Merry Christmas

O the weather outside is frightful.........

Man it's good to be back. Looking at my last post, I was pretty accurate about what to expect from my first semester of law school.....it was quite the experience, and I'm gonna remember the last 4 months (actually, exactly 4 months). It was full of causation, breach of duty, 12b6 motions, stiff-arming common law judges, running for SBA 1L election under a Sarah Palin platform, it was crazy. Really crazy. The winter break has been so much more enjoyable this year, though, cuz I know I worked so freakishly hard the last few months. The contrast between work and play is especially highlighted, I guess.

Anyway, lotta fantasy matters to attend to. I won one of my fantasy baseball leagues this year again, not gonna brag but it's becoming routine. My well-tailored strategy has proven useful for me year after year ( if you don't know it, see my previous posts, fools), and my predictions were mostly correct: Ryan Howard broke 45 HR's again, Grady Sizemore was a stud, and the Cubs won the World Series! (Ahem, that last one was a figment of my imagination, and I actually really prefoer NOT to talk about it, so let's drop it, shall we?)
Fantasy basketball is well under way, and I'm doing well. Did I mention I LOVE fantasy basketball? Probably my fav game, ESPECIALLY in roto leagues. You just gotta manage your team really well in roto, and every game counts, just like fantasy baseball. So pure, roto is, none of this, "get past the week and wipe the slate clean" stuff. If Shaq gets off to an 0-for-10 start from the line, do you get to wipe that slate clean? No, you SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES for playing him! Not to sound cruel, but it's true. Roto is why Dwight Howard is a monster in real life but a mediocre player in fantasy, is why 3-point specialists like peja or steve blake( this year) have value, and where 5X5 cats are born (a la Josh Smith)


Ok let's get to it. I LOVE kevin durant this season. This man is getting better and better every day, he's on possibly one of the worst basketball teams on earth right now but still proves to be a roto stud. Ever since the thunder (terrible name, btw, I woulda named them the "honky donkey's" or the "blustery butterballs" before I named them the thunder) changed coaches and changed KD's position to SF, he's been a beast. He scores 20 + nightly, gets the defensive stats (either stl's or blk's, you choose) and the percentages to boost ( I actually rely on his 85% FT% along with dirk on my team to steady that cat). Man's solid and will probably be at least a top-20 fantasy player by year's end and drafted in the early 2nd round next year. Lot of good things happening.

Just traded Rudy Gay and Baron Davis away for Jose Calderon and Al Horford and Peja Stojakovic. Didn't really need peja, was a throw-in and probably a drop after i get him. It doesn't look good on paper, and it goes against one of my principles of trying to get players drafted higher on draft day, but for my team it's healthy ( I like how I've adopted a nourishing mentality to my team as opposed to "you guys fuckin' suck!" The key to this trade is B-Diddy's ineptitude in roto. Like D12 in FT%, Davis absolutely KILLS ur FG%, especially this year (atrocious 36.9% from the field). Nothing else is really terrible, like the 2.5 TO's per and actually his FT% is dece this year at 78%, but that FG% is gonna hold me back like a cancer. Calderon, the Spanish Flea, on the other hand, is the anti-diddy in that he posts nice peripherals, limits turnovers, and isn't an injury risk. None of the sexy numbers like 1.8 stl's and 18 PPG, but calderon is like a caesar salad health-wise to Diddy's omelette (not gonna kill you, but causes high cholestrol) Al Horford is a double-double waiting to happen, but key is is his 52% FG and 1.7 Blk's. He's learned to become a shot-blocker this year alongside J-Smoove on the hawks, and he's only getting better.


Steve Blake: The air in the Pacific Northwest must be easier to travel through, cuz White Chocolate is just rainbowing 3's from down-town. Love him cuz he throws in other #'s (asts, pts) along w/ limited turnovers.

biggest disappointment you could've seen coming: Elton Brand. New team, coming off injury, just signed big contract.......I woulda avoided brand at all costs in this year's drafting considering he was going at #5 or 6. Every other first-rounder except the matrix has played to form.

Chauncey Billups is just a great real player, but his fantasy stats didn't suffer after getting moved to denver. He's just so solid.


Buy low on david west. That hornets team will be back in action soon and running on full cylinders, and in roto west's 49% FG and 85% FT are very attractive.

Shoulda sold high on Spencer Hawes. I didn't. Now, though, I feel like you should Stash him and buy low, cuz he's in a rut but will get more opportunity as soon as the kings get into "play-the-young guys-cuz-we're done" mode again. ( An annual occurence)


More to come. I promise. Got a lotta free time this winter break.


-Fantasize on,
Robert Yan