Latest / Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation / NBA DFS Process | DraftKings & FanDuel Picks, Plays & Slate Breakdown | Tuesday, 01/20/26
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- 0:04Speaker 1: Fall. System's going clear the lift.
- 0:07Speaker 2: On what's going on? Everybody Happy Tuesday with my man
- 0:39Speaker 2: Rio talking some hoops. You got seven games on love
- 0:43Speaker 2: to see that. I think the last like three or
- 0:44Speaker 2: four shows have done. I've been four maybe five games,
- 0:48Speaker 2: so seven games, you do see, it's three hours in
- 0:51Speaker 2: between the first game and the last game. One game
- 0:53Speaker 2: on an island at seven eastern, then you get an
- 0:56Speaker 2: hour window, two games then at not or at eight eastern,
- 1:00Speaker 2: one game at nine eastern, three games at ten eastern.
- 1:03Speaker 2: So yeah, if you are playing, obviously make sure to
- 1:05Speaker 2: be around for those lock times. Some injury news, but
- 1:09Speaker 2: on a normal seven game slate, I guess in January,
- 1:12Speaker 2: I think it's pretty light. But we do have the
- 1:14Speaker 2: Warriors Jimmy Butler towards ACL sad news there there on
- 1:18Speaker 2: the slate, so I think they're gonna get a little
- 1:20Speaker 2: bit of ownership. But how are we doing today, Rio,
- 1:22Speaker 2: and are you excited for the slate? Any thoughts about it?
- 1:25Speaker 3: Yeah, very excited for the slate. I had to pull
- 1:28Speaker 3: some strings at DraftKings and make sure that they got
- 1:30Speaker 3: some of these bigger slates going now, but yeah, I'm excited, excited.
- 1:34Speaker 3: I like these full day of slates or full day
- 1:37Speaker 3: of games versus those smaller slates that cut off after
- 1:40Speaker 3: like one hour.
- 1:40Speaker 1: Just I think there's a little bit more edge.
- 1:42Speaker 3: When it comes to late swapping when you have all
- 1:45Speaker 3: the later games on the slate as well. So I'm
- 1:47Speaker 3: excited about that. But yeah, a lot of pretty fun
- 1:51Speaker 3: basketball games yesterday, good weekend of football. Watched a little
- 1:55Speaker 3: bit of the National Championship game. Shout out to Indiana
- 1:58Speaker 3: was a fun one. But yeah, I'm excited to talk
- 2:00Speaker 3: through this with you, and you know, what are your
- 2:02Speaker 3: thoughts on these big type, big slates like this?
- 2:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it. We were talking a little pre
- 2:07Speaker 2: show at the end of the day, like we're we're
- 2:09Speaker 2: going to be playing NBA regardless if all the games
- 2:12Speaker 2: locked within an hour, if they go all night. I
- 2:14Speaker 2: think the more games there are, the more edge there
- 2:17Speaker 2: is on average. But I don't think there's really any
- 2:19Speaker 2: arguing the more late swap times there are and the
- 2:23Speaker 2: longer like they go, the more edge there is. That way,
- 2:26Speaker 2: I mean, just for the simple fact of like planning
- 2:29Speaker 2: on certain slates. I don't know necessarily today's the slate
- 2:32Speaker 2: we're talking, but like when you have late Q tags
- 2:34Speaker 2: like if there was like just imagine Jokich and Murray
- 2:37Speaker 2: and Gordon and stuff, and they were all in this
- 2:39Speaker 2: late game they're all questionable or something. You have four
- 2:42Speaker 2: games that lock prior to that last lock time and
- 2:45Speaker 2: that you might not get news until that, Like do
- 2:48Speaker 2: you want to building sets and have half your teams
- 2:51Speaker 2: planning like these guys are out, or what do you
- 2:53Speaker 2: want to do that way? There's just a lot more
- 2:55Speaker 2: I think thought that has to go into it, and
- 2:57Speaker 2: it's really hard for M and me, Like it's a
- 2:59Speaker 2: lot easy to dictate it doing single entry three max
- 3:02Speaker 2: stuff if then scenarios, but yeah, we're big mm stuff
- 3:07Speaker 2: Like it's there's a lot of skill involved and it's
- 3:09Speaker 2: a little harder. But I like that nowadays. I mean
- 3:12Speaker 2: the easy, just cut and dry, when everyone's on the
- 3:14Speaker 2: same stuff, three games late, no injury news, it's it's
- 3:17Speaker 2: harder to get like that big of an edge in
- 3:19Speaker 2: my opinion, Any thoughts on.
- 3:20Speaker 1: That, Yeah, I agree.
- 3:22Speaker 3: I mean I think that there is a little bit
- 3:23Speaker 3: of that late swap stuff tonight because we did get
- 3:26Speaker 3: a bunch of Golden State Warriors q tex before hopping
- 3:29Speaker 3: on here. I don't know if you were able to
- 3:30Speaker 3: see that, but like they're all pretty big ones too,
- 3:32Speaker 3: and that would thin things out.
- 3:34Speaker 1: I think that would.
- 3:34Speaker 3: Definitely open up the best value plays on the slates.
- 3:37Speaker 3: I'm I don't know if I necessarily would be building
- 3:40Speaker 3: in sets personally, just because there's a ton of work
- 3:43Speaker 3: that would go into involved into doing that, but definitely
- 3:46Speaker 3: going to be limiting how much I have early because
- 3:50Speaker 3: I think that you could honestly make the case to
- 3:52Speaker 3: fade the first three games. There might be some good
- 3:55Speaker 3: value that opens up in the Philly stuff depending on
- 3:57Speaker 3: the Paul George news and then Mark Williams as well
- 4:00Speaker 3: for the Suns, but I don't think that there's gonna
- 4:03Speaker 3: be a ton of just great value early on. Then
- 4:06Speaker 3: you also have the Jazz on the slate. They're capable
- 4:08Speaker 3: of doing some weird stuff, so it'd be it'd be
- 4:11Speaker 3: smart to I think backload a little bit tonight.
- 4:13Speaker 2: Yeah, I will definitely admit I was eating my Chipotle
- 4:16Speaker 2: on the way back from the gym. I miss that.
- 4:18Speaker 2: So Draymond questionable, No, Horford Gui, Santo's questionable, Will Riker questionable,
- 4:24Speaker 2: and they're obviously already without Jimmy from yesterday. So yeah,
- 4:27Speaker 2: I take that back a little bit.
- 4:29Speaker 3: It's I think you got Will rikerd and Will Richard
- 4:33Speaker 3: mixed up. Will Record is the kicker?
- 4:35Speaker 2: Will Record is the kicker still a football loader?
- 4:38Speaker 1: Oh?
- 4:38Speaker 2: Man? Yeah, I mean I got it. We got to
- 4:40Speaker 2: show Friday and then we got the Super Bowl, so
- 4:43Speaker 2: I will admit any time football. And MMA's back too.
- 4:47Speaker 2: So I've already started diving into the sleigh plane and stuff,
- 4:49Speaker 2: so I will admit basketball. Not the back burner. I
- 4:52Speaker 2: play it every day, but the in depth knowledge, I
- 4:54Speaker 2: mean rio levels and levels and levels above me. So
- 4:57Speaker 2: I'll just drive the ship and host it and then
- 5:00Speaker 2: kind of just add in more game theory stuff like that.
- 5:03Speaker 2: I mean, I know hoops and players, but by no
- 5:05Speaker 2: means if I've been watching nearly as much as I
- 5:08Speaker 2: have in the past, life hits you, man, Life hits
- 5:10Speaker 2: you fast. Any other broad slide. Should we go game
- 5:14Speaker 2: by game.
- 5:14Speaker 3: And hit the first one of the night on the island? Yeah,
- 5:17Speaker 3: I think I think we're ready to jump right in.
- 5:19Speaker 2: Well, I actually I'm glad I said that because they
- 5:21Speaker 2: remembered I didn't say hi to people in chat, so
- 5:23Speaker 2: let me do that. Then we'll jump into the first game.
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- 6:53Speaker 2: First game of the night again on an Island at
- 6:55Speaker 2: seven Eastern Phoenix Suns and the Philadelphia seventy six Ers
- 6:59Speaker 2: one half point favorite are the Sons two twenty two
- 7:01Speaker 2: and a half total in this one. Injuries on the
- 7:03Speaker 2: Phoenix side. Mark Williams is questionable for Philly. We got
- 7:08Speaker 2: news and Beid is out. Pg's questionable. So both of
- 7:11Speaker 2: them were questionable yesterday and Beid played Paul George. Didn't
- 7:15Speaker 2: they already came back or today and said and beats out.
