We only had four games, but they sure gave us plenty to talk about. Kevin McHale has turned into a Shanahan, some Phoenix guys are turning up the heat, we'll talk Bobcats and everything else that is relevant in the world of fantasy basketball.

I talked about every single Rocket that played tonight, so be sure to check it out

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Many of you guys know that I'm driving the Lin bandwagon and have been saying he has been a pickup since the first half of Saturday's game on my Twitter feed (I'm probably going to be bragging about this for quite some time). Some people might be sick of the Linsanity or saying things like Linconceivable, the Linternet, balLin' and about a thousand other things. Not me though. So on top of the All Questions Answered Thread today, I'd like to invite you guys to throw out some fantasy team names involving Lin.

As for the questions, it's anything goes. Trade props, add/drops, pointers, or anything you want. Just remember the more detailed question you give, the better answer you'll get.

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Welcome back, folks. It's been a whole day since we hit up the waiver wire, so let's go ahead hit refresh on that front. This show is going to tackle all the adds from Tuesday night. Although since we only have six games to cover, we'll be able to address some strategy, buy-low and sell-high candidates, and players that might be on the chopping block.

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I covered the waiver wire for 40 minutes on Pick-N-Roll last night. Since I know everyone is busy, and I'm a man of the people, I put together the list of players I discussed last night. Check 'em out. If you have the time, definitely check out Pick-N-Roll and I'd also like to remind you we'll be doing another show tonight once the games end.

1. Jeremy Lin (NYK)- Move over, Michael Jordan. Here's the ownership from Saturday to Tuesday:

Saturday:0.0%

Sunday: 2.0%

Monday: 21.4%

Tuesday: 48.4%

2. Jason Richardson (ORL)- 18.7 PPG and 3.0 3PM in since returning.

3. Trevor Booker (WAS)- Believe it or not he's the 42nd-best eight-cat player in the past 15 days. His 19 points, four boards, three steals and three blocks in 43(!!) minutes last night should make him close to a must-add in even shallow formats. He'll beast it for a month. Also I've been talking about him for over a week. Just sayin'.

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We got great feedback for the format on Saturday, so we did the same show format tonight. It's all about the waiver wire and should be a great listen for owners in leagues where your competition is full of waiver-wire hawks. I ranked about 40 guys that gained value on the wire and took a bunch of questions. I also talked about Twitter plagiarism and how it's getting a little out of control.

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Saturday was totally nuts for the waiver wire. Personally, this was probably my favorite episode I've done all year, so if you haven't checked out Pick-N-Roll you should try out Saturday's edition. It was dedicated solely to the waiver wire and I can pretty much guarantee you won't regret listening to it.

Pick-N-Roll and rankings after the jump:

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It’s always tough to evaluate some of your players once the season is in full swing. We always talk about buying low and selling high, but who know how high or low the value of a certain player is at a given point? It’s with this idea in mind I thought it’d seem like a good idea to get some people together to draft guys based on how they’d project a player to perform for the rest of the season. I gave the owners some instructions so we all knew the format and everything to get us all on the same page. Here it is:

We're going to treat it as a league with daily acquisitions, no injured spots and no sort of games-played restrictions. In other words, it is probably a bad idea to take injured players. It also might behoove everyone to check out some schedules to see which teams have more back-loaded slates in their season. It's an 8-cat H2H where each category is a game (so a team will be 5-3 instead of 1-0 after one week of action). The rosters are pretty self-explanatory and the draft order will be selected at random once I fill the owner slots. I might do some fine-tuning in the next day or two, so nothing is completely concrete except the 8-cat H2H format. We might be changing the rosters a bit based on how many people are able to do the draft.

The rosters were: PG, SG, G, G, SF, PF, F, F, C, C and four bench spots

Below you’ll see every pick of our 12-team, 14-round draft. This got a little messy with a few owners having to cancel, so we made it work by having a few of us draft a couple teams. It was very interesting because many of us had different draft styles on selecting young, safe players and lottery tickets. Plus there was a nice mixture of people grabbing players that are red hot now and others that were steals because of their current cold spell.

