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NBA DFS Process | DraftKings & FanDuel Picks, Plays & Slate Breakdown | Wednesday, 03/11/26 · Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation

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Speaker 1: Mhall system's gone clear.
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Speaker 2: We lift up?
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Speaker 3: What is up? Everybody? We are back for a Wednesday
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Speaker 3: edition of the NBA Show here as always, joined by
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Speaker 3: my guy Matt, coming off of a historic night in
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Speaker 3: the Association. Obviously, if you're unfamiliar with what happened, Bam
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Speaker 3: Onebio broke Kobe's record eighty three points last night, give
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Speaker 3: me your your thoughts on the performance from BAM last night.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I give him his flowers. It's incredibly hard
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Speaker 2: to do no matter what. But man, I did not
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Speaker 2: like that the way the fourth quarter played out there,
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Speaker 2: like Miami fouling to get extra possessions. I mean, what
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Speaker 2: are we doing here? That's just that's not the way
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Speaker 2: to do it, in my opinion. Like again, really impressive
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Speaker 2: to do it no matter what, but not like that,
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Speaker 2: at least that's my opinion. Again, I'm not trying to
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Speaker 2: take away from him. I'll reiterate incredible performance, but fouling
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Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter up twenty is nuts.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can agree with that. I mean, it's cool
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Speaker 3: to see because I don't know if we'll ever see
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Speaker 3: a performance like that again in our lifetime. It's really
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Speaker 3: I mean, maybe we will, maybe Wemby or some of
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Speaker 3: these young guys coming up. In a few years the
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Speaker 3: NBA changes, they'll get close to it. But eighty three
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Speaker 3: points is pretty pretty incredible. But I do I do
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Speaker 3: agree that it was pretty pretty gross sy what's going
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Speaker 3: on at the end of the game. But regardless, I
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Speaker 3: don't know. If I keep hearing people like the media
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Speaker 3: people saying like, well, we won't remember what happened at
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Speaker 3: the end of the game, I feel like we will.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you look at the box where he had
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Speaker 3: over forty free throw attempts, and like the entire second
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Speaker 3: half was just him shooting free throws. It was I
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Speaker 3: wasn't even watching the game. I was just watching the
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Speaker 3: play by play, and literally every time I looked at it,
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Speaker 3: it was shooting foul bam Adebayo with the free throw line.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, at the end of the game. The end of
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Speaker 2: the game was all them fouling Atlanta and then Bam
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Speaker 2: either getting fouled or just shooting like every single possession,
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Speaker 2: And I get it. The The thing that's most impressive
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Speaker 2: to me is that it was Bam, Like, of all
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Speaker 2: guys to score eighty plus points in an NBA game,
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Speaker 2: he'd be way down the list. He's just not that guy.
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Speaker 2: But you got a combination of three US following early
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Speaker 2: like tanking Washington. That's why I think we could see
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Speaker 2: someone potentially threaten you know, I don't know about one
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Speaker 2: hundred like threatened Wilt, but threatened like in the eighties. Again,
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Speaker 2: it's just because these teams basically trying to lose, throwing
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Speaker 2: out non NBA players, there just might be more opportunities
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Speaker 2: for our guys to go nuts like this again though aberration.
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Speaker 2: I'm not calling for it. We likely won't see anything
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Speaker 2: like this again for years, if ever, so appreciate it
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Speaker 2: for what it's worth.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, but I won't spend too much time on that.
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Speaker 3: Got six games to talk through in the NBA Dfest
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Speaker 3: streets tonight. Good prize pools at a prize pool as always,
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Speaker 3: I'll say it's up some people before we get started.
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Speaker 3: Get a guy hosing here. Yeah, Bem had a huge night,
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Speaker 3: but nobody's talking about what campaign. Did I think he
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Speaker 3: shout eight for eight from three point line or something
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Speaker 3: like that. Just a huge game from him. It's up
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Speaker 3: Casey Marquis here, Andrew Martinez, Gang Green, Jake Swell. It's
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Speaker 3: really phantom that's going on all right, if you want
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Speaker 3: to dive into it or do you want to give
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Speaker 3: me your quick little synopsis of the slave what you're
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Speaker 3: seeing from a top down view, and then if not,
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Speaker 3: we can just jump right into it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So things just changed a little bit with Sacramento.
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Speaker 2: You talked about it right before we went on that,
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Speaker 2: like they're coming out with stuff. They came out with
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Speaker 2: some stuff. So I think that changes the slate a
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Speaker 2: little bit. As of now. I'm heading into that. Not
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Speaker 2: a slate with like a ton of great value. Also
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Speaker 2: not a slate with a lot of spend up options
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Speaker 2: because Jokich is the only guy priced above ten k,
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Speaker 2: so kind of a weird slate in that regard. Also
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Speaker 2: different in that again, the slate starts a half hour
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Speaker 2: later and goes into I think ten thirty Eastern, So
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Speaker 2: different slate than we've seen usually you're usual recently, and
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Speaker 2: I'm excited to break it down.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Man, I was just looking at who's available for
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Speaker 3: the King tonight. It's looking like an eight man rotation.
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Speaker 3: So that's uh, you'll have to spend a little bit
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Speaker 3: of time in that one, but that could definitely, I
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Speaker 3: mean it's going to open up a lot of value,
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Speaker 3: and I think that I have a pretty clear idea
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Speaker 3: of what I want to do on tonight's slate, But
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Speaker 3: that definitely threw a wrench into things. But you'll go
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Speaker 3: through it game by game as we always do. First
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Speaker 3: game on the slate, we have your Cleveland Cavaliers heading
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Speaker 3: into Orlando. Just Jared Allen out for the Cavs right now,
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Speaker 3: aside from all the guys that have been missing. But
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Speaker 3: we did just get word not too long ago that
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Speaker 3: Max Shrus sounds like he's gonna be making his return
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Speaker 3: as early as Sunday, so that'd be huge for them.
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Speaker 3: Definitely need to get health, you need to get Jared
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Speaker 3: Allen back, but I think that's gonna be massive for
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Speaker 3: them come playoff time because we know what type of
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Speaker 3: spark that he provides really on both ends of the court.
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Speaker 3: But I think that the shooting that he provides is
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Speaker 3: going to be huge when you could try it out
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Speaker 3: him and Sam Merril, you know, maybe stacking them away
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Speaker 3: from each other, just really have an elite shooter on
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Speaker 3: the court at all times. So thoughts there and then
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Speaker 3: break down this game for me.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've talked about shrews before. I just trust him
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Speaker 2: to bring it every single night, and I trusts him
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Speaker 2: to be like the kind of guy you can rely
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Speaker 2: on both offensively and defensively in playoff type settings. Not
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Speaker 2: that he's amazing or elite in either of those. It's
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Speaker 2: not like he's going to be on the court a
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Speaker 2: ton especially when he first returns.
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Speaker 3: But.
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Speaker 2: He brings a lot of that dog to the Cavs
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Speaker 2: seemingly had been missing before the hard and trade. Now.
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Speaker 2: I do like Kean Ellis and shrewder Harden himself, so
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Speaker 2: I think they've changed her identity a little bit, but
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Speaker 2: I like Strews in that role a lot, So excited
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Speaker 2: for him to come back. From a DFS perspective for tonight,
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Speaker 2: I kind of like this game from a tournament perspective.
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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be close. Orlando is playing
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Speaker 2: good ball right now, coming off a couple of big blowouts.
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Speaker 2: I like the way way Don Carrow looks right now.
