WWW - 2025 Pickle Report Week 3
3 weeks into the new season and IL slots are already filled up making room for a new wave of waiver wire acquisitions, league winners and tragic stashes. Do you think you'll be able to ride out the next few weeks hoping for an early Tatum return, or does Paul George have enough left in the tank to be worth holding while we wait his return? You may be missing out on prime time to be stealing a win from a manager stuck with a handful of illnesses and day to day issues. As I am the last person you should look to for winning strategies lets take a look at some of the biggest dills this week.
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Derrick White has greatly exceeded expectations in the suddenly sparse Celtics lineup. Leading the league with 12 steals on the week he has established himself as the Celtics guard with the fewest hairline issues.
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Myles Turner has adapted well to life in Milwaukee, maintaining his unique stretch big contributions across all stats and pulling up a hot 3fg% of 47%
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Alex Sarr has shown up for the first time as a player of note which is probably the best news for Wizards fans since Bradley Beal waived his NTC. Sarr threw down a respectable 87 points along with 12 blocks and 26 rebounds.
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There are signs of life from Wussel Restbrook. That is to say, he shot 54% from 3 on 24 attempts. This 79 point week is the most he's had since January of this year and is so impressive I forgot to meantion he had 18 turnovers.
There is nothing about this player than hasn't already been said over his last half dozen pickles. But the mountain giant Nikola Jokic managed to leave fans slack-jawed as he bombed in 125 points and 53 assists while shooting 69% from the field. And while his 47% 3 point shooting is slightly behind last year around this time, he did end up top five in rebounds and contributed 8 steals. So we are happy once again to celebrate the cornerstone of pickle based analytics Nikola Jokić as the bread and butter pick of the week.
