ITT: Ask a Fantasy Basketball Expert (srs) Anything...

[MooseLaddin]

Wow so obviously Jefferson was ur first. Great trade. That guy got robbed. I'm gonna respond to your first post tomorrow. Gotta get some rest.

ty and yeah Al jeff not looking so great right now lol.

[DatFatWhale]

mite as well do mine.

11 team roto


12 team h2h standard



14 team h2h standard



^ droping hickson, harington 1st thing next week cuz of add limit this week

[mikeditka]

I just dropped Billups for Jeff Teague, and tmrw I plan on dropping Teague for DJ Augustin. You approve of dis?

(8-man league)

[DeanCainGainz]

Another potential trade:

I give Melo/Gasol/J-Rich for Granger/Al Jefferson/Parker. Or maybe Felton instead of Parker.

You'd be giving a lot in this trade. Felton would bring it much more back in your direction but it'd be better. Melo>Granger, Pau>Jefferson.

Edit: Just realized you mean Marc not Pau lol. Yeah that's much more fair but go for felton first and then work your way down to Parker if necessary.

[DeanCainGainz]

I just dropped Billups for Jeff Teague, and tmrw I plan on dropping Teague for DJ Augustin. You approve of dis?

(8-man league)

Interesting. Billups for Teague, although may come off is stupid, was probably actually smart in the long run. Billups, to go with his nagging injuries and age, may be slightly more inconsistent than normal.

Teague for DJ is close but I'd go with DJ. They both have some bumps and bruises coming into the season and are about even but Teague is getting less minutes at the moment and Hinrich isn't even back (prob still a couple weeks away). Yeah DJ may lose some minutes to Kemba but they'll likely play some rotations with kemba at the 2 and DJ at the 1.

[DeanCainGainz]

ty and yeah Al jeff not looking so great right now lol.

You picked Ty Lawson first?! I mean right now you're looking smart as fuarkkk but that was a risky pick. He's 3 overall in the rankings ATM.

[MooseLaddin]

You picked Ty Lawson first?! I mean right now you're looking smart as fuarkkk but that was a risky pick. He's 3 overall in the rankings ATM.

Nooo I traded Al Jeff in that trade for Bosh and Lawson lol.

[OC23]

Ok so this is 1 of my teams:

PG - Deron Williams
SG - Stephen Jackson
SF - Gerald Wallace
PF - Blake Griffin
C - Al Horford
G - Mike Conley
F - Serge Ibaka
UTIL - Wesley Matthews
UTIL - Jason Richardson
BE - Ed Davis
BE - Andre Miller
BE - Jared Dudley

I trade deron/blake/stephen jackson for jonwall/lbj/millsap

he accepted

robbed him right?!

[OC23]

on this team:

PG - Derrick Rose
SG - Kobe Bryant
SF - Danilo Gallinari
PF - Joakim Noah
C - Marcin Gortat
UTIL - Tyreke Evans
UTIL - Greg Monroe
BE - Jason Richardson
BE - Emeka Okafor
BE - Nicolas Batum
BE - Tyrus Thomas

just dropped tyrus thomas for KYRIE IRVING LOLOL OMG STEAL AND A FCKING HALF

[AmazinJason]

You'd be giving a lot in this trade. Felton would bring it much more back in your direction but it'd be better. Melo>Granger, Pau>Jefferson.

Edit: Just realized you mean Marc not Pau lol. Yeah that's much more fair but go for felton first and then work your way down to Parker if necessary.

can u rate my team? was posted in the previous post u quoted. and rate those trades based on my team. thanks.

[DeanCainGainz]

Ok so this is 1 of my teams:

PG - Deron Williams
SG - Stephen Jackson
SF - Gerald Wallace
PF - Blake Griffin
C - Al Horford
G - Mike Conley
F - Serge Ibaka
UTIL - Wesley Matthews
UTIL - Jason Richardson
BE - Ed Davis
BE - Andre Miller
BE - Jared Dudley

I trade deron/blake/stephen jackson for jonwall/lbj/millsap

he accepted

robbed him right?!

