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NBA DFS Process | DraftKings & FanDuel Picks, Plays & Slate Breakdown | Friday, 01/02/26 · Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation

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Speaker 1: It's good to have you back, man. I hope your
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Speaker 1: holidays was good. Hope your New Year's as start off
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Speaker 1: good as well. How you doing today? Really really good
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, man, Really happy to be back here. For
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Speaker 3: those that don't know, underwent a little back surgery a
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Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago, so I've been dealing with some
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Speaker 3: nerve problems in my back for the past couple of months,
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Speaker 3: so that has really taken me out. But I am
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Speaker 3: on the I'm on the mend. Really happy to be
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Speaker 3: back doing a show with you. We got a nice
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Speaker 3: slate to talk about tonight, and it's the holiday season,
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Speaker 3: so let's get after it.
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Speaker 1: Hey, let's do it. I hope everyone in here had
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Speaker 1: a good Christmas and a great New Years. Hope everybody's
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Speaker 1: doing good today. And Brady talks in basketball. This is
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Speaker 1: a very injury riddled slate, So you have any any
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Speaker 1: thoughts just off the top, if you've had enough time
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Speaker 1: to get caught up to all the injury news. There's
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Speaker 1: a ton of it today.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's for sure one of those slates, like a
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Speaker 3: lot of NBA slates are where like it's a fool's
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Speaker 3: errand to build lineups early because it almost is more
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Speaker 3: of a detriment than anything else to get you maybe
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Speaker 3: locked into players that by the time lock comes you
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Speaker 3: shouldn't be locked in on. So it's kind of a
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Speaker 3: but take it as it comes type of slate for me,
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Speaker 3: or I'm just gonna wait for all the news to
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Speaker 3: come and react as such.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a good way to do it,
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Speaker 1: and I think majority of the news that we have
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Speaker 1: does come after the first lock winness, you probably get
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Speaker 1: a little bit of maybe a little bit of a discount.
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Speaker 1: I think that we're gonna get a ton of ownership
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Speaker 1: in one of these first two games that we'll talk about.
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Speaker 1: But you had definitely some interesting spots to attack, a
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Speaker 1: couple of really really high scoring game environments, and a
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Speaker 1: lot of those game environments have a lot of value
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Speaker 1: in them. So this very interesting slate I'm excited to
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Speaker 1: talk through with you be able to kick things off.
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Speaker 1: First game of the night we have here pulled up
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Speaker 1: on the Stone. The Spurs heading into Indiana take on
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Speaker 1: the Pacers. Injury news in this one is really just
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Speaker 1: Wemby and Vissel are out, which are obviously two big
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Speaker 1: names for the Spurs. We should see Julian Chapenny get
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Speaker 1: the start again and then Luke Cornette back in the
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Speaker 1: starting lineup as he was filling in for Winby earlier
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Speaker 1: this season. Pacers pretty health, I think, as healthy as
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Speaker 1: they've really been all season long. I don't think the
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Jackson out tag really does too much for them.
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Speaker 1: Obi top and still out for quite some time. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I guess I'll kick it over to you first. Is
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Speaker 1: there anything that you're really prioritizing in this first game?
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Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of the fantasy apeal from
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Speaker 1: this one comes from the Spur side.
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Speaker 3: Yes to the second part of that question. To the
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Speaker 3: first part, I think, well, to two guys that I
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Speaker 3: could see myself prioritizing. I'm playing three lineups tonight. The
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Speaker 3: two guys I could see myself getting to and one
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Speaker 3: or more are Fox and Cornette. Fox is just really
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Speaker 3: cheap at seven K. Not that much more about him
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Speaker 3: than that, Like he's at a really really cheap price point.
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Speaker 3: In a good spot. No Wembi obviously certainly, you know,
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Speaker 3: Vissel being out doesn't hurt his case either. So I
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Speaker 3: think Fox looks like a really good mid range option.
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Speaker 3: And then Cornett at four K, you know, I'm seeing
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Speaker 3: him projected for a little bit more ownership at other places.
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Speaker 3: I think he's a solid Cogan the machine type, Like,
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Speaker 3: I'm not going out of my way to build around Cornett,
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Speaker 3: but at four K, I think he's a solid look
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Speaker 3: opportunity cost center. But you know, not as much certainly
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Speaker 3: with no jokicch and no Jval. So I think Cornett
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Speaker 3: and Fox are really the only two that I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: be even thinking about prioritizing, and that's not even a
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Speaker 3: guarantee I'm going to prioritize them. How about yourself?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, I agree with you on Fox. I
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Speaker 1: think he's the main guy I'm looking to. Just has
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Speaker 1: really really strong numbers from a usage and point per
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Speaker 1: a minute standpoint. Wouldn't you take Vessel and Wemby off
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Speaker 1: the court the season. I'm gonna see a tough ish
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Speaker 1: matchup against Andrew nemhard, but the Pacers really are your
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Speaker 1: team that doesn't like to help off a ton defensively.
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Speaker 1: Their three point defense has been the best in the
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Speaker 1: league this season, but they're struggling in other areas, like
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Speaker 1: their room defense has not been that great, their pick
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Speaker 1: and roll defense is subpar, so I kind of think
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Speaker 1: there's a lot working in Darren Fox's favor for that reason,
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Speaker 1: I do like him more than Stefan Castle, but I
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Speaker 1: do have some interest in him as well at seven
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Speaker 1: point four k he it is a bit injured right
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Speaker 1: now with the thumb injury, had a huge rap on
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Speaker 1: his hand, so he's kind of been affected shooting wise,
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Speaker 1: but I don't think he's really somebody that relies on
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Speaker 1: the jumper as much. I kind of like him as
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Speaker 1: a guy that can get to the basket and get downhill.
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Speaker 1: And the rim defense is very, very poor for the Pacers.
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Speaker 1: I kind of think that there's some upside for both
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Speaker 1: Castle on Fox here. I think if you're considering them,
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Speaker 1: I'd probably just be a Max two of Castle, Fox
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Speaker 1: and Harper if you want to play it more aggressive
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Speaker 1: than Max one. Of that grouping. I think makes some
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Speaker 1: sense on this slate in particular, because it is a
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Speaker 1: slave with a ton of value. You're gonna need to
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Speaker 1: have full ceiling games from all positions. I'm a little
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Speaker 1: bit lower. I don't think that you were like super
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Speaker 1: high in Cornet, but I'm pretty low in him tonight
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Speaker 1: as a value option, just compared to some of the
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Speaker 1: other options that we're going to have in the later games.
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Speaker 1: But I think that he's fine as like a like
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Speaker 1: you said at cogg in the wheel type play last
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Speaker 1: man in I think he's okay, and I do have
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Speaker 1: interest in the wings for the Pacers. I like Keldon
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Speaker 1: a bit, and I like Julian Chimpennie a little bit
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Speaker 1: as well. I do prefer Keldon if considering anybody that
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Speaker 1: is not named Stefan Castle or Darn Fox, and then
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Speaker 1: the Pacer stuff, I think it's probably a max one
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Speaker 1: for me. I don't really love any of these guys
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Speaker 1: in particular. I think Andrew Nemhard has a decent price
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Speaker 1: at six point three K, but I don't really like
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Speaker 1: with TJ McConnell, and I think that kind of limits
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Speaker 1: his upside. So I don't think that I'll be getting
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Speaker 1: to much of the Pacers tonight.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you on the Indiana side. Seems like
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Speaker 3: more of like scattered in If you're playing one to
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Speaker 3: fifty or a bunch of lineups. And then yeah, also
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Speaker 3: I didn't mention them.
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Speaker 1: You did.
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Speaker 3: I'm glad you did. Caldon and Champagnie, I think both
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Speaker 3: guys solid filler pieces. Obviously are not expecting that eighteen
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Speaker 3: made three Champagne did last game, but forty five hundred
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Speaker 3: is still really cheap in a good matchup. So yeah,
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Speaker 3: I don't think you're you're doing it wrong by playing
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Speaker 3: a Spur too here for sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think what I kind of like about Champagne
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Speaker 1: is that him and his brother are very good rebounders
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Speaker 1: for their size and their positions. So I kind of
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Speaker 1: think that there's a little bit of upside for him there.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't. He took seventeen threes last game.
