Week 1 Observations

• Arctic off to a rough start. Having Harden shoot 24% and 12% at his high volume never helps. Meanwhile, Westbrook has actually been very good.
• Arctic does have a few players who are clinging to their JBL jobs after slow starts. I’m talking about you Malik Monk, Justin Holiday, and Trevor Ariza
• Has the Arctic turned Mr. Wiggins into a player? 25 points on Sunday on 50/40? 
• The Year of the Kok has started is off to a good start. Mitchell, Jokic, Siakam and Myles have all been very good. It looks like he’s found a potential gem in Coby White. 
• Jrue Holiday has surely been a disappointment considering his slow start and now some sort of knee injury
• And Zach Collins will never live up to Kok’s lofty expectations I’m afraid. And now a shoulder injury. Kok will be sad. 
• The Ham N Eggers (which is now one of my favourite all time JBL names by the way) must be over the moon with Goran Dragic’s production so far. Sell high time? Or ride him out?’
• Dennis Smith Jr. doesn’t appear to be JBL worthy let alone NBA worthy. Fizdale just doesn’t play him. 
• Lebron looks fresh and springy
• Bellingham needs to take advantage of that extra bench spot he’s carrying as his bench is loaded with the Mash unit. That said, he must retain Klay and Wall for next season (or at least one of them) to make this year all worth it.
• Patrick Beverley is so fun to watch. Like a dog on a bone. He doesn’t score much but man he help in the other categories.
• PJ Washington sure did work out well. Somehow he was missed by many teams in our JBL rookie draft. 
• Taurean Prince has been a pleasant surprise for Brussels 
• Brussels has several ‘watch’ players on his roster right now. Can he get Rondo, Thybulle, or Giles into his lineup at some point if they become fantasy worthy. It’s a waiting game. We just won’t know.

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• Danny Green has been fantastic to start the season in Cali
• Cali is definitely going to finish last in scoring. However, he could finish 1st in both FG% and 3PT%
• Drummond’s been very good this week while Gobert has not. 
• Cali could really use Cauley-Stein and Oladipo sooner rather than later
• Cali did really well in week 1 considering half of the starters come off the bench for their NBA teams
• KAT is the #1 fantasy player after the first week…man, he’s been good. Of course, coming into Sunday he was shooting 60/61 so those will obviously come down
• The Wack is loving his Big 3 and improved his depth by signing Kaminsky and Moe Harkless. Good pickups in my eyes.
• Justise Winslow has been very good to start the season
• Frank the Tank earned his way back onto a JBL roster
• Dillon Brooks is jekyl and hyde. One day good, one day bad
• French must be excited to start this season. He’s not in 1st place. First time since about November 2018 we can say that. Most of this roster has underachieved to this point, so watch out when they get cooking
• Golden is shy on big men - cause Alex Len and Jakob Poeltl suck
• Otto Porter looks like a huge bust and SGA looks like he'll be a fantastic keeper
• Montrezl Harrell is fun to watch. 
• Golden spending $33 on Kendrick Nunn is his largest winning FA win in franchise history. Golden’s best FA signing was Whiteside for $1 all those years ago.
• Idaho off to a hot start without Blake, PG13, and suddenly Ayton
• Idaho also has a number of overachievers in that Brandon Ingram won’t shoot 53/53, RJ Barrett won’t shoot 51/54 and Kevin Knox won’t shoot 50/64. We can expect those %’s to level off in the coming weeks
• I think Markelle Fultz will actually be a player. His shot looks better and I think Idaho has found a gem here for $5 bucks. 
• Juan must be loving Malcolm Brogdon and Derrick Rose. 
• Marc Gasol off to a slow start. He’s probably still hungover from his summer partying.
• Giannis for $74 looking like great value.
• Juan’s pick of Rui Hachimura in the rookie draft is looking like steal
• Coby White and PJ Washington not getting picked in the rookie draft looks like highway robbery
• Maui’s Mike Conley off to a horrible shooting start. We know that will come up in the coming weeks. 
• The Marvin Bagley injury really hurts - both the Kings and the Ribs
• Lonzo’s shot form is much improved over last season. His %’s are the same, but at least his shot looks better
• Luke Kennard has been impressive in Detroit.
• Imagine if Drummond opts out at the end of the season and leaves Detroit.That’s going to be a really bad team.
• Norfolk did well landing Kelly Oubre for $10 bucks. He’s on fire
• Trae Young is reminding me of Harden. He dribbles over centre and then shoots some crazy shots. Don’t know if I love that style of play.
• Norfolk has done very well considering he’s played with Jimmy Butler this week
• Seoul just scores and scores and scores…..
• Is Tristan Thompson actually good now? Off to a roaring start
• Dejounte Murray looks healthy and looks really good. 
• Rudy Gay always goes for $1 and is always undervalued. A good 5th forward on any JBL roster
• Isaiah Thomas looked good in his first game back. He could help out the Jizz.
• The Warriors are a bad team. They have Steph, D-Russ and Draymond. That’s it. The rest of the team is not good. Can I change my vote, I don’t see how this team makes the playoffs in the West.