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- 0:09Speaker 1: Fall.
- 0:09Speaker 2: System's gone clear, We're lifting.
- 0:41Speaker 1: What is going on?
- 0:41Speaker 3: Everyone, We're back for a Friday edition of the NBA Show.
- 0:44Speaker 3: As you can tell, we got a new face here
- 0:46Speaker 3: for this Friday one, as got Matt filling in for
- 0:49Speaker 3: Ham and as you can see on the screen right now,
- 0:52Speaker 3: I got the NBA Cup scenarios.
- 0:54Speaker 1: All laid out.
- 0:55Speaker 3: We'll go through that in a little bit, but want
- 0:56Speaker 3: to bring you in, Matt, how is your Thanksgiving?
- 0:59Speaker 2: Thanksgiving was good and then always nice to spend some
- 1:01Speaker 2: time with the family. As you know, I'm dealing with
- 1:03Speaker 2: some back issues so hampered it a little bit, but
- 1:06Speaker 2: we're we're powering through.
- 1:07Speaker 4: Happy to talk some Friday night hoops with you.
- 1:09Speaker 1: Fun.
- 1:09Speaker 4: Slate talked a little bit before.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Man, I love slates in any sport where all the
- 1:13Speaker 2: games start at the same time, whether it's MLB, League
- 1:17Speaker 2: of Legends, NBA. I love sprint slates like this.
- 1:21Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a It's definitely brings some uniqueness
- 1:24Speaker 3: to slates that we haven't really seen this season. I
- 1:26Speaker 3: believe they did this last year too with the NBA Cup,
- 1:29Speaker 3: And it's smart the way the NBA lines it up.
- 1:31Speaker 3: You have all the games kind of locking in the
- 1:33Speaker 3: same time because you don't really you know, it's not
- 1:36Speaker 3: like you can rest guys when you have a lot
- 1:38Speaker 3: more information if you're playing like an hour later. But
- 1:40Speaker 3: all these games start at the same time. There's some
- 1:42Speaker 3: really big games on the slate for sure. Talk some
- 1:46Speaker 3: like slate over you stuff like how how your approach
- 1:49Speaker 3: differs from these games locking at the same time versus
- 1:53Speaker 3: having a late swap slate.
- 1:55Speaker 2: So for me personally, as someone who usually plays like
- 1:58Speaker 2: you know, one to three lineups depending on the night,
- 2:01Speaker 2: it doesn't change that much just because, like you know,
- 2:05Speaker 2: the late swap for me is important, but it's easy
- 2:08Speaker 2: to do because you're only playing with limited lineups. So
- 2:11Speaker 2: presuming I play limited lineups tonight, which I probably will,
- 2:15Speaker 2: there's a chance I multi enter the fifteen just because
- 2:18Speaker 2: you don't have to deal with the late swap stuff.
- 2:20Speaker 4: So it's a lot easier tonight.
- 2:22Speaker 2: That would be the biggest difference for me personally, is
- 2:24Speaker 2: it gives someone like me the opportunity with you know,
- 2:27Speaker 2: like we talked about last show, like kids and stuff,
- 2:30Speaker 2: where it's hard for me to sometimes do all the
- 2:32Speaker 2: late swap stuff that you need to do for MBA
- 2:35Speaker 2: and to say like this, I can multi enter.
- 2:37Speaker 4: That's really the only difference for me.
- 2:39Speaker 3: How about you, I would say the approach is very
- 2:42Speaker 3: similar to how it would be for normalstly obviously the
- 2:45Speaker 3: late swap aspect, not having that just takes it out
- 2:48Speaker 3: of the equation. So essentially you're just getting your high
- 2:51Speaker 3: confidence plays in your lineup and then just letting a ride.
- 2:55Speaker 3: I think tonight there's gonna be a lot of news
- 2:57Speaker 3: as we get close to locks, So like that thirty
- 3:00Speaker 3: minute window before the slate starts is going to be
- 3:02Speaker 3: pretty hectic, I would imagine. So you gotta be got
- 3:04Speaker 3: to be prepared from start to finish for this one
- 3:07Speaker 3: because we've got pretty big Q tags in a lot
- 3:10Speaker 3: of these games, so it could really shake up the slate.
- 3:12Speaker 3: I think that a lot of the stuff that we
- 3:14Speaker 3: talk about tonight might not even matter in two hours.
- 3:18Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 3:18Speaker 2: The nice part about that is that we'll know all
- 3:20Speaker 2: the news for every game before the slate starts. Now,
- 3:23Speaker 2: you could look at it the other way, and I
- 3:24Speaker 2: know you probably do, or like that's not a good
- 3:27Speaker 2: thing for someone who late slaps and plays one hundred
- 3:30Speaker 2: and fifty on a normal basis. For the casual player,
- 3:33Speaker 2: or someone you know, not necessarily casual, someone who plays
- 3:36Speaker 2: limited lineups or doesn't you know, have the opportunity to
- 3:39Speaker 2: do the late stuff that they want to.
- 3:41Speaker 4: It's it's a benefit, yeah for sure.
- 3:44Speaker 3: All Right, So it's up to some people in chat
- 3:45Speaker 3: before we break down the NBA Cup stuff. It's up
- 3:47Speaker 3: Sean happy to see you in here, man wins a lot, Remo,
- 3:51Speaker 3: Brandy Cook con kid lining. I think that's the Gang
- 3:55Speaker 3: Green pair, Bay Michael's in here, Nate d and then Derek,
- 4:01Speaker 3: how you guys don't hope you guys all had a
- 4:03Speaker 3: good Thanksgiving. Yeah, So break down the NBA Cup important
- 4:07Speaker 3: tonight because there's a few really really big games. The
- 4:10Speaker 3: first one is the Orlando Detroit game winner is going
- 4:12Speaker 3: to be the winner of that group. But I believe
- 4:15Speaker 3: that even if even if Orlando loses, they still have
- 4:19Speaker 3: a chance to come out of the wild card that
- 4:22Speaker 3: for the Eastern Conference. So really big game for Detroit
- 4:25Speaker 3: more so. But I think that obviously Orlando would be
- 4:28Speaker 3: very happy to kick the Detroit team out of the
- 4:30Speaker 3: NBA Cup because they're looking pretty dangerous right now. So
- 4:33Speaker 3: I think that both these teams are going to play
- 4:35Speaker 3: it very tight tonight, and that's a game that looks
- 4:38Speaker 3: pretty good on paper. From a game environment standpoint. We
- 4:41Speaker 3: don't have to worry about the Western Conference stuff because
- 4:43Speaker 3: that's going to be later tonight. The Milwaukee New York
- 4:45Speaker 3: game is the next big game on the main site.
- 4:49Speaker 3: With the Knicks going to be clinching a group CEE
- 4:53Speaker 3: or clinching their group with a win, Milwaukee kind of
- 4:56Speaker 3: needs a lot to go right. They can, they have
- 4:58Speaker 3: a small chance to advance in the wild but they
- 5:00Speaker 3: would need to win by like twenty or thirty points.
- 5:02Speaker 3: I think that the team they're trying to catch is Miami. Yeah,
- 5:06Speaker 3: Miami's got a plus forty nine point differential Knicks or
- 5:09Speaker 3: plus twenty six, and then the Knicks do own the
- 5:12Speaker 3: tiebreaker over Miami, So win here would clinch their group
- 5:16Speaker 3: for them. But that's kind of kind of a thin
- 5:19Speaker 3: path for the Bucks to get out of the first
- 5:21Speaker 3: round of the NBA Cups. I don't think that much
- 5:24Speaker 3: really changes there, but they It looks like Giannis will
- 5:26Speaker 3: be back tonight, so we'll talk about that when we
- 5:27Speaker 3: get to that game. Cleveland Atlanta. Nothing for Atlanta to
- 5:31Speaker 3: play for, just kind of playing for pride at this point.
- 5:33Speaker 3: But Cleveland is going to need a really big win.
- 5:36Speaker 3: They're not super big favorites in this one, I don't think.
- 5:40Speaker 3: I think they're just yes six and a half points.
- 5:42Speaker 3: They would need like a plus twenty point win as well.
- 5:44Speaker 3: I think that they are trying to catch Miami for
- 5:46Speaker 3: that last wild card spot, so they could be team
- 5:50Speaker 3: to con I do think that they would be a
- 5:53Speaker 3: squad that they do kind of play these NBA Cup
- 5:56Speaker 3: games pretty straight up, so I think that they would
- 5:57Speaker 3: definitely want to win and in a pretty big fashion.
- 6:00Speaker 3: I think that kind of covers it for the NBA
- 6:03Speaker 3: Cups if there's three two really big games and then
- 6:06Speaker 3: a couple of teams need.
- 6:07Speaker 1: A lot to go, right.
- 6:10Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of been kicking myself for overstating the
- 6:13Speaker 3: appoorants of these NBA Cup games, but I feel like
- 6:15Speaker 3: this is one where it really does matter. So are
- 6:17Speaker 3: you are you thinking like leaning into those environments a
- 6:21Speaker 3: little bit more so than usual?
