Latest / Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation / NBA DFS Process | October 23, 2026 | DraftKings & FanDuel Picks, Plays & Slate Breakdown
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- 0:08Speaker 1: All systems go.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Clear for liftoff.
- 0:40Speaker 3: What is going on, Ship It Nation YouTube station? We
- 0:44Speaker 3: are back with my first NBA show of the season
- 0:48Speaker 3: and my guy Bellman's first NBA show of the season.
- 0:51Speaker 2: It feels so good to be back.
- 0:53Speaker 3: We had the world champs on opening night Tuesday. We've
- 0:57Speaker 3: had some good games. The Nuggets game was boring last night.
- 1:00Speaker 3: But Matt, before I kick it over to you, let's
- 1:01Speaker 3: say hello to some people in chat. Parabay, Sean Watson
- 1:04Speaker 3: on replay, Bill's Mafia, the Michael brothers, Michael and Michael,
- 1:08Speaker 3: Jordan in here.
- 1:10Speaker 2: Who else?
- 1:10Speaker 3: Lachlan's in here. Another Michael's in here. Warren Tyler. AFC Angelo.
- 1:15Speaker 2: Hey, and Matt, I guess if you almost ship a Millie,
- 1:19Speaker 2: you can say whatever you want to say.
- 1:20Speaker 3: You can call me fashionably late. You can call me
- 1:22Speaker 3: a diva. Max Soda's in the house. Almost shipped him
- 1:26Speaker 3: a Millie.
- 1:28Speaker 2: And Newen's is cussing me out. 30 seconds into my
- 1:30Speaker 2: first NBA show of the season. But hey, it's birthday
- 1:34Speaker 2: week show for my guy, Bellman. Everybody wish a happy
- 1:36Speaker 2: birthday to my guy, Bellman. Had a birthday earlier in
- 1:38Speaker 2: the week.
- 1:39Speaker 3: Turned 25 earlier this week, so shout out to my
- 1:43Speaker 3: boy Bellman. But Matt, how's your week going? Welcome to
- 1:46Speaker 3: the NBA season. It's going to be a long one,
- 1:48Speaker 3: my friend.
- 1:49Speaker 1: I knew there was a reason you were being nice
- 1:51Speaker 1: to me and didn't immediately mention the Cavs. So I'll
- 1:54Speaker 1: take it. My birthday week. Thank you, as always, my friend.
- 1:58Speaker 1: But yeah, the Cavs, man. Yeah. I don't know how
- 2:03Speaker 1: you follow up last season's disaster of blowing that lead
- 2:08Speaker 1: in the conference finals to last night. This team just
- 2:12Speaker 1: has no heart. Frustrating season already, man.
- 2:16Speaker 2: This is where we're at. Was it 29 last night?
- 2:20Speaker 1: Yeah, 29-point lead. You just felt it. As soon as
- 2:23Speaker 1: they get any pressure applied to them, they just cave.
- 2:26Speaker 1: They fold. It's just disappointing because they should be so
- 2:29Speaker 1: much better. But I'm excited to talk about tonight's slate.
- 2:34Speaker 1: They did the thing where they took out the late
- 2:36Speaker 1: games and part of me doesn't like that. Cause I'm
- 2:40Speaker 1: a traditionalist and I like all the games being on
- 2:42Speaker 1: the slate, but the other part of me knowing go
- 2:46Speaker 1: to bed, four year old, I got a four year old.
- 2:49Speaker 1: I got a one year old as Michael. So eloquently said,
- 2:52Speaker 1: young guy, I'm not so young. I'm an old guy.
- 2:54Speaker 1: So I fall asleep early and the slate starting and
- 2:56Speaker 1: ending earlier is good for me. So yeah, it condenses it.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Obviously it makes late swap a lot easier. So I
- 3:03Speaker 1: could understand why people who love late swapping, like Hebrew
- 3:07Speaker 1: and like our boy Rio and other people would, would
- 3:10Speaker 1: not like this. It makes it a lot easier to play.
- 3:13Speaker 1: So excited to talk it out with you nonetheless.
- 3:16Speaker 2: Yeah, it should be, it should be a good one.
- 3:17Speaker 3: Wardo chimes in the NBA champs are back.
- 3:19Speaker 2: He's a Knicks fan.
- 3:20Speaker 3: In case you can't tell by his picture, he's always
- 3:22Speaker 3: in the chat as well, but Yeah, so six games
- 3:26Speaker 3: that we're going to go through. It's on the main slate.
- 3:28Speaker 3: Then the quote-unquote night slate on DraftKings is five games
- 3:32Speaker 3: where there's 30K up top and then there's a 10K
- 3:34Speaker 3: up top. And then if you want to get really funky,
- 3:36Speaker 3: you can go over to FanDuel. They do include all
- 3:38Speaker 3: 11 games in their main slate. Hey, so if you're
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- 4:02Speaker 3: head on over there now.
- 4:02Speaker 2: Check us out.
- 4:03Speaker 3: See my guy Hebrew Cheetah, as Matt alluded to, or
- 4:07Speaker 3: my guy Bellman doing a slate plan each.
- 4:09Speaker 2: And every day. We've got every sport over here. that
- 4:11Speaker 2: we cover.
- 4:12Speaker 3: All right, Matt, I'm going to go straight to the NBA.
- 4:14Speaker 3: I'm going to go straight to the Stone. I'm going
- 4:17Speaker 3: to pull up a proprietary information on the Stone. We
- 4:20Speaker 3: got the world champs leading off the slate tonight. The Knicks,
- 4:24Speaker 3: losers in their first contest against the 76ers. Cat was
- 4:29Speaker 3: balling in the second half. Andre Drummond was balling in
- 4:32Speaker 3: the first half, taking on this Celtics team, who I
- 4:35Speaker 3: think was like one for 37 from three against this
- 4:38Speaker 3: Pistons team.
- 4:38Speaker 2: But Should be another good game.
