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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 28% of leagues
ANALYSIS: If Dennis Smith Jr. will get it right as a pro-player in the NBA, nobody truly knows. But he's at least getting another chance as part of a rebuilding Detroit Pistons franchise that traded for him a month ago and that is playing him as the starting point guard already. DSJ had logged seven consecutive starts leading up to the AS break, had averaged 27 MPG in his last five games, and he's putting up impressive numbers. That didn't happen Thursday in his first game after the break, but there are reasons to keep believing.
In the three games DSJ played for the Knicks this season and his first six as a Piston you would have perfectly recognized the DSJ of old judging by his stat lines. Since he became a starter and in the six games he's played 18+ minutes in Detroit, though, he's thrived. Smith is averaging a ridiculous 1.21 FP/min since Feb. 23, and if we remove his last outing from the equation--a revenge game against the Knicks on March 4--he'd be up to 1.32 FP/min in the remaining five games in that span. That is, simply put, insane.
Detroit has turned DSJ into an über-efficient player overnight. Smith is averaging 11 PPG, 4 RPG, 4.5+ APG, and 1.5+ SPG as a starter for the Pistons. He's shooting a reasonable 10 FGA, not going crazy about that facet of the game, and he's scored either one or two three-pointers in all of his last seven games before the break. Whether DSJ can keep it up or not ROS is yet to be seen, but he's quite the reclamation project and there aren't many places where he can finally get his stuff together as a rebuilding, no-pressure Detroit squad.
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