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Speaker 2: Ninety four hundred hasn't shown like massive upside yet, but
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Speaker 2: again has been really good, and a couple of their
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Speaker 2: games recently have been big blowouts, or their past two
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Speaker 2: games have been big blowouts. So competitive National TV game,
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Speaker 2: I never mentioned this to you because it was like
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Speaker 2: the day after we did a show. But ESPN came
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Speaker 2: out with an article a couple of weeks ago about
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Speaker 2: they're twenty twenty eight Olympians like the projected roster. They
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Speaker 2: completely snub Polo there, and he's like that tight that
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Speaker 2: knows that. And he's been not a role since then,
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Speaker 2: And I think that's been motivation for him because coming
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Speaker 2: into this year he would easily have been on that list.
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Speaker 2: He's not anymore, and no one's really arguing it. We
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Speaker 2: know he's got upside. I think this game is close.
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Speaker 2: If it is close, I think Polo has a big,
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Speaker 2: big role in that. I like him here. He's probably
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Speaker 2: my favor overall piece from this game. From the Cleveland side.
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Speaker 2: Hardin and Mitchell still hard to really decipher and know
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Speaker 2: what to do when they're both in because we haven't
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Speaker 2: seen it a ton. Hard and still dealing with the
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Speaker 2: thumb injury, Mitchell coming off the groin injury. It seems
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Speaker 2: like at the same price tag, I just would roll
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Speaker 2: with Mitchell if either of them, But the field is
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Speaker 2: doing that too, so I think you can make a
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Speaker 2: strong case for Harden and tournaments. I don't like this
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Speaker 2: game in the sense that, like, I think you got
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Speaker 2: to play these players. There's no like locks from this game.
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Speaker 2: But I think the spen options are intriguing on a
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Speaker 2: slate without a ton of spend up options in a
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Speaker 2: game I think is really competitive. So I don't think
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Speaker 2: you have to play anything from this game. And if
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Speaker 2: you told me you were playing nothing in one lineup
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Speaker 2: in this game, I would get it. And if I
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Speaker 2: were playing one lineup tonight, I'm not sure I would
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Speaker 2: get to anything from this game. I could also make
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Speaker 2: a case for like overstacking it mobilely from the Cleveland side,
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Speaker 2: you know Powwow talked about from the Orlando side, Jalen Suggs,
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Speaker 2: I think I like this game more than the field
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Speaker 2: that I'm not exactly sure how I'm gonna play it.
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Speaker 2: How do you see it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that you could definitely make a case
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Speaker 3: for it. I like this game in the sense that
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Speaker 3: we know both teams are going to be right running
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Speaker 3: a pretty tight rotation, and we know where the fantasy
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Speaker 3: points are coming from. I don't really think that there
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Speaker 3: is anybody in the starting lineup for Cleveland that's really
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Speaker 3: at risk of taking away usage and fantasy points from
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Speaker 3: James Harden and Donovan Mitchell, and to a lesser degree,
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Speaker 3: Evan Mobley, and then for Cleveland, they've just been running
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Speaker 3: such a or sorry for Orlando, they've been running such
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Speaker 3: a tight rotation. Later, you know, with Anthony Black and
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Speaker 3: Franz Wagner out, they really don't trust much on their bench,
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Speaker 3: so they we're seeing pretty heavy minutes from Paulo Suggs
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Speaker 3: at times. Baine even like Tristan the Silva and Window
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Speaker 3: Carter Junior playing above thirty minutes a night most nights.
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Speaker 3: So I definitely think that you can make the case
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Speaker 3: for a few of these guys, maybe a little back
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Speaker 3: and forth action on the studs, but I agree with you.
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Speaker 3: I think that it's really just Donovan and Harden. For me,
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Speaker 3: I'm slightly preferring Donovan here. I think that he's done
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Speaker 3: really good against Jalen Suggs and their head to head matchups.
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Speaker 3: Been kind of waiting for them for him to match
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Speaker 3: up against the Magic again because I think it's a
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Speaker 3: good spot for him. Has been losing a bit of
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Speaker 3: usage to James Harden lately, but I would not expect
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Speaker 3: that movie before. We know how important Donovan is to
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Speaker 3: the offense for Cleveland, So I'm feeling a pretty solid
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Speaker 3: game from Donvin Mitchell tonight. He's in the last two
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Speaker 3: games against Jalen Suggs, he's went for fifty eight and
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Speaker 3: a half and fifty nine DK points, and then he's
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Speaker 3: topped fifty five DK points in five of their nine
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Speaker 3: head to head matchups over the last like four or
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Speaker 3: five seasons. A little bit less high on Harden. I
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Speaker 3: think that you could make it the case from because
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Speaker 3: the Magic have a pretty bad pick and roll defense.
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Speaker 3: We know that's kind of James Harden his music, but
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Speaker 3: I just said I prefer Donovan Mitchell here, not really
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Speaker 3: into MOBILEI he's done pretty poor against the Magic in
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Speaker 3: his career. And then I agree with you on polo,
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Speaker 3: he's kind of had the better between him and Evan
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Speaker 3: Moby in the head head matchup. He's averaging twenty five
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Speaker 3: and a half points per seventy five. Fantasy output has
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Speaker 3: not been great, but he's shooting the ball really well
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Speaker 3: right now. Maybe not from beyond the arc, but efficiency wise,
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Speaker 3: he's been pretty good inside the three point line. And
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Speaker 3: then desmen Bain's been playing great over the last ten games.
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Speaker 3: Averaging five more points per game on his season average
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Speaker 3: and also adding a little bit more potential assist seventy
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Speaker 3: percent true shooting really good for somebody that is taking three.
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Speaker 3: So I do think that Bane's pretty good here. I
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Speaker 3: think that's probably it. I don't know if I really
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Speaker 3: want to mess with the value plays now that we
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Speaker 3: just got all that King stuff, but definitely think that
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Speaker 3: you can make the case for like a like one
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Speaker 3: to two guys or one of three guys in this
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Speaker 3: game for sure.
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Speaker 2: What about Suggs himself.
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Speaker 3: I think he's fine, but I kind of prefer Garland
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Speaker 3: in that same range, and probably now I think you
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Speaker 3: probably need killing Hayes. Yeah, so I just think that
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Speaker 3: the point guard just got a lot better.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with both those. I also like Garland.
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Speaker 2: I do think it's close with him and Suggs. But
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Speaker 2: your other point is that point guard spot tonight is
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Speaker 2: going to be at a premium. So yeah, we see
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Speaker 2: this game pretty much eye to eye. But after hearing you, like,
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Speaker 2: you know, playing three lineups tonight. Haven't built them obviously,
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Speaker 2: but I could easily see myself with at least one
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Speaker 2: of them playing like a Mitchell Paolo Bain Stack or
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Speaker 2: Mitchell Polo Sugs, one of you know, something like that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I like that idea for sure. If I
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Speaker 3: was playing, if I was playing probably three to five,
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Speaker 3: i'd probably do something like that as well. Right, let's
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Speaker 3: jump into the next game, Toronto Raptors heading to New Orleans.
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Speaker 3: Toronto is off of a back to back blow out
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Speaker 3: a loss against the Rockets, but should be able to
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Speaker 3: hang around here since they're not really facing a true contender.
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Speaker 3: Pelicans have actually been improving defensively since the John Ty
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Speaker 3: Murray's returned. They're running a smaller lineup out there with
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Speaker 3: Herbert Jones as their center, and still not great defensively,
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Speaker 3: but they're nineteenth whereas they were bottom five basically the
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Speaker 3: entire season. Toronto's really not been that much better. They're eighteenth,
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Speaker 3: so right behind the Pelicans defensive Defensive rating wise, did
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Speaker 3: have some appeal in this game, but I think it
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Speaker 3: got a little bit worse now that we got the
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Speaker 3: King's Value, just because I think that you're gonna be
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Speaker 3: kind of forced to play some more spend ups and
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Speaker 3: I just don't really think that these guys right out
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Speaker 3: that great, but definitely think that there is a little
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Speaker 3: bit of appeal in this one. I'll kick it off
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Speaker 3: to you first if you want to touch on this game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think there's definitely a peal from like
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Speaker 2: a thirty thousand foot view, but I'm not sure there's
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Speaker 2: much like that. I'm personally gonna be like just locking in.
