Rudy Gobert - UTA - C

@rybing99 You are overthinking it. If the only cats he can come back in are blocks (down 8) and turnovers (up 5), then you have nothing to worry about. Just play gobert and maybe one other big and sit the rest of your players that way you hold blocks and auto hold turnovers. this is assuming you are correct that he cannot come back in any other cats

At full health SAS is a very difficult matchup for bigs, even a big as good as Gobert. This is the last day of my championship week and I am up 5-4. The only categories my opponent has any chance of taking from me are blocks(I'm up 8) or turnovers(I'm up 5). Unfortunately for me almost all of my bigs play before my opponent's do. Clearly if I fall behind in turnovers he will simply sit everyone and beat me 5-4. No other category is in play. My question is with Aldridge out, how big of an impact is that, if any, regarding Gorbet's projected blocks/turnovers?

Whiteside's FT was much better than Gobert as of late tho

Do players like Gobert and Whiteside essentially force you to punt ft%? Their impact is not as bad as jordan and drummond but they take away any ft% advantage you have if you have players like lillard or derozan.

Total beast. These last couple of weeks in fantasy crunch time have been unreal.

no results on the MRI from the weekend, can there be something here where we may need to lock on to Jeff Whithey ?

Take the trade 100% for the pure value of it, not sure Markieff can sustain his production and who knows whats happening to Brook (rest, shut-down, trade?). Tyler Johnson is still shaking the rust off but he's locked in to being a top 100 player if not better ROS. Even after that trade you can probably stream 3s and stay competitive in the category.

Someone in my league (14 teams, h2h 9cat) just suggested me Gobert and Tyler Johnson for Brook Lopez and Markief. If I'll agree I'll punt 3's. Go for it (UP) or stay put (Down)?

The Jazz have really done a great job with getting him mins and involved on the offensive side. Great breakout year for Goebert. I think projection needs to be adjusted for FGA to 6.5 as he is getting plays called slightly more frequent this season.

Rudy Gobert (UP), Gallinari & Valanciunas (DOWN)

If I'm not mistaken in the per-36 stat lines is assuming all players are playing 36 min. So a player that is playing close to 36 min as is will not get the same bump that an efficient player playing in the teens would get and likely will drop in the rankings below the aforementioned efficient player.

Can you explain why the per-36 statline are differ from the per-game statline? The data for per-36 sugguest a much higher rank than 102? What is the logic behind it?

He has been updated regularly, and he's not far off from his current season stats. He's been on fire lately, with an 82% FG% the last two weeks which boosts his recent value. We have him at 61.9%, and he was 55.9% last season.

I think his recent play suggests he should get a bump in projections. He has been well out playing his projection for a solid 2 weeks

Is his improved FT% sustainable?

hey Mark...yeah hes rolling right now...love to see him continue it when favors/hill are back in lineup.

Benrv21....is this what you had in mind. 15/14/3.5 over the last 2 weeks

man i know the whole team is injured but wondering if this is giving him the chance to have more scoring opportunities going foward...would be nice to see closer to 12-13ppg

seanmcfadden - Thanks for the nudge. We'll take a look at it.

Have to bump his FT% to at least 65% if not higher

pts/rebs would come down but i think he could avg 3 blks...over last 2 weeks hes at 3.3

I don't think it's unreasonable to think his pts rate comes down when favors returns and that his %s regress a little. He's a sell high right now

Struggling to understand this projection as well,, the low fg% especially. He looks like the DOPY out there, putting up massive lines in the middle. I can't see Favors return having this much an impact.

Why is he ranked so low considering his performance so far?

tough night for the big guy. hoping he picks up his scoring as well.

I think he will shoot better than 56% this year, so yes improved over last year. But it's hard to see him leap all the way to 70%

Anyone buying his FT improvement? even 70% would probably launch him top 30 in 8 cat.

any bump in Blake's 3 pt shooting?

He did also improve his FT% in EuroBasket last year and then reverted back to terribleness when the NBA season rolled around, so I am looking at it, but I'm holding off adjusting it just yet. But, when you draft, if you fully believe it has been rectified, consider that in your selection.

Preseason shouldn't change the improved FT%.

Agreed, I think the full on break-out may have just been delayed a season due to injury and NBA coaching staffs adjusting to him last year. Looks great so far, but small asterisk due to preseason.

Rudy's FT form looked much improved on Monday before he missed 3 in a row to finish 4/7 and doing great tonight hitting all 10 FTs in the first half. Hopefully he can turn it around after regressing last year.