Where The Big Fundamental Plays Beas[t]ley

Tim Duncan (34 points on 14-22 shooting, 6-7 from the line, 14 rebounds, an assist, 3 blocks, and only 1 turnover) failed to carry his team to victory at Phoenix against Steve Nash (25 points on 11-20 shooting, a trey, 2-2 free throws, 3 boards, 13 assists, and a steal) and Amare Stoudemire (28 points on 12-21 shooting, 14 boards , and 3 steals), but he was victorious in earning the best line of the night. San Antonio is notorious for being a strong defensive team, but for some reason, Stoudemire always plays very well against Timmy and Co.

Where Deron Williams Is The Best Point Guard In The NBA

Deron Williams (38 points on 11-20 shooting, 2 treys, 14-18 free throws [that's a lot of attempts], 3 boards, 13 assists, 2 steals, and only 1 turnover) and the Jazz (14-9 [before tonight], and on a roll [with their latest victory over the mighty Lakers]) lost to the lowly Timberwolves (3-21 [before tonight], but looking really good with Kevin Love [11 and 14] back) tonight. Rookie Jonny Flynn made the game winning lay-up and scored a career high 28 points on 11-19 shooting, including 4-6 from downtown. Williams had a chance to tie it at the buzzer, but he missed (unfortunately, too,  because I love overtimes [What fantasy manager in the right mind doesn't love an extra 5 minutes to pad up the stat sheet?]). But I don't think Deron's owners care about the Jazz's embarrassing loss (at home, too!) as much as they care about his fantastic line.

Where LeBron Is Louder Than Thunder

LeBron James continues to dazzle with phenomenal performances (44 points on 16-29 shooting, 5-8 treys, 7-10 from the line, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals, a block, and only 1 turnover). He out-dueled the other superstar small  forward in this game, Kevin Durant (29 points on 9-19 shooting, 2-6 treys, 9-10 from the stripe, 5 boards, 2 assists, 4 steals, a block, but 7 turnovers [really the only flaw to KD's otherwise solid fantasy line]). It's not that Durant's line is bad. Shoot, if any of my players played the way Durant played, I'd be ecstatic. (My players are terrible!) It's always helpful to have a LBJ or KD anchor a fantasy team, really. They contribute positively in practically every single category, except turnovers. I really can go on and on about how great they are, but I'd just be depressing myself.

Where The Lakers Will Have To Settle For 78-4.

Troy Murphy lit up the Wizards to the tune of 28 points on 10-18 shooting, 2-6 from long range and 6-6 from the line, 12 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 steals and 2 turnovers. The Pacers won that game due to Gilbert Arenas' (22, 10 and 11, his first triple-double of the year) missed free throws, but who cares about a meaningless regular season game between Washington and Indiana? It's not like either of those teams will challenge the Lakers for the championship, right? I only tune in to these games for their fantasy implications. (I love watching games go to overtime [several overtime games tonight! Yay!] so my players can pad their stats, but I'll take what I can from Murphy).

Where LeBron James Is King

LeBron James posted a pedestrian line of 33 points on 14-24 shooting, 1-2 treys, 4-6 from the line, 7 rebounds, 7 assists, a steal, 2 blocks, and 4 turnovers. And when I say pedestrian, I mean pedestrian to LeBron James. He really didn't do anything that overwhelming. He contributed in every single category (except FT and TO, but you take the good [really really good] with the bad [not that bad]) Actually, he's so good that when posts lines like these (you know if any of your other players did it, you'd be jumping up and down with joy), nobody really notices since he seems to do it all the time. I mean, you've seen him play, right? He takes 4 to 5 steps without dribbling towards the rim and finishes with a thunderous dunk. No wonder he scores as much as he does and as efficiently as he does. He's probably one of the most athletic athletes the history of sports has ever seen so it shouldn't be a problem for him to chase down at least 7 missed shots and 1 loose ball in a game. He has the ball in his hands so much and multiple defenders guard him at the same time, so it shouldn't be that difficult to find an open teammate for a high percentage shot at least 7 times in a game. Pretty easy, right?

Where Deron Williams > Chris Paul

Okay, I know that CP3 is by far the superior fantasy basketball player. He puts up better stats, simply put. He shoots at a high percentage, gets lots of boards for a small guard and is always near the top of the leader board in the assists category. He steals the ball a ton, too. (I think he broke a record last year for most consecutive games with at least one steal.)

But Deron Williams is not that far behind, especially when he posts lines like these: 9-18 FG, 2 treys, 12-15 FT, 8 boards, 15 assists, a steal, 32 points, and only 1 turnover. That's extremely efficient. Not only are those stats amazing, but he also led his team to a comeback victory against the defending Eastern Conference Champs, the Orlando Magic.

Okay, I'm Ready To Go

So I haven't really posted anything substantial in the first quarter of the season, and I know that I'm really behind. (It's just that I've been busy with school, as it is my last quarter of being a full-time student. Now that I'm done with school, I have plenty of free time to blog as much as I want when I'm not busy with work or whatever I have going on for me [It's not much]).

So I decided I'm going to make up for my lack of posts by writing an entry every single day for the rest of the season, as long as there's a game. (I really don't know what fantasy-related news I can come up with the day before and the day after the All-Star game). But you never know. I have no life. Actually, "one has only a life of one's own."