FBC Podcast #10: Second Half Breakouts

Posted Feb 9 2013 by Patrick in , , with 7 Comments

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Where Erik and Patrick throw out ten players who we think will have strong second halves of the season and are worth picking up in many leagues, discuss the short all-star week and how it screws with many fantasy owners, and throw out a bunch of potential waiver wire pickups.

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Spoiler Alert! If you can’t listen to the podcast here are our waiver wire recommendations:

Normal League Recommendations:

Jeff Green
Danny Green
Sam Dalembert

Deep League Recommendations:

Andrew Nicholson
Maurice Harkless
Jonas Valanciunas
Charlie Villanueva

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  • ersa

    can you list your ten players out? im at the library and i dont have earphones on me right now haha

    • http://givemetherock.com/ Patrick

      Good point, I didn’t think about that. I cheated a bit with my last pick.

      Erik:
      Ty Lawson
      Byron Mullens
      Earl Clark
      Kawhi Leonard
      Brandon Knight

      Patrick:
      Derrick Favors
      Jeff Green
      Kris Humphries
      Jeff Teague
      The Magic Young guys (Nikola Vucevic, Nicholson, Moe Harkless, E-Twaun Moore)

  • zee

    What’s the diff between the pickups recommended and the 10 players mentioned (haven’t gotten time to listen yet)? Are the pickups just short-term mostly (namely Dalembert, who gets DNPs with Sanders around)?

    • http://givemetherock.com/ Patrick

      There is definitely some overlap between the lists, but a few of the 10 guys aren’t waiver wire players (Jeff Teague) while others would require a trade to happen first and aren’t worth picking up at the moment (Kris Humphries).

  • Ascott

    Hey guys, loved the podcast! Very insightful. Anyway, I’m in a pickle at the moment, can you pick 4? i’m in a 22 team league:

    Bogut, Derrick Williams, Taj Gibson, Dalembert, Valanciunas, Villanueva, Nicholson, Humphries. Thanks!

    • http://givemetherock.com/ Patrick

      Depends on what your team needs are, but just in terms of overall value, your best bet is probably Dalembert, Valancunas, Nicholson and Humphries (if you think he’s going to get traded soon) or one of Williams/Gibson/Bogut if not (although I don’t love any of these guys). Bogut is a pretty risk risk/high reward, but the problem is that he’s not going to be playing in back-to-backs any time soon, which limits his value. The problem for guys like Dalembert and Humphries, a lot of their value will depend on trades, which is always a tricky thing to try and predict. If Humphries doesn’t get traded, he probably has the leats amount of value out of any of the guys you mentioned.

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