- 4:40Speaker 3: You got Jason Tatum and crew taking on Jalen Brunson
- 4:42Speaker 3: and Boston's home opener.
- 4:44Speaker 2: Talk to me about this one. Knicks at the Celtics.
- 4:47Speaker 1: So the funny thing about this slate is every game
- 4:53Speaker 1: on this slate, I think could and should be competitive.
- 4:56Speaker 1: And this first one is no different. So with how
- 5:00Speaker 1: soft pricing is to start the season on DK, I
- 5:03Speaker 1: think mostly when we're talking about any teams with these
- 5:05Speaker 1: two in particular, we're looking at the stars and, For me,
- 5:10Speaker 1: the only guy I could say would be a priority
- 5:13Speaker 1: if I'm playing one lineup would be Jason Tatum from
- 5:18Speaker 1: either side. I think all the Knicks guys look good
- 5:23Speaker 1: but not amazing considering the slate and their prices and
- 5:26Speaker 1: who else is on the slate. I think Tatum looks
- 5:28Speaker 1: like the best piece of this game. I think he'll
- 5:31Speaker 1: be owned as such. He's still really affordable. I know
- 5:35Speaker 1: he took a backseat to Paul George in Game 1
- 5:37Speaker 1: and shot awfully. but I don't expect that to continue.
- 5:40Speaker 1: I think the usage is there. Rio talked all about
- 5:43Speaker 1: it on the opening day show when he was on
- 5:44Speaker 1: with title. This just whole season, especially early on sets
- 5:48Speaker 1: up really well for Tatum. I'm buying it. I'll go
- 5:51Speaker 1: back here when the field is to an extent, but
- 5:54Speaker 1: not nearly as much as they were opening night. And
- 5:58Speaker 1: other than that, like I mentioned, Townsend Brunson look like
- 6:03Speaker 1: just guys on the slate. Like, I'm not prioritizing them.
- 6:06Speaker 1: If I were playing one lineup, I don't think I
- 6:08Speaker 1: could get to anything. But if you told me you
- 6:10Speaker 1: were stacking this game, I wouldn't say that's a bad
- 6:12Speaker 1: move either because I expect it to be really competitive.
- 6:15Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you get an outlier over game
- 6:17Speaker 1: and or OT. You're in business. I think you could
- 6:21Speaker 1: make that case for pretty much every game on the slate, though,
- 6:23Speaker 1: is my only issue. How do you see it?
- 6:26Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I like Tatum, like you said, at 9,200 bucks.
- 6:29Speaker 3: Like he had 35 DraftKings points. in the first contest. And,
- 6:34Speaker 3: and like you said, that's probably like a floor game.
- 6:37Speaker 3: We had a turn back the clock game for Paul George.
- 6:39Speaker 3: I did want to ask you about him. I mean,
- 6:41Speaker 3: he has $ 6, 700 and we're not expecting 60 out of
- 6:44Speaker 3: them again, but like, how do you think Paul George,
- 6:48Speaker 3: even at 6,700 bucks, like, do you like that?
- 6:50Speaker 2: Or was that just kind of like a one hit wonder?
- 6:54Speaker 1: I think it's more of a one hit wonder than anything.
- 6:56Speaker 1: I mean, who knows, maybe that's the wrong take. And yeah,
- 7:01Speaker 1: Things are volatile early in the season, right? Like projections
- 7:04Speaker 1: are much more fickle because we just have a lot
- 7:07Speaker 1: more unknowns. Maybe George is way too cheap. I don't
- 7:11Speaker 1: think that's the case, and I think he comes back
- 7:12Speaker 1: down to earth here.
- 7:14Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
- 7:15Speaker 3: I kind of think he's buns, to be honest with you,
- 7:17Speaker 3: but I'd be hard-pressed to find anybody that agrees after
- 7:20Speaker 3: scoring 38.
- 7:21Speaker 2: Wardo says Cat's a priority. He's a walking double-double.
- 7:25Speaker 3: Any interest in Cat tonight at $ 8, 300?
- 7:28Speaker 1: Yeah, I have an interest. I think he's the best
- 7:30Speaker 1: play from the Knicks, but to call him a priority
- 7:34Speaker 1: on this slate, not for me. I mean, I don't
- 7:37Speaker 1: think he's a bad play, so I can understand why Wardo,
- 7:40Speaker 1: the monster Knicks fan, would say that, but I think
- 7:43Speaker 1: he's just another play for me, another good play, I
- 7:45Speaker 1: should say.
- 7:46Speaker 3: And then AFC Angelo asks, would you max one of
- 7:48Speaker 3: these main New York Knicks guys? I'm assuming Brunson or Towns,
- 7:52Speaker 3: or do you think you could play two in a line?
- 7:53Speaker 3: I think the answer is you don't have to even
- 7:55Speaker 3: have one of them, but I'll let you answer.
- 7:59Speaker 1: So, yes, I agree with you. You don't have to
- 8:01Speaker 1: play one. You clearly don't have to play either of
- 8:03Speaker 1: them in any lineup. But I also don't think you
- 8:05Speaker 1: have to just play one if you're playing them because
- 8:07Speaker 1: of the outlier game environments. Like, if you're playing one,
- 8:11Speaker 1: I don't hate playing the other just because of what
- 8:14Speaker 1: I just said. I'm looking for that outlier game environment.
- 8:16Speaker 1: But on his own, like Towns, the reason for me,
- 8:20Speaker 1: like he's not a priority, he projects the same slightly
- 8:25Speaker 1: better or worse than guys like Siakam. Brandon Miller guys
- 8:31Speaker 1: who are, you know, one K six, 800 cheaper than him.
- 8:35Speaker 1: So I like towns. I just not for me, not a,
- 8:38Speaker 1: not a guy I'm locking. Good deal.
- 8:40Speaker 3: Moving on to the next game, which is going to
- 8:41Speaker 3: be another good game. You got the Raptors who scored
- 8:44Speaker 3: a bunch of points. Obviously Kawhi makes them a lot better.
