Isaiah Stewart (C, DET) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 8

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 24% of leagues

ANALYSIS: The Pistons are decidedly going nowhere this season unless you consider drafting Wemby as some sort of destination. That's because they have already lost Cade for a good chunk of games (and most probably for the season), are struggling on both offense and defense, and will inevitably end up selling the (veteran) house in exchange for more draft asserts while playing the youngsters as much as they bodies can handle.

One of those young studs is (reasonably) big man Isaiah Stewart. Beef Stew has missed the time of late (didn't play for two weeks in the second half of November) but he returned to the courts last Tuesday (26 MP) and he's coming off playing 37 minutes against Dallas last Friday so he's more than fit and ready to keep going.

Stewart, as small as he is for a true center, is hella sturdy. He's pulling down 9+ RPG over the full season and in his second game back from injury he just went and grabbed 12 boards, just four shy of his season-high mark.

Stewie comes with some three-point scoring chops too, having hit 24 3-pointers over the season in 18 matches played for an average approaching 1.5 3PM per game. That doesn't really hurt his FG% that much, though, as he's not a madman when it comes to volume shooting from either inside or outside the arc.

The full package is good with most of the goodies coming from where you should expect: points and rebounds. The dimes and steals are not to be found anywhere, but the blocks pop here and there (0.7 BPG).

One of just 12 players currently averaging 12-9 with at least 0.7+ BPG, Stewart is the only man among those in that small group rostered in fewer than 85% of all ESPN leagues.

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