Rudy, Say It Ain’t True-dy

January 19, 2017 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 84 Comments

Uggghhhhhhh. I hate when the intro has to be about a bad injury, but alas, tis what tits with fantasy sports. After playing pretty well against the Pacers last night (21/4/0/2/1 in 28 minutes), Rudy Gay went down in the third quarter and had to be carried off the court, with tests indicating he tore his Achilles. He’s had issues with that Achilles in the past with a partial debridement, but it gave out at absolutely the worst time. Yeah, maybe he didn’t handle wanting to get out of Sacramento the most gracefully (who WOULD want to play there?!), but at least he showed up, ya dig?! Now he has to stick it out while rehabbing, this was going into a contract year… It just sucks. I’ve never been the “biggest” Gay fan, but I’ll be rooting for his rehab and hopefully he can be vintage Gay a few more years on a new squad.

In the meantime, it opens up a ton of wing minutes in SAC. Arron Afflalo of DNP-ville got 31 minutes last night, aided by Garrett Temple having to play backup PG because Ty Lawson is nursing a kankle. A R Ron! went for 11/1/1/0/1 in his usual snoozefest line, with Temple going 9/4/3/0/0 with a trey. Yikes. Matt Barnes might move back into the starting 5, but he’s hit-or-miss, depending on how drunk he is at the night club. Hey oh! 7/4/4 for Barnes in 20 minutes, and Ben McLemore only got 4 minutes this game. It’s a real trainwreck without Gay, and I don’t see any sort of clear answer on this team to fill in the void. So you’re likely looking elsewhere on the wire for Gay’s scoring, and hopefully you sold high after a red hot start through the first stretch of the season. Get well soon, Rudy! Here’s what else went down last night in fantasy basketball action:

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01/19/2017 – “Is It Like A Divac?!”

January 19, 2017 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 36 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

Speed dating challenge this episode of the Razzball Pod! Well, not really, we still get ‘er up to about normal fulfillment! On today’s show, we react to the Chris Paul injury, go into a little Ivica Zubac madness, and react to all of dat “drama!” in the NBA. We then preview tonight’s games with our 30-point challenge picks, and wrap up the week at the movies.

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Dennis Schroder Just Needed A Nice, Swift Kick In The Poppycock

January 17, 2017 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 59 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

Ya know, playing a typical “bad” team can help cure all ills, but then there’s playing a New York team that goes full Poppycock… To kick off MLK day, the Knicks continued their epic collapse, by being forced to start doofy Ron Baker and Mind Games Koozie Mints. I’m kinda guessing at that second guy, I don’t know why Razzball isn’t linking to his name though! It’s about right! Baker got 22 minutes of 12/3/1/2/0 and was OK, and I guess Mindaugas Kuzminskas was OK too for 14/5/2/2/0 in 38 minutes, and well, the Hawks only beat this make-shift roster by 1, so there’s that! But the big thing to watch in this game (for me) was Dennis Schroder, who is off two horrid games where he got out-minutesed by Malcolm Delaney. Fortunately Das German broke out of his funk, and went 28/3/3 on a mad hot 13-16 shooting with a trey.

The trey being the game winner! Still got 2 TO and no D stats, but hey, at least he kept another split-PG situation from developing. Already have seen to much of that in the NBA! It was an action-packed, holiday-filled day of basketball last night, so let’s daily notes it up!

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01/17/2017 – “Got Hot Wings, Got A Mass Food Challenge, Got Eating People’s Faces Off”

January 17, 2017 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 45 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

The Razzball Hoops Pod is back, and on today’s show, we have actual afternoon games from yesterday to catch up on! We hit on a few of the MLK games that went down early yesterday, plus the big storylines from over the weekend including big outings off the bench from Kelly Olynyk and Doug McDermott. We then play an Academy Award edition of Can We Make Slim Look Stupid, then preview tonight’s games with our 30-point challenge picks.

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2016-17 REL Dynasty League Update: Week 13

January 16, 2017 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 16 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

REL Basketball1 So I woke this morning, checked my REL team, and was like, “ummmm, what?” First place baby! Well, tied for first, but it has me first in the standings for the first time in the REL (beyond the first few week or two of the season). Baller! Although I know I still have my work cut out for me, as I’ve yet to face teams 2-4 in the standings. Time to tighten shizz up! Not too much going down on the wire this week, but with a rough week for the other top teams, it’s flattened out the top of the standings with 4 teams within 1.5 games of each other. Gettin’ to crunch time!