- 8:47Speaker 3: And Matt, when I look at this starting five, goodness gracious,
- 8:49Speaker 3: like that's a pretty good start to five in my,
- 8:52Speaker 3: in my opinion, take it on this wizards team. The
- 8:55Speaker 3: man made a glass was getting MVP chance after the
- 8:58Speaker 3: first quarter.
- 8:58Speaker 2: I think, He had a pretty good game. He is
- 9:00Speaker 2: up to $ 8, 600.
- 9:01Speaker 3: That is Anthony Davis, who may or may not make
- 9:04Speaker 3: it through this game tonight. But I can't wait to
- 9:07Speaker 3: watch this game. He got a pretty high total, 237.
- 9:09Speaker 3: It's going to be up and down. The rookie does
- 9:13Speaker 3: not look like he's going to make his debut tonight.
- 9:15Speaker 3: But talk to me about this game, the Raptors in
- 9:18Speaker 3: the nation's capital taking on the Wizards.
- 9:20Speaker 1: This is a game I like a lot here. I mean,
- 9:22Speaker 1: the two studs, I think, are two of the best
- 9:24Speaker 1: plays on the entire slate in A.D. and Kawhi. We
- 9:28Speaker 1: saw them at their best on opening night. AD smashed,
- 9:33Speaker 1: you know, was one of the leading scorers on the
- 9:35Speaker 1: entire slate. He was owned as such and got the
- 9:37Speaker 1: price increase, but it was deserved and he's still probably
- 9:40Speaker 1: too cheap. And then Kawhi also looked amazing on opening night.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Just didn't have to play a ton because they won
- 9:46Speaker 1: that game by 40 plus. I like pairing both them here.
- 9:50Speaker 1: Of any like two stud pairing on the slate, this
- 9:53Speaker 1: is probably my favorite. I think you get a competitive
- 9:56Speaker 1: game here. And I like guys from, like the ancillary
- 10:01Speaker 1: guys from both squads also. From the Raptors, Quickly was
- 10:05Speaker 1: awesome on opening night. We know RJ Barrett can get his.
- 10:10Speaker 1: I like those guys. Scotty Barnes is still really affordable.
- 10:13Speaker 1: And then from Washington, it's AD, but then I don't
- 10:18Speaker 1: think Trey is a bad play. Keyshawn George was really
- 10:21Speaker 1: good on opening night. I like these guys more with
- 10:27Speaker 1: the Bantz to out. When he comes back, guys like
- 10:30Speaker 1: Keyshawn George are going to take a major backseat. At 5,300
- 10:34Speaker 1: while he's out, I like this game a lot. I
- 10:38Speaker 1: guess the hardest part is picking exactly who you want
- 10:41Speaker 1: to play. How do you see it?
- 10:45Speaker 3: Yeah, real quick before I get into that, is Scottie
- 10:47Speaker 3: going to guard AD? How would those matchups work, in
- 10:50Speaker 3: your opinion?
- 10:52Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to be surprised if
- 10:54Speaker 1: he spends at least some of the time on AD.
- 10:56Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you worry about foul trouble in that scenario.
- 11:00Speaker 1: And honestly, there's hardly a matchup for a guy as
- 11:04Speaker 1: talented on offense as AD I'm worried about. So if
- 11:07Speaker 1: that's the question, I'm not worried about it.
- 11:09Speaker 3: Uh, another question that I had for you too, I
- 11:12Speaker 3: know Kawhi only played 24 minutes. I don't know if
- 11:14Speaker 3: any of those guys even played in the fourth quarter,
- 11:15Speaker 3: but I mean, do you think it's something that they're
- 11:18Speaker 3: going to limit his minutes early on? Like, even if
- 11:21Speaker 3: it's a close game, I guess he's going to top
- 11:22Speaker 3: out at 28 or 30 or somewhere.
- 11:25Speaker 2: Do you, do you know?
- 11:27Speaker 1: So I think there's like a median ground to that question.
- 11:29Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to play massive minutes, but
- 11:31Speaker 1: I also don't think they're like limited in his minutes.
- 11:33Speaker 1: And I think a big reason why he only played
- 11:34Speaker 1: 24 is because they won by 40. So, yeah. In
- 11:38Speaker 1: a competitive game, I think he plays a lot more,
- 11:40Speaker 1: even if he's not leading the slate in minutes. You
- 11:42Speaker 1: know what I mean?
- 11:43Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah, I like Kawhi.
- 11:45Speaker 3: I think, I mean, obviously AD had a really good night.
- 11:48Speaker 3: He's a stud, went healthy. You said 8,600 is too cheap,
- 11:52Speaker 3: but man, he went up $ 1, 000.
- 11:54Speaker 2: In one game.
- 11:55Speaker 3: I would like to try to find somebody else. I
- 11:57Speaker 3: haven't started building teams yet, but I would like to
- 11:59Speaker 3: try to find something else. But he might be tough
- 12:01Speaker 3: to get off. He may be having, obviously, if he
- 12:03Speaker 3: stays healthy, he's obviously in a good spot. We'll move
- 12:06Speaker 3: on to the next game. The Timberwolves.
- 12:08Speaker 2: Timberwolves looked good.
- 12:09Speaker 3: LaMelo Ball took a seven-step three-pointer the other night.
- 12:11Speaker 2: It was pretty incredible. Swished it.
- 12:13Speaker 3: Taking on this Magic team in the Magic Kingdom.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Talk to me about this one. Timberwolves taking on the Magic.
- 12:23Speaker 1: Man, I hate to sound like a broken record, but
- 12:24Speaker 1: this is another game I think is competitive and tight throughout,
- 12:28Speaker 1: and you can play a lot of pieces from. Minnesota, man.
- 12:33Speaker 1: I mean, they even said it themselves. Like, they're on
- 12:35Speaker 1: some stuff this season. and they're going to foul you.