Should work out in your favor...

[DeanCainGainz]

on this team:

PG - Derrick Rose
SG - Kobe Bryant
SF - Danilo Gallinari
PF - Joakim Noah
C - Marcin Gortat
UTIL - Tyreke Evans
UTIL - Greg Monroe
BE - Jason Richardson
BE - Emeka Okafor
BE - Nicolas Batum
BE - Tyrus Thomas

just dropped tyrus thomas for KYRIE IRVING LOLOL OMG STEAL AND A FCKING HALF

Mirin...

[DeanCainGainz]

Rate my team. Standard 9 cats, 12 teams, head to head, rosters are 1 pg, 1 sg, 1 g, 1 sf, 1 pf, 1 f, 2 c, 2 util, 3 bn

PG Irving
SG Kobe
G J-Rich
SF Melo
PF Humphries
F Anderson
C M Gasol
C Lee
Util Diaw
Util Anderson
BN James Johnson
BN Douglas
BN P George


I feel I should trade one of my scorers (Kobe or Melo) for a center who can get me blocks and higher FG%. A guy in my league has both Dwight and Bogut on the trading block, and he desperately needs 3's. Do you think I should try something like Anderson/Gasol for Dwight/Lawson, or would I lose that trade? Would it be worth destroying my free throw percentage in order to do better in blocks/assists?

Yeah right now your looking weak in Blocks and assists so that trade should help you immensely. I always advise that if you're going to take Dwight, you might as well take rondo. Meaning you should probably just punt FT%. Maybe see if you can score Rondo. Maybe wait to till he has one of his typical low FT% shooting nights. Also even though your 3 bench players are typically steal master, they are all fairly inconsistent at this point so you may have trouble with steals.

[Woogiefied]

10 team league H2H, 15 categorie league. Rate my team.

Deron williams
Kevin Martin
Michael Beasley
Kevin love
Demarcus cousins
Andrew bogut
Dejuan Blair
Aaron afflalo
Caron butler
Samuel dalembert
Kyrie Irving
Greg Monroe
JJ Redick
Marshon brooks
Marcus Thornton.

Bump, although I dropped Caron for Marvin Williams.

[DeanCainGainz]

Happy new year. Tonights fantasy stud was Andrew Bynum. Expect big things from Bynum this year.

[camant]

Great thread

How do you think Amare will fare this season? Also what do you think of Anderson Verajao, Marcin Gortat & Paul George (all on my waiver wire - 10 team league)

Would appreciate any advice about my team (I punted on assists, doing fairly OK in everything else even with the games missed by Pierce, Stoudemire and Conley this week)

10-Team H2H, 9-CAT (T/O's)

PG - Mike Conley
SG - Kevin Martin
SF - Paul Pierce
PF - Kevin Love
C - Amare Stoudemire
G - Nick Young
F - Paul Millsap
UTIL - Kevin Garnett
UTIL - Richard Hamilton
UTIL - Ryan Anderson
BE - Serge Ibaka
BE - Nicolas Batum
BE - (Dropping Derrick Favors soon and thinking of picking up Marcin Gortat)

[thatdude12]

what do you think of my team? 10 team h2h, 10 categories
let me know how i could improve the team, thanks for the feedback

tony parker
jason terry
ricky rubio
jonas jerebko
shawn marion
andrea bargnani
chris bosh
al jefferson
jeff teague
joe johnson
chris paul
rudy gay
spencer hawes
louis williams

[Sbagri]

10 team h2h 9 cats
D-will
A. Miller
J. Kidd
J. Richardson
Bargnani
Turkoglu
Diaw
M.Gasol
Humphries
Hayes
Curry
Dorrel Wright
D. Lee

Picked up hump, hayes and miller.
So far wright and richardson have been dissapointing and im hoping D-will picks it up a bit. won 6-3
My points and asts seem to be lacking.
notable FA-Louis Williams,Henderson,marvin williiams, jonas jerebko.

