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Dropping Dimes Staff Week Two Position Rankings
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Props, Site Features, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent,
Welcome to DroppingDimes.com‘s weekly position rankings list! Each week, the five writers - Al, Ron, Sarge, Zack, and myself will look at our lists of positions, take into account the number of games played, any injury issues that a player may be having, and the hotness/coldness of a player at that time to rank ‘em all up!
We’ll rank EACH position into a Top 15 list and in parentheses have that player’s average position ranking amongst the five of us. First up… number of games for each team then the week’s rankings afterwards.
Atlanta Hawks—-3; Boston Celtics—-3; Charlotte Bobcats—-3; Chicago Bulls—-3; Cleveland Cavaliers—-3; Dallas Mavericks—-4; Denver Nuggets—-3; Detroit Pistons—-4; G.S. Warriors—-4; Houston Rockets—-4; Indiana Pacers—-3; Los Angeles Clippers—-3; Los Angeles Lakers—-4; Memphis Grizzlies—-3; Miami Heat—-3; Milwaukee Bucks—-4; Minnesota Timberwolves—-3; New Jersey Nets—-3; New Orleans Hornets—-4; New York Knicks—-4; Orlando Magic—-4; Philadelphia 76ers—-3; Phoenix Suns—-3; Portland Trail Blazers—-4; Sacramento Kings—-3; San Antonio Spurs—-3; Seattle Supersonics—-4; Toronto Raptors—-3; Utah Jazz—-4; Washington Wizards—-4
COMPILED BY Zack Francis
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Stat’s All Folks: Small Sample Sized Meal
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Disses, Editorial, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Props, Site Features, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent, Waiver Pick Ups,
Only three days of NBA action have been in play, which may cause a crisis when you’re writing a weekly article and you want as many samples of performance as you can, but have no fear. Sometimes, it’s the early jump on players that can make a difference to a team that wins a fantasy basketball championship and a team that doesn’t. Ask those that picked up David West or Boris Diaw last season. And what’s the value now of that underperforming early round draft pick and what will it be moving forward? Relax, it’s only been a few days, but it doesn’t hurt to note who’s doing what.
Stat’s All Folks will be 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.
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Dropping Dimes Fantasy Basketball Predictions and An Introduction
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Site Announcements, Site Features,
So, I was browsing through ESPN.com today and saw that they had about 502 people or so picking and predicting the NBA seasonal awards. So, I thought I would ask the four other members of Dropping Dimes who they thought would win the NBA fantasy awards… and yes, I said four others, as in there are now FIVE of us. So without further ado, I’d like to formally announce the addition of Zack Francis to the Dropping Dimes squad. For those of you that frequented the fantasybasketball.com forums know Zack as bosox888, which is how we know him. He’s since went on to become a moderator at the Fantasy Lounge Forums and produces some “excellent writing” on the subsequent Fantasy Lounge website. This is my favorite. Thanks to our friends at the Fantasy Lounge for sharing Zack… man, that doesn’t sound right somehow.
Okay, let’s get to the results of our little survey…
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Well, folks, this is it - the final round of draft blogging for us here at Dropping Dimes. We are in the eve of the 2006-07 season starting and we’re excited as heck for the season to start! But, first we close the book on this inaugural mock draft, we hope you found it helpful and enlightening. Thanks to all of you that have responded with comments through it all. We look forward to serving your fantasy needs this upcoming season.
7.1. Luke Ridnour, PG, Seattle Supersonics
7.2. Deron Williams, PG, Utah Jazz
7.3. Samuel Dalembert, C, Philadelphia 76ers
7.4. T.J. Ford, PG, Toronto Raptors
7.5. Zach Randolph, PF, Portland Trailblazers
7.6. Ben Gordon, PG/SG, Chicago Bulls
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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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Injury Lowdown: Not So Swift - Robert Swift Out For The Year
Posted by Ron Chow Categories: Injuries, Northwest Division, Seattle Supersonics, Site Features,
Seattle Supersonics center Robert Swift will miss the entire regular season after tearing the ACL in the right knee. He injured the knee during an exhibition game against the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday.
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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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