Happy New Year!! 2013 is the season for creating new opportunities to win money in fantasy sports! We've been gone for a minute but we're back with the website! With fantasy football season over and hockey’s season yet to start we can focus a lot more on the association and getting some hard cash from the hardwood. Let’s see whose making a fantasy impact on the waiver wire.
- Losing Isaiah? Defenses Seem to be Lately
Isaiah Thomas (PG, Kings) – The Kings second-year point guard named after a legend has seen an increase in minutes since incumbent point guard Aaron Brooks missed time with an injury. Brooks return is eminent but all signs point to Thomas retaining the starter’s role in this timeshare. Thomas is a nice bench addition to your roster in any case and has more scoring upside than Brooks and will help your team in threes (35.6% on the season). Sacramento has plenty of injuries in its backcourt (Tyreke Evans and Marcus Thornton) so there’s minutes for both. In the last eleven games Thomas has averaged 14.2 points, 3.4 assists and 1.8 treys, all while shooting 53 for 115 from the field (46.1%). Again he doesn’t rack up great assists or steals but is growing into the facilitator role on offense and a better pickpocket on defense (a steal in six straight).
- Continuing To Go Upstream
Another beneficiary of minutes due to Tyreke Evans and Marcus Thornton would be the artist formerly known as John Salmons (SG/SF, Kings) who has flourished in the increase of minutes in the last eight games averaging 13 points 4.5 assists and 3.5 rebounds. Word on road is that Evans may return Sunday after having his knee re-examined. But as a season-long theme of a shortage of fantasy useful three’s here’s a guy who may be more useful right now than say, Vince Carter or Kawhi Leonard. He’s not a big contributor from downtown historically but he’s 12 for 27 over those last same eight games from three-point land.
- Reminding Me of Vince?
Don’t look now, but the once 4-19 Toronto Raptors are playing solid basketball lately winning 8 of 9, their only loss being a 20-point drubbing at San Antonio, the only time during the streak they’ve allowed 100 points. High-flying first round pick Terrence Ross (SG, Raptors) is a fantasy concern for owners because he can shoot, has a gang of athleticism, and is taking more of a lead role on minutes and conversely, the offense. Ironically, the Raptors have averaged 101 ppg all in the absence of Andrea Bargnani, their presumed best offensive threat. Ross was the boss against the Blazers on January 2, going 6-9 from downtown and finishing with 26 points, 5 boards, 2 assists, and 2 steals. He doesn’t get to the line much, but as these young Raptors continue to learn to share the ball, expect for Ross to have a major impact. Fantasy-wise he could average 12-15 for the rest of the season, with three-pointers and points his major categories help.
- Andre "400" as in FT%..But Still Addable!
Mr. Andre Drummond (PF/C, Pistons) has used different strokes to rule the boards averaging 10.8 boards in his last six games to go with 9.3 boards and 2.0 blocks in that same span. Three of those contests were double-doubles further annoying your fantasy opponents. Again Andre’s free throw shooting is an adventure to spin it positively as the big man from Mount Vernon, NY, is shooting 58% from the field and a miserable %41 from the charity stripe. That in itself makes him a risky add but that 41% pales in comparison to some of the worst free throw shooters ever.
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