- 7:19Speaker 2: PG still questionable just based on what feels normal as
- 7:24Speaker 2: PG will play today it's a back to back and
- 7:27Speaker 2: that they were going to go opposite. Do you have
- 7:29Speaker 2: the same take on that though obviously we will get
- 7:31Speaker 2: the news before lock and I think Mark william News
- 7:34Speaker 2: is actually pretty interesting on this late as well, So, yeah,
- 7:37Speaker 2: what do you see in this first game.
- 7:39Speaker 3: I don't have the same opinion as a lot of
- 7:41Speaker 3: people that I've heard about the Paul George stuff, like
- 7:43Speaker 3: thinking it was just maintenance, say yesterday, played today, And
- 7:47Speaker 3: I think a lot of the reason is because he
- 7:49Speaker 3: had that knee injury, Like it was basically just knee
- 7:52Speaker 3: stiffness a couple weeks ago, maybe like a little bit
- 7:55Speaker 3: more than a week ago. Minutes have been really managed.
- 7:58Speaker 3: I feel like he's actually injured and just I don't know,
- 8:02Speaker 3: like people kind of don't see it the same way.
- 8:05Speaker 3: So I guess kind of diving into like him as
- 8:07Speaker 3: a DFS option tonight, I feel pretty confident that I
- 8:10Speaker 3: won't be playing a lot of him. I see him
- 8:11Speaker 3: getting a good amount of ownership in this game, probably
- 8:14Speaker 3: in large part just due to the position usually being
- 8:17Speaker 3: fairly weak and his price is okay. But I don't
- 8:20Speaker 3: think he's going to be returning and playing like thirty
- 8:22Speaker 3: three minutes right off the bat. I feel like if
- 8:24Speaker 3: he's playing, probably manage like twenty eight to thirty. But
- 8:28Speaker 3: the Sun side they're not really a team that I
- 8:31Speaker 3: love to attack. Just game environment wise, they kind of
- 8:33Speaker 3: slow things down. They've been playing really good defense all
- 8:36Speaker 3: season long, so there's no really huge areas to attack
- 8:40Speaker 3: or big holes in their their defense. But you can
- 8:44Speaker 3: always make the case for tires Maxie. I think that
- 8:47Speaker 3: nine point a k good price site for him not
- 8:49Speaker 3: getting a crazy amount of ownership you do to you know,
- 8:53Speaker 3: he's got to compete with guys like Harden and Luka
- 8:55Speaker 3: Doncinch a little bit later tonight, and Steph Curry as well.
- 8:59Speaker 3: But I mean he's obviously going to see a pretty
- 9:01Speaker 3: big uptick in usage and point per minuted production. Did
- 9:04Speaker 3: play forty minutes last night. He's not a guy that's
- 9:07Speaker 3: going to be managed on back to backs, but I
- 9:10Speaker 3: think if the game is close.
- 9:11Speaker 1: He's probably playing full. But they might try to.
- 9:14Speaker 3: Get him at like thirty eight, which is still totally
- 9:17Speaker 3: fine for a guy like Tyres. Maxi had an eight
- 9:19Speaker 3: steals last game, nine stocks in totals. It was a
- 9:21Speaker 3: really really good game for him last night defensively, but
- 9:25Speaker 3: gonna be guarded by Dylan Brooks to night. A little
- 9:26Speaker 3: bit of a different matchup, but the Suns are really
- 9:31Speaker 3: good at pick and roll defenses. Here, so it's kind
- 9:33Speaker 3: of kind of a below average matchup for Maxie. I
- 9:35Speaker 3: don't think that I'm gonna be going overboard with him
- 9:37Speaker 3: as a play at tonight, but I do do think
- 9:39Speaker 3: he's interesting. I kind of have the same sentiment for
- 9:42Speaker 3: Vija Edgecomb. I feel like he's a guy that I
- 9:44Speaker 3: want to play. The fantasy point mint of production is not.
- 9:47Speaker 1: Great this year.
- 9:48Speaker 3: When you take off Embiid or even Paul George, he's
- 9:51Speaker 3: kind of like sub one. But we've seen him capable
- 9:54Speaker 3: of playing forty plus minutes and he's been negatively impacted
- 9:58Speaker 3: a lot by EMBID getting healthier. Nick Nurse even talked
- 10:00Speaker 3: about it, just when you have Embiid and Maxie out there,
- 10:04Speaker 3: guys like VJ and Uber and Paul George are going
- 10:06Speaker 3: to play third, fourth, fifth fiddle to these guys. So
- 10:09Speaker 3: I think with Embiid out, Paul George not healthy, there's
- 10:12Speaker 3: a chance at Edgecombe is the number two option in
- 10:14Speaker 3: offense now, So I think that's pretty interesting. And then
- 10:17Speaker 3: if George were to miss, would expect Kelly Oubrey back
- 10:19Speaker 3: in the starting Lineupiece off the injury report, so that's
- 10:21Speaker 3: good he's getting healthier, And then we do have to
- 10:23Speaker 3: talk through the starting the starting center tonight. The last
- 10:28Speaker 3: time embiid missed it was Drummond, but I think that
- 10:31Speaker 3: they just kind of like Bona a little bit more.
- 10:34Speaker 3: He played thirty three minutes. I believe the last time
- 10:37Speaker 3: Embid missed off the bench Drumm and only played twenty
- 10:40Speaker 3: They do not overlap at all. That game was overtime.
- 10:42Speaker 3: So I would definitely be said to max one of
- 10:44Speaker 3: those two guys if you're considering them. I think if
- 10:47Speaker 3: Bona plays that be he would be interesting because he's
- 10:52Speaker 3: got the upside from a minute standpoint to play thirty
- 10:54Speaker 3: plus regulation minutes and at four K would be a
- 10:57Speaker 3: pretty useful, useful value right off the bat. So I
- 11:00Speaker 3: definitely prefer Bona just in a vacuum over Drumm and regardless,
- 11:04Speaker 3: but I think that the availability of Mark Williams kind
- 11:07Speaker 3: of matters a little bit more. It feels like Drummond
- 11:10Speaker 3: is a guy that matches up better from a size
- 11:11Speaker 3: perspective to Mark Williams. And if it's oh, so you
- 11:15Speaker 3: Goadaro out there starting center, that feels more like a
- 11:17Speaker 3: bonus spot, like those are two kind of smaller like
- 11:21Speaker 3: from a weight standpoint, centers that are more athletic. I
- 11:24Speaker 3: think that they would match up pretty good together. So
- 11:26Speaker 3: that's kind of how I'm viewing that. But I still
- 11:28Speaker 3: prefer Bona regardless sunside.
- 11:30Speaker 2: So hold on, even if Bona doesn't start your fine
- 11:33Speaker 2: plugging him in first game of that's late, You're totally good.
- 11:36Speaker 2: Just just play at him and moving on.
- 11:39Speaker 1: It's not necessarily that I would love him as value.
- 11:41Speaker 3: It's just I would play him over Drummond if I
- 11:43Speaker 3: was going to play one of the centers.
- 11:45Speaker 2: Okay, and then I mean I was also gonna say
- 11:47Speaker 2: Edge Combs dunk Man was absolutely insane.
- 11:49Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he said he doesn't want to go be
- 11:52Speaker 3: in the dunk contest, which I feel like you could
- 11:54Speaker 3: get a I don't know a lot of just a
- 11:57Speaker 3: lot of like notoriety and it's McClung.
- 11:59Speaker 2: Bones at it again. If people just not want to
- 12:02Speaker 2: smoke or I mean, studs have never wanted to do it,
- 12:04Speaker 2: it seems granted. I'm saying studs like the Lebron stuff.
- 12:07Speaker 2: You're a rookie like edgecomb you should, But is McClung
- 12:10Speaker 2: doing it? Are people scared or what?
- 12:12Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 12:12Speaker 3: I haven't really seen it yet they're just kind of
- 12:14Speaker 3: like now all the All Star talk and like like
- 12:17Speaker 3: three point dunk contest festivites are just kind of heating
- 12:20Speaker 3: up now, So I don't really know what. I don't
- 12:22Speaker 3: even know if they've said who's going to be in
- 12:24Speaker 3: it or out. I think we're still like a month away,
- 12:26Speaker 3: probably from the UL Star break, so we'll see.
- 12:28Speaker 1: But he should do it, and he's got crazy he's crazy.