- 6:24Speaker 4: You know?
- 6:25Speaker 2: I think it makes sense too, but I still struggle
- 6:28Speaker 2: with it just because, like I also think that a
- 6:31Speaker 2: team like Atlanta on the other side of it, like
- 6:34Speaker 2: with no pressure, you know, not as much to play
- 6:37Speaker 2: for as a team like Cleveland. You know, you could
- 6:40Speaker 2: see the reverse happen, where like Atlanta plays really well
- 6:43Speaker 2: and that's fine and Cleveland doesn't play well. I'm not
- 6:44Speaker 2: necessarily saying that's what's gonna happen. I just still don't
- 6:48Speaker 2: want to over emphasize it personally.
- 6:51Speaker 4: That might be a mistake to night though.
- 6:55Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see. I mean, I think you could get
- 6:57Speaker 3: paid off in some pretty big ways, like if you
- 7:00Speaker 3: get the Orlando and Detroit stuff right, Like, I think
- 7:03Speaker 3: that we kind of know where the fantasy points are
- 7:04Speaker 3: coming from, and we know that they're going to be
- 7:06Speaker 3: running it up. So that's kind of one I think
- 7:08Speaker 3: is pretty important for me. But there are some really
- 7:10Speaker 3: really strong game environments. A couple of games have a
- 7:13Speaker 3: ton of value, so you don't really want to get
- 7:16Speaker 3: away from that just to get into some of these
- 7:18Speaker 3: scenarios a little bit more. I think that you're kind
- 7:20Speaker 3: of mix and matching some of these value plays with
- 7:22Speaker 3: teams that need to win in a pretty big play
- 7:24Speaker 3: is kind of how I'm viewing it.
- 7:26Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I'm with you as like tie breakers and
- 7:29Speaker 2: like maybe that's like you know, next level stuff, but
- 7:32Speaker 2: like ultimately NBA tfa's is such a price and projection
- 7:36Speaker 2: game that like, it's hard for me to take that
- 7:38Speaker 2: too much into account, and I will take stuff outside of.
- 7:41Speaker 4: Projections into account.
- 7:43Speaker 2: I'm just not sure that the NBA Cup is one
- 7:45Speaker 2: of them where I'm going to get to it at
- 7:46Speaker 2: least now yet.
- 7:48Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, well, let's shimp right into it at
- 7:51Speaker 3: the first game on this not with the first game,
- 7:53Speaker 3: but the first one that Saber has listed. All these
- 7:55Speaker 3: games start at the same time, but the Sixers taking
- 7:58Speaker 3: on the Nets in a road game for the Sixers
- 8:02Speaker 3: a lot of value in this game because both teams
- 8:04Speaker 3: are dealing with a lot of injuries. I'll start with
- 8:06Speaker 3: the Sixers side. You've got the main stuff with the
- 8:09Speaker 3: Joel Embiid being listed out, then you got VJ and
- 8:12Speaker 3: Kelly Ubrey both missing this game, and then Trendon Watford
- 8:14Speaker 3: looks like he's going to be out for probably one
- 8:17Speaker 3: to two weeks, I would imagine with the adductor strain.
- 8:19Speaker 3: So tough loss there for a team that's really thin
- 8:22Speaker 3: in the front court. They will be getting a dem
- 8:24Speaker 3: bone back, and they've kind of talked a lot about
- 8:27Speaker 3: dialing back Drummonds minutes just he's been playing a ton
- 8:30Speaker 3: of minutes lately. Then also you have a Q tag
- 8:32Speaker 3: on Paul George. I think that he's going to miss.
- 8:34Speaker 3: From what I've heard, he wasn't really doing much at
- 8:36Speaker 3: shoot around or in these practices. I think that he's
- 8:39Speaker 3: probably missing this game, so things could really tighten up
- 8:42Speaker 3: for a team that already runs a very tight rotation.
- 8:45Speaker 3: I think that there's definitely a lot to like on
- 8:47Speaker 3: the Sixers side, but from a matchup perspective, it's not
- 8:50Speaker 3: a great spot for guys that score a line in
- 8:53Speaker 3: the pick and rolls. I think, like MAXI is kind
- 8:55Speaker 3: of a guy that the usage and all the point
- 8:58Speaker 3: remanute stuff is going to look really good, but from
- 9:00Speaker 3: matchup perspective not great. With the Nets being the second
- 9:03Speaker 3: best pick and roll team in the league, they do
- 9:05Speaker 3: give a ton of transition scoring, so that could be
- 9:07Speaker 3: a spot for him to for him to get some
- 9:10Speaker 3: points up, but I think from the pick and roll perspective,
- 9:12Speaker 3: it's not looking great for him. Just the usage is
- 9:14Speaker 3: going to be very strong. And then on the net side,
- 9:18Speaker 3: we have out tags on camp Thomas still and then
- 9:21Speaker 3: Michael Porta junior is the big one that's going to
- 9:22Speaker 3: open up a starting spot for somebody, but it's also
- 9:25Speaker 3: go open up a lot of usage and ball handling.
- 9:27Speaker 3: Who that goes to I'm not really sure, but I'm
- 9:29Speaker 3: seeing a very very strong projection on Tyrese Martin here
- 9:33Speaker 3: as a six point three value. It's one of the
- 9:34Speaker 3: top ones on the slate. I'm not really sure how
- 9:38Speaker 3: he's the guy that really benefits the most. I kind
- 9:40Speaker 3: of feel like it's like Zayr Noah Clowney and even
- 9:43Speaker 3: like Igor and Terrence Manner can be the guys that
- 9:46Speaker 3: benefit from a role perspective more so. Always talk about
- 9:49Speaker 3: the Tyrre's Martin stuff like he's never chocked that I
- 9:51Speaker 3: really want to play into, especially if he's coming off
- 9:53Speaker 3: the bench, Like I don't really expect much to change there. Yeah,
- 9:57Speaker 3: I think there's a good amount to like in this game.
- 10:00Speaker 3: Got some spend up or you have a good spind up,
- 10:02Speaker 3: and then the mid tier looks pretty solid with guys
- 10:03Speaker 3: like Colaxton, Grimes and even Drummond as standout plays. How
- 10:06Speaker 3: are you viewing this game?
- 10:08Speaker 2: Yeah, we view it pretty similarly, to be perfectly honest,
- 10:11Speaker 2: as far as the Brooklyn side goes like, there is
- 10:14Speaker 2: gonna be a lot opening up with MPG out, but
- 10:18Speaker 2: you know, I don't really see it falling on one person,
- 10:20Speaker 2: and then certainly I don't see it falling directly.
- 10:22Speaker 4: On Tyrese Martin.
- 10:23Speaker 2: It doesn't mean he's a bad play at thirty six hundred,
- 10:25Speaker 2: but man, as like by far the highest on player
- 10:28Speaker 2: on the slate, I'm good there, Like if I were
- 10:31Speaker 2: playing one fifty, i'd have some But like I I'm
- 10:35Speaker 2: not looking to play him, like even at that price tag,
- 10:38Speaker 2: which is hard to find. He projects well, so I
- 10:41Speaker 2: get it, but as of like right now, I don't
- 10:43Speaker 2: want to play him at ownership. Things could change, certainly,
- 10:47Speaker 2: but that's where I stand right now. Like the rest
- 10:50Speaker 2: of the guys look better, but I don't think there's
- 10:52Speaker 2: any like locks on Brooklyn for me personally, clown he
- 10:56Speaker 2: would probably be my favorite. He's also getting a ton
- 10:58Speaker 2: of ownership though, I like you said in passing at
- 11:02Speaker 2: low ownership is Jegar demon forty one hundred. I think
- 11:07Speaker 2: that's a really nice pivot off of the Tyres Martin chalk.
- 11:10Speaker 2: I just think his game is much more conducive for dfs,
- 11:13Speaker 2: So give me him at a slight price increase, still
- 11:16Speaker 2: cheap over Tyree Martin.
- 11:18Speaker 4: And tournaments from the Philly side.
- 11:20Speaker 2: I think you said it best, like they're thin, but
- 11:24Speaker 2: Drummond doesn't look as good because bonus back and price
- 11:27Speaker 2: tags are up, Like Maxi's expensive. You mentioned the matchup
- 11:30Speaker 2: not being like Elite, but Maxi's always in play because
- 11:33Speaker 2: of the usage, usage, et cetera. I kind of did
- 11:36Speaker 2: grind as a pivot off of MAXI much cheaper, just
- 11:40Speaker 2: game theory. If MAXI doesn't get there all the way
- 11:43Speaker 2: someone does, and I think Grimes is a good candidate
- 11:45Speaker 2: to pick up a lot of that. I think they
- 11:47Speaker 2: could both easily get there, just Maxi's a lot more expensive.
