Monte Morris (PG/SG, DEN): Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

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ANALYSIS:  The Nuggets, if you live under a rock, are currently treating as many as five players (two bonafide starters) that are nursing all varieties of injuries/problems ranging from a season-ending back surgery to a stint in the Protocols shelf due to COVID issues. With starting PG Jamal Murray out until the playoffs and Facu Campazzo being Facu Campazzo, it was always going to be the Year of the Monte at PG. And that's in fact been the case with Monte Morris manning the starting lead-guard position 25 games--all of them--this season.

Morris has started at the point nightly since Oct. 20, is logging a can't-get-higher 30 MPG, and although the efficiency is rather low (0.78 FP/min) because of those bulky minutes, the truth is that if only on pure brute force Monte is playing to a nice level all things considered. Morris has had his best two weeks of the season in the past two getting back to Nov. 26 through last Thursday. He's averaged a 14-3-5 per-game line in 32 MPG and he's just once scored fewer than 10 points in a single game.

The truth is that Monte Morris is your average, classic point guard. He's going to hit shots (nice three-point upside with 2.0 3PM per game in the past seven matches) and dish out dimes (4.3 APG on the year, 5.0 in the last two weeks of play). That's it. There will be rebounds here and there, but always on the low side of things (2.7 RPG this season) while the steals were kinda good to start the year but have gone down of late. The shooting percentages are sublime, though, with Morris attempting 11 FGA (more than healthy) per game and scoring those shots at a 46.3% season-long clip and an impressive 50.4% in just the past six games.

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