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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 7% of leagues
ANALYSIS: The Thunder--believe it or not--have found a gem in Aleksej Pokusevski. I know you're laughing at that, but it is the truth and you only have to read my WW-post about Poku this weekend to know more about it. Do you know what is true, also? Kenrich Williams being another top-notch addition by OKC via New Orleans. The Pelicans signed Kenrich a couple of seasons ago after he went undrafted, and the Thunder acquired him via trade last November in the deal involving Jrue Holiday. Quite a steal, that was.
Kenrich was already doing things in New Orleans, and in his two years there he played 85 games. Now part of the Thunder, he has 52 games this season alone and 10 starts on top of that: Williams started at all SG/SF/PF in a stretch from early to mid-February and is back in the starting unit these days, with three consecutive starts in the last three games playing 21, 34, and 31 minutes for OKC. Either coming off the bench or starting, Kenrich has been a rather nice asset IRL and in fantasy leagues. He's putting up an 11-5-3 average line since the break, and he's ramped up his efforts of late reaching an even better 10-6-4 since Mar. 31 when he started to play a more important role once more.
The growing pains were real for Williams in the first couple of months of the season, as he could only average a measly and below-average 0.74 FP/min before the All-Star, but he's been a completely different player since then putting up nightly 0.99 FP/min marks after that hiatus in his 16 games from that point on. Williams will give you 10+ points almost every day even on low usage, is a great rebounder, and comes to a rather nice upside in the dimes and steals categories for the forward positions he most often mans.
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