Who's That Dude?

Tip of the Week: Have you ever noticed that trades tend to come in bunches? Pay attention, next time you see a name like Wade, Durant, or Nowitzki dealt in your league, invariably within the next 24 hours two other owners will pull the trigger on a smaller trade. It is as if a big trade opens the flood gates and gives license to the rest of the league to make their own moves. So let’s take advantage of one of the easily manipulated owners in your league (you know who they are, and if you don’t, look in the mirror buddy). Say you’ve been working on trading for David Lee but you can’t get the other guy to pull the trigger. Wait for the next trade to go through, and then offer to add one of your bench guys with “upside” to the mix, if you do it right a lot of the time you can seal the deal with a player you recently picked up off the waiver wire.

Here are some buy-low guys that you should be trying this move on

Nene- A minor groin injury and a couple bad games don’t scare me much, but they do scare the trigger happy owner that already feels like he wasted a pick on the sometimes injury prone center. Make your move now; his price will only get higher.

Steve Nash- Even if Nash can’t repeat last year’s numbers, he is definitely going to average more than the 7.2 assists per game he is currently putting up.

And here are some actual sleepers, including the random dude I chose as the cover man for this post

Tony Douglas- He is a true “Late Round Sleeper” that meets all our qualifications.

1) No one has heard of the dude.

2) He plays for the Knicks or Warriors (fantasy sleeper goldmines).

3) He’s getting minutes

Douglas is averaging 22 ppg over the last three games and filling up the stat sheet across the board, he is only owned in 20% of ESPN leagues, but there isn’t a hotter pick up out there right now so get him while you can.

Kyle Lowry- I’m not a big fan of the dude but Aaron Brooks just went down for 4-6 weeks with a high ankle sprain so grab him while he’s available.