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- 0:00Speaker 1: M all systems going clear were lifting?
- 0:41Speaker 2: What is going on? Everyone? We are back for a
- 0:43Speaker 2: Wednesday edition of the NBA Show here with my guy
- 0:46Speaker 2: em Bellman, Matt. How you doing on this fine Wednesday.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Got a lot of teams playing tonight and not a
- 0:51Speaker 2: lot of teams playing tomorrow, so pretty much everybody playing tonight.
- 0:54Speaker 2: How are you feeling about this? Slight?
- 0:56Speaker 3: Yeah, typical Wednesday night. Love it. Love breaking these uh
- 1:00Speaker 3: slates down with you. We got eight games tonight. It
- 1:03Speaker 3: seems like just an even more loaded slate than that,
- 1:06Speaker 3: with good plays all over. Finally, not finally, but we
- 1:10Speaker 3: have like a real NBA slate with questionable tags all over.
- 1:12Speaker 3: Waiting on news should be a fun one. Talked a
- 1:16Speaker 3: little bit about your week going a little bit better
- 1:19Speaker 3: than mine. I know you would wish you had gotten
- 1:20Speaker 3: all the way to the top, but still a good
- 1:22Speaker 3: shilling from you. Hopefully one of us gets all the
- 1:24Speaker 3: way to the top tonight.
- 1:26Speaker 2: Yeah for sure, DraftKings. Lets bringing back to that small
- 1:29Speaker 2: five dollars contest, so anybody else wants to jump into that,
- 1:34Speaker 2: good luck with it. It's one of the toughest tournaments
- 1:36Speaker 2: to win. The NBA puts out there and it's almost
- 1:39Speaker 2: not even worth getting second place in that because I
- 1:42Speaker 2: think the drop off is huge. I think last year
- 1:44Speaker 2: I got like fourth or fifth place and only ended
- 1:47Speaker 2: up profiting like one hundred to two hundred bucks. So
- 1:49Speaker 2: that's just the way the BFS is now. You've got
- 1:51Speaker 2: to get first place to really pay off in a
- 1:54Speaker 2: big way. Yeah, we're coming off of a odd slate
- 1:58Speaker 2: from last night. I going to it. I liked it.
- 2:00Speaker 2: I thought that it was a pretty solid slate for
- 2:02Speaker 2: a four gamer with the the you know, the game
- 2:04Speaker 2: titles and everything projected to be pretty close. But man,
- 2:08Speaker 2: if you didn't, if you basically just avoided the Pelicans value,
- 2:12Speaker 2: you were looking pretty good. I mean, you had it
- 2:14Speaker 2: was everything like not that we thought it would, but
- 2:18Speaker 2: you had Fears starting he was the highest on play
- 2:20Speaker 2: on the slate, yet it was Alvarado that got there
- 2:23Speaker 2: in a big way. And then you had both med
- 2:26Speaker 2: Kovich and Derek Queen kind of splitting the center minutes
- 2:31Speaker 2: with Looney, and both those guys outscored Looney by a
- 2:33Speaker 2: pretty big margin. You know, so had Sadik Bay taking
- 2:36Speaker 2: a ton of minutes from Herb Jones. That was a
- 2:38Speaker 2: very frustrating night. I don't expect most nights to be
- 2:41Speaker 2: like that. I think value in NBA is for the
- 2:44Speaker 2: most part pretty safe. But with a team like the Pelicans,
- 2:48Speaker 2: there's gonna be some other teams as well, Like I
- 2:49Speaker 2: could see the Nets doing some weird things later down
- 2:52Speaker 2: the line where they just these teams aren't really gonna
- 2:54Speaker 2: be competitive, so they have no reason to play Jordan
- 2:56Speaker 2: Poole and Kevon Looney all these veterans like thirty plus minutes.
- 2:59Speaker 2: So maybe something that should have been should have done
- 3:03Speaker 2: a little bit better at But you have any thoughts
- 3:05Speaker 2: on that from last night.
- 3:06Speaker 3: I'm I'm in line with you. MBA is usually so projectable.
- 3:10Speaker 3: It's rare you see nights like that where the projection
- 3:13Speaker 3: are just wrong all over on a bunch of guys.
- 3:15Speaker 3: Now it just happened to be New Orleans ran weird
- 3:18Speaker 3: rotations looking for their first win. You know, hindsight is
- 3:22Speaker 3: obviously twenty twenty, so you can look back on it
- 3:25Speaker 3: and be like, Looney was a bad play because his
- 3:28Speaker 3: minutes were questionable anyways, but thirty two hundred, you know,
- 3:32Speaker 3: projecting for that well, like I certainly played a ton
- 3:36Speaker 3: of him. I know that someone posted in our discord.
- 3:38Speaker 3: Basically everyone who won fifty last night played like seventy
- 3:42Speaker 3: plus percent of Looney and it just made too much sense.
- 3:45Speaker 3: So yeah, you were in a big advantage just getting
- 3:48Speaker 3: away from that shock. Winners and small field stuff scored
- 3:51Speaker 3: like barely over three hundred points. Just a rare, rare night.
- 3:54Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe even in the Fantasy Basketball World Championship
- 3:59Speaker 2: contest BP Kelowna one, I believe he had fears and
- 4:03Speaker 2: looting in that lineup. Still, yeah, you still could have
- 4:06Speaker 2: won with them because they were so high on you
- 4:08Speaker 2: really just needed to nail down everything else in your lineup.
- 4:11Speaker 2: So when it really I think it's kind of like
- 4:13Speaker 2: a process over results type of night. Like if you
- 4:16Speaker 2: see a lot of sharp players, a lot of big,
- 4:18Speaker 2: big name Sharks out there playing these guys a lot,
- 4:22Speaker 2: you probably should feel okay with your process. I saw
- 4:24Speaker 2: people in the discord talking about that, but really not
- 4:27Speaker 2: something I would really try to be overthinking too much, because,
- 4:30Speaker 2: like you said, NBA is pretty projectable. All right, But
- 4:34Speaker 2: that was yesterday's slate. We'll definitely talk about today's slave.
- 4:37Speaker 2: But before we do that, when I say what's up
- 4:38Speaker 2: to people in chet Michael W. Jason Turner wins a lot,
- 4:43Speaker 2: little neck killing it with the showdown stuff. As always,
- 4:45Speaker 2: he'll be uh, he'll be the guy. Tomorrow's only one
- 4:47Speaker 2: NBA game tomorrow, so he'll have his content out for that.
- 4:51Speaker 2: I got Remo new Ones. Take down, Jonathan, thanks for
- 4:54Speaker 2: staying for a little bit. I'm Rice. Take down again.
- 4:57Speaker 2: Carl h take down again with the Buffalos, right Kid
- 5:04Speaker 2: lying in, take down again, Big Ed, Azy, Bob, Philly,
- 5:08Speaker 2: Nate d. What's going on? All right? So let's jump
- 5:11Speaker 2: into the first game in the slate. We're gonna go
- 5:14Speaker 2: game by game on Saber sim right here. Who if
- 5:17Speaker 2: you don't know by now, we are partners with them,
- 5:19Speaker 2: been a great partner show up to this point. And yeah,
- 5:22Speaker 2: I definitely like what they've done with all the updates
- 5:24Speaker 2: over the last year or so. But first game of
- 5:27Speaker 2: the slate, we have the Nets heading into Indy. Two
- 5:30Speaker 2: really struggling teams right now. Indy's team that's deal with
- 5:33Speaker 2: a ton of injuries they have. I believe Quentin Jackson,
- 5:37Speaker 2: the guy who got the start last game, will be
- 5:40Speaker 2: out for this one. And you were still still missing
- 5:43Speaker 2: them hard Bencmatheren, some of these other guys projected to
- 5:46Speaker 2: miss a couple more games. They'll be running things pretty
- 5:49Speaker 2: fairly tight. Probably see ray J. Dennis step into the
- 5:52Speaker 2: starting line, so he'll be a guy to look to
- 5:53Speaker 2: for some value. And then Broken will be getting Michael
- 5:56Speaker 2: Porter Junior back. This game definitely interested a little bit,
- 6:00Speaker 2: just Brooklyn as a team that's been so bad defensively
- 6:03Speaker 2: and with Indy being so thin, we could really see
- 6:05Speaker 2: a massive role for Siakam in this game in particular,
- 6:10Speaker 2: but moving forward, just to seem has no true point
- 6:12Speaker 2: guards on the roster, so I could really Seekam putting
- 6:16Speaker 2: up a big score here. What are you liking in
- 6:18Speaker 2: this one?
- 6:19Speaker 3: Yeah? So I'm with you again, Like, this is a
- 6:21Speaker 3: game that definitely peaks my interest. Now, it's not the
- 6:24Speaker 3: only game that does, so I think that if you
- 6:26Speaker 3: like other spots more, that's fair. But any game Brooklyn
- 6:30Speaker 3: plays this year that I think or projects to be competitive,
- 6:33Speaker 3: I'm going to be interested in. And that's tonight. Pacers
- 6:37Speaker 3: are like six six and a half point favorites. I
- 6:40Speaker 3: think this is a good spot for Brooklyn to stay competitive.
