Robin Lopez (C, WAS): Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 4% of leagues

ANALYSIS: The Robin of the Lopez twins has been all around the place this season. He started slowly with 10 off-the-pine games for the Wiz at the start of the season, then went on to rack up starts with nine consecutive such games, and ultimately settled for the reserve role from Feb. 7 on and has now held onto it for 28 straight matches. The minutes have not changed at all, as they are sitting at 22 MPG since then compared to the exact same 22 as a starter, and in the past couple of weeks Robin has found his best fantasy-self posting his best season numbers in such a span.

Going back to March 21, Lopez has played seven games and averaged a rather nice 0.95 FP/min in that span, which is already an above-average (0.90) mark leaguewide. He's done it to the tune of a 10-4-1 line with 1.3 BPG added to that. While it is true that Lopez is alternating large-run games (as many as 27 minutes in the past two matches) with others in which he's not even reached 11 minutes (two of them), he's still putting up above-average and efficient numbers in virtually every game he's part of these days.

The most encouraging thing about Lopez going forward and making him a potential great WW-target is the fact that he's logged back-to-back 27 MPG performances against Charlotte and Detroit to close March and open April, and that he's posted 16-11 and 16-2-3 (with 3 blocks) lines in those two for 30 and 28 FP respectively, both top-50 finishes in those respective slates. Lopez is a virtual lock to hit 10 points a night, brings a good rebounding upside, and is great when it comes to shooting percentages (59% FG% on the season, 75% in the last seven games) as he doesn't attempt shots outside of the paint.

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