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Day 24 of 170: Peja Lives
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Line of the Night: Peja Stojakovic (0.88). Left for dead through the first two weeks of the season, the Chris Paul injury left the Hornets in desperate need of someone with even a minimal ability to create some offense. Well, as long as his shot is falling, Peja is the man for that job. In [...]
Day 23 of 170: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
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Some technical difficulties for GMTR over the past couple of days (more on that later), but we’ve busted through it like LeBron on a fast break. Here is the daily write-up for yesterday (Nov 19th). Today’s write-up coming shortly.
Line of the Night: Elton Brand (1.32)...
Day 22 of 170: His Name is Nene Hilario
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Line of the Night: Nene Hilario (1.27) still has a first and last name around these parts. If he could turn out 4 steals and 4 blocks per game for a whole season, though, we’d call him whatever he wanted. He also had 20 and 10 with 61% from the floor and 80% from the [...]
Day 21 of 170: Capt Jack Sails Away
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Line of the Night: Dirk Nowitzki (1.12) may not make an exciting first round pick on draft day, but Dirk owners have got to be excited with what he’s doing so far this year. In an overtime win against the Bucks, Dirk’s latest line included 32 points with 11 boards and a couple...
Day 20 of 170: Chris Paul, LeBron James, and now Kevin Durant
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Those are in fact Thunder Dancers in honor of our Line of the Night player, but you might want to click to get a closer look.
Line of the Night: Kevin Durant (0.96) joins Chris Paul and LeBron James as the third player to get a second Line of the Night for 2009-10. Durant made it [...]
Day 19 of 170: Just Give Brandon Jennings the ROY Already
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Line of the Night: Brandon Jennings (1.42). One of my rules to live by – if a rookie point guard drops 55 points in any one game, I am giving him the LotN no matter what anyone else does on the court. Jennings, who has already surpassed just about everyone’s expectations to start...
Interview with a Monster
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Doneycat, the mad genius behind the fantasy basketball blog Tales of 9 Cats, recently and figuratively sat down with Ken Slight for an interview. Who is Ken? He’s the genius behind every fantasy basketball owner’s go-to website, Basketball Monster.
It’s a highly recommended...
Day 18 of 170: Chris Paul Goes Down
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Line of the Night: Most of the time when a guy gets so much fantasy hype going into the season, they end up disappointing in a big way (see Randolph, Anthony). Not Trevor Ariza (1.87). He’s done exactly what everyone hoped he would be able to do with the Rockets and more so far this [...]
Buy or Sell? Guys off to a Slow Start
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In Part 1 of this post, we looked at the players who started off the season hot – whether it be a shirtless Danilo Gallinari or Channing Frye dropping threes – and predicted if we thought their fast start was for real or if you should sell high on a player who was playing above [...]
Day 17 of 170: Can we just have the Heat and Cavs play every day?
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Line of the Night: LeBron James (1.37) went almost point-for-point with Dwyane Wade (0.71) last night, and both had at least one monster jam along the way. LeBron had better supporting numbers with 2 threes, 4 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals, and a block. He was 16-18 from the line,...
Day 16 of 170: Be Slightly Uneasy of the Beard
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Line of the Night: Baron Davis (1.33) proves that he’s both still alive and that fantasy is much more than scoring. While Davis shot a very Baron Davis-like 6-18 from the floor on the night and finished with not very LotN worthy 17 points, the rest of his game was nearly flawless...
Get Your Hustle On
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Now that the draft dust has settled andtwo fantasy basketball weeks have passed, you probably have a decent idea of preliminary projections for your fantasy team, where it’s headed, and where it should be going.
Here are some guys who you may want to look at to provide your...
Day 15 of 170: Wading Through Washington
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Was the title clever or what??
Line of the Night: Dwyane Wade (1.34) dropped 41 in 38 minutes to take down the Wizards. Wade added 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals, and a block while shooting 48% on 29 attempts from the field, and making 92% of 13 free throws. And he only turned it over [...]
Day 14 of 170: Manu Ginobili to the Rescue
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Line of the Night: Manu Ginobili (1.81). Both Tony Parker and Tim Duncan sat in this game (and are day-to-day with injuries), so who else but Ginobili to the rescue? Despite the Spurs being short a couple superstars, Manu still came off the bench (Popovich really, really wanted to...
Day 13 of 170: Durantula Bites Orlando
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Line of the Night: Kevin Durant (1.19) shot 64.7% from the field and added 3 steals (oh, and 28 points) as OKC took down ORL.
Honorable Mentions: Tyreke Evans (0.84) owners are enjoying some good times with their little baby. Last night he had 23 points, 8 rebounds, and 2 steals while...
Buy or Sell? Guys Off to a Fast Start
12 days ago by
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With the NBA season just about two weeks old, we are starting to get a handle on the NBA landscape in terms of player value – who has started off the season hot, who has looked bad so far, and who we won’t be seeing anytime soon.
There are a lot of players who are [...]
Day 12 of 170: Iverson Takes a Leave of Absence
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Line of the Night: Josh Smith (1.38) owners have to be happy whenever they see him terrorize the box score like the multi-category monster that he’s drafted to be. And yesterday against the Nuggets Smith was a monster, scoring a season high 22 points on 8-10 shooting with 9 boards...
Day 11 of 170: Fall of the Unbeatens
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Line of the Night: Imagine if Chris Paul (1.58) actually had a real basketball team playing around him? How awesome would that be? Instead, the Hornets got blown out by the Raptors 107-90 despite Paul’s 21 points, 7 boards and 18 assists. Bobby Brown was the team’s second highest...
Injury News: Men Made of Glass and The Weights Strike Again
14 days ago by
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Two injury related notes on this Friday evening.
Going into the season, I really thought this might be the year Kevin Martin rose above his muddled injury history and strung together 75+ games. The lesson, as always, is that I’m an over-optimistic, magic bean buying idiot. Martin...
Day 10 of 170: Don’t Forget, Carlos Boozer Still Plays For The Jazz
14 days ago by
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Line of the Night: Boozer (1.26) put up 27 and 14 with 2 steals and 2 blocks. Of course, my thinking immediately goes to: Showcase! If the Jazz are still shopping him, I bet that any teams that wanted him are kicking themselves for not getting him before the season started.
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Day 9 of 170: Chris Paul Walks Tall
15 days ago by
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Line of the Night: Chris Paul (1.45). I can’t put it any better than At the Hive… Chris Paul is just good at basketball. So good it makes my stomach tingle. Paul became the third fastest player to 3,000 assists last Monday and followed up that performance with a 39 point, 5 rebound, 7 [...]
Day 8 of 170: Dirk For MVP
16 days ago by
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Fantasy MVP, of course.
Line of the Night: Dirk Nowitzki (2.23) took home the first 2+ of the season only 8 days in by scoring 29 points in the 4th quarter last night. Of course, besides ending with 40 total, he also had 11 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals, and 5 blocks. Did he turn the [...]
Day 7 of 170: The New York Knicks: Your Natural Fantasy Enhancement
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Line of the Night: Points may be overrated by many casual fantasy owners, but sometimes it really just is about how many times you can put the ball through the hoop. Last night Kevin Martin (1.36) dropped 48 points on the Grizzlies in an overtime win, hitting 7 of the 10 threes he took and [...]
Day 6 of 170: Hayo Mayo!
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This Weeks Sign That The Fantasy Apocalypse Is Upon Us: The GMTR Player Rater is back for 2009, and in it’s Season Premier, guess who takes home the #1 spot? None other than Danilo Gallinari!
Line of the Night: OJ Mayo (1.24) can fill it up all right. He poured in 40 points...
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