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Speaker 1: The Knicks are a team that does give up a
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Speaker 1: lot of volumetar threes. Pacers are not, so I don't
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Speaker 1: if people are going to be chasing that, I don't.
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Speaker 1: He's not looking like too much ownership, but I think
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Speaker 1: it's a chasing kind of play. All right. I think
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Speaker 1: that'll do it for the Spurs and Indie game. We'll
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Speaker 1: head over to Washington now. Brooklyn Nets are a team
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Speaker 1: that has a ton of really strong value plays. Tonight
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Speaker 1: we have three of their main rotation guys out with
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Speaker 1: Nick Klaxon, MPJ and Cam Thomas, and it's a pretty
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Speaker 1: big game for both these teams from a tanking perspective.
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Speaker 1: The Net Earth Storrey. The Wizards are bottom four in
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Speaker 1: record the season, NETS are behind them at fifth, so
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Speaker 1: a loss for both these things would go a long
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Speaker 1: way in terms of the tanking aspect of the NBA season.
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Speaker 1: And then for Washington, they're gonna be without Kispert, Keishawn George,
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Speaker 1: and Kim Whitmore, but they are a team that does
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Speaker 1: have a lot more depth than some of these other teams,
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Speaker 1: So I don't really consider them a team that I'm
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Speaker 1: going to be prioritizing. But I do think that Alex
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Speaker 1: in particular is a pretty strong option. Hasn't top twenty
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Speaker 1: eight minutes in quite some time. If there was ever
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Speaker 1: a time for him to get up to like thirty minutes,
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Speaker 1: I think that this matchup would be a good spot
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Speaker 1: to do that with no Clacks on the other side.
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Speaker 1: So I kind of think that he has a ton
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Speaker 1: of upside here and he's gonna be looking at low
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Speaker 1: ownership and just comparing him to Nikolvusvich, I think he's
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Speaker 1: a much better play. I think they're kind of playing
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Speaker 1: around similar minutes. I'd much rather take the ownership discount
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Speaker 1: if considering a center in that low seven K upper
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Speaker 1: six K range. I'll kick it over to you for
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Speaker 1: the net stuff. That's gonna be a spot where you're
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Speaker 1: gonna want probably two pieces of these guys. I think
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Speaker 1: that you can probably get a little bit strict on
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Speaker 1: the groupings here just to kind of limit the type
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Speaker 1: of rosters that you build. But how are you prioritizing
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Speaker 1: these nets pieces?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so slit my mind for a second on why
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Speaker 3: Cornette's ownership projection had gone down and he doesn't look
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Speaker 3: like as good of a play. And the big part
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Speaker 3: of that is because dayon Sharp, I mean, he looks
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Speaker 3: like probably the best player in the slate. Now we're
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Speaker 3: only projecting him to be forty percent owned. I think
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Speaker 3: you're gonna see him as one of these guys that's like,
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Speaker 3: you know, in the seventh, eight eighty eight tonight, he
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Speaker 3: could be eighty percent owned, you know, thirty seven hundred.
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Speaker 3: He's productive as is. Now you take out Claxton, he
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Speaker 3: looks like the ultimate lock to me, like far superior
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Speaker 3: to anyone else. It's such a great spot for Brooklyn
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Speaker 3: that I think you could play a bunch of these guys.
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Speaker 3: Clowney five K looks good. Zaire Williams coming off a
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Speaker 3: really good game last night where he had I think
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Speaker 3: five steals. Uh Yemen is getting love at forty six hundred.
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Speaker 3: I don't have a clear packing order outside of Sharp
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Speaker 3: and then everyone else, do you.
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Speaker 1: I think I would probably have it sharp Zaire and
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Speaker 1: then kind of a big gap to probably Danny Wolf,
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Speaker 1: Noah Clowney, and then yeah, jegor Demen.
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Speaker 3: I hate putting Zaire there, but I get it because he's.
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Speaker 1: Flatt Yeah, that's all he is. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: he's projected to start. I see on BBM they haven't
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Speaker 1: projected to start, but I think that they could go
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Speaker 1: with Danny Wolf. They've kind of slotted him in behind
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Speaker 1: MPJ at times. I kind of think there's a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a push and pull between those two guys.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just gonna be a spot that you
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Speaker 1: are gonna need probably two of these guys. I agree
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Speaker 1: with you in Sharp that I think he's like a
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Speaker 1: borderline lock on this slate, a guy that's always been
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Speaker 1: a really strong, permanent producer. And then you add on
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Speaker 1: top of the fact that Claxon is out so he's starting,
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Speaker 1: the minutes are going to be there, and the matchup
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Speaker 1: versus Washington is really really good. So Sharp is kind
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Speaker 1: of the starting point on the slate tonight. I did
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Speaker 1: have some groupings to consider because I don't want to
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Speaker 1: get too locked into some of these like tertiary nets pieces.
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Speaker 1: For me, I'm gonna be a Max two of Clowney,
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Speaker 1: Wolf and Dayron Sharp if Wolf is not starting. If
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Speaker 1: he is starting, I'm flying with three of those guys.
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Speaker 1: I would be Max two of Yegor Demon, Terrence Mann,
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Speaker 1: Jalen Wilson or Jalen Wilson, and Tyrese Martin. I think
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Speaker 1: those are gonna be the four main guys that are
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Speaker 1: splitting the Guard minutes, and then Max two of Zaire,
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Speaker 1: Drake Powell and Jalen Wilson. You could probably even be
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Speaker 1: a Max one of those guys. I think that would
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Speaker 1: cover enough to kind of just figure this whole thing out.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I think you're gonna need two guys tonight
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Speaker 1: for sure.
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Speaker 3: From the nets pieces, it looks a lot like Utah
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Speaker 3: last night. Actually, yeah, in a much better spot for
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Speaker 3: these guys to succeed because Washington also stinks. So I
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Speaker 3: personally think this is a spot. You know, again, there
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Speaker 3: are other good spots on this slate that we're gonna
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Speaker 3: want to get to, so that's the only thing about it.
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Speaker 3: But I think that wouldn't be shocking if the optimal
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Speaker 3: lineup tonight had three four guys from Brooklyn.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I could definitely see that. I think I
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Speaker 1: think three is kind of likely tonight from the Nets pieces.
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Speaker 1: All right, next game we have is the Nuggets and Cavaliers. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: if you don't know, the Nuggets are going to extremely
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Speaker 1: thin in the front court now with Jokic being ruled
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Speaker 1: out for a month just two games ago, and then
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Speaker 1: Joe val got his start last game, was doing really well,
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Speaker 1: only play twenty two minutes. Turns out he had a
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Speaker 1: calf injury, so he's out for a month. So now
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Speaker 1: they're gonna be left with Dayron Holmes as their starting
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Speaker 1: center potentially. I don't really know what they're gonna be
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Speaker 1: doing behind him because they've been kind of reluctant to
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Speaker 1: play Zik Naji at all since he's been on the Nuggets.
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Speaker 1: And then you got a couple guys like Hunter Tyson
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Speaker 1: Curtis Jones that could fill in for some minutes. Don't
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Speaker 1: really know too much about those guys, but yeah, they're
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Speaker 1: gonna be in trouble here. Jamal Murray is gonna have
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Speaker 1: a massive workload moving forward, gonna have all the defensive
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Speaker 1: attention kind of shifted his direction, which I think is
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Speaker 1: a kind of an interesting angle when considering some of
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Speaker 1: these secondary pieces, because you could probably get away with
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Speaker 1: sending doubles or just a lot of help at Jamal
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Speaker 1: Murray moving forward with the second best option on the
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Speaker 1: Nuggets probably Peyton Watson or Tim Hardaway Junior. Know that
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Speaker 1: being said, I think it's a good spot for the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland guys, though this Denver team has been struggling on defense,
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Speaker 1: but the prices are kind of up there for a
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Speaker 1: fully healthy team. I think the Cavs stuff that I'm
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Speaker 1: prioritizing would just be Donovan Mitchell tonight at nine cakes.