- 11:51Speaker 2: And then McCain, I still think is in play even
- 11:53Speaker 2: with a slight price increase. Another Tyree s Martin pivot
- 11:56Speaker 2: that I just think is a much better basketball player
- 11:58Speaker 2: than Martin.
- 12:00Speaker 3: Yeah, you broke it down great. I agree with everything
- 12:02Speaker 3: you said there, especially the Quentin Grime stuff. Like somebody
- 12:06Speaker 3: outside of MAXI is going to have to score. Just
- 12:08Speaker 3: if they're running pick a roll, the nets always just
- 12:11Speaker 3: blitz the handler with two guys in the ball, and
- 12:13Speaker 3: that leaves open some of these secondary guys. The Grime's
- 12:16Speaker 3: going to be the clear guy that could get some
- 12:17Speaker 3: offense going and also have some playmaking abilities. I feel
- 12:20Speaker 3: like he is probably the best option on the Sixers
- 12:23Speaker 3: tonight if I had to pick one guy. But yeah,
- 12:26Speaker 3: I think that Maxi is for sure and play. And
- 12:28Speaker 3: then if Paul George were to miss agree with you
- 12:30Speaker 3: on the Jerem McCain stuff, I was super heavy on
- 12:32Speaker 3: him last night, I think I'd be pretty excited about
- 12:35Speaker 3: playing him again.
- 12:36Speaker 1: The role was really good.
- 12:37Speaker 3: I mean, he played a little bit in to blowout
- 12:39Speaker 3: which just kind of wasn't shooting the ball that great.
- 12:41Speaker 3: But you know, he's getting a ton of usage and
- 12:43Speaker 3: he got up to twenty five minutes last game, So
- 12:44Speaker 3: I think that this is a guy that they are
- 12:47Speaker 3: heavily invested into from a draft picks respective, So I
- 12:49Speaker 3: think they're going to want to get him up to
- 12:51Speaker 3: like twenty six eight twenty eight minute twenty eight minute
- 12:54Speaker 3: range just kind of as he gets back into basketball shape.
- 12:57Speaker 3: So he would be a guy I'm for sure looking
- 12:58Speaker 3: to pivot to use as a pivot off of the.
- 13:01Speaker 1: Tarbus Martin Shark for sure.
- 13:03Speaker 3: And then yeah, I agree with you, I think Clown
- 13:06Speaker 3: is the best option of the nets, like the iagor
- 13:08Speaker 3: Demon call, and.
- 13:09Speaker 1: I think Claxton's pretty good too. Drummond's not the great defender.
- 13:12Speaker 3: I'd kind of been looking to attack him with attack
- 13:15Speaker 3: the team with centers. I do like the Claston stuff.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Yeah, actually, like I mentioned Clowney because like the price
- 13:22Speaker 2: and stuff in the ownership.
- 13:23Speaker 4: But I'm with you. I think Claxon is my favorite.
- 13:25Speaker 2: Just I think he's the guy with with the upside
- 13:28Speaker 2: even at the highest priced tag, he could pick up,
- 13:31Speaker 2: like you know, he's not like a usage guy, but
- 13:34Speaker 2: even if he picks up a little bit, plays a
- 13:36Speaker 2: little bit more like this game. I don't want to
- 13:40Speaker 2: say it should be competitive, doesn't mean it will be
- 13:43Speaker 2: like Brooklyn can get blown out by anyone, certainly, but
- 13:46Speaker 2: you know, at home against the short handed Philly team, Like,
- 13:50Speaker 2: I'll give Brooklyn enough credit to stay at least competitive here,
- 13:53Speaker 2: and if they do, Claxton is likely to put up
- 13:56Speaker 2: a good score at that price tag.
- 13:57Speaker 4: I'm with you, yep.
- 14:00Speaker 3: I don't really think Dominic Barlow is going to be
- 14:02Speaker 3: needed tonight. It's Tren Walford is not like a guy
- 14:05Speaker 3: that moves the needle in terms of opening up a
- 14:07Speaker 3: ton of values. Just kind of you're getting a little
- 14:10Speaker 3: bit more playing time from war for but I don't.
- 14:12Speaker 1: Think that it's enough to be in consideration.
- 14:14Speaker 4: I think the guy would be Justin Edwards if anyone.
- 14:17Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, that should do it for that one.
- 14:20Speaker 1: That one.
- 14:21Speaker 3: The game definitely looks pretty good there. I did have
- 14:23Speaker 3: some rules I want to talk through, so if George
- 14:25Speaker 3: were to miss, I don't want more than two of
- 14:28Speaker 3: the Maxie, Grimes and McCain grouping because those are all
- 14:30Speaker 3: guys that are gonna be kind of vying for the
- 14:32Speaker 3: same stats. And then for the for the nets, I'm
- 14:37Speaker 3: gonna be Max one of Zaire Williams and Drake Powell.
- 14:40Speaker 3: I think one of those guys could start, and I
- 14:43Speaker 3: would be Max two of anybody that is going to
- 14:46Speaker 3: be getting some more ball handling, so that would be
- 14:48Speaker 3: Terrence man Iago dem and Tyree s Martin and Noah Clowney.
- 14:51Speaker 3: I think that would kind of cover things, and I
- 14:53Speaker 3: don't really get too much accumulative ownership on the net stuff.
- 14:59Speaker 3: Next game, really big game. Looks like Giannas will be
- 15:01Speaker 3: back for this one. In the Garden and got the
- 15:03Speaker 3: Bucks heading into New York. Take and the Knicks talked
- 15:06Speaker 3: about up top that this is a really big game
- 15:07Speaker 3: for both teams, but mainly for the Knicks because they
- 15:09Speaker 3: do have a chance to win their grouping. I'm going
- 15:13Speaker 3: to be very heavily invested into the Knicks tonight. I
- 15:17Speaker 3: like the matchup. I don't think that the Bucks are
- 15:18Speaker 3: playing that great defensively, and we've seen some of these
- 15:22Speaker 3: guys have a lot of success against the Bucks already
- 15:24Speaker 3: this season. Looks like Kat is going to be getting
- 15:27Speaker 3: a good amount of ownership all these guys are. But
- 15:29Speaker 3: I think that I'm gonna be underweight on Cat. I
- 15:31Speaker 3: just think that kind of what he does can be
- 15:33Speaker 3: minimized a little bit by the Bucks defensively, and with
- 15:38Speaker 3: Giannis potentially back, and if he's gonna be guarding him,
- 15:40Speaker 3: that does bring some flourius. I would be underweight on
- 15:42Speaker 3: Cat tonight and heavy overweight on like the Brunson, Heart
- 15:46Speaker 3: and Michel Bridges grouping. Probably gonna be playing a max
- 15:49Speaker 3: two of those guys, but I think they're all really
- 15:50Speaker 3: good for different reasons. Brunson has done very well against
- 15:53Speaker 3: the Bucks in his career with the Knicks, put up
- 15:56Speaker 3: thirty six real points and forty nine draftings points against them,
- 16:00Speaker 3: and towards the end of October this season, Josh Hart
- 16:03Speaker 3: is playing great right now, playing a ton of minutes,
- 16:04Speaker 3: and he does a lot of everything, so you could get,
- 16:07Speaker 3: you know, flirting with a triple double type of performance
- 16:10Speaker 3: from him. I think that's within the range of outcomes.
- 16:12Speaker 3: And then McHale Bridges had a huge game against the
- 16:14Speaker 3: Bucks earlier this season as well, but he's playing a
- 16:16Speaker 3: ton of minutes. I think in a game that has
- 16:18Speaker 3: a ton of importance for the Knicks, we could get
- 16:20Speaker 3: forty from Bridges, could get like thirty six, thirty seven
- 16:22Speaker 3: from Heart. I think Brunston could play like thirty seven
- 16:24Speaker 3: to thirty eight, and all those guys look really good.
- 16:27Speaker 3: So I like the Knicks side a lot, and I
- 16:29Speaker 3: think with Giannis coming back, takes pretty much everybody out
- 16:32Speaker 3: of consideration on the Bucks. For me, I don't think
- 16:35Speaker 3: I really want to go there for Yiannis either. On
- 16:36Speaker 3: the slate, I would assume that he's limited somewhat from
- 16:40Speaker 3: the groin injury, probably playing thirty minutes. I would have
- 16:43Speaker 3: to guess maybe thirty two is in the range of outcomes,
- 16:45Speaker 3: which is enough for him to put up a big score.
- 16:47Speaker 3: But I just don't really think that I need to
- 16:49Speaker 3: go there. I think that there's some better spend up options,
- 16:51Speaker 3: mainly at the guard position, but I do like the
- 16:53Speaker 3: Knicks stuff a lot. What are you thinking about in
- 16:55Speaker 3: this game?
