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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 20% of leagues
ANALYSIS: Not a single game. Not a single one has KCP missed this season when it comes to being part of the Wiz Kiz starting lineup, manning the SF slot 19 times already to kick the year off. Quarter of a season in the books, by the way. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was part of the package sent by LA to DC as part of the Russell Westbrook trade and, all things considered, kudos to the Capital Wizards for winning the deal. LOL.
KCP isn't just starting games, but actually logging heavy minutes currently sitting at 30 MPG through Friday's game against the Thunder. Caldwell-Pope is probably never going to command more than Friday's 24.4% usage rate (a season-high) as he only has three games above 20% on the full season to date. Looking back at games played from Nov. 18 on (five of them), KCP has been able to shoot a more than respectable 46.9% from the floor on a reasonably healthy diet of 9 FGA. KCP is also hitting freebies at a fantastic 83% clip on the season and an even better 87.5% in the past five games.
Kentavious will give his fantasy GMs plenty of triples (2+ in five games straight; an average of 2.1 3PM per game on the season) while adding his fair share of rebounds (3.7 RPG). Not a lot of upside when it comes to dishing out dimes, which is even worse considering he's turning the ball over 1.1 times per game (against 1.5 APG), but high stealing numbers at a 1.4 SPG mark that only 19 players (min. 15 GP and an average 30 MPG) are currently keeping up nightly--all of them logging 31+ MPG compared to KCP 29.6).
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