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Speaker 1: That's a good price tag. But I do think that
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Speaker 1: Evan Moby has a bit of upside versus an under
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Speaker 1: experienced front court in the Denver side. But how are
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Speaker 1: you approaching the Denver pieces. I think that you're gonna
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Speaker 1: get some really low ownership. I do think that there's
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Speaker 1: a little bit of upside here on some of these
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Speaker 1: guys that are gonna be filling in for Jokic.
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Speaker 3: So I think I'm gonna play this a little bit
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Speaker 3: different than most, At least as of right now, I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna be off of Denver, certainly off of Jamal Murray.
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Speaker 3: I think Cleveland is likely at least very plausible to
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Speaker 3: roll in this spot, and with literally no one else
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Speaker 3: outside of Murray to create, I just think that Cleveland
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Speaker 3: is going to just throw hell at him and make
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Speaker 3: anyone else beat them. He's expensive also at ninety five hundred,
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Speaker 3: and he could certainly get there. He's gonna have the
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Speaker 3: ball in his hands a ton, But I just think
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Speaker 3: there's certainly a fade angle to play there. I like
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Speaker 3: Holmes here missed all of last year after tearing his
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Speaker 3: ACL in the Summer League. I believe now is thrust
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Speaker 3: into this role with both Jokic and javal Hurt, I
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Speaker 3: don't know how much they're gonna play him. I don't
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Speaker 3: think he's gonna play like thirty five plus minutes here,
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Speaker 3: but they literally have no one else inside. He's forty
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Speaker 3: five hundred, so he's my favorite piece of Denver from
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Speaker 3: the Cleveland side. Actually, like both bigs. Mobli cheap still
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Speaker 3: at seventy four hundred, not playing full minutes, but he
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Speaker 3: can get there at that price point pretty easily in
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Speaker 3: this matchup. The guy I actually kind of like a
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Speaker 3: lot here at really low ownership is Jared Allen. Again,
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Speaker 3: like Denver, has nothing inside to stop him, and he's
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Speaker 3: not a guy that I play a ton in fantasy,
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Speaker 3: but he had two broken fingers for a lot of
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Speaker 3: the beginning of the season, and he's talked recently about
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Speaker 3: how he's finally starting to feel better and able to
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Speaker 3: actually catch the basketball. We've seen a couple of big
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Speaker 3: performances from him lately, and I think we could see
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Speaker 3: another one here tonight at no ownership at six k.
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Speaker 3: So Mobley and Allen from Cleveland and Holmes for me
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Speaker 3: from Denver. Not sure any of them are like guys
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Speaker 3: I need to lock in if I'm playing one lineup,
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Speaker 3: but I like all three for different reasons.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I see some positive talk about Holmes. I was
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Speaker 1: going to bring this up. He has a guy that
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Speaker 1: can stretch the floor us. I do think that he
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Speaker 1: has some upside here. But yeah, if you just slotted
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Speaker 1: in Dron Holmes for what Joval was trending to play
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Speaker 1: last game, I don't really know if it's going to
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Speaker 1: be a one to one situation like that, but Holmes
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Speaker 1: even himself was trending for like eighteen minutes, Joval around thirty,
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Speaker 1: I believe. So that's why I think that Holmes is
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Speaker 1: kind of an interesting option at four point five K
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Speaker 1: because he's a little bit overpriced, I would say, for
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Speaker 1: what his for just an unidentified.
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Speaker 3: Role, right, but he's just four point five out of nowhere.
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Speaker 1: I'm with you, yeah exactly. But I mean he's got
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Speaker 1: some offensive capability, and the Calves have struggled a bit
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Speaker 1: against centers like him in recent performances. But I do
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Speaker 1: think that the minute range is kind of something you
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Speaker 1: should be leaning into a little bit because it is
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Speaker 1: probably on the low end, like twenty five if he's starting.
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Speaker 1: But I do think that there's a scenario when he
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Speaker 1: could get up to like thirty two, thirty three if
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Speaker 1: the game is closed, or even maybe if he plays
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Speaker 1: blow and they just want to get a little bit
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Speaker 1: more just a longer look at him, I could see
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Speaker 1: something like that happening. But I'm with you there, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: go ahead. I was gonna say, I'm with you on
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Speaker 1: the Jamal Murray fade. I think that I want to
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Speaker 1: be underweight him tonight. It's just, yeah, there's just a
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Speaker 1: lot a lot of ways that it could go wrong there.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna be focusing a lot of attention on him.
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Speaker 1: I think Jaylen Pickett is okay though a three point
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Speaker 1: five k really low ownership. He started last game, has
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Speaker 1: been a guy that has been DFS relevant in the past,
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Speaker 1: and if the game does blow out, they're gonna have
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Speaker 1: like they're not playing Jamal Murray, Payne Watson, Tim Hardaway,
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Speaker 1: or Bruce Brown in the blowout lineup, So that kind
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Speaker 1: of leaves you with six guys that could potentially play.
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Speaker 1: I think it would be Strawther, probably Hunter Tyson, Curtis Jones, Zeke,
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Speaker 1: and then one of Holmes or Picket, So that I
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Speaker 1: kind of think that both those guys are pretty fine.
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Speaker 1: For that reason is you are you do have the
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Speaker 1: kind of the perfect situation where they could play regular
17:16
Speaker 1: rotation minutes and then the last like six to seven minutes.
17:19
Speaker 1: If they're getting really blown out.
17:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, you do have that kind of double combo which
17:24
Speaker 3: you don't get off in, which we saw last night
17:27
Speaker 3: with some of the Utah guys, even though we weren't
17:28
Speaker 3: sure which ones.
17:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, here you.
17:30
Speaker 3: Could definitely see that. I mean it's tough, like we
17:34
Speaker 3: don't know they're playing with Holmes and they're playing with Homes.
17:37
Speaker 3: Certainly wasn't to have Jave out and Jokic out and
17:39
Speaker 3: him to play like all the center minutes, so even
17:42
Speaker 3: they probably don't know. I'm intrigued with the unknown here though.
17:46
Speaker 1: Yeah. Same all right. Next game a very appealing one
17:50
Speaker 1: from a game total perspective, Atlanta and the Knicks going
17:54
Speaker 1: head to head. I believe this has a two hundred
17:56
Speaker 1: and forty two points total if I'm not mistaken. Still
18:00
Speaker 1: checking the real quick, Yeah, two forty two close spread,
18:03
Speaker 1: ish next by six and a half. So I think
18:05
Speaker 1: that that's pretty fair with Trey out. But we do
18:09
Speaker 1: have some potential injury news that to wait on that
18:12
Speaker 1: could kind of get you some really low ownership on
18:15
Speaker 1: some guys that will project really strong. Kar Anthony Towns
18:18
Speaker 1: and Mitchell Robinson are questionable tonight. Kat with the midday
18:21
Speaker 1: downgrade with the illness tag usually kind of lean those
18:25
Speaker 1: things being out. I think Mitch rob maybe a little
18:28
Speaker 1: bit more likely to play, but I'm not sure exactly. Yeah,
18:32
Speaker 1: ankle management thing, not really sure how they want to
18:34
Speaker 1: approach that, but definitely a spot that you could get
18:37
Speaker 1: some really low ownership on guys like Ariel hook Porty.
18:40
Speaker 1: I think he's probably the most likely guy that's going
18:42
Speaker 1: to be thrust into a bigger role. But then some
18:45
Speaker 1: of these secondary guys like Bridges and Og would project
18:47
Speaker 1: a lot better. And obviously Jaylen Brounson, who already looks
18:49
Speaker 1: like a very very strong option, would be a guy
18:52
Speaker 1: that's pretty tough to avoid with Kat out. And then
18:56
Speaker 1: on the Atlanta side, they got Christops back I believe,
18:59
Speaker 1: last game, but Trey Young is out again for the
19:02
Speaker 1: second game in a row, so we're gonna see Jalen
19:04
Speaker 1: Johnson with a massive role like we've seen all season long.