- 12:30Speaker 3: Athletic, and I think you would do well in there,
- 12:32Speaker 3: but it's probably just gonna be McClung.
- 12:33Speaker 1: I don't even is mcclunk. Is he on a team
- 12:35Speaker 1: right now?
- 12:37Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't even sure about that answer. I feel
- 12:40Speaker 2: like if he is on some team, then he's gonna
- 12:42Speaker 2: be on it, but I I truly don't know. Let's
- 12:44Speaker 2: see if he's on a G League team back McClung team,
- 12:49Speaker 2: the Windy City Bowl, Chicago Bulls, all right, so.
- 12:51Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be cool.
- 12:53Speaker 3: Then you could bring up some props Michael Jordan Jersey
- 12:56Speaker 3: try to do a little free throw.
- 12:57Speaker 1: Line dunk or something. Yeah, I'll see. I don't know.
- 13:00Speaker 1: It's it obviously doesn't really matter that much. I don't
- 13:03Speaker 1: think that.
- 13:04Speaker 2: I also saw you brought on Michael Jordan the Grayson
- 13:08Speaker 2: Allen like layup? Did you see that that? People like
- 13:12Speaker 2: it was like very similar to MJ's like iconic layup,
- 13:16Speaker 2: like you're on the other side of the rim and
- 13:18Speaker 2: like you had double pump pretty much and just like
- 13:22Speaker 2: this something just quoting like this is what the old
- 13:24Speaker 2: has be talking about MJ and all this stuff, and
- 13:26Speaker 2: Grayson did something so similar. Yeah, but I got nothing
- 13:29Speaker 2: against him. I didn't watch him and all that, so
- 13:32Speaker 2: don't be yelling at me, guys. But it was really
- 13:34Speaker 2: funny to see that tweet.
- 13:38Speaker 3: Yeah, going over to the Sun's side, I don't even
- 13:40Speaker 3: think that the Mark Williams news does enough for me
- 13:42Speaker 3: to want to get to these guys like Igudaro is
- 13:44Speaker 3: gonna project pretty well just because he's really cheap and
- 13:48Speaker 3: probably playing i don't know, twenty five twenty six minutes,
- 13:50Speaker 3: which is good for three point three k, but another
- 13:53Speaker 3: guy that is just a very low per minute producer.
- 13:56Speaker 3: It is a good matchup, but I think it's a
- 13:58Speaker 3: little bit, honestly worse than it bad. Is not in
- 14:00Speaker 3: there at least from like a defensive standpoint for Philly.
- 14:03Speaker 3: I think they they're all around just a better defense
- 14:05Speaker 3: when embat is off the court. I don't really have
- 14:07Speaker 3: the numbers to back that up, but like MB doesn't
- 14:10Speaker 3: really care much about defense these days. He's focused on
- 14:13Speaker 3: giving all his energy and offense. But the Sixers rim
- 14:16Speaker 3: defense has been pretty bad this year. But yeah, getting
- 14:20Speaker 3: Jalen Green back just kind of muddies the water for
- 14:22Speaker 3: the sun some kind of max one phoenix and then
- 14:26Speaker 3: just hope that none of these guys really beat me
- 14:28Speaker 3: with is kind of fun viewing it.
- 14:30Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think we really need to spend too
- 14:32Speaker 2: much more time on this game. Again, it's on an island,
- 14:35Speaker 2: and there is some important injury news like this next
- 14:37Speaker 2: game on the Chicago side, So probably Max one of
- 14:41Speaker 2: this game is how i'd see it. These A lot
- 14:45Speaker 2: of these later games are much better and you have
- 14:47Speaker 2: flexibility if injury news breaks a certain way. Some of
- 14:51Speaker 2: the injury news on the Bull side, they're three and
- 14:53Speaker 2: a half point favorites over the Clippers two twenty five
- 14:55Speaker 2: and a half total, but Josh Giddy is questionable obviously,
- 14:58Speaker 2: that's very important. Patrick Willie also questionable. On the Clipper side,
- 15:02Speaker 2: No Kawhi, Cam Christie is questionable. No Kawhi means James
- 15:08Speaker 2: Harden will be one of the most popular plays on
- 15:10Speaker 2: the late definitely the most popular. Spend nine point nine
- 15:13Speaker 2: k just point guard. I will say point guard is
- 15:16Speaker 2: strong on this late though, So if you are making
- 15:18Speaker 2: a case to try and fade a Chalky hard and
- 15:21Speaker 2: even in a solid spot, I mean, yeah, point Guard's loaded,
- 15:24Speaker 2: there's some value down there. So yeah, talk about this game.
- 15:27Speaker 2: Then do you have any lean on Josh Giddy And
- 15:29Speaker 2: if he is out, what does that do to guys
- 15:31Speaker 2: like Kobe White, oochs guys like that?
- 15:35Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean if he returns tonight, he'd be ahead
- 15:38Speaker 3: of schedule, pretty severe hamstring strain that he had, and
- 15:41Speaker 3: this would be like a two week injury for him.
- 15:44Speaker 3: It's more like a three to four week things. I
- 15:46Speaker 3: would kind of think that he's on the probably on
- 15:50Speaker 3: the more doubtful side of things, So I would expect
- 15:52Speaker 3: the starting line that we've had before to remain the same.
- 15:54Speaker 3: That would definitely improve the outlook of guys like Vooch,
- 15:57Speaker 3: Kobe White finally got a going last game, Jaylen Smith
- 16:00Speaker 3: probably staying in the starting line, and then Trey Jones
- 16:02Speaker 3: back out there. I don't really think that would do
- 16:06Speaker 3: enough for me to want to get to the Chicago side.
- 16:10Speaker 3: I just think that these prices are all pretty appropriate.
- 16:13Speaker 3: I kind of have interest in Jalen Smith just because
- 16:15Speaker 3: he's playing so well and I don't he it's kind
- 16:19Speaker 3: of he's very surprising as an NBA player because he
- 16:22Speaker 3: plays it seems like he's just playing like a winning
- 16:25Speaker 3: type of basketball, which is funny to think. Like he's
- 16:27Speaker 3: kind of just always viewed as like a backup center.
- 16:31Speaker 3: But he's been playing really well for Chicago this season.
- 16:33Speaker 2: I mean DFS wise, he's always been a point per minute,
- 16:36Speaker 2: like anytime he's got any bit of role or in
- 16:38Speaker 2: the minutes. Felt sick here and there's injuries in front
- 16:41Speaker 2: of him like we've played him for a long time.
- 16:43Speaker 3: Yeah, he's always always been fun. Now he's actually just
- 16:46Speaker 3: playing like a meaningful brand of basketball. So it's good
- 16:49Speaker 3: to see. But yeah, I don't think that the Chicago
- 16:52Speaker 3: side much really stands out there. I think that these
- 16:56Speaker 3: teams are, like, I don't know, the Clippers are good
- 16:59Speaker 3: enough defensive leads to slow this game down, make it
- 17:01Speaker 3: not super great that any Chicago guys really needed. The
- 17:05Speaker 3: Clipper side is much interesting though, because the Bulls have
- 17:07Speaker 3: been kind of up and down all year long. Their
- 17:10Speaker 3: eighteenth in defense over the last two weeks and fifth
- 17:13Speaker 3: in offense, so they definitely could get some points up.
- 17:15Speaker 3: But the Clippers twelfth in defense eighth in offense over
- 17:18Speaker 3: the last two weeks, so definitely have a slight edge there.
- 17:23Speaker 3: I would say, let me circle back to the Bulls
- 17:25Speaker 3: really quick. I think the area that you would want
- 17:27Speaker 3: to attack the Clippers with is with bigs. They're the
- 17:31Speaker 3: fourth worst rebounding team in the league, also been kind
- 17:33Speaker 3: of turning down with their rim defense. Zubak has not
- 17:36Speaker 3: been as good as he was last year, and they
- 17:38Speaker 3: no Kawai obviously makes it a lot softer of a matchup.
