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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 26% of leagues
ANALYSIS: While it is obvious that Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzings are the Mavs honchos, Dorian Finney-Smith has been doing the dirty work all season long (he's started every game) and that shouldn't change going forward. Even better Is the fact that DFS has improved as the year has grown older, going from a fantasy afterthought (0.63 FP/min before April) to a slightly efficient asset to have around in deep leagues (0.8 FP/min this month).
While DFS is not a league-winning player--far from it, mind you--he's still doing his thing, playing a ridiculous 35 MPG in April, and logging starts nightly. Obviously, on such a large dose of minutes, the efficiency is always going to hurt when paired with low usage rates (12%) closer to 10 percent than the expected 20. But those extended playing runs are helping DFS racking up counting stats.
Finney-Smith is averaging 10 PPG since the break, and 11 PPG in April. He's a constant three-point threat (he's hit at least one triple in every match from Mar. 29) averaging 2.5 3PG, and although he's not a master of the dime (just below 2 APG on the season) he knows how to not turn the ball over almost at all (0.6 TO per game on the year). DFS will give you his baseline 10 points a day, comes with a very high rebounding upside (7.5 RPG in April) and he's nearing the block-per-game this month at 0.9 from Apr. 2 on. Rather nice low-maintenance player for those in deep leagues with a clear path to keep logging huge minutes ROS and racking up stats if only on pure brute force.
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