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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 24% of leagues
ANALYSIS: The Nets can finally rest assured they'll make the play-in portion of the season. Not quite what you expected when the season got rolling back in October, but at least more than what the Lakers would have accomplished a week from now. A win's a win's a win. Though Brooklyn can not goof around given their precarious situation even in qualification, the truth is that relying on Nicolas Claxton as Drummond's backup is surely working for the team and that should stay the same going forward.
Claxton was starting pretty much every game in the mid-Dec. to early-Feb. portion of the season but that changed after the ASB. Since Feb. 24 Claxton has only started one of the 17 games he's appeared in, but he's still found ways to keep producing numbers and the proof is in his extraordinary per-minute efficiency: from the ASB on Claxton is averaging 1.01 FP/min and in the past couple of weeks (six games played) he's raised that bar to an even better 1.11 figure (league average at 0.90).
You won't find tons of anything in Claxton's nightly stat lines, but you will find a little bit of everything baked into them. The shooting is sublime because Claxton doesn't know what "floor stretching" means when it comes to shooting, so you can count on an 80+ FG% every day. The points are often around 10 a pop, the rebounds reach 5+ easily nightly, and the dimes/steals/blocks are dropping at basically 1-1-1 per game too. Not the highest of upsides but a quite safe floor for the remainder of the season.
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