- 6:42Speaker 3: They're still looking for their first win. New Orleans got
- 6:45Speaker 3: theirs last night. Wouldn't be shocked if that happens tonight
- 6:48Speaker 3: with Brooklyn. So that makes me like pieces from all side,
- 6:52Speaker 3: you kind of hit on the pieces I like best.
- 6:55Speaker 3: Indiana is so shorthanded. We've seen Siakam's role just be
- 6:59Speaker 3: mons this season in non blowouts. This year, he's averaging
- 7:03Speaker 3: sixty DK points per game. So yeah, the ninety five
- 7:07Speaker 3: hundred dollars price tag seems high, but it's not for
- 7:09Speaker 3: his production. You look at the other side. I feel
- 7:13Speaker 3: similarly about Michael Porter Junior. You know, obviously a different
- 7:16Speaker 3: price point. Both guys power forwards. I feel like, if
- 7:19Speaker 3: I'm playing one, I want the other. Then you throw
- 7:22Speaker 3: in like camp Thomas. I'm not exactly sure what to
- 7:25Speaker 3: make of the Indiana value. I think ray J. Dennis
- 7:27Speaker 3: looks good, not great on this slate, just because of
- 7:31Speaker 3: how much value we do have, and his role is
- 7:34Speaker 3: a little bit undefined right now. But jaris walker fine
- 7:38Speaker 3: with it even at fifty eight hundred. I think you
- 7:40Speaker 3: can get to a bunch of pieces on this game
- 7:42Speaker 3: on a smaller slate. I might be thinking about, like
- 7:45Speaker 3: game stacking this one. On this particular slate, I think
- 7:48Speaker 3: getting to like Porter and Siakam, maybe camp Thomas in there,
- 7:53Speaker 3: maybe a piece of Indiana like Jarris Walker. I like
- 7:56Speaker 3: the main pieces from this game for sure.
- 7:58Speaker 2: Yeah right there with you going to have a massive,
- 8:01Speaker 2: massive role, And like you said, in close games, he's
- 8:03Speaker 2: just crushing. So I definitely think that he would be
- 8:05Speaker 2: the priority in this game. I do. There's two guys
- 8:08Speaker 2: that I like on each side, probably a little bit
- 8:11Speaker 2: more than the field I would anticipate, but I think
- 8:13Speaker 2: Jeris Walker is in a pretty good spot here. You
- 8:15Speaker 2: did mention him, but he should see a really really
- 8:17Speaker 2: good matchup with Michael Porter Junior probably gonna be the
- 8:20Speaker 2: guy that's guarding him. I don't think there's a lot
- 8:23Speaker 2: of really good defenders on the Brooklyn side, but if
- 8:25Speaker 2: there were to be one pinpoint, it's probably Terrence Mann
- 8:28Speaker 2: as like their best overall defender. I think he'll be
- 8:31Speaker 2: on Siakam not really something to get you off of,
- 8:34Speaker 2: but that's just gonna leave MPJ, who's just never been
- 8:37Speaker 2: a really good defender on Jaris Walker. Walkers had a
- 8:40Speaker 2: pretty solid role this season, and then you add in
- 8:43Speaker 2: the the injury to another guard that he could really
- 8:46Speaker 2: take on a pretty big ball haling role that he
- 8:48Speaker 2: already has this season. And then Nick Claxton is another
- 8:52Speaker 2: guy that I'm really interested in. Just the room defense
- 8:55Speaker 2: for Indy is never that good. Isaiah Jackson is not
- 8:57Speaker 2: that great of a rent protector and been doing a
- 9:00Speaker 2: little bit more with the playmaking stuff. He has seven
- 9:02Speaker 2: and five assists in his last two games, and their
- 9:05Speaker 2: coaches even talked about running the offense through him a
- 9:07Speaker 2: little bit more. Has been trending for thirty four minutes
- 9:10Speaker 2: and back to that game. So he looks like a
- 9:12Speaker 2: guy that could be underpriced, and I think we'll go
- 9:15Speaker 2: a little bit overlooked on the slate that has some
- 9:17Speaker 2: really strong center values. And then on the other side,
- 9:19Speaker 2: I also think Jackson is pretty solid as well.
- 9:22Speaker 3: Yes, I think that's a great example of our differences
- 9:24Speaker 3: in play style. Like you mostly playing one fifty, me
- 9:27Speaker 3: playing you know, three lineups, generally somewhere around there. I
- 9:31Speaker 3: like Claxton here, but almost impossible for me to prioritize
- 9:35Speaker 3: him at center or utility with the amount of other
- 9:38Speaker 3: goods value centers that you talked about. So in one
- 9:42Speaker 3: fifty settings, I would definitely want to be over the field.
- 9:45Speaker 3: In like one to three lineups, I'm just not sure
- 9:47Speaker 3: I can get there. That said, like he's close, Like,
- 9:51Speaker 3: I don't think he's a bad play in those type
- 9:54Speaker 3: of formats either. He's cheap enough and in a game
- 9:56Speaker 3: that I expect to be competitive. I like the call
- 9:58Speaker 3: out for sure.
- 10:00Speaker 2: Yeah, and definitely the same thing with Isaiah Jackson there too,
- 10:03Speaker 2: Like he's probably not a guy you're prioritizing at center
- 10:05Speaker 2: with all the strong value plays there, but he is
- 10:08Speaker 2: definitely a guy to consider because he did get up
- 10:10Speaker 2: to twenty nine minutes last game, and they even said
- 10:13Speaker 2: like he's still easing back into a minutes into like
- 10:16Speaker 2: his full full minutes, So like, if twenty nine is
- 10:20Speaker 2: a limitation for him, then what is the like, what's
- 10:22Speaker 2: his unrestricted minutes look like? It could be like thirty
- 10:25Speaker 2: two to thirty four, which would just make him a
- 10:28Speaker 2: smash value play because there's been years in the past
- 10:30Speaker 2: where Isaiah Jackson's filling in for Miles Turner plays twenty
- 10:33Speaker 2: five minutes and he's the chalk value play on the slate.
- 10:36Speaker 2: So definitely another guy that would be keeping my player pool.
- 10:41Speaker 2: We can move on to the next game. I think
- 10:42Speaker 2: this is one we'll probably have a little bit less
- 10:44Speaker 2: interest in your Cleveland Cavaliers. Welcoming the seventy six ers
- 10:48Speaker 2: into Cleveland with a you know, a team that's gonna
- 10:51Speaker 2: be without a couple of guys. We've already seen the
- 10:52Speaker 2: situation in a few games this season. Four of the
- 10:55Speaker 2: Sixers but no Joel Embiid, but the back to back
- 10:57Speaker 2: no Jared McCain, which is kind of surprising considering he
- 11:00Speaker 2: only played like four minutes last night. But he'll be
- 11:04Speaker 2: out with the injury management definitely, like some I really
- 11:09Speaker 2: just like Maxie again, like he's always coming in under
- 11:12Speaker 2: own and just continues to crush. For some reason, people
- 11:14Speaker 2: just think that the bottom is going to fall out eventually,
- 11:16Speaker 2: and it just doesn't. They're scared to play him with
- 11:19Speaker 2: Joel Embiid. He continues to crush with Joel, and the
- 11:21Speaker 2: numbers are great even with mbat off the court dating
- 11:24Speaker 2: back to last year, but this year he's been equally
- 11:26Speaker 2: as good from a point per minute standpoint and role
- 11:29Speaker 2: standpoint with Embiid off the court. Don't love the matchup.
- 11:32Speaker 2: Cleveland is playing pretty good defense, but just the role
- 11:35Speaker 2: and how well Maxie's playing right now, how hot he's
- 11:38Speaker 2: shooting from deep kind of always has me interested in him.
- 11:40Speaker 2: So he's probably the guy I'm looking to on the
- 11:42Speaker 2: Philly side, But you could make the case that Edgecomb
- 11:45Speaker 2: and Kelly Oubre just from like a straight minute standpoint
- 11:48Speaker 2: are pretty good. I definitely think that is more mmm,
- 11:51Speaker 2: just because they won't project good enough, Like you're really
- 11:53Speaker 2: giving up a ton of projections by playing these guys
- 11:55Speaker 2: in your seeing country stuff. But those three guys are
- 11:58Speaker 2: definitely in play Cleveland side. I think it's closer to
- 12:03Speaker 2: a cross off for me getting Daris Garland back, potentially
- 12:05Speaker 2: Jared Allen back. But if we get multiple out tags
- 12:09Speaker 2: like there's four Q tags and if they miss, then
- 12:12Speaker 2: it's definitely gonna be swat to that you look to
- 12:14Speaker 2: for value. Probably Jayden Tyson will be the guy I'm
- 12:16Speaker 2: looking to, just because he's been playing really well. But
- 12:18Speaker 2: we have to see what the starting lineup looks like
- 12:19Speaker 2: because Lonzo Ball would be in play again if Garland
- 12:22Speaker 2: and Hunter were to miss, and then if Jared Allen
- 12:24Speaker 2: miss is that does make Mobley a little bit better,
- 12:27Speaker 2: but I don't know. Nine K for mobiley, nine point
- 12:30Speaker 2: two k for Donald Mitchell seems like their ceiling price
- 12:32Speaker 2: tag right now.
