Day 3: Stephen Curry and Chris Paul are spooky good

(Illustration courtesy of Hatrobot)

Ho ho ho! Merry Free Candy Day! Oh wait, that was yesterday... Well... Merry New Month... Day... woo?

Normally, it's this top half of the article that I actually like writing, since I'm allowed ramble about whatever I damn well please. But I actually spent an exhausting amount of time writing this week, so my creative juices are kind of at a minimum right now.

On Thursday, I buckled down and finally finished mashing out a piece about NBA 2K14. (If you read the article, you can tell I played the game a week ago because I referenced using C.J. McCollum, who's currently unusable in online play due to his injured status in real life.) That baby took a lot of time to type out, and on top of that, I started working on the side for a sports website of relative prominence; I'll pimp what I'm doing in the very near future, but suffice to say, I'm excited about it.

If there's anything non-fantasy related I have the mental endurance to write about right now, it's that the Twix bar is far and away, in my humble opinion, the best chocolate bar on the face of the earth. This is by no means a slight against Snickers, Milky Way, Kit Kat, Hershey's chocolate or the delicious, delicious Nestles Crunch Bar. But there's something about Twix and how crunchy it is, while providing both chocolaty goodness and caramel chewiness, that elevates it above its competitors.

Also, and at this I may truly get on people's bad sides, I don't hate candy corn. I know it's vogue to rag on candy corn just because it isn't as awesome as a Twix or a Nestles Crunch Bar. (Crap, I just realized I left Butterfinger off my list!) But come on. Candy corn doesn't deserve to be treated with such villainy -- it's tasty damn it! If you really want a morsel to rag on, those orange circus peanuts that some houses hand out from time to time: those are awful.

Okay, it's fantasy time. Which NBA players (if any) played up to the standards of the amazing, incomparable Twix bar?

• Carmelo Anthony had a pretty satanic line on Halloween: 22 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists and (you guessed it) 6 steals. If you're ever in his company, and he happens to hand you a frothy white vitamin shake, for the love of god don't drink it! #Rosemary'sBabyReference
• Stephen Curry was kind of amazing last night. He scored 38 points (just as Klay Thompson did the other day) and connected on 9 three-pointers, a couple of which were ridiculously far away from the basket. Curry is the kind of player who you want to show off to people who normally aren't into basketball; it's legitimately exhilarating watching him drill shot after shot from deep like it's nothing. From a fantasy perspective, he was awesome... except that he also collected 11 turnovers, which is a gargantuan total. Sometimes, you gotta take the good with the bad, but still... 11 turnovers... Eh, but whatever.
• Chris Paul was somehow better than Stephen Curry on Thursday, and I can't even believe I'm writing that. CP3 produced 42 points, 15 assists and 6 steals against the Warriors. He also had 6 turnovers, but again, whatever.
• DeAndre Jordan has looked terrific in back-to-back games, this time putting up 17 rebounds and 9 points. He's a terrible offensive option, and that inability to score is going to deprive him of minutes once in a while. But still: he has the potential to be a rebounding/shot-blocking menace now that he has a better-defined role under new coach Doc Rivers. He's worth targeting in trades right now.
• Andre Iguodala was fantastic, getting 14 points, 11 assists, 4 rebounds and 3 steals. I realize that the blurbs about him on Rotoworld have been pretty negative lately, but tits to them, I say. The dude gets to feed the ball to Stephen "I can hit it from anywhere" Curry and Klay Thomspon, and he's the best distributor on the team. His scoring is going to be marginal, but he's still one of the best statsheet-stuffing small forwards in the NBA.
• Klay Thompson had only 10 points coming off his 38-point barrage. That's how these things even out.
• This was a pretty great night for NBA centers considering there were only two games on the docket. Not only did Jordan have a great game, Andrew Bogut went for 17 and 6, Tyson Chandler produced 19 rebounds and 4 blocks, and Joakim Noah had 15 rebounds and 5 assists. Of the four, the only guy I'd be looking to move is Bogut -- not because he's a bad player, but because he tends to get hurt a lot and is a candidate to have his minutes reduced as the year winds down.
• Amar'e Stoudemire went for 5 points, a rebound and a steal in 10 minutes of action for New York. He's a fellow Jew, so I really, really don't like saying this, but the man just isn't worth owning right now. He's owned in 67% of Yahoo! fantasy leagues, which is just too high. Take away the name recognition and there just isn't enough of a reason to keep him on your fake team anymore. (Unless Tyson Chandler trips over a garden rake or something.)