Payton Pritchard (PG, BOS): Week 23 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 2% of leagues

ANALYSIS: There is a thing called improvement that happens often in the NBA. Now, that said, who saw this coming from Boston after they started the season with a 25-25 record through the end of January!? No cap, folks. The last couple of months of Boston Basketball has been absolutely sublime, and although you can put all of the weight of that effort in the shoulders of pine-rider Payton Pritchard, the truth is that he's become a staple of the second unit lately and he is most probably not surrendering that role.

Pritchard only had a proper usage in the month of December and all of that was heavily linked to the COVID-19 bump up in cases back then. Other than that, not a lot of game time for the sophomore this season... until after the ASB when Boston realized they had a nice piece sitting on the pine nightly for longer than he should. So here we have PP playing a higher 18 MPG since Feb. 24 with his last four outings through Friday giving him 20 MPG and his best numbers of the season. The line? 14-3-3-1 in those 20 ticks. Not bad.

Payton has hit at least two triples in the past six games and counting. He's scored 8+ points in all of those matches for an average of 13 PPG from Mar. 13 on, he's shooting a low-volume-but-uber-efficient 7+ FGA a game hitting 66.7% (!) of them. The freebies don't exist at all because Pritchard's game doesn't lend to contact and trips to the charity stripe, but it's not that he needs any of that considering his fantastic three-point stroke. Definitely not a league-winning player, but a more than capable one (1.38 FP/min in his last four games compared to the league average 0.90) playing off the bench.

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