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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 37% of leagues
ANALYSIS: One would reasonably think that a player seeing a playing-time boost such as that of Deni Avdija's this month would make said player drop his efficiency numbers. Well, not the case for the Wiz Wing by the looks of it. Avdija has stayed on the bench to start games and keeps coming off the pine nightly, but his minutes have gone from 20 in the first half of March to a bulky 28 MPG in the past 10 games while his production has also progressively increased. Nothing to hate here, folks.
Avdija's March started slowly with the second-year man averaging a measly 0.78 FP/min compared to the league's average of 0.90 FP/min. The second half, though, has seen him raise that bar to a more than palatable 0.97 figure that sits clearly above that aforementioned average. That's mostly possible because Avdija has been getting much higher usage rates (20.7% in the past 10 games) while hoisting more shots (10+ FGA) and hitting them at a 42% clip from the field including making 1.7 3PG a pop.
While Avdija doesn't get bonkers numbers in any particular category, he produces stats all across the board with a 13-6-3 average line to go with nearly a stock per game on top of that. Not bad. The turnovers are mightily high (last six games: 1, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2) so watch out for that cat if it hurts you in your league's format. Other than that, you can do much worse than rostering and starting Avdija ROS in deeper leagues.
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