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Stat’s All Folks: Finally a Full Week!
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Disses, Editorial, H2H, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Props, Roto, Site Features, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent,
With a full week’s worth of games to examine, I can see a little more clearly now as to how NBA players’ production is shaping up early in the season. Granted, only several games have been played for each player, but in the early going, it’s best to anticipate trends and depending on your personal risk factor, make moves towards winning a championship. Remember, no one every won by standing still, so you’ll need to move. It’s just a matter of which moves give you the better potential for reaping reward. Analyzing a full week, helps me help you assess which players are moving up and which are falling down.
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.
Statistics are through November 2nd – 8th.
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Wire To Wire
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Editorial, H2H, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Props, Rookies, Roto, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, 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.
One week down, many more to go. The first week of the NBA season, though short, gives NBA fans as well as fantasy owners an idea of what coaches have in mind for their rotations. We see which players are actually going to receive some burn, while others were simply preseason mirage with a side dish of hype. As you may see from my last installment, I’d say I hit about .500, falling into the hype trap on a few – but hitting for solid contact on others. And, if I may add, I’m quite a fan of Yahoo! using entire player names within their database. Too many Jones’, if you ask me. Plus, it just looks better. Anyways, with a week down, this week’s WTW will allow us a slightly larger sample size. Of course, there are others that may have been worth the mention, but given the circumstances, I felt these were the twelve worth the word. Enjoy.
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10 Cents of Our Time: After Week One
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Atlantic Division, Toronto Raptors, Central Division, Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks, Disses, H2H, Pacific Division, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers, Props, Rookies, Roto, Southeast Division, Charlotte Bobcats,
I am posting this for Ron. Sorry it is a bit late, but the season is still young, so we can still reflect on the first week of play. Ron laid down all the groundwork. As usual, it was a fun collaboration.
Ron: How ironic that in the first week of fantasy hoops, Alvin and I were pitted against each other in our H2H local fantasy league. The battle was fierce all week. Al was leading most of the week by varying degrees. Sub-par games by Lebron James (16-9-7), Tracy McGrady (8-3-4) and Baron Davis (2-2-6) on Saturday for Al’s team, opened the door slightly for a come-from-behind victory. Sad to say, I lost by one category.
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Dime Day, First Edition: Fantasy Trades
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: H2H, Roto, Site Features, Trades,
Your weekend outlook has changed forever. Maybe you currently spend your Sundays glued to the television watching football. Maybe this day is the only time you consistently get to spend time with your loved one because of your work schedules. Whether Sundays are usually lazy or busy for you, they are usually good days. It’s time to add a little cinnamon to your french toast. What’s new with Sunday? Sunday is going to be Dime Day.
I’m going to use this space to talk about certain aspects of fantasy hoops. First up is trade talk. The first week of play is winding down. Yes it is early, but you can admit it. You have trades on the brain. If you did well this week, you’re thinking about how to sell high and improve your team. If your squad was slow out of the gate, you want to change things up before it is too late. Someone in my league tried to offer a fellow owner Rudy Gay for Paul Pierce. I pity that poor soul. Here’s a look at the types of trade offers you may come across this season.
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Dropping Dimes Draft Blog: Round 7, Pick 12
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Central Division, Milwaukee Bucks, H2H, Injuries, Roto, Sleepers, Talent,
Our draft blog wraps up with this pick. The season snuck up on us, so we will have to cut it short. The wrap-around pick at the end of the snake has been fun. This player was queued up by Sarge near the end of the sixth round, but a last-minute substitute happened when news of the injury broke. He seems like great value here.
Round 7, Pick 12: Andrew Bogut, PF/C, Milwaukee Bucks
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10 Cents Of Our Time: Season’s Eve
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Disses, H2H, Props, Roto, Rumors, Site Features, Sleepers, Talent,
KG, are you pumped for the new season? I bet you are. I bet we all are. Leave the trick or treating to the kids, because there is a double-header to start the 2006-07 season on October 31st!
Ron and I started as a writing tag team. He has been busy dialing in on all the pre-season injuries that have been happening. Me? I have been a bit swamped with other things, but certainly I have hoops on the brain. We are going to go back to our collaborating roots, and quickly look at what is topical as we all head into the new year. 10 random questions, and our two cents, uh, make that 10 cents on the subject.
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Week One Position Rankings
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, H2H, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Roto, Site Features, Southeast Division, Southwest Division,
Welcome to DroppingDimes.com‘s first weekly rankings list! Each week, the four writers - Al, Ron, Sarge, and myself (sorry, just couldn’t use the third person because it’s quite stupid to, really) will look at our lists of positions, take into account the number of games played (so, please no “Why isn’t Kobe ranked first!” when Bryant only has two games that week and Jason Richardson has four), any injury issues that a player may be having, and the hotness/coldness of a player at that time.
