Zach Randolph Trade – Fantasy Analysis
November 22, 2008 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Fantasy Trades, NFL Player Analysis
Along with the Jamal Crawford for Al Harrington trade, the New York Knicks also made noise on Friday by trading Zach Randolph to the Los Angeles Clippers. The deal sent Randolph and Mardy Collins to the Clippers for Cuttino Mobley and Tim Thomas.
As far as Randolph is concerned, this is unlikely to be good news for his fantasy basketball value. With the Knicks, he was putting up very good numbers and was see a ton of touches. Mike D’Antoni basically let him shoot whenever he wanted to.
With the Clippers, Randolph will have to find time between Marcus Camby and Chris Kaman on the frontline. The Clippers also play at a much slower pace than the Knicks. The only silver lining is that the Clippers are looking for an Elton Brand replacement and Randolph has a comparable game. For that reason, Randolph could eventually get a lot of touches down the line.
As far as Mobley and Thomas are concerned, this is very good news. Mobley could conceivably step into a starting role at shooting guard to replace the departed Crawford. He’ll likely get a lot more shots — as long as D’Antoni warms up to him. Thomas previously played for D’Antoni and flourished in his system. If he gets time, he too could become fantasy relevant once again.
Kind of think mobley is a key player found nothing in last nights game with him rosters stats.warming up and statistic words they use is pretty blushy and plain out not right you can’t warm up a player he takes key role and precision it be the pressure there goals and point of liking the game maybe but catino is one of my favorites since rockets he keeps it pretty official take they’re personality for instance its a status not just game.you can’t go in that lame and expect the knicks to hold attitude and status.give them a name and some more attitude would do great they look pretty lame sometimes.build they’re actual game and let them play to they’re potential and skill level they are professionals.but then again it says fantasy…..