- 12:35Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm good on the Cleveland side as is, Like
- 12:38Speaker 3: I expect the majority of that those guys to play,
- 12:40Speaker 3: especially Garland, which is the biggest one, and he's just
- 12:43Speaker 3: gonna eat into everyone else. So you have Allen's out.
- 12:46Speaker 3: I mean, you can look at a little bit of
- 12:48Speaker 3: the value, but Cleveland's price stop. I think they're a
- 12:51Speaker 3: team that is one of the easiest to cross off
- 12:54Speaker 3: on the entire slate. And then on the Philly side,
- 12:57Speaker 3: I'm with you, like I think the thing with Maxi,
- 12:59Speaker 3: he just isn't projecting well. Projection systems haven't caught up
- 13:02Speaker 3: to his play this year, but at some point, the
- 13:06Speaker 3: production is what the production is. I mean, he's averaging
- 13:09Speaker 3: like sixty DK points per game. He plays forty minutes
- 13:13Speaker 3: plus every night, So I get it with MAXI, he's
- 13:16Speaker 3: not going to be highly owned, especially on this slate.
- 13:19Speaker 3: I'm not sure I'm gonna get to him in limited lineups,
- 13:23Speaker 3: but certainly a fade at your own risk at this
- 13:25Speaker 3: point because he smashes every night.
- 13:28Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, I have to see what they do with
- 13:30Speaker 2: the starting lineup. Looks like US and potential sabersim have
- 13:36Speaker 2: Watford in there as a starter. Just like from projection standpoint,
- 13:39Speaker 2: he's projecting like a pretty solid value. We'll see what
- 13:42Speaker 2: they do with that. I said that yesterday they were
- 13:46Speaker 2: really anticipating him to be their starting power forward, but
- 13:49Speaker 2: just with the injuries leading at this season, he hasn't
- 13:51Speaker 2: been that. So we'll see what they what they do
- 13:53Speaker 2: with the starting lineup. But yeah, as the stands right now,
- 13:55Speaker 2: Cleveland probably across up and then just Maxie for the
- 13:57Speaker 2: Sixers next game on the slate. We've got my team now,
- 14:01Speaker 2: the Utah Jazz heading into Detroit to take on the Pistons,
- 14:04Speaker 2: who look like one of the top teams in the
- 14:06Speaker 2: East right now coming off a few really strong games.
- 14:09Speaker 2: Jazz got a big road win a few nights ago
- 14:11Speaker 2: against Boston, but did receive word that Walker Kessler is
- 14:14Speaker 2: going to be done for the season, so they'll be
- 14:16Speaker 2: asking a lot from some other guys to step up,
- 14:18Speaker 2: especially with their rim defense. Obviously use off Nurkichenen to
- 14:22Speaker 2: continue to start moving forward, but wouldn't be surprised if
- 14:24Speaker 2: we see more Philip Kowski and Taylor Hendrix filling in
- 14:27Speaker 2: some small ball center minutes, and then maybe once they
- 14:30Speaker 2: get back home, calling up a guy like who they
- 14:33Speaker 2: have in the G League right now. I think the
- 14:35Speaker 2: Oscar sheet way. Yeah, they'll probably end up calling him
- 14:37Speaker 2: up once they get back home, but yeah, I'm always
- 14:41Speaker 2: going to want to attack the Jazz. I think that
- 14:43Speaker 2: this is a really good spot for some guys on Detroit.
- 14:45Speaker 2: But I want to hear your thoughts on this game first,
- 14:46Speaker 2: because they are double digit underdogs, so it might be
- 14:49Speaker 2: a blowout tonight.
- 14:51Speaker 3: It might be a blowout, but if this game can
- 14:53Speaker 3: stay competitive, then I think both sides of this game
- 14:56Speaker 3: are really really interesting. Certainly the Detroit side is going
- 14:59Speaker 3: to stand out more starting with Caid, who on a
- 15:03Speaker 3: slate with you know, there's Jokic, and then after jokicch
- 15:07Speaker 3: there isn't a ton of spend ups. There's a lot
- 15:09Speaker 3: in the mid range to look at, but after Jokic,
- 15:12Speaker 3: I think Cunningham is the best bend up option on
- 15:14Speaker 3: the slate. Started off the season a little bit slow,
- 15:17Speaker 3: but has been really good in the past three I
- 15:21Speaker 3: think he puts up a really good game here regardless,
- 15:23Speaker 3: Like if Detroit blows out Utah, yeah maybe it caps
- 15:27Speaker 3: his minute upside in the second half, but that would
- 15:31Speaker 3: have to be like a major, major blowout, And if
- 15:33Speaker 3: that's the case, I would assume that he's had a
- 15:36Speaker 3: really good game up to that point. Anyways, good tag
- 15:39Speaker 3: for his upside here, So I like Cad a lot,
- 15:41Speaker 3: Jalen Duran really good spot against a Walker, Kessler lists
- 15:45Speaker 3: jazz defense. He's obviously shown upside, has it, you know,
- 15:49Speaker 3: well within that seventy two hundred dollars price tag, not
- 15:52Speaker 3: getting a ton of ownership just because center is so loaded.
- 15:55Speaker 3: And then Isaiah Stewart interested to hear what you have
- 15:58Speaker 3: to say about Stuart obviously stepped in for Tobias Harris
- 16:03Speaker 3: had an. I mean you needed him in that last time,
- 16:05Speaker 3: and he was a surprise starter after lock, so he
- 16:08Speaker 3: wasn't chalky at all, put up close to sixty Fantasy points.
- 16:13Speaker 3: Different matchup here, so not sure what they do with
- 16:17Speaker 3: the starting lineup. Not sure if he has the same
- 16:19Speaker 3: minutes upside he had in that spot. But this is
- 16:22Speaker 3: a guy that can put up monster DFS games, as
- 16:25Speaker 3: evidenced by his last start. By his last game, you know,
- 16:29Speaker 3: blocks a ton of shots. Good rebounder can shoot threes.
- 16:33Speaker 3: So presuming he starts, I mean those three guys, Cad, Duran,
- 16:37Speaker 3: and Stuart would probably order them as far as priorities go. Stuart,
- 16:41Speaker 3: Cad and Duran, but I like all of them. I
- 16:44Speaker 3: think going right back to Osar Thompson, like, Detroit looks
- 16:48Speaker 3: really really good here, and then if can you talkings
- 16:51Speaker 3: stay competitive? I mean Keyante George seventy one hundred. You
- 16:56Speaker 3: look at his game log and not even to be
- 16:58Speaker 3: a game log watcher, it's forty plus every single night,
- 17:00Speaker 3: So why wouldn't it be forty plus here? Nurkic at
- 17:03Speaker 3: fifty three hundred. If there was one game to like
- 17:07Speaker 3: stack on this slate, it's this one for me. How
- 17:09Speaker 3: do you see it? Yeah?
- 17:10Speaker 2: I definitely agree. I think that in terms of like
- 17:14Speaker 2: the spend ups for the jazz between Louri and Luri
- 17:17Speaker 2: and Kiante, I would probably want them paired with like
- 17:20Speaker 2: one or two Detroit guys because I think especially Laurie,
- 17:22Speaker 2: like the way that he gets there is in a
- 17:23Speaker 2: close game. He's averaging like thirty eight to forty minutes
- 17:26Speaker 2: in close games this season, So if he gets there,
- 17:29Speaker 2: he's probably bringing along some of those Detroit guys as well,
- 17:31Speaker 2: and we're anticipating more of a shootout. But Kiance, I
- 17:35Speaker 2: think you're fine to play on his own and then
- 17:37Speaker 2: you obviously have a nurkis who's gonna be one of
- 17:39Speaker 2: the chalky is center players in the slag. I think
- 17:41Speaker 2: that he's pretty good, has always been a really strong
- 17:43Speaker 2: point permitted guy. But you could honestly make the case
- 17:45Speaker 2: that Kevin Love should be in played. He played fourteen
- 17:47Speaker 2: and seventeen minutes in the last two games, and I
- 17:50Speaker 2: know that he's old now but still can get it done.
- 17:53Speaker 2: Like he's a good rebounder, still good shooter. So I
- 17:56Speaker 2: wouldn't mind playing Kevin Love a little bit. But yeah,
- 18:00Speaker 2: I'm right there with you. On Detroit, I think that
- 18:01Speaker 2: there's a really good shot that at least one person,
- 18:04Speaker 2: maybe even two on this team puts up a really,
- 18:07Speaker 2: really big score. I think that Asar might be my
- 18:10Speaker 2: favorite just from an ownership standpoint, because he'll be sub
- 18:12Speaker 2: ten percent and it's a really good spot for him.
