Rip showing he's not just a shooter
https://www.espn.com/fantasy/basketball/fba/story?page=karabell090317 Tuesday, March 17, 2009 By Eric Karabell ESPN.com If you've been reading my fantasy basketball column with any regularity this season, you know how I feel about the role a head coach can play. Whether it's wacky Don Nelson in Oakland or the personnel changes made in Oklahoma City or Phoenix, we've seen how one man can affect the fantasy game greatly. What doesn't often occur is when a coach makes a creative lineup choice that takes a marginal fantasy option, and because of one added stat category, he comes much more valuable. In general, it comes down to playing time, right? Give a guy more minutes, you'll see better production, and vice versa. How often can an established player suddenly provide us a totally new skill? Rip has been zipping more passes to his teammates of late. Maybe you haven't been watching, but one of the top point guards in fantasy this month has been Richard Hamilton of ...