HEY, IT’S FANTASY SPORTS GIRL SARENA WITH THE HOTTEST NEWS FROM THE ASSOCIATION. WE’RE CLOSING IN ON THE ALL-STAR GAME, SO LET’S MAKE A FEW WISE SELECTIONS OF OUR OWN IN THIS WEEK’S GUYS I’D LIKE TO PICK UP AND THE GUYS I’D LIKE TO DUMP.
WHEN MICHAEL REDD WENT DOWN, THE BUCKS NEEDED A SCORER AND CARLOS DELFINO HAS FILLED THE VOID. HE'S PUT UP EITHER 20 POINTS OR DOUBLE-DIGIT REBOUNDS OVER THE LAST FIVE GAMES. DRILLING DOWN A LITTLE MORE, HE’S AVERAGING 8 BOARDS, NEARLY 19 POINTS AND 4 THREE-BALLS OVER THAT RUN.
WITH 20 POINTS AND 14 BOARDS ON SATURDAY NIGHT, KENYON MARTIN REGISTERED HIS NINTH DOUBLE-DOUBLE IN THE LAST ELEVEN GAMES. AND YET, FOR SOME REASON, HE'S STILL AVAILABLE IN PLENTY OF LEAGUES. DON'T LET IT BE YOURS.
BROOK LOPEZ HAS ALREADY ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS A SOLID FANTASY PLAY, BUT NOW HIS TWIN IS MAKING WAVES. WHEN GENTRY SHOOK UP THE SUNS, ROBIN LOPEZ JOINED THE STARTING LINEUP AND HAS RESPONDED WITH 15.6 POINTS, 5.6 BOARDS, AND 73 PERCENT FROM THE FIELD OVER THE LAST FIVE GAMES.
ROBIN'S RISE HAS MEANT THE FALL OF CHANNING FRYE. AFTER A HOT START, THE BIG MAN HAS BEEN PUTTING UP VERY SMALL NUMBERS. SINCE HITTING THE BENCH, HE'S ONLY CRACKED 10 POINTS ONCE.
IT'S TOUGH TO COMPLAIN ABOUT A ROOKIE AVERAGING 13 POINTS AND 5 BOARDS, BUT OMRI CASSPI JUST ISN'T GETTING IT DONE THESE DAYS. LIKE FRYE, HE EXPLODED OUT OF THE GATES, BUT HIS LONG-RANGE STROKE HAS ABANDONED HIM IN 2010. HE HAS JUST ONE TREY IN THE LAST FIVE GAMES AND IS HITTING JUST 31 PERCENT IN JANUARY.
WITH ARENAS OUT, THE WIZARDS HAVE TRIED A COUPLE OF LINEUP EXPERIMENTS, BUT NONE OF THEM HAVE FAILED AS SPECTACULARLY AS NICK YOUNG. THE THIRD-YEAR MAN GOT A TWO-GAME RUN AS A STARTER, BUT HAS DELIVERED JUST 5 POINTS AND LESS THAN A DIME PER GAME IN THE LAST 8 GAMES.
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