He is getting ridiculous playing time though, and I do agree the longer you’re on the court the more fantasy good things can happen.

I’m debating on picking up him or Murphy. The postion thing doesn’t matter much because I have 3 solid centers. I just want a couple extra 3’s and some minor help on boards. FG% is important to me and Dunleavy has been hot.

Anyway, what do you guys think of my 13-man roster in a 12-team w/9 cats? Besides 2 flukes of a week, I’ve been unbeaten every week (lost twice to the same guy with outrageous hot plays, i.e. Damp getting a 20-20, J-Smoove getting 15 blocks in a week, and later Bargnani getting 7 3PTM in All-Star week, you get the idea).

PG Billups
SG Ray Allen
G Gerald Wallace
SF LeBron
PF Boozer
F Al Jefferson
C J.O’Neal
Util Brandon Roy
Util Delonte West
BN Jason Richardson
BN Luther Head
BN Nene (thinking of getting Childress back..)

I’ve been trying to trade like mad, but my league’s suffering from jettison-syndrome where people just stop playing, so now I’m down to anywhere from 4 to 5 teams playing. My primary trading targets to help my team have been Steve Nash and Kevin Martin.

What do you guys think of J-Rich/Nene for Kevin Martin? Or LeBron for Steve Nash straight up? I’ve actually tried that trade but the closest the guy’s willing to offer is Nash/Patterson/Bynum for LeBron/Boozer and I’d be crazy to do a 2-for-3 and drop another decent bench guy (probably Nene). I also need that garbage spot again, but Nene just seems too much a commodity to drop atm, but it’s also NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE to trade in my league anymore. And adding J-Rich’s made having a garbage spot that much harder. If I drop Nene, then I pickup Childress, not a good garbage spot candidate. Desperately need some sort of 2-for-1. Sigh.

Open to all thoughts!

LL, you know I love Iggy and I think he’s set to be a top 20 player next year. I think if you went into the season with him, Brand and Arenas, you MIGHT have three of the top 10/15 guys at the end of the year. Just curious, how many of you guys do keeper leagues? BV and I were talking about it over the weekend and figured there weren’t enough of you to merit posts on it, but we could be wrong.

milicic and kaman both currently FA (not for long tho) and i’ve currently got collison/nene. i think i’ll keep collison but is nene worth droppin for any of the other 2?

For the past couple of years, I’ve been finishing in the top 2 of my leagues, but I feel like I’m wasting talent letting it go back into the draft pot. I’d love some thoughts on how to upgrade your keepers without sacrificing this year.

For example, I have leading my league with a core set of players–Arenas, Brand, Iguodala, Carter, Camby.. I had a good draft and some very solid trades to put me in a good position.

That said, we keep 3 players each year. Arenas and Brand are no brainers to me, but what it’s somewhat debatable who to pick for the 3rd keeper. The choice comes to Iggy and Carter, but I’d ideally like to package the two of them for another stud.

Any thoughts?

I think Bibby is more valuable on a bad team — which needs to be taking risks to try to move up the standings — than a good team, where the FG% is probably costing a few precious points, and he can be dealt to address specific needs in tight categories. I’m also a Bibby owner, and I could move him for Luther Head — inconceivable at the beginning of the year, but FG% and 3PTM are so tight that, if Bibby doesn’t come around, the move will definitely move me up in those categories. If you were advocating dropping Bibby for Monta Ellis yesterday, I guess you’d feel the same about Head. Would you agree, or would moving him for Head be ludicrous?

Terrance, I thought about those guys, they could have worked. I picked Gay as fantasy ROY at the beginning of the year, so I obviously like him, and every consecutive solid game he has makes it less likely he’ll fall back into one of his droughts. But he’s not out of the woods yet.

JM, I can’t see dropping West or Blount right now. Korver’s the guy to ditch, unless you really need his 3s.