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BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 22% of leagues
ANALYSIS: Both bench-players Jarred Vanderbilt and Naz Reid have benefited a lot from Karl-Anthony Towns and Juancho Hernangomez COVID-related absences. With the latter two still on the shelf and not a clear date for their return set, the former will keep getting starts and, perhaps even more important, building their case to remain active and important parts of the rotation once the early-season starters finally come back.
Vanderbilt has started every game going back to Jan. 18 against Atlanta. He already took the bull by the horns on what was his first start of the season, and also the first of his ongoing six-start streak. Jarred is playing 24+ MPG nightly, and he's scored 8+ points in four of those six with 10+ in three of them. The best thing about Vanderbilt's game comes from his high shooting percentage (58.2 percent from the field) as he doesn't stretch the floor, and his upside on all rebounds, steals, and blocks.
For a subpar big man, and looking at stats from Jan. 22 on, Vanderbilt has been superb on a bunch of secondary categories: the forward is one of only four players (Delon Wright, Ben Simmons, Al Horford) scoring 10+ PPG, pulling down 6+ RPG, dishing out 2+ APG, and getting 2 SPG. Only he and Horford (just one game played, though) are doing so while adding 1 BPG, and Vanderbilt is shooting 60+ FG% on top of that.
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