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ANALYSIS: Zion Williamson present or not, Larry Nance Jr. will keep waiting from the Pelicans pine no matter what by the recent looks of it. Nance has not started a game this season in New Orleans even when Zion has missed time at some points, but he's kept his 24 MPG mostly steady with just a couple of drops in playing time through November.
Nance has had some ups and downs this year, mind you, but he seems to have finally found his rhythm as his last week of play showcases. From the Nov. 10-to-18 span, Nance has played four games in which he's scored 16+ points three times, pulled down at least 6+ rebounds each time, and blocked at least a shoot in three of those four matchups.
Overall, through those most-recent four games, Nance has averaged 16+ PPG, 7.5 RPG, and 1.5 APG. Last Friday, facing Boston, he stole three rocks while blocking a couple of shots for his second-highest fantasy-point score of the season (36) after putting up 38 in the first game of November (11-8-5-4-1 against the Lakers).
Nance will not take over any of the SF/PF/C positions with the likes of Brandon Ingram, Zion Williamson, and Jonas Valanciunas around, but he's doing more than enough coming off the pine and putting up numbers in the classic cats with odd tokens popping up the three-points-made/steals/blocks columns.
The shooting percentages are ridiculous (68/45/80 splits) albeit on very low volume (6.5 FGA, 0.7 3PA, 1.3 FTA) mind you.
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