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NBA Quick Hit | April 5, 2024 | DraftKings DFS Picks, Plays and Process · Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation

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Yeah, all systems going clear the lifting. M H, what's up,
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guys, We're here gonna be breaking down this ten game NBA slate Friday,
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April fifth. Let's talk about so. I'm not gonna spend a ton of
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time. I don't really have any toys. It's a big injury slate got
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you know, obviously end of the season, a lot of team sitting guys.
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So let's get right into it. First game of the slate, we
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have Portland taking on Washington and Washington Portland going to be without Anthony Simon's,
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Jeremie Grant, all the other guys that are missing Kamara, Shade and Sharp
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So and the Wizards will be without Kyle Kuzma, Tias Jones, Marvin Bagley,
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and possibly Rashaun Holmes who's been missing some games with a toe injury.
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Starting on the Portland side of things. Yeah, I love the spot for
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downger Aiden. Great matchup, best matchup on paper. On the whole slate,
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the Wizards are dead last in DVP versus center, so I think that
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he's a very strong option, probably one of the best players in the slate
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in my opinion. I think both Scoot and Ben are really good Pray really
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good plays. Even at these price tags, I would probably still want to
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be Maxim one of those two guys. I think that they eat into each
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other a little bit too much. I mean, I think at with the
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ownership discount on Scoot being a little bit, you know, a little bit
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lower than I'm probably leading Scoot here, even though I think that Ben has
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much higher upside. We've seen multiple fifty point games out of him. But
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I just think that they really want to get Scoot going towards the end of
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the season. So I think that he's probably the better play of the two
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right now. It looks pretty good too. I mean, the assist numbers
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have been up, scoring much better lately. I don't think you're worried about
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anybody defensively on the Washington side of things. So yeah, he looks like
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a pretty good option tonight. And then Jambari Walker five point five K I
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mean, you know, bumping price tag, but I mean he played forty
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two forty thirty five minutes in the last three games, got twenty two rebounds
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last game, didn't shoot the ball that well, but still took seventeen shot
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at himp. So I mean that's really hard to ignore. I think that
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this is obviously one of the better matches for him, best matchup just all
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around for anybody playing Washington, but especially guys that score around the basket.
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So I think that he could still plast a really big upside game here at
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five point five K on the Washington side things. Yeah, I mean,
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it's really just Jordan Poole for me. Danny Avdia got ruled in, but
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I think the I think the matchups much better for Jordan Poole. Going to
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see a lot of Scoot Henderson defensively, ball handley roll has been really good
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for Pool lately. I think that seven point four K is a totally fine
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price I pay for him. And then if if Rashaun Holmes misses this game,
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then I think we go right back to Tristan Vukovic. He got talked
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up pretty nicely by the coach, so I think that he's pretty locked into
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playing some some minutes either way, but maybe a little bit more upside from
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a minute standpoint. If Holmes were to miss, and we like to attacking
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the dealsra Aiden with opposing centers, I think that he'd be a great play
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next game. Okay, see versus the Indiana Pacers. Okay, se gonna
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be without SGA and Jaylen Williams, so we kind of know what to expect
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from them. Probably gonna see a starting lineup of Josh Giddy, Chet Holmgren,
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Lou Dort, Aaron Wiggins, and Casey Wallace and then Pacers really only
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noteworthy injury news on their side of things is Miles Turner's listen questionable with the
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finger injury. If he misses, we'll see Jayalen Smith re enter the starting
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lineup as it stands right now, and only have a ton of interest in
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this game. I think that the game environment itself should be pretty good.
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These are two teams that play pretty fast in pace, but the okay see
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Thunder are definitely spreading out their rotation pretty deep right now, So it doesn't
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really make these guys. Any of these guys must have to think that Giddy
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is probably the guy most excited to play, even at seven point five K.
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We've seen him have a ton of success in recent seasons with SJA off
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the court. You know, he's had multiple triple doubles sixty point upside and
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a match up against the Pacers is definitely a good one for a player like
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him. Pacers are dead last in pick and roll defense this season. I
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love the matchup for Chet if Miles Turner were to miss. Think that even
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if Turner's in, he looks like a pretty solid option. But I wouldn't
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say a priority by any means. Think that center is pretty strong tonight,
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so I'd probably want to find the money get to Aid and if I'm choosing
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between the two, But totally a fine option at seven point three K for
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Chet. But would would really like the matchup if Miles Turner were to miss.
