Phoenix depth:

PG: Nash/House/(Barbosa)
SG: Bell/Barbosa/(Jones)/(Diaw)
SF: Marion/Jones/(Diaw)
PF: Diaw/Amare*/Burke/(Marion)
C: Thomas/(Amare)(Diaw)

As you can see, they have a solid nine-man rotation (when you don’t include Burke) that is athletic and great at shooting.

So…minutes will depend on who’s HOT. I love Phoenix for their up tempo game and it makes great fantasy numbers (what other team has two players go in the first round, let alone three), but the role players may start eating at each other’s value soon, as 150-point games don’t happen too often.

However, Marshall should see split time in Clevland and be a decent source of threes in addition to rebounds, steals and blocks. I’d probably go after Marshall, but I haven’t really followed him or Barbosa much this year. More importantly, whom were those two players dropped for?

i’m lookin for mainly 3s w/o hurtin myself anywhere else, and i’d be droppin raja bell for either one of those guys if i did make a move.

However, I recently decided that Bobby’s FG% and FT% were hurting me too much, so I dropped him yesterday to pick up (Don’t laugh) Tyronn Lue.

Lue, like his teammate Josh Childress has been very underrated this year.
Similar to Josh, both struggled as starters early in the season, but have played much better off the bench.
In the 19 games since Lue became a 6th man, he’s put up the following #’s: 13 pts,4 assts,1 3pt, 1 stl, 49%FG (9 att), 89%FT (3 att), 1.6 TO in 25 minutes.
He is #82 on the basketballmonster.com player rater for 9 category leagues over that span of time.

He may not wow you in any one area, but like Childress, he helps a bit in lots of areas, without hurting you anywhere. Ideal for your Util spot in a 12-team, 9 category league.

So…as much as it seems strange to have 2 (non-starting) Hawks on my team, it’s what I’ve chosen to do.
The numbers don’t lie. My main team needs are TO,FG/FT%,assists, and he helps a decent amount in each of those.

Does anyone else have any Tyronn Lue thoughts???

My main concern is playing time consistency, since the Hawks have such a deep rotation. Luckily their starting PG (Royal Ivey) only plays 10 min/game, freeing up time for Lue - who the coach likes a lot for his veteran leadership, especially with so many young teammates.

I have Jackson and I’m holding on to him for now so I can monitor his minutes over the next few. He might actually be just as effective with 30 as 35 if it means fewer bad shots. We’ll see.

I actually dropped Jackson last night and picked up Eddie Griffin again (just the 2nd time this season). He’s come off back-to-back double-doubles and is shooting a good percentage. Hell, even if his percentage is bad (40%-ish PG style) and he gets solid blocks, rebounds, and the occassional three, then I’ll be happy with that out of the center production, as with Kobe I’m punting percentages nearly every week anyhow.

Rumor is that Kandiman is going to be out of town…hopefully it won’t be for a starting-caliber center. When Griffin gets more than 25 minutes, the Wolves have a perfect record save the last Philly game, which was won at the buzzer.

Overall, I guess I’m desperate for blocks in my H2H league, as with G. Wallace down, my only legit source is Dalembert, as my other big guys like Brad Miller, Troy Murphy, Krstic, won’t get it done and Artest is still out (doh!).

I guess it’s a pipedream, but if Grffin could just get 36 minutes a night then he would be a super fantasy player that would make my team just that much better (to where maybe I could unload Krstic to someone desperate for C-help).