Homan League: Week in Review 12/15 - 12/21

Brett Davis, USA TODAY Sports

A review of action in the fantasy basketball league dubbed "Homan League".   May include free agent pick-ups, trades, DNP's because someone forgot to set their lineup for the early morning Pacific time game.  Also other shenanigans worth mentioning in the league.  All opinions are exactly that, opinions. So don't take them too personally, and they are mostly mine.

Happy week before Christmas, everybody.  We're about a third of the way through with the NBA season but there's plenty of basketball to still played including the ten game lineup on Christmas day this next week.

In our league, the match-up between the 2nd place team, Swagger, and 3rd place team, Adam Silver, was won by Ray's higher ranked team 7-3.

Looks like a big win for Sasquatch over current 4th place team, S7venbyVII, because of the big week from JJ's game-winning basket-making guards, Kemba Walker and Damian Lillard.  That means my team, Just Jrue It, is that much closer to making a move into the Top Four!

In the mismatch of the week, first-place Clipper Nation played the second to last Mark Cuban team and for most of the week it looked like it was going to be a 6-4 or 5-5 split.  That is up until the weekend and Jon's team pulled away with big games from Thad Young, Kevin Love, and two awesome games from Russell Westbrook.

In 9th and 12th place, Ryan's kobeking team and Jae's Dazzling Suad split the week's matchup 5-5 so neither team looks like they'll be climbing out of that Bottom Four group.

A heads up to Boston Celtics owners cause in week 10 the guys in green are only playing one game and thus won't be much help if you're counting on them for fantasy stats.

Steph Curry is scoring more and dishing out more assists than Derrick Rose did in his MVP season.  However, with the Warriors in a bit of a funk losing 4 out of 6, there isn't much mention of Curry as an MVP candidate even though he's averaged 4 threes and 3 more points than his season average in this past week.  (TEAM: Mark Cuban)

For the season, Al Horford's points are up but boards are down when compared to previous years. Horford had a great game on Wednesday against the Kings with 25 10 and 5 along with 4 blocks.  For the week, Horford is shooting 66% from the field which may seem like an anomaly, but also keep in mind for the season hes at 56% so Horford could easily continue this trend in rising in fantasy value.

Along with his late game heroics, Damian Lillard is also averaging 28 points this week with basically 5 threes a game.  For the week, Lillard was also dishing out two more assists than his season average and close to two steals a game (TEAM: Sasquatch).

A really stellar week for Demarcus Cousins as he topped 26 points four out of five games including a 17 rebound game and averaged about 5 assists.  He's also leading the league in technical fouls so I guess you can say Cousins is having a pretty busy year.

Stock Rising:
Miles Plumlee had his best game in a while grabbing 13 boards to go with 13 points and 2 steals and 2 blocks on Thursday.  He followed those games up with rebound efforts of 12 and 8 on Saturday and Sunday, so he's becoming more dependable of an option. (TEAM: Clipper Nation)

Xavier Henry: Very smart of Oliver to pick Henry since the Lakers are supremely short-handed at the guard positions.  Also, since the Rockets have closed communications regarding trading Omer Asik, dropping Asik was the best decision at this point unless he wanted to keep gettin a gooseegg from the Turkish big man. (TEAM: League Champion)

Giannis Antetokounmpo:  This one is a bias pick cause I personally wanted to pick him up but Ryan beat me to it.  Giannis has had decent rebounding numbers since his re-introduction to the main rotation but his production should increase as he adjusts to the increased minutes since physically he has all the skills to be a high impact player for the Bucks. (TEAM: kobeking)

C'mon maaaaan:
Forgot to play Trevor Ariza for Saturday's early game so I didn't get nuffin' to help my team when Trevor decided to score 27 and knock down 5 threes.  bah humbug. (TEAM: Just Jrue It)

Tough week of DNP's for Gabe's team as Kirk Hinrich, Jordan Farmar, and Tony Parker all missed games.  Also, along with Derrick Rose, another all-star is going to be in our league's free agency pool since Nets center, Brook Lopez, is out for the season with his foot injury.  Good thing Andrew Bogut has all of a sudden decided he must grab every rebound cause Gabe's going to need to be creative with replacing Lopez' production in his lineup. (TEAM: Adam Silver)