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And I think that Wiggins is pretty solid, probably my favorite of the
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secondary pieces. I think that they just want to get him going as well.
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They talked about wanting to get these secondary guys a little bit more confidence
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heading into the playoffs. I think that Wiggins is a guy that they're kind
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of honing in on, so I think that he's pretty safe from a minute
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standpoint. Indiana side really just Siakam and Turning Haliburn For me, I don't
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think that either of these guys are priorities by any means. Think the matchup
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is a little bit tougher for Haliburn, going to see two pretty solid on
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ball defenders lou Dort case of Wallace are very very solid on ball defenders.
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But what is encouraging the thunder do need to win games right now, and
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we saw Halburn get up to thirty seven minutes. He hasn't played that many
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minutes in a game and quite some time play got to thirty eight against the
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Golden State earlier in March, but really been kind of limited to around the
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low thirties. But he you know, he's kind of running into form taking
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more shots. Got twenty two shots last game against Brooklyn, put up fourteen
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threes. The systember is always pretty solid for him, but he's he's scoring
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the ball nicely right now, twenty four to twenty seven to twenty one in
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his last three games. So I think that he's a pretty pretty solid option
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even at nine point four k definitely has huge upside if the minutes are going
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to be there, and this is a fast paced game, so I like
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it for him. Siakam is never a guy I'm too excited about playing.
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Always comes in pretty high owned never really kills you. I had a couple
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of games in the fifties, but for the most part, he's gonna be
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in the low forties, so I'm okay getting away from him. And then
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if Jalen Smith is starting for Miles Turner tonight, I would really like the
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spot for him. We've seen, okay see get beat up on the boards
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by opposing center, so he'd be a pretty strong value play with some upside.
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Next game, Orlando versus Charlotte. This game is pretty much a full
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fade on the Charlotte side of things in particular, but Orlando doesn't look too
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enticing. I think the only guys that I would really keep my playpool excuse
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me, oh, I guess sneeze coming on. I think it's Polo Franz
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and Wendell Carter. I would be maxiwan Polo and Franz, and then Wendo
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is just a kind of a GPP play for me. Been playing pretty good
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lately thirty four, forty nine and forty two DK points in his last three
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games. I mean this is definitely to attack, probably the third or fourth
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best spot on the slate for opposing centers. I think that he's pretty interesting.
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Next game Boston versus Sacramento. Boston really not playing for much right now.
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They already ruled out Derek White and Jalen Brown. So we're gonna see
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extended minutes from guys like Paydon Pritchard, Sam Houser obviously gonna see more usage
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to go around to Tatum, Porzingis, Drue Holiday alhor for type of guys.
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But Boston's locked into the number one seed right now. So I don't
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think that you're really rushing to play these guys because I think that the minutes
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could be pretty pretty modest for them. I think they'll probably probably get the
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secondary guys a little bit more run. So I think that the guys that
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you're considering in this game, I mean, Tatum is obviously a great spent
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up in nine point seven K. I would not call him a priority by
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any means. I think that there are some better spots, but he's definitely
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solid matchup's really good for Porzingis. I don't think you really need to go
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there for Drew or al Horford, and then pretty sure it. He's been
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really good as a starter lately, even coming off the bench. Probably gonna
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see around thirty minutes tonight, and he's always been a really solid fantasy minute
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producer. Now that the price is down to four point six K, I
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think that He's a really strong value option and looks to be decently low owned
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tonight, so got that going for him. And then Sam Hauser. We've
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seen the Kings kind of give it up to three point shooters at times,
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but shooting is very you know, high variance. We've seen him, you
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know, in the teens scoring from a fantasy perspective, and then we see
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him get up to like the forties, so it's kind of you know,
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the ranger rackcoms is really really wide for a guy like Sam Hauser. Sacramento
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side of things, Sacramento needs to win every game from here on out to
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you know, stay in that SUC seed or even move up a little bit.