- 16:56Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you certainly. On the Milwaukee side, nothing
- 17:00Speaker 2: plays like Giannis, sure, but no thanks for me not
- 17:03Speaker 2: looking to allocate that much salary on him in this
- 17:06Speaker 2: spot coming off the groin injury. No discount there, and
- 17:09Speaker 2: everyone else is priced up. On the Knix side, I
- 17:12Speaker 2: think they're all in play. My favorite is Brunson under
- 17:15Speaker 2: nine K. Now like price decrease for absolutely no reason.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Ownership is fine, nothing crazy. He'd be my favorite piece
- 17:23Speaker 2: for sure, but I think heart bridges. I like Towns like.
- 17:27Speaker 2: I don't think he's a must play, but I'm not
- 17:30Speaker 2: like looking to get away from Towns. Brunson's the one
- 17:32Speaker 2: guy that like, as of right now, I actively want
- 17:36Speaker 2: and I'm fine with like all the other guys there.
- 17:40Speaker 1: Yeah, Brunson does look really strong tonight.
- 17:43Speaker 3: Think that he's a price of considered, He's one of
- 17:45Speaker 3: the better options at the point guard. I think he's
- 17:47Speaker 3: a potential core plates and I do like the Knick
- 17:50Speaker 3: side a lot. All Right, Cleveland and Atlanta, Now this
- 17:55Speaker 3: is a huge game for Cleveland. They need a big,
- 17:57Speaker 3: big win to have any sort of chance to come
- 18:00Speaker 3: out of the out of their group or in the
- 18:02Speaker 3: wild card. It's kind of tough because I could see
- 18:05Speaker 3: if it's like a close game, they're I don't know,
- 18:07Speaker 3: like I don't think that we're getting more minutes than usual.
- 18:09Speaker 3: But if it's if they're winning a boy like ten
- 18:11Speaker 3: fifteen going into the fourth and they know how many
- 18:14Speaker 3: points that they need to win, like they we could
- 18:16Speaker 3: see Donovan Mitchell really chucking here. I think that he's
- 18:19Speaker 3: probably the best option on the Cavs side for me.
- 18:22Speaker 3: I don't really worry too much about Garland and Jared
- 18:25Speaker 3: Allen returning. I think that just kind of makes the
- 18:27Speaker 3: offense run a little bit more efficiently. But I think
- 18:29Speaker 3: that Donod Mitchell does have a good amount of upside here,
- 18:32Speaker 3: even in a tough matchup versus Dyson Daniels. The Hawk's
- 18:34Speaker 3: room defense has not been very good this season, and
- 18:37Speaker 3: he is a very drive heavy guards. I think that
- 18:39Speaker 3: he is a guy I do like a lot on
- 18:41Speaker 3: the Cleveland side.
- 18:43Speaker 1: Probably it for me.
- 18:44Speaker 3: I don't know if I really need to go there,
- 18:45Speaker 3: like the mobile stuff, he's too expensive Garland. You could
- 18:49Speaker 3: consider him because he will have a decent matchup with
- 18:52Speaker 3: Donald Mitchell being guarded by Dyson Daniels. That should leave
- 18:55Speaker 3: him with Niko Alexander Walker Anyw's a pretty solid defender,
- 18:58Speaker 3: but not as good as Dyson Dan and I think
- 19:01Speaker 3: Allen is probably in play at five point seven K.
- 19:03Speaker 3: I don't think that we're going to see like a
- 19:04Speaker 3: huge minutes increase from him, but twenty eight is probably enough.
- 19:09Speaker 3: The interesting thing for the Hawks is that Christaps Porzingis
- 19:12Speaker 3: was a mid day downgrade throughout the day with an illness.
- 19:15Speaker 3: I think that he's probably a very safe bets to miss,
- 19:19Speaker 3: which would open up a little bit of value. I
- 19:21Speaker 3: think and Kokongu does be come into play at six
- 19:23Speaker 3: point nine K, probably playing thirty two minutes a guy
- 19:25Speaker 3: that does really good Fantasy point per minute score, but
- 19:28Speaker 3: that would make Jalen Johnson a really strong option even
- 19:31Speaker 3: at nine point a K. I think that he's in
- 19:33Speaker 3: play regardless of Chris Tops availability. The Calves are bottom
- 19:37Speaker 3: two and DVP versus power forwards on the season, so
- 19:39Speaker 3: it's actually a pretty sneaky good matchup for a guy
- 19:41Speaker 3: with triple double upsides. I like him the most, but
- 19:44Speaker 3: that would open up some value. I mean Reese's shay
- 19:47Speaker 3: would look a little bit better. I think bit Crazy
- 19:49Speaker 3: might sink to the starting lineup. Actually know he wouldn't start,
- 19:51Speaker 3: but he would play a little bit more minutes and
- 19:53Speaker 3: then mo k would be the backup center. Now, but
- 19:57Speaker 3: I think the prices are pretty fair on the Hawks.
- 20:00Speaker 3: I think that Jalen is the only guy I'm really
- 20:01Speaker 3: prioritizing not to see what the minutes and projection looks
- 20:05Speaker 3: like for everybody else. So I feel like a Congo
- 20:06Speaker 3: would be a guy i'd look to. Not the best
- 20:10Speaker 3: game overall, but there is some upside in this one.
- 20:13Speaker 3: How are you viewing this game?
- 20:15Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm mostly with you. I do like the Atlanta
- 20:19Speaker 4: side more than the Cleveland side.
- 20:21Speaker 2: You've got me a little hesitant there because of the
- 20:23Speaker 2: NBA Cup, you know, relevance for Cleveland. But man, they're
- 20:26Speaker 2: getting guys back, like Mobiley is better with Garland, but
- 20:31Speaker 2: now you have Alan back, and he's expensive, Like not
- 20:34Speaker 2: really interested in that. I think Mitchell is the guy
- 20:37Speaker 2: from Cleveland just because you know he's expensive.
- 20:40Speaker 4: But if he's shooting.
- 20:41Speaker 2: Well and chucks like we think he might hear he
- 20:45Speaker 2: can pay off ninety six hundred, So you know, I
- 20:47Speaker 2: think he's the guy from Cleveland from the Atlanta side,
- 20:51Speaker 2: like Jalen Johnson, looks like another guy that is a
- 20:54Speaker 2: potential core play for me.
- 20:55Speaker 4: I mean he's that on almost every slate.
- 20:58Speaker 2: Just look at the production Trey Young's out, even when
- 21:01Speaker 2: Trey Young's in, but it's certainly when he's out, Like
- 21:03Speaker 2: Johnson is just that guy. He does everything good matchup.
- 21:08Speaker 2: I think Atlanta could easily play spoiler in this game.
- 21:11Speaker 2: So I like him a ton. And then if Porzingis
- 21:15Speaker 2: is out and we see how Congo start there, like
- 21:17Speaker 2: he's a priority for me at sixty nine hundred. I
- 21:20Speaker 2: mean we've read this book before and he's just a
- 21:23Speaker 2: very very productive player when he gets minutes. So now
- 21:26Speaker 2: under seven k again, I mean he was dropping forty plus.
- 21:30Speaker 4: Often, like regularly a couple of weeks ago in this
- 21:33Speaker 4: same spot.
- 21:34Speaker 2: So Jalen Johnson and Okongwu and then I think other
- 21:38Speaker 2: guys are in play, you know, depending on who's who's out,
- 21:41Speaker 2: like we're depending on the Porzingis news.
- 21:46Speaker 3: Yeah, Akong was going to be pretty good. It was
- 21:48Speaker 3: looking at his numbers with Chris tops out the season
- 21:51Speaker 3: averaging just over forty one DraftKings points. A lot of
- 21:53Speaker 3: that is kind of weighted to him having two really
- 21:56Speaker 3: big games against Utah and Phoenix at sixty two and
- 21:59Speaker 3: forty eight against them, But yeah, you know, he's a
- 22:01Speaker 3: really solid player, and he's playing a ton of minutes too.
- 22:03Speaker 3: If Chris Ops is out, like probably playing thirty five.
- 22:06Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I'm just a big fan. You're to
- 22:10Speaker 2: your point. It is waited by those two big games
- 22:12Speaker 2: out West. I remember those, but he's been productive in
- 22:15Speaker 2: other spots too. And now price tag, he's not cheap,
- 22:18Speaker 2: but it's dropped a little bit since Porzinkis is back.
- 22:20Speaker 2: He was like, I don't know, I think at least
- 22:22Speaker 2: seventy two hundred, so a little bit of a decrease
- 22:25Speaker 2: of nothing else.
- 22:27Speaker 3: Kind of funny that he's more expensive than Chris SUPs
- 22:30Speaker 3: when Chris Ups has.
- 22:31Speaker 4: Been starting, Yeah, that is funny.
- 22:33Speaker 2: I guess the salaries haven't fully like even out yet.
- 22:37Speaker 2: So like he's not as good of a play as
- 22:39Speaker 2: he might have been in like a week, But I
- 22:42Speaker 2: still like him, and I don't think he gets much ownership.
- 22:45Speaker 3: Yeah, it can't can't get too high. I think people
- 22:47Speaker 3: might be a little scared off about that price tag,
- 22:49Speaker 3: but I definitely would not be h what's up, coach sev.
