It takes more than a part-time effort to snatch a pickle. This is the first consideration in the picklytics selection process. Part scheduling and part soreness, the clear top fantasy producer of the season has been unable to string together a full weeks work to get proper consideration. Until last week's 4 game performance.

AD rang in december with a 44 and 55 point performance, on over 3 blocks per game!!! The brow has been carrying the Lakers to wins in 8 of 10 of their last games.

It is this dedication and tenacity that leads Anthony Davis to be the week 7 bread and butter Pick of the week.

Drafting SGA in the 4th round must have felt like finding $50 on the sidewalk. Shai continues his ball dominant performance on the otherwise middling Thunder roster. It appears to be just another day at the office for Shai, punching in another 30ppg performance with solid counting stats. We are beginning to see some regression from his peak performance as his fg% has been hampered by a .1673P% over the past week. But it appears none of the Old heads can stay on the court long enough to knock him from his throne.

While he has been snubbed for inclusion in Hero X Ball thus far, Pickalytics pays tribute to the Oklahoma Manhandler, as the seasons first two time bread and butter "pick" of the week.

The pickle of the enemy is moving. This Christmas the journey ends. There can be no triumph without loss.

This was basically the tagline for the 2003 adaptation for Return of the King, the final book of The Lord of the rings saga and it is strangely fitting. The battle hardened Warriors have struggled to start the year, but their leader has been shouldering the load and putting forward a number of pickle-worthy campaigns. After 5 weeks Steph's consistancy has finally been rewarded as his weekly performance has actually been down from his season average.

While it seems that his performance comes with a much better guarantee than his endorsements, we are delighted to announce Wardell Stephen Currey as the Week 5 bread and butter pick of the week.

Embiid comes out of nowhere to swat that pickle from SGAs hands at the last minute.
Embiid posted a simply silly performance yesterday night, where he dropped 59 points with 7 blocks with 19/28 shot attempts. This combined with 20/24 gave us just the silliest fantasy performance of the season. Embiid is seeing an uptick in usage due to injuries to James Harden and a string of weaker 3 point shooting from Tyrese Maxey.
While cutting through the Utah front court of Markkanen, Vanderbuilt, Olynyk and Walker Kesler while dishing out hot feeds, it was impossible to distinguish the big man from a season Mary Brown's Delivery Driver.

So topping off a solid week with a full on family feast, we are happy to declare Joel Embiid the bread and butter pick of the week.

A Nets Timeline:

• Durant requested a trade early in the off-season, and the organization began trying to trade fellow superstar Kyrie Irving
• The season started with Durant and Irving on the roster
• Ben Simmonds failed to crack 10 points in a single game before missing the next several due to injury
• After Starting 2-5 Coach Steve Nash was fired and replaced with Former Celtics Coach Ime Udoka currently facing a 1 year suspension
• Hélà (Irving) was then issued a minimum 5 game suspension following pressure from the league and the Anti-defamation league for perceived Antisemitism

While the rest of the world was dealing with all these distractions, Durant thrived with a lack of detractors... from his box score. Durant has been on a blistering campaign all season, first by setting an ongoing franchise record for consecutive made free throws (32/32), bombing out 123 points, 35 rebounds, 26 Assists and an uncharacteristic 2 blocks per game. Averaging over 30 ppg, Durant appears to be the only thing between the Nets and the abyss. Durant is no longer a rider, he is driving the Brooklyn bus right into the ground.

There seems to be little threat to KD's usage, so we could likely see many nods du cornichon in his future. So much to the delight of the Chaos Gods, Kevin Durant is the week three bread and butter "pick" of the week.

When Shai missed the preseason with an MCL, expectations were already being tempered for his 2022-2023 campaign. Having missed significant time over the last 2 seasons and with OKC managements commitment to winning this season being questioned, there were doubts around if SGA would actually play enough games to be worth an early draft pick.

Well this week Shai came and rewarded his believers, and being picked 46th is the 2nd lowest a future pickle player has ever been drafted. SGA averaged 31 points a game on 50% and a flawless 18/18 onfree throws. The stats were there across the board with a spicy 23 rebounds, 16 dimes, 8 steals, and 4 blocks in 3 games. This was rounded out with a modest but acceptable 4 three pointers and 8 Turnovers. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the second bread and butter "pick" of the week.

The big question for Tatum this year is can he unbottle that mamba mentality. Well this year he's tapped into the pickle mentality.

Showcasing a blistering 21 field goal attempts per game and 34 points with solid efficiency while leading the team in blocks, Jayson was able to triumph over one of last year's top pickle producers in Wardell Curry. Could Tatum be right is it a wings league this season.

Jayson Tatum is this seasons inaugural bread and butter "pick" of the week