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Speaker 2: I think the two guys that come to mind kind
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Speaker 2: of in that mid price point range that we've that
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Speaker 2: I think is gonna be really popular on this late
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Speaker 2: is RJ. Barrett from the Toronto side and Dejonte Murray
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Speaker 2: from the New Orleans side. Having on Murray a bunch,
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Speaker 2: it's tough now though, like just talking about him first,
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Speaker 2: because we just talked about the point guard position, Like,
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Speaker 2: there are other good point guards on this slade. I
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Speaker 2: also like Garland a lot, Killian Hayes now is likely
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Speaker 2: to become a priority Jalen Suggs. Like there's just other
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Speaker 2: really good Jalen Brunson. There's other really good guard spots
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Speaker 2: on guard plays on this late. It's's interested to hear
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Speaker 2: like how much of a priority Murray might be for
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Speaker 2: you or if that's I'm sure that has to have
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Speaker 2: come down just with the Sacramento news. How could it
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Speaker 2: not so Yeah, he like was the guy coming into
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Speaker 2: this show that was would have been the priority for me.
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Speaker 2: From New Orleans. Zion's price tag looks tasty, had seventy
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Speaker 2: five hundred, but just rarely shows upside even at that tag.
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Speaker 2: So like in this spot, not really interested in him.
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Speaker 2: Like at that price tag he always has upside. We've
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Speaker 2: seen it a ton in the past, but in this
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Speaker 2: spot he hasn't shown it in a while. I'm not
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Speaker 2: putting my money on it here, Like New Orleans is
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Speaker 2: pretty healthy. One guy that I was looking at for
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Speaker 2: value was Eve's me see, just because there's isn't a
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Speaker 2: lot of value on this slate, I don't think I'm
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Speaker 2: really that interested there. I don't know how much from
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Speaker 2: this game I'm gonna I'm gonna get the Toronto side
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Speaker 2: obviously looks appealing. Is Pearl in now?
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Speaker 3: I think he's still questionable if I'm not mistaken.
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Speaker 2: I saw so too, Okay, So presuming he doesn't play again,
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Speaker 2: and then I think we just lock in Sandro again. Uh,
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Speaker 2: much better spot here against New Orleans, a little bit
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Speaker 2: of a cheaper tag. He should smash in this spot.
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Speaker 2: Higher on him tonight than I was last night, and
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Speaker 2: I played him a bunch last night because he got
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Speaker 2: to play him when he starts. But this is the
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Speaker 2: spot he could really smash in. So Purdle's out. I
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Speaker 2: think you lock in Sandro. And I think that all
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Speaker 2: the Toronto guys are in play because they're in a
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Speaker 2: really good spot. But no one besides Barrett like stands
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Speaker 2: out to me from like a projection points per dollar standpoint,
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Speaker 2: how about how do you see it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exact same breakdown for me. I think Barrett's the
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Speaker 3: only guy I'm really considering. I wouldn't even want to
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Speaker 3: say priority, but just he's the best option on Toronto
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Speaker 3: right now. And I do agree with you that if
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Speaker 3: Yaka Purtle is out, kind of also need tj Di
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Speaker 3: out because he's questionable. Tray Jackson Davis, he's been out
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Speaker 3: for a while, so they would really be down all
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Speaker 3: three of their center plays, so Sandro would definitely come
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Speaker 3: in play. Got the minutes last night. Thirty minutes just
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Speaker 3: wasn't great from a permanent standpoint. I think I'd be
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Speaker 3: okay going back to Scottie Barnes, But again, I just
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Speaker 3: don't view these guys as guys I need to really
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Speaker 3: beginning to because there's four guys that really demand a
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Speaker 3: lot of usage between Scotty Barnes, Ingram, Barrett and Quickly.
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Speaker 3: So it's just getting increasingly tougher and tougher to get
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Speaker 3: ceiling games from these guys. Never really been that big
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Speaker 3: of a believer in Brandon Ingram is a ceiling player.
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Speaker 3: Now he's gonna be guarded by hert Jones also shooting
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Speaker 3: the ball really bad right now. I think the thumb
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Speaker 3: injury is really affecting him, So off of him probably
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Speaker 3: would just be Barnes, Barrett and Pertle or Sandro.
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Speaker 2: People talk about the revenge spot with Ingram going back
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Speaker 2: or just in general. I like the other side of it,
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Speaker 2: Like there's no way these guys on New Orleans are
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Speaker 2: going to come in, let Brandon Ingram come in and
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Speaker 2: just dominate them. So I'm off Ingram here. I like
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Speaker 2: Barrett a lot, you know. I like the Barrett v.
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Speaker 2: Zion one to one. Obviously, those guys played together in college,
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Speaker 2: went top three in the draft. I just don't love
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Speaker 2: Zion's upside this game. Again, I think it looks better
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Speaker 2: from a thirty thousand foot view than it does. Like
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Speaker 2: when you really starts to pick it apart.
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Speaker 3: I could honestly see the Pelicans winning this game. I
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Speaker 3: know it's not really like a crazy big spread or anything,
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Speaker 3: but I think that they could win this game. I
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Speaker 3: just don't. I just do not believe that Toronto Raptors
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Speaker 3: are very good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that, and I feel, yeah, I
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Speaker 2: think that I think I might think they're better than
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Speaker 2: you do, but they're not a team that like scares
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Speaker 2: me in the East and on the road against New York.
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Speaker 2: Like I think it's as far as talent goes, you
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Speaker 2: can make the argument New Orleans has more talent than Toronto.
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Speaker 2: I think it's similar either way. Though.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think that that John C. Murray just
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Speaker 3: adds a layer to their offense that they've really been
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Speaker 3: missing with. You know, they've never really had like a
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Speaker 3: true point guard. And he's I've always been really high.
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Speaker 3: I've literally like he's one.
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Speaker 2: Of my guys. But yeah, I love him too. I
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Speaker 2: love the cut of his jim Like he doesn't not
17:51
Speaker 2: only does he add something to their offense, he just
17:53
Speaker 2: adds them to their you know, we've talked. We talked
17:55
Speaker 2: about it with Shruce. He's even more of that dog
17:58
Speaker 2: like I think he adds like a culture center that
18:01
Speaker 2: they needed.
18:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it came from San Antonio. It's hard
18:05
Speaker 3: to not believe that, but yeah, I'm kind of I
18:09
Speaker 3: think that Dejonte definitely a couple of hairs down the
18:14
Speaker 3: list of priorities at Point Guard now. I think I
18:18
Speaker 3: may definitely have Garland ahead of him. Between him and Suggs,
18:20
Speaker 3: I think it's pretty close. It's just a big price
18:24
Speaker 3: sag and he's really like he's not playing full minutes yet.
18:27
Speaker 3: He did get to thirty a couple of games ago,
18:28
Speaker 3: but I would imagine that he's probably still capped in
18:31
Speaker 3: that thirty minute range, so not really running to play
18:34
Speaker 3: him at this type of ownership. I would imagine it
18:36
Speaker 3: comes down a bit as as we get updates from
18:39
Speaker 3: the king stuff. But yeah, I think it's just like
18:42
Speaker 3: a max two of the Pelicans, probably a max two
18:44
Speaker 3: of both sides of this game. I'd be fine if
18:46
Speaker 3: I just have one. I think that all of Zion Murphy, Dejonte,
18:50
Speaker 3: and Sadie Bay are and play here. I think Bay
18:53
Speaker 3: is kind of interesting because he has a small four
18:55
Speaker 3: power forward eligibility, and I think with the new starting
18:59
Speaker 3: laephe they're running things a lot, smaller, kind of helps
19:01
Speaker 3: his his rebounding grates a little bit. I think that
19:05
Speaker 3: he's fine, but I think Desionte is the clear number
19:07
Speaker 3: one option and then Argie Barrett on the other side
19:09
Speaker 3: of that game. I saw some questions in chat real quick.
