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James Anderson

James Anderson

James Anderson writes about fantasy sports for RotoWire.

By now, you've probably seen the three-way trade between the Grizzlies, Raptors, and Pistons broken down a number of ways from a fantasy hoops perspective, but just to get it on record, I'm going to offer my two cents.

Rudy Gay - The notion that Gay's fantasy value is trending upward after this trade is a hard argument for me to buy. He was 13th in the league with 16.4 field goals attempted per game while a member of the Grizzlies, and somehow he's now going to start taking 18 or 20 shots a game now that he's on the Raptors? I could maybe see that happening (although in his first game as a Raptor he attempted exactly 16 shots), but how good are his looks going to be? He'll be playing with lesser table setters - Mike Conley strikes me as a better facilitator than Kyle Lowry (a purported franchise point guard, who still had a teammate averaging 7.4 assists per game in Jose Calderon), and Marc Gasol might be the best passing big man in the league. Gay went from a team w

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