Point Guards: Davis and Chalmers

Mario Chalmers has definitely stepped up his game from past seasons. He is shooting a career high 50.7%, including 43.8% from 3point land, and averaging a career high 11.7 points. To add to this, he is also averaging 4.4 assists, 2.5 rebounds, 1.5 steals and 1.9 3’s a game. For a waiver wire pickup, I don’t think you can complain with these stats. The only downside is that he is also averaging a career high 2.5 turnovers a game, which is a bit costly. If you can absorb his turnovers, he can definitely be an asset to your team.  The only question is can he continue this through the season? His career stats, and logical basketball, say otherwise. Even Ray Allen is a career 40% 3 point shooter, and only eclipsed the 44% mark once in his career, which was last year. But then again, Allen didn’t have Wade and Lebron to drag the attention away from him and give him open shots. If Chalmers can keep his 3 point percentage around the 40% mark, along with keeping his other stats, he would be worthy of a spot on your roster.

Is it worth it to pick up Baron Davis? Is he going to be able to even play basketball at a high level? Currently the Knicks are in dire need of a point guard. And with Davis’s passing ability he could definitely help them. This means that when he does come back, he will get the minutes to be productive. Except for his rookie year, he has never averaged fewer than 6 assists a game and 13 points a game. Between the Clippers and Cavs last year he averaged 1.4 3’s a game 6.7 assists, 1.35 steals, 2.7 rebounds, and 13.1 points a game. When on the Cavs even in 25 minutes a game he averaged 13 points, 6 assists, 1 steal, and 2.4 3’s a game. Don’t expect to get 2.4 3’s a game, but if he comes back and can play 25 minutes a game, he will give you at least 13 points, 6 assists, 1 steal and 1 3 pointer a game. The only variable in this situation is his health. While he seems to be working very hard to get back to full strength, his health and conditioning have always been issues throughout his career. However, he never let this stop him before so I don’t see why he would let it stop him now.