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ROSTERED IN: 36% of leagues
ANALYSIS: Victor Oladipo, now a Rocket, played his last game for Indiana back on Jan. 11. That same day, Justin Holiday started at the SF position for the first time this season... and he hasn't left the starting five ever since, either as a guard or a forward. Will that change going forward? Hard to see it happening, as Caris Levert will probably be out for the season (no set timeline) with health problems and Indiana will have to rely on Justin at least until T.J. Warren comes back and gets a starting position himself.
Holiday was already playing monster minutes coming off the pine, averaging 29 MPG in the first nine games of the season. Since starting, though, he's ramped that up to 32+ MPG and he has dropped below 30 minutes just three times in the past nine games. But that's not very important, and could actually fool some fantasy GMs that only look at his per-minute production, which has obviously been below-average given the super-long runs he's getting nightly.
The truth is that Holiday, while not the most efficient player (I mean, he plays next to much-better offensive options such as Malcolm Brogdon, Domantas Sabonis, and Myles Turner), he still puts up numbers just on sheer volume. Holiday is shooting an average of 9+ FGA in the past 10 days while hitting 46% of them. He's scored at least a triple in all games he's played this year going back to Dec. 29 (!) and he's actually averaging 3.3 3PG in the last week of games. Can't get much better than his current 11-5-1-1 line when talking about a starting player and fourth-option on his team's offense.
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