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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 6% of leagues
ANALYSIS: How can I say this nicely? Hmm... The Houston Rockets stink. I don't think I can do better, folks. Houston's maladies, though, are all coming from a single event that took place a few weeks ago: Christian Wood getting injured. That's it. Since then, the Rockets have won all of zero games, are 0-14 in that span, and have kicked off the second half of the season sitting at the 14th place in the West with an 11-24 record only better than the Wolves' 8-29 mark... Ugh.
Justin Patton has taken on Wood's duties for Houston during the last few games of the first half, namely in six of them from Feb. 22 to Mar. 3. He started a couple of those against Memphis and Cleveland, and in the last three leading up to the break he went on to play 26, 31, and 26 minutes posting an average line of 8-5-1-2-1. Those numbers are definitely not going to blow your mind away, but the truth is that Patton has shown prowess to do it all on the court.
Patton hit six triples in the last four games before the AS while still shooting 63 percent from the floor on low volume. His usage has been, obviously, low at just 11%, but when given the second-unit, off-the-bench role in his last outing against the Nets on Mar. 3 he played to the tune of 1.3 FP/min and was very productive with a 10-6-4-4-1 line in that match. Wood should be back asap, but he missed Thursday's game. Patton is just not the worst of additions for deep-league GMs in the need of a big man with upside.
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