2 posts tagged with "s3_pick8"

Some big dills around the league this week:

• Zach LaVine led the league in scoring with 135 points on the week, he's been carrying the Bulls offense averaging 28.7 pts over the last 30 days

• Anthony Edwards managed to put his best showing of the season, dropping 17 3 pointers and 105 points.

• Bam Adebayo seems to be finding some rhythm in his game, he attempted 10 3s this week and led the league in steals, however he's been showing an uncharacteristic Ben Simmonds level of Free throw shooting.

• Anfernee Simons attempted 43 shots from deep and hit over half of them. Questionably he also managed to only draw a single free throw in 77 shot attempts.

PG

629

Devin Booker

Volume

Efficiency

FG

FT

3PT13

PTS133

REB23

AST44

STL8

BLK0

TOV12

This week we have another first time pickle grabber. Despite being the top 2nd round pick for the last 4 seasons running, he has never been able to truly elevate above his peers. He did achieve lesser accolades such as an appearance on the cover of NBA 24. Devin Booker was a monster on the ball this week. Attempting a shocking 102 shot attempts and leading the league combined with 44 assists, he came second in league scoring with 133 points. No Blocks? No problem when you are hitting 13 4s and being in the top 20% for steals. We are glad to elevate Devin Booker to join the esteemed ranks of the bread and butter pick of the week.

With great jubilation we would like congratulate Doc Rivers and the Bucks on winning the 2nd nba cup. This is the 3rd award Doc has received aside from his 2008 championship with the celtics and coach of the year in 2000. For the first time in 12 years he was able to close out 3 series in a season.

• Sabonis has been cleaning up on the glass this week, with a rocking 66 boards, he's even got a scatter 3 falling. Lets hope his free throw shooting woes are just a Christmas anomaly.

• Jamal Murray is begging to show signs of life, despite having trouble getting his shot to fall, he's been a cross category contributor and the return of Aaron Gordon can only be good for him.

• Norman Powell is shooting the lights out from 3 shooting 46%. The clippers have been sorely lacking a number 2 option with Kawhi banished to the shadow realm. Hopefully we can see another couple weeks of this level of production before big changes to the clippers roster.

• With the offensive titan Dennis Schröder out of the way in Brooklyn Cameron Johnson has been taking a much more active role, he's been shooting 81% from the line on 7 attempts per game and throwing up an average of 23/5/5

PG

517

De'Aaron Fox

Volume

Efficiency

FG

FT

3PT9

PTS109

REB18

AST26

STL5

BLK1

TOV13

The Sacramento Kings players came into this week with an advantage due to being the only team fielding a four game week. It was no surprise that they had 3 players in the top 3. But this week we had a triple threat scorer who lead the league in points and went 26/29 from the free throw line. This combined with contributing across assists, steals, 3s and a little bit of holiday allowed De'Aaron Fox just just squeeze past Sabonis 66 rebounds on his way to becoming the week 8 Bread and Butter Pick of the Week!