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NBA Quick Hit | April 3, 2024 | DraftKings DFS Picks, Plays and Process · Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation

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Yah, all systems going clear. We lift up. M hmm, what
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is going on? Everyone rio here going to be talking about this? Uh?
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Eight games slate Wednesday, Yeah, pretty gross slate, But this is
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what the NBA has given us at this point. The season, got a
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bunch of a bunch of injury news, a lot of teams tanking. So
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do my best with the information that we have right now. But I expect
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a lot of stuff to change throughout the day as we get more news close
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to the locks, so we definitely got to be around then and be able
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to dissect that news a little bit better. I just want to say thank
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you to everybody that reached out last night for the you know, obviously took
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down the big fade away last night for fifty K, so appreciate everybody reaching
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out. Definitely been you know, grind the season, been close a couple
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of times. It was nice to finally get that under my belt, especially
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after the big weekend over in Arizona, finishing fourteenth at the Live Final.
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But yeah, I just want to say thank you everybody. Really appreciate you
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guys sticking around with us for the first season of NBA. Hopefully we could
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provide you guys with some good information for the rest of the season. Only
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got a couple more weeks left, but let's get right into it. First
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game on the slate got the Lakers taken on the Wizards, Lakers favored by
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thirteen points. Right now, should expect a pretty full, healthy team from
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the Lakers. Tonight, Darwin Ham said, these guys are gonna be good
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to go, referring to Lebron James, Anthony Davis, the wizard side of
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things a little bit bigger of an injury report got Kuzma questionable, Rashaun Holmes
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questionable as well. I'm gonna be out with without Tys Jones and without Marvin
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Bagley Tonight, Johnny Davis, I believe he was listening questionables. Well,
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it doesn't really change too much, but that's, you know, another rotation
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piece that could be out. But I mean, if Holmes misses here,
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we saw saw Anthony Gill get the start last night for Kuzma, but if
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Holmes misses, could be Gill again or even this Atrician Vukevich guy. I
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don't know too much about him, but I do know that he played really
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well last game filling in for Bagley when he got rolled out put up almost
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thirty Draftings points in thirty one minutes. I think he got the start in
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the second half as well. But it looks to be a pretty talented guy.
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Looks like he got some some shot making ability to him. Definitely gonna
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be a tougher matchup going against Anthony Davis, who you know is a pretty
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good at drawing fouls, but he's min price. So if he's starting,
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I think that he's probably one of the best values on the slate. But
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the spin up options on the Wizard side, I mean, pretty tough to
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go there tonight. The Lakers been pretty solid defensively in the second half of
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the season, a little bit better in the last month or so, but
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they still have their issues. You know, they're one of the worst teams
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against point guards. So I think that Jordan Poole very firmly in play,
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even at seven point three game. He's playing really well right now. And
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Paul Henley Roll has been really good. Assist numbers have been good, got
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double digit assist twice in the last six games, thirteen last game, you
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know, but in the forties pretty consistently, So I think that he's a
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really strong option going against this Lakers team that we love to attack with opposing
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guards. Danny's price tag is getting up there. He's been really good this
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season, but yeah, I mean almost a K. Pretty tough for me
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to get there with just small ford eligibility. Especially Kuzma's back definitely would take
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some upside off of him. I think Corey Kisberg is a pretty solid option.
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I really like to attack Kisbert or fire him up against teams that you
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know, give him a lot of three point three pointers, a lot of
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catching shoots up, which is definitely an area of weakness for the Lakers,
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so he'd be really strong at five point nine K. With the scene looking
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pretty thin. That's pretty much it, though, on the Washington side things.
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On the Lakers side of things, it's really just Lebron or a d
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I'm gonna be a Max one of those guys. I think that the matchups
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really good for both them. Obviously the Wizard's terrible with they're interior defense.
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But I probably just be a Max one because I don't really want to invest
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too much into this game knowing that it's probably very likely to blow out.
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But I think that both Ad and Lebron are very strong options tonight next game
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versus Charlotte. I think this is probably the most important game on the slate.
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I'm gonna have a ton of value on both sides of things. On
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both sides of this game. The Charlotte Hornets will be without Miles Bridges,
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without Nick Richards. Let me suddenly pull up the injury report real quick so
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I have more accurate news. Yeah, Charlotte will be without obviously LaMelo Ball,
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all the guys that have been missing, Seth Curry, Cody Martin.