- 18:15Speaker 2: The Jazz are one of the teams that turns the
- 18:17Speaker 2: ball over the most, and he should be able to
- 18:20Speaker 2: put up a pretty big score there with how bad
- 18:22Speaker 2: the transition defense has been as well for them.
- 18:24Speaker 3: Yeah, I look by the way, No, you're cool. I
- 18:26Speaker 3: like the Love shout out just because it's direct leverage
- 18:28Speaker 3: Anthony Yurkic, because those guys you know loves ultimate upside
- 18:32Speaker 3: comments when nurkic minutes aren't there. So yeah, thirty five hundred,
- 18:37Speaker 3: I wish you were powerful and eligible. He's not thirty
- 18:40Speaker 3: five hundred though. If I houer multi entering, he'd be
- 18:42Speaker 3: in my pool for sure, you know, one to three lineups.
- 18:45Speaker 3: I doubt I get to him. But yeah, this game
- 18:49Speaker 3: looks really, really appealing. My favorite piece of Utah is George,
- 18:53Speaker 3: but I understand the market and shout out too. Yeah,
- 18:57Speaker 3: just good pieces all over this game. If you think
- 19:00Speaker 3: it's a blowout and don't want to spend up on guys,
- 19:03Speaker 3: I get just you know, playing Stuart and kind of
- 19:05Speaker 3: moving on with your life. But I think you want
- 19:06Speaker 3: some Detroit exposure here no matter what.
- 19:09Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Goree. Sorry, my dogs just driving me fucking insane,
- 19:12Speaker 2: just barking right outside my window. The a couple of
- 19:16Speaker 2: guys that are one more guy I guess that I
- 19:18Speaker 2: wanted to mention. I don't even this is obviously way
- 19:20Speaker 2: too thin for anything like single entry. But Walter Clayton,
- 19:24Speaker 2: they've talked him up a little bit, and I think
- 19:26Speaker 2: they're going to just try to get him more minutes.
- 19:28Speaker 2: I see somebody mention Collier playing tonight, They're I don't
- 19:33Speaker 2: think they're prioritizing his minutes at all right now. Just
- 19:36Speaker 2: they spent a lot to get these these rookies that
- 19:38Speaker 2: they have right now, so I think that he's kind
- 19:41Speaker 2: of an afterthought, especially with how well Kyant has been
- 19:44Speaker 2: playing the season, So I think they really just want
- 19:46Speaker 2: to lean into those guys right now. I wouldn't really
- 19:47Speaker 2: expect much from Collier.
- 19:49Speaker 3: I think Kya probably gets traded soon or rather than later. Yeah.
- 19:53Speaker 2: Yeah, they just have way too many strong guards right
- 19:56Speaker 2: now to.
- 19:56Speaker 3: Really when they when they went after Clayton in the draft,
- 20:00Speaker 3: that was kind of the writing on the wall for Kylier,
- 20:02Speaker 3: like already obviously Georgia stepped up into being like the guy.
- 20:06Speaker 3: So and you know, I'll say this about your Clayton
- 20:09Speaker 3: shout out, like stuff like that with Kessler out could
- 20:13Speaker 3: really impact someone like Isaiah Stewart because all of a sudden,
- 20:16Speaker 3: if Utah goes small like him, maybe Duran could be
- 20:20Speaker 3: on the outs as far as like their minutes upside
- 20:22Speaker 3: goes here. So just something to pay attention to if
- 20:25Speaker 3: nothing else.
- 20:26Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, they're gonna have to adjust a lot
- 20:29Speaker 2: for Walker Kesser being out, so we'll definitely we'll see
- 20:32Speaker 2: what they do. I think it's probably a little bit
- 20:34Speaker 2: too thin. I think that for him and me, I'm
- 20:36Speaker 2: gonna try to get some Clayton impair him with Asar
- 20:38Speaker 2: Thompson and kind of the thought process behind that. If
- 20:42Speaker 2: Kyancey's having a bad game, is probably because the star's
- 20:44Speaker 2: knocking him down. Maybe he commits five or six first
- 20:47Speaker 2: half turnovers and then he gets the plug poll because
- 20:50Speaker 2: Will Hardy is really kind of a hard ass when
- 20:53Speaker 2: it comes to being disciplined on these guys. So I
- 20:56Speaker 2: could see something weird like that happening. So I'll have
- 20:58Speaker 2: a little bit of that.
- 20:59Speaker 3: That's why I like the love call. I said that
- 21:01Speaker 3: when you wept walked away for a second. I don't
- 21:03Speaker 3: know if you heard that, but it's direct leverage against
- 21:06Speaker 3: a chalk Nurkic always in play there. I wish you
- 21:09Speaker 3: were power for it eligible, But also like what if,
- 21:12Speaker 3: like the game just plays out where Detroit goes a
- 21:15Speaker 3: little bit smaller. I think Love, even at his old age,
- 21:18Speaker 3: is you know, more much more versatile than Nurkic regardless.
- 21:22Speaker 3: So yeah, at their price tags, I could see you know,
- 21:25Speaker 3: getting to some love in one fifty settings.
- 21:28Speaker 2: For sure, Yeah, definitely, yes, Max one, Nurkicchen love for
- 21:32Speaker 2: sure all right. Next game on the slate, spent a
- 21:36Speaker 2: lot of time in that one, but that's partially my fault.
- 21:38Speaker 2: Next game we have Washington and Boston. I think this
- 21:42Speaker 2: one is kind of straightforward. I like the Boston guys
- 21:45Speaker 2: a lot here. I think it's another similar spot, like
- 21:48Speaker 2: how they face the Jazz. The Washington is kind of
- 21:50Speaker 2: bad and similar spots. I would say that the room
- 21:52Speaker 2: defense for Washington a lot worse than Utah's is, but
- 21:55Speaker 2: they're coming up a ton of threes, a ton of
- 21:57Speaker 2: transition points, so I think it's another spot where I'm
- 21:59Speaker 2: going to have a lot of interest in the big
- 22:01Speaker 2: three for Boston. I'm also kind of liking to me
- 22:04Speaker 2: as Kida as a pivot off of off Nurka Chier.
- 22:09Speaker 2: Washington continues to be a team that just gives up
- 22:11Speaker 2: a ton of fantasy points to opposing centers, so I
- 22:14Speaker 2: think that Kada, you know, kind of running away with
- 22:16Speaker 2: the center job right now. He was, I would say,
- 22:18Speaker 2: on like a trial earlier in the season, but he's
- 22:20Speaker 2: been playing pretty well, so I kind of like him.
- 22:24Speaker 2: Derek White is shooting the ball terribly right now, so
- 22:26Speaker 2: I think it's mostly a wait and see approach. At
- 22:29Speaker 2: seven point five K, I would probably I think I
- 22:31Speaker 2: rank it Prichard Brown White in terms of those three guys,
- 22:35Speaker 2: and then for Washington, I think it's just sarr In
- 22:37Speaker 2: cap Keishaan Georgie you're keeping in your player for right now.
- 22:41Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you. Boston looks like you learn a
- 22:44Speaker 3: good spot here against Washington because it's Washington. But all
- 22:47Speaker 3: in all, like this is a game I have less
- 22:50Speaker 3: interest in than the last game, and some games will
- 22:52Speaker 3: get into in a little bit. I think Sar is
- 22:56Speaker 3: the best piece from Washington. I think you can get
- 22:58Speaker 3: in that. You can have exposure or play any of
- 23:01Speaker 3: the Boston guys, but there's not like one of them
- 23:04Speaker 3: that stands out as a guy I need the roster.
- 23:06Speaker 3: So I'm fine if I get some Boston exposure. I'm
- 23:09Speaker 3: fine if I don't. Personally, yep, yep. Definitely made up
- 23:13Speaker 3: a lot of time on that one. Another game that
- 23:16Speaker 3: should be a really good real life watch. Probably not
- 23:20Speaker 3: when you're getting deep into in DFS, especially with Anthony
- 23:24Speaker 3: Edwards possibly returning for Minnesota. I think that kind of
- 23:27Speaker 3: takes everybody off the board.
- 23:28Speaker 2: You're not really paying nine K for Randall in this
- 23:31Speaker 2: matchup with ant coming back. I mean, maybe there's a
- 23:35Speaker 2: little bit of upside for An at eight point nine K.
- 23:38Speaker 2: That's a really good price sec for him, and he
- 23:40Speaker 2: probably returns in full just a very durable player. But
- 23:45Speaker 2: you know, with his return, it takes everybody off the board.
- 23:47Speaker 2: I don't think I want to pay six K for
- 23:48Speaker 2: any of these, you know, Gobert, Devincenzo or Jaa McDaniels.