Draft order:

1. Brian McKitish (ESPN.com)

2. Brian McKitish (ESPN.com)

3. Adam Levitan (Rotoworld.com)

4. Mike Gallagher (Faketeams.com)

5. Scott Malewig (TheFakeBasketball.com)

6. Aaron Bruski (Rotoworld.com)

7. Mike Gallagher (Faketeams.com)

8. Mike Baum (TheFakeBasketball.com)

9. Neil Tardy (ESPN.com)

10. Adam Levitan (Rotoworld.com)

11. Mike Baum (TheFakeBasketball.com)

12. Neil Tardy (ESPN.com)

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In fantasy basketball, drafting a decent squad is only half the battle. Knowing who and when to add someone off the waiver wire can go a long way in securing future success. However, unless you're in the shallowest of shallow leagues, you can't afford to wait and see if a player is going to be valuable. You need to be proactive, but the only way your diligence will pay off is if you know who to pick up beforehand.

After all, if you were in a deep league last year, you couldn't have afforded to wait and see if Kris Humphries would pan out after the Nets traded Derrick Favors, or if Hedo Turkoglu would experience a renaissance after moving back to Orlando. If you didn't add them the instant they saw an increased role, it was probably too late. The same goes for Marcus Thornton when he was dealt to the Kings; he needed to be owned the second it happened.

But if scouting potential waiver wire studs is important, who exactly should be scouted? Tough to say. Fantasy isn't an exact science, and we're all basically weathermen when we guess who will pan out and who will suck. After all, who the hell thought Kyle Lowry would become one of the five best point guards in fantasy basketball? In my estimation: no one. Still, there are players in the league who show flashes brilliance every time they step on the court, players who deserve universal ownership if an injury or trade paved the way for them to see the court on a consistent basis.

Here are five potential stat-stuffers who should be on everybody's watch lists:

Goran Dragic

Kyle Lowry is a beast and his role isn't going to diminish any time soon. But Goran Dragic, Lowry's backup in Houston, is barely a step off from him. He's had the misfortune of playing behind studs his whole career, but in the limited time he's seen an increase in minutes, he's been awesome. In a playoff game at San Antonio a few years ago, he even scored 24 points in a single fourth quarter. Dragic is something of a mix between Jose Calderon and Ricky Rubio. He's not a horrible shooter, and he sports a totally acceptable assist-to-turnover ratio; he has a fantastic ability to make layups, something John Wall should really study in the offseason. In a thirty-minute-per-game role, there's no reason why he shouldn't produce a very respectable line. Clearly, the only way Dragic is going to get a lot of playing time is if Lowry sticks his hand in a snowblower, ala Joe Sakic, and misses the rest of the year. But should that happen, don't hesitate to click the '+' button next to Dragic's name.

Omer Asik

Asik is the best-kept fantasy secret in basketball. He's the next Marcin Gortat, the next Marc Gasol. He's waiting, dying to get a decent role, and the moment he does he'll not only average double-double numbers in the vain of Kris Humphries, he'll even block two shots per game. To the untrained eye, Asik's 5.6 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game look utterly pedestrian... that is, until you consider that he's only playing 16.3 minutes per game. His Per-48-minutes averages are insane; he'd be averaging 3.6 blocks per game, almost a full block more than Andrew Bynum and Dwight Howard, and his 16.6 rebounds per game would be the ninth best rate in the league, even above Kevin Love. He deserves to be the trendiest name in fantasy, because unlike constant disappointments such as Tyrus Thomas and Anthony Randolph who also have tantalizing Per-48 stats, Asik has actually had monster performances with the guys in front of him still completely healthy. Should the situation arise where Joakim Noah misses some time, Asik needs to be owned ASAP. He's that good.

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