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But yeah, rich is out, Miles Bridge is doubtful, but he's most
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likely to be out, Mark Williams obviously out, Nick Richards is out,
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and then Grant Williams was questionable but got upgraded to probable, so expect him
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to be back tonight. Yeah. I mean, this is a really tough
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situation to get away from. I think that Brandon Miller don't really have a
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large sample size to go off of, but I think we can expect a
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very very large ballhanding role, very large usage rate, a lot of shot
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attempts from him tonight. Really good matchup Blazers are terrible defensively. I think
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that he's really really a strong play at six point eight K. He's got
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a ton of upside. I do prefer the sped downs, though, just
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because I think that they've got maybe not similar upsides, but probably better point
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per dollar production when you think about it. I mean, Trey Man's only
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five point five K. He's been been really good the season with Charlotte.
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I mean, hasn't really done much lately, but that's because Metis has taken
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away a lot of ball handling from him, but he's shown multi stat or
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multi category upside at times, been kind of flirting with a triple double a
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couple times since coming over to Charlotte. I think he's got gonna have a
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really strong role tonight and really good matchup. Grant Williams probably the one I'm
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the least excited about at the current price tag, but the rebounding race should
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be pretty good, taking a lot double digit shot attempts in the last four
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games. Probably gonna play around, you know, mid thirties minutes something like
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that. He's probably my least favorite value on that team, though. I
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prefer Poku at three point nine K, who has been a very consistent Fantasy
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pork minute producer when he's given the minutes dating back to his time with OKC.
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I think he's a you know, he has got a chance to start
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tonight, and I think that he'd be probably the best vie in the slate
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in my opinion at three point nine k Burton's I mean, yeah, he's
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probably gonna play a good bit. I don't really like Burtons and these types
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of matchups. The Blazers as best. They are defensively one of the better
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teams against three point shooters, which I mean, he's getting pretty much all
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of his shot attempts from three If you look in his last four games,
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six shot attempts against Boston too, five of those are from deep five,
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five and nine against the Clippers. Nine of those shots were from deep.
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Seven shots against the Warriors or eight shots against the Warriors, seven from deep.
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Six against Cleveland, all were from three point rangs. So he's gonna
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be shooting the ball just you know, just running around three point line trying
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to get open. So I don't really love him. I would much rather.
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I think the Poku, Trey Mann, and Miller are the three top
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options for me on Portland side of things. Yeah, they're gonna be thin
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again, obviously, you know Jeremy Grant, no Anthony Simon, so we'll
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see, you know, big roles from Band and Scoot Henderson. Definitely prefer
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Banton at six point nine K. I don't really care if he's coming off
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the bench. I don't care that the price size up there. He's just
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been crushing lately, three games out of his last four over fifty DraftKings points,
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so I think that he's definitely a guy I'm looking to mostly on the
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blaser side of things, and I'm probably gonna be a Maxwell's scooting band at
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these price tags. And then Ayden, if he does play, I think
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there's a chance that he could sit just because this team is trying to tank
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right now. But if he plays, this is one of the best matchups
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against the Hornets, who are bottom five and DVP for a center, so
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he'd be a great option. Same goes for Jabari Walker four point nine K.
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He's playing a ton of minutes. I've been always been a solid fantasy
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pork mine guy when he's given the minutes, and he got to forty last
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game against Orlando. I think we see something similar tonight and he's a very
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strong value. So yeah, this is a great game to attack definitely one.
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You're gonna want to have pieces from from both sides. Next game,
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okay, see versus Boston. Okay, see gonna be without Sga and Jalen
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Williams tonight, so we'll see very similar thing to uh last night, what
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we saw with Jaylen Williams get the start. I'm not sure they will go
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there again here, just because I think that they're you know, they were
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mirroring his minutes pretty much exactly with Joel Embiid, so I don't think that
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they really need to do that tonight with Boston not really having those types of
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centers they got, you know, Porzingis and Horford, which you only need
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a guy like jay and Williams shadowing shouting those guys. I think that there's
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a chance it's probably Gordon Hayward or Aaron Wigans starting, or even Isaiah Joe.
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One of these guys could probably sneak in there. But yeah, I
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mean, Chet and Giddy, even at these price tags, I think they're
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totally fine to go to again here. These guys have really strong roles,
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really good usage rates. With Jaylen Williams and as she off the court,
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Chet is averaging just under fifty DK points per six per thirty six minutes with
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those guys off the court of the season, and Giddy's around forty five DK
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points per thirty six with a twenty six percent usage rate got triple double upside.