19:14
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be sugs on Mitchell. I think
19:17
Speaker 3: Baine will be unhearden. Do you have any any leads there?
19:21
Speaker 2: No, I think that's spot on. Not really worried about
19:24
Speaker 2: it either way. As you said, Mitchell has has kind
19:26
Speaker 2: of cooked when when guarded by sug So not concerned
19:30
Speaker 2: about any defensive matchups there.
19:33
Speaker 3: Yep, and give a shout out to our guy name.
19:36
Speaker 3: No one cares about we care about your name, but
19:38
Speaker 3: I appreciate the kind of words. It was nice to
19:41
Speaker 3: get one thing right there. The Spurs definitely treated that
19:44
Speaker 3: game like a playoff game. Got a massive game from
19:47
Speaker 3: Derek White, which was nice to get it. Pretty low ownership.
19:50
Speaker 3: But if you didn't play Bam, you you were You're
19:52
Speaker 3: not winning anything.
19:53
Speaker 2: He was so high on too, like I mean like
19:57
Speaker 2: dam was so it was crazy like this last night,
20:00
Speaker 2: how it worked out with Bam Like it was beyond
20:04
Speaker 2: you know, if you didn't have BAM, you obviously weren't
20:06
Speaker 2: even touching any cash line. But even with BAM, you
20:09
Speaker 2: needed everything else.
20:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, well, I think like over four hundred
20:13
Speaker 3: one tournaments last night, So it was just crazy night
20:16
Speaker 3: in the streets. But I don't know that it's seeing
20:20
Speaker 3: somebody like knowing that BAM was gonna be ninety percent
20:22
Speaker 3: and some of the high stake stuff like feels still
20:25
Speaker 3: like an okay spot to pivot regards.
20:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, there were other good centers, especially with Sandra
20:30
Speaker 2: coming out too.
20:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I think if BAM had an even like
20:34
Speaker 3: a Sully above average night, he probably doesn't hit the
20:37
Speaker 3: opportimal because Myles Turner went off, Wemby went off. There's
20:40
Speaker 3: definitely ways that you could have gone around it.
20:42
Speaker 2: Even if BAM just has the game he had in
20:44
Speaker 2: Washington like a month ago where he was good. But
20:48
Speaker 2: like they rolled, I mean that it was just ridiculous
20:51
Speaker 2: last night, Like that was insane. Just you won't you
20:53
Speaker 2: just don't see that?
20:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, but we won't spend too much someone that.
20:57
Speaker 3: Let's get into this next game.
20:59
Speaker 2: New York shopped actually just la real quick. Jake Swales,
21:03
Speaker 2: he said my vein lines at all fire emojis with
21:06
Speaker 2: no BAM and barely mincashed. I'm surprised there were any
21:09
Speaker 2: lineups without BAM that min cashed.
21:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. I had to go pretty far down
21:15
Speaker 3: my one to fifty to even see lineups that were
21:17
Speaker 3: close to the cash line without BAM.
21:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Sorry, go ahead.
21:21
Speaker 3: Uh no, it's all good. We'll jump into next game
21:23
Speaker 3: New York Knicks at my Utah Jazz Knicks coming off
21:26
Speaker 3: of a two loss skid in the West Coast road trip,
21:30
Speaker 3: but they we'll get a good spot to bounce back here.
21:33
Speaker 3: No Josh Hart tonight for the Knicks, but otherwise fully healthy.
21:38
Speaker 3: Sounds like Landry Shamit should slide into the starting lineup
21:41
Speaker 3: here in an elite matchup for how he likes to
21:44
Speaker 3: get his scoring going. And then Utah questionable tag on
21:46
Speaker 3: Canty George and then Blake Kenson down the G League,
21:49
Speaker 3: John Conchars out tonight. Ace Bailey and Isaiah Collier will
21:53
Speaker 3: be back for tonight game. But I mean it's obviously
21:55
Speaker 3: a big Q tag for the Jazz because they'd be
21:58
Speaker 3: very very thin and of guys that can actually run
22:01
Speaker 3: the offense, so we could get a really big game
22:03
Speaker 3: from Isaiah Kuller, at least from a you should standpoint.
22:07
Speaker 3: But yeah, obviously a lot to like on the Knicks here.
22:10
Speaker 3: I feel like this is a spot where at least
22:12
Speaker 3: one of these guys is going to be heard from.
22:14
Speaker 3: I would would not be surprised if two of them are.
22:17
Speaker 3: In terms of the spend ups, I'm going to continue
22:20
Speaker 3: to lean Kat here. I just think that the overall
22:22
Speaker 3: upside is much better and we're starting to actually see
22:24
Speaker 3: that for him. Either way, whoever's defending him, I think
22:27
Speaker 3: he's going to get a very, very attackable defender. There's
22:30
Speaker 3: a chance that they put e J. Harkless on him
22:32
Speaker 3: because we saw the Jazz do that with Jokic earlier
22:35
Speaker 3: this season. But if they do go that route, he's
22:37
Speaker 3: just gonna have a massive size advantage over him. And
22:39
Speaker 3: then if it's Kyle Philapowski, then that's just the best
22:42
Speaker 3: matchup possible to attack. He's the worst worst center defender
22:46
Speaker 3: probably in the entire league. So I think Kat, coming
22:48
Speaker 3: off of a couple of really big games, getting a
22:50
Speaker 3: little bit more momentum his way, is a really really
22:53
Speaker 3: strong spin up option tonight. I'd be fine with Brunson
22:57
Speaker 3: as well, just kind of gotten cold shooting the ball
22:59
Speaker 3: as of late, under fifty percent trough shooting over his
23:01
Speaker 3: last five But the good news is that his potential
23:04
Speaker 3: assists are way up, and a game or a matchup
23:07
Speaker 3: against the Jazz where he should have little to no
23:09
Speaker 3: resistance scoring the ball, wouldn't be surprised if he puts
23:13
Speaker 3: together a full game here, even in limited minutes. I
23:15
Speaker 3: could see him going off in like thirty to thirty
23:17
Speaker 3: two minutes where he has like twelve to thirteen assists,
23:20
Speaker 3: maybe like twenty five to thirty real points. And I
23:23
Speaker 3: think we have to have interest in all of og
23:25
Speaker 3: McHale and Landru Shami. The Jazz been bleeding three pointers
23:28
Speaker 3: all season long. They're giving up a ton of quarter threes,
23:31
Speaker 3: especially as of late, which is a good spot for
23:33
Speaker 3: og and Obi. He's one of the better corner three
23:35
Speaker 3: point shooters in the NBA. So I like og here
23:38
Speaker 3: to put up a pretty solid stat line, maybe adding
23:40
Speaker 3: some steals and blocks there against a very young Utah
23:44
Speaker 3: team that is generally really bad at taking care of
23:46
Speaker 3: the ball. Yeah, what you what are you looking at
23:49
Speaker 3: on the nixt side of your things here?
23:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's basically all knicks for me in this game,
23:54
Speaker 2: and I think I'm good with basically any and all
23:55
Speaker 2: of them. I don't think there's any one guy on
24:00
Speaker 2: this slate where you're like, I have to play this guy.
