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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 16% of leagues
ANALYSIS: Malik Monk keeps flying too much under the radar with more than two months of play already in the books. Y'all have to fix this, folks. Seriously. Monk is playing off the pine with Kevin Huerter having overtaken him in the rotation (deservedly) but even then Monk is making wonders in his second-unit role.
Monk has scored 10+ points in 20 of his 28 games played to date. In those eight matchups, though, he still scored 6+ points in all but one and 8+ in four. Monk is averaging 14.5+ PPG on the season while hitting 2+ 3PM per game at it. He had scored at least one 3-point shot in 12 consecutive games before breaking that run last Friday against Detroit.
Nobody in the league is scoring at Monk's pace while playing fewer than 25 MPG. Only four players, including MM, are contributing 14-2-3 lines on a nightly basis playing most of their games off the pine (<50% of games started). Of those, only three are doing it while also hitting 2+ 3PM a pop.
There are voices out there still saying that Monk has never met a shot he's not liked. Well, that might actually be the right approach to his game now, because the guy is hitting them in bunches. Four consecutive games in the last seven days hitting 11+ points and averaging 15+ PPG and 2 3PM per game speak for it.
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