We’ll rank EACH position into a Top 15 list and in parentheses have that player’s average position ranking amongst the four of us. First up… number of games for each team.
Atlanta Hawks—-3; Boston Celtics—-3; Charlotte Bobcats—-3; Chicago Bulls—-3; Cleveland Cavaliers—-3; Dallas Mavericks—-2; Denver Nuggets—-2; Detroit Pistons—-3; G.S. Warriors—-3; Houston Rockets—-3; Indiana Pacers—-3; Los Angeles Clippers—-3; Los Angeles Lakers—-4; Memphis Grizzlies—-3; Miami Heat—-3; Milwaukee Bucks—-3; Minnesota Timberwolves—-3; New Jersey Nets—-2; New Orleans Hornets—-3; New York Knicks—-3; Orlando Magic—-3; Philadelphia 76ers—-3; Phoenix Suns—-4; Portland Trail Blazers—-3; Sacramento Kings—-3; San Antonio Spurs—-3; Seattle Supersonics—-3; Toronto Raptors—-3; Utah Jazz—-3; Washington Wizards—-2
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Dropping Dime Draft Blog: Round 7, Pick 11
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: H2H, Pacific Division, Los Angeles Clippers, Roto, Talent,
My colleague Alvin Lai likened himself to Dusty Rhodes, “pinch hitter extraordinaire.” I have to admit, when I first read that sentence, I thought “Duh, Yea. The American Dream!” Blonde hair, yellow polka dots, and “Sweeeeeeet Saphire!” Heck, even wikipedia lists him before the baseball player…c’mon, Al!
Where am I going with this? Well, I’m going to set you back to Game one of the 1988 World Series. Dennis Velasco was set to take the swings at this pick. But it’s a team effort here, and when one of us can’t take the cuts, we step up.
Allow me to limp up to the DroppingDimes plate as none other than Kirk Gibson. Vin Scully, take it from here… “Look who’s coming up…”
Round 7, Pick 11: Sam Cassell, PG, Los Angeles Clippers
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Dropping Dimes Draft Blog: Round 7, Pick 10
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Editorial, H2H, Pacific Division, Phoenix Suns, Roto, Talent,
7.10 Raja Bell, SG, Phoenix Suns
With a team that is obviously slanted towards the small-ball categories, it’s tough to still be lacking one main small-ball trait: three-point shooters. The point guards that anchor this squad are Chris Paul and Steve Nash – neither of which would be considered gunners by any means. Nash will surely chip in his fair share of long-balls, but Gilbert Arenas, he is not.
So, I chose the route of adding a few guys that will chip in from the three point line, but a little below the radar. Mehmet Okur is good for a little less than one bomb a game. Troy Murphy is no stranger to launching from behind the arc, to the tune of about one make every other game. Add in Manu Ginobili and his three a game, and you have yourself quite a sneaky group of shooters. A sneaky group of shooters that is about one piece away from yet another category on lock-down.
Enter, Raja Bell.
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Dropping Dimes Draft Blog: Round 7, Pick 9
Posted by Ron Chow Categories: H2H, Roto, Site Features, Southwest Division, Memphis Grizzlies,
Fellow Dropping Dimes Writer Alvin and myself were celebrating a friend’s birthday at an out-of-town nightclub. The crew we were with that night was chill and the vibe at the club was hype. The objective that night was to get the birthday boy nice and loaded. Each member of the crew took turns buying rounds. Word of advice: “Do not follow the birthday boy to the bar” or else you will be sucked into the madness. Al and myself made that mistake of following the crew to the bar for each round of drinks. It is not a good idea to down the same amount of shooters as the birthday boy. Al and myself were really happy till a friend handed us a bottle of Miller Genuine Draft (MGD). After drinking half of the MGD, my world was starting to spin. Welcome to Drunkdom! Once the room starts spinning and you babble like a 4-year-old, time to sit down and shut up. We all staggered to our hotel room down the street and passed out. Mission accomplished, birthday boy had a good time. Next morning, I asked Al how he liked the MGD and he mentioned that it put him over the edge as well. “Miller Time” for the Canadian contingent of Dropping Dimes crew was the ticket to Drunkdom.
Time to sober up and realize that “Miller Time” in Memphis is not a bad thing, either. Mike Miller is looking to fill the role as top scorer for the Grizzlies as Pau Gasol is mending from a broken left foot. Take a peep at the rest of the article to see how Mike Miller can help your fantasy team.
Round 7, Pick 9: Mike Miller, SG/SF, Memphis Grizzlies
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