How come your entries are so infrequent now?

11 team ROTO league…
After some trades (I traded Kaman for B. Diddy and M,. Redd for T. Duncan)

my team is as follows:

PG: Kidd
G: B. Diddy
SG: J. Johson
SF: J. Rich
F: Artest
PF: T. Duncan
C: Ming
C: B. Miller
Util: B. Diaw
Util: A. Harrington

Given that I do not care about FG% or Turnovers I have been targetting guys whose deficiencies are in those areas (i.e. like J. Richardson or Kidd) and recently traded A. Harrington (as I am way ahead in 3s) K. Durant

So I think i am now set.,.. Any advice from you gurus anyone else I should target? i think it iis very unusual to be first in a roto league and punting two categories (I hate Tos as a stat but i am dead last in it…)

Let me know if you have any advice

I trade Richardson and filler (Noccioni, Garcia etc…) for Durant and Bibby

any thoughts?

That is one horrible trade. MAYBE if u traded just Kidd and Richard Jefferson for Baron and Gasol, then it could be equal value. However, also including Kaman for Brand in the deal is just plain silly. Brand may not even come back this year (he said himself that his estimate of coming back in Feb may be overly optimistic), and even if he comes back, god knows what he will be capable of.

On top of that, you traded for Baron Davis, who is himself susceptible to missing multiple games every year.

Furthermore, Gasol has been underperforming, but he has been doing better in January since Mike Conley took over the PG role, so there’s still hopes that he’ll be able to get back to having first round value.

Maybe you were thinking Kaman will lose all his value once Brand comes back, but then again, why trade the sure thing for now for something so uncertain? Look at Amare when he came back from surgery a couple of years ago…

Seriously, dunno what u were thinking…

I am leading my league right now…11 team 9 category roto

My team

PG: Kidd
G: B. Davis
SG: J. Rich
SF: F. Garcia
F: A. Harrington
PF: T. Duncan
C: Ming
C: B. Miller
Util: J. Johnson
Util: N. Robinson

Bench: Diaw, Artest, Nocioni, T. Murphy

another person in this league is targeting Richardson - he keeps on asking me for him. He offerted Durant straight up but I refused. Now he wants me to put together a package for J. Rich. Right now I have a very large lead in threes in the league. I have punted FG percentage. I am leading in Assists, Rebounds, Pts., 3, high in FT%., Medium in blocks and rising in steals.

Do you see anything I should try for in his line-up (I may want to go after wallace…)

His team:

Caldaron, Roy, Bibby, G. Wallace, Wilcox, Durant, Horford, O’Neil, Redd (who i traded to him for Duncan), Conely, , Hill, Brewer, Blatche, Prince.

I could see doing G. Wallace straight up for Richardson as it will give me steals and blocks while only really losing me threes which i will have a lot of anyways (see Harrington, J. Johnson, Davis - maybe enough to even hold on to the lead - I am over 100 threes higher then my closest competitior)

I was also thinking maybe trading J. Johnson straight for Durant….

He has said he would do Horford and Durant for J. Richardson (but I do not think that is very good for me…). Durant is ok on my team as his awful FG% would not hurt me so i would like to pick him up….

Any thoughts would be welcome…

All of ‘em are outperforming pre-season expectations by far. The PT might not last for Salmons and Calderon, and it remains to be seen whether Hill continues his resurgence when he returns from injury, but thus far, I’d say, they deserve to be in the discussion.

Dunleavy’s the biggest surprise of all, in my book. And Kaman’s the biggest stud of the bunch. Wish I’d picked him when he was sitting there in the 7th and 8th rounds.

And Jhelf, I think you should’ve used the word “if” instead of “when” in the phrase “when Brand eventually comes back.” Terrible trade.

None…

Just traded
Kidd, Jefferson, Kaman
for
Baron, Gasol, Brand.

Thoughts on WHY i did this.
kidd wont keep up his numbers and is getting older
Jefferson has gone from ranked in the 30’s to now the high 50’s.
Kaman- although playing out of his mind, I dont think he can keep it up when Brand eventually comes back

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