WWW - 2024 Pickle Report Week 15
Some big dills around the league this week:
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Scottie Barnes likely had an excellent fantasy output with a unique combination of steals, blocks and ft% whick putting together respectable points, boards and assists
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Naz Reid had a break-out week with a 90 point campaign featuring 16 3pts, 90 points, and 34 rebounds.
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Dyson Daniels has been improving his offensive output over the last few weeks during the Hawks latest injury outbreak. He's still producing elite steals, strong blocks for a guard and contributed 28 assists on the week.
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Michael Porter Jr. had an incredible 105 points this week shooting 58% from 3. He did this while managing to stay under 2 ast per game. Absolute legend.
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Pascal Siakam went a flawless 23/23 from the line and shot 53% from the field for 94 points on the week. While he has been seeing 3 fewer shot attempts per game that his recent tenure on the Raptors there has been a clear increase in his shooting efficiency.
Fresh off a 5 game week while contending with a number of key injuries the Houston Rockets managed a 1-4 record which is considerable improvement over last season. Leading the team in Assists, steals, blocks and turnovers while having the second highest points, rebounds and field goal percentage was Amen Thompson. He played 192 minutes last week, which is above 38 mins per game. Amen has been displaying XLNC in his growing role in Houston, showing tremendous growth across all 9 categories. Over the last 30 days he's been averaging 17 points which is considerable growth from his average of less than 10 last season. So for showing such amazing growth potential and no longer being A Minor, we here at picklytics are proud to declare him bread and butter pick of the week.