19:07
Speaker 1: Really Tray's missed it most of the season. Both these
19:11
Speaker 1: teams are kind of struggling defensively, so I think that
19:13
Speaker 1: is kind of an interesting angle. I think that this
19:15
Speaker 1: game really does have a ton of shoot up potential
19:17
Speaker 1: and not a ton of ownership, but it is tougher
19:21
Speaker 1: to get to these Atlanta guys at these price tags.
19:25
Speaker 1: I think Jalen is pretty easy to click on, but
19:27
Speaker 1: there's some downside risk to him as well, going to
19:30
Speaker 1: be guarded by og And and Noobi, who did a good
19:32
Speaker 1: job limiting him last game. But there's also a good
19:35
Speaker 1: chance that he's a somewhat matchup proof had a average
19:39
Speaker 1: a triple double in December fifty five and a half
19:42
Speaker 1: DK points in twenty two games without trade this season,
19:44
Speaker 1: so obviously a ton of upside for Jalen, but I
19:47
Speaker 1: do think that the downside is kind of scary tonight.
19:50
Speaker 1: And I don't really see any of these guys like
19:52
Speaker 1: an Aw or Dyson being guys in running to play.
19:56
Speaker 1: The role is just not that great from a touch
19:58
Speaker 1: time perspective for either of them. But I do think
20:01
Speaker 1: that Dyson is fine. He should see a pretty easy matchup.
20:04
Speaker 1: I think there'll be Brunton or Bridges on him, and
20:07
Speaker 1: the peripheral stats have been on the rise as of late,
20:10
Speaker 1: so I think that Jalen is the easy number one
20:12
Speaker 1: option for Atlanta, and then Dyson too for me, and
20:15
Speaker 1: then Brunson as of right now is the best play
20:18
Speaker 1: in the Knicks and it could only get better. But
20:20
Speaker 1: I don't really, Yeah, I just don't know what the
20:22
Speaker 1: what the Knick's going to do with the rotation if
20:23
Speaker 1: Kat and Mitch Rubb were to be out. So what
20:25
Speaker 1: are you what are your thoughts on this one?
20:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, we see pretty I'd eye on this one, Like
20:30
Speaker 3: I'm with you on that. I don't love that Jalen
20:32
Speaker 3: Johnson's being guarded by Ananobe. You know, I don't love
20:35
Speaker 3: any matchup with Anonoby, but I think Johnson at this
20:38
Speaker 3: point is matchup proof, especially with no Trey Young in
20:41
Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden. Like, he's just been so good and
20:43
Speaker 3: it's gonna be easy to fit him with all the
20:45
Speaker 3: nets value. Talk about some guys on the Nuggets potentially cheaper,
20:50
Speaker 3: you know, guys on the Knicks we like to with Towns.
20:53
Speaker 3: You know, I don't want to say likely, but I
20:55
Speaker 3: predict him to be out here. So then if he's out,
20:57
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, Brunson becomes, you know, one of
21:01
Speaker 3: the best plays on the entire slates spend up or
21:04
Speaker 3: spend down because he will be way too cheap for
21:06
Speaker 3: the spot with Towns being out, And then you got
21:08
Speaker 3: guys like all the other guys Bridges and Anonobe specifically,
21:12
Speaker 3: that will look a lot better with Towns being out,
21:14
Speaker 3: So all of a sudden, you'll get a game that
21:18
Speaker 3: isn't projected to get much ownership, to have guys that
21:22
Speaker 3: are going to be owned, because Johnson I think is
21:25
Speaker 3: under projected as far as his ownership goes right now,
21:28
Speaker 3: just because of how easy it will be to fit
21:29
Speaker 3: him and how good he's been. And then if Towns
21:32
Speaker 3: is out, I think all those Knicks guys ownership increases
21:35
Speaker 3: as it should with Brunson being the priority as of
21:38
Speaker 3: right now, Like if Towns is in, I think that
21:41
Speaker 3: my only priority from this game is Jalen Johnson, and
21:44
Speaker 3: that's just a byproduct of the slate and how easy
21:47
Speaker 3: it is to fit him. I don't think you have
21:49
Speaker 3: to play him because there are other good spend up options,
21:52
Speaker 3: but for my money, he's probably the best.
21:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally agree with you there, and I think that
22:01
Speaker 1: kind of covers it all for this game. Yeah, go
22:06
Speaker 1: to the next one, which we have is Orlando and Chicago,
22:10
Speaker 1: another game with a lot of value, which is the
22:13
Speaker 1: theme of the slate. But Orlando did get Jalen Suggs back,
22:16
Speaker 1: so they're getting a little bit healthier. Still gonna be
22:18
Speaker 1: without Fronds, but this is a really good spot for
22:21
Speaker 1: them offensively, just the way that they score and look
22:24
Speaker 1: to attack. The Bulls are one of the teams they
22:26
Speaker 1: give up the highest volume rim scoring, and Orlando has
22:30
Speaker 1: been a team that just attacks the rim relentlessly because
22:32
Speaker 1: they don't have a ton of shooters. So I think
22:34
Speaker 1: they said it pretty well here. And on the Bulls side,
22:37
Speaker 1: they have out tags on Josh Giddy, Kobe White, and
22:41
Speaker 1: Zach Collins. So we saw the Bulls start big last
22:43
Speaker 1: game with Jayalen Smith alongside of Nicola Gussovic. I think
22:47
Speaker 1: there's a chance that they go back to Kevin Herder
22:50
Speaker 1: in the spot, but I also think that there's a
22:52
Speaker 1: chance I could just stick with Jaalen Smith. I think
22:54
Speaker 1: that it's not a bad thing to have a little
22:56
Speaker 1: bit more size against Polo and Wendell Carter Junior. So
22:59
Speaker 1: ill kick things over to you. Do you like anything
23:01
Speaker 1: on the Orlando side? And then how are you prioritizing
23:04
Speaker 1: the Chicago value places pieces?
23:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think this probably is the most important
23:09
Speaker 3: game to tag over. But first off, man Bank Carroll
23:11
Speaker 3: has just been getting killed on social media over the
23:15
Speaker 3: past like week or so. I don't know if you've
23:17
Speaker 3: seen any of it. Have you heard his new nickname?
23:20
Speaker 1: No, I haven't let me hear it PB No J Yeah,
23:25
Speaker 1: that's that's bad. You would think that this was his
23:28
Speaker 1: fourth fifth year in the league, that he would be
23:29
Speaker 1: able to develop a little bit more of a jumper.
23:32
Speaker 3: But yeah, like all his numbers, like his advanced level stuff,
23:36
Speaker 3: is just not good. I'm still a fan of his,
23:38
Speaker 3: so just giving him a little shit. But as far
23:40
Speaker 3: as this game goes, he's been really good. So as
23:43
Speaker 3: far as the Orlando side goes, he's my favorite piece.
23:46
Speaker 3: Like if I'm not paint, if I'm not playing Jalen Johnson,
23:50
Speaker 3: I think looking at guys like ban Carro, certainly there's
23:53
Speaker 3: like Mobiley and Zion who are like a thousand cheaper
23:56
Speaker 3: than bank Carroll. But I think Ban Carroll's playable in
23:59
Speaker 3: tournaments for at eighty six hundred in this spot again
24:03
Speaker 3: on a little bit of a heater right now doesn't
24:05
Speaker 3: project amazing, but his ceiling's still high. So he's my
24:09
Speaker 3: favorite piece of Orlando. Other than that, I don't think
24:12
Speaker 3: there's that much to look at Bain okay, but not
24:16
Speaker 3: a priority for me and Wendell Carter is just too
24:18
Speaker 3: many other good centers that are cheaper. The Chicago side
24:22
Speaker 3: I'm interested in, not really understanding why, like I get it.
24:27
Speaker 3: I guess because Brooklyn's projected to get so much ownership.
24:29
Speaker 3: But Trey Jones, like fifty one hundred, I still think
24:32
Speaker 3: he looks like one of the best plays on the slate.
24:34
Speaker 3: I like him a lot here in what I project
24:37
Speaker 3: to be a competitive game. No Giddy, no Kobe White.