24:03
Speaker 2: But there really isn't that guy at all on this
24:06
Speaker 2: slate except for maybe Killian Hayes. We'll talk about Sacramento.
24:09
Speaker 2: Maybe when we get to the Kings, they'll be that guy.
24:12
Speaker 2: Other than that, there are a bunch of good plays
24:14
Speaker 2: on this slate, and I think a bunch of the
24:16
Speaker 2: Knicks fall into that category. You talked about Landry Shaman.
24:19
Speaker 2: He's never a guy I want to play, but thirty
24:22
Speaker 2: six hundred on a slate without a ton of value
24:25
Speaker 2: against the Utah team where he should get good run
24:28
Speaker 2: regardless of how this game plays out, and as you mentioned,
24:31
Speaker 2: his game kind of matches up with what Utah gives up.
24:34
Speaker 2: Hard to not have at least interest there at thirty
24:36
Speaker 2: six hundred, you know, just the nature of how this
24:39
Speaker 2: slate's breaking out, and he's shooting guard eligible, not point guard,
24:42
Speaker 2: so easier to fit in. As far as like the
24:45
Speaker 2: big dogs go, man, I like Brunson more than Cat,
24:49
Speaker 2: just because I can't trust Cat. But it's probably easier
24:54
Speaker 2: to play talents at center than Brunton at point guard tonight,
24:57
Speaker 2: just in terms of how valuable the positions are. It's close.
25:01
Speaker 2: Center is also always valuable with a ton of opportunity
25:05
Speaker 2: costs there. I can't trust Towns. That doesn't mean I
25:09
Speaker 2: won't play him because I don't need to trust him. Like,
25:12
Speaker 2: he's got massive upside in this spot, but wouldn't shock
25:15
Speaker 2: me if he burned people either. The field is going
25:17
Speaker 2: to be on him now after that massive game in
25:19
Speaker 2: this spot makes me leary, but again I get it,
25:23
Speaker 2: and his upside's real here kind of no matter how
25:26
Speaker 2: this plays out, So I prefer Brunson, but that's a
25:30
Speaker 2: slight lean. So I think both of them are wildly
25:32
Speaker 2: in play. And then the secondary pieces as you mentioned
25:35
Speaker 2: McHale og wildly in play here, just cogs in the
25:39
Speaker 2: machine type. I'm fine with them in any format. Jose Alvarado,
25:44
Speaker 2: I think you get run here piece of smash when
25:47
Speaker 2: he's on the court. I think you'll want New York exposure.
25:50
Speaker 2: I'm just not exactly sure how I want to get
25:52
Speaker 2: it yet.
25:55
Speaker 3: Homecoming Game two for Jordan Clarkson's spent the last few
25:58
Speaker 3: years in Utah, maybe there's a little motivation factor there
26:02
Speaker 3: to put on for the home fans, because he actually
26:05
Speaker 3: really enjoyed his time in Utah and Jazz fans loved him.
26:08
Speaker 3: So I wanna be surprised if he maybe gets a
26:10
Speaker 3: little bit more a couple a couple of rotations in
26:14
Speaker 3: the regular regular minutes here, uh anything on Utah or
26:18
Speaker 3: it's just kind of a kind of a pass in
26:20
Speaker 3: comparison to all these other spots.
26:22
Speaker 2: It's just a pass man Like, it's just really hard
26:24
Speaker 2: to make the case for anyone here. Like even last
26:28
Speaker 2: game when they beat Golden State at home, I think
26:31
Speaker 2: I think Keante still only played like twenty four minutes,
26:33
Speaker 2: So you know what I mean, Like what I can't
26:37
Speaker 2: do it Like in tournaments, I get like playing these
26:39
Speaker 2: guys and I'm not saying I would cross them out
26:41
Speaker 2: in one fifty settings, but I don't think there's anyone
26:44
Speaker 2: right now that I need in like smaller field stuff.
26:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, the only one I would really keep an eye
26:50
Speaker 3: on would be Harkless if Keiance were to miss, just
26:53
Speaker 3: because he's so cheap and I think he's kind of
26:55
Speaker 3: insulated in terms of whether this game blows out or not.
26:58
Speaker 3: He'll probably be on the court next game. Very exciting
27:04
Speaker 3: game for real life purposes, But actually have a really
27:08
Speaker 3: a ton of interest in this one for a DFS
27:09
Speaker 3: as well. Houston at Denver. Houston's on a back to back,
27:13
Speaker 3: coming off with a blow out win, so the guys
27:15
Speaker 3: didn't play full minutes, and then Denver is on the
27:18
Speaker 3: front end of back to back. They have a pretty
27:20
Speaker 3: brutal travel schedule. They play this game seven pm their time,
27:24
Speaker 3: and then play another game tomorrow in San Antonios. They'll
27:28
Speaker 3: be I would be surprised if some guys missed tomorrow,
27:31
Speaker 3: but I think that they'll kind of go full force
27:35
Speaker 3: on this one because this is a pretty big game
27:36
Speaker 3: for the standings in the West. The Nuggets are I believe,
27:41
Speaker 3: a game and a half behind the Rockets right now,
27:44
Speaker 3: so it could really make up a lot of ground
27:45
Speaker 3: here with a win. And we've seen these teams face off.
27:48
Speaker 3: This will be the fourth time that they played the season.
27:50
Speaker 3: You basically get playoff minutes from both sides of this one,
27:54
Speaker 3: so I really have a ton of interest here. I
27:57
Speaker 3: don't really think that much should be talked about in
28:00
Speaker 3: terms of the matchups. I feel like it's you should
28:02
Speaker 3: just have a lot of interest in both sides here,
28:04
Speaker 3: but I'll say that I mean, Jabari Smith is a
28:08
Speaker 3: guy that kind of stood out to me, and I
28:09
Speaker 3: love what Almond Thomas has been doing lately. It's just
28:13
Speaker 3: gonna be tough for me to get there now with
28:15
Speaker 3: the strength of the point guard position. But I really
28:17
Speaker 3: have a lot of interest in the top six guys
28:20
Speaker 3: for Houston, from Katie down to Tari Easton. I guess
28:25
Speaker 3: in terms of like how I would grade them would
28:28
Speaker 3: be just want to look at what I had projected
28:32
Speaker 3: ye having. Jabbari's probably number one, just because he's the
28:35
Speaker 3: cheapest and he's actually cooked the Nuggets the season. I
28:38
Speaker 3: just the Nuggets have such a bad defense, even adding
28:40
Speaker 3: in Aaron Gordon, that you just really want to attack
28:42
Speaker 3: these guys. But he's averaging nineteen point seven points per game,
28:45
Speaker 3: ten point three rebounds per game, three point three assists
28:48
Speaker 3: per game in forty two DK points against the Nuggets
28:51
Speaker 3: Nuggets this season, playing like forty minutes a game, So
28:54
Speaker 3: I kind of like him. And then it's pretty close
28:57
Speaker 3: between Sengoon and KD and Amen. I would all these
29:00
Speaker 3: guys kind of project pretty similar from a value standpoint
29:02
Speaker 3: for me, and I think Reach Shepherd is kind of
29:05
Speaker 3: interesting as a midsier guy that nobody's going to play
29:07
Speaker 3: that has been really coming on a lot as of late.
29:11
Speaker 3: And then for the Nuggets, it's really just Yokic and
29:14
Speaker 3: Yokich and Jamal. Fine with both of them, I don't
29:16
Speaker 3: think I'm not really too worried about the Jamal Murray
29:18
Speaker 3: matchup against Amen the Rockets are they kind of struggling
29:22
Speaker 3: to pick and roll, and we know that the Nuggets
29:24
Speaker 3: have some of the best two men game, probably the
29:26
Speaker 3: best two men game in the entire leagues. I think
29:28
Speaker 3: both these guys are very firmly in played. But this
29:31
Speaker 3: is definitely a game I want to get pretty deep
29:33
Speaker 3: into you. But you talk to me Houston at Denver.
29:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I definitely didn't see it that way coming
29:39
Speaker 2: into the slate. I understand why you feel this way
29:42
Speaker 2: because of the rotations and how tight they're going to
29:46
Speaker 2: be and how big the minutes are going to be,
29:48
Speaker 2: especially from the Houston side. My problem is just the pricing.
29:52
Speaker 2: So I like Jabari, I like that call a lot,
29:56
Speaker 2: and the one thing I'll say is like everything besides
29:59
Speaker 2: Yo is gonna be low owned in this game. So
30:02
Speaker 2: if you go heavy Houston, I mean you're on a
30:06
Speaker 2: pretty You're on a decently sized island of good players,
30:12
Speaker 2: because we know Houston's got a ton of good players.
30:15
Speaker 2: It's just their price tags aren't really conducive for this slate.
30:19
Speaker 2: So I'm having a difficult time saying how I'm gonna
30:22
Speaker 2: play this game over Like the Orlando spot we talked
30:26
Speaker 2: about the last game, I like pieces of the expensive
30:30
Speaker 2: pieces of quite a bit, but I think the field
30:33
Speaker 2: sees it that way too, So hearing your spiel kind
30:37
Speaker 2: of gets me on it a little bit more. I
30:39
Speaker 2: don't have any hot takes here. Like from the Denver side,
30:41
Speaker 2: it's always Jokic drop off, Jamal big drop off to
30:46
Speaker 2: everyone else. We saw Gordon play more than expected last
30:51
Speaker 2: time out. He was also on fire, so I'm not
30:54
Speaker 2: sure if we can expect that this game. So it's
30:56
Speaker 2: really just Jokic and Jamal for me. From the Houston side, again,
31:00
Speaker 2: it's really about everything you said. It's about having interest
31:04
Speaker 2: in these guys because they're gonna play more minutes than
31:07
Speaker 2: projected and the matchups really good. So in that sense,
31:11
Speaker 2: I get it, and I get going heavy on this game.
31:13
Speaker 2: Not sure I'll get to it, but I like to take.
31:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, I obviously haven't built yet, but I am definitely
31:23
Speaker 3: tory with the idea of having like two Houston and
31:26
Speaker 3: then one Nugget, so it'd probably be like Jokic plus
31:30
Speaker 3: Jabbari and probably kd or Ahman. I think is probably
31:34
Speaker 3: the way I would want to play it. But obviously
31:36
Speaker 3: you got to see what the how the builds are
31:38
Speaker 3: looking once we actually get updated projections and all that
31:40
Speaker 3: stuff on the Kings. But yeah, I'm pretty pretty into
31:43
Speaker 3: this game as a whole that it's just the Nuggets
31:45
Speaker 3: defense has been really bad as a playe theyre obviously
31:48
Speaker 3: still one of the highest powered offenses in the league,
31:50
Speaker 3: and then Houston defense been slipping as of late, and
31:54
Speaker 3: I just really think that the minutes are gonna be
31:56
Speaker 3: super high. I'm not into Gordon at this projected ownership,
32:02
Speaker 3: just his minutes are capped. Adamman even said he was
32:05
Speaker 3: not going to play overtime if the game wins overtime
32:08
Speaker 3: because of the minute cap, so I would not expect
32:10
Speaker 3: him to be playing thirty plus minutes anytime soon. I
32:14
Speaker 3: think Christian Brown is probably okay to keeping playpools because
32:18
Speaker 3: I think that he could just get there off of
32:19
Speaker 3: minutes alone. Nothing about his matchup stands out in particular.
32:24
Speaker 3: All Right, next game Charlotte at Sacramento. Obviously we'll touch
32:28
Speaker 3: on the Sacramento injuries, but for Charlotte, they did rule
32:31
Speaker 3: out Salon and Grant Williams, not super big names, but
32:34
Speaker 3: they'll get Kobe White tonight and then back to back
32:38
Speaker 3: for them. Minutes were held to check for LaMelo, but
32:42
Speaker 3: they are generally a team that I just really look
32:44
Speaker 3: to stay away from the back to back, so they're
32:46
Speaker 3: going to be managing these guys, especially in the game
32:48
Speaker 3: where they're favored by thirteen points. LaMelo's averaging just twenty
32:51
Speaker 3: six minutes per game on back to backs the season.
32:54
Speaker 3: Brandon Miller is at twenty seven and a half. So
32:56
Speaker 3: as much as I love the matchup for them and
32:57
Speaker 3: I think that they'll have a ton of success that offensively,
33:01
Speaker 3: I just don't want to see myself getting there in
33:02
Speaker 3: a game where they're favorite so heavily. I think Con
33:05
Speaker 3: and Bridges are probably guys that would make the main
33:07
Speaker 3: playerpool because their minutes, I feel like, are probably gonna
33:11
Speaker 3: be higher than those two guys. But yeah, I don't
33:14
Speaker 3: really love it by any means. But yeah, the Sacramento stuff.
33:18
Speaker 3: They have eight guys available tonight, so I won't go
33:20
Speaker 3: through who's out. I think it'd be easier to go
33:22
Speaker 3: through who's in. Killing Hayes, Nick Clifford, DeMar DeRozan, Precious
33:27
Speaker 3: and Reno are projected to be the starting five. Yeah,
33:32
Speaker 3: I think that makes sense. They have been playing plowed
33:34
Speaker 3: in a ton but yeah, the bench will be de Quaron, Plowden,
33:37
Speaker 3: Doug McDermott and Drew you Banks. I mean, this crazy,
33:42
Speaker 3: crazy roster that they're trying out tonight. But yeah, what's
33:48
Speaker 3: uh anything standing out for you in Charlotte. I mean,
33:51
Speaker 3: obviously a great matchup, but it's just I don't know.
33:54
Speaker 3: They're gonna be running pretty pretty deep rotation.
33:56
Speaker 2: I would imagine it's so classic NBA d F fast
33:59
Speaker 2: to have Charlotte, like, as you said, thirteen point favorites
34:03
Speaker 2: against Sacramento. But all the interest comes from the Sacramento
34:07
Speaker 2: side because they only got eight guys and they're so cheap.
34:11
Speaker 2: So part of me is like, man, I want to
34:13
Speaker 2: like something from Charlotte because I'm likely to play a
34:16
Speaker 2: lot of Sacramento and Charlotte's gonna roll here. But who's
34:21
Speaker 2: it gonna be. They're so balanced, they got enough guys
34:24
Speaker 2: that can do it. Like again, in one fifty settings,
34:28
Speaker 2: I probably have exposure to all these guys, but in
34:30
Speaker 2: smaller field stuff like, it's so hard to choose between
34:34
Speaker 2: these guys, and on a lot of nights, like you know,
34:41
Speaker 2: only one or two of them is gonna get there
34:43
Speaker 2: with how balanced they are, especially on the second half
34:45
Speaker 2: of a back to back, So tough to make Charlotte
34:48
Speaker 2: a priority here from Sacramento, I don't know how we
34:52
Speaker 2: don't get at least some Kings exposure. Killian Hayes's having
34:57
Speaker 2: a massive year in the G League. Sacramento picked him up. Yeah,
35:02
Speaker 2: he looks like a lot for me here. They're missing
35:04
Speaker 2: like all their guards. He's gonna play a ton I'm
35:07
Speaker 2: playing him here, Rao. He's been awesome lately. I don't
35:13
Speaker 2: love the spot. He's gonna play so many minutes here.
35:17
Speaker 2: Not really worried about Drew Eubanks eating into his run.
