Patrick Beverley (PG/SG, MIN): Week 22 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 37% of leagues

ANALYSIS: I'm writing this a couple of hours after Minny's game against Milly last Saturday. If you paid attention, you already know. If you didn't, let me tell you. Basically, Patrick Beverley PatBerveley'd his way to the bench early pushing Serge Ibaka from the back with just 10 minutes played. That's Pat for you: a dog like none. Now seriously, and although that surely wasn't a good look, the truth is that the action was not anything remarkably aggressive or hurting, so it's not that he will get a 20-game ban or something.

Beverly, focusing on his game and not his antics, has been an incredible addition to Minnesota's crop of youngsters. Bevs has started every single game since the start of November next to D'Lo in the Wolves backcourt and he's been fantastic, much better than expected. In fact, this season Bevs is putting up numbers that are besting his career averages almost all across the board, or at least on par with them. If you don't believe that, Pat is currently averaging a solid 9-4-5-1-1 over the 2022 season while his career line prior to this campaign reads 9-4-3-1. Oh, and he's doing all of that playing 25 MPG, two fewer ticks than his career mark.

Bevs is not shooting a ton of shots these days, nor is he excelling at hitting the few he takes. That said, he's only tasked with bombing treys away, so the low percentages make sense more often than not. He got out of a late-February/early-March slump in the past four games shooting 59% from the field on 24 total FGA. The rebounds and the dimes aren't anything otherworldly, but steady. What you can get from Pat are incredible stealing (1.0 SPG since the ASB) and blocking (0.9) numbers coming from a point-guard, though.

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