Here’s how week twelve in the 2016-17 REL went down, and how we’re looking heading into week thirteen:

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Happy MLK Day! NBA Has Day Games!

January 16, 2017 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 34 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

Happy MLK day! Sorry the notes were a little late this morning, I have the day off work and decided to sleep in! Holidays be holidays! And this is a great one – not only for the message and for one of the most influential men of the 20th century – but for the day-NBA we’re about to get! Hell yes, day games!!! ATL@The Poppycockers starts it off at 1:00 PM EST and games stagger their way through 10:30 tonight. So be sure and set your line-ups early this morning/afternoon, and get ready for early action to kick off week 13.

As you all know, I write with an extreme stream-of-consciousness-ness (as you can tell by that mastering of the English language there), and I’ve decided I’m too excited to turn this into a standard open! Big stuff happening in the REL (update up in a few hours), I’m about to watch the NBA all afternoon with a day off work, and Grey put out his top 10 for Fantasy Baseball this morning! It’s like Christmas for me in fantasy sports land! Then in the down time between games and Razzball writing, I’m going to spend my day off playing Rocket League, which I just got addicted to. This is turning into the best day ever… I guess I need to get to some daily notes at some point, ahhhhhh! Here’s what went down over the weekend in fantasy hoops action:

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Dapper Dan Turning Into Alpha Dan!

January 12, 2017 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 77 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

So my lead on Tuesday morning about Derrick Rose disappearing on his team (Gone Girl 2 – Gone Rose!) I thought would be a pretty bad low point for the Poppycockers. But I dunno, I think they may have hit it last night! Rose was surprisingly vintage Rose – considering all the rumors he wanted a buy out or the Knicks should suspend him for a while – for 25/2/4/1/0 on 11-16 shooting. That said, he was -21 in a 1-point loss, while the bench kept the Knicks in it. In the end though, the Poppycockers just didn’t have an answer for this new, upstart PG who is taking his offensive game in the league by storm! And of course I’m talking about T.J. McConnell!

Melo, you just got skeeted on! “What is that in your hair?! Is that hair gel?!” “No, Melo, it’s Dapper Dan!” Yup, hit the buzzer-beater to beat the Knicks 98-97, for NY’s 9th loss of their last 10. To quote the immortal Friends like I love to do, “There’s rock bottom, then 50-feet of crap, then” the Knicks! But hat’s off (because it would mess up the gel) to T.J. running away with the Sixers PG job, playing a team-high 34 minutes of 8/6/7/2/0 on 4-6 shooting with 2 TO. Pretty solid, efficient line. On the flip side, Sergio Rodriguez is turning into melted White Chocolate, going 14 minutes of 2/1/4/0/0 on 1-7 shooting with 3 TO. The two could still flip flop, but T.J. has always been a Brett Brown guy, and this was a pretty big moment. Dapper D should probably be owned in all 12ers, although if you have AST locked down, I’m not sure what else you’ll be happy with. 2 steals in 4 straight is nice I guess, but no 3s, low scoring, bad FG%… Wait, why do I hate on this guy but love Ricky Rubio?! I guess it’s all in the spiciness, baby! Here’s what else went down in fantasy hoops action last night:

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01/12/2017 – “There’s Some Metal Riffs For You”

January 12, 2017 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 23 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

We’re back with a defrosting new Razzball Hoops Pod, and on today’s show, we bring back the game-by-game recaps! Slim and I go through all of Monday and Tuesday’s games and go over our highlights, including everyone ravaged by the flu. We then then preview tonight’s games with our 30-point challenge picks and wrap up the week at the movies.