35:20
Speaker 2: They might even play something together tonight. Just guess how
35:22
Speaker 2: shallow they are. DeRozan, we know, is not gonna play
35:25
Speaker 2: a lot of minutes. So he's a guy I won't
35:26
Speaker 2: play the only spend up. Guy I want from Sacramento
35:29
Speaker 2: is Reno Nick Clifford. Interesting here. I'm not sure exactly
35:37
Speaker 2: how I'm gonna play it, but I definitely am gonna
35:39
Speaker 2: have some Sacramento here. Hayes is likely the top guy
35:43
Speaker 2: and the ultimate priority, probably the best play on the slate.
35:45
Speaker 2: How do you see it? Yeah?
35:47
Speaker 3: Same, I think you're locking in killing Hayes and your
35:50
Speaker 3: signatory stuff. Probably played a ton of him in MMB
35:53
Speaker 3: as well. I don't know if anybody has his information available,
35:57
Speaker 3: but I'm looking for Patrick Baldwin Junior because he was
36:00
Speaker 3: on the roster, but I don't see him listed now.
36:02
Speaker 3: We don't have any minutes on him. I don't think
36:06
Speaker 3: Saber has some, but I don't. I think they might,
36:07
Speaker 3: like there might have been a contract thing they might
36:09
Speaker 3: need to get him signed, which would give them nine bodies.
36:11
Speaker 3: But I don't really know what's what's going on there
36:14
Speaker 3: if he's not available, I mean, I guess don't they
36:18
Speaker 3: kind of have to play Damorrow thirty two to thirty
36:21
Speaker 3: four minutes a night. I mean they've been doing, they've
36:23
Speaker 3: played us at the time. I don't think that they're
36:25
Speaker 3: really at risk of winning this game. I know DeMar
36:27
Speaker 3: is kind of older but kind.
36:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they'll play him the least amount that
36:33
Speaker 2: they can, but to that point, it still might be
36:35
Speaker 2: thirty three to thirty four minutes.
36:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've seen the situation before with teams running out
36:41
Speaker 3: eight man rotations that you do need some of these guys,
36:44
Speaker 3: But it's a little bit of a different situation here
36:46
Speaker 3: because they've been pretty thin most of the season, have
36:49
Speaker 3: been playing guys like Yo and Precious and Nie Clifford
36:52
Speaker 3: a ton of minutes already, so you're not really getting
36:54
Speaker 3: that big of a discount. So for me, Hayes locked
36:58
Speaker 3: in and then like how I'm priortizing, it would probably
37:01
Speaker 3: be like Reno and then plowed in and then probably
37:05
Speaker 3: everybody else. I just I Thinknie Clifford is awful. I've
37:08
Speaker 3: seen enough from him. I just think that he's a
37:11
Speaker 3: terrible player, and I don't really care that he's gonna
37:12
Speaker 3: have the opportunity. I just think that he's so bad.
37:15
Speaker 3: Even like he could play forty minutes to night and
37:17
Speaker 3: go for like twenty five Fantasy points and I'd be
37:20
Speaker 3: happy that I faded him. Yeah, I just don't think
37:24
Speaker 3: that they're gonna play McDermott or you banks enough. I
37:26
Speaker 3: really think that they're just be running out like the
37:29
Speaker 3: Hayes plowed in Clifford Precious and Reno for close to
37:34
Speaker 3: forty minutes tonight. What do you think about pressure? Yeah,
37:38
Speaker 3: he's seven K, like he's got to play a time.
37:40
Speaker 3: But like he's seven K, I mean he he realistically
37:43
Speaker 3: probably plays forty minutes tonight.
37:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, how could you not at least have
37:49
Speaker 2: interest in him there? Like, And he's shown monster upside
37:53
Speaker 2: even at this price tag a few times, like, not
37:55
Speaker 2: just once, So I think his medium for action is
38:01
Speaker 2: probably not amazing at seven K, but it's good enough
38:05
Speaker 2: to play knowing that he's got upside with how many
38:07
Speaker 2: minutes he's gonna play. And that's it really, I mean,
38:12
Speaker 2: like again, nothing to do with the spot or anything else,
38:15
Speaker 2: but I think you can play Precious and Rayno together.
38:18
Speaker 2: I think you can play a bunch of Sacramento here.
38:20
Speaker 2: Like there's a chance that they just stink and it's
38:25
Speaker 2: not a good matchup and you don't want a ton
38:28
Speaker 2: of Sacramento, but it's not gonna take that much for
38:31
Speaker 2: it to not play out like that, So I'm hesitant
38:34
Speaker 2: to not play a lot of the Kings here. Hayes
38:36
Speaker 2: looks like the guy you just have to play.
38:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, Isaiah Stevens currently in the league, but he could
38:41
Speaker 3: get called up because it is a home game for them.
38:43
Speaker 3: I have to double check and see where their G
38:45
Speaker 3: League team is because if they're on the road, obviously
38:47
Speaker 3: be kind of tough. But yeah, he could definitely open
38:51
Speaker 3: up some more minutes for sure at the guard spot.
38:52
Speaker 3: I would still be playing Killing Hayes a ton, but
38:54
Speaker 3: then I'd also probably be playing Isaiah Stevens a good
38:58
Speaker 3: bit as well because he's been priced. I think they'll
39:00
Speaker 3: overlap some for sure. All Right, Yeah, I think that
39:05
Speaker 3: does it there. We'll just have to kind of wait
39:07
Speaker 3: to see how projections shake out for that game.
39:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think I was gonna say. I just
39:11
Speaker 2: looked it up there in Sue Falls. So they have
39:13
Speaker 2: a game to night and Sue Falls the Kings, the
39:15
Speaker 2: Stockton Kingsville.
39:17
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I just we'll have to see if they
39:20
Speaker 3: they'll probably like we should get word or what they're
39:22
Speaker 3: gonna do with Isaiah Stevens pretty soon here. All right,
39:27
Speaker 3: last gave and the Slate Minnesota at the Clippers back
39:30
Speaker 3: to back from Minnesota. They played the Lakers last night
39:32
Speaker 3: so didn't have to travel at all. Been pretty up
39:35
Speaker 3: and down on defense lately. They've just been terrible in
39:39
Speaker 3: the non Rudy go bar minutes the season, not really
39:42
Speaker 3: giving up any threes, but they are given a little
39:45
Speaker 3: bit more rim scoring. Yeah, a lot of star power
39:49
Speaker 3: of this game. I think that we both kind of
39:51
Speaker 3: alluded to it earlier, but we like Garland it's on.
39:53
Speaker 3: I have a lot of interest in Mathering and Kawhi Leonard,
39:56
Speaker 3: and even a little bit in Brook Lopez as well tonight.
39:58
Speaker 3: I mean even like Derek Joe as You and Chris
40:00
Speaker 3: Dunn are guys that are making my main player pool.
40:04
Speaker 3: Minnesota side seems a little bit tougher to get to
40:07
Speaker 3: just because they're the face. Story is a little bit
40:10
Speaker 3: more spread out. I don't really love the matchup for
40:13
Speaker 3: Aunt or Julius Randall, but you could obviously make a
40:17
Speaker 3: case for both of them because they're good enough to
40:18
Speaker 3: kind of defeat any matchup. But I think from choosing
40:21
Speaker 3: one it would be ant bya what do you see
40:23
Speaker 3: with this one?
40:25
Speaker 2: I like this game way more than I should like.
40:28
Speaker 2: How you like the Houston game? I like this game
40:31
Speaker 2: so I'm with you from the Minnesota side. It's aunt
40:35
Speaker 2: for me coming off a really bad game last night.