- 22:52Speaker 1: How's it going? Rooky? Sounds like a good time over there?
- 22:56Speaker 1: Is it called over there on the East coast? Now?
- 22:58Speaker 1: I don't know if you're taking the east, but.
- 23:01Speaker 2: Yeah, we're technically Midwest, but like we're close enough, and
- 23:05Speaker 2: we're on the lake. So weather got nasty here yesterday
- 23:08Speaker 2: in the day before.
- 23:09Speaker 4: A ton of snow. It's cold, so yeah, it took
- 23:12Speaker 4: a while to get here, but it's finally here.
- 23:14Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 23:16Speaker 3: I won't mention how it's like seventy two degrees right
- 23:19Speaker 3: now in Los Angeles and sunny, but.
- 23:21Speaker 4: We lost connection for a minute, don't wor I didn't
- 23:23Speaker 4: hear you.
- 23:25Speaker 1: All right?
- 23:26Speaker 3: I think that does it for that game. Next one
- 23:28Speaker 3: is the biggest one in slate Orlando and Detroit. I
- 23:32Speaker 3: think there's definitely a lot to like about these games
- 23:34Speaker 3: or about this game. From a few sides. The matchup
- 23:37Speaker 3: is really good for CAID. I do think that Jalen
- 23:40Speaker 3: Sucks is a really good defender, but they leave them
- 23:42Speaker 3: on an island a lot of the time. So we've
- 23:44Speaker 3: seen teams that are very pick and roll heavy have
- 23:47Speaker 3: good games against the Magic. The Torontos are sorry. The
- 23:50Speaker 3: Magic are bottom seven in pick and roll defense this season,
- 23:54Speaker 3: and then they allow the second most points for game
- 23:56Speaker 3: to opposing point guards bottom eight DVP, so a pretty
- 23:59Speaker 3: good spot there. Caid coming off of a really big
- 24:01Speaker 3: game last time out forty two points sixty three and
- 24:04Speaker 3: a half DK points. I think he's one of my
- 24:06Speaker 3: favorite spans on the slate, even at the elevated price
- 24:09Speaker 3: tag at ten point four K, but he's shown that
- 24:10Speaker 3: he can pay it off, and I think that you
- 24:12Speaker 3: get the NBA Cup matchup boost where maybe we get
- 24:16Speaker 3: two to three extra minutes from him, which is huge
- 24:19Speaker 3: for a guy that's a really solid permittent producer. So
- 24:21Speaker 3: he's probably the only guy I'm looking to on Detroit.
- 24:24Speaker 3: I think you could make the case for Durham for
- 24:26Speaker 3: the same reason, but they're not really trying to push
- 24:28Speaker 3: his minutes up as much with the team getting healthy.
- 24:31Speaker 3: I think it's a decent price tag for ASR, so
- 24:33Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind keep him in the playpool, but a
- 24:35Speaker 3: lot of the things that he does well, Orlando is
- 24:37Speaker 3: pretty good at defending, so I think it's just Kaid
- 24:39Speaker 3: for Detroit for me, and then I have a lot
- 24:41Speaker 3: of interest in Franz, Baine, and Suggs, and I think
- 24:44Speaker 3: you want no more than two of those guys. But
- 24:47Speaker 3: I do think that two you can get some lines
- 24:49Speaker 3: of two of them that look pretty good. I'm gonna
- 24:51Speaker 3: be running their minutes closer to very full, which would
- 24:53Speaker 3: be around I would say thirty eight for Franz and Baine.
- 24:56Speaker 3: We've seen Baye touch forty in some of these NBA
- 24:58Speaker 3: Cup games, and then I think at like thirty four
- 25:00Speaker 3: minutes looks like one of the better point be dollar
- 25:04Speaker 3: plays in the entire slate. I don't think that any
- 25:07Speaker 3: of them really have a great matchup. In particular, Detroit
- 25:09Speaker 3: is kind of about below average transition defense, so I
- 25:14Speaker 3: guess Franz and Bain could pop off there, but both
- 25:17Speaker 3: of them are kind of guys that look to score
- 25:19Speaker 3: around the basket. Detroit's been one of the best room
- 25:21Speaker 3: defenses in the league, so I think that the main
- 25:24Speaker 3: appeal is just getting a little bit more minutes from
- 25:26Speaker 3: these guys. I think Suggs are my favorite than I
- 25:28Speaker 3: have Bain and Franz as two and three, But mainly
- 25:31Speaker 3: it's just a pricing thing. But yeah, I do like
- 25:34Speaker 3: this game a lot. How do you feel about this one?
- 25:37Speaker 2: I think you like it slightly more than me, But yeah,
- 25:41Speaker 2: a lot of NBA Cup implications here. If you're giving
- 25:44Speaker 2: these guys a couple more minutes, then makes them look
- 25:46Speaker 2: a lot better. The thing that intrigues me about Kate
- 25:49Speaker 2: is like he projects fine at ten to four and
- 25:52Speaker 2: he's getting modest ownership. Nothing crazy, but I mean he's
- 25:55Speaker 2: got slate breaking upside and there aren't that many guys
- 25:58Speaker 2: on this slate with that. We talked about one in
- 26:00Speaker 2: Jalen Johnson, but no Jokic Giannis has it, but he's
- 26:05Speaker 2: expensive and you know, potentially limited coming off injury. So
- 26:09Speaker 2: you know, Kate has the potentially the highest scorer on
- 26:11Speaker 2: the slate and he's not going to get a ton
- 26:13Speaker 2: of ownership. That intrigues me. Yeah, I think you're kind
- 26:19Speaker 2: of just spot on all around in this entire game.
- 26:24Speaker 2: From the Orlando side, I'm with you. I just order
- 26:27Speaker 2: them different. I think I think Suggs is my favorite.
- 26:31Speaker 2: I just really like him, especially in big games like this.
- 26:34Speaker 2: He's playing really really well, was absolutely smashing last time
- 26:37Speaker 2: out against the Sixers before he got ejected. I like
- 26:42Speaker 2: Franz just because like the small forward position stinks.
- 26:47Speaker 4: So you know, if all things were equal, maybe I
- 26:51Speaker 4: would have him last. But I think I actually have
- 26:53Speaker 4: Bane last where you have him first.
- 26:55Speaker 2: But to your point, it's all really close, and I
- 26:57Speaker 2: think they're all really good plays, especially if they're giving
- 26:59Speaker 2: them a more minutes each.
- 27:02Speaker 1: I had it, I had suggs Bane than Franz.
- 27:04Speaker 2: Oh, okay, cool, so we both have Sucks first. I
- 27:07Speaker 2: thought you had Bane first and Sugs last for some reason.
- 27:10Speaker 3: Not yea vice versa, but I have I have been
- 27:12Speaker 3: ahead of Franz, but mainly just the pricing thing. But
- 27:15Speaker 3: like you said, I mean, small forward is pretty pretty
- 27:17Speaker 3: bad tonight. So he makes a lot of sense just
- 27:19Speaker 3: feeling in a weak position, like a forty five point
- 27:22Speaker 3: game from him is gonna be I think that goes
- 27:24Speaker 3: a long way on the slate. I think it'd be.
- 27:29Speaker 3: I think he'll be on Bane. I think they might
- 27:30Speaker 3: put to bias on Franz, but it could be could
- 27:34Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be one of Franz or Bane
- 27:36Speaker 3: that that Caesar. Sorry, I think Franz makes the most sense, though,
- 27:42Speaker 3: I'm not sure. Do you have any you have any
- 27:43Speaker 3: thoughts on that one.
- 27:45Speaker 2: Not really, just since there rotations a little bit murky
- 27:50Speaker 2: with the guys being out for so long, like I
- 27:52Speaker 2: haven't really seen enough of it, so I'm not positive.
- 27:55Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm not sure. I don't I know, Actually,
- 28:00Speaker 3: I don't really know. I think I'm not really going
- 28:02Speaker 3: to be looking into that too much because I saw
- 28:05Speaker 3: I can only play so many minutes, whereas they're probably
- 28:08Speaker 3: going to see a handful of minutes without him on
- 28:10Speaker 3: the court, So it doesn't really matter too much for me.
- 28:14Speaker 3: I think that does it for this game. I guess
- 28:16Speaker 3: I should shut out Anthony Black. He's been playing really well.
- 28:18Speaker 3: I don't think you need to go there. In this lay,
- 28:20Speaker 3: there's a lot of pretty good value.
- 28:22Speaker 2: He got bumped a time with Sugs getting thrown out
- 28:24Speaker 2: last game till yeah.