24:40
Speaker 3: He's just gonna have the ball in his hands a ton,
24:42
Speaker 3: So Trey Jones and Jalen Smith I like a lot.
24:46
Speaker 3: I still like booz List. I think Vuch is in play.
24:49
Speaker 3: Not excited about him ever, but in play. And then
24:52
Speaker 3: I still think like even coming off the bench, her
24:55
Speaker 3: and Ao are in play. I like this spot. Those
24:59
Speaker 3: guys aren't gonna ownership. I want some balls on my
25:03
Speaker 3: side here. Again, I'll reiterate that I really like the spot,
25:07
Speaker 3: and the ownership isn't nearly as high as I expected
25:10
Speaker 3: it to be. So again, that's varying at different places,
25:13
Speaker 3: and we'll see that stabilize when we get more news,
25:15
Speaker 3: but it's certainly going to be lower than it was
25:18
Speaker 3: last late, and I still think that Trey Jones and
25:20
Speaker 3: Jalen Smith specifically are two of the best players on
25:23
Speaker 3: the entire board.
25:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, I cannot agree more with you. There really solid
25:28
Speaker 1: role for Trade Jones last game. Picks up pretty much
25:30
Speaker 1: most of the ball, handling six minutes a touch time,
25:33
Speaker 1: fifty two percent ass His percentage did run really pure
25:37
Speaker 1: on shooting, went seven percent from the field. But I
25:39
Speaker 1: don't He's still a very efficient scorer. And I think
25:42
Speaker 1: that I like attacking the Orlando from the guard spot
25:46
Speaker 1: because they do give up a good amount of pick
25:47
Speaker 1: and roll volume. So I think that I'm with you
25:50
Speaker 1: on Trade Jones. I think he should be higher owned
25:52
Speaker 1: than he is right now. Five point one still too cheap.
25:55
Speaker 1: I think there's more meat on the bones. From a
25:56
Speaker 1: minute's perspective as well, I think he could top thirty
26:00
Speaker 1: Tree Jones a ton agree with you on Jalen Smith.
26:02
Speaker 1: I think he's fine even coming off the bench because
26:04
Speaker 1: they've been more willing to run him alongside Voochs, so
26:07
Speaker 1: the minutes can can only climb. He's not gonna be
26:10
Speaker 1: playing eighteen and splitting the center minutes with Vooch, He's
26:13
Speaker 1: got the power for it and center minutes now, so
26:15
Speaker 1: I like him a good bit. And then I think
26:18
Speaker 1: that like Matas and Io are kind of okay. I
26:21
Speaker 1: think Herder is decent. He does have pretty good per
26:24
Speaker 1: minute stats with those guys off the court, but if
26:27
Speaker 1: he's not starting, then the minutes could fluctuate, and it's
26:30
Speaker 1: also not a great spot for shooters like him, so
26:33
Speaker 1: a little bit more downside risk to hurdr. I do
26:37
Speaker 1: think that the rules are kind of important here, So
26:40
Speaker 1: this is what I've come up with. I think I'm
26:41
Speaker 1: gonna be max two of Herder, Io and Bozelles Max two,
26:47
Speaker 1: or you could just be max one of this, but
26:48
Speaker 1: max two of Williams, Vooch and Jalen Smith, or just
26:52
Speaker 1: Max one of Jalen Smith and Patrick Williams. I don't
26:55
Speaker 1: really think you're considering Patrick Williams, but definitely don't even
26:58
Speaker 1: want any of those lines to sneak through. And then
27:00
Speaker 1: a MAX two of Trey Jones, Io and Herder. Those
27:03
Speaker 1: three guys were the ones that split all the ball handling,
27:05
Speaker 1: so I don't want more than two of those guys
27:07
Speaker 1: on the court together, and they I agree with you
27:10
Speaker 1: on the Orlando stuff. It's really just pollow for me.
27:12
Speaker 1: I'm not in love with Baine. With jam Suggs coming
27:16
Speaker 1: back usage held up fine, but he's just not really
27:18
Speaker 1: guy that is going to be breaking the slate more
27:21
Speaker 1: often than not. But he does fit some bills with
27:23
Speaker 1: the small forward eligibilities. I think that he's okay, but
27:26
Speaker 1: would much rather prefer to get to Polo if I'm
27:29
Speaker 1: getting an Orlando piece. All right, next game, Portland at
27:35
Speaker 1: New Orleans. I'm just gonna double check with check because
27:38
Speaker 1: I've been got two screens set up over here, so
27:41
Speaker 1: kind of a different setup. I think we're good. Uh,
27:47
Speaker 1: will Jaen Johnson have a hall fin career? It's looking
27:49
Speaker 1: like that. It's looking like it.
27:51
Speaker 3: That's a that's a deep question. It's hard. That's hard.
27:55
Speaker 3: That's hard to answer considering the short sample side of
27:58
Speaker 3: him being this good.
27:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that Little Nicks kind of kind of
28:01
Speaker 1: joking there too, because I have been really big Jalen
28:04
Speaker 1: Johnson fans since he came into the league. All right, Yeah,
28:08
Speaker 1: Portland New Orleans another game with value on even more
28:11
Speaker 1: value now that right before we got on the show,
28:14
Speaker 1: trade Murphy did get ruled out, so they were going
28:16
Speaker 1: to have a new face in the starting lineup before
28:19
Speaker 1: the Pelicans, and then Portland has just been a team
28:21
Speaker 1: that runs things super tight. You got a lot to
28:24
Speaker 1: like here on both sides of this game. I think
28:26
Speaker 1: that this game is going to produce a lot offensively.
28:30
Speaker 1: These teams are dead last. The Pelicans are dead last transition.
28:33
Speaker 1: Bottom three are the Portland Trailblazers. Pelicans were dead last
28:37
Speaker 1: and rim defense over the last month or so, and
28:40
Speaker 1: then they're lacking any sort of on ball stopper. Now
28:43
Speaker 1: with Herb Jones and Sadik Bay and now Trey Murphy out,
28:46
Speaker 1: they're going to be really, really thin from anybody that
28:48
Speaker 1: could play any sort of meaningful defense. So there's a
28:52
Speaker 1: ton to life on the Portland side. I really really
28:54
Speaker 1: like Denny as one of the best spend up options.
28:56
Speaker 1: Sucks that he's only point guard eligible now, but I
28:58
Speaker 1: still think I'm going to be prioritizing him because he's
29:01
Speaker 1: shown he's been really really close to some massive games lately.
29:05
Speaker 1: With the triple double upside, I think he's gonna be
29:07
Speaker 1: able to score at will, drawing a ton of fallacy.
29:10
Speaker 1: I love Danny Tonight. I think sharp has some upside
29:13
Speaker 1: as well, but minutes aren't really there. I like cleaning
29:17
Speaker 1: a good bit at six point four k in a
29:19
Speaker 1: really good matchup against a team that's allowing the fourth
29:21
Speaker 1: most fantasy points to opposing centers. They're also dead last
29:25
Speaker 1: and room defense last month, like I said, and then
29:27
Speaker 1: a bottom three rebounding team. I already bet clinging to
29:30
Speaker 1: get a double double. I like that bet a good bit.
29:32
Speaker 1: I think he's got a ton of upside here. And
29:35
Speaker 1: then Tiamani Kamara and Caleb Love kind of round things out.
29:38
Speaker 1: Cable Love is a guy I don't know if you
29:40
Speaker 1: want to talk about him a little bit, but he's
29:41
Speaker 1: been coming on a lot lately and seeing a pretty
29:45
Speaker 1: good amount of minutes. I kind of have a lot
29:47
Speaker 1: of interest in him off the bench. And then I'll
29:51
Speaker 1: give you some time to break down the Pelican stuff,
29:53
Speaker 1: because I think that there's definitely a lot of moving
29:55
Speaker 1: pieces now with Murphy Bay and Herb Jones and Derek
29:59
Speaker 1: Queen all out.
30:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, New Orleans is going to be a mess, but
30:02
Speaker 3: we'll break it down as far as the New Orleans
30:04
Speaker 3: the Portland side goes. I'm with you all the way
30:06
Speaker 3: around here, Denny. I mean projecting as well or better
30:11
Speaker 3: than Jalen Johnson some places, so he looks like one
30:14
Speaker 3: of the top, if not the top overall. Spend up
30:16
Speaker 3: here for sure like him a lot. Even with the
30:19
Speaker 3: just point guard eligibility stinks, but it is what it is,
30:22
Speaker 3: and it'll be interesting, like if we get Towns out
30:25
Speaker 3: what happens with Denny's ownership compared to Brunson at very
30:28
Speaker 3: similar price points, both only point guard eligible. A lot
30:32
Speaker 3: to like about both of them. And then yeah, Caleb Love.
30:36
Speaker 3: You know, with a guy like Caleb Love who's starting
30:39
Speaker 3: to really, you know, carve his way to a like
30:43
Speaker 3: a full time role with this Portland team, all you
30:45
Speaker 3: can ask for a guy like that is minutes. Certainly,
30:48
Speaker 3: he's not going to produce every game, but if you
30:51
Speaker 3: know he's gonna get the minutes, then he's a guy
30:52
Speaker 3: I'm going to be interested in, especially in a spot
30:55
Speaker 3: like this at this price point. You know, I think
30:58
Speaker 3: if the game gets a little bit out of hand,
31:00
Speaker 3: which all New Orleans games can like, he wouldn't be
31:03
Speaker 3: surprised to see him still out there. He's gonna get
31:05
Speaker 3: his run regardless. So after Denny, he's my second favorite
31:08
Speaker 3: piece I also like to cling and call a lot
31:11
Speaker 3: great spot for him. New Orleans lacking big men and
31:14
Speaker 3: they're just shallow inside in general. From the New Orleans side.
31:19
Speaker 3: Zion himself now already looked really really good. Has been
31:24
Speaker 3: too cheap for a little bit since he's been inserted
31:26
Speaker 3: back in the starting lineup. Now with Queen out, Murphy out,
31:30
Speaker 3: he's gonna project like one of the best point per
31:33
Speaker 3: dollar plays on the slate at seventy five hundred, so
31:36
Speaker 3: he looks really really good. Fears and Pool are both
31:40
Speaker 3: gonna look good. I don't really like playing them together.
31:43
Speaker 3: I don't really like playing either of them separate, but
31:45
Speaker 3: on this slate with those guys out, I think you
31:48
Speaker 3: have to take a long look at both Pool and Fears.
31:50
Speaker 3: Pool playing well right now. So both those guys in play,
31:57
Speaker 3: you know, Jordan Hawkins at thirty three hundred, Mike apevi like,
32:01
Speaker 3: they're gonna have guys that you can fill in with
32:03
Speaker 3: for sure. For me, the priority is gonna be Zion,
32:09
Speaker 3: you know, the me ce Loony combo like Looney has
32:11
Speaker 3: has played himself into some more minutes recently. I'm not
32:14
Speaker 3: exactly sure what to do there. Do you have any
32:16
Speaker 3: strong takes other than Zion's a really good play here.
32:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I like I like pooling Fears a
32:24
Speaker 1: good bit, but I do agree with you, I don't
32:26
Speaker 1: love playing them together. I do think that they kind
32:28
Speaker 1: of eat into each other a little bit. You're competing
32:31
Speaker 1: for scoring and ball handling role, whereas Zion could kind
32:34
Speaker 1: of get there with with other stats. I also think
32:36
Speaker 1: that they are competing with Zion too, so I hadn't
32:40
Speaker 1: really thought through the rules coming into the show, but
32:42
Speaker 1: I definitely do not want Fears and Alvarado together. I
32:45
Speaker 1: think Alvarado is in play because he's only three point
32:47
Speaker 1: nine k gonna be really low owned when you compare
32:50
Speaker 1: him to the Nets and some of the other value
32:52
Speaker 1: plays on the slate. But I do think that he
32:54
Speaker 1: is a guy that could see more minutes. So I
32:56
Speaker 1: would be Max one Fears in Alvarado, I would definitely
32:59
Speaker 1: be a Max two of probably Max two of Zion,
33:02
Speaker 1: Pool and Fears, and then Max one Missy and Looney. Yeah,
33:06
Speaker 1: Luney's kind of come out of nowhere. I think that
33:07
Speaker 1: they just, you know, he's a VET, He's always been solid.
33:11
Speaker 1: I think that they just like his size and rebounding,
33:13
Speaker 1: so I think that he is a guy that could
33:16
Speaker 1: I mean, hypothetically, he does make more sense starting against
33:20
Speaker 1: Klingon because Missy is somewhat of an undersized big and
33:24
Speaker 1: I think Looney kind of matches up well against Klingon
33:28
Speaker 1: just two really big body centers. So yeah, but I'm
33:32
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be Max one. I don't. I also don't
33:34
Speaker 1: think that I would really be prioritizing these guys over
33:36
Speaker 1: like day Run Holmes or day Run Sharp, Yeah.
33:40
Speaker 3: Or even like PJ. Hall on the next game. If
33:42
Speaker 3: Musa the.
33:43
Speaker 1: Abate is out, Yeah, exactly. I think that you're gonna
33:45
Speaker 1: get really low ownership. So, I mean, if anything, what's
33:48
Speaker 1: the price difference between those guys. I think Pool was
33:50
Speaker 1: four K? Yeah, I mean, if anything, you could start
33:53
Speaker 1: with sorry, PJ Hall is four K. You could start
33:57
Speaker 1: with Hall, and then if Musa is in, you just
34:00
Speaker 1: pivot down to whoever. Starting between Missy or Looney is
34:03
Speaker 1: a way a way to play, and you're gonna get
34:04
Speaker 1: really really low ownership on all three of those guys,
34:07
Speaker 1: I would imagine.
34:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like that's you can play like basically all Choky
34:12
Speaker 3: guys except for that spot, and you're gonna be different.
34:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, for the most part.
34:15
Speaker 3: I mean, for the most part, there's just so many.
34:18
Speaker 3: There's the other part about like the chalky plays on
34:20
Speaker 3: this slate because of all the news that's coming and
34:23
Speaker 3: still gonna come, there's just more good plays that can
34:27
Speaker 3: then can be chalk. So like, certainly some of the
34:30
Speaker 3: best plays will rise to the top and be extremely chalky,
34:34
Speaker 3: but there's gonna be really really good plays that aren't
34:37
Speaker 3: as popular as that otherwise would be because of the
34:40
Speaker 3: other really good plays.
34:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely a good point there. Josh asking about
34:46
Speaker 1: McGowan's I'm never really on board with playing Kim. He's
34:49
Speaker 1: just doesn't do enough. I mean even saw last game
34:52
Speaker 1: what he played twenty four minutes. I believe that was
34:56
Speaker 1: as a starter. I think he's been starting the last
34:58
Speaker 1: couple of games, but he had in twenty sorry forty
35:02
Speaker 1: six minutes. In the last two games, he's accounted for
35:04
Speaker 1: seven and a half Fantasy points. So I don't really
35:06
Speaker 1: want to buy into something like that that can just
35:11
Speaker 1: really bary you. I think that there's other value plays
35:14
Speaker 1: then that are much better in the nets to go
35:17
Speaker 1: to McGowan's personally, but yeah, this is a game I
35:21
Speaker 1: could definitely see I can see it like it could
35:23
Speaker 1: be the one where I'm prioritizing the spend ups as
35:27
Speaker 1: like a little correlated piece with Denny and Zion, and
35:29
Speaker 1: then you could even like it's very easy to add
35:32
Speaker 1: and clinging in one of Pool or Fears. Then you
35:34
Speaker 1: have a nice little game sec with all the nets
35:37
Speaker 1: value and some of the other value plays. I think
35:39
Speaker 1: that is going to be an angle that I'm trying
35:40
Speaker 1: to attack tonight because I think that this game has
35:43
Speaker 1: a ton of ton of street out potential if there was.
35:46
Speaker 3: Ever a spot honestly could play Pool and Fears together. Like,
35:50
Speaker 3: I don't hate it tonight, just because if the guys
35:53
Speaker 3: they're missing and they're just gonna need offensive creation. So
35:57
Speaker 3: I don't love it, but I don't hate it either. Here.
35:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, last game on the slate. Making a
36:03
Speaker 1: good time here, only thirty six minutes to get through
36:05
Speaker 1: seven games. I think we can. I wasn't really prepared
36:09
Speaker 1: to talk through Fandel, but they do have three more
36:11
Speaker 1: games on the slate, and one of them with a
36:13
Speaker 1: ton of value in the Go and Stay Warriors, So
36:16
Speaker 1: we'll talk through that a little bit in the end.
36:20
Speaker 1: A So, yeah, Musadiabati is questionable. They're already down Cock
36:23
Speaker 1: Brenner and Mason plum Lee, so they'd be left with
36:26
Speaker 1: pretty much just PJ. Hall and Salon as their two
36:28
Speaker 1: options at center. Salon is not even really a true center,
36:32
Speaker 1: He's kind of more of a wing that they've been
36:34
Speaker 1: having to play behind some of these guys with all
36:36
Speaker 1: the injuries. Hornets are playing decent ball right now, eleventh
36:41
Speaker 1: ranked offense over the last two weeks, but they are
36:43
Speaker 1: bottom four defensively, so I think this game does have
36:46
Speaker 1: a little bit of upside as well. From a scoring perspective,
36:49
Speaker 1: Bucks have been pretty middle of the pack in nearly
36:52
Speaker 1: every category of the season, but a little bit more
36:54
Speaker 1: of a three point funnel, so there are some guys
36:57
Speaker 1: that match up decently on the Charlotte side. I don't
37:00
Speaker 1: think when you spend too much time on this game,
37:02
Speaker 1: because these guys don't really match up well to some
37:05
Speaker 1: of the other plays that we've talked about. But I
37:06
Speaker 1: do think LaMelo is a bit interesting. The minutes are
37:09
Speaker 1: starting to climb up a little bit. I think he's
37:11
Speaker 1: rounding into good form, really high usage rate, taking a
37:13
Speaker 1: ton of shots, forty plus DK points in four of
37:16
Speaker 1: his last five games, and did get to thirty minutes
37:18
Speaker 1: the last game, So if those minutes continue trend up
37:21
Speaker 1: and he gets like thirty two minutes tonight, then he
37:24
Speaker 1: does have a lot of upside. Just those two added
37:27
Speaker 1: minutes make a huge difference for a guy like LaMelo,
37:29
Speaker 1: So I like him the most. On the Charlotte side,
37:33
Speaker 1: I like I think the matchup is really good for
37:34
Speaker 1: Miller and Konk Nipple as two of the main off
37:36
Speaker 1: ball scoring threats. But don't think that I liked him
37:40
Speaker 1: in comparison to some of these other guys. And then
37:42
Speaker 1: diabate same thing. He's a little bit more expensive now
37:46
Speaker 1: dealing with a wrist injury, so he's endurance wise, he'd
37:49
Speaker 1: probably be fine, Like if he can play, he's probably
37:51
Speaker 1: playing his normal minutes, but you do have some really
37:55
Speaker 1: really strong value plays at center tonight, So not really
37:57
Speaker 1: going out of my way there. And then from a
38:00
Speaker 1: hockey Jannis is getting healthier, kind of takes away some
38:03
Speaker 1: of the upside on KPJ and Ryan Rawlins. They're both
38:05
Speaker 1: playing a ton of minutes right now, so you could
38:08
Speaker 1: make the case for them, but I think that I
38:12
Speaker 1: probably would just go to Jannis if I'm looking to
38:14
Speaker 1: anything on the Bucks side, What do you think about
38:17
Speaker 1: this game?
38:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm more with you that it's you know, not
38:21
Speaker 3: as appealing as the other games. But I'm also with
38:23
Speaker 3: you and that I like LaMelo a lot here, great
38:26
Speaker 3: price point for an increasing minute LaMelo. So again, maybe
38:31
Speaker 3: he gets to thirty two here already rising past thirty,
38:35
Speaker 3: not going to be owned. I like his upside in
38:37
Speaker 3: this spot. It's hard to get there with guys like
38:40
Speaker 3: Abdia and potentially Brunson is just projecting much better. But
38:44
Speaker 3: that just only makes me like LaMelo more in tournaments.
38:47
Speaker 3: So he's high on my GPP radar here. I want
38:50
Speaker 3: some exposure there for sure. PJ Hall is the other guy.
38:54
Speaker 3: If Diabate's out, Hall is going to be a low
38:56
Speaker 3: owned four K center that I think has upside in
38:59
Speaker 3: this So LaMelo and PJ Hall. And then from the
39:04
Speaker 3: Milwaukee side, nothing really. I mean, Giannis, I guess you
39:07
Speaker 3: could stumble into because there might be just enough value
39:09
Speaker 3: where his raw score matters, but unlikely because he's expensive
39:14
Speaker 3: and not playing full full allotment of minutes. So probably
39:18
Speaker 3: good on everything on Milwaukee because Gianni's is back and
39:20
Speaker 3: has mucked everything up. And then from Charlotte LaMelo and
39:24
Speaker 3: potentially PJ Hall and then to the other side of it. Yeah,
39:27
Speaker 3: if Diabante's and I think he's fine, but you know,
39:32
Speaker 3: not going to be a priority for me over those
39:34
Speaker 3: other cheap centers we talked about earlier, which PJ Hall
39:37
Speaker 3: is not a priority for me over day Ron Sharp either,
39:39
Speaker 3: but at utility he might be. So yeah, I think
39:43
Speaker 3: this game is a game where I'm cool with getting
39:45
Speaker 3: a little bit of exposure, but I'm also cool if
39:47
Speaker 3: I don't have anything from it, and you know, in
39:49
Speaker 3: any given lineup.
39:52
Speaker 1: Yep, totally agree. There. We got through the whole Draftking slate,
39:56
Speaker 1: so we'll spend a few minutes talking through fandle. I'll
39:59
Speaker 1: just note that I don't think either of us played
40:01
Speaker 1: much on FanDuel, so this will just kind of be
40:03
Speaker 1: looking at projections. But for me, I don't see much
40:07
Speaker 1: in this Sacramento and Phoenix game that I really want
40:10
Speaker 1: to be prioritizing. I think the prices are fairly normal,
40:14
Speaker 1: and yeah, I don't really love anything particular in this game.
40:18
Speaker 1: I think if I were looking to backload some of
40:22
Speaker 1: my lamps for Fandel, it would be from the Golden
40:23
Speaker 1: State side I do think that Pat Spencer and Johnathan
40:26
Speaker 1: Kaminga are both going to play a good amount tonight
40:29
Speaker 1: with Jimmy Butler, I think that's an easy slot in
40:32
Speaker 1: for Kaminga, I think he starts, and then for Steph
40:35
Speaker 1: Curry being out, Pat Spencer three point a k really
40:38
Speaker 1: good permanent producer would be the guy that I'm looking
40:40
Speaker 1: to on the Golden State stuff. Okay, See, I think
40:44
Speaker 1: they're pretty easy to get away from, just fully healthy
40:47
Speaker 1: and a game that they should win very easily. I
40:50
Speaker 1: think that you're getting limited minutes on all these guys.
40:54
Speaker 1: That Memphis and Lakers game looks pretty good though, that
40:56
Speaker 1: would be the one I'd be looking to get a
40:58
Speaker 1: piece or two of No Austin Reeves, Luca and Lebron
41:01
Speaker 1: very very strong options. And then John Rant really like
41:04
Speaker 1: playing against playing Lakers with opposing guards. He's been playing
41:09
Speaker 1: a ton of minutes lately or not lately, but the
41:11
Speaker 1: minutes our trending up thirty four against Philly in the
41:14
Speaker 1: overtime game was extremely efficient getting to the basket, So
41:17
Speaker 1: I think that he's kind of it looks like Jaws
41:20
Speaker 1: close to full, so I like him. You have any
41:23
Speaker 1: thoughts on the fandel Slate.