- 12:39Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw Jaden McDaniel celebrating Anthony
- 12:43Speaker 1: Edwards hitting a corner three. Did you see that?
- 12:45Speaker 2: I did not. Why was he celebrating it?
- 12:48Speaker 1: I don't know. On the court, he's at the top
- 12:50Speaker 1: of the key, and Ant is in the corner shooting
- 12:53Speaker 1: a three, and he's celebrating by smoking a blunt and
- 12:57Speaker 1: putting it out with his foot as it's going in.
- 13:00Speaker 1: I'll send you the video after. It's funny. I think
- 13:04Speaker 1: the Timberwolves have all the vibes right now, and they
- 13:09Speaker 1: look good, so it's hard not to want to get
- 13:12Speaker 1: to something here. The problem is Ant is uber expensive.
- 13:15Speaker 1: I know he's coming off a monster game. I just
- 13:19Speaker 1: think he's going to have to, like Rio said, score
- 13:21Speaker 1: a ton, and he did last game, and he also
- 13:23Speaker 1: got 10 boards for him to get there. I don't
- 13:25Speaker 1: know if this is the spot I want to go
- 13:27Speaker 1: back to him, but he's good enough to get there
- 13:29Speaker 1: any time, every time. He'll be low on a small slate,
- 13:32Speaker 1: so that's the case for Ant. LaMelo is a lot
- 13:35Speaker 1: easier to get to. 8,100. I think he looks good here.
- 13:39Speaker 1: There are other guys in his range I also like,
- 13:41Speaker 1: so he's not a must for me. But I like
- 13:43Speaker 1: him here, especially if you're going hard on this game.
- 13:46Speaker 1: And then from the Orlando side, they got a few
- 13:48Speaker 1: guys that are in play. Paolo looked awesome on opening night.
- 13:53Speaker 1: And I'm a big fan of their new coach, Sean Sweeney.
- 13:55Speaker 1: I think he's just going to open up everything on
- 13:57Speaker 1: their offense. And it starts with Paolo. So he's in
- 14:00Speaker 1: play for me as another low-owned, you know, to be
- 14:02Speaker 1: contrarian type of spend up. I like frauds, obviously cog
- 14:06Speaker 1: in the machine type seven K really affordable, small forward eligible.
- 14:11Speaker 1: Jalen Suggs looks good. I think he'll be owned and
- 14:14Speaker 1: I'm not in love with him, but he plays big
- 14:16Speaker 1: minutes and he's cheap. So I'm fine with it. And
- 14:20Speaker 1: then I know I got asked about Wendell Carter versus Suggs.
- 14:24Speaker 1: I think that's a totally fine pivot. I mean, just
- 14:26Speaker 1: look in their season debuts, Carter outscored him by a
- 14:28Speaker 1: bunch and Suggs will be higher on. Now Carter has the,
- 14:34Speaker 1: more valuable position eligibility, so that's why it's difficult, but
- 14:38Speaker 1: I think that's a pivot you can make if you're
- 14:39Speaker 1: playing one of them in UTIL, sure. All of Orlando
- 14:43Speaker 1: is in play for me, and the guys I want
- 14:46Speaker 1: from Minnesota are expensive, but I think you could make
- 14:49Speaker 1: a case for prioritizing this game. Every game on the
- 14:52Speaker 1: slate could and should be tight. I'll go back to that.
- 14:56Speaker 2: Yeah, this one's a good one for sure.
- 14:59Speaker 3: Bankero obviously looked good the other night, and At 9,500,
- 15:03Speaker 3: he was obviously hoping, and I think he had 45
- 15:06Speaker 3: real-life points. Two guys on the T-Wolves, Matt, that I
- 15:10Speaker 3: have interest in, Ayo and Jaden McDaniels.
- 15:14Speaker 2: Any love for either one of those? Obviously, cheaper-type players.
- 15:19Speaker 1: Just filler guys for me, not guys I'd be prioritizing personally.
- 15:23Speaker 3: Okay. All right, moving on to the next game. Bills Mafia,
- 15:29Speaker 3: who's the best point guard? I mean, that's Luka. But
- 15:31Speaker 3: Luka's also 11-8 too. So if you don't want to
- 15:34Speaker 3: go Luka, I would say Trey Young is probably the
- 15:37Speaker 3: best bang for the buck in my opinion.
- 15:39Speaker 2: I don't know, Matt, if you've looked over there. But, yeah,
- 15:40Speaker 2: Luka 11-8.
- 15:42Speaker 3: He's $ 2, 000 more than anybody, but he would be the
- 15:44Speaker 3: best in my opinion. All right, let's go to the
- 15:47Speaker 3: next game, Matt. It's the Mavs beat down the other night,
- 15:51Speaker 3: taking on the Pacers. Tyrese Halliburton made his long-awaited return. Zubac,
- 15:56Speaker 3: I think you and Rio were all over Zubac the
- 15:58Speaker 3: other night. Should be another interesting game. But, yeah, talking
- 16:03Speaker 3: about this, not as interesting as some of those others,
- 16:05Speaker 3: but Mavericks taking on the Pacers.
- 16:09Speaker 1: Definitely not as interesting as some of the others, but
- 16:11Speaker 1: I almost like it. I can make a case it's
- 16:14Speaker 1: my favorite in tournaments because I think it's close and
- 16:16Speaker 1: it's not going to be highly owned. Man, Halliburton and
- 16:20Speaker 1: Siakam look like two of the best plays on the slate,
- 16:22Speaker 1: in my opinion. Halliburton making his home debut after missing
- 16:25Speaker 1: all of last year. He's only 8K. Siakam, 7,400. I mean, yeah,
- 16:32Speaker 1: I'm in on those guys. Zubach felt like he didn't
- 16:36Speaker 1: even do anything on opening night, and he still walked
- 16:38Speaker 1: into 40 DK points. All three of those guys I like.
