Justin Holiday (SG/SF, IND): Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 25% of leagues

ANALYSIS: Justin Holiday has started 28 of his 37 games played to date for the Pacers this season. He's logging more than healthy minutes at 29 MPG on the year and a bit higher 30 when starting which, by the way, he's done at all three SG/SF/PF positions at different points throughout the year. There was a little bit of a slow start for Holiday this season as he stumbled to a not-so-great first month of play (9-3-1 in 17 games leading up to Nov. 20), but Justin was able to right his wrongs since then and he's now a fantastic deeper-league contributor.

Holiday could only play six games in late November before getting canned for two weeks and not returning until Dec. 15. Since that day, though, he's been active and playing nightly, with 14 games played in the last 30 days. The average line in that month-long span is sitting at a nice 12-3-2-1, and most encourangly Holiday has seemingly ditched his early shooting slump (39% on 9 FGA) for a not-great-but-still-improving 43.7% in the past 10 days on almost 10 FGA per game.

While part of a starting lineup very loaded (Sabonis, Turner, Brogdon, LeVert...) Holiday is never going to command a lot of opportunities and shots himself. But he is great at what he does, which is hitting treys: it's been 16 games in a row for Holiday scoring at least one triple while averaging 2.75 3PM in that span (it gets back to late November!), and on the full year he's posting a similar 2.5 3PM-a-day mark which gives us confidence he will be able to sustain the volume/accuracy. Not the most incredible of players, but surely one to roster if you're needy on the points/triples/(low) turnovers cats.

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