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ANALYSIS: The Spurs are my go-to team for efficiency, and their bench is full of usable efficient bundles of 15-20 minutes a game with occasional starts – from Marco Belinelli to Cory Joseph to Baynes.
Baynes has been gaining the trust of the coaching staff over the course of the year, as his minutes are trending upward and he receives periodic starts when Tim Duncan gets a day off. In two starts this year, Baynes has posted a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds, then another near double-double with 12 points and 9 rebounds. So those starts are nice if you can catch them.
In a deeper league where it does not matter if he has a few nothing games mixed in, Baynes is still an interesting and efficient regular starter. He has an excellent field-goal percentage of 59.4 and a respectable free-throw percentage at 76.0.
Baynes can be a nice day-to-day streamer in head-to-head format and a nice daily league bargain when Duncan is out. In a 16-team league, or a 12 or 14-team league with big rosters, Baynes should be a permanent piece of a roster for his efficiency alone.
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