NBA Supercoach Wrap | The Week 2 Ledger


<p>Two weeks in, and the game is starting to sort itself out. The premiums who stumbled in Week 1 came roaring back, the rookies kept rising, a couple of new names forced their way into the conversation, and Week 3 has more four-game teams than any week so far.</p>



<p>Here&#8217;s what Week 2 told us, the moves worth making, and the one big decision a lot of coaches are weighing up: whether to bring Shai in for back-to-back four-game weeks.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>The premiums came back</strong></h2>



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<p><em>SuperCoach NBA Week 1 and Week 2 scores</em></p>



<p>Last week I wrote that the premiums&#8217; slow Week 1 was noise, and that they&#8217;d return to their normal level. They did better than that.</p>



<p><strong>Wemby went from 80 to 147</strong>, the top score of the week, from just three games. About 1,700 fewer teams owned him in Week 2 than in Week 1. That&#8217;s a lot of coaches who sold him the week before his biggest score of the season so far.</p>



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<p><strong>Luka put up 139 and Giannis 125</strong>, both from three games. Giannis is now playing exactly how we expected when he moved to Miami: huge usage, and the minutes are there when the games stay close.</p>



<p><strong>Jokic scored 98 from three games.</strong> He&#8217;s dropped to $27.59M, the first time he&#8217;s been cheaper than his starting price.</p>



<p>The two going the other way are Maxey and Shai. Maxey&#8217;s 115 in Week 1 came from four games. With three in Week 2, he fell back to 85. Shai is the real worry, at 64 from three games. More on him below.</p>



<p>The other big scores of the week: Jayson Tatum (118 from four games, after an Achilles comeback I flagged as one to watch), Cooper Flagg (114 from three), Brandon Miller (110), Walker Kessler (107) and Steph Curry (106).</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Rookies and risers</strong></h2>



<p>The cash cows are doing exactly what you bought them for.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-table"><table><thead><tr><th>Player</th><th>Start price</th><th>Now</th><th>Week 2</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Yaxel Lendeborg</td><td>$4.75M</td><td>$7.24M</td><td>99</td></tr><tr><td>Cameron Boozer</td><td>$5.15M</td><td>$7.25M</td><td>81</td></tr><tr><td>Caleb Wilson</td><td>$5.10M</td><td>$7.05M</td><td>66</td></tr><tr><td>Darius Acuff Jr.</td><td>$4.95M</td><td>$6.32M</td><td>79</td></tr></tbody></table></figure>



<p>Lendeborg is the standout. He&#8217;s already made his owners about $2.5M, and he&#8217;s one of the most-owned players in the game. Acuff is the one who&#8217;s flown under the radar. He&#8217;s taking shots at a volume rookies just don&#8217;t get, and he&#8217;s in only a fraction of the teams Lendeborg is. If you&#8217;ve still got a basement player clogging a starting spot, he&#8217;s the cheapest way to fix it.</p>



<p>Cooper Flagg is the other name everyone&#8217;s talking about. 114 from three games last week, and at $16.71M he&#8217;s still priced below what he&#8217;s producing. Dallas has four games in both Week 3 and Week 4.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Week 3 moves worth making</strong></h2>



<p>Eighteen teams play four games in Week 3: Atlanta, Brooklyn, Boston, Cleveland, Dallas, the Lakers, Miami, Milwaukee, Minnesota, New Orleans, OKC, Philly, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Antonio, Utah and Washington. Nobody plays two. That means this week is about quality, not chasing games.</p>



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<p><strong>Haliburton out, if you&#8217;ve got him.</strong> He played one game in Week 2 before getting hurt, and he&#8217;s out. Flagg is where I&#8217;d put the money. He&#8217;s a couple of million dearer and SF-only, so you may need to shuffle positions to fit him, but he has four games in each of the next two weeks.</p>



<p><strong>Jalen Johnson back to Giannis.</strong> A lot of us swapped Giannis for Johnson after Week 1 for schedule reasons. I did too. Johnson scored 81 from four games, and Giannis scored 125 from three. Miami has four games in Week 3. Swapping back costs about $2M, and it&#8217;s worth it.</p>



<p><strong>Underperforming midpricers to Acuff.</strong> If you&#8217;ve got a $10M to $12M player who isn&#8217;t scoring, Acuff at $6.32M is a better player right now and frees $4M to $6M for upgrades elsewhere.</p>



<p><strong>Don&#8217;t panic about the rookies who&#8217;ve stalled.</strong> If you&#8217;ve got a cheapie who isn&#8217;t getting minutes, he&#8217;s a bench problem, not a starting one. Fix it when you&#8217;ve got a spare trade, after the bigger moves are done.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>The Shai question</strong></h2>



<p>OKC have four games in Week 3 and four more in Week 4. That&#8217;s eight games in a fortnight from a player who averaged about 36.5 SuperCoach points a game last season when Jalen Williams was out. Williams is out again.</p>



<p>The case against is his start. Shai scored 83 in Week 1 and 64 in Week 2, about 21 a game. His price has slipped from $22.53M to $21.71M.</p>



<p>The case for is everything we&#8217;ve seen from the other premiums. Wemby, Luka, Giannis, and Jokic all had slow Week 1s, and all bounced back. Last season, 10 of 12 premium dip weeks were followed by a better week. Shai&#8217;s role has grown, his price has dropped, and his schedule is about to peak.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re thinking about it, here&#8217;s roughly what the common swaps are worth over Weeks 3 and 4, assuming Shai plays at last season&#8217;s without-Williams rate:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-table"><table><thead><tr><th>Swap</th><th>Extra cost</th><th>Games, Weeks 3 + 4</th><th>Estimated gain</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Mitchell → Shai</td><td>$3.74M</td><td>8 vs 8</td><td>About +70</td></tr><tr><td>Reaves → Shai</td><td>$5.09M</td><td>7 vs 8</td><td>About +115</td></tr><tr><td>Maxey → Shai</td><td>$2.17M</td><td>7 vs 8</td><td>About +80</td></tr></tbody></table></figure>



<p>Those are estimates, not promises, and they lean on Shai returning to form. But if you&#8217;ve got the cash, or can free it with a bench trade, I think this is the best premium move of the next fortnight. I&#8217;m trying to find the money for it myself.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Week 3 captaincy and watch list</strong></h2>



<p><strong>Captain.</strong> Luka and Wemby both have four games, and both just went big. I&#8217;m going Wemby. The risk with Luka is the back-to-backs. There&#8217;s a real chance he doesn&#8217;t play both ends, or sits the Sacramento game, depending on how JJ Redick wants to manage him. </p>



<p>A four-game week can quickly become a three-game week. Wemby doesn&#8217;t carry that risk this week, and San Antonio have four more games in Week 4 if you want to keep the armband on him. Giannis and Flagg, both with four games, are the zags.</p>



<p><strong>Back Mitchell.</strong> He scored 88 from four games in Week 2, and Cleveland has four more this week. We&#8217;re backing him for an even stronger four-game week.</p>



<p><strong>Haliburton is out.</strong> If you&#8217;re still holding him, he has to go this week. A $14.76M player scoring nothing is a hole you can&#8217;t carry into a four-game week.</p>



<p><strong>Watch Tatum.</strong> 118 from four games is the clearest sign yet that he&#8217;s back. Boston has four games again.</p>



<p>Week 3 is the deepest week of the season so far. Get your four-gamers right, and it&#8217;s a chance to make up ground. Let me know your moves in the comments.</p>


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