!!! Please note that this is the fantasy basketball section of ElevationMag.com’s Daily Top Picks. Check it out and see your daily rumors, quotes, headlines, and facts! But read the fantasy section HERE!
The Fig Cap: “Dude, no need to kiss me… just admire my work from afar!”
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Dropping Dimes On The Daily: January 4, 2007
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Disses, Editorial, H2H, Props, Roto, Site Features,
Dropping Dimes On The Daily is all about me looking at the previous night’s performances and mentioning those that did pretty goodly and those that did pretty badly. Goodly is a word, right? Anyway, this will be a quick look around the league, so don’t expect a ton of text, just some daily fantasy basketball goodness!!! Please note that this is the fantasy basketball section of ElevationMag.com’s Daily Top Picks. Check it out and see your daily rumors, quotes, headlines, and facts! But read the fantasy section HERE!
The Fig Cap: “Yeah, that’s right, defend against the drive, dummy. You’ll be calling me HEADACHE after the game because I’m gonna pop this pill from downtown like you’ll be popping aspirins later.”
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Wire to Wire: 1.4.07
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Free Agency, H2H, Roto, Site Features, Sleepers, Waiver Pick Ups,
Wire to Wire aims to be your waiver wire resource for all of your fantasy basketball needs. It will dive into playing time trends, injury replacements, and even an occasional category specialist – all of which can be found on a typical waiver wire within your fantasy league at any given time.
The holidays have come and gone, but the NBA continues to keep rolling. From buzzer-beaters by Leandro Barbosa to Kevin Garnett going off with the old style ball, basketball addicts have had plenty to keep them busy during the time of season that is saturated by NFL “what if” scenarios and college football bowl games.
The last edition of Wire to Wire was nearly created by chance more than choice due to all the huge injuries that had occurred. This week should prove to be a little different, but first, let’s check out last week’s recommendations…
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Warriors at Grizzlies: Fantasy Dream Come True
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Editorial, H2H, Pacific Division, Golden State Warriors, Roto, Southwest Division, Memphis Grizzlies,
Randomly checking box scores, as that’s what fantasy basketball fans tend to do from time to time, I can’t help but post about the game that’s still underway. The Memphis Grizzlies are currently beating the Golden State Warriors 130-127…with three minutes still remaining in regulation! If anyone’s able to watch this game, please let me know if they’re playing this game on half of a court or not.
Neither team is exactly shooting lights out, so there’s only one thing that can attribute to such an evening:
No Defense.
(Update: OK, maybe we can attribute it to a few long balls as well…)
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The New Year seems as good a time as any to update everyone on the action in our Dropping Dime Experts League. The league is set up as a rotisserie league using the standard nine categories. There are no limits in adding and dropping players and a two day waiting period. Roster changes can only be made on a weekly basis. Compared to other fantasy sites, we seem to back Lebron James more than other experts. So even though none of us here at Dropping Dimes employs LBJ on our squad, we do not mind propping him up because he has his team atop this fantasy league.
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Sargent Says: 2006, That’s a Wrap
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Editorial, Site Features,
Man, where did this year go? In reading the “Year in Reviews” by different columnists across the published world, a few good ones have caught my eye. A quick recommendation is the Daily Fix – the Wall Street Journal piece that typically contains links to daily sports columns. Not often to we check out the WSJ for sports information, but these guys are pretty resourceful if you enjoy the same types of discussions that they do. Well, they’ve laid out the top 10 columns that they found the most memorable. If you have a few minutes, it’s worth the look!
Now on to some quick hoops thoughts…
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Dropping Dimes Week Ten Position Rankings
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: H2H, Props, Roto, Site Features, Talent,
To bring a close to 2006, the DroppingDimes crew has compiled the rankings to open up 2007 like Jay-Z used to pop ‘Cris at the 40/40 club. We won’t give you Ashton Kutcher, Paris Hilton or even Carson Daly (what the hell happened to THAT guy??), but we will give you the edge that you can use next week while your opponents are still nursing hangovers and BCS gambling debt.
Have a safe and enjoyable New Year. Here are the games played for each team next week…
Atlanta Hawks - 2; Boston Celtics - 4; Charlotte Bobcats - 2; Chicago Bulls - 3; Cleveland Cavaliers - 4; Dallas Mavericks - 3; Denver Nuggets - 3; Detroit Pistons - 2; Golden State Warriors - 4; Houston Rockets - 3; Indiana Pacers - 2; Los Angeles Clippers - 4; Los Angeles Lakers - 3; Memphis Grizzlies - 3; Miami Heat - 3; Milwaukee Bucks - 2; Minnesota Timberwolves - 4; New Jersey Nets - 2; New Orleans Hornets - 3; New York Knicks - 3; Orlando Magic - 3; Philadelphia 76ers - 3; Phoenix Suns - 4; Portland Trail Blazers - 4; Sacramento Kings - 3; San Antonio Spurs - 4; Seattle Supersonics - 4; Toronto Raptors - 3; Utah Jazz - 3; Washington Wizards – 3
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Wire to Wire: 12.28.06
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Free Agency, H2H, Roto, Site Features, Sleepers, Talent, Waiver Pick Ups,
Wire to Wire aims to be your waiver wire resource for all of your fantasy basketball needs. It will dive into playing time trends, injury replacements, and even an occasional category specialist – all of which can be found on a typical waiver wire within your fantasy league at any given time.
We’re back from a brief Holiday Hiatus. I hope you all had a safe and enjoyable weekend. We all know that the fantasy hoops waiver wires did. Injuries over the last two weeks have provided us with some very nice options going forward. First, let’s look back to my last edition to see how those recommendations panned out…
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