Kenneth Faried or DeMar DeRozan

[SHUTUP Lebron]

This is not a matter of who is better.

Faried: With Gallo out, Faried fills a stat sheet with points, rebounds, and a few blocks, but inconsistent minutes.

DeRozan: Gets the minutes, but is a one-trick pony. He's purely ppg, but he does have his off-nights.

Option A) Choose the guy who might not get the minutes but will fill a stat sheet

Option B) Choose the guy who gets the minutes but will not fill a stat sheet

It depends on what your team needs.

[Apathy]

more like team need:

unless ur desperate for points derozan is awful

[PDXKnight]

I'll take faried.

[F1uxCapacit0r]

Saw this little beaut of a thread and thought I would bump it.

[F1uxCapacit0r]

Who has been the better player this year? how big is the margin? This year much like last is based on team need, but I lean towards DeRozan. he was drafted in like the 6th-7th round in my ten leagues. didn't wanna draft that high

[Apathy]

imo the problem w/ DeRozan goes well past his stats in a vacuum. If you have a SG (with no positional eligiblity...) who doesn't get 3s, you just created a big hole on your roster.

[TheToothFairy]

DeRozan is like a SF ish version of Rodney Stuckey.

He is consisent but is more of a solid role player who is durable who will get you points and not much else

I like having a player like that but I dont reach for them to high

[F1uxCapacit0r]

imo the problem w/ DeRozan goes well past his stats in a vacuum. If you have a SG (with no positional eligiblity...) who doesn't get 3s, you just created a big hole on your roster.

there is no "past his stats" in fantasy basketball... it is all stats, nothing else

I dont agree with your positional eligibility perspective either.

Creating a hole on ones roster depends on all players involved, not just one. For example, you have Derozan as a SG on your fantasy team. He is one of your leading scorers while providing solid rebounding from the SG position. Match him up with someone like Mullens who is a C who rebounds and shoots 3's and you do not miss a beat.

There are very few players in fantasy basketball that give you across the board production while hurting you in NO cats.

Yea Derozan doesn't shoot a lot of 3's, but he Helps a lot in Scoring, rebounding, gets a lot of FT's decent in both FG% and FG%, contributes over a steal a game, less than 2 TO's a game, good for the occational block and still gets you .5 3's a game

Wade doesn't shoot 3's either but he was still top 5 last year and top 7 the year before. I know overall rank isn't the be all end all I am merely using Wade as an example where your SG does not need to shoot 3's to contribute.
I just want to point out i am in no way saying DD is on Wade's level.

[Apathy]

there is no "past his stats" in fantasy basketball... it is all stats, nothing else

Sounds like you've made up your mind. -shrugs-