Jae'Sean Tate (SF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 22

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 5% of leagues

ANALYSIS: The Houston Rockets could only enjoy Jae'Sean Tate for three games at the start of the season (October) before he got to the shelves for the next two-plus months, not making his return until January 5. The young forward has slowly but surely increased his presence in the lineup while mostly coming off the pine to help carry the second unit since then.

Tate had a five-game span in which he started all of those games sandwiching the All-Star break but he's now back to the bench mob. The results and the production are actually better this way, as he gets more chances to shoot the rock and dish out dimes leading the reserve unit.

Playing on the wing, Tate is not one to trust when it comes to hitting many three-point shots. In fact, he's only scored two 3PM once this season in 31 games while averaging 0.4 3PM per game over the full campaign. That said, he still knows how to score mid-rangers and how to attack the rim, which also comes with free throws going his way (2.2+ FGA per game).

Tate finds his mojo in the classic cats with a reasonable amount of points (nine PPG throughout the season, nearly 11 PPG in March), rebounds (four RPG), dimes (2.5+ APG), and steals (0.8 SPG this month). The shooting percentages are often well above 50% because he is a two-point shooter more than a three-point hoister.

On the negative side of the spectrum, the turnovers and the personal fouls hurt his production and could/should be lower. Can't have it all, and that's why he's rostered in barely one of each 20 ESPN leagues these days.

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