Terance Mann (SG, LAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 19

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 9% of leagues

ANALYSIS: The Los Angeles Clippers have entered uncharted territory and moved to a full no-point-guard rotation with no natural no. 1 in their roster. Yes, you can consider recently acquired Bones Hyland a point, or Terance Mann one himself, but there is no real point guard as we know them in the Clips squad right now and there won't be one until/unless they bring Russell Westbrook to the Crypto.

It is still too early to know if Russ will sign with the Lakers' neighbor, although he will meet with Paul George and Kawhi Leonard ahead of the March 1 buyout-signing deadline. Anyway, meanwhile, the Clips have been running with two-guard Terance Mann at the point with great success.

In fact, it's been like that for more than a month as Mann has started 20 games in a row through the break and 22 of his last 23 getting all the way back to January 2, the first Clippers game of the 2023 calendar year.

Since he started at the point for the first time on January 8, Mann is averaging an 11-4-3 per-game stat line to go with 0.4+0.4 stocks nightly. He's also been able to improve his shooting percentages mightily, going from hitting 48-of-104 (46.1%) field-goal attempts in his first 13 games in that span to 40-of-62 (64.5%) in his last seven, all of them played in February.

In February alone, Mann has averaged 15 PPG, nearly five RPG, and three APG, and he's shot the ball an average of nine FGA per game, hitting 1.8+ 3PM a pop. The steals and the blocks are definitely not in his nightly stat lines, but the scoring is terrific and the rebounding is so good for a two-guard masquerading as a point guard.

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