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Grayson Allen is worth considering as a fantasy basketball waiver wire pickup heading into Week 20 of the 2022-23 NBA season.
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 4% of leagues
ANALYSIS: If you have paid attention to the news, then you're aware the Bulls have released Goran Dragic only for the ancient European to sign with the Bucks. Not really troubling for Grayson Allen's upside ROS, though, considering Dragic mans the point more than the two-guard, and also that the Dragon had been playing badly all year long in Chicago.
Allen, on the other hand, is the bonafide starter at either the three (if/when Khris Middleton is out) or the two-spot. Grayson has come off the pine just twice in 61 games, and those two occurrences took place all the way back in November, so no worries on that front.
As you'd expect from someone sharing the court with a loaded set of teammates, Allen's usage rate is ground-level low at 14% this season. Not a real problem, though, as Allen is on the court to do what he does best: shoot low-volume attempts (barely eight FGA) but most of them from beyond the three-point arc on a spot-up shooting role.
Allen is deadly from distance. He's hitting 2.1 3PM per game, attempting 5.1 3PA a pop for a 41.6% success rate. Only 10 players in the whole NBA are keeping up such a high 3P% on 5+ 3PA per game. Allen is one of only seven players scoring 10+ PPG while doing it, on top of everything.
The guard is also contributing a nice 3.4 RPG and 2.4 APG along with 0.8 SPG through the year while keeping his turnovers down to 1.1 TOPG. Allen is a lock to score at least 1+ 3PM per game and he usually finishes matchups filling the stat line all across the board, although always (reasonably) on the low side of the spectrum. The per-minute efficiency isn't good because he plays almost 28 MPG, but that serves the purpose of helping him reach numbers on brute force.
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