40:37
Speaker 2: Shot two to fifteen from the field, really struggled in
40:41
Speaker 2: LA against the Lakers. I like him to bounce back here,
40:44
Speaker 2: even in a tougher spot against the Clippers. Both these
40:47
Speaker 2: teams going to win this game. I like Ant quite
40:50
Speaker 2: a bit, honestly, without a lot of stand up options
40:53
Speaker 2: getting basically the same ownership or will get the same
40:55
Speaker 2: ownership as Ben Carro I like both of those guys
40:58
Speaker 2: a lot. From the Clipper's side, you named it. Kawhi
41:02
Speaker 2: looks great here. Darius Garland We've mentioned a couple times
41:06
Speaker 2: on this show. He's in the same vein as de
41:09
Speaker 2: Jontay Murray for me that neither of those guys are
41:11
Speaker 2: gonna play massive minutes. But Garland is just too cheap
41:13
Speaker 2: for his role and the minutes he will play, so
41:17
Speaker 2: we know how talented he is offensively. I like some
41:20
Speaker 2: DG here talked about Kawhi, Derek Jones junior, solid filler.
41:26
Speaker 2: I like this game a lot. I'm gonna have exposure here.
41:31
Speaker 2: Iol just soon move questionable, So like Bones Highland thirty
41:35
Speaker 2: two hundred might have a role on this slate for
41:37
Speaker 2: Minnesota revenge game. Yeah, revenge spot for him, love that. Yeah.
41:43
Speaker 2: Like Julius Randall, I don't love him, but his price
41:46
Speaker 2: tags pretty fair at seventy seven hundred. And if you're
41:49
Speaker 2: kind of playing on this slate maybe getting a little
41:53
Speaker 2: bit weird and trying to have late roster spots, you
41:54
Speaker 2: could do worse than playing him there, especially with the
41:57
Speaker 2: value that we might have on Sacramento. Benedict Mathern sixty
42:01
Speaker 2: one hundred. Yeah, a couple of massive games recently. I'm
42:06
Speaker 2: in on Benny math here too. Like, I like this
42:08
Speaker 2: game quite a bit. I might overload and at least
42:11
Speaker 2: one of my lineups on this game. I just like
42:13
Speaker 2: it a lot. I think it's competitive, and I don't
42:15
Speaker 2: usually like Clippers games, but I like this one tonight. Yeah.
42:18
Speaker 3: I can't argue with that at all. Yeah, I think
42:22
Speaker 3: you made the case for I literally wrote down the
42:24
Speaker 3: same thing about Aunt, like it's a bad matchup, but
42:26
Speaker 3: coming off of a really bad game, I think there's
42:28
Speaker 3: extra motivation for him to get back on track. He's
42:30
Speaker 3: just that type of guy that really takes us up
42:33
Speaker 3: into account. Juis Randol is tough for me to wrap
42:36
Speaker 3: my head around because he had a forty point game
42:39
Speaker 3: against Portland earlier last month, and since then he's shot
42:42
Speaker 3: the ball so bad fifty four percent true shooting twenty
42:44
Speaker 3: two percent from deep feels like a pretty easy X
42:48
Speaker 3: out for me. I don't really I'm not really twin
42:49
Speaker 3: to Rudy, so it's kind of easy to say that
42:51
Speaker 3: Aunt is really the only guy that you need to
42:53
Speaker 3: be considering on the Minnesota side. For me tonight, I
42:56
Speaker 3: think Nas is starting to get cheap enough where you
42:58
Speaker 3: can't consider him any night of the week, and maybe
43:01
Speaker 3: with Io out that opens up the chance for more
43:04
Speaker 3: of the triple Big lineup. And then agree with you,
43:08
Speaker 3: I think Kawhi is just like the safest spend up tonight,
43:10
Speaker 3: good price tag nine point three. K don't really worry
43:12
Speaker 3: about his matchup too much. He went for forty one
43:15
Speaker 3: against Jane McDaniels just last month, so I think that
43:17
Speaker 3: he's pretty fine from a matchup perspective. The reason I'm
43:21
Speaker 3: pretty high on Garland tonight, I think that this could
43:23
Speaker 3: be a really big spot for him scoring the ball
43:26
Speaker 3: because of the way that Rudy Gobert plays defense. He's
43:28
Speaker 3: such a big drop coverage guy because they want to
43:30
Speaker 3: take away the rim scoring. Minnesota is dead last in
43:33
Speaker 3: pick and roll defense this season, and we know that
43:35
Speaker 3: garlan Is Garland is a really good pick and roll scorer,
43:38
Speaker 3: especially against guys that played drop coverage. Been pretty good
43:42
Speaker 3: from a per minute standpoint with the Clippers as well.
43:45
Speaker 3: So I'm really into Garland tonight. I think that this
43:48
Speaker 3: is like his breakout game for the Clippers. You could
43:50
Speaker 3: have said that it was the last game because he
43:52
Speaker 3: did play pretty well, but I just really think it's
43:54
Speaker 3: a big spot for him. And then matherin crazy minutes
43:57
Speaker 3: for him lately. He had a twenty two minute rotation
44:00
Speaker 3: last game against the Knicks and then twenty minutes straight
44:04
Speaker 3: in the game prior, so he's going to be playing
44:05
Speaker 3: a ton I think that what I'm seeing at like
44:09
Speaker 3: the thirty two minute range for him is a little
44:10
Speaker 3: bit low. I think that Saber had him in like
44:13
Speaker 3: twenty eight, which is far too low. I think he's
44:15
Speaker 3: playing thirty four plus easily. So I think that he's
44:18
Speaker 3: a really really solid option. And I actually think brook
44:21
Speaker 3: Lopez is okay to consider tonight at four point seven
44:25
Speaker 3: K just a good price tag. He's playing a ton
44:27
Speaker 3: of minutes. Upside is a little bit capped since he
44:29
Speaker 3: doesn't really provide any peripherals, but he did play thirty
44:34
Speaker 3: two and twenty six minutes against the Wolves last month,
44:36
Speaker 3: so the minutes should be very very strong for him.
44:39
Speaker 3: And then agree Done and Derek Jones Junior very strong
44:41
Speaker 3: value options tonight. Both can be playing thirty plus minutes
44:45
Speaker 3: here and then Done in particular has been really good
44:47
Speaker 3: in this matchup. Twenty eight d K points per game
44:49
Speaker 3: against the Wolves. Yeah, that does. It's all all six games.
44:54
Speaker 3: They're able to get through this one really quickly, and
44:57
Speaker 3: worth noting that the Locke does start thirty minutes later
45:00
Speaker 3: than usual tonight, seven thirty Eastern and it's a full
45:04
Speaker 3: state of games. Haven't really had this type of slate
45:06
Speaker 3: in a few weeks, so pretty excited about that. But
45:09
Speaker 3: any any closing thoughts here.
45:11
Speaker 2: No, just that I am seeing Patrick Baldon Junior projected
45:15
Speaker 2: some places. So yeah, presuming he's in, he'd be hard
45:19
Speaker 2: to get away from a three K with his eligibility
45:21
Speaker 2: and his offensive game. So Sacramento is going to be
45:24
Speaker 2: a team to watch out for for sure.
45:27
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I'm still trying to find some stuff on him.
45:30
Speaker 3: I haven't seen anything lately, like just kind of looking
45:34
Speaker 3: through Twitter, and because Basketball Monster does not have him listed,
45:38
Speaker 3: but that's kind that could just be one situation. I
45:40
Speaker 3: think he was just on like a ten day contract,
45:42
Speaker 3: so it could be one of those situations where they
45:44
Speaker 3: do re sign him, which I agree would make him
45:46
Speaker 3: interesting because he's mid priced.
45:49
Speaker 2: Yeah that's all it is.
45:51
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