- 23:53Speaker 2: The kar Anthony Towns news is really big, though he
- 23:55Speaker 2: did get a midday downgrade with the illness, which I
- 23:58Speaker 2: would say probably close to being out. I'm not sure
- 24:01Speaker 2: though they've done some weird things this season, so he
- 24:03Speaker 2: might play. This is a you know, a revenge spot
- 24:06Speaker 2: for him against Minnesota. I think that he probably wants
- 24:08Speaker 2: to play here, but if he misses, it's low key
- 24:10Speaker 2: a decent matchup for Brunson. Minnesota as good as they
- 24:13Speaker 2: have been defensively over the past few years, and with
- 24:16Speaker 2: Jade McDaniels, they're giving up a ton of pick and
- 24:18Speaker 2: roll points per game this season. I believe they're actually
- 24:20Speaker 2: dead last, and obviously Brunson can get it going there,
- 24:25Speaker 2: but just losing talents is going to take away another
- 24:27Speaker 2: high usage guy to really put a lot on Brunston's plates.
- 24:29Speaker 2: I think that he would. He kind of looks pretty
- 24:31Speaker 2: good regardless, but then you're starting to consider like og
- 24:34Speaker 2: and McHale bridges, who have both had pretty solid roles
- 24:36Speaker 2: even alongside cats. I think that it's worth waiting a
- 24:39Speaker 2: little bit for this news, but I don't think it's one.
- 24:42Speaker 2: I'm really going too crazy overboard on what have you
- 24:44Speaker 2: seen in this one?
- 24:46Speaker 3: Yeah, so obviously when we have to wait on news
- 24:48Speaker 3: for I do really like the Ant Colin Tournament. It's
- 24:51Speaker 3: not gonna lie like there's a lot of meat on
- 24:54Speaker 3: the bone. At that price tag eighty nine hundred, you've
- 24:57Speaker 3: got the narrative going to New York. You know, obviously
- 25:00Speaker 3: Minnesota only plays there one time a year. He seems
- 25:03Speaker 3: like a guy that would get up for this spot.
- 25:05Speaker 3: I like that call out, like I think that if
- 25:09Speaker 3: he's playing, he's playing, and he's good to go. So
- 25:12Speaker 3: I don't know or think I'll get to him, but
- 25:14Speaker 3: I like his upside. It really low ownership at that tag, obviously,
- 25:19Speaker 3: I don't think you can really play anyone else from
- 25:21Speaker 3: Minnesota if he's in and then New York. I don't
- 25:25Speaker 3: know what to expect with Towns because like the midday
- 25:27Speaker 3: downgrade is never good. But also maybe he just like
- 25:30Speaker 3: wasn't feeling well in the morning, maybe feeling better now,
- 25:33Speaker 3: who knows. If he's out. I think Brunson becomes like
- 25:37Speaker 3: close to a priority, not like an ultimate lock you
- 25:40Speaker 3: have to play him, but one of the better plays
- 25:42Speaker 3: on the slate. And then all the other knicks you mentioned,
- 25:45Speaker 3: Josh hart og Annobi in particular, would look really good.
- 25:50Speaker 3: So yeah, wait and see on New York here and
- 25:53Speaker 3: then Minnesota. I think it's ant or bust.
- 25:57Speaker 2: Yeah, great breakdown there. I did have a question from
- 26:00Speaker 2: our guys Steven Nighbors. He said, to use both of
- 26:03Speaker 2: your cores. Any advice on how to use your cores
- 26:06Speaker 2: and Sabersim. I'll touch on that really quickly. You could
- 26:10Speaker 2: always just go into Sabersim and lock the guys that
- 26:14Speaker 2: we like, you know, just putting guys out there in particular,
- 26:17Speaker 2: because they do have the handbuild feature now, so you
- 26:19Speaker 2: can actually you know, block in some of these guys
- 26:21Speaker 2: that we have in the core and then run one
- 26:23Speaker 2: hundred and fifty lineups with that group and get a
- 26:25Speaker 2: bunch of different variations of it, or you could always
- 26:29Speaker 2: instead of doing that, just run your normal process and
- 26:32Speaker 2: then you know, you can like magnify glass to the
- 26:36Speaker 2: guys that we have, the guys that you want in
- 26:37Speaker 2: your lineup, I think would be the way to use it.
- 26:39Speaker 2: Do you have any any tips on how to use
- 26:41Speaker 2: the cores in terms of building and SAVERSM No.
- 26:44Speaker 3: I think both those suggestions work. You could also just like,
- 26:46Speaker 3: depending on how many lineups you're playing, if you're playing
- 26:49Speaker 3: one fifty, you know, I personally, even with like if
- 26:53Speaker 3: with a five man corps, I personally wouldn't play my
- 26:55Speaker 3: five man core and like one hundred and fifty lineups
- 26:57Speaker 3: that's kind of reserved for me for smaller field stuff.
- 26:59Speaker 3: So maybe I would bump up the projections on those guys,
- 27:03Speaker 3: get more of them than I otherwise would have, but
- 27:06Speaker 3: you know, not necessarily all of them in every single lineup. Yeah,
- 27:10Speaker 3: kind of just tie. I think i'd do it.
- 27:12Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's a good point on MME versus single entry.
- 27:15Speaker 2: For sure. I don't you don't definitely don't want to
- 27:17Speaker 2: lock in one hundred percent of anybody in one fifty
- 27:20Speaker 2: or even twenty max for that matter. We're talking about
- 27:23Speaker 2: Karl Anthony Talons. He's questionable, so keep an eye on
- 27:25Speaker 2: that one. We'll obviously update the discord once we get
- 27:28Speaker 2: news on that, hopefully sooner than later. All right, next
- 27:32Speaker 2: game on the slate. This was a good one for sure.
- 27:35Speaker 2: I always like attacking Memphis. I think I just like
- 27:37Speaker 2: the way that they play with pace, but also Houston
- 27:39Speaker 2: is keeping things very tired right now. But we also
- 27:41Speaker 2: have some big questionable attacks for Houston with Jabari Smith
- 27:44Speaker 2: Junior and Stevid Adams both questionable with ankle injuries. We
- 27:48Speaker 2: saw Tarry Easton step into the starting lineup last game
- 27:51Speaker 2: before Houston. He got there, but he wasn't great. I
- 27:56Speaker 2: don't know if you got to watch that game, but
- 27:58Speaker 2: his his role is it really doesn't change whether he's
- 28:02Speaker 2: in or out of the line So I don't think
- 28:03Speaker 2: that it matters if he's starting or not, just because
- 28:06Speaker 2: he's going to play off ball. Just a high energy
- 28:08Speaker 2: guy that battles for offensive rebounds and kind of plays
- 28:11Speaker 2: with a plays high paced basketball and looks for like
- 28:14Speaker 2: steals and turnovers and get gets out in transition. Really
- 28:17Speaker 2: fun to watch, but from a role perspective, there's really
- 28:20Speaker 2: not much for him. Just there's not a lot of
- 28:23Speaker 2: usage you go around when you're sharing the corps with
- 28:24Speaker 2: Semgun and Allmen Thompson and Kevin Durantz. I don't think
- 28:27Speaker 2: it really matters too much whether or not he's starting.
- 28:30Speaker 2: Maybe just helps him from a minute standpoint, but he was,
- 28:33Speaker 2: you know, a steal and a three pointer away from
- 28:37Speaker 2: kind of busting at chalks. I would be a little
- 28:39Speaker 2: bit worried about playing him at high ownership if Jabari
- 28:43Speaker 2: were to be out. But with that being said, this
- 28:46Speaker 2: is a really good matchup. I just love I love
- 28:48Speaker 2: Memphis game environments, so I have a lot of interest
- 28:52Speaker 2: in the Houston side. For sure. I think Amen is
- 28:54Speaker 2: my top option, but I also really like KD just
- 28:57Speaker 2: the way that Memphis gives it up on defense. There's
- 28:59Speaker 2: a lot of transition scoring and a lot of off
- 29:01Speaker 2: ball scoring and three point shot attempts for secondary guys.
- 29:05Speaker 2: So KD at eight point five K definitely interest. It
- 29:08Speaker 2: piques my interest as a guy that was pricing like
- 29:11Speaker 2: the low nine K is not too long ago. Don't
- 29:14Speaker 2: think I'm getting too much of Memphis, probably just jaw
- 29:17Speaker 2: is staying in my playpool. Got to thirty five minutes
- 29:19Speaker 2: last game. But there's just a lot of negativity around
- 29:22Speaker 2: this team right now, and I just don't really know
- 29:24Speaker 2: if I want to invest into it. What do you
- 29:26Speaker 2: think about this game?
- 29:28Speaker 3: Definitely not playing any Memphis. I like the idea of
- 29:30Speaker 3: playing job last time out, and like the game after
- 29:33Speaker 3: a suspension, and he was pretty good, but they still lost.
- 29:36Speaker 3: And I think this team is is not a team
- 29:39Speaker 3: I want to have much exposure to on big slates
- 29:42Speaker 3: like this. You know when price tags are where they
- 29:45Speaker 3: are right now. I'm with you on the Houston side.
- 29:49Speaker 3: I'm totally with you on Easton. Also for me, it
- 29:51Speaker 3: is like the last point you made just a minute security.