- 17:41Speaker 3: They're also Clippers are also bottom six and turnover percentage,
- 17:44Speaker 3: so you could get a situation where guy like vooj
- 17:47Speaker 3: picks up a couple of steals, a couple offensive boards,
- 17:49Speaker 3: easy put backs, things like that, but again, nothing really
- 17:52Speaker 3: stands up for Chicago's probably a max one on that side,
- 17:55Speaker 3: maybe a little maybe max two if Giddy is out,
- 17:59Speaker 3: And then the the Clipper side, it's pretty clear that
- 18:02Speaker 3: you're gonna have a lot of interesting Kawhi and James Harden,
- 18:05Speaker 3: right now he's kind of gone back to like the
- 18:07Speaker 3: old Harden in some ways. He's a thirty four percent usage,
- 18:10Speaker 3: forty one percent usage in his last two games, massive
- 18:13Speaker 3: forty eight percent assist percentage, twenty one and a half
- 18:15Speaker 3: drives per game, ten point two minutes of touch time
- 18:18Speaker 3: per game, which is first in the NBA over the
- 18:20Speaker 3: last two games, and then sixteen potential assists per game,
- 18:23Speaker 3: so just a very very strong role. Price is very
- 18:26Speaker 3: good too. I think that's more of like an eleven K,
- 18:28Speaker 3: like a Luka type of role. So he's very very strong,
- 18:31Speaker 3: and I really have nothing, no holds spoke in him.
- 18:34Speaker 3: I think the matchup is fine too. Bowls are not
- 18:36Speaker 3: great against guards, a pretty good and pick and roll,
- 18:38Speaker 3: but overall he's just doing a lot of everything. So
- 18:40Speaker 3: he's kind of just a really good option tonight. I
- 18:44Speaker 3: want to like Zubak. The upside has not really been
- 18:47Speaker 3: there for him much at all this season, but it
- 18:50Speaker 3: is good knowing that he's capable of playing heavy minutes again,
- 18:53Speaker 3: got to thirty nine minutes in the overtime game against
- 18:55Speaker 3: Toronto two games ago, thirty minutes last game. They're starting
- 18:58Speaker 3: to overlap him in Brook Lopez, little bit as well,
- 19:01Speaker 3: And I actually think that this would be a good
- 19:02Speaker 3: spot to do that if Jaln Smith is in the
- 19:04Speaker 3: starting lineup, so I think that would actually help Zubac
- 19:07Speaker 3: get him some more true center minutes, even alongside of
- 19:11Speaker 3: guy brook Lopez, who's not going to take away any
- 19:13Speaker 3: rebounds from him, is a pretty good spot.
- 19:15Speaker 1: So I like that.
- 19:16Speaker 3: And then I think you have to have some interest
- 19:18Speaker 3: in Jordan Miller. He's just playing so much right now
- 19:20Speaker 3: and doing a lot of everything. He had a double
- 19:23Speaker 3: double three games ago against Washington thirty four minutes off
- 19:26Speaker 3: the bench, follow that up with forty six minutes in
- 19:29Speaker 3: the Toronto game, so he's capable of playing a ton
- 19:31Speaker 3: and then just twenty eight minutes against Washington, but filling
- 19:35Speaker 3: up the stat sheet a lot.
- 19:36Speaker 1: Has five stocks last game for the game before.
- 19:38Speaker 3: That, and like I said, the double double in the
- 19:41Speaker 3: game three games ago, I think you have to have
- 19:43Speaker 3: some interest in a guy like that.
- 19:44Speaker 1: So I like him.
- 19:46Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm really just focusing in on Harden and
- 19:48Speaker 3: then kind of a big tier drop down to Zubac
- 19:51Speaker 3: and Miller.
- 19:52Speaker 2: Is Cam Christy impactful for Jordan Miller? Is he going
- 19:56Speaker 2: to get a decent bomp in projection or some minutes
- 19:59Speaker 2: if he's out.
- 20:00Speaker 3: Minutes probably yeah, I mean Christie's been playing a good
- 20:03Speaker 3: bit off the bench.
- 20:04Speaker 2: Yeah, they got him for eighteen Sabersim like yeah without
- 20:08Speaker 2: Kawai already, uh gang green ass. Like my initial thought
- 20:12Speaker 2: was just no, it doesn't mean anything. But I mean
- 20:14Speaker 2: you're already talking about Jordan Miller, and that's why no one,
- 20:17Speaker 2: no one better in the business than our guy Rio,
- 20:20Speaker 2: like someone like me that's such a projection slave and
- 20:23Speaker 2: so many different sports, Like I'm not even looking at
- 20:26Speaker 2: these like four point three six guys, Like if they
- 20:28Speaker 2: trickle in on Sabersim on my team, sure, but like
- 20:32Speaker 2: you've nailed a lot of these plays, but you mentioning him,
- 20:36Speaker 2: like assuming that they're healthy. If there's no Chrissie, that
- 20:38Speaker 2: feels like Miller could be a could be a pretty
- 20:41Speaker 2: strong play. And I don't expect ownership to like pick
- 20:44Speaker 2: up because cam Christie's out. I mean I assume it's
- 20:46Speaker 2: probably five percent or less regardless. So do you think
- 20:49Speaker 2: it helps a little bit?
- 20:50Speaker 1: I think so.
- 20:51Speaker 3: But they also might just give those minutes to like
- 20:53Speaker 3: a ty Ty Washington he got in a few games ago.
- 20:56Speaker 1: It might be like a Kobe.
- 20:57Speaker 3: Brown deep, but they gonna run this squad. I they
- 21:01Speaker 3: go like nine deep most nights. But yeah, I was
- 21:04Speaker 3: it was random, Like I posted a screenshot and they
- 21:07Speaker 3: had like four guys in their lineup a few games
- 21:09Speaker 3: ago that just never even heard of or just haven't
- 21:12Speaker 3: really been playing a lot of MBIA minutes this season,
- 21:13Speaker 3: so they've been they've been running it pretty deep, but
- 21:16Speaker 3: I think that they will those minutes have to go somewhere,
- 21:18Speaker 3: like eighteen is is not nothing.
- 21:21Speaker 2: Here's your boy. Niederhauser did go for you and little neck.
- 21:25Speaker 2: I will say about Zubac though, like you kind of
- 21:28Speaker 2: went both ways. You started where you didn't really like it,
- 21:30Speaker 2: but then the possibility of overlapping. What I will say
- 21:34Speaker 2: is like he's going to be owned on both sites FanDuel,
- 21:36Speaker 2: especially like Center's Week on both sites. Some air people
- 21:40Speaker 2: just play Aaron Gordon at Center and call the day,
- 21:42Speaker 2: but it doesn't look like a spot where people are
- 21:44Speaker 2: gonna jam two centers very often. And I think Zubach
- 21:48Speaker 2: fits a lot of mid tier build So I know
- 21:51Speaker 2: you went back and forth like it could be fine,
- 21:53Speaker 2: but you didn't love it at ownership. If he is
- 21:55Speaker 2: going to be pretty chalky, and it stays looking like that,
- 21:58Speaker 2: I think for going somewhere else at center, just based
- 22:02Speaker 2: on what you said, But I don't really have much
- 22:04Speaker 2: more to add. I don't think I think the Chicago
- 22:06Speaker 2: side is pretty bad, like on the seven game slid,
- 22:09Speaker 2: I wouldn't want much there if Getty's in Max one,
- 22:12Speaker 2: if he's out, maybe Max two, but more than likely zero.
- 22:15Speaker 2: If Getty's in Max one. If he's out, more more
- 22:19Speaker 2: for more of teams than not for me. I'll I'll
- 22:22Speaker 2: go back to Zubak again.
- 22:24Speaker 3: Actually take back what I said about it being not
- 22:27Speaker 3: a great spot for him.
- 22:28Speaker 1: I should do like him a lot now.
- 22:31Speaker 3: The Bulls are the second worst pick and roll role
- 22:35Speaker 3: man team, so really bad against Biggs like that, I
- 22:37Speaker 3: think that it is a good spot to attack with him.
- 22:39Speaker 3: I mean, the Bulls have been just terrible at protecting
- 22:42Speaker 3: the paint their dead last room defense, so it is
- 22:44Speaker 3: a good spot. It just feels weird that he hasn't
- 22:47Speaker 3: like he's just playing differently this year compared to last year.
- 22:51Speaker 2: Yeah, I just know he's gonna be relatively chalky. Yeah, Fandel,
- 22:56Speaker 2: he'll probably be the most chalky center DraftKings will be
- 22:58Speaker 2: top two maybe, but ownership spreads out. I mean, chalking
- 23:03Speaker 2: NBA is usually chalk for a reason. So that's enough
- 23:06Speaker 2: talking about Avika Zubac. Next game on the slates Houston
- 23:09Speaker 2: Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs. You refresh Drafting Sportsbook
- 23:15Speaker 2: four and a half point favorites are the Rockets two
- 23:17Speaker 2: twenty one and a half total. No injuries on the
- 23:20Speaker 2: Spurs side for Houston No. Steven Adams. Tarry Easton is
- 23:23Speaker 2: questionable looking at ownership, I mean absolutely nothing outside of
- 23:28Speaker 2: Dylan Harper getting a little bit Wemby.