- 16:42Speaker 1: Obi Toppin was really good. I like this matchup, too,
- 16:46Speaker 1: and I kind of like the Dallas side. Cooper Flagg
- 16:49Speaker 1: was really good in a tougher matchup in a game
- 16:53Speaker 1: they got rolled. So... How good could Flag be here?
- 16:57Speaker 1: And I don't think he's popular at all. I talked
- 17:01Speaker 1: about a bunch of spend them to be contrarian guys.
- 17:03Speaker 1: He might be my favorite of the bunch.
- 17:05Speaker 2: You like Flag versus Ant. Sorry to interrupt. The $ 600 difference. Really?
- 17:11Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 17:13Speaker 3: Okay.
- 17:14Speaker 2: Why so?
- 17:17Speaker 1: I mean, I just like the positional eligibility for him more.
- 17:20Speaker 1: I like the spot more and he's cheaper. Yeah. And
- 17:26Speaker 1: Ant is priced up. I thought he was already a
- 17:28Speaker 1: little bit too expensive and now he's even more expensive
- 17:30Speaker 1: because of the outlier game one. Now I'm a huge
- 17:33Speaker 1: Ant guy, so he could dominate again, but give me
- 17:35Speaker 1: flag there.
- 17:36Speaker 3: Okay.
- 17:37Speaker 2: All right. Sorry. I interrupted you. Sorry. Keep going.
- 17:39Speaker 1: No, the other guy I was going to say was
- 17:40Speaker 1: Obi Toppin, who was really good on opening night and
- 17:43Speaker 1: he's a nice piece for the Pacers. Shoots threes and
- 17:46Speaker 1: is active defensively. So yeah.
- 17:49Speaker 2: Where's my boy? Where's my boy TJ McConnell this year?
- 17:55Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 17:56Speaker 1: Where is he?
- 17:57Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 17:58Speaker 1: He's not in Indiana.
- 18:00Speaker 2: It doesn't look like it. Someone tell me where TJ
- 18:02Speaker 2: McConnell is. I need to be on that Charles Barkley show.
- 18:04Speaker 2: Where are they now? And I don't know.
- 18:06Speaker 1: He might be hurt.
- 18:08Speaker 3: Might be hurt. Yeah.
- 18:10Speaker 2: Flag and Halliburton in this game for Michael.
- 18:11Speaker 1: All right.
- 18:12Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to check this one out.
- 18:13Speaker 3: If several people like it in the chat, not as
- 18:15Speaker 3: sexy as some of those other ones, but Hey, you
- 18:16Speaker 3: got a juicy meaty 240 and a half point total on,
- 18:20Speaker 3: on that. All right, Matt, this is the last game
- 18:23Speaker 3: that's going to tip at 7 p.m. Then the last
- 18:26Speaker 3: one in this early or this main slate for DK
- 18:28Speaker 3: will start at 8 p.m. But you got a pair
- 18:32Speaker 3: of undefeated teams squaring off in this one.
- 18:35Speaker 2: NWA cutting up the other night.
- 18:37Speaker 3: Jalen Johnson, CJ McCollum, Dyson Daniels coming off the round
- 18:41Speaker 3: one exit against the Knicks last year, taking on this
- 18:44Speaker 3: Hornets team. Dennis Schroeder was super popular last night. Brandon
- 18:47Speaker 3: Miller about broke the rim. And got a new bag.
- 18:50Speaker 3: Nas Reed's in a new home. So talk to me
- 18:51Speaker 3: about this one. Hawks in Charlotte taking on the Hornets.
- 18:57Speaker 1: Man, of all the games we've talked about, this might
- 18:59Speaker 1: be the best of the punch. And I said it once.
- 19:02Speaker 1: I said it ten times now. I mean, every game
- 19:06Speaker 1: on this slate you can make a case for stacking.
- 19:08Speaker 1: This one, you've got Charlotte who's still missing. Key guys
- 19:12Speaker 1: in Kobe White, Conk and Nipple. Nas Reed looked awesome
- 19:16Speaker 1: in his new role for the Hornets. Brandon Miller wasn't good.
- 19:20Speaker 1: I've always been a huge Nas guy. Loved him at LSU,
- 19:24Speaker 1: and he's just been a really good pro. So, I mean,
- 19:26Speaker 1: on him, I like Brandon Miller. Not a priority, but
- 19:30Speaker 1: certainly in play. And then Dennis and Grayson Allen. I mean,
- 19:35Speaker 1: Dennis still looks like one of, if not the best
- 19:37Speaker 1: value play on the entire slate at 4,900, which just
- 19:41Speaker 1: shows you how good of a play he was at 3,700
- 19:42Speaker 1: last slate. He was pretty mid last slate and still
- 19:46Speaker 1: got there. I expect a better game from him here.
- 19:49Speaker 1: This game should be. close and competitive. And then Grayson Allen,
- 19:52Speaker 1: the small forward eligibility, just a solid cog in the
- 19:56Speaker 1: machine type. Um, this game does look the best, but
- 19:59Speaker 1: I also think it's really highly owned and that would
- 20:02Speaker 1: be my case for getting away from it because I
- 20:03Speaker 1: like all the other games. Um, Yeah, that said, the
- 20:08Speaker 1: Atlanta side also looks good. Jalen, Dyson Daniels, Alexander Walker,
- 20:12Speaker 1: starting with Jalen, who, ho-hum, 47 DK points. I think
- 20:16Speaker 1: his upside is real here. So, yeah, I like this
- 20:20Speaker 1: game a lot. It's hard not to like pieces here.
- 20:22Speaker 2: So, Schroeder and Allen, I think you said Schroeder.
- 20:26Speaker 3: Do you think they get the same type of ownership
- 20:28Speaker 3: they got the other night, even with the elevated price tag?
- 20:31Speaker 2: Is it still too cheap?
- 20:32Speaker 3: Nah.