What do?

oh and its pg,g,g,f,f,f,c,c,u,u,b,b,b

[Sbagri]

12 team h2h 13 cats -9 cats plus ftm,3pta,o-reb,a/t
lowry
teague
holiday
P.george
humphries
hayes
k.love
j.rich
pierce
horford
S.hawes
brand
R.Jefferson

Picked up hawes and jefferson.
I own rebs.

I offered hayes for turkoglu to bring up my 3's,asts.ft%. Dont know if he will go for it tho, but Im hoping he will based on the cousins debacle. If not, maybe hayes numbers will go up without cousins there.

I only had jefferson for 1 game I believe and he sh*t the bed. So im not sure if with him and pierce, I would need to trade hayes for turk. But I have like a 40 reb cushion on everyone and think Im better served trying to bring up my other cats.

I lost 7-6 but Im pretty sure I would have won 3pt cats and pts if pierce didnt miss the first few.

Notable FA- only jerebko kinda fits what im looking for.

What can I do to improve?

[jimmyb6281]

Should i drop ben gordon or shannon brown? You think those 2 will be getting the starting spot this year?

[chipotleking]

this is my current roster. 14 team standard, 9-category league.

PG luke ridnour
SG landry fields
G manu ginobili
SF dorrell wright
PF james johnson
F richard jefferson
C tyson chandler
C anderson varejao
U kris humphries
U stephen curry
BN lamarcus aldridge
BN dj white
BN luis scola

I would consider the weakest players to be: luke ridnour, james johnson, dj white, maybe fields and jefferson too.

was thinking about dropping ridnour for another point guard, because my only other point guard is curry. I think it would be wise for me to sacrifice the assists category, since i'm not strong in that category. I lost my matchup this week so I need help. Thanks! Should I drop RIdnour for Mcgrady? MCgrady is PG/SG. Or Gibson from the cavs (Kyrie IRving's backup lol). Thanks

[LiftHard6]

can you rate my team brah pls.

pg: Kyle Lowry, Jeff Teague
sg: Eric Gordon, Ben Gordon, Landry Fields
sf: James Harden, Carmelo Anthony, Shawn Marion
pf: Derrick Favors
c: Joankim Noah, Andrew Bynum, Demarcus Cousins

anyone i could trade. or should drop?

head to head league. also first time playing fb.

[DeanCainGainz]

I'm back and I'll be getting around to your questions later this afternoon.

[Yank11]

how would you improve this team?

10 team H2H standard 8 categories, ESPN

PG: Rose
SG: Kobe
SF: Josh Smith
PF: David Lee
C: Javale McGee
G: Jason Kidd
F: David West
UTIL: Hedo Turkoglu
UTIL: Jamison
UTIL: Toney Douglas
Bench: Deandre Jordan, Wes Matthews, Ryan Anderson


Right now weaknesses seem to be my percentages, FT% and FG%. Won first matchup 6-2, with the losses in those two.

[DeanCainGainz]

Bump, although I dropped Caron for Marvin Williams.

You dropped Caron for Marvin? Bad move IMO.

[DeanCainGainz]

Great thread

How do you think Amare will fare this season? Also what do you think of Anderson Verajao, Marcin Gortat & Paul George (all on my waiver wire - 10 team league)

Would appreciate any advice about my team (I punted on assists, doing fairly OK in everything else even with the games missed by Pierce, Stoudemire and Conley this week)

10-Team H2H, 9-CAT (T/O's)

PG - Mike Conley
SG - Kevin Martin
SF - Paul Pierce
PF - Kevin Love
C - Amare Stoudemire
G - Nick Young
F - Paul Millsap
UTIL - Kevin Garnett
UTIL - Richard Hamilton
UTIL - Ryan Anderson
BE - Serge Ibaka
BE - Nicolas Batum
BE - (Dropping Derrick Favors soon and thinking of picking up Marcin Gortat)

Not too fond of Amare's fantasy value. He's way inconsistent. Although, he'll probably have a week or two where he pulls top tier fantasy numbers out his ass. Also his glass body always is a concern to me.

