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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 11% of leagues
ANALYSIS: The Sixers got absolutely demolished by COVID-19 related stuff during the past few days/week with all of Joel Embiid, Tobias Harris, and Matisse Thybulle missing time. Enter your winner of the season so far precisely because of that, guard/forward/wing Furkan Korkmaz, he of the four-of-six starts in the month of February, and the back-to-back 40-minute games in the past week of play. Uh, oh, flex on the virus.
Of course, once all of those three players mentioned above are available and back on the court, Korkmaz's upside will undoubtedly go down if only a bit. He will get back to his early-season/October averages of 20 MPG at most. But for now, consider Korkmaz a borderline starter/top-second unit player with tons of upside. Korkmaz scored 11+ points in all first four games of November (including a couple of outings with 7 and 5 treys). It's been six games in a row for him through Friday scoring 1+ triple. The shooting average cratered in the last two games, but it also must be said that he reached a season-high 18 FGA in one of those two matches.
Korkmaz has really done it all whether as a high-usage reserve (approaching 24% usage rate) or average-usage starter (almost 20%): the season-line is at 12-3-3 with 0.5+ SPG and the odd block. Korkmaz seemingly finds it expensive to visit the charity stripe, but he's able to keep turnovers at bay more often than not (1.1 TO per game) and he's a fantastic spot-up shooter with 2.4 3PM3 per game on 11 games played and a solid 10+ FGA through the year.
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