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So they're gonna play sabonas Fox, Ky Murray. They're gonna play these
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guys a ton of minutes. I think that on a big slate like this,
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I'll probably be Max One, Sabonis, and Fox, and I think
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that I'm have a slight lean on Darren Fox tonight, never too afraid about
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attacking this matchup, even though I do respect Drew as a as an on
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ball defender. The Celtics are bottom five and pick and roll defense this season,
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and Fox has had pretty good success in this matchup earlier this season,
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so I think that he's a pretty solid option. Nine point one K savonas
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is, you know, don't really like attacking Boston with posing Biggs, but
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he's got the triple double upside. Ten point four K is a very reasonable
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price sect for him, and if he's singing around forty minutes tonight, should
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be able to pay that off pretty easily. But I like Fox a little
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bit better. Next game, Detroit versus Memphis. This is the game you're
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definitely gonna want to have pieces of, mainly on the Memphis side of things,
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because they're I'm not gonna list all the guys that they have out,
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but pretty much their entire rosters out, so they're gonna suit up eight guys
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tonight. They're even dusting off Xavier Simpson, who, if you remember from
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the early COVID NBA days, he was with OKC playing forty five minutes a
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night at the end of the season. I don't think he's gonna play the
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tonight, but this team will definitely be running out a very short rotation,
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so I think you're gonna have exposure to this game regardless. It's really tough
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to break down. So I don't want to make any rules. I would
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just do a ranking system for this one. For me, it's a good
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one. It's gonna be the number one guy for me. At four point
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six K. We've seen him be a very solid fantasy player, and you
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know, he does a little bit of everything. Got you know, double
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digit rebounds in three straight games. Assist numbers look pretty good. The scoring
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numbers is not great. But you know, if you're telling me I'm getting
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a double double from a guy at four point five K or four point six
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K with possible triple double upside, then yeah, he's probably my top option.
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I think La Ravia is probably right behind him because he's very similar been
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a very solid h fantasy producer when he's you know, getting around thirty minutes,
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which we should probably expect from him tonight, probably gets upper thirties,
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so he would be number two for me. Gigi Jackson would be number three.
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I think Scottie Pippen probably number four, Trey Jamison five, and then
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Pereira, Stevens and Simpson. This is how it would rank it. I
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think the Pereira is probably the most interesting though, just because he's only three
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point one k looking to be single digit owned, which I think that you
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definitely want to take shots on him in large FIELT tournament. I would even
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consider taking a stand on him in a single entry tournament just because he's gonna
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be the lowest owned option, and I would much rather play him over Lamar
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Lamar Stevens at eight hundred cheaper. He seems like he's a pretty solid Fantasy
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portfany producer. Played twenty nine minutes against Orlando, which I think is a
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tougher matchup, and he put up twenty eight fantasy points. You know,
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got five stocks in that game. Going against Detroit, who is a team
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that could be very turnover prone. So I think that Pereira is probably the
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most interesting guy from a leverage standpoint. The Detroit side of things, It's
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pretty much just gonna be Saser or Malachi Flynn for me. With Kate Cunningham
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out. I want to get to, you know, recency bias, but
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I think that Flynn is going to be the preferred option. Obviously, had
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the fifty point game against Atlanta the other night, put up seventy draftings points,
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but I mean even outside of that, he's been the more consistent fantasy
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producer between the two, and he's shown more upside even outside of that that
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seventy point game. The role will probably be much better for Sasser, and
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the shooting guard eligibility is nice, probably gonna see more minutes. But I
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think that I'm just gonna side for Flynn because he'll be cheaper, he's gonna
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be much lower owned, and I kind of am a little bit more confident
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in his upside in this one. Next game, New York Knicks taken on
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Chicago. This game is pretty much a cross off for me. The Knicks
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look like they're gonna be getting healthier with og and Andobi getting coming back tonight,
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or he got upgrade to questionable but looks like he could be making his
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return. Yeah, I mean, unless they do something weird and they sit
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some guys, then the Knicks are pretty much a full cross off for me,
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and kind of the same thing for Chicago. I just don't really want
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to attack the Knicks on this big of a slate, so I'm pretty fine
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making this a nine game slate right there. Next game, Santoios Furs taken
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on the New Orleans Pelicans. Pretty big injury news in this one was zionistic
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questionable. Kind of think that he plays, but you know, you never
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know. I mean, this seems like a game they should be able to
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win even with Zion missing, But Pelicans do need to win games right now,
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so I think that they probably if he has a chance to play,
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he probably does play. And he's been pretty durable this season. Obviously not
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the same as years past, but this season he's been been pretty solid,
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hasn't missed a ton of games, so I think that he plays. It's
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a finger injury. He's not a guy that's gonna be taking you a bunch
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of jump shots, so he's just gonna be around the rim, and I
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don't think that you really need to worry too much about the finger for that.
