The Daily Dose: Dose: Matty Barnes time in MEM

With 10 games on Monday night we’ve got a lot of information to cover, including a surprising Hill for the Pacers and more big games from Jon Leuer, Will Barton, Kent Bazemore, Matt Barnes and others. Some of these recaps aren’t too deep due to size constraints, but also because there wasn’t much fantasy news in some games. Follow me on Twitter by clicking here.

Pacers 106, Raptors 90 – C.J. Miles (who should be owned) had 17 points and five 3-pointers, Monta Ellis had 18 and Jordan Hill had season highs with 20 points and 13 boards in 31 minutes off the bench in the win. Ian Mahinmi disappeared with Hill’s big night and Paul George was quiet with 16 points on 5-of-13 shooting. George Hill also struggled, but had 14 points and eight boards in his previous game, so I still think he’s worth hanging onto. Jordan Hill is the guy who made noise for Indy tonight, but we’ll need to see him get 30-plus minutes a night in order for him to be trustworthy. Mahinmi’s been quiet in his last two games, so keep an eye on this position battle, especially since Hill was quiet in his two previous games, as well.

Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan each scored 20, and Terrence Ross was the only other Raptor to hit double figures with 10. He’s getting minutes, but hasn’t done much in three of his four games while filling in for DeMarre Carroll. Dump him for Matt Barnes if you can.  

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Magic 105, Nets 82 – Channing Frye (11 points, five boards, two steals, three 3-pointers) actually played well in another start, but so did Andrew Nicholson (6-of-9, two 3-pointers, 15 points, two steals), and Nicholson is still the guy whose arrow is trending up. Evan Fournier’s dry spell continued with three points on 1-of-6 shooting and he’s been pretty awful in four of his last five games. If you can’t take it anymore, drop him for a hot free agent. Tobias Harris played well through the flu, Nikola Vucevic scored 18 and Elfrid Payton had 17-5-5 and has quietly been playing very well. Victor Oladipo played just 20 minutes for 10 points, and I’m pretty sick of seeing him come off the bench. With Fournier looking like garbage right now, maybe Scott Skiles will consider flipping the two.

Jarrett Jack played very well for the Nets, Thaddeus Young double-doubled, and Brook Lopez (4-of-15, 11 points) and Joe Johnson (2-of-8, six points) struggled. Bojan Bogdanovic was at least serviceable with 10 points and two 3-pointers, but I need more, and the Nets bench was useless last night.

Clippers 105, Pistons 103 OT – Blake Griffin had a big line, J.J. Redick came through with 24 points and four 3-pointers, and Chris Paul double-doubled with 13 points and 12 dimes in the win. DeAndre Jordan had 14 rebounds and three blocks, and only missed two free throws. Jamal Crawford hit the 3-pointer of the game late and finished with 14 points, but Redick is the guy you want. Not much to learn from last night.

Andre Drummond (20 points, 15 boards, zero blocks) and Reggie Jackson (34 points, 11 boards, seven assists, two 3-pointers) were dominant, while Marcus Morris and Ersan Ilyasova both cooled off after a hot run with six points apiece, and Ghostface Ilya had a bad matchup with Griffin. I’m holding onto both of them. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 18 with a couple 3-pointers, while Aron Baynes added 10 points and six boards off the bench in 13 minutes. He’s played well in his last two games, but the minutes just aren’t there right now. KCP had 18 points and eight assists on Saturday, and appears to be heating up.

Heat 100, Hawks 88 – Bigs tend to play well against ATL and Chris Bosh (24 & 10), Luol Deng (18 & 9) and Hassan Whiteside (8 & 13, three blocks) all proved that point last night. Goran Dragic lost a tooth courtesy of an Al Horford elbow, but played through it and flirted with a triple-double, while Dwyane Wade was MIA with seven points on 3-of-16 shooting. I sense a day off coming for Wade, so keep your eyes open if you own him. Gerald Green stayed relevant despite the presence of Deng, and has scored in double digits in four straight games, and had 20 against the Hawks. He’s worth a look as long as he continues to get 30 minutes a game.

The Hawks have now lost three straight and while they didn’t look great in any of them, the losses came against the Heat, Spurs and Thunder. Things get easier on Wednesday against the Sixers. One of the news items of the night was that Kent Bazemore started over Thabo Sefolosha, and he then topped that news by scoring a career-high 28 points in 40 minutes with a steal, block and three 3-pointers. If Bazemore was dropped in your league, pick him up right now. Jeff Teague and Kyle Korver both made 2-of-12 shots, which ruined their owner’s nights, while Dennis Schroder played 26 minutes off the bench and scored 13 points with a fun fantasy line. We’ve seen this movie before and Teague is going to bounce back, while Schroder should return to irrelevance. Sefolosha played just nine minutes and I have no interest in owning him if he’s not starting. Period.

Bulls 115, Sixers 96 – Tony Snell had 16 points and 11 boards in another start, but that had to be a Sixers-induced fluke. He scored a total of two points in his previous three games with seven rebounds, so don’t pay attention to his big line last night. Taj Gibson started again, but had just six points, five boards, a steal and two blocks in 22 minutes. He’s probably worth holding in some leagues, but his last two games have been bad and Joakim Noah is coming on. Jimmy Butler played well, Derrick Rose was quiet, and Nikola Mirotic and Doug McDermott played well off the bench. It’s hard to read too much into this one against the Sixers, but McDermott hit a three and had eight boards, and Mirotic added five 3-pointers in just 19 minutes. I like the idea of holding Mirotic, but I don’t trust McBuckets. Noah had five points, 15 rebounds, eight assists, a steal and two blocks in just 22 minutes. It’s time to pick him up, as he’s been playing much better of late, averaging 10.2 rebounds, 4.8 assists, 1.0 steals and 1.8 blocks over his last five.

The Sixers got nice games out of Robert Covington and Jahlil Okafor, and they should both be owned across the board. Jerami Grant has cooled off, Isaiah Canaan is doing nothing with his minutes, and Tony Wroten started, but played just 18 minutes. I’m fine going to bed at night without owning any of them. Kendall Marshall, who I get a lot of questions about, was a DNP-CD as he just got a day off and I’m not really a Marshall guy, either. Right now, the only Sixers I’m interested in owning are Covington, Okafor and Nerlens Noel, who sat out with an eye injury. There are too many guards in Philly and timeshares are going to make all of them inconsistent, at least for now. Just keep an eye on Canaan, Wroten, Marshall, T.J. McConnell, Grant, Hollis Thompson and Nik Stauskas, who are all very unreliable right now. 

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