WWW - 2024 Pickle Report Week 5
All your favorite players are injured, and so is Embiid. With everyone mainly juggling IR slots it's been difficult to estimate the true power level of many teams.
Some updates around the league:
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Nikola Vučević is off to an amazing start after 18 gp. Averaging 20/10 with low volume 88% ft shooting and 58% fg shooting. This is a full 10% increase from last season which is surprising as he is hitting an extra 3 per game
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Giannis Antetokounmpo lead the league in points with 130, he also lead the league in turnovers and had a higher fg% than ft% while hitting the line 42 times this week.
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After struggling for the first couple weeks Brook Lopez hit 63% of his shots at half of Giannis volume which is good for 87 points. He also provided 9 Blocks, 11 3pm and 8 Steals on the week.
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Brandom Miller has been absolutely cooking, hitting 19 3s on the week and 7 Steals. If he could improve his free throw volume he would be providing 2nd round value.
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Tari Eason Lead the league in Steals this eek while playing less than 25 minutes per night and hit 10 of his 11 free throws while chipping in 36 rebounds. He's like Caruso without the assists.
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Playoff Wiggins is here, with 12 Threes leading a 99 point week, could this lead to a resurgence of the previously fringe player?
With the absence of the upcoming star there this weeks selection had been given much needed room to cook. Despite not leading in any particular category he was able to eek out high BIGDAWG scores in 3pm, points, assists, and steals. This combined with high volume shooting on acceptable volume makes for a multicat monster. For week 5 the Picklytics analytics network is proud to declair Franz Wagner the bread and butter pick of the week!
