You already read about the major brawl this week from my good colleague Kelder in yesterday’s rotation notes so I will focus on a less reported set of ejections in the Rockets home loss against the Celtics.
The situation starts pretty normal with the coach ejection which we have seen thousands of. But the meaty part is the Sengun part, who not only calls the female ref a b*tch, he proceeds to act like he does not know what happened, he looks for support from the other referee as if there was any chance of that happening, to finally dropping the act and calling the same ref again the same word as he was escorted off. Bad look all around for a player that has not shown great personality traits up to this point in his career. The bonus of the clip is the silly dances the Celtics bench guys are making as the ejection is finalized.
And to wrap everything up, the game was played during the National Girls & Women in Sports Day. Need I say more ?
Regarding last week’s suggestions, I think it was a very successful week as except for Jalen Smith who caught the injury bug, the Memphis guys in Ty Jerome, GG Jackson and for deeper leagues Taylor Hendricks all delivered. On top of that, the final suggestion which was Ace Bailey is averaging 37 minutes in the last week so I hope you scooped him up.
Buy
Isaiah Collier: Keyonte George has become too good for his own playing time and started catching the same illness and injuries that are plaguing the veterans in Utah, so we can expect a lot of missed time going forward. That means Isaiah Collier can continue to produce and be an elite source of assists and an excellent one of steals (41% owned).
Dylan Cardwell – Maxime Raynaud: What a shitty season it has been for the Sacramento Kings, as they sit at 12-43, dead last in the West and across the NBA and with very little to look forward, except maybe for an offloading of all their aging starts during the summer. Two bright spots in their frontcourt have been Dylan Cardwell (18% owned) and Maxime Raynaud (14% owned), both rookies with the former being undrafted and the latter a late 2nd round pick. Despite their draft position, they have both secured long term contracts and with Sacramento having zero incentive to play Domantas Sabonis I really like adding either or both, as they have potential to impress during the silly season that is rapidly approaching after the ASB. I have a slight preference for Cardwell due to his blocking potential but Reynaud is starting when Sabonis is not available.
Tristan Vukcevic: The substraction of Marvin Bagley from the Wizards rotation has opened up the door for Tristan Vuksevic to produce useful fantasy goods. Currently more of a deeper league add, as he is operating as strictly the backup of Alex Sarr, we have to take note that he is an excellent per36 producer, with 31.7 points and 5.1 triples from the center position (3% owned). Obviously we don’t expect those numbers if given the minutes, but deeper leagues should take notice, as I did during the offseason in one of the podcasts we did with my good friend Jesse Severe.
Sell
DeMar Derozan: I am not telling you to drop, although I could see it in some shallower leagues, but it is becoming clearer by the day that he will not recapture his early game form and with Sacramento going deeper into the lottery, there is no reason to believe more minutes are coming his way. Try and take advantage of his averages to find a trade before he becomes a clear drop during fantasy playoffs (96% owned).
Jusuf Nurkic: I know you don’t want to. I know there will be monster games between all those DNPs and “injuries”. I know it will hurt when you see the boxscore in the games that he will play. But try dividing his stats by the games he did not play to get to that one game he did play awesomely and you have the answer on whether you can roster him or not (56% owned).