- 29:54Speaker 3: If he's in the starting lineup, I don't expect his
- 29:57Speaker 3: role to change at all either way, just because he's
- 30:00Speaker 3: not a guy that they're going to really give the
- 30:01Speaker 3: ball to at all. He's got to do it himself.
- 30:04Speaker 3: But he is a guy when he gets good minutes,
- 30:06Speaker 3: can put up monster scores by doing a little bit
- 30:09Speaker 3: of everything. So if Jabari's out, I will like him again.
- 30:13Speaker 3: And I don't think his ownership gets to nearly what
- 30:15Speaker 3: it was the other night. Increase price, tag big or
- 30:17Speaker 3: slate all that stuff. So I do like him. If
- 30:20Speaker 3: Jabari's out at lower ownership just because at this tag
- 30:24Speaker 3: he's he easily has forty DK point upside in this spot,
- 30:28Speaker 3: so I like him. I like Sengoon, I like KD.
- 30:33Speaker 3: My favorite I'm with you though, is Amen seventy seven
- 30:35Speaker 3: hundred good tag for him. Houston is kind of like
- 30:39Speaker 3: Boston for me, where I like all of them. None
- 30:42Speaker 3: of them are like ultimate priorities for me. But I
- 30:46Speaker 3: do like Houston a little bit more than Boston in
- 30:48Speaker 3: the sense that I would like some exposure here.
- 30:54Speaker 2: Sorry, I can we forget that last spot. I had
- 30:56Speaker 2: to open one door real quick.
- 30:57Speaker 3: No, you're cool. I do like they remind me of
- 31:00Speaker 3: Boston a little bit in the sense that I like
- 31:01Speaker 3: all of them. I don't really love any of them,
- 31:04Speaker 3: but I do like them a little more than Boston
- 31:06Speaker 3: in the sense that I kind of want at least
- 31:08Speaker 3: one piece of Houston here.
- 31:10Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's honestly pretty comparable prices too.
- 31:15Speaker 2: You got the one spend up between singud and Brown, Yeah,
- 31:17Speaker 2: the mid tier guy on KD and White, And then
- 31:21Speaker 2: I think that we're both kind of prioritizing the cheapest
- 31:24Speaker 2: of the two between Amen and Pritchard. So I definitely
- 31:28Speaker 2: love being in lockstep there. But yeah, I think Amen
- 31:30Speaker 2: could really put up a big score. He had a
- 31:33Speaker 2: really efficient shooting night last time out, but didn't really
- 31:35Speaker 2: add a ton of the peripheral, so it could have
- 31:37Speaker 2: been a huge, huge night. And I still think that
- 31:38Speaker 2: this is a pretty solid value price tag for him,
- 31:42Speaker 2: So right there with you on Amen, I don't think
- 31:46Speaker 2: that we probably need to get to Capella if Adams
- 31:49Speaker 2: is out.
- 31:50Speaker 3: Even in Memphis, I'm kind of worried about the blowout here,
- 31:53Speaker 3: Like I think Memphis is just like a ticking time
- 31:55Speaker 3: bomb with their best player, I mean, in my eyes,
- 31:58Speaker 3: clearly wanting out. So like I'm a little bit lary
- 32:02Speaker 3: of like the spend up options are going too heavy
- 32:05Speaker 3: on Houston here, even though I'd never have a problem
- 32:09Speaker 3: playing like this side that's gonna do the blowouting instead
- 32:11Speaker 3: of like the team that's getting blown out.
- 32:13Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 32:14Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't think that Houston is really going
- 32:16Speaker 2: to be a team that pulls the plug really early.
- 32:18Speaker 2: They iokas He's gonna keep He'll keep them out there
- 32:22Speaker 2: for pretty much their full full minutes. Yeah, really touching
- 32:28Speaker 2: the Jaw stuff. I think that crazy idea, But swap
- 32:32Speaker 2: Trey Young for John Moran and then just kind of
- 32:34Speaker 2: be done with it.
- 32:35Speaker 3: I don't even think Atlanta would do that or want
- 32:37Speaker 3: to do that at this point.
- 32:38Speaker 2: Honestly, it seems like nobody wants to touch Jaw right now.
- 32:41Speaker 2: He's not really making a good case for himself either
- 32:43Speaker 2: with all the stuff that he's saying in these postgame interviews.
- 32:46Speaker 3: The other big problem with Jaw like how good is he?
- 32:49Speaker 3: Like he's good, but like he still can't shoot. Really,
- 32:53Speaker 3: he's hurt a lot. Like I think that if they
- 32:58Speaker 3: end up due dealing him, like it'll be way less
- 33:02Speaker 3: than fans anticipate or lot, which ultimately might stop them
- 33:05Speaker 3: from dealing him.
- 33:06Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that we said that he's not
- 33:09Speaker 2: gonna be trying. We just said that it's a messy situation.
- 33:11Speaker 2: So I don't know. But yeah, if you don't think
- 33:14Speaker 2: it's gonna be blowout, then go ahead play job tonight.
- 33:18Speaker 2: There's one thing I was going to touch on. It
- 33:20Speaker 2: complete brain farted, but hopefully they'll come back to me.
- 33:25Speaker 2: So we have the Pelicans in the Dallas now, I
- 33:28Speaker 2: don't this team total? Are these totals look all messed up?
- 33:31Speaker 2: There's no way that the Pelicans are favored by thirteen
- 33:33Speaker 2: tonight at Dallas. But yeah, situation from from last night
- 33:38Speaker 2: where we saw Kevon Looney, Fears and Pool get the start,
- 33:41Speaker 2: I think that Pool probably did enough to get the
- 33:43Speaker 2: start again here. They liked his offense in the first rotation, but.
- 33:49Speaker 3: He's questionable.
- 33:51Speaker 2: Yeah is that I think that is a true questionable
- 33:54Speaker 2: as well.
- 33:55Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that was like midday to day.
- 33:57Speaker 2: Yeah, so we got the left knee soreness. Kevon Looney
- 33:59Speaker 2: is off the injury report, though I thought there was
- 34:01Speaker 2: a chance that he could miss with it being a
- 34:03Speaker 2: back to back. But Pool missing definitely matters, because I mean,
- 34:09Speaker 2: I don't know really where those minutes are going to go.
- 34:11Speaker 2: Probably a little bit to Alvarado and Hawkins. Maybe we
- 34:13Speaker 2: see a little bit more overlap between Alvarado and Fears
- 34:16Speaker 2: that they didn't overlap really at all last games. So
- 34:20Speaker 2: I think it matters, But I don't think that it
- 34:22Speaker 2: matters enough to where you're really prioritizing the Pelicans value.
- 34:27Speaker 2: These prices are still good. So if we get some
- 34:29Speaker 2: weird rotate or weird starting lineup with like dear Queen
- 34:33Speaker 2: out there instead of Kevon Looney or Alvarado alongside Fears.
- 34:38Speaker 2: Then maybe it's a situation we want to get into
- 34:40Speaker 2: just because those are two pretty solid permittent guys. But
- 34:44Speaker 2: right now, I don't know. It's just it's really tough
- 34:46Speaker 2: for me to have high confidence in them. And even
- 34:50Speaker 2: Herb Jones, who projects as the best or second best
- 34:53Speaker 2: value for the Pelicans. I mean, he lost a ton
- 34:55Speaker 2: of minutes last night to Sadek Bay, so there's really
- 34:57Speaker 2: no there's no reason for them to run any of
- 35:00Speaker 2: these guys out there for heavy minutes. I don't I'm
- 35:03Speaker 2: kind of like on the side of wanting to get
- 35:05Speaker 2: away from the Pelicans stuff. This is a pretty good
- 35:07Speaker 2: matchup with how bad Dallas has been defensively. I do
- 35:10Speaker 2: have some rules for this one. I'll touch on really
- 35:12Speaker 2: quickly because I just I looked at the rotations and
- 35:15Speaker 2: I don't think these guys are gonna be sharing the
- 35:16Speaker 2: court much together, if at all. But definitely be Max
- 35:19Speaker 2: one of pool Bay and Hawkins, Max one of Makovich,
- 35:25Speaker 2: Queen and Looney, and the Max one of Herban Bay
- 35:28Speaker 2: and then probably just move on and whatever Saber gives
- 35:31Speaker 2: me is what I'll go with. But is there anything
- 35:32Speaker 2: else that you like on the Pelican side that I don't?
- 35:35Speaker 3: Does the max one of Bay Hawkins pool change if
- 35:38Speaker 3: pools out? Like, would you play Bay and Hawkins together
- 35:41Speaker 3: in that case?
- 35:42Speaker 2: Or No, it would have to be if Hawkins was
- 35:45Speaker 2: for starting, because then I think that that the Bay
- 35:47Speaker 2: minutes would probably come from Herb Jones.