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I don't know how bad it is, but I think that he plays
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tonight and definitely have interest in him. Should be a really good match of
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him. We've seen the role be really good with no brandon Ingram But on
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the matchup side of things, no Jeremy Soshan on the other side is a
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big boost for him because the Spurs are really going to have no defenders to
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throw at him. Their pick and roll defense has been bad this season.
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We've seen more ball handling from Zion and their bottom Spurs are a bottom six
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room defense, So yeah, Zion is a very high upside option tonight.
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I think CJ is pretty good too, even if Zion is in, because
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the Spurs are bottom two in DVP versus point guards this season. But if
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Zion misses, I think he probably becomes one of the better midsier options.
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I think Trey Murphy would be a really good play. We've seen the wing
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Wings beat this San Antonio team. We've seen the Spurs be able to give
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up a ton of threes at times, so you know that Murphy can get
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hot. Yeah, I think I'm not really messing with these secondary guys like
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Herb Jones or Jonas Valanciunas on this slate unless we get news at Zion where
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to be out. But that would bring you know, Naji Marshall in to
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play. That probably bring Larry and Junior to play more. Maybe they do
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something weird and start like Jeremiah robertson Earl. I doubt it, but yeah,
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just really Zion and CJ. For me, maybe Trey Murphy mixed into
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some large field tournaments and then San Antonia side of things. Think that Webby
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is probably one of my favorite span ups tonight. Really small sample size,
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but with this current iteration of the Spurs roster right now, Wemby has an
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almost thirty six percent usage rate, almosting seventy three DK points per thirty six
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minutes. I think that's pretty on par with where he's at this season in
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terms of fantasy point per minutes. He's just been a lead, like right
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around two fantasy points per minute. Just obviously has the blocks upside, It's
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got the triple double upside. I don't need to tell you how good of
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a play he is, but yeah, I think that bump him up in
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your runs. I think that he's a totally great option tonight. I think
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that Trey Jones is really solid as well. Shout out to Dray Jones won
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me my fifty K the other night. But yeah, I mean small sample,
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a smaller sample than Wemby's, but he has a pretty solid usage rate
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twenty four percent, massive, fifty six percent percent assist percentage, and he's
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averaging sixty six and a half DK points per thirty six minutes. And this
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is like a thirty minute sample size, so I don't want to read into
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that too much. But I mean, we saw last game put up the
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triple double, played thirty two minutes. You know he's gonna have the ball
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in his hands a ton. I think that he's a really solid option even
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at five point nine k in a tough matchup. And then we should see
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Sandro Mankelshavili get a start tonight with Cheddi Osmond out. Yeah, I think
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that's probably him starting. They do have, I mean, a bunch of
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random guys at the bottom of their roster with City Kisoko, Jamari Buya,
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David Duke, Junior Ray Kwan Great. I don't even know who these guys
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are outside of David Duke, but yeah, I think Sandro is a really
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really strong option tonight and a pivot off of those Grizzlies pieces. Next game
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on the slate Toronto versus Milwaukee to Toronto gonna be getting RJ Bear back tonight.
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But they do have a couple guys listen, questionable Gary Trent, Bruce
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Brown, and Oshaig Baji. You're really not considering these Toronto guys on this
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big of a slate, I don't think. I think that Quickly is probably
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the guy to consider if you are looking to get any sort of exposure.
