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Fantasy Basketball: Week 2 pickups and early season overreactions | The Playlist

Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Dan Titus discusses three players to add this week and early panic or patience for your roster.

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What's up y'all?

Welcome back to the playlist.

Week one is a wrap SG A finished as the top player in categories leagues while Anthony Davis captured the crown in points leagues.

If you're going through injuries like Deonte Murray, Stephen Curry, I got you.

Here's three pickups you wanna make ahead of week two run.

Don't walk, pick up Trey Man of the Charlotte Hornets.

He's available in 60% of Yahoo Leagues.

He shouldn't be.

He's averaging over 18 point per game off the bench.

Brandon Miller still going through his hip injury.

So as long as he's out of the lineup, Trey Mann is going to be seeing like a 25% usage rate and this dude looks like the modern day Allen Iverson.

So why would you not want him on your fancy team?

Pick him up next player.

I'm picking up is Christian Brown of the Denver Nuggets.

The Nuggets play four games this week starting off with the Toronto Raptors and Brooklyn Nets on a back to back on Monday and Tuesday, but Brown's been outstanding for the Denver Nuggets thus far as a starting shooting guard averaging 13.5 points with seven boards, also get you the stocks, he needs to be added.

Lastly, the guy pick up Scottie Pippen Junior of the Memphis Grizzlies, even though he's the backup point guard, this guy is playing 20 minutes and averaging over seven assists per game.

He had a double double in his last outing.

And if John Morant misses that first game on Monday, man, it's gonna be a great a and it would be a great value for Fantasy managers for looking points, threes assists, steals, get Scottie Pippen junior in your lineups.

He has to stay in power with four games this week for the Memphis Grizzlies.

All right now before I get out of here, I just want to talk about some week one over reactions and kind of how this plays into some strategy because you know, if we're talking about a first to third round draft pick, fancy managers should not be thinking about selling yet like there's no reason to, it's been three games max.

How can you actually judge your players adequately enough in three games?

It's just can't, you just can't do it.

So be patient.

Don't overreact.

Now, I will say if you do have that fantasy manager in your league that is like, yo, I'm done with this dude.

II, I don't like the vibes like it's not working for me.

I gotta let it go take advantage of that.

Like if I have the opportunity to buy Tyrese Halliburton right now, I would absolutely do it.

But any reasonable manager knows that this guy is gonna get out of his little slump that he's in.

He's gonna be among the league leaders and assists.

He's probably gonna be one of the more efficient guards.

This man's just fresh off having his Jesus shuttles worth moment.

Let him get back, let him get his head back into the game first.

All right, don't overreact.

Now, if we're talking about a late round pick someone like a Mike Conley, a Draymond Green, all these old heads that just aren't performing very well.

Right now you have my permission drop them because at that point, the value isn't that significant.

This is back end depth that you were intending to possibly have to drop anyway, for a hotter pickup on the waiver wire that might be able to help you.

Now, no one's gonna be rushing to pick up Mike Conley.

I already said to drop him last week.

So don't worry about it.

If he's an old head and he's in the back end of your depth, you know, a late round pick, feel free to cut bait but do not, I repeat, do not trade off your first three round assets at this point in the season.

It's too early y'all, it's too early.

All right, I'll see y'all next week, week three playlist.

Peace