- 23:31Speaker 1: Ten K.
- 23:32Speaker 2: How many minutes are we get from Wemby? Is it
- 23:34Speaker 2: twenty eight point five? I mean the Wemby Ant game
- 23:37Speaker 2: was insane, Like Ant was just out of his fricking
- 23:39Speaker 2: mind and Wemby was answering a lot. So yeah, ten
- 23:43Speaker 2: K Wemby, can you get him as a three percent
- 23:46Speaker 2: owned contry and spend at center really nothing in this one?
- 23:50Speaker 1: No, Yeah, I definitely think you could.
- 23:52Speaker 3: I don't really think anything about his matchup in particular
- 23:55Speaker 3: stands out. It's just you're playing a guy that's just
- 23:59Speaker 3: got elite uh fantasy numbers, So I think you could
- 24:02Speaker 3: definitely get there. To him, it seems like he's getting
- 24:05Speaker 3: pretty close to being full. Like they're probably gonna in
- 24:08Speaker 3: the next week or two, assuming that he stays healthy, take.
- 24:11Speaker 1: Off whatever minutes limit that he's been on.
- 24:14Speaker 3: But it's been pretty frustrating because you'll play him and then,
- 24:17Speaker 3: like when he was like nine point five k, you're
- 24:19Speaker 3: playing him and then he just picks up a mid
- 24:21Speaker 3: game injury and loses like a full rotation.
- 24:24Speaker 2: So I think the game, Yeah, two fouwls hurts. Yeah,
- 24:28Speaker 2: then you're discrewed.
- 24:29Speaker 3: Yeah, he tried to take a charge from Yannis, which is, yeah,
- 24:32Speaker 3: you should not should not be doing that when you're
- 24:34Speaker 3: as big in skin as you are and as strong
- 24:36Speaker 3: as he is.
- 24:37Speaker 2: Also, I don't know if all this is a fate cut.
- 24:39Speaker 2: I call it bald, but yeah, he's true.
- 24:43Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I was gonna say there three and oh,
- 24:44Speaker 3: since he went bald, he's averaging like thirty two points
- 24:46Speaker 3: a game, so he's got some some special powers there. Yeah,
- 24:51Speaker 3: I think you definitely could. Like, it's just gonna be tough.
- 24:54Speaker 3: It's it's not a matter of like whether or not
- 24:57Speaker 3: he gets more minutes than usual, it's just if he
- 25:00Speaker 3: produces when he's out there.
- 25:02Speaker 2: I think it's worth taking a fly. I mean three percent,
- 25:04Speaker 2: like there's enough value. And again you're then you don't
- 25:07Speaker 2: play Harden, but you're playing so much value point guard,
- 25:10Speaker 2: you're just spending out at a position. Again, I don't
- 25:12Speaker 2: think it's too great at center, Like we talked about zoobox,
- 25:15Speaker 2: so you're just flipping the build. I think at ownership
- 25:18Speaker 2: it's it's something I would be interested in.
- 25:20Speaker 3: Yeah, it just seems like he's he's kind of taking
- 25:24Speaker 3: on more right now too.
- 25:25Speaker 1: I was looking at the usage numbers.
- 25:27Speaker 3: Obviously he's a really high usage guy, but the last
- 25:29Speaker 3: two games thirty eight and forty usage rate kind of
- 25:33Speaker 3: goes hand in hand with a huge uptick and field
- 25:35Speaker 3: goal attempts too, So I think that he's, like you said,
- 25:38Speaker 3: just worth taking a shot on.
- 25:39Speaker 1: For sure.
- 25:40Speaker 3: I kind of think that Fox and Castle are as well.
- 25:42Speaker 3: I think the best place to attack the Houston defense
- 25:45Speaker 3: is with guards. Matchup wise, it slightly leans Fox. The
- 25:49Speaker 3: pick and roll defense for Houston has been main issue there.
- 25:52Speaker 3: I think that he's kind of more the pick and
- 25:53Speaker 3: roll guy, whereas Castle is a guy that can fill
- 25:57Speaker 3: the stat sheets. I definitely have interested in both of
- 25:59Speaker 3: those guys, but it's gonna be a one on the
- 26:01Speaker 3: Spurs tonight.
- 26:01Speaker 1: For me.
- 26:02Speaker 3: I don't really even like Champagne getting a little bit
- 26:04Speaker 3: of ownership. Five point four K just not really great spot.
- 26:08Speaker 3: Houston's a pretty good three point defense, so I don't
- 26:11Speaker 3: really and they're really good at rebounding. Kind of the
- 26:13Speaker 3: two things that you want to look at from a
- 26:15Speaker 3: matchup perspective when you're considering champagnee Houston side. I think
- 26:19Speaker 3: it's kind of similar to I think I'd be a
- 26:20Speaker 3: max one. I do prefer Sanguna nine point six K,
- 26:23Speaker 3: just because has more outs to get there. He's done
- 26:26Speaker 3: pretty well in so thisoud be the eighth time that
- 26:29Speaker 3: Wemby and Senguna faced off.
- 26:31Speaker 1: He's top fifty DK.
- 26:32Speaker 3: Points three of those games, and one of the games
- 26:34Speaker 3: he had forty five points, forty five real points eighty
- 26:37Speaker 3: three DK points, but then in the remaining four games
- 26:40Speaker 3: he was held below forty DK points. The Spurs are
- 26:43Speaker 3: playing really good on defense right now. I feel like
- 26:46Speaker 3: he's probably probably a bad spend up, but still has
- 26:51Speaker 3: the ceiling within the range of outcomes. There's probably gonna
- 26:53Speaker 3: be better options from a point per dollar standpoint than saying.
- 26:58Speaker 2: Him or Wemby take Yeah, and they're both super low
- 27:02Speaker 2: on and I I struggle getting any of these rockets, man,
- 27:07Speaker 2: I mean this, it looks pretty pretty tough. I guess
- 27:09Speaker 2: it's tard Easton Q take do anything. It just makes
- 27:13Speaker 2: those singoons durants like a little better. I mean, I don't.
- 27:17Speaker 2: I don't think we're playing value on this, on this team,
- 27:20Speaker 2: on this slate, just with Tar Easton news.
- 27:23Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't think it really changes much.
- 27:25Speaker 3: You get him back in the starting lineup to take
- 27:26Speaker 3: out Josha Kogi, but I don't think.
- 27:28Speaker 1: That it's gonna change enough.
- 27:30Speaker 2: It seems like one of the worst games on the slate,
- 27:32Speaker 2: Like a great real life game. But for DFS wise,
- 27:36Speaker 2: you mentioned Castle Fox. I almost never played Fox anymore.
- 27:40Speaker 2: Castle's a hooper Wemby, that's all I got. No Dylan Harper,
- 27:48Speaker 2: I don't know, Like he's fine. I guess because he's cheap,
- 27:52Speaker 2: but there's still enough cheap. I mean, you're comparing him
- 27:54Speaker 2: to Moody Clayton, Like.
- 27:55Speaker 1: Those guys are way are way better in my opinion.
- 27:58Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree, Let's not waste any more time
- 28:01Speaker 2: on that game. Let's go to the matchup that everyone
- 28:04Speaker 2: loves to see. Rio's Utah Jazz on the calendar one
- 28:08Speaker 2: hundred and twenty seven and pied points for the Timbrels
- 28:11Speaker 2: in this one two thirty eight and a half total
- 28:13Speaker 2: thirteen to that point. Favorites are the t Wolves. No
- 28:16Speaker 2: injuries on the Minnesota side for Utah, no price sensiba,
- 28:20Speaker 2: Come on, what are they? Are they tanking already? Is
- 28:22Speaker 2: this a real illness? Him and Lori Mark and then
- 28:25Speaker 2: out with illness no Kevin Love as well. Yeah. I mean,
- 28:29Speaker 2: everyone loves playing the Jazz, but can the game stay close?
- 28:32Speaker 2: I think is the question most of the time, because
- 28:35Speaker 2: if it can, yeah, Aunt Randall, I mean, McDaniels, Dante,
- 28:40Speaker 2: you name it. But if it stays close, I assume
- 28:43Speaker 2: it's probably a good bit because of Kyante or Nurkic.
