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How I Won My Fantasy Basketball Championship 🏆 | League-Winning Strategy & Waiver Wire Secrets · Hustle Sports Fantasy Podcast

• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on? This is your boy team Will
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Hustle Sports Fantasy Podcast Basketball Edition, and yes, yes sir,
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  Speaker 1: we got it done. Fantasy Basketball champion you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: them right here. But more important than the win, it's
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  Speaker 1: the process behind the win. Because anybody can get high
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: for a week, anybody can get high for a little stretch,
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  Speaker 1: but winning a championship that come down to decisions, discipline,
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  Speaker 1: and timement. So today I'm breaking down exactly how I
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: was able to get it done. All praises to the
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  Speaker 1: most hot guy for sure, and what you need to
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  Speaker 1: take from it, you know what I mean. First off,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. We're gonna get into the draft.
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  Speaker 1: The foundation. You know what I'm saying, Everything start with
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  Speaker 1: the foundation. Need a great foundation to get a championship going.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Every championship starts before the
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  Speaker 1: season even begin roster construction. Personally, I ain't drafting nings.
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  Speaker 1: I drafted for rolls, roles that I like, Roles that
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to see people who can contribute in multiple categories, usage, minutes, opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: and throughout the season I stayed consistent with that approach.
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  Speaker 1: You know, no emotional decisions, no chasing narratives. I ain't
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  Speaker 1: care if I liked the player or not. They was
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  Speaker 1: my favorite player, there was my dog. If they wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the best player to be on the roster for that moment,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get them. I just needed data roll clarity.
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  Speaker 1: That's the So he got hurt early in the year
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  Speaker 1: and I had to end up dropping him, which ended
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  Speaker 1: up creating a streaming spot for me. He was balling
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  Speaker 1: early on and I really loved what he was able
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  Speaker 1: to do. You know, DeAndre Hunter, he got hurt, I
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  Speaker 1: had to you know, pivot. PJ my dog from the MAVs.
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  Speaker 1: I love him, favorite player on the mass right now.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm trying to get a dub and I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to get a chip. So I had to cut bait.
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  Speaker 1: Thankfully I did, because he missed a lot of games
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  Speaker 1: because of injuries and mathering. You know, he was a baller.
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  Speaker 1: I held on to him as long as I could,
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  Speaker 1: but sometimes you got a pivot. That's how it go,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, That's what it is. But
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  Speaker 1: let's jump to speaking of pivots, let's talk about what
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  Speaker 1: most leagues are warn or lost, and that is pivoting,
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  Speaker 1: waiver of wire, you know, streaming, timing. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: stayed active. I stayed active. I stayed disciplined too, because
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  Speaker 1: they move at a purpose, you know, short term streams
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  Speaker 1: for category boosts, you know, if I need points of
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  Speaker 1: production boosts that night, you know, or even long term streams.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean. People are held on for
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  Speaker 1: a month, couple months, and then let them go when
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  Speaker 1: the time was right. You know what I'm saying. Patience,
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing I think. You can't overreact, you can't
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  Speaker 1: panic drop, you can't get emotional And that's typically what
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  Speaker 1: people mess up at though, because it's they making a
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  Speaker 1: decision based on how they feel about the player, how
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  Speaker 1: they feel about you know whatever. But that's where you
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  Speaker 1: can mess up at because then that caused you to
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  Speaker 1: do a panic drop, emotional drop. You might, you know,
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  Speaker 1: might overreact after a bad game, bad week, But you
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  Speaker 1: can't panic you know what I mean. You look and
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  Speaker 1: it's so easy lose sight of the bigger picture when
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  Speaker 1: you when you panic like that. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: pivots I talked about check I was able to trade
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  Speaker 1: in for cat call Anthony Towns. You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: and at the time I did the trade, this is
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  Speaker 1: maybe like four weeks into our season. We started two
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  Speaker 1: weeks late, so we only had seventeen matchups as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to most people got nineteen or twenty. Uh. I traded
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  Speaker 1: Check probably like four weeks into the season. I was
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  Speaker 1: able to get called Anthony Towns and it was a wash. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: up until All Star Break, it definitely was a wash.
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  Speaker 1: So it looked like it was really a trade. Just
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  Speaker 1: about preface. You know, the guy I traded with, I
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  Speaker 1: had him on the show My Dog Lighty manager Easo.
