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Andre' Snellings

Andre' Snellings

Andre' Snellings writes about fantasy sports for RotoWire.

Buy low or priced right: Gay vs. Howard

How can you tell whether a player is a good bounce-back candidate, or whether a player's value just isn't what you expected it to be? This can be a difficult thing to do, obviously, but there are often clues that help us make our case. Take, for example, Rudy Gay.

Last year Gay ranked 29th overall in Yahoo! after ranking 9th in 2011, while this year he's down at 57th in the rankings for the year and 86th over the last 30 days. When I started this article I thought it would be about how the Grizzlies as a team are focusing more on their inside-out game, and that this was the reason for Gay's relative struggles. After all, with Zach Randolph healthy again and paired with Marc Gasol, the Grizzlies have been just beating folks up on the inside this season. And big guys often synergize well with point guards, so it wasn't surprising to me that Gasol (Yahoo! rank 11th), point guard Mike Conley (25th) and Randolph (47th) wer

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