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Rose MIA

January 10, 2017 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 51 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

Well, it’s New York, and it’s Derrick Rose. Mo’ drama! After attending shootaround and everything seeming about status quo, Rose just flat out didn’t show up for last night’s game against the Pelicans. Didn’t tell anyone, didn’t shoot someone a text… He had no problem sending all sorts of horrible texts to that ex-girlfriend… The AWOL was so abrupt, that apparently the Knicks sent team representatives to his apartment and his teammates were praying for him! Yikes. According to reports, he’s fine and it was a “family issue” in Chicago, but this is redonk! I can’t remember a starting player just “not showing up” for a game, much less a former MVP! Things have gotten super sour in NY… Then the actual game last night happened! …which was an absolute shitshow. At least Brandon Jennings played well, as he’s been given a golden opportunity to start and show what he can do again (20/5/4/2/0 with 4 treys and 2 TO in 29 minutes – I would probably give him a spec add in 12ers based on this drama). But nothing but downhill from there. Carmelo Anthony got ejected for arguing, probably because the Knicks were down 20 and his knees hurt. “My fingers hurt!” “Well now your back is gonna hurt, because you just pulled landscaping duty!” Then our ~~favorite~~ Irishman Kyle O’Quinn apparently hit the Jameson too hard on the bench watching the Knicks implode, and fouled the crap outta Anthony Davis, causing the brittle 7 footer to fly into the stands and exit with a hip injury.

I’m sure that’s exactly what all Brow owners wanted to see, in a game with NO up 22 in the late 3rd… See, calling him KOQ makes all sorts of sense now! We call that defensive play a “KOQ block”. The Knicks ended up losing at home to the Pelicans, have lost 8 of 9, and have fallen to 17-21 (I erroneously on the Podcast thought there were still .500, man this fell apart quick!). Yup. The Poppycockers ladies and gents! Here’s what else went down last night in fantasy basketball action:

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01/10/2017 – “What Do You Mean?! I Don’t Have Any Pants!”

January 10, 2017 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 18 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

After a blustery and snowy weekend (well, not for Slim!), the Razzball Hoops Pod is back! On today’s show, we recap the news around the league including Brandon Ingram on a little streak, Malcolm Brogdon continuing to improve, and a few guys who might be getting showcase minutes for trade season. We then catch up on the RCL standings through week 11, play another Pulitzer Prize edition of Can We Make Slim Look Stupid, and then preview tonight’s games with our 30-point challenge picks.

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2016-17 RCL Basketball Update: Weeks 10 & 11

January 9, 2017 | Razzball Commenter Leagues | 6 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

Happy 2017, RCLers! Sorry we’re just now updating again, lots happening in the early goings-ons of the calendar flip. Twas not my intent to have these turn into bi-weekly updates, but with things so busy, I decided to be bi-curious and see how this works until we get closer to playoff time. Not set in stone though! And I’ll be sure to run the standings every Monday either way…

In the past two weeks, we’re still all looking up at Brad’s Awkward Team! At 67-31-1, Brad has a share of the overall leader, so I guess one team is looking directly at Brad’s Awkward Team in the standings! Look out for surging The Doc is In, in the WE-GOT-A-TROPHY! league! Both squads have 67-31-1 records and 135 RCL points to set the pace for the final 9 weeks of fantasy hoop’s regular season action.

Check out how your teams stacked up after weeks 10-11 in the 2016-17 RCL Master Standings Table table, and here’s some notable takeaways from the past two regular season weeks across our 23 RCL Leagues:

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2016-17 REL Dynasty League Update: Week 12

January 9, 2017 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 4 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

REL Basketball1 Damn, what an absolutely anti-climatic week! We have a battle of the two REL titans with #1 vs. #2 and they… Legit tie!??!? What is this?! 4-4-1 tie between Yappers and Scurry to the Left, as neither squad can take bragging rights into the playoffs.

Some interesting buys on the wire this week, as we head into a very oddly scheduled week 12 as M@ laid out. Should make some nice fireworks in the REL!

Here’s how week eleven in the 2016-17 REL went down, and how we’re looking heading into week twelve:

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Rudy, Say It Ain’t True-dy

01/19/2017 – “Is It Like A Divac?!”

Dennis Schroder Just Needed A Nice, Swift Kick In The Poppycock

01/17/2017 – “Got Hot Wings, Got A Mass Food Challenge, Got Eating People’s Faces Off”

2016-17 REL Dynasty League Update: Week 13

Happy MLK Day! NBA Has Day Games!

Dapper Dan Turning Into Alpha Dan!

01/12/2017 – “There’s Some Metal Riffs For You”

Rose MIA

01/10/2017 – “What Do You Mean?! I Don’t Have Any Pants!”

2016-17 RCL Basketball Update: Weeks 10 & 11

2016-17 REL Dynasty League Update: Week 12