- 28:46Speaker 2: So you have a thought of if you are playing
- 28:48Speaker 2: a spend on Minnesota to play like a spend on
- 28:51Speaker 2: them and get a mini stack to hope it stays close.
- 28:53Speaker 2: Or are you not thinking like that?
- 28:55Speaker 1: No, Yeah, I definitely was thinking that. I think that.
- 28:59Speaker 3: I would it be forced like a one to one,
- 29:01Speaker 3: Like if you have Aunt, you have to have Nurkics
- 29:03Speaker 3: or Kiante. But if I had like two, for sure three,
- 29:07Speaker 3: if I'm playing three Minnesota guys, I would definitely want
- 29:10Speaker 3: one of the main Utah guys probably just it would
- 29:14Speaker 3: probably be Kiante or NRK as the two guys because
- 29:17Speaker 3: I think that in a close game, you're getting full
- 29:19Speaker 3: minutes from those guys and they're probably doing a majority
- 29:22Speaker 3: of the heavy lifting. I would say that it's actually
- 29:25Speaker 3: a decent spot for Kiante as well. The Wolves, as
- 29:27Speaker 3: good as they've been playing on defense, they are dead
- 29:31Speaker 3: last and pick and roll defense this season. Kiante has
- 29:33Speaker 3: had a very strong on ball roll all season long,
- 29:36Speaker 3: really good pick and roll scorers. I like him the
- 29:38Speaker 3: most on Utah, but I do think Nurkis has a
- 29:41Speaker 3: little bit of upset as well. Just been playing really good.
- 29:44Speaker 3: Had the two games off, I think in a close game,
- 29:47Speaker 3: probably see him above thirty again, filling up the stat sheets.
- 29:49Speaker 3: I think that he's in play for sure, but it
- 29:54Speaker 3: kind of cuts off pretty quickly there.
- 29:56Speaker 1: I was a little surprised to.
- 29:59Speaker 3: See wats and getting so much ownership, but he's been
- 30:02Speaker 3: playing a lot, playing well, very cheap.
- 30:07Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I'm indifferent there, Like I.
- 30:10Speaker 2: Mean just you saying that alone and seeing his ownership
- 30:12Speaker 2: right now, like that's enough to maybe be a little underweight.
- 30:16Speaker 2: He's gonna be one of the more chalky options. I
- 30:18Speaker 2: think having shooting guard eligibility is nice too.
- 30:21Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think people.
- 30:23Speaker 3: Are gonna look at like the recent run of minutes
- 30:26Speaker 3: for him and say that that's going to continue. But
- 30:28Speaker 3: we've seen will Hardly do some weird things. It could
- 30:30Speaker 3: all shift back to Collier's favor. I do think sense
- 30:33Speaker 3: of all being out it has to help some of
- 30:36Speaker 3: these guys. I feel like Clayton is a guy that
- 30:38Speaker 3: would probably benefit the most from a playing time perspective.
- 30:43Speaker 3: It's it's kind of like the perfect storm for him
- 30:45Speaker 3: because he is a guy that's gonna play like he's
- 30:47Speaker 3: gamescript prood. He's gonna play regular rotation minutes and then
- 30:50Speaker 3: is very almost a lot to be out there for
- 30:53Speaker 3: garbage time if the game does get blown out. So
- 30:55Speaker 3: I think that I don't know, like it's it's tough
- 30:57Speaker 3: to argue against that when you consider that role. But
- 31:01Speaker 3: seeing that much ownership is at a little worrisome for Minnesota,
- 31:06Speaker 3: and it's kind of on like a tier of his own.
- 31:08Speaker 3: For me, I just really really love the matchup every
- 31:11Speaker 3: time he's playing against Utah. I think I've played him
- 31:14Speaker 3: every single time, like the last two seasons that he's
- 31:16Speaker 3: played Utah.
- 31:17Speaker 1: He crushes that matchup.
- 31:19Speaker 3: This year he went for fifty and like twenty seven
- 31:21Speaker 3: to twenty eight minutes, and then the game after that
- 31:23Speaker 3: fifty five and a half DK points. I think he's
- 31:26Speaker 3: averaging over like five threes per game against Utah over
- 31:29Speaker 3: the last three seasons. The Jazz are one of the
- 31:32Speaker 3: worst three point defenses, one of the worst transition defenses.
- 31:35Speaker 3: They have no good enough on ball defenders to really
- 31:38Speaker 3: slow him down. Cody Williams is playing a little bit better,
- 31:40Speaker 3: but still like and is just on another planet. So
- 31:44Speaker 3: I think I love Anton. I I love him as
- 31:45Speaker 3: a spend up nine point two K good price side
- 31:48Speaker 3: for him. Definitely prefer him to Randall, but Randall is
- 31:51Speaker 3: definitely worth looking at to. He went for exactly fifty
- 31:54Speaker 3: three DK points in both games versus Utah this year.
- 31:57Speaker 3: I don't think it's gonna be a max one situation there,
- 31:59Speaker 3: but if you are playing both, then I think that's
- 32:02Speaker 3: when you kind of have to get into some mini
- 32:04Speaker 3: correlation with some other Utah guys. I do have some
- 32:09Speaker 3: interest in Rudy Gobert as well. He's done very well
- 32:10Speaker 3: against the Jazz since he's been with Minnesota, averaging just
- 32:14Speaker 3: over thirty seven DK points per game. A team like
- 32:18Speaker 3: Utah that can turn over it's on, they're going to
- 32:20Speaker 3: be attacking the basket. There's definitely a lot of opportunities
- 32:22Speaker 3: for Stocks and definitely rebounds for him, so I don't
- 32:25Speaker 3: mind him at all. I mean, you definitely should have
- 32:29Speaker 3: interested in Nas Red as well for a lot of
- 32:30Speaker 3: the same reasons, but returning from injury same price as
- 32:34Speaker 3: Gobert essentially definitely gonna be a MAX two of the
- 32:40Speaker 3: bigs Randall, Rudy, and Nas. I think you could be
- 32:44Speaker 3: Max one of Gobert and Nas too, if you want
- 32:46Speaker 3: to get a little bit more aggressive. I think that
- 32:47Speaker 3: would make some sense. It's a great match up for Dante,
- 32:50Speaker 3: but I don't like paying that much for him. I
- 32:52Speaker 3: do have interest in Jaya McDaniels. Though the Jazz transition
- 32:56Speaker 3: defense is not good, he's very good in the open floor,
- 33:00Speaker 3: very good defensive skill set against a team like the
- 33:02Speaker 3: Jazz who are very turnover prone, So I like him
- 33:05Speaker 3: a lot tonight as well, but yeah, just it's kind
- 33:08Speaker 3: of ant and then a big tear dropped down to
- 33:09Speaker 3: like Randall, Rudy and Jayden.
- 33:11Speaker 2: For me, it's always signed me up for Jayden, especially
- 33:15Speaker 2: in spots like this, Like you said, a team that
- 33:17Speaker 2: can be careless and you can get out and run.
- 33:19Speaker 2: Jayden excels in those games. So definitely like that. What
- 33:23Speaker 2: about our man Matt Isaiah Collier, that's his boy. Yeah,
- 33:28Speaker 2: any any thoughts on Callier today?
- 33:31Speaker 1: Yeah? I like him always.
- 33:33Speaker 3: He could fill up the statute very quickly. It might
- 33:36Speaker 3: make a little bit more sense to get get Kiante
- 33:40Speaker 3: some off ball stuff, so we'll see. Yeah, I do
- 33:43Speaker 3: like him a little bit, But I mean that would
- 33:45Speaker 3: you get a lot of leverage fading Clayton for guy
- 33:48Speaker 3: like Callier, Like it's not sure the similar price tag,
- 33:51Speaker 3: he's seventeen hundred more, but if Collier, if Clayton doesn't
- 33:55Speaker 3: play a lot of minutes, it's going straight to Isaiah Callier.
- 33:57Speaker 3: So there's pretty good leverage that we had there.
