Sunday Night NBA Fantasy Basketball Bets (3/14/10)
Mar 14, 2010 FSH Live Blog
Only 6 games on the Sunday night NBA schedule. Two games had early tipoffs and are omitted from Sunday night’s handicapping picks. The daily draft cash games are getting harder and harder to predict as the season winds down. Many players are getting their minutes slashed. Last night starters like Mike Conley, Jameer Nelson, Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan all got hit with limited minutes, and none of them were due to health/injury problems. As I advised last week, it’s time to start scaling down the size of your wagers as the season winds down. Baseball will be here in three weeks anyway.
POINT GUARD:
- A couple of good low priced roster fillers going tonight with Jrue Holiday against Miami and Darren Collison against Phoenix. Both are decent plays if you want to use your salary at other positions. Enjoy Collison, this could be his last week of fantasy relevancy with Chris Paul likely to return soon.
- Andre Miller is a good mid-priced option against Toronto.
- I’m a little worried about Steve Nash. At some point Phoenix is going to start giving him some time off. I could see him sitting some fourth quarters now that Goran Dragic is healthy.
- Deron Williams is the highest priced PG, but he’s fighting a nagging shoulder injury and I’d probably avoid him.
- Russell Westbrook is my favorite PG play Sunday. Good matchup against Utah, especially with a banged up Deron Williams opposite him.
SHOOTING GUARD:
- Wes Matthews is a good minimum salary roster filler if you want to plug him into a SG spot.
- Marcus Thornton is more expensive than Matthews, but still low priced given his recent production. Feel free to use Thornton.
- Lou Williams, Vince Carter and Jason Richardson are all equally mid-priced, but each of them are very inconsistent. They are the only available mid-priced options tonight.
- Dwyane Wade is the most expensive SG, but if you have the money you should probably use him.
- Steven Jackson and Brandon Roy are upper middle priced and similar in salary. I like Roy’s matchup against Toronto better than Jackson’s matchup against Orlando.
SMALL FORWARD:
- SF is absolutely bare tonight and you are going to have to roll with expensive players. Using Darren Collison at PG and Marcus Thornton at SG should leave you enough salary cap room to go with Kevin Durant and Andre Iguodala at SF. It’s really the only play tonight.
- If you don’t want to use those high priced guys, then you will be using overpriced, inconsistent players like Thaddeus Young, Matt Barnes and/or Hedo Turkoglu. Not good.
POWER FORWARD:
- Andrei Kirilenko and Mehmet Okur are likely out Sunday, so Paul Millsap should get a little extra run which can make him worth his salary.
- Carl Landry is always a dependable option and he has a nice matchup against a Minnesota team that may be withouth starting PF, Kevin Love.
- Jeff Green is priced similarly to Landry and has a matchup with Utah. Green turned in a good game in his last one and could continue to streak.
- David West is another player who has been riding a hot streak. He’s a little on the expensive side, but I would recommend using him against Phoenix.
- LaMarcus Aldridge continues to be a little sluggish. He’s similarly priced to West and I think I’d definitely go with West.
- Higher up the pay scale you can find Amare Stoudemire. He’s got a matchup against New Orleans and he’s been playing really well. Probably a safe play if you have the salary cap.
CENTER:
- Robin Lopez is a low priced option, but he is such a tease. Predicting when he will actually have a good game is maddening. Do you feel lucky? I don’t.
- Emeka Okafor is mid-priced and has a good matchup against a Utah team who may be without Mehmet Okur.
