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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 50% of leagues
ANALYSIS: We have to thank Davis Bertans for proving how a contract year can definitely make one perform to higher-than-high levels of play in the NBA. That's what happened with Bertans last season when he had a year for the ages to re-ink his deal with the Wiz... and proceed to be a little bit underwhelming in 2021. Bertans shooting has gone down from last year's mighty 43/42/85 to 40/39/86 shooting splits, and it's showing. Bertans' role has also diminished a bit, which is also causing his numbers to be lower than those of 2020, but he is much better these days than he was to kick the year off, so there's that.
If you look at Bertans' numbers through the first two months of the season you'd want to have zero shares of him in your teams and leagues. The shooting was horrid at 36% from the floor and the only thing saving him were his treys, 2.9 3PG, although he wasn't doing much more than that. In the games since Feb. 22, though, Bertans kind of righted his wrongs and in the 14 games he's played since then he's hitting a much higher 50% of the field goals he takes while even raising up a tick his three-point marks at almost 3 3PG.
Bertans is what Bertans is: a three-point sniper with scoring upside and little more. The turnovers are always low, but so are the assists (0.6 TOs to 0.9 APG), and other than some rebounds here and there (2.3+ RPG on the season, 3.2+ in April) he won't hand you many more goodies. If you're hurting for long-rangers, he is your man, but again, keep in mind what he is and what he definitely is not. The rostership is quite high because fantasy GMs keep believing, but I'd say Bertans is more of a true deep-league asset than anything else.
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