Wednesday is a busy 10-game slate. That gives us no shortage of options when building lineups, even when considering some lingering injuries around the league.
As customary, we’ll highlight multiple advantageous positional matchups to exploit at each position for your Yahoo Fantasy lineups, as well as a good trio of candidates that may be best to steer clear of due to a combination of circumstances/salary.
Guards
Devin Booker, PHO at LAL ($40): Booker requires much less of an investment than several other players at his position yet brings just as much upside, as evidenced by his six tallies of 51.1 Yahoo points or more in his last nine games. The veteran sharpshooter will continue as the primary scorer with Kevin Durant (ankle) still sidelined. Despite the Lakers having defended the shooting guard position relatively well, there should be plenty of opportunity for Booker to outpace his current salary in a game that’s important for Phoenix.
Austin Reaves, LAL vs. PHO ($19): Reaves makes for an intriguing tournament play that gives you plenty of flexibility elsewhere on the other side of the Lakers-Suns tilt, and he checks in having scored at least 30 Yahoo points in three straight games, including more than 40 in two of those contests. Reaves has also scored 34.4 and 35.3 Yahoo points in two other games during March. The Suns come in surrendering 37.4 percent three-point shooting to two-guards while ranking just in the bottom half of the league in offensive efficiency rating yielded to second-unit players (40.0).
ALSO CONSIDER: Damian Lillard, POR at UTA ($47)
Guard to Avoid
Dennis Schroder, LAL at PHO ($16): Schroder’s production has taken a notable hit with the return to health of D’Angelo Russell, making the veteran less than appealing for fantasy purposes. Schroder has scored under 20 Yahoo points in three of his last five games, and he’s also facing a Suns team that’s always tough on point guards with Chris Paul in the backcourt.
Forwards
Jimmy Butler, NY vs. MIA ($37): Butler has notably over-delivered on his current salary consistently of late, scoring 40.6 Yahoo points or more in 11 of the last 13 games. The veteran forward even has a trio of tallies of more than 55 Yahoo points in that sample, including one of 56.1 against this same Knicks squad on March 3. New York has been highly vulnerable to the small forward position all season, allowing the second-highest offensive efficiency rating to threes (24.4) and the third-most Yahoo points…