- 33:59Speaker 2: I would say I like it, but I think this
- 34:02Speaker 2: is a good game though, game that's not it's definitely
- 34:05Speaker 2: getting some ownership. But like Keyontae Nurkic. I think one
- 34:08Speaker 2: of them makes a lot of sense if you hope
- 34:10Speaker 2: the game's close, and like you said, Ant, I think
- 34:12Speaker 2: McDaniels is strong the end of the day. If this
- 34:14Speaker 2: game is close, at least one of these t Wolves
- 34:17Speaker 2: is getting there and probably more. I mean, they're implied
- 34:19Speaker 2: if you just look at Sabersimmon then applied points. It's
- 34:23Speaker 2: not just what you look at, but one twenty seven
- 34:25Speaker 2: the next highest on Miami Sacramento. That's a good game
- 34:29Speaker 2: with a lot of one thirteens, one twelve, one oh nine,
- 34:31Speaker 2: Like there's gonna be points scored for sure. On the
- 34:34Speaker 2: table side, it's just can they can you talk, keep
- 34:37Speaker 2: it close enough in the fourth quarter where they get
- 34:39Speaker 2: their final run. Otherwise if they lose out on it,
- 34:43Speaker 2: then it's a little more difficult. But hey, even without
- 34:45Speaker 2: their final run, maybe sixty two from Ant is enough
- 34:49Speaker 2: there because yeah, he's been on fire. Let me refresh
- 34:52Speaker 2: as quick, got a update, all right, we'll keep it
- 34:56Speaker 2: rolling to the next game on the slate, Los Angeles
- 34:58Speaker 2: Lakers and the Denver gets two and a half point
- 35:00Speaker 2: favorites of the Lakers two twenty seven and a half
- 35:03Speaker 2: total on this one and no injuries to note on
- 35:06Speaker 2: both sides, So definitely a solid real life game. I
- 35:09Speaker 2: think it's pretty easy for DFS, though I think it's
- 35:12Speaker 2: Jamal Luca or Aaron Gordon. I'm not seeing much value here.
- 35:16Speaker 2: Usually what you get when you get two healthy teams.
- 35:18Speaker 2: But yeah, give me the Spens, I think they're pretty strong.
- 35:21Speaker 2: Otherwise I don't get anything. How do you see it?
- 35:25Speaker 3: Yeah, I like this game a ton for DFS, and
- 35:27Speaker 3: I think I have a little bit more interest in
- 35:28Speaker 3: some of the other guys in this game as well,
- 35:31Speaker 3: mainly Lebron and Ayton. But yeah, I think this is
- 35:35Speaker 3: It feels like Denver and Lakers always provide some very
- 35:39Speaker 3: strong games. I can't remember the last time I've watched
- 35:41Speaker 3: a Denver and Laker game, but it feels like two
- 35:43Speaker 3: teams that match up very well, and this game, I
- 35:45Speaker 3: feel like it is going to play pretty high scoring
- 35:48Speaker 3: and fast paced.
- 35:50Speaker 1: These two teams are struggling.
- 35:51Speaker 3: On defense, which is good as well for the game
- 35:53Speaker 3: environment twenty first and twenty second defense over the last
- 35:56Speaker 3: two weeks, and then offensively, both are playing pretty well
- 35:59Speaker 3: sixteenth and twenty over the last two weeks. Nuggets are
- 36:02Speaker 3: bottom two and rim defense over that span, and the
- 36:05Speaker 3: Lakers have been a pretty big three point final all
- 36:07Speaker 3: season long. They're also aren't getting teams aren't putting up
- 36:11Speaker 3: a ton of points against him at the rim, but
- 36:14Speaker 3: their effective field goal percentage defensively is the third third worst,
- 36:18Speaker 3: so they're a bad rim defense when teams do get
- 36:20Speaker 3: to the basket. So yeah, pretty good matchup all around
- 36:23Speaker 3: here for Luca. On the Lakers side, it's been it
- 36:27Speaker 3: feels like the massive games we saw from earlier this
- 36:29Speaker 3: season have been a little bit fewer and far between.
- 36:32Speaker 3: And he's not in the injury report, but he's dealing
- 36:34Speaker 3: with a lot of injuries right now that they're just
- 36:37Speaker 3: not listing like he's very banked up. Feels like he's
- 36:40Speaker 3: just playing so much and it's just, I don't know,
- 36:43Speaker 3: he's just run down. Might make sense why Lebron is
- 36:47Speaker 3: he hasn't outplayed him, but they're they're playing at a
- 36:49Speaker 3: very similar level right now. In the month of January,
- 36:52Speaker 3: Lebron is averaging twenty six point six points per game,
- 36:55Speaker 3: seven point six rebound, seven point six assists per game.
- 36:59Speaker 3: Luca is obviously better, more in like the thirty point range,
- 37:01Speaker 3: but fifty one DK points per game for Lebron in
- 37:05Speaker 3: January fifty seven point two for Luca. Now, Luca definitely
- 37:08Speaker 3: has the much higher ceiling. Like if somebody's gonna get
- 37:11Speaker 3: seventy to eighty between those two, it's definitely gonna be Luca.
- 37:14Speaker 3: But if Luca gets you fifty five and Lebron gets
- 37:18Speaker 3: you fifty, that is a lot more valuable and you're
- 37:20Speaker 3: getting a little bit of an ownership discount on Lebron.
- 37:23Speaker 3: I believe less time I checked.
- 37:25Speaker 2: We got it. Shing just really low across the view.
- 37:28Speaker 2: I agree. I probably think. I do think Lebron comes
- 37:31Speaker 2: in lower on than Luca when it's all said and done.
- 37:33Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm kind of leading Lebron. I think the matchup
- 37:36Speaker 3: is a little better for him as well. I think
- 37:38Speaker 3: what they would do defensively the Nuggets is put Peyton
- 37:42Speaker 3: Watson on on Luca, and then then it gets a
- 37:48Speaker 3: little different, like difficult, because I don't think you don't
- 37:51Speaker 3: really have a true center on the roster on Denver.
- 37:53Speaker 3: I don't think they're gonna all of a sudden bring
- 37:55Speaker 3: Zeke Nausea Deron Holmes into the starting lineup because they've
- 37:58Speaker 3: liked Jail and pick it out there. But it gets
- 38:00Speaker 3: a little difficult, like are you gonna put Aaron Gordon
- 38:02Speaker 3: on Lebron or is it going to be like Spencer
- 38:04Speaker 3: Jones and then Aaron Gordon on DeAndre Ayden. Either way,
- 38:07Speaker 3: I kind of feel like Lebron is going to avoid
- 38:08Speaker 3: the best defender on the Nuggets, which is Peyton Watson,
- 38:11Speaker 3: so I like the match up for him as well.
- 38:15Speaker 3: Over the last seven games, the Nuggets are bottom two
- 38:18Speaker 3: and fantasy points allowed to power forward, so pretty good
- 38:21Speaker 3: spot for Lebron. Definitely what said of Max, one of
- 38:24Speaker 3: those guys, it's just too much salary to eat up.
- 38:27Speaker 3: But I do like Lebron a little bit more than
- 38:28Speaker 3: Luca tonight. And then I think Aiden is in a
- 38:29Speaker 3: pretty good spot. Nuggets struggling to defend the paint right now,
- 38:34Speaker 3: getting an undersized center and Aaron Gordon. I think everyone's
- 38:37Speaker 3: a great defender, but he's not like a prototypical center
- 38:41Speaker 3: type of defender, and Aiden has He just gets a
- 38:43Speaker 3: lot of easy looks. You're playing with Lebron and Luca
- 38:45Speaker 3: get the ball into deep into the paint. He shot
- 38:48Speaker 3: perfect ten for ten last game, and he's getting those
- 38:52Speaker 3: rebounds as well. So I do like Aiden as a
- 38:54Speaker 3: very very low owned center option tonight, and then it's
- 38:57Speaker 3: that's pretty much it. I think I'm not going to
- 38:58Speaker 3: mess around with the the Lakers stuff the Nuggets. It
- 39:02Speaker 3: feels like Jamal Murray is the best play there. He's
- 39:05Speaker 3: been playing great without Jokic. Obviously, he's had a massive
- 39:08Speaker 3: role fifty d K points per game, twenty eight point
- 39:10Speaker 3: eight points, four point four rebounds, eight and a half
- 39:13Speaker 3: assists per game, playing around thirty seven minutes. I'm gonna
- 39:17Speaker 3: see Marcus Smart defensively, but I think Marcus Smart's best
- 39:19Speaker 3: defensive days are behind him, so I'm not really shared
- 39:21Speaker 3: off by that matchup. Lakers are at a below average
- 39:24Speaker 3: pick and roll defense this season, so I like the
- 39:26Speaker 3: idea of like a Jamal Murray and Lebron James. A
- 39:30Speaker 3: little bounce back where Jamal and DeAndre Aiden makes a
- 39:33Speaker 3: lot of sense to and then for Aaron Gordon, I
- 39:37Speaker 3: think that he's the next guy looking to He'll be
- 39:38Speaker 3: getting a good amount of ownership tonight for sure, Like
- 39:40Speaker 3: you mentioned up top, people might just play him at center,
- 39:45Speaker 3: but he's been getting a lot more involved offensively as
- 39:48Speaker 3: like a playmaker. He has dual eligibility powerful eligibility, is
- 39:53Speaker 3: really good upticking assists and potential assist over the last
- 39:55Speaker 3: five games or so, and being used a lot more
- 39:58Speaker 3: as a primary ball handler, so there's a few different
- 40:00Speaker 3: ways that he can get there. If he's not scoring
- 40:02Speaker 3: the ball well, still has the rebounds and assists to
- 40:04Speaker 3: fall back on. So he's my second favorite option. And
- 40:07Speaker 3: then I'm a little I think that there are games
- 40:10Speaker 3: where Peyton Watson can get it going. I'm not sure
- 40:12Speaker 3: this is gonna be the one where he's gonna have
- 40:14Speaker 3: so much defensive responsibility against Luca, which obviously brings a
- 40:17Speaker 3: ton of foul risk. But the usage has been pretty
- 40:22Speaker 3: pretty solid for Peyton Watson over the last month or so.