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  Speaker 1: I played him in the championship. He you know he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't he not a cat man? He not a cat man?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Check. You know I was
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  Speaker 1: able to get it done with Chick and Hey, they
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  Speaker 1: ended up bowling well for me? Is this who? This
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  Speaker 1: is who I was at the midpoint of the season.
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  Speaker 1: You can see I'm on the right Luca van Dross.
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  Speaker 1: I got killed in this one. I dropped to three
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  Speaker 1: and five after this one too. I didn't realize I
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  Speaker 1: was three and five at one point. But this week
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  Speaker 1: I streamed Cornet. I had Keegan Murry. He was a
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  Speaker 1: long term stream for me. I streamed Colin Sexony. He
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  Speaker 1: was still on the Hornets when I did that, Cason Wallace,
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  Speaker 1: Jay Huff. I only used five or six of my
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  Speaker 1: moves and I got killed that week. But and I
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  Speaker 1: ain't saying if I would have used all six, I
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  Speaker 1: would have been able to, you know, make that happen,
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  Speaker 1: make up that five hundred point difference. But I would
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  Speaker 1: have been I would have been more locked in. I
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  Speaker 1: would have been more in tune with what I needed
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  Speaker 1: to do to try to get it done this week.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't happen. But I named some of them streamers
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  Speaker 1: for y'all. That just show you how crazy the season
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  Speaker 1: can get. Because those you know, the last four I
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  Speaker 1: told you about, mathering hundred grimes, PJ. They we wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even on the squad anymore, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I had pretty much had four spots worth for streamers
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  Speaker 1: at that point. You know. But pivoting, pivoting, pivoting, pivoting don't.
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  Speaker 1: If your strategy work and get you to the championship,
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  Speaker 1: kudos to you, you know what I'm saying. But if
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  Speaker 1: your strategy you start seeing it ain't working at some
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  Speaker 1: points don't be scared to pivot. Don't be scared to
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  Speaker 1: pivot now. But you got a weigh your options though.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do it out of emotions. You gotta be clear.
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  Speaker 1: I spoke about clarity all season, and this this is
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. You gotta be clear when you're
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  Speaker 1: making those moves and be okay with what happens with them.
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  Speaker 1: Don't don't oh man, if I would have did this
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  Speaker 1: or I shouldn't have done that looking in the past.
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  Speaker 1: That get you in trouble all the time. So don't
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  Speaker 1: do that. Don't do that. Stay clear, stay cut, level headed,
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  Speaker 1: stay locked in. And when you know you stay locked in.
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  Speaker 1: When the playoffs hit, everything tighten up. You already know
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  Speaker 1: it tightened up. This could apply to any fantasy league,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sport you know, because now it ain't about
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  Speaker 1: potential in the playoff. Times, by precisions, by matchups, schedules, schedules, schedules, availability,
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  Speaker 1: schedules almost hurt me in the championship. But that all
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  Speaker 1: of that matters, All of that matter. You got to
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  Speaker 1: look into all of that. How many games they play
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  Speaker 1: in the week, they got two games that week, are
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  Speaker 1: they are they good enough? Or are they bad enough
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  Speaker 1: to drop and nobody's gonna grab them, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. And you lose to a guy that you
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  Speaker 1: just had because you panic. Drop. But you gotta look
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  Speaker 1: at schedules, availability, you know, matchups, and this will a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people fold because it's so easy to panic,
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  Speaker 1: it's so easy to overcorrect, overreact, and just how you
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  Speaker 1: could lose in the playoffs. Like one situation and when
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  Speaker 1: Maxie got hurt and they announced that he was gonna
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  Speaker 1: be out to after April first, I dropped max I
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  Speaker 1: held on to him for two weeks of the three
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  Speaker 1: playoff weeks, I dropped them and it could have win
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  Speaker 1: against me, but it didn't. But it opened up a
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  Speaker 1: spot for me to be able to stream, be able
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  Speaker 1: to lock in because I ain't gonna lie. He came
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  Speaker 1: back early and nobody had no news about him coming
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  Speaker 1: back until the day before he played. But luckily, because
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  Speaker 1: he played on a Saturday, I still had two moves
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  Speaker 1: left for my matchup acquisitions. I was able to grab
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  Speaker 1: them back use them for that Saturday. They was off Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: I still had a spot to stream for Sunday. Stay
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  Speaker 1: locked in. Every move is intentional, Every decision has contexts,
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  Speaker 1: the core was intact. I was able to keep my
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  Speaker 1: core intact. But over the course of the season, I
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  Speaker 1: was able to grab Tatum and Bridges because the frustration drops,
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  Speaker 1: the very thing I'm telling y'all to be careful with.
