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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 47% of leagues
ANALYSIS: Daniel Theis was a daily fixture in Boston's starting lineups from the start of the season to the trade deadline. Not because Boston stopped playing him, but rather because they cut ties with him entirely as they moved him to Chicago. Theis then proceeded to hit the pine until mid-April, but he's been the Bulls starter at either the PF or C position in every game he's played from Apr. 16 on--that's 12 and counting.
The Bulls looked like a playoff team until they didn't, and they are virtually out of the postseason with a week and change to go. Theis is a pending free agent hitting the open market this summer, which means he should be more than invested in playing his best possible basketball. And that's pretty much what he's been doing the last couple of weeks. In the last six games he has played, from Apr. 26 on, Theis has put up an average 12-8-1-1 line while shooting almost 55% from the floor on low usage rates.
Theis is obviously not the main target of the Bulls offense with the likes of Nikola Vucevic--and now Zach LaVine again--around, but he's making the most with his chances. The points are a nightly fixture, same as the boards, and the steals have come out of the left field with a tasty 7 thefts combined in the past three games. It's going to be hard to see Theis log 40 minutes as he did against Philly on Monday, but we can realistically expect some 28+ ticks a day with a 10-7 baseline from the big man.
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