- 40:25Speaker 3: Obviously one Western Carwinz Player of the Month of the
- 40:27Speaker 3: Week a few weeks ago, so he's been playing really well.
- 40:29Speaker 3: But I do have a pretty strong preference to Jamal
- 40:32Speaker 3: and Aaron Gordon tonight, and then Tim Hardaway Junior is
- 40:35Speaker 3: the last call mentioned. Really good matchup for him. Lakers
- 40:37Speaker 3: are below average three point defense. He's been shooting the
- 40:40Speaker 3: ball lights out this season, and so I like him
- 40:42Speaker 3: a little bit.
- 40:43Speaker 2: You didn't want to pay that Dante di Vincenzo Price
- 40:45Speaker 2: taging rightfully, so Peyton Watson's seventy six hundred, Holy moly,
- 40:51Speaker 2: I get it though obviously no Jokic usage just been
- 40:55Speaker 2: way up. But man, that is a big boy Price take.
- 40:59Speaker 2: You like the you're the expert. You like this game
- 41:01Speaker 2: and definitely a lot more than me. So you broke
- 41:03Speaker 2: it down great. You made a lot of great cases
- 41:05Speaker 2: for someone that almost never looks at Lebron nowadays. You
- 41:08Speaker 2: made a lot of good cases for him in this game.
- 41:11Speaker 2: But I think Jamal Aaron Gordon two very strong plays
- 41:15Speaker 2: for sure. I do think this next game is better
- 41:17Speaker 2: in DFS and the game after that, though again that
- 41:21Speaker 2: game was at ten pm Eastern, the next two at
- 41:23Speaker 2: ten pm Eastern as well. But big boy total in
- 41:25Speaker 2: this one, Miami heats three and a half point favorites
- 41:28Speaker 2: over the Sacramento Kings two thirty seven and a half total.
- 41:30Speaker 2: In this one, Tyler Hero is out again and Sacramento
- 41:35Speaker 2: has no injury news. So this is a back to
- 41:38Speaker 2: back for the Heat. But they got blown out. No
- 41:41Speaker 2: one played over thirty minutes yesterday, so I mean I'm
- 41:44Speaker 2: going right back to these Heat and firing it up. Unfortunately,
- 41:47Speaker 2: it won't be contralling at all. But Wiggins Bam Hotkez
- 41:52Speaker 2: norm Like, all these prices look good. I skipped over
- 41:55Speaker 2: Davion Mitchell. Sure point guard is loaded on this lay though,
- 41:58Speaker 2: but yeah they're applied for a lot of Tyler hero
- 42:02Speaker 2: back to back. But yeah, they had a plenty of
- 42:04Speaker 2: rasts after getting blown out. Sign me up. I'm more
- 42:06Speaker 2: curious than your take on what about the King side.
- 42:11Speaker 1: Definitely tougher to get to the Kings.
- 42:13Speaker 3: You get some bonus getting a little bit healthier each
- 42:15Speaker 3: game that passes, and then you have a bunch of
- 42:19Speaker 3: similar guys Westbrook, Damorrow, Levine, Schroeder, Milik Monk Like it's
- 42:23Speaker 3: tough to make the case for them. I do think
- 42:25Speaker 3: that this game environment as a whole looks really good.
- 42:28Speaker 1: You have a really.
- 42:29Speaker 3: Strong game total over under. Miami has been struggling on
- 42:33Speaker 3: defense a lot lately. Over the last two weeks, they
- 42:36Speaker 3: rank bottom four. Their rim defense is like bottom five
- 42:39Speaker 3: over that stretch, and then their bottom three and three
- 42:41Speaker 3: point defense, which is pretty sticky. We talk about a
- 42:44Speaker 3: lot with the heat. They're a team that tends to
- 42:46Speaker 3: give up a lot more three pointers, but with their
- 42:48Speaker 3: rim defense also getting a lot worse. There's kind of
- 42:51Speaker 3: a lot of ways that teams can get it up
- 42:53Speaker 3: against them. I think if you're considering Sacramento guys, I
- 42:57Speaker 3: want to go to the guards, and I think Brook
- 43:00Speaker 3: is an option. But like you said, point guard very
- 43:03Speaker 3: strong tonight. He's another guy that's not really getting those
- 43:06Speaker 3: massive ceilings that we know he has within the range
- 43:08Speaker 3: of outcomes. And definitely getting Sabonis back hurts him because
- 43:11Speaker 3: Sabonis is such a good rebounder and you're playing Russ
- 43:15Speaker 3: for like the potential for a triple double, which just
- 43:17Speaker 3: seems like it probably is not happening now. But the
- 43:19Speaker 3: Heat are bottom two season long DVP wise against the
- 43:23Speaker 3: point against point guard, So it is a good spot
- 43:26Speaker 3: for Westbrook. If I knew that Malik Monk had a
- 43:29Speaker 3: role with this team, I would have interested in him
- 43:31Speaker 3: as a value play with no ownership. Played twenty six
- 43:34Speaker 3: minutes last game. It'd be a great matchup for the
- 43:37Speaker 3: type of guy that Malik Monk is, that off ball
- 43:39Speaker 3: scoring guy, three point final defense. On the other end,
- 43:41Speaker 3: you just don't know when the minutes are going to
- 43:43Speaker 3: come or when he's going to be buried. I think
- 43:45Speaker 3: if you're playing him and if you're not exing out
- 43:49Speaker 3: the rest of the Kings, it's a Max one of
- 43:51Speaker 3: Levigne and Monk. Those guys aren't really overlapping much anymore.
- 43:55Speaker 3: It would be a MAX one of Precious and Dylan Cardwell,
- 43:58Speaker 3: they kind of view Cardwell as like a power for now,
- 44:00Speaker 3: and then obviously Max one, Rayno and Sabonis. You could
- 44:04Speaker 3: probably just be a Max one of the entire team, honestly,
- 44:07Speaker 3: or Max two if you think that the game does
- 44:09Speaker 3: have a better chance of shooting out and you get
- 44:10Speaker 3: really low ownership on these Sacramento guys, than those are
- 44:13Speaker 3: the rules I would consider. But I'm with you. I
- 44:15Speaker 3: think going right back to the heat makes a ton
- 44:18Speaker 3: of sense. No Hero guys like Bam and Norm Power
- 44:20Speaker 3: are gonna look pretty good. Bam broke his stretch of
- 44:24Speaker 3: three strong games was back to who he's been this
- 44:27Speaker 3: whole season, one for thirteenth from the field last game.
- 44:31Speaker 3: It should be a good bounce back spot. The Kings
- 44:33Speaker 3: have struggled against big men all year long, and they
- 44:36Speaker 3: are a bad rebounding team. But I think they will
- 44:38Speaker 3: get a lot better with Sabonis getting healthier because he's
- 44:41Speaker 3: an extremely good rebounder.
- 44:42Speaker 1: So I'm not looking into that as the way to attack.
- 44:45Speaker 3: It's just more so Bam has played a lot better
- 44:47Speaker 3: as of late and just had one bad game against
- 44:49Speaker 3: the Warriors. I'm fine going back to him. Definitely find
- 44:52Speaker 3: going back to Norm. I think that he left a
- 44:55Speaker 3: lot of meat on the bone last night was basically
- 44:58Speaker 3: the lone bright spot on the on the heat twenty
- 45:