FNBA: Cheap Points

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* It would be best to pass on Hakim Warrick (5% owned in Yahoo), who averaged around 18 minutes per game last season and isn't likely to sustain this level of playing time (26:53) or scoring (15.7 ppg). For his career, Warrick has averaged 9.8 ppg in about 21 minutes of action. In his first four games Channing Frye's playing time has been way down (20 minutes vs. an average of 33 last season). I expect that to change and even if it doesn't Markieff Morris (17:06) blocks Warrick's path to 30 minutes.

* Leandro Barbosa is a fair bet to chuck up a shot every 2 minutes. Last season he had 11.3 attempts per game in 24 minutes of action and he has averaged 12.7 shots in 24:36 thus far. If you're hard pressed for scoring, Barbosa should certainly be considered. He averaged 13.3 ppg last year and has 43 points in three games thus far.

* Anyone who watched MarShon Brooks at Providence knows that he can score in bunches and he's doing exactly that for the Nets (55 points in 76:57 over the last three games). Your league would have to be asleep for Brooks to still be available but scoop him up now if he is. Even if Sundiata Gaines and Anthony Morrow start games at the 2, expect Brooks to finish them. This team will get blown out early and often and there's no reason to not give Brooks a long look. His Webber-esque mistake in the Hawks loss was immediately forgiven and the team is so lacking in firepower that he has to get minutes.

* Ramon Sessions averaged 13.3 points in 26.3 minutes last season and he's scoring at the same clip through the first three games of the season (albeit with 3 fewer minutes). After hitting only 13 threes during his first four years in the leagues (13 for 71 - yuck), Sessions has 4 in the first three games of this campaign. Who knows if this will continue but 3 point shooting certainly makes Sessions more viable in the Irving era -- with reduced minutes he would have to provide a new feature. It's also tough to find anyone on the wire averaging over 4 assists per game (Jeremy Pargo, subbing for an injured Mike Conley, and Mario Chalmers are the only ones in my league) -- Sessions deserves a roster spot but just barely.