- 20:33Speaker 1: It's still too cheap, and I think there's two of
- 20:35Speaker 1: the highest-owned players on the slate, but I don't think they're, like,
- 20:37Speaker 1: 70% owned. I think they're more like 40% to 50% owned.
- 20:42Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 20:43Speaker 1: I don't think they're, like, on the locks here by
- 20:45Speaker 1: any means, but they're just really good plays.
- 20:49Speaker 2: All right. $ 9, 100 Jalen Johnson versus $ 8, 900 Cooper Flagg.
- 20:56Speaker 1: I think projection-wise, you've got to say Jalen, but in tournaments,
- 20:59Speaker 1: I don't mind going to Flagg, so... I like flagged
- 21:03Speaker 1: in there. I'm going to say flagged. He's like my
- 21:04Speaker 1: guy here.
- 21:04Speaker 2: All right. Standing on the table, I'm trying to look
- 21:08Speaker 2: to see if there's anybody else.
- 21:10Speaker 3: Dyson Daniels, $ 5, 900.
- 21:13Speaker 2: Any love for that?
- 21:15Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely in play, especially if you're going hard on
- 21:17Speaker 1: this game. Even if you're not, just a solid filler piece.
- 21:20Speaker 1: Nice price tag for him with a lot of good
- 21:22Speaker 1: defensive stat ability.
- 21:24Speaker 3: If you were going to, let's say, overstack any of
- 21:27Speaker 3: these first five games, which one would it be? When
- 21:31Speaker 3: I say over stack, like five plus dudes, you even
- 21:34Speaker 3: need five plus dudes from one of these.
- 21:36Speaker 2: Could that take down a tournament?
- 21:38Speaker 1: I think it could, but I also think because I
- 21:40Speaker 1: like so many spots, it's hard to, you know, it's
- 21:44Speaker 1: so on one hand, I think each individual spot on
- 21:46Speaker 1: its own, I could see going off. But on the
- 21:49Speaker 1: other hand, because all of them I could see going off,
- 21:53Speaker 1: it is a little bit tricky for me to just
- 21:54Speaker 1: see one spot, like going that much harder than the rest.
- 21:58Speaker 1: I think it's most likely you need pieces from a
- 22:00Speaker 1: few of these spots, but if I'm picking one, I
- 22:03Speaker 1: think the easy answer is Toronto, Washington, or Atlanta, Charlotte,
- 22:09Speaker 1: and I'm going to go with Dallas Indy.
- 22:12Speaker 2: Dallas Indy. Okay. All right. I like that. I'm going
- 22:15Speaker 2: to take a sneak peek at that. All right.
- 22:17Speaker 3: Last game on the main slate that we're going to
- 22:19Speaker 3: talk to, and then we'll briefly dive into the other
- 22:21Speaker 3: games on the slate.
- 22:23Speaker 2: We got the pitch.
- 22:23Speaker 1: Wait, real quick.
- 22:24Speaker 2: I didn't even.
- 22:25Speaker 1: Realize this, but that game has the highest total on
- 22:27Speaker 1: the slate. Dallas Indy does.
- 22:30Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 22:30Speaker 2: Two 40.
- 22:32Speaker 1: I just think cause Dallas is what the biggest dog
- 22:34Speaker 1: on the slate that people won't, won't get there. And
- 22:36Speaker 1: that makes sense.
- 22:38Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 22:38Speaker 3: So, I mean, I know it's early, but I mean,
- 22:41Speaker 3: one 24 seems high for the Pacers. Does it not? I,
- 22:45Speaker 3: that was the first thing that I thought of when
- 22:46Speaker 3: I saw that.
- 22:49Speaker 1: It does, but they play fast and Dallas is not
- 22:51Speaker 1: a good defensive team. So like it seems high, but I, I,
- 22:56Speaker 1: I buy it, you know? Okay.
- 22:58Speaker 2: All right.
- 23:01Speaker 3: Next game up on the slate, someone was asking about
- 23:03Speaker 3: the Pistons and the Heat, the Greek freak.
- 23:07Speaker 2: But where's my boy Newins at?
- 23:09Speaker 3: All Newins wanted to talk about last year about how
- 23:11Speaker 3: great the Greek freak was, the best tight end playing
- 23:13Speaker 3: power forward in the NBA. Guys still can't play basketball, Matt,
- 23:18Speaker 3: but he is big, tall, and fast. So how are
- 23:20Speaker 3: you playing this game? Pistons taking on the Heat.
- 23:26Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like this game just falls in
- 23:28Speaker 1: line with all the others, don't you? You never really
- 23:33Speaker 1: go out of your way to want to target Pistons
- 23:35Speaker 1: games or Heat games, I feel like. But there's star
- 23:39Speaker 1: power here, and this game should be really close and competitive.
- 23:43Speaker 1: So I feel like, again, a broken record. But you
- 23:47Speaker 1: told me you like Giannis a lot. I get it.
- 23:49Speaker 1: He was pretty mid on opening night. Yeah. I mean,
- 23:54Speaker 1: they got rolled. And as bad of a spot it
- 23:56Speaker 1: is against Detroit, it's even worse of a spot than
- 23:59Speaker 1: he was in against Minnesota. So I could see going
- 24:01Speaker 1: back to Giannis. I don't think he's going to be
- 24:03Speaker 1: a priority for me, but that might seem foolish at
- 24:05Speaker 1: this price tag because he's uber cheap for his upside.
- 24:09Speaker 1: I just wasn't too inspired watching him. All he did
- 24:12Speaker 1: was score. I don't love the pieces on that team.
- 24:16Speaker 1: So I don't love it, but he's the most expensive star.
- 24:20Speaker 1: He has the highest ceiling on the slate and is
- 24:23Speaker 1: pretty easy to roster. So that's the case for him.
- 24:27Speaker 1: I don't, honestly, I don't love this game. I think
- 24:29Speaker 1: this might be my least favorite game.
- 24:32Speaker 3: Least favorite game, even though it's a Duncan Robinson revenge game.