- 35:49Speaker 3: That's so in the weeds anyways, I was just curious,
- 35:52Speaker 3: but yeah, like I want to be with you. But
- 35:56Speaker 3: I do think that the New Orleans value is projecting well,
- 36:01Speaker 3: and I won't be surprised if someone or a couple
- 36:05Speaker 3: guys get there. I'm just not sure who it's going
- 36:06Speaker 3: to be. Kind of to your point, I do think
- 36:08Speaker 3: that Queen played well enough last night where wouldn't be
- 36:13Speaker 3: surprising at all if he starts, And if he does start,
- 36:16Speaker 3: I think at thirty seven hundred, you got to take
- 36:18Speaker 3: a long look at him. I also think they could
- 36:19Speaker 3: easily just run back what they did last night. My
- 36:23Speaker 3: favorite piece is Trey Murphy, but you're paying for him,
- 36:26Speaker 3: so like, he's not a guy that I think you
- 36:28Speaker 3: have to play, but he is my favorite piece against
- 36:31Speaker 3: the Dallas team that stinks, so this game should be competitive. Yeah, Like,
- 36:36Speaker 3: Alvarado is a guy I want to like if pools out.
- 36:38Speaker 3: Also because anytime he gets run, I feel like he's
- 36:41Speaker 3: good for DFS purposes projects pretty well already if pools out,
- 36:46Speaker 3: I think he's the guy that I'm more likely to
- 36:48Speaker 3: go to. I was pretty surprised early in the season
- 36:51Speaker 3: when he was just getting straight dnps. I know he's
- 36:53Speaker 3: a good player. Yeah, he's just a good NBA player,
- 36:56Speaker 3: Like he is a good rotational player that leads to winning.
- 37:00Speaker 3: So I feel like now that they dusted him off,
- 37:03Speaker 3: they would have a hard time just putting him back
- 37:04Speaker 3: on the bench. So he's my favorite piece of thirty
- 37:07Speaker 3: three hundred. I like him even more pools out.
- 37:09Speaker 2: He honestly reminds me of like a like a JJ
- 37:12Speaker 2: Burrea or like who did the Nuggets have not too
- 37:15Speaker 2: long ago? The little I think it was like a
- 37:18Speaker 2: European point guard that was backing up Jamal back when
- 37:21Speaker 2: they were making their championship runs. I forget his name,
- 37:25Speaker 2: I have to look that up. But yeah, he reminds
- 37:26Speaker 2: me of a guy that could definitely be impactful on
- 37:28Speaker 2: a winning team. Kind of sucks to see him.
- 37:31Speaker 3: Reminds me of like Della Vedova from the Calves years ago,
- 37:34Speaker 3: like someone in that in that vein.
- 37:37Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I remember what I was talking about.
- 37:39Speaker 2: You touched on like the Jaw I get just like
- 37:42Speaker 2: the talent level. And I was listening to the Brian
- 37:44Speaker 2: Windhorse podcast this week and pretty I mean they were
- 37:47Speaker 2: pretty idamant that he's not even like a top ten Yeah.
- 37:50Speaker 3: Well yeah, they were saying, like Darius Garland and Garland
- 37:54Speaker 3: the Calves would never trade Darland for joh Like for
- 37:57Speaker 3: a lot of reasons, but they never would.
- 37:59Speaker 2: No, Yeah, it's it's too much, too big of a risk. Now, Yeah,
- 38:02Speaker 2: these guys got it Uno compazo, that's who it is.
- 38:04Speaker 3: Oh yeah, wow, that's a great call. That is deep
- 38:06Speaker 3: in the bag. That is that's in the bag.
- 38:10Speaker 2: Yeah. But yeah, well to see, I don't know, it
- 38:12Speaker 2: sucks to see. I love Jaw when he's coming into
- 38:14Speaker 2: the league, loved him his first few years, super exciting,
- 38:17Speaker 2: just kind of it sucks what these last few years
- 38:19Speaker 2: have been. I just don't think that he wants to
- 38:21Speaker 2: be in Memphis anymore, trying to do and everything he
- 38:23Speaker 2: can to get his way out of there.
- 38:27Speaker 3: He said.
- 38:27Speaker 2: Somebody said, what about fears, Yeah, I don't know. It's
- 38:30Speaker 2: just it's a little too risky for me personally. I
- 38:33Speaker 2: don't know every honestly, don't know what to do with
- 38:35Speaker 2: the Pelicans team, Like it's there's just a lot of
- 38:37Speaker 2: risk that comes with them because they could run things
- 38:41Speaker 2: like so many different ways.
- 38:42Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you on fears, like the price tags op,
- 38:44Speaker 3: Like I just don't think there's enough meat on the
- 38:46Speaker 3: ball in there, Like wouldn't be shocking if he got
- 38:48Speaker 3: there in this matchup, but someone I'm not going to prioritize.
- 38:51Speaker 3: And then the whole Jah thing, like yeah, just because
- 38:55Speaker 3: it's messy doesn't mean that, Like I think Jaw is
- 38:57Speaker 3: just not going to try. But I do think it's
- 38:59Speaker 3: mess The coach likes shortained rotations, as he's talked about. Yeah,
- 39:04Speaker 3: and all I can speak about is like me personally,
- 39:07Speaker 3: you couldn't pay me to play jacksonnight. You could do
- 39:10Speaker 3: whatever you want, you know what I mean.
- 39:12Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good, good point. You make it there,
- 39:16Speaker 2: all right, We got touch on the Dallas side quickly,
- 39:19Speaker 2: but I think there's a good amount to like here.
- 39:22Speaker 2: PJ has had a really really strong role for Dallas
- 39:25Speaker 2: right now with all these injuries and in a close
- 39:27Speaker 2: game like he's gonna play a lot, I could see
- 39:29Speaker 2: him touching forty for sure. But he's doing a little
- 39:31Speaker 2: bit of everything right now, pretty solid usage assists and
- 39:34Speaker 2: rebounding numbers, doing a little bit of the ball stuff
- 39:36Speaker 2: as well. Two point six minutes of touch time. His
- 39:38Speaker 2: drives are up, so he's had a pretty solid role
- 39:42Speaker 2: for them that's been better than it has been years past,
- 39:45Speaker 2: especially with guys like Anthony Davis on the courts. I
- 39:48Speaker 2: do like him a bit. I think that this might
- 39:51Speaker 2: be the spot for Cooper Flag if there were to
- 39:55Speaker 2: ever be one, just a really good matchup. I think
- 39:57Speaker 2: that he might be avoiding the Herb Jones defense. I
- 40:00Speaker 2: feel like they might put Herb on PJ. Even if
- 40:03Speaker 2: it is Herb on Flag, I still think that it's
- 40:05Speaker 2: a pretty good spot. So I kind of want to
- 40:06Speaker 2: be ahead of the market here. I mean, this is
- 40:10Speaker 2: a guy his price has not moved at all, and
- 40:11Speaker 2: he hasn't really done much to warrant this high of
- 40:14Speaker 2: a price tag, but he is still, you know, the
- 40:18Speaker 2: number one overall pick, a super highly talented player, and
- 40:20Speaker 2: everybody who's playing him in the first couple of games
- 40:22Speaker 2: of the season, He's run into some really tough matchups.
- 40:24Speaker 2: So if you look at the game blog and some
- 40:26Speaker 2: of the teams that they played, hasn't really played a
- 40:29Speaker 2: team as bad as the Pelicans since he played the Wizards,
- 40:31Speaker 2: and that's when he put up the most Fantasy points
- 40:33Speaker 2: he has in a game of the season. So he's
- 40:35Speaker 2: kind of a guy I'm looking to a bit. I
- 40:37Speaker 2: think you could definitely play d low. He's had a
- 40:40Speaker 2: really good role off the bench double double last game,
- 40:42Speaker 2: and they definitely need some ball handling, and I think
- 40:44Speaker 2: Christy is fine, but Gafford is another really solid value play.
- 40:49Speaker 2: Played twenty five minutes last night. It's seen our last
- 40:51Speaker 2: game seemed like twenty minutes was probably where they wanted
- 40:54Speaker 2: to happen. But they just don't really have enough depth
- 40:57Speaker 2: to not be playing their best guys a lot of minutes.
- 40:59Speaker 2: So I wouldn't surprised if he lands at like twenty
- 41:02Speaker 2: five to twenty eight range, which would make him one
- 41:04Speaker 2: of the best value plays on the slate.
- 41:07Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's one of, if not already right now,
- 41:10Speaker 3: like depending on injury news, like the best value play
- 41:14Speaker 3: on the slate at forty seven hundred, a little bit
- 41:17Speaker 3: riskier than maybe normal Gafford would be, but normal Gafford
- 41:21Speaker 3: would be much more expensive than this. In this spot,
- 41:23Speaker 3: I'm with you all over here. Like d Loo, his
- 41:26Speaker 3: role increases a good amount. It's a great spot for
- 41:28Speaker 3: Dallas here. I like him quite a bit. And then
- 41:31Speaker 3: Cooper Flag in the middle of writing Slate the slate
- 41:35Speaker 3: plan for members, and I literally basically said what you said.