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I don't think you need to go there, but yeah, the guards versus
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Milwaukee has always been a very good spot to attack this season. Milwaukee bottom
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two pick and roll defense this season. Eight point two K for Quickly,
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I don't know. Maybe they give him some extra run tonight, but I
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doubt it. So officially not listing any of these Toronto guys as good.
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Plays. The Milwaukee side much different. Toronto ha been terrible defensively in the
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second half of the season. No Johannis tonight, so obviously we're gonna see
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a big, big usage bump for Dame tonight, who is making his return.
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I mean, he's had an elite role even with Giannis in over the
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last month or so, been leading the league in touch time, been playing
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much better. And this is a yeah, one of the best matchups going
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against the Toronto team. Chris Middleton very similar, gonna have a big usage
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bump. I think the match was a little bit tough for a seven point
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five K is pretty tough price spay for Middleton. I think that he's much
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further behind the my list on this team and really just a whole slate in
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terms of priorities tonight. I don't think that I'm probably gonna get too much
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of him. Bobby Portis, I think is really strong at six point six
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k and he doesn't look too out of hand for ownership perspective. We've seen
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him have really good numbers with Giannis off the court the season, so I
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think that he's a very strong play against, you know, very very easy
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matchup against, you know, Kelly Linnock and some of these other centers.
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They are going to run out there at him, so I think that he's
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a great option tonight. And then the secondary guys not really messing with them.
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I think that Brook Lopez, I don't know, maybe you get random
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forty pointer out of him, Probably not, but yeah, the matchup's good.
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I think the Beas League pat Con crowd are a little bit too expensive
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when you consider all the Memphis guys that are priced right around them, So
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not going to get to any of them. Next game is Miami versus Houston.
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This game, for the most part, going to be a cross off
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for me unless we get more injury news. We did see that Terry or
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Tyler Hero is probably going to play tonight, so you know that's a big
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usage guy. I think that really takes I would say everybody out of play
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for me on the on the Miami side of things and then the Houston side
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of things. They'll be without Arman Thompson, but they're also got eliminated from
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the playoffs, so probably not gonna be seeing the forty minutes from these guys
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anymore. Like Jalen Green, Frederman Fleet probably don't see that anymore. There's
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just no needs, of no reason to run them out there like that.
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But I do think that Cam Whitmore is pretty interesting at four point five K
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with no Aman Thompson'd be interested to see if they go to him in the
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starting lineup. If they do, I think that he's a pretty strong value
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option. But either way, coming off the bench, he's got really big
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upside. Side'd be okay getting to him. Last game of the slate Golden
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State Warriors taken on Dallas. Yeah, I mean this is not a game
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looking to get too much of all these guys have elevated price tags. Lucas
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almost thirteen K. There's probably enough value to get him tonight. I don't
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think that we really need to matchup. Is pretty tough for him going against
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kaminga who's gonna be making his return tonight. Andrew Wiggins playing really good defensively
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right now. I mean the Warriors just in general are playing really good defense.
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So I don't think that I really want to get too much on the
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Dallas side things as much of a you know, Luca has the highest upside
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on the slate probably, so if you want to get to him, there's
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definitely no value to But I don't think I'm going to go there tonight.
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I do like PJ Washington though, at five point seven K. He's seen
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a lot of minutes late thirty six and back to back games with Lively out,
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He's shooting the ball much better, playing really good defense. I think
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that he's probably my favorite option on the Dallas side of things at five point
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seven K. On Golden State, yeah, I mean kaminga returning that's a
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high usage guy. It really muddies up the rotation a lot. I did
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like Jerymond Green and Wiggins the best, just because I think those are two
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guys that will probably have the cleanest matchups and probably going to be the guys
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that they try to leave open with Curry in there with coming in there with
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Klay Thompson in there. I think that they'll probably slack off of these guys
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a little bit, so those are probably my favorite players. But yeah,
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I don't think that you're really running to get any of these guys and what
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should probably be a defensive battle. We saw the game a couple of games
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go be a very low scoring one. I'm kind of expecting something similar tonight.
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That's gonna do it all ten games, got it done just over twenty
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minutes, So proud of myself for that, But good luck tonight everybody.
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Hopefully everybody has a good weekend and I'll see you guys next week. Later