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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues
ANALYSIS: I'm here to celebrate the Wizards making it to the play-in this season. I guess the Russ haters out there will have to eat the L... The Wiz are pretty much locked into the mini-tourney and will face the Pacers in it, only it's yet to be known which seed each of those two squads will occupy. No matter what, I'm betting on Washington facing the winner of the 7th vs. 8th game after defeating Indy. Other than Russ and Bradley Beal, though, those games' outcomes will have something to do with Raul Neto. Yes, a guard. Starting every single game these days. You read that right.
The Wiz are deploying a small-ball, three-headed backcourt to close the year, and that's been the case since Neto started for the first time back in Apr. 19 and he's kept on doing since then. It's been 11 in a row, and that mark could go up to 15 straight if things stay the same ROS, which is nothing crazy to think about considering how good the Wiz have played of late (8-3 since they started to use that starting lineup). Neto is, obviously, taking on the smaller amount of possessions among the three guards (13% usage rate) but he's making the most of his chances.
Neto is playing around 28 MPG for the Wiz and he's putting up daily 12-3-3-1 lines. Nothing really remarkable, sure, but still nice for those of you looking for safe plays when it comes to playing time, surrounded by a can't-get-better set of teammates, and contributing rather high numbers in a scarce steals category with 1.4 SPG. Neto is hitting virtually all of his freebies (97% FT% on 2.3 FTA per game), doesn't turn the ball over that much (1.5 TO) and makes up for it with reasonably good AST (3.2 APG) numbers for his usage. Sneaky good addition ROS for those in true-deep leagues.
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