- 28:28Speaker 3: All right, this game, I think this is the highest
- 28:29Speaker 3: total on the slate Bulls and Hornets. A lot of
- 28:34Speaker 3: injury stuff on the bull side, with questionable attacks on
- 28:38Speaker 3: Nikola Vusovich, Kevin Herder and Patrick Williams. We have doubtful
- 28:42Speaker 3: tags on Isaaca korro On Dale Terry, so it doesn't
- 28:44Speaker 3: really change too much. But obviously the Voch news is
- 28:47Speaker 3: huge because that should open up a starting spot. I
- 28:50Speaker 3: don't think that they should or would go back to
- 28:52Speaker 3: Patrick Williams as the at the five, just with how
- 28:56Speaker 3: bad that went out that went for them.
- 28:59Speaker 1: They need a lot.
- 28:59Speaker 3: More rimp protection, and I think that the Hornets could
- 29:02Speaker 3: definitely get to the basket if it is gonna be
- 29:04Speaker 3: Patrick Williams down low. But yeah, this is this is
- 29:07Speaker 3: one that could shake up the sleeve because you're gonna
- 29:09Speaker 3: get a ton of value and just a lot of
- 29:11Speaker 3: these guys are gonna look a lot better. I think
- 29:13Speaker 3: as the stands right now, Giddy is the guy that
- 29:15Speaker 3: I'm prioritizing on Chicago because he's another spend up point
- 29:19Speaker 3: guard with slaveh breaking upside. I don't really think that
- 29:22Speaker 3: anything about the matchup stands out in a huge way.
- 29:25Speaker 3: The Hornets are pretty much like below average and essentially
- 29:28Speaker 3: every category, but they are one of the worst half
- 29:30Speaker 3: court defenses in the league, So that's kind of better
- 29:32Speaker 3: for a guy at Giddy, So I like him the most.
- 29:36Speaker 3: And the Bulls are just like a train wreck on
- 29:38Speaker 3: defense right now. Just give him a ton of points
- 29:39Speaker 3: at the basket. So it's a pretty good spot for
- 29:41Speaker 3: guys that are scoring around the rim. I would say
- 29:43Speaker 3: Brandon Miller and Cockrenner are the two guys that stand
- 29:46Speaker 3: out in the biggest way for me, But Bridges too,
- 29:48Speaker 3: I think is a pretty solid option. I think Brandon
- 29:51Speaker 3: Miller might be my favorite option on the hornet side.
- 29:53Speaker 3: Him and Cockbrenner are surprisingly negatively correlated, So I don't
- 29:57Speaker 3: think I'm gonna be playing more than one of those guys,
- 29:59Speaker 3: and for sure not and of not more than one
- 30:01Speaker 3: of Kchrinner diabate. But I do think Brandon Miller getting healthier,
- 30:05Speaker 3: good price tag, good matchup is my favorite option on
- 30:07Speaker 3: the hornet side. Yeah, and then we just have to
- 30:12Speaker 3: see what the starting lineup and who's going to benefit
- 30:14Speaker 3: the most from these questionable tags being out, because if
- 30:17Speaker 3: if Booch's out and if Patrick Williams is out, I
- 30:19Speaker 3: mean that's they're pretty much left with just Jalen Smith
- 30:22Speaker 3: and that's it at the front court really, because Noah
- 30:26Speaker 3: Sengue is in the G League right now, so they'd
- 30:28Speaker 3: be they'd be extremely thin, like they might have to
- 30:30Speaker 3: play Jalen Smith thirty four minutes, like he'd be a
- 30:34Speaker 3: lock at his price tag. I don't even know what
- 30:35Speaker 3: it is, but I'd probably play him at like five
- 30:38Speaker 3: point five k percent if I knew that he was starting.
- 30:41Speaker 4: Yeah, he's forty nine hundred.
- 30:42Speaker 1: But yeah, that's that's a good price tag.
- 30:44Speaker 2: Definitely, so a real good tag here. I'm with you
- 30:47Speaker 2: all over, you know, from the bull side. The one
- 30:51Speaker 2: guy you didn't mention that I like, which just seems
- 30:53Speaker 2: like the big game is coming, is Kobe White, another
- 30:56Speaker 2: one of.
- 30:56Speaker 4: Your Carolina guys.
- 30:57Speaker 2: I just think this is a good spot for him
- 30:59Speaker 2: just from a standpoint of high total.
- 31:02Speaker 4: You know, potentially lack of defense in this game. He
- 31:04Speaker 4: thrives in those spots. So I like Giddy more, but
- 31:08Speaker 4: he's two k more. So I like both those guys,
- 31:11Speaker 4: especially if Booch's out. I think you can play both
- 31:13Speaker 4: of them together. And then if Booch's out Jalen Smith,
- 31:17Speaker 4: Locke at.
- 31:17Speaker 2: Forty nine hundred for me, presuming he's starting, which I
- 31:20Speaker 2: think he will be, and then I think you can
- 31:23Speaker 2: look at like.
- 31:24Speaker 4: To soon mouh. I don't know how much you know.
- 31:29Speaker 2: We'll see who else is out for the Bulls on
- 31:31Speaker 2: how like deep we want to get there, But as
- 31:34Speaker 2: of now, Kobe White, Giddy, Jalen Smith, three guys I'm
- 31:37Speaker 2: looking at hard and then I'm also with you on Charlotte.
- 31:39Speaker 2: Brandon Miller by far my favorite guy, and it's hard
- 31:43Speaker 2: for me to get to anyone else here because of
- 31:45Speaker 2: Brandon Miller being back.
- 31:50Speaker 3: Yep, I agree with you there. Yeah, the bull stuff
- 31:52Speaker 3: is going to look really good if we get any
- 31:56Speaker 3: of these Q tags being listed out. I think that
- 31:58Speaker 3: Io would be a really strong you played, but I
- 32:00Speaker 3: would be just kind of thoughtful about how I'm playing them.
- 32:05Speaker 3: I think that the guys like Giddy, Kobe, and Io
- 32:07Speaker 3: probably negatively correlates I don't, and you're also taking up
- 32:10Speaker 3: a ton of salary and a ton of guard positionaliti.
- 32:13Speaker 3: So I would probably be a max two of those
- 32:14Speaker 3: three guys.
- 32:16Speaker 1: And then I think Jenn.
- 32:16Speaker 3: Smith would be like nearly a lock if if Bush
- 32:19Speaker 3: does get ruled out. Yeah, same, And then you could
- 32:23Speaker 3: consider guys like Javon Carter like he he played pretty
- 32:25Speaker 3: well the last time they were they had an injury situation.
- 32:28Speaker 3: He's gonna have to play a good bit if if
- 32:30Speaker 3: herd Or misses, so I think that he'd be in
- 32:33Speaker 3: play too at three point two K if we if
- 32:34Speaker 3: we needed that star, I don't really think that you
- 32:36Speaker 3: would need to go that low there, but we'll see.
- 32:39Speaker 4: Yeah, he's had big games in the past for sure.
- 32:42Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if this is who he's talking about.
- 32:45Speaker 3: It might be me, but let me know if it's
- 32:47Speaker 3: if that's that's me or if that's something else. I
- 32:52Speaker 3: think that that might be your mic. I'm to hear
- 32:54Speaker 3: a little little feedback on your end.
- 32:57Speaker 4: That might be better because I had the fan on
- 32:59Speaker 4: in the background.
- 33:00Speaker 1: Yeah, that's definitely a lot better.
- 33:01Speaker 2: There we go.
- 33:03Speaker 1: Thoughts on Diabate if no Vouch, I don't I mean,
- 33:07Speaker 1: those guys are on different teams.
- 33:08Speaker 3: I don't know if you just mean, like in terms
- 33:10Speaker 3: of the matchup getting better. I think if no Vouch,
- 33:13Speaker 3: you're going to Jalen Smith and that's probably it for
- 33:16Speaker 3: for the center of stuff. I prefer Cock Brunner over Diabati,
- 33:19Speaker 3: just because I think the minutes are better.
- 33:20Speaker 2: There.
- 33:23Speaker 3: See, if there's any other questions I missed, I think
- 33:28Speaker 3: that's it all right. Last game on the slate. This
- 33:32Speaker 3: one's getting a ton of ownership, and for a good reason.
- 33:34Speaker 3: Two really bad defenses Washington and Indiana facing off. No
- 33:38Speaker 3: NBA Cup importance in this one, just they're they're out
- 33:40Speaker 3: of it. Too bad teams facing off and really good
- 33:42Speaker 3: matchups all over the place. So huge outings from a
- 33:46Speaker 3: lot of these Washington guys last time out as Keishon
- 33:49Speaker 3: George missed, but he is questionable again. I feel like
- 33:52Speaker 3: he's probably returning. He's been out for like four or
- 33:55Speaker 3: five days, so he should be should be healthy from
- 33:57Speaker 3: the illness that kept him out court. Kispert is going
- 34:01Speaker 3: to miss some time with the thumb injury, so that
- 34:03Speaker 3: should open up some minutes in the wing and guard
- 34:05Speaker 3: position for probably Bob Carrington and Justin Champagnee. I would
- 34:08Speaker 3: imagine pretty I mean, Kim Whitmore is down so bad
- 34:11Speaker 3: right now to just like a team that was really
- 34:13Speaker 3: thin last time, winning by forty.