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I mean, I still think that he has upside this price tag,
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but more so a large field GVP play than anything. I don't think this
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is the same situations last night where you're locking them in in single electry tournaments
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just because the matchups a little bit tougher. And then, yeah, I
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would I'm gonna be a max two of Wallace, Joe, Hayward Wiggins tonight,
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maybe even throw Jaylen Williams and Cambridge Williams in there, but yeah,
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I prefer Isaiah, Joe and Aaron Wiggins. I think at these price tags,
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I think they have better upside. The Celtics been a little bit worse
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against three point shooters at times this season, so those guys are the ones
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I'm looking to on the Boston side of things. Yeah, I mean,
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I'm not gonna make any of these guys a priority. I think that Tatum
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in nine point eight K is a very fine spin up option, but with
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the team being fully healthy, don't think that he's gonna be needed out there
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for you know, upper forty or upper thirties minutes. Don't think he's going
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to need to be pushed as much from a ball handling role, from usage
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role. So I think that he's just fine, and I probably would look
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elsewhere to spend my money. Next game Detroit versus Atlanta, we could definitely
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see some funky injury stuff with the Detroit side of things. You know,
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Detroit is gonna want to tank for better draft positioning, so wouldn't be surprised
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to see K get shut down at some point the season. But if he
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does play, I think that he's a very good option. Eight point six.
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K been playing really good lately, fifty seven and fifty eight and a
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half DK points in his last two games, taking twenty two, thirty three
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and twenty three shot attempts in his last three games. Match was pretty good.
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Don't worry about it too much. Again to Johnson Murray, who has
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not been the same the same defender of seasons prior. But I mean this
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Atlanta team kind of gone back to being a very shitty defense. They're giving
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it up all over the court, given up threes, giving up in tiers
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scoring, pick and roll scoring, so K it looks like a really really
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good option eight point six K with a ton of upside outside that. I'm
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not really considering these secondary guys unless we get more injury news. But like
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during its seven point two K is fine. Matchup is okay, but I
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think there's better options on the Atlanta side things. I think Dejhonte is probably
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my top spin up on the slate tonight. Pisson's been one of the worst
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teams against point guards the season, their bottom four pick and roll defensive season,
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bottom ten DVP versus point guards. They're dead last in pick and roll
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rollman situations. So de Jontay's got that triple double upside here. I think
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Hawks still looking to improve their playoff positioning, if you will, but I
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think they're pretty locked into like that nine to ten seed, so maybe maybe
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if they just want to get to like the ninth spot. But yeah,
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I think that the john SE's really slid up at ten K or nine point
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nine K, so yeah, he looks really good tonight. And then the
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only one I'm really considering on the Hawks is Clint Capella at six point three
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K, one of the best spots for opposing centers, pistons being bottom four
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in DVP versus centers and dead last and pick and a roller rollman situation,
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so he looks like a really strong option six point three K. Next game
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Indy versus Brooklyn. This is a rematch of a game earlier this week we
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saw Tarres Halliburn torch this team for fifty seven DK points in twenty seven minutes.
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He kind of looks like he's getting back into that early in season tournament
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form, so he, you know, might be a little enterprise and overlooked
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in this range at nine point two K is only you know, I'm seeing
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like sub five percent ownership on him. Games projected to stay pretty close to
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with Indy favored by eight and a half. So yeah, I mean,
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I really like Tyresea has spin up again tonight, especially if nobody's going to
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go there. I think Siakam is just fine. That's been a little bit
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worse with their interior defense over the past month or so, but eight point
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four K would much better. Just find the money get to Tyrese. The
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net side things not too exciting. I think that Cam Thomas is still in
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play at seven point seven K. This is one of the better spots for
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opposing guards, as the Pacers are dead last in points for game allowed to
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pick and roll ball handlers. We've seen camp Thomas lead the team in usage
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since he's returned from injury, so he looks like a fine option that still
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got some upset at this price tag. Not getting there on McHale, I'm
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not really getting there on Claxon, I think that Watford is still in play
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as a value at four point four K. They look like they just want
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to continue to give this guy run. He's seen twenty one, nineteen,
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twenty four, twenty nine, and thirty four minutes in his last five games,
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So yeah, I think that he's definitely still in play as a value
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option. Next game, Orlando versus New Orleans. This is a game I'm
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not too excited about. Pretty much a full X out on the Orlando side
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of things. I think that the only one you're really considering is Pollow at
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eight point five K. But man, I mean, this team's fully healthy,
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doesn't really have the same ball haying role usage coming down a little bit.
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I think he's still got upside at eight point five K, but I
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don't think I'm going to go there in a tougher matchup against the Pelicans,
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who are very sound defensively, and then on the Pelican side of things,
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it's really just Zion for me at eight point nine K. The role has
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been really strong for him. He's playing a ton of minutes right now.
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Don't worry too much about this matchup because the Magic, who you know,
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we thought of as a very strong interior defense earlier this season, they've kind
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of slipped a little bit in the second half. So I'm not too worried
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about the scoring for him. Just he's been super aggressively. He's got double
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digit free throw attempts in three of his last six game, sorry, in
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every game in his last five games, and the assist numbers look good.
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Minutes are up, So yeah, he looks like a really strong option.