- 24:39Speaker 1: That might be the kicker, huh? Uh, no. Um, yeah.
- 24:43Speaker 3: You know what, again, though, the other night he went, Hey,
- 24:45Speaker 3: I'm at like eight, three, seven threes, something, six threes.
- 24:48Speaker 2: One of those. I like a star Thompson. Um, I
- 24:53Speaker 2: wish my guy Rio was in the chat. The heat
- 24:55Speaker 2: used to be very bad. Maybe a lot of money, huh?
- 24:57Speaker 1: He's here. Yeah.
- 24:58Speaker 2: I saw him. I saw him.
- 24:59Speaker 3: I don't know if he's still listening, but the heat
- 25:01Speaker 3: used to be super bad at guarding the three point line.
- 25:03Speaker 3: And yeah, I don't know how, I mean, how many
- 25:06Speaker 3: did Mello and what's his face hit the other night.
- 25:08Speaker 2: So I need to, I need to, I need to
- 25:11Speaker 2: make some money. So, so no. So what about Cade?
- 25:15Speaker 2: I mean, Cade's 9,700 bucks. That seems high to me.
- 25:18Speaker 2: What about you?
- 25:20Speaker 1: Can't get there. If I'm playing one lineup, he's certainly
- 25:22Speaker 1: not in it. Not that I'm X-ing him out if
- 25:23Speaker 1: I'm playing 150, but you can't prioritize Cade here at
- 25:26Speaker 1: that tag.
- 25:28Speaker 3: Do you think Bam and Giannis give Duren any trouble? $ 7, 100
- 25:32Speaker 3: seems high for Duren as well, but I'm just trying
- 25:34Speaker 3: to look and see if there's anybody on the Pistons
- 25:37Speaker 3: that I'm being arrested in.
- 25:39Speaker 1: I'd love the Duren call on opening night, but I'm
- 25:41Speaker 1: not going back there. There's guys I like more here.
- 25:43Speaker 2: All right, Tim Hardaway Jr. Wow, this Heat team, man.
- 25:47Speaker 2: They look pretty strong. I don't think they could ever
- 25:49Speaker 2: get it together.
- 25:52Speaker 1: You just said Tim Hardaway Jr. and then looking really
- 25:54Speaker 1: strong in the same sentence.
- 25:56Speaker 2: Well, I mean, he's like their eighth best player, eighth
- 25:58Speaker 2: or ninth best player. I think he's serviceable.
- 26:01Speaker 1: Yeah, he's serviceable. Man, they don't– I feel like they
- 26:04Speaker 1: just don't have a lot of guys and they don't
- 26:06Speaker 1: shoot well and Giannis is older. I don't know, man.
- 26:12Speaker 2: Yeah, Portis. Yeah, they look– Klay Thompson, man, oh, man.
- 26:18Speaker 2: The corpse of Klay Thompson. All right, Matt, that's all
- 26:22Speaker 2: six games.
- 26:23Speaker 3: Do you want to go through some of these last
- 26:25Speaker 3: five games?
- 26:27Speaker 2: I don't know if you want to talk about it.
- 26:29Speaker 3: We're not going to go game by game, but anything
- 26:31Speaker 3: that sticks out to you, let's just start there. Is
- 26:33Speaker 3: there any plays, if anyone's playing the night slate, that
- 26:35Speaker 3: you would kind of say, hey, yeah, you should get
- 26:37Speaker 3: to this?
- 26:38Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I feel like a lot of the
- 26:40Speaker 1: best plays on the entire board are from the night slate.
- 26:44Speaker 1: I mean.
- 26:45Speaker 2: There's another 240 total right there. Pelicans, Jazz, you both
- 26:48Speaker 2: give it up in droves.
- 26:52Speaker 1: If all the games were together, there'd be a lot
- 26:54Speaker 1: of guys I'd be prioritizing late.
- 26:57Speaker 2: Give us like five to play from the night's late.
- 26:59Speaker 1: Darius Garland, still too cheap, $ 7, 500. I mean, I'm in
- 27:03Speaker 1: on Garland. I've always loved his offensive game, and now
- 27:05Speaker 1: he's leading the show there. Garland. Jeremy Grant, lock, $ 3, 700.
- 27:12Speaker 2: Really?
- 27:12Speaker 1: Way too cheap. Oh, yeah. I mean, he's got a
- 27:16Speaker 1: real role. Nobody's got a real role, and he's so cheap,
- 27:21Speaker 1: and he's a guy that can you know, get DFS. Okay.
- 27:25Speaker 1: Calling him a lock is overstating it.
- 27:27Speaker 2: Cause he's not, you know, I was just about to
- 27:30Speaker 2: ask you that.
- 27:30Speaker 1: Like, are we lock locks?
- 27:32Speaker 2: No, no lock lock.
- 27:33Speaker 3: Okay.
- 27:34Speaker 1: No, I went too hard there. Certainly not. But I
- 27:36Speaker 1: think he's a guy at 3,700. That's okay. Then I'll
- 27:38Speaker 1: get you like 25, which is valuable. Two other guys.
- 27:44Speaker 1: I like a lot. Sabonis and Dejounte Murray. Go ahead.
- 27:48Speaker 2: No, no. Let me just look at these guys. Murphy.
- 27:52Speaker 2: And Sabonis, the Kings. Are the Kings ass or what?
- 27:57Speaker 1: They're ass, but they are definitely ass. I mean, clearly,
- 28:02Speaker 1: it's the Kings, and they stink. But Sabonis did look
- 28:06Speaker 1: really good on opening night. I know he wasn't great
- 28:08Speaker 1: in the preseason, but it's the preseason. I'm willing to
- 28:11Speaker 1: overlook that, especially when he looks so good on opening night.
- 28:15Speaker 1: And then Akoff, man, you talk about rough debuts. Acuff
- 28:21Speaker 1: had a rough debut, but he took a ton of shots, man.