Those 3 players you mentioned in your FA Pool are typically must own players. Dropping Favors for Gortat would be a great move. Also, keep an eye on Nick Young. If he remains inconsistent or just downright bad, pick up Paul George immediately.

[DeanCainGainz]

what do you think of my team? 10 team h2h, 10 categories
let me know how i could improve the team, thanks for the feedback

tony parker
jason terry
ricky rubio
jonas jerebko
shawn marion
andrea bargnani
chris bosh
al jefferson
jeff teague
joe johnson
chris paul
rudy gay
spencer hawes
louis williams

10 cat? what's the 10th?

Nice squad. If Gay picks up to his normal self you should be looking real solid. Since it's only a 10 team league, I would have to assume there are some more valuable FAs than Shawn Marion. Look into that and maybe let me know who's out there. You could probably use another big man as you look weak in blocks and rebounds and prob FG% too. Repped.

Also don't expect Louis Williams to keep putting up numbers at the same rate.

[DeanCainGainz]

10 team h2h 9 cats
D-will
A. Miller
J. Kidd
J. Richardson
Bargnani
Turkoglu
Diaw
M.Gasol
Humphries
Hayes
Curry
Dorrel Wright
D. Lee

Picked up hump, hayes and miller.
So far wright and richardson have been dissapointing and im hoping D-will picks it up a bit. won 6-3
My points and asts seem to be lacking.
notable FA-Louis Williams,Henderson,marvin williiams, jonas jerebko.

What do?

oh and its pg,g,g,f,f,f,c,c,u,u,b,b,b

Not sure how you're lacking in assists with D Will (don't worry he'll pick up), Andre Miller, J Kidd and Steph Curry??? Dorrell Wright will most likely disappoint many this year. I find it near impossible for him to match last year's output (he's a decent player but that's it). Not sure I would drop him quite yet though. Hold tight on making moves for assists, they'll come. Points do look a little weak. Look at either Lou Will or Henderson for that.

[DeanCainGainz]

12 team h2h 13 cats -9 cats plus ftm,3pta,o-reb,a/t
lowry
teague
holiday
P.george
humphries
hayes
k.love
j.rich
pierce
horford
S.hawes
brand
R.Jefferson

Picked up hawes and jefferson.
I own rebs.

I offered hayes for turkoglu to bring up my 3's,asts.ft%. Dont know if he will go for it tho, but Im hoping he will based on the cousins debacle. If not, maybe hayes numbers will go up without cousins there.

I only had jefferson for 1 game I believe and he sh*t the bed. So im not sure if with him and pierce, I would need to trade hayes for turk. But I have like a 40 reb cushion on everyone and think Im better served trying to bring up my other cats.

I lost 7-6 but Im pretty sure I would have won 3pt cats and pts if pierce didnt miss the first few.

Notable FA- only jerebko kinda fits what im looking for.

What can I do to improve?

Hayes numbers would DEF go up with Demarcus not there but that is a big IF. Nothing has been officially announced as of yet.

Dropping Jefferson for Jerebko is a pretty solid must make move. Just be weary of Detroit's experimentation with their lineups.

P.S. Mirin your squad of ultra underrated fantasy stud PGs. Also maybe try to sell Richardson after he has a good game. The magic seem to be relying a lot more on Redick this year.

[DeanCainGainz]

Should i drop ben gordon or shannon brown? You think those 2 will be getting the starting spot this year?

That's a no brainer. Alvin Gentry is very high on Jared Dudley and Shannon Brown has an extremely low BBall IQ. Drop Brown. Gordon has been producing very well.