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Probably one of the better spend ups behind dejount Murray. I think he's he's
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second on the list for me. Next game, we got Toronto taking on
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the Timberwolves. Toronto just came out more injury news. We've got Kelly Linok
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out. We already know the Archie Barrett's gonna be out. Bruce Brown is
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doubtful but expecting to be out as well, So this team is gonna be
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pretty thin. I don't think that the value on the Toronto side of things
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is nearly as good as the Charlotte or Portland side, or even Washington if
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we get if we get that news, yeah, I mean they there.
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They have enough bodies to throw out there quickly. Still back, so it
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takes away a lot of usage. Expect great Trent Junior to be back as
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well, so he you know, it takes away a lot of shot at
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him. So I don't think that you're really running to play any of these
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guys. But I mean with a Linik out, it's probably gonna be Mohammed
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gay guy, and he's mint priced, so you're definitely considering him. I
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think that if if Holmes is out, I would prefer Vucevic, but yeah,
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I mean it might be. It might be a double spin down center
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option tonight. The thing is, we still only have a ton of spend
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ups tonight. It's not like last night where we had Giannis, we had
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Jokic, we had Wemby. It's really just Giannis as a spend up and
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then a couple of guys in the in the nine k's. I guess if
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you want to consider Lebron and ad but they're pretty cheap and we have enough
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value to get to those guys pretty easily, So I don't think that you're
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really going out of your way to get to this Guia guy who's going to
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be going against Timberwolves, who I think are the best defense in the league.
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So yeah, that's kind of my thoughts on the Toronto side of things.
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On the Minnesota side, they're gonna be without Mike Conley tonight, obviously,
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still without car Anthony Towns. Really these everybody from Alexander Walker up is
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in play tonight. Obviously, Aunt been playing pretty bad lately, hasn't made
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a three point attempt in three straight games. But I mean, I think
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that there's pretty much no better matchup tonight or in the in the league right
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now than one against Toronto. They've just been terrible in the second half of
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the season defensively after getting rid of all their guys, So I think this
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could be a get right spot for Aunt. I don't think that he's gonna
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be needed for his full rotation with this Minnesota favored by double digits here,
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but he should be able to have a success for the minutes that he is
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out there, so I like him at nine point four K Gobert looks like
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a really good option to night as well. This this Raptors team really getting
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killed on the board, so I could definitely see like a you know,
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fifteen to fifteen or twenty twenty game from him, So he looks a good
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option. Seven point seven k Nas has been really good as a starter for
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the Wolves the season, averaging right around thirty seven DK points. Yeah,
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he's got a ton of upside. Nothing to say there. I think Carly
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Anderson looks like a really good option five point K and then Alexander Walker,
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I think that he'll get the start. He's just normally low usage guy,
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so I don't know if I want to get there, but I think that
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he could have success in this one. Obviously against Toronto, who's just terrible
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everywhere, but he could be one of those games we see him get you
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know, a couple of steels, a couple of blocks for the team that's
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pretty turnover prone. But I don't think that he is much better than some
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of the other value slates or some of the other values on the slate.
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Next game and last game on the slate, Memphis versus Milwaukee another game.
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Don't only want to invest too much too mainly on the Memphis side of things.
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I think that the guys you're considering or Jaron Jackson junior, probably Luke
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Canard and Brandon Clark. Jaren has had a really good role this season with
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the team being thin and desnt Banin's gonna miss this game again. I think
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he posted like a forty one percent usage right last game without Baine, So
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the role is gonna be there for him. If you think they can keep
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it close, then Jaren is definitely the guy that you want because he put
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up sixty two last game against Detroit. Obviously much easier matchup, but he
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definitely has the forty point scoring upside, and I would say pretty much every
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matchup just with the role that he's got. Yeah, I don't really think
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that these other guys aren't play though. I think Canard is fine, got
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the three point ability with Milwaukee kind of given it up there as of late.
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And then yeah, Clark is just okay, you know, he's playing
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around twenty minutes a game. Always been really really good fantasy guy. Yeah,
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so That's where I'm going at this. And then on the Molcca side
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things. Definitely Giannis or Bust with no Middleton, with no Dame likely.
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I mean, he's gonna have all the usage in the world and is probably
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the top spin up on the slate top definitely the most upside in the slate,
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but wouldn't be surprised if he gets downgraded throughout the day. Just this
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is a game they should have pretty easily. But yeah, I think you
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can consider all these secondary guys as well with Portis, Brook Lopez, Beasley,
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connatan Ja Crowder, all those guys are in play. I think Portis
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is definitely the one that has the most upside from the secondary guys, that's
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gonna do it. I think you guys for sticking around. I'll see you
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guys on Friday later. A man stap Hanns s