Furkan Korkmaz (SG/SF, PHI): Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 3% of leagues

ANALYSIS: Barring a small three-game stretch following the AS break, Furkan Korkmaz has been a below-average performer all year long. He was not playing enough minutes prior to the break (just 18 MPG in 25 games, starting three of them), and he was averaging a measly 0.70 FP/min in that span (league-average 0.90). After the break, though, he's stepped up his game: he's still on a limited 20 MPG average run, but his efficiency has sky-rocketed to 0.92 FP/min and he's put up above-average marks in all of his games (seven of them) from Apr. 4 to Apr. 16.

For someone who is playing fewer than 20 minutes more often than not, there is no need to rush to add him in any type of shallow league. For those fantasy GMs managing in deeper formats, though, Korkmaz can be a life-saver asset to have around. In the aforementioned seven games, Korkmaz has scored at least 9 points in six of them and dropped double-digit points in five of them, going for 10, 12, 20, and 20 in that run closing the seven-game span with an 18-pop outing on Friday. More impressively, though, he got right his three-point prowess hitting 4 triples in back-to-back-to-back games facing New Orleans, Oklahoma, and Dallas in those three, and hitting 5 (!!!) of them against the Clips yesterday.

Korkmaz is not close to being a do-it-all player while on the court, but he knows how to find his shooting spots (1.7 3PG on the season, 2+ 3PG since the break) while on low FGA volumes (just 8 FGA per game), doesn't turn the ball over more than once per game (almost 1.5 AST-to-TO ratio) and comes with a very nice steals bonus upside (almost 1 SPG on the season, up to 1.5 per game since the start of April). The low rostership makes sense on a pure playing-time basis, but Korkmaz might get larger runs if Philly can separate a bit from Brooklyn ROS and the Sixers rotate players more in a resting effort before the postseason tips off.

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