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  Speaker 1: I was able to grab them and able to benefit
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  Speaker 1: off of it. I just round one of my playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: As you could see, I was able to give Brazy
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  Speaker 1: Boys manager of Brazy Boys, that payback. I was able
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  Speaker 1: to to get a dub, a nice, healthy dub, and
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  Speaker 1: I only use three of my matchup acquisitions that week.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I mean, I don't wanna Uh, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to just do stuff just to do it either.
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  Speaker 1: Like I say, everything is intentional, you know what I'm saying. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Tatum came back. He played well. You know, he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: playing back to backs of either Bridges. He's he's hit
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  Speaker 1: or miss. I ain't gonna lie, but he's gonna hit
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  Speaker 1: more than he missed, and that's a good thing. So
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  Speaker 1: I was able to grab him, and then to John Tae,
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  Speaker 1: I was able to grab him and stash him because
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  Speaker 1: he was hurting. And he came back late February and
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  Speaker 1: he's still not playing back to backs. But as you
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  Speaker 1: look at what he's done over the course of his
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  Speaker 1: last two months, he balled anytime he played. You just
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  Speaker 1: gotta be prepared for when he don't play the back
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  Speaker 1: to backs. You gotta make make the tough decisions. Don't
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  Speaker 1: be scared of it. Like I say, only made three
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  Speaker 1: moves in this in this week, I streamed Maxine Raynald.
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  Speaker 1: I spoke about him on the Believe in Fantasy Channel. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's a great stream. He been balling in Sacramento. Silly
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: season in full effect. DJJ Darrick Jones Jr. The former Math,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. I streamed him, he showed love. He
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  Speaker 1: played well that week, and then Kean Ellis I streamed him.
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  Speaker 1: I like him though, you know what I'm saying. I
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  Speaker 1: just think he seemed like he's this is the second team.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to places where it's like a crowded backcourt,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But when he played good defensively, good good minutes.
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  Speaker 1: He's just a solid guy. Round two. This my round two.
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  Speaker 1: I did max out my matchup acquisitions. This week. I
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  Speaker 1: was able to get the dub on my big bro
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  Speaker 1: manager of Beast Bullies. I repaid him because he beat
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  Speaker 1: me twice in the season. I was able to get
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  Speaker 1: back the one that mattered, the one that count Hey.
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  Speaker 1: This week I streamed Cooler Balley and he had a
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  Speaker 1: back to back when I streamed him, and he went
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  Speaker 1: crazy in both games. As you can see, he wanted
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  Speaker 1: the top scores up here eighty one. He did that
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  Speaker 1: in the two games I had justin Edwards he up
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  Speaker 1: here or now. I don't know if he in the frame,
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  Speaker 1: but he had seventy total Fantasy points that week for me.
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  Speaker 1: Cam Johnson, as you can see, manager of Beast Bullies,
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  Speaker 1: was able to stream Cam Johnson himself. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that's in the frame, but he was able to
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  Speaker 1: get Cam Johnson after I dropped him as well. So
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you play, you know, hop potato like
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  Speaker 1: that and hopefully you get him right. I was able
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  Speaker 1: to get Sensorble this week, Duncan Robinson, Royce, O'Neill, Scoot Henderson.
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  Speaker 1: I streamed all of them. You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: it don't stop the grind, do not stop them. But
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: great philosopher Clifford Harris, y'all know him as t I,
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  Speaker 1: he said the best grind don't stop husting on quick
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  Speaker 1: and it's like that in Fantasy. Same thing, same thing
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  Speaker 1: in Fantasy. I hey, listen, I was doing everything but
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen sink at this board to get the dub,
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  Speaker 1: and I was able to pull it out last just
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  Speaker 1: the championship matchup. I maxed out my act my matchup
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  Speaker 1: acquisitions this week as well. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I was able to get a tough dub. I ain't
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: gonna lie I was. I was down going into Friday
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  Speaker 1: in this one. So this one definitely Aaron. This one.