- 34:15Speaker 1: He couldn't even get on the court. So teams just
- 34:17Speaker 1: don't like him.
- 34:19Speaker 3: I guess I don't really know why, but I think
- 34:21Speaker 3: the guys that you're really focusing on for Washington, I
- 34:24Speaker 3: think it's really just Sar. Somebody mentioned the chat he
- 34:27Speaker 3: played thirty seven minutes last game, which was great to see.
- 34:30Speaker 3: I think we're starting to get him to play like
- 34:31Speaker 3: thirty three thirty four on a consistent basis. He's pretty
- 34:34Speaker 3: under priced for a guy that's really improved in a
- 34:36Speaker 3: lot of areas and it's just a great matchup, But
- 34:39Speaker 3: the Pacers are bottom two in room defense. He's been
- 34:41Speaker 3: scoring really well around the basket, rebound the ball well,
- 34:44Speaker 3: has really good chemistry with CJ and Middleton. So I
- 34:47Speaker 3: think that there's a lot to like about Alex Sar
- 34:50Speaker 3: in this matchup if those guys, if Kishan's or kaish
- 34:53Speaker 3: On George is in, he's going to be the only
- 34:55Speaker 3: guy I look to Alex Aar, but if he's out,
- 34:57Speaker 3: I'm totally fine going back to CJ and Middleton and
- 35:00Speaker 3: end Coolibali. I think they all are pretty good, have
- 35:02Speaker 3: good amount of upside at their respective price tags. I
- 35:04Speaker 3: would probably say that CJ is my favorite because we
- 35:08Speaker 3: saw a really big role from him. Kind of all
- 35:11Speaker 3: you did was shoot that last of them. I didn'ertally
- 35:12Speaker 3: add a ton of the perfele stuff, but I think
- 35:14Speaker 3: he'll be ask or tasked to do a little bit
- 35:17Speaker 3: more of the handling and playmaking, so I would like
- 35:19Speaker 3: him the most. But then I'm totally fine with Middleton
- 35:21Speaker 3: cool of Bali again at four point six and five
- 35:24Speaker 3: point one, okay, I think that the minutes are much
- 35:26Speaker 3: safer for Koli Bali like he's got the chance to
- 35:28Speaker 3: play thirty four, whereas Middleton, I doubt is topping thirty.
- 35:32Speaker 3: So I would lean Koli Bali. But I think all
- 35:34Speaker 3: those guys are pretty good. And then the Pacers stuff.
- 35:37Speaker 3: I'll let you break down the Pacers. I think that
- 35:39Speaker 3: this is a really good spot for a lot of
- 35:40Speaker 3: these guys.
- 35:41Speaker 2: Yeah, I like the Indiana side more than the Washington side,
- 35:44Speaker 2: presuming George is in. If George is in from Washington,
- 35:47Speaker 2: I like saw the most and then George and then
- 35:51Speaker 2: not a ton else. If George's out, I think you
- 35:53Speaker 2: can look at all the other guys you mentioned from
- 35:55Speaker 2: the Indiana side. I mean some of the best players
- 35:59Speaker 2: on the slate. I think you could load up on
- 36:01Speaker 2: Indiana here, TJ McConnell and Jay Huff, you know, getting
- 36:05Speaker 2: a lot of ownership. I much prefer them over the
- 36:08Speaker 2: Brooklyn guys, like much cheaper. I trust them more. I
- 36:11Speaker 2: think they could outscore the Brooklyn guys at cheaper tags combined.
- 36:15Speaker 2: So give me McConnell easily over Tyrese Martin at the
- 36:19Speaker 2: same ownership, Jay Huff over Clowney at the same ownership.
- 36:23Speaker 2: I like Indiana a lot here Benedict Mathrin at sixty
- 36:26Speaker 2: eight hundred.
- 36:27Speaker 4: This seems like a good spot for him to go off.
- 36:29Speaker 2: Nice slate for like the kind of mid tier expensive
- 36:32Speaker 2: ish build with like mathern Kobe White, guys like between
- 36:36Speaker 2: sixty five and eight k, you know, Pascal under nine k. Now, Like,
- 36:41Speaker 2: I don't love it, but good spot for all of Indiana.
- 36:45Speaker 2: Nem Hard I think is a good play, especially as like,
- 36:49Speaker 2: you know, completely different price point than McConnell, but you
- 36:52Speaker 2: know mcconnald's gonna get so much ownership.
- 36:54Speaker 4: Them hard, won't.
- 36:55Speaker 2: Jeris Walker started starting recently forty three hundred positional eligibility.
- 37:02Speaker 2: I think he's the logical small forward for me right now.
- 37:05Speaker 2: I like Indiana a ton here. I mean, there isn't
- 37:08Speaker 2: much not to like, uh, and they're bad enough where
- 37:12Speaker 2: Washington is more likely, especially at home, to keep this
- 37:15Speaker 2: game competitive. So give me all the Indiana in this spot.
- 37:19Speaker 1: Yeah, agree with you there.
- 37:20Speaker 3: I think Siakim is my least favorite, and it's not
- 37:22Speaker 3: really just the pricing thing. I think that he's gonna
- 37:25Speaker 3: be guarded by Bolo Coulibali, who's a really good defender,
- 37:28Speaker 3: just locked down. Jalen Johnson as well, so I think
- 37:30Speaker 3: that he's got the most working against him. But I
- 37:33Speaker 3: think that Ben Matheren is great at six point a K.
- 37:35Speaker 3: I think that a lot of things that he does
- 37:37Speaker 3: well could really shine in this matchup. Really good at
- 37:39Speaker 3: scoring around the basket, really good transition scores.
- 37:42Speaker 1: I love Matherin. Yeah, I don't know. I'm kind of
- 37:46Speaker 1: trying to figure ot what to do with Nemhard because
- 37:48Speaker 1: he looks like a pretty solid option, but normally I
- 37:51Speaker 1: don't really want to pair him with TJ. But if
- 37:53Speaker 1: I said a maximum rule, it's going to be.
- 37:55Speaker 3: All TJ because he just projects like such a better
- 37:58Speaker 3: value play. But I do want some Nemharts. I don't
- 38:01Speaker 3: really know if I want to set that rule tonight.
- 38:02Speaker 3: Maybe just be like a MAX two of Matherin, Nemhart
- 38:05Speaker 3: and TJ makes more sense, and then I would be
- 38:09Speaker 3: max one of Jarris and Ben Sheppard. But if you
- 38:12Speaker 3: are in the artist order, you know that we're not
- 38:13Speaker 3: playing Ben Shepard, so you just x him out and
- 38:16Speaker 3: then I would be Max one of Isaiah Jackson and Jayhoff.
- 38:19Speaker 3: Jayhuff is more appealing because he does have the power
- 38:21Speaker 3: forward eligibility, but I think that the matchup could lean
- 38:25Speaker 3: more Isaiah Jackson. I feel like he just matches up
- 38:28Speaker 3: a little bit better with Alex Saris. I wouldn't be
- 38:30Speaker 3: surprised if we see the minutes kind of creep a
- 38:32Speaker 3: little bit more in his direction and you're getting him
- 38:33Speaker 3: at a fraction of the ownership. The only issue is
- 38:35Speaker 3: that he's just center eligible. But that's kind of a
- 38:38Speaker 3: decently big leverage spot to get away from the Jayhoff
- 38:42Speaker 3: jock in favor of Isaiah Jackson.
- 38:44Speaker 4: Real good leverage.
- 38:45Speaker 2: Like there's a lot of reasons why to like Hoff
- 38:48Speaker 2: more production, his recent production, the price tag, the power
- 38:54Speaker 2: forward eligibility most of all, but man, there is real
- 38:57Speaker 2: leverage there for sure.
- 39:02Speaker 3: MAX two of those Washington four guys, I think you
- 39:06Speaker 3: could probably be a Max two of Washington and that
- 39:08Speaker 3: should cover everything for you. I don't I don't think
- 39:12Speaker 3: that there would be scenarios where I want three of
- 39:13Speaker 3: these guys. Actually no, I would be okay with three,
- 39:18Speaker 3: because this could be a game that just is the
- 39:19Speaker 3: one that you have to have if the other ones
- 39:21Speaker 3: kind of disappoint. So I want to be surprised if,
- 39:24Speaker 3: like especially if Pishan George gets ruled out. I would
- 39:27Speaker 3: not be a max two of those of the Washington stuff,
- 39:29Speaker 3: because these guys are going to project really well.
- 39:31Speaker 1: Like you could get three of C. J.
- 39:33Speaker 3: Middleton, cool of Bali and then Sar and then you
- 39:36Speaker 3: could even start considering like Bub Carrington and Justin Champagne.
