Isaiah Thomas for Landry Fields?

Deepness5134 · Post #1 » by **Deepness5134** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:08 am

This is my current team..

PG Rajon Rondo, Bos PG DTD Draft
SG Nick Young, Wsh SG Draft
SF LeBron James, Mia SF Trade
PF Ersan Ilyasova, Mil SF, PF Free Agency
G Andre Miller, Den PG Free Agency
F Luol Deng, Chi SF Draft
PF/C Dwight Howard, Orl C Draft
PF/C Samuel Dalembert, Hou C Draft
UTIL Landry Fields, NY SG Free Agency
UTIL Jeremy Lin, NY PG Free Agency
Bench Jrue Holiday, Phi PG Draft
Bench Danilo Gallinari*, Den SF, PF O Draft
Bench Marcus Thornton, Sac SG Draft
Bench Caron Butler, LAC SF Draft
Bench Kemba Walker, Cha PG, SG Draft
Bench Marreese Speights, Mem PF, C Free Agency

I already have a bunch of PG's, but should I pick up Isiah? Is there anything you guys thing I hsould improve on? Waivers come off tomorrow...thoughts?

Apathy · Post #2 » by **Apathy** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:45 am

obv pick him up

Bank Shot · Post #3 » by **Bank Shot** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:01 pm

pick him up. Drop Fields or Speights.

Deepness5134 · Post #4 » by **Deepness5134** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:53 pm

Dropped him for fields...I'm wondering if theres anything else I can do. Thoughts? Thikn I should move a couple PG's for a big or forwards?

Apathy · Post #5 » by **Apathy** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:30 pm

move thornton or butler. not sure i would've dropped fields. i think i like fields more than butler. i think fields helps your needs more than butler does.

donkeylips · Post #6 » by **donkeylips** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:57 am

what categories are you playing?

Deepness5134 · Post #7 » by **Deepness5134** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:20 am

FG% FT% 3PM REB AST STL BLK TO PTS

Apathy · Post #8 » by **Apathy** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:45 pm

for chuckers there's a thin line between fantasy asset and fantasy cancer. marcus thornton is a perfect example. last year he shot 45%, which is about average for fantasy and prob slightly above-average for his position. this year it's 41.5%, which is obviously terrible.

and it's particularly terrible because he shoots so much. even if he's at 45%, that's not optimal, because he's heavily weighting your team's fg% toward average, which is obviously not what you want. now he's heavily weighting your team toward terrible in that particular category.

jack of all trade homies like landry fields get underrated because they tilt your team to slightly-above-average in a bunch of categories. that's pretty valuable, even if it doesn't seem like it on a day-to-day basis. high fg%, good steals, a contribution in 3-pointers, 3.0 assists and a microscopic turnover rate is extremely valuable. if his FT% didn't fall off the charts id be pimping the **** out of him.

he's way more valuable in TO leagues, but even without them he ranks 91st on espn's player rater. add in one of his best categories and what does he rank? top 75 or close to it. without it he still ranks one spot ahead of butler. and the thing is butler is redundant on your team. now that you've said your league counts TOs i change "i think" to "i know."