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  Speaker 1: Had to get this one out the mud, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But this week I streamed Leonard Miller, Jeremiah fears Brook,
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  Speaker 1: Lopez I was. I explained earlier. I was able to
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  Speaker 1: grab MAXI back this week. This is the week that
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  Speaker 1: he played the Saturday against the Hornets. I grabbed Sam Merrill,
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  Speaker 1: Paul Reed, Whindale, Carter like it like you got to
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  Speaker 1: be locked in. You gotta stay on top of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's the only way you're gonna get that, the only
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  Speaker 1: way you're gonna get dubs. And then and in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of that is you stream somebody. You're gonna find
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  Speaker 1: a real difference maker. Over the course of the season,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have players. You're gonna have thirty forty players
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  Speaker 1: that you done touch that you then grabbed on your roster.
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  Speaker 1: Now you got a bank of thirty forty players as
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  Speaker 1: long as they ain't get hurt. Now you got a
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  Speaker 1: bank of thirty forty players, maybe even fifty six depending
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  Speaker 1: on how long you stream to where you can just
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  Speaker 1: go grab players. You're like, Okay, well, I know he
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  Speaker 1: did this a couple months ago. Let me tap in
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  Speaker 1: and see what he's doing right now. If he ain't
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  Speaker 1: doing nothing, you got more names that you can go
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  Speaker 1: bounce off of. And that's the thing. You're able to find.
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  Speaker 1: Difference makers like that, you know what I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: moves that actually swum the champ and strategic streams, holding
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  Speaker 1: the right players, not burning acquisitions too early, and I
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: ain't gonna lie that can come back and bite you.
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  Speaker 1: I did be somebody who burnt their seventh acquisition by Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and by Saturday and Sunday, it's two more days. You
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  Speaker 1: can't make no moves, all your moves kind of for
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  Speaker 1: next week. Understanding the difference too, between a short term
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  Speaker 1: play and a long term play, or even a intermediate
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  Speaker 1: term stream. Yeah, you might stream a guy for a
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  Speaker 1: night and if you drop him and he go crazy
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  Speaker 1: at the right time, the right injury like Golden State,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler got hurt, Moses Moody, Gie Santos Melton when
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  Speaker 1: he came back, when he played. It's opportunity is gonna
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  Speaker 1: get created just because of injuries. And you know, the
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  Speaker 1: man the next man up mentality the game. Unfortunately, you
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  Speaker 1: want to see people stay healthy, you know, and prayers
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  Speaker 1: up that they make all make a full recovery anybody
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  Speaker 1: who got hurt this season. But teams adopt the next
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  Speaker 1: man up mentality, but be done with it. But that
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  Speaker 1: is about it's your risk, understanding roles, and about staying
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  Speaker 1: discipline when things get uncomfortable. Things got super uncomfortable for me.
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  Speaker 1: I started off zero and two, got the two and two,
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  Speaker 1: dropped to two and four, got to three and four,
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  Speaker 1: dropped three and five, got to four and five, then
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  Speaker 1: dropped to I got to five and five, dropped to
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  Speaker 1: five and six, and then went on a burner the
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  Speaker 1: end the season. So as you see, I was under
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  Speaker 1: five hundred for most of the season until I got hot.
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  Speaker 1: But because that's management, you know what I'm saying, because
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  Speaker 1: there will be missus there, we'll be bad weeks. But
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  Speaker 1: if your process right and your mentality hey, and then
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  Speaker 1: closing championship secured, process validated, and now for me, it's
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  Speaker 1: time to defend the crown. Hey. And if y'all need leads,
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  Speaker 1: y'all trying to find leagues to compete in. I got
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  Speaker 1: some spots that's gonna be opening up. Email it. Hit
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  Speaker 1: me in the check. Whatever you need to do, come
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  Speaker 1: compete with us, Come rock with us. See it put
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  Speaker 1: you put your skills up to the test. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're trying to get a chip in your league,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: if you're playing your league, ain't over with it yet.
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  Speaker 1: Stay locked in. Stand like this across all fantasy sports.
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  Speaker 1: So check out my Fantasy Football twenty twenty five, the
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  Speaker 1: season that was episode