- 28:25Speaker 1: I want to buy Acuff.
- 28:27Speaker 3: Acuff may struggle, man. He couldn't play defense in college.
- 28:33Speaker 3: You're right, but he's going to be on the court.
- 28:36Speaker 3: Unless he gets taken off for his defense.
- 28:38Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. He's going to be on the
- 28:39Speaker 2: court now because he invested a first-round pick in him.
- 28:42Speaker 1: Right. Maybe in the future, that's why we can't play him.
- 28:45Speaker 1: But right now, do you see how many shots he
- 28:47Speaker 1: took in his debut? This guy.
- 28:51Speaker 1: That's what he does. He scores. And if his shot
- 28:54Speaker 1: is on, like I watched him a lot in college,
- 28:56Speaker 1: he starts getting engaged. It's like a typical young player.
- 28:59Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
- 29:00Speaker 2: Like fill it up.
- 29:01Speaker 1: He's got a real upside here in my opinion, and
- 29:04Speaker 1: he's not going to get played. I like this night
- 29:06Speaker 1: slate way more than the actual slate.
- 29:09Speaker 2: What about your boy?
- 29:10Speaker 3: Yaxel Lindenberg talking trash to Luca poking the bear.
- 29:16Speaker 1: That was pretty crazy, huh?
- 29:18Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 29:20Speaker 1: What he said after the game?
- 29:21Speaker 3: Yeah, that was nuts. All right, so what about Wimby?
- 29:24Speaker 3: Does Wimby make a bounce back? He had a pretty
- 29:26Speaker 3: horrible first night.
- 29:30Speaker 1: He had a real bad first night, huh? Yeah, it
- 29:32Speaker 1: kind of feels like a guy like that is going
- 29:34Speaker 1: to bounce back. But, man, I just don't like hating
- 29:36Speaker 1: guys against Houston, ever.
- 29:38Speaker 2: It's good to see Fred VanVleet.
- 29:40Speaker 1: Back.
- 29:40Speaker 2: I'm glad he's back. Hopefully they have a better season
- 29:42Speaker 2: than they did last year. Yeah, that'll do it for us.
- 29:44Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about.
- 29:48Speaker 2: Our favorite guy in the main slate.
- 29:50Speaker 3: Give me an expensive guy, Matt, and maybe a cheap guy.
- 29:55Speaker 2: Let's go under 6K. Okay.
- 29:57Speaker 3: An expensive guy and a guy under 6K that you
- 30:00Speaker 3: really liked. I know who the under 6K guy is
- 30:02Speaker 3: going to be.
- 30:04Speaker 1: You do know who the under 6K guy is going
- 30:05Speaker 1: to be.
- 30:06Speaker 2: Yeah, and it can't be him, so you've got to
- 30:07Speaker 2: pick somebody else.
- 30:11Speaker 1: Okay, for me, that's interesting because I don't even know
- 30:17Speaker 1: who that is. My spend-up guy is going to be Cooper.
- 30:19Speaker 1: Are you talking about the main slate or the night slate?
- 30:21Speaker 2: Main slate, main slate, sorry.
- 30:22Speaker 1: Okay, so definitely my more than my expensive guy is
- 30:26Speaker 1: going to be Cooper Flagg.
- 30:29Speaker 2: Planting your flag on Cooper Flag.
- 30:30Speaker 1: Got it. The cheaper than 6K guy? I mean, oh, Dennis?
- 30:35Speaker 1: Is that?
- 30:36Speaker 3: No, I saw him, but I thought you were going
- 30:40Speaker 3: to say Obi Toppin.
- 30:42Speaker 1: No, I mean, there's a bunch of guys I like.
- 30:45Speaker 1: I like Najee Marshall a lot, too. I like that game.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Obi Toppin looks good, but so does Keyshawn George. A
- 30:52Speaker 1: lot of good value plays. I definitely think this is
- 30:53Speaker 1: more of a slate to play, like, a lot of
- 30:56Speaker 1: guys in the five to eight K range as opposed
- 30:59Speaker 1: to spending up and spending down.
- 31:03Speaker 2: Yeah. I like, I know you don't like him and
- 31:05Speaker 2: we kind of differ here. I like ant at 9,500.
- 31:08Speaker 3: I mean, you just look at it, that roster. I mean,
- 31:12Speaker 3: LaMelo is a ball hog, but outside of that, they
- 31:14Speaker 3: don't really have any, anybody in my opinion that can
- 31:16Speaker 3: like really fill it up. Like AO likes to shoot it.
- 31:19Speaker 3: I mean, coming, I mean, they're fine, but ant needs
- 31:22Speaker 3: the ball. I like ant at 9,500, especially if you're
- 31:24Speaker 3: telling me, He's going to be low-owned. He'll be higher
- 31:26Speaker 3: than 4%. I don't think he'll be that low-owned. But
- 31:29Speaker 3: give me some Ant tonight. I really like Ant on
- 31:31Speaker 3: my teams.
- 31:34Speaker 1: I dig it, especially at low ownership.
- 31:39Speaker 2: Newens, I did say hello to you, I thought. Yeah,
- 31:41Speaker 2: you were good.
- 31:42Speaker 3: I said you were already cussing me out 30 seconds
- 31:44Speaker 3: into the show.
- 31:44Speaker 2: Well, hello, Newens. Fatherhood's right around the corner for our guy, Newens. Hey,
- 31:48Speaker 2: that'll do it for us.
- 31:49Speaker 3: All six games in the bake. Appreciate each and every
- 31:52Speaker 3: one of you tuning in. My guy, Matt, and I
- 31:53Speaker 3: will be here every single Friday. During the NBA season,
- 31:56Speaker 3: I got you covered all weekend as well with a
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- 32:08Speaker 3: have a good weekend. Stay out of trouble. We'll see
- 32:10Speaker 3: you next Friday. Good luck tonight in those contests. Just
- 32:13Speaker 3: ship it.