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BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 48% of leagues
ANALYSIS: Tom Thibodeau is still the head coach of the New York Knicks. That's it. That's all you need to know in order to have a solid reason for acquiring some shares of the current sixth-man and former great-Bull (MVP) Derrick Rose. I mean, don't take D-Rose for what he is not anymore, but rest assured he will provide plenty of goodies on a second-unit role on a nightly basis.
Rose put up a nice stat line last year once he got traded to the Knicks. The veteran guard finished playing 27 MPG off the pine (he only started 3 of 35 games in New York) with averages of 15 PPG, 3 RPG, 4 APG, and 1 SPG. The turnovers were also low enough (1.4 per) as to consider Rose a nice 9-cat WW target. He's pretty much replicating those numbers in the early season, only exchanging four points per game for two more dimes a pop.
While D-Rose had a kinda rough debut a few days ago in which he couldn't reach 10 points with a bad shooting performance (27.3% on 11 FGA), he was still able to showcase his full arsenal with 4 boards, 5 dimes, 2 steals, and even a block against Boston. He was closer to his true self on Friday as he put up a 12-0-7 line that included 4 (!) three-pointers made on 8 FGA over 24 minutes played. Rose is not going to start games with Kemba Walker in town and Immanuel Quickley in tow, but his second-unit role should see him getting 20%+ usage rates steadily and putting up his customary 10-2-4 per-game baseline of late.
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