- 39:39Speaker 3: Champagnee would probably be the guy that's starting. So yeah, definitely,
- 39:42Speaker 3: I don't think that would be a max two of
- 39:44Speaker 3: those guys, but just be kind of mindful of how
- 39:46Speaker 3: those teams look like if you're playing three Washington guys,
- 39:49Speaker 3: you should probably have one to two Indiana guys and
- 39:52Speaker 3: just kind of play into this game being really high
- 39:55Speaker 3: scoring and close, is how I would I would view that.
- 39:57Speaker 1: You have any thoughts there.
- 40:00Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that makes makes logical sense.
- 40:03Speaker 2: The flip side of it would be like, oftentimes winning
- 40:07Speaker 2: tournaments aren't logical, so like you know, there's certainly pads
- 40:13Speaker 2: where like Indiana or Washington here scores like one point
- 40:17Speaker 2: forty and the other team you know, doesn't do that
- 40:20Speaker 2: well and even though you might lose a little bit
- 40:22Speaker 2: of run, like multiple guys get there. But to your point,
- 40:25Speaker 2: like if I'm making a lineup, yeah, that makes a
- 40:27Speaker 2: lot of sense.
- 40:32Speaker 3: Probably I would say, yes, Walker does need to be
- 40:34Speaker 3: starting to be playable, but he should be starting now.
- 40:37Speaker 3: I think he's kind of proven it pretty solid coach speak.
- 40:39Speaker 1: So.
- 40:41Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, and I agree that yes, and yes.
- 40:45Speaker 3: We don't have news on Nemhart yet, but all these
- 40:47Speaker 3: games lack at the same time, so we'll have plenty
- 40:49Speaker 3: of time to adjust. I would I didn't really even
- 40:51Speaker 3: touch on this because like, if Nemhard is out, you
- 40:54Speaker 3: should play Tejer McConnell one hundred percent of your lineups,
- 40:57Speaker 3: like just don't even don't overthink it. I would be
- 41:00Speaker 3: setting the lock button and my one to fifty max
- 41:02Speaker 3: with TJ because the very low end, you're probably getting
- 41:05Speaker 3: like twenty eight from him, and you're probably getting closer
- 41:08Speaker 3: to forty. I would imagine if he's starting.
- 41:11Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's gonna he's gonna be like close
- 41:15Speaker 2: to one hundred percent owned, and he's should be one
- 41:18Speaker 2: hundred percent owned.
- 41:19Speaker 4: So I'm totally with you there.
- 41:23Speaker 3: I feel like five, like five is probably good in
- 41:25Speaker 3: this game. I think six might be getting a little
- 41:27Speaker 3: too much, But it also depends, like if we get
- 41:30Speaker 3: a lot of value from these guys the Q tags,
- 41:32Speaker 3: if they're out, then five to six honestly feels like
- 41:35Speaker 3: where i'd want to be.
- 41:37Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you, and then I will just say,
- 41:39Speaker 2: like from a tournament perspective, you and I want all
- 41:41Speaker 2: the Indiana. Like there are also pads where this game
- 41:44Speaker 2: just duds because these teams stink. So you see it
- 41:48Speaker 2: like sometimes these games are high scoring, not a lot
- 41:51Speaker 2: of defense, turnovers, and then other times just no team
- 41:55Speaker 2: can hit a shot because these teams aren't good.
- 41:57Speaker 4: So like, I really do see it both ways. Actually
- 42:00Speaker 4: on a slate like this where even though there are some.
- 42:03Speaker 2: Other games where the spots might not be as good
- 42:05Speaker 2: and the defense might be better, there's just better players
- 42:08Speaker 2: and they're playing for more, as you've talked about with
- 42:11Speaker 2: the NBA Cup, So I think there's like a lot
- 42:14Speaker 2: of game theory.
- 42:16Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 42:17Speaker 3: Absolutely, that does it for the main slate for DraftKings.
- 42:21Speaker 3: I don't know if you have any thoughts on the
- 42:24Speaker 3: West Coast games. I doubt you'll be playing that one,
- 42:26Speaker 3: but I'm strongly strongly considering it because it's a really
- 42:29Speaker 3: really solid slate. Like if this was our main slate,
- 42:31Speaker 3: it look it'd be pretty good.
- 42:32Speaker 1: Tonight.
- 42:33Speaker 3: We have five games, a couple of games that have
- 42:35Speaker 3: a lot of importance as well for the NBA Cup,
- 42:37Speaker 3: mainly in the Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs and.
- 42:42Speaker 1: The Denver game.
- 42:43Speaker 3: But then you also get some value like the Utah
- 42:45Speaker 3: Sacramento game looks really good.
- 42:47Speaker 1: Okay, See he's gonna.
- 42:48Speaker 3: Be without without Isa Harnstein tonight, so we'll get somebody
- 42:53Speaker 3: in the starting lineup and they should project pretty well.
- 42:57Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you have any thoughts on the late night
- 42:58Speaker 1: slate if you've looked at it at all?
- 43:00Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a little bit like good contest too. Man,
- 43:02Speaker 2: this slate almost looks better. You've got Luka and Jokic
- 43:06Speaker 2: obviously on it, just you know, good games all over.
- 43:12Speaker 2: I don't have like as much thoughts on it as
- 43:14Speaker 2: I do the main slate because I didn't look at
- 43:16Speaker 2: it as much.
- 43:17Speaker 4: But I think there's you know, some you know for me,
- 43:21Speaker 4: like I'll go right back to Malik Monk at forty
- 43:24Speaker 4: four hundred, you know.
- 43:28Speaker 2: Other than that, I think there's like the heart and
- 43:30Speaker 2: Sein news is probably the biggest of the day, and
- 43:32Speaker 2: kind of like porzingis with the mid midday down grade,
- 43:35Speaker 2: I would expect him to be out. So makes me
- 43:38Speaker 2: like chat more, makes me like, you know, Jalen with
- 43:41Speaker 2: the why More and then you have the other Jalen
- 43:44Speaker 2: Williams coming back, so that like muddies up everything there.
- 43:48Speaker 4: Fun slate though, for sure.
- 43:50Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm definitely gonna play it. We got
- 43:51Speaker 3: the fifty k up top and the main tournament, so
- 43:54Speaker 3: I'll probably max that one. I think that the slate
- 43:57Speaker 3: looks looks really good. I definitely want to want to
- 43:59Speaker 3: play it. Yeah, I gotta got a friend friend of
- 44:03Speaker 3: family dinner tonight, so it'll be good to get those
- 44:05Speaker 3: lineups in and then maybe go to a bar and
- 44:07Speaker 3: watch the Lakers game, since for whatever reason, I'm not
- 44:10Speaker 3: allowed to watch Laker games out here. They're still living
- 44:13Speaker 3: in the Stone Age. You have to have cable to
- 44:15Speaker 3: watch a Laker game.
- 44:17Speaker 2: That's freaking pathetic and insane. You're not even a Lakers
- 44:22Speaker 2: fan though you're a Jazz fan.
- 44:23Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a Jazz fan, but I still like I
- 44:25Speaker 3: I'm you know, I live in l A and like
- 44:26Speaker 3: all my buddies are are Lakers fans. It's it's nice
- 44:29Speaker 3: to be able to watch a game at night, but
- 44:31Speaker 3: it's just crazy.
- 44:32Speaker 1: That you can't.
- 44:33Speaker 4: Are you a Lebron fan?
- 44:35Speaker 1: I like Lebron yeah.
- 44:36Speaker 3: I mean, we don't get into the whole debate, but
- 44:40Speaker 3: I mean, you gotta he's gotta be the goat in
- 44:42Speaker 3: my opinion.
- 44:43Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not the right person to debate on that,
- 44:45Speaker 2: just because like he's my year in high school and
- 44:50Speaker 2: like went to a high school like a half hour
- 44:52Speaker 2: away from me, so I've seen him since high school,
- 44:55Speaker 2: you know, played for the Cavs.
- 44:56Speaker 4: I definitely think he's the goat. But that's just me.
- 45:00Speaker 1: Hey, you guys are Psciatica brothers too?
- 45:02Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 45:02Speaker 4: Bro, yeah too?
- 45:04Speaker 1: So sorry about all right?
- 45:07Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gonna do it. Yeah, we'll definitely be I
- 45:10Speaker 3: won't have any content up for it. I'm sure people
- 45:14Speaker 3: will be dropping cores and thoughts and I will definitely
- 45:16Speaker 3: be be in the discord leading up to that, that's say,
- 45:19Speaker 3: locking and have some thoughts on it for sure.
- 45:22Speaker 1: But yeah, that'll do it.
- 45:24Speaker 3: I hope everybody has a safe weekend and get some
- 45:27Speaker 3: good Black Friday deal shopping going, and we'll be back
- 45:30Speaker 3: on Tuesday. And we also have all of the NFL
- 45:34Speaker 3: content up for the main slighte this weekend. And gotta
- 45:37Speaker 3: go toss on that Eagles game right now. See what's
- 45:39Speaker 3: see if I got any sweat's going on there? Yeah,
- 45:41Speaker 3: good luck to night. Everyone have a good weekend and.
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