41:26
Speaker 3: Not really. The only thing I'll add is that, like, yeah,
41:30
Speaker 3: I think to your golden State point, like Spencer and
41:33
Speaker 3: Kaminga are easy guys to just play, but at some
41:38
Speaker 3: point like you can't just play all the value and
41:41
Speaker 3: we still have Brooklyn over there too, So very messy,
41:45
Speaker 3: fandal Slate, because we also have this golden state spot.
41:47
Speaker 3: I'm with you on like the Memphis Lakers game as
41:50
Speaker 3: being the most appealing of these last three. John looked really,
41:55
Speaker 3: really good in the second half of his last game too,
41:57
Speaker 3: so I'm with that call he's getting cheaper. So yeah,
42:00
Speaker 3: I think Joh looks like one of the overall best
42:03
Speaker 3: plays from this entire board of late games. Certainly pairing
42:07
Speaker 3: him with Luca makes a lot of sense and hoping
42:09
Speaker 3: for a competitive game there.
42:11
Speaker 1: Yep, let me ask you one more question. Since we
42:13
Speaker 1: got through this pretty quickly, I do see some people
42:16
Speaker 1: asking about bets. I'll post them in the in the
42:19
Speaker 1: discord that been hitting too much, too valuable to give
42:22
Speaker 1: out for free, so I gotta gotta keep that behind
42:24
Speaker 1: the paywall. Yeah, so, if if Kat does get ruled out,
42:28
Speaker 1: how would you be ranking the Denny versus Jamal versus Brunston.
42:34
Speaker 1: I feel like Jamal is probably last for you there,
42:36
Speaker 1: So basically between Denny and Brunson, how would you be
42:39
Speaker 1: prioritizing those two guys.
42:43
Speaker 3: Honestly, it's really really close with Towns out, I'm gonna
42:48
Speaker 3: have to give it a slight lean to Brunson in
42:50
Speaker 3: this spot at a little bit of a cheaper price point,
42:55
Speaker 3: but I don't have strong conviction there, Like I think
42:58
Speaker 3: Denny's also in a really good spot. I just think
43:01
Speaker 3: I guess it's close enough as it is right now,
43:04
Speaker 3: where Like, if Towns is in, I prefer Denny, but
43:07
Speaker 3: the pendulum swings enough if Towns is out where I
43:10
Speaker 3: prefer Brunson. Still like both a lot, though, how do
43:12
Speaker 3: you see it?
43:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I have it as Denny over Brunson regardless. Okay, Yeah,
43:19
Speaker 1: And just the reason being, I think that it's easier
43:22
Speaker 1: for Danny to pile up fantasy points with the peripheral stats,
43:25
Speaker 1: whereas I mean, Brunson could definitely get there with like
43:28
Speaker 1: a with the assist, but he doesn't really add too
43:30
Speaker 1: much rebounding and you probably will need thirty fives or
43:35
Speaker 1: forty real points out of him, which he obviously can do,
43:38
Speaker 1: but he does have Dyson Daniels on the other side,
43:40
Speaker 1: whereas Danny's going against h Bryce McGowan's and whoever else
43:45
Speaker 1: they're gonna be putting in.
43:45
Speaker 3: And I'll say this also, if you ask me, like,
43:48
Speaker 3: assuming Towns is out, which one I thought had a
43:51
Speaker 3: better chance of getting like fifty on the dot fantasy points,
43:54
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say Brunson. If you asked me who I
43:56
Speaker 3: thought could get sixty plus, I'll say Denny.
43:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. So you're kind of paying for
44:02
Speaker 1: a little bit more of of the floor for Brunston.
44:04
Speaker 1: I definitely agree with you there. And then last one
44:08
Speaker 1: between the power forwards, I know these guys are all
44:11
Speaker 1: kind of teared up differently, but I'm not gonna put
44:14
Speaker 1: Giannis in there because I don't think that he's gonna
44:15
Speaker 1: project too great compared to these other guys. But Jalen Johnson,
44:19
Speaker 1: Paulo and Zion, how do you rank those three guys
44:22
Speaker 1: pretty much one k separating all these guys.
44:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Mobley's right there too, honestly in the group
44:28
Speaker 3: as well. I'm gonna put Zion first just at that
44:31
Speaker 3: price point, I think points per dollarwise, he's gonna project
44:35
Speaker 3: the best. I'm gonna go Jalen Johnson second, just because
44:40
Speaker 3: of the raw points. I'll go uh, I'll go Paolo third,
44:47
Speaker 3: and MOBILEI fourth. Big reason there is I just don't
44:49
Speaker 3: think salary matters that much on this slate, and Mobley's
44:52
Speaker 3: a good play, but he still is a little bit limited,
44:55
Speaker 3: so this might not be the slate for Mobiley. Honestly,
44:58
Speaker 3: thinking about it out.
44:59
Speaker 1: Loud, Yeah, I have that ranked the exact same way.
45:01
Speaker 1: I think Zion is the pretty clear number one option
45:04
Speaker 1: at power forward tonight, at least from a spend ups
45:06
Speaker 1: I even, I mean, I might even consider him a
45:08
Speaker 1: better point for dollar player than like the Noah Clowney
45:12
Speaker 1: and Danny Wolf.
45:13
Speaker 3: He's way too cheap.
45:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, seven point five ks is I would probably be
45:17
Speaker 1: playing him even if they were fully healthy in this matchup.
45:20
Speaker 3: I think he fully healthy in this matchup. He was
45:22
Speaker 3: projecting as like one of the better point for dour
45:24
Speaker 3: plays like in this spot. Now he should be nine
45:28
Speaker 3: k plus, so you're getting just a huge discount on him.
45:31
Speaker 3: Doesn't mean it's guaranty to work out, but yeah, nbadfs.
45:34
Speaker 3: You just kind of have to play guys like that.
45:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, opportunity is going to be there for sure for
45:38
Speaker 1: Zion tonight. All right, that's going to do it. Matt.
45:41
Speaker 1: Always great talking to you. Hope that you're feeling a
45:43
Speaker 1: little bit better, Hope that we're able to get your
45:45
Speaker 1: mind off of things for a little bit. And hopefully,
45:47
Speaker 1: if not one of us, one of our members or
45:50
Speaker 1: people watching the show tonight, have a good night tonight.
45:52
Speaker 1: But any closing thoughts, No man.
45:55
Speaker 3: Really happy to be back scratching the edge, talking some
45:58
Speaker 3: hoops of you oop and missing this for the past
45:59
Speaker 3: couple weeks. Happy to be healthy enough to do it.
46:02
Speaker 3: So if I can leave all you guys with one thing,
46:04
Speaker 3: just appreciate the things that are important in life, and
46:08
Speaker 3: health is certainly one of those things.
46:11
Speaker 1: Absolutely could not agree more with you there, JP Baz
46:14
Speaker 1: will get you scared away in the discord. We'll post
46:16
Speaker 1: the bets in there. But ye have some scheduling notes
46:18
Speaker 1: for basically the rest of the season. Now that NFL
46:21
Speaker 1: is on the last week of regular season, that we
46:24
Speaker 1: won't really have a lot of those mid day or
46:26
Speaker 1: midweek slates. I think we have one more Monday game
46:30
Speaker 1: after Actually I don't think there's a Monday game this week,
46:33
Speaker 1: but playoffs. There will be one Monday slate, so we'll
46:36
Speaker 1: be doing five days of shows for NBA moving forward
46:39
Speaker 1: until basically the rest of the season, which I'm excited about.
46:42
Speaker 1: But yeah, we'll get the schedule posted. But you can
46:45
Speaker 1: expect to see a lot of myself, a lot of
46:48
Speaker 1: Matt Title on him back every single week. So excited
46:52
Speaker 1: about that. Excited for the rest of the season. And yeah,
46:54
Speaker 1: good luck tonight everyone will be in discord talking through
46:57
Speaker 1: everything injury news related as we get closer to Locke.
47:00
Speaker 1: But good luck.
47:00
Speaker 4: Everyone has sets.
47:49
Speaker 2: Step, the lot and the sprite, not when the sect
48:06
Speaker 2: the left, the spike