Charles Jenkins is a guard for Hofstra, and he recently hit two huge shots against William & Mary. The first was to tie the game at the end of regulation, while the second was to win the game in overtime.
Jenkins is averaging 23.5 points per game and is currently projected to go in the second round by NBADraft.net and DraftExpress. Unfortunately, Hofstra is unlikely to make the NCAA tournament unless they find a way to win the Colonial Conference Tournament.
In the world of fantasy football, we’re neck deep in no man’s land. The playoffs are over, the draft is still something fuzzy off in the distance, and there’s a rain cloud over our heads in the form of the ongoing NFL labor negotiations. But this is a great time to examine some of the traditional and non-traditional fantasy football strategies and tweak them for use in the future.
One such strategy is Quarterback By Committee (QBBC). For the neophyte, this strategy encourages the fantasy owner to wait to draft a QB on draft day until such time that he can grab two or three solid players in the mid to late rounds. In standard 12-team leagues, this usually means somewhere in the 8th to 14th rounds. If you can find two or three players whose schedules compliment each other, you can sometimes get QB5-type production at a deep discount.
Every preseason, I write a QBBC article that recommends a few combinations to fantasy owners. For the 2010 season, my top recommendation was Eli Manning and Ben Roethlisberger. Eli finished #7 in total fantasy points, while Roethlisberger finished #7 in average fantasy points even though he was suspended for the first four games. During the preseason, Eli was going in the 8th round, while Big Ben was going in the 11th, so owners who went with this duo got great production at QB on the cheap. This approach allows for owners to load up on talent at RB, WR and even TE knowing that they’ll be at least “okay” at QB.
I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the historical fantasy data for the QB position for the last 10 years and see if we can learn anything from it. Below you’ll find a graph that shows the total fantasy points by the Top 32 QBs as well as data for the Top 10 fantasy QBs and Next 10 (QBs #11-#20).
Kevin Love, who suffered a shoulder injury on Wednesday, had 18 points, 18 rebounds and zero 3-pointers for his 42nd straight double-double, and 51st before the All-Star break, setting an NBA record.
George Mikan had 50 double-doubles before the break in 1950, but Love snapped that record tonight.
For those of you who have pretty much ignored the T-Wolves this year, Love is having an outstanding season, averaging 21.1 points and 15.5 rebounds, and is shooting 43% from long range. He was named to the All-Star Game as an alternate.
The T-Wolves have their sidekick. Now they need to find a perimeter superstar who can shoot the lights out and/or create his own shot. They had two picks in the top 6 back in 2009, but passed on Stephen Curry, Brandon Jennings and DeMar DeRozan (who is averaging 16.4 ppg for the Raptors), and instead came out of the draft with Ricky Rubio and Jonny Flynn. Curry looks like a star, while Jennings and DeRozan have shown flashes of that kind of potential.
Now it appears that the T-Wolves may trade a first-round pick for Anthony Randolph, who can’t get off the bench for the Knicks. A mid to late first-rounder would be fair, but if the T-Wolves end up trading away their first-rounder (which project to be in the upper lottery) it will be a steep price to pay for a guy who hasn’t made much progress in neither Golden State nor New York. Don’t forget, they owe a first-rounder to the Clippers to finish the dreadful Marko Jaric trade. That pick is top 10 protected in 2011 but is unprotected starting in 2012.
Chris Broussard of ESPN is reporting that the New Jersey Nets and Denver Nuggets have reignited the Carmelo Anthony trade talks.
While Anthony would prefer playing in New York, sources say he has grown frustrated with the Knicks’ inability to pull off the trade, especially when reports out of New York suggest the Knicks are hesitant to exchange a collection of role players for him.
Sources close to Anthony have long said he would be willing to go to New York as a free agent this summer and thereby risk losing tens of millions of dollars under a new collective bargaining agreement, but as the trade deadline has drawn near, Anthony’s willingness to leave that type of money on the table has seemed to wane. That’s what New Jersey is banking on.
At the very least, New Jersey’s re-entry into trade discussions would seem to drive up the price for the Knicks. Denver likes Wilson Chandler, Danilo Gallinari, Landry Fields and Timofey Mozgov and wants two, if not three, of those players in a deal, as well as point guard Raymond Felton in exchange for Chauncey Billups. Any deal between the Knicks and Nuggets is also likely to include a first-round pick from Minnesota that the Timberwolves would give up in exchange for New York’s Anthony Randolph. But the Knicks are reluctant to part with two, much less three, rotation players.
Knicks owner James Dolan, however, badly wants to acquire Anthony before the Feb. 24 trade deadline, and sources say he has been pushing team president Donnie Walsh to get a deal done. Walsh and head coach Mike D’Antoni do not want to decimate their roster to get Anthony, especially since they’ve been confident that Anthony would sign with New York as a free agent this summer. But now that New Jersey is back in the mix, the Knicks’ leverage has declined.
This could turn out to be a savvy move by Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov. He felt like his team was getting played by the Nuggets and/or Carmelo, and he ordered management to back off. Now that the trade deadline is quickly approaching, he sees that the Knicks may get Anthony for nearly nothing, and by reentering trade talks, at the very least he should be able to drive the price up on any forthcoming Knicks/Nuggets trade, hurting the rival Knicks long term. The best case scenario is that he acquires Carmelo and convinces him to sign that much-ballyhooed three-year extension worth $65 million.
As for Carmelo’s frustration that the Knicks haven’t already gotten a deal done, Donnie Walsh and Mike D’Antoni only want to ensure that there’s a supporting cast present once New York’s new star finally walks into the Knicks’ locker room. Most stars wouldn’t want to be traded to a team that is decimated by the trade, but I think at this point Carmelo just wants to play in New York, supporting cast be damned.
In the end, New Jersey definitely has more to offer, but it’s not clear how willing Carmelo is to play for the Nets long term. Without that commitment in place, the Nets are unlikely to move forward since there’s no point in renting Anthony for a playoff run. The Nets may have more to offer, but no deal will get done without Anthony’s three-year commitment.
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