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BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 33% of leagues
ANALYSIS: There is nothing surprising in seeing Ayo Dosunmu starting games for the Bulls at this point, but there is something very worrying about finding him available in more than 70% of ESPN leagues. If you're one of those GMs straight fading the second-year man, let me tell you that you can do much better than that.
Ayo already appeared in 77 games for Chicago last season and that's more than all but 33 other players in the whole freaking NBA. He also played about 35 MPG, which is bonkers, but he did so to such levels of play that nobody batted an eye back then and nobody should be doing so into the 2023 season.
Dosunmu put up a solid 9-3-3-1 given his meager 11.3 USG% rate and he also kept his turnovers reasonably low at fewer than 1.5 per game. With Lonzo Ball now (re)injured and out of the rotation for a while, Ayo is back at manning the point for the Bulls one more season and his first two games were rather nice. He played 37 and then 31 minutes on Wednesday and Friday's games averaging 12 points, five boards, three dimes, a steal, and blocking one total shot.
He will need something very bad to happen to all of DeRozan/Vucevic/LaVine to earn finishing touches, of course, but that didn't prevent him from having a bit larger usage rates topping 17% and 13%. At least until Lonzo is back and playing on an actual basketball court Ayo should be rostered in all leagues and started in most of them.
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