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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 17% of leagues
ANALYSIS: The Warriors are, miraculously, this close to making it to the play-in as a top-8 seed, which means they are closer than ever to making the postseason pretty much on the ridiculous performances from Stephen Curry. That's cool and expected, but what about Golden State's role players? Kelly Oubre Jr. got injured a few days ago and will miss the remainder of the year. His replacement? Kent Bazemore, he of the 12 consecutive starts--and counting.
Baze is playing more than 30 MPG nightly these days, and he's topped 28 in all six last games he's played for the Warriors. The performances have cooled down a bit of late, sure, but Baze is still shooting his good 9-to-10 FGA on a game basis while putting up reasonably good 10-7-2-2-1 lines. Reasonable, I say, because even though Baze is starting and playing good minutes, being part of the first unit is cutting down his usage rate to a low 15%.
While not a league-winning player in and of himself, Baze can be of great help this last week of play for those in deeper leagues looking for triples (2.1 3PG in the past six games), rebounds (7.5 RPG in that span), and most of all the scarce steals (2.3 SPG) and blocks (1.2 BPG) cats. He's a lock to stay on the lineup ROS with Oubre out and the Warriors locked into postseason contention and fighting to stay on the no. 8 seed.
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