- 41:37Speaker 3: I said, if there was ever a spot for Flag
- 41:39Speaker 3: to go nuts, it's tonight. It's not like he's been bad.
- 41:44Speaker 3: He's just been more solid than spectacular. I think people
- 41:46Speaker 3: wanted and expected more. I think tonight could be the
- 41:49Speaker 3: night that that happens. I like Dallas here. I mean,
- 41:53Speaker 3: what's not to like. New Orleans is awful. There's no
- 41:57Speaker 3: really good spot for the MAVs. I won't be mad
- 42:01Speaker 3: if I have two three pieces from Dallas tonight in
- 42:04Speaker 3: any given lineup.
- 42:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he played twenty five minutes, so it
- 42:09Speaker 2: didn't really matter what he said, So yeah, he would
- 42:11Speaker 2: be one of the best value plays in the slate
- 42:13Speaker 2: if he's playing twenty five minutes again, I just want
- 42:17Speaker 2: to shot out a guy. Carl appreciate the kind words, man,
- 42:19Speaker 2: appreciate the support, definitely appreciate you being here for all
- 42:22Speaker 2: the shows, and happy one year anniversary. All right, Last
- 42:28Speaker 2: game on the slate Miami and Denver. Miami has surprisingly
- 42:32Speaker 2: been the fastest paced team in the league this season.
- 42:36Speaker 2: There's a lot of talk about that coming into the year.
- 42:38Speaker 2: They have a pretty young squad, a lot of guys
- 42:39Speaker 2: that can get up and running, so it's not surprising
- 42:42Speaker 2: or not, you know, not crazy. I think that they're
- 42:44Speaker 2: going to continue up this pace. But there's been some
- 42:46Speaker 2: really solid game environments in these Miami games. Both these
- 42:50Speaker 2: teams have really solid defenses, but this is a pretty
- 42:52Speaker 2: solid overall game total. I think Miami side is kind
- 42:57Speaker 2: of quick to break down because I don't really love
- 43:00Speaker 2: too much here at these price tags. I think Bam
- 43:02Speaker 2: is probably the only guy that I am really considering
- 43:05Speaker 2: at eight point six K. But I don't really love
- 43:07Speaker 2: the matchup against Jokic, really just Denver at all, because
- 43:10Speaker 2: they play a lot of really solid team defense. Their
- 43:13Speaker 2: top seven defensive unit this season one of the best
- 43:15Speaker 2: transition defenses in the league, so they could really look
- 43:18Speaker 2: to take away what Miami has been prioritizing this season,
- 43:21Speaker 2: but Bam is a guy that can get it done.
- 43:24Speaker 2: I guess multiple multiple ways. I don't really love paying
- 43:26Speaker 2: eight point six K for him, so nothing on prioritizing.
- 43:30Speaker 2: And then the Denver side, I want to hear your
- 43:32Speaker 2: thoughts because Jokic at twelve K definitely a warranted price tag.
- 43:37Speaker 2: I think that he could come in extremely low ho
- 43:39Speaker 2: so not extremely low. Everybody wants to play Yokic, but
- 43:41Speaker 2: there's a lot of really solid center value plays that
- 43:45Speaker 2: it has to take away from somebody. I think people
- 43:47Speaker 2: are probably a little bit more comfortable spinning down for
- 43:49Speaker 2: two centers than they would be for one, and enough
- 43:52Speaker 2: for Jokic could flip. But I mean, if yok comes
- 43:57Speaker 2: in around ten percent sub ten percent, that's always a
- 44:00Speaker 2: spot you want to get ahead of, regardless of the matchup.
- 44:02Speaker 2: So I like Jokich obviously a ton here. I do
- 44:05Speaker 2: think that there's a little bit of upside for Aaron
- 44:06Speaker 2: Gordon and Kim Johnson here as well as guys are
- 44:09Speaker 2: gonna playing a little bit more off ball, just the
- 44:11Speaker 2: way that Miami gives up at these amount of three
- 44:14Speaker 2: point volumes off ball scores. I kind of like Cam
- 44:16Speaker 2: Johnson a good bit here tonight at four point nine K.
- 44:19Speaker 2: I think that this could be the breakout spot for him.
- 44:22Speaker 2: What are you seeing in this game?
- 44:24Speaker 3: Yeah, so starting with the Miami side, I'm mostly with you,
- 44:28Speaker 3: like tough to prioritize them with their price tags in
- 44:31Speaker 3: this spot, it would be BAM for me, Like I
- 44:34Speaker 3: do like BAM. If I were playing one fifty, I'd
- 44:37Speaker 3: be at the field they're over in you know, limited lineups.
- 44:41Speaker 3: I don't think I'll be able to prioritize him. He
- 44:44Speaker 3: just you're just giving up a lot of projection at
- 44:45Speaker 3: that tag to get to Bam and then the other
- 44:47Speaker 3: guys on Miami their prices are up. From the Denver side,
- 44:51Speaker 3: I liked if Cam Johnson shout out. You know, Jamal
- 44:54Speaker 3: under eight K always going to be in play, although
- 44:56Speaker 3: he's not as healthy as he was to start the season,
- 44:59Speaker 3: so I'm a little bit more leary him as I
- 45:01Speaker 3: was a week a week and a half ago, and
- 45:04Speaker 3: then Jokic. I overall agree with your sentiment. I do
- 45:08Speaker 3: think that he'll be you know, I think he'll be
- 45:12Speaker 3: at least twenty percent owned. But I do think that
- 45:14Speaker 3: if we don't get more value as of right now,
- 45:17Speaker 3: he'll probably be, you know, closer to twenty percent than
- 45:21Speaker 3: forty percent, which he could be if we get more value.
- 45:24Speaker 3: So I like Jokic always Miami playing at the fastest
- 45:27Speaker 3: pace in the league. They always play with their food,
- 45:30Speaker 3: do the nuggets, and their bench, even though better this year,
- 45:34Speaker 3: just always seems to let teams back into games, and
- 45:36Speaker 3: Miami's competent enough where I would expect that anyways. So yeah,
- 45:40Speaker 3: if I can get to Jokic, I like him a lot.
- 45:42Speaker 3: My biggest detractor for Jokic is not Jokic himself, it's
- 45:47Speaker 3: how good, like the seven to eight K range is
- 45:51Speaker 3: with just good plays all over that you can build
- 45:53Speaker 3: lineups with for days. So I like Jokic a lot.
- 45:57Speaker 3: If more value comes out, he's a priority for me.
- 46:00Speaker 3: As of right now. I think he's a really good play,
- 46:03Speaker 3: but you're gonna have to forego some other good plays
- 46:05Speaker 3: to prioritize him.
- 46:07Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. It kind of reminds me of the
- 46:09Speaker 2: sligh from like two nights ago, where the mid tier
- 46:11Speaker 2: really popped off in a big way and you were
- 46:14Speaker 2: like four to five points away from Yokic not really
- 46:18Speaker 2: being needed. So I could see something like that happens tonight.
- 46:21Speaker 2: But you're really gonna need like seventy plus from Yokis
- 46:24Speaker 2: for him to really be the guy that you needed.
- 46:26Speaker 3: But you just well within the card for him. Yeah
- 46:29Speaker 3: for sure.
- 46:30Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's playing as good as he has in
- 46:33Speaker 2: his career, so he'll always be in play. But yeah,
- 46:35Speaker 2: I agree with you on the entire conversation around this game.
- 46:40Speaker 2: All right, that is gonna do it. Appreciate everyone watching today,
- 46:44Speaker 2: got almost I got over five hundred watching now live,
- 46:47Speaker 2: so I appreciate all you guys being here. If you
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- 46:54Speaker 2: Any closing thoughts.
- 46:56Speaker 3: No, I guess I don't know why I'm thinking about
- 46:59Speaker 3: this guy right now, but I don't think either of
- 47:01Speaker 3: us shouted him out. Maybe you did, but Detroit, if
- 47:05Speaker 3: Tobias is out again, Ron Holland, you know you could
- 47:08Speaker 3: do worse than him. It's a value piece in the
- 47:10Speaker 3: game that that could get weird.
- 47:12Speaker 2: Yep, I believe that. I think they already ruled out
- 47:15Speaker 2: us Tobias last. Okay, Yeah, definitely agree with you there. Yeah,
- 47:21Speaker 2: I mean that's kind of a I guess we can
- 47:22Speaker 2: spend a lot of time on that, but you know,
- 47:24Speaker 2: if his minutes are going to probably come from Isaiah Stewart,
- 47:28Speaker 2: I don't know if that they really need all the
- 47:30Speaker 2: size and length on in this matchup particular. So I
- 47:33Speaker 2: kind of like that as like a you know, a
- 47:35Speaker 2: little leverage spot against Chucky Isaiah Stewart. So yeah, good
- 47:38Speaker 2: shout there for sure. I appreciate all you guys being
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- 47:50Speaker 2: I'll be back on Friday with him to talk some
- 47:52Speaker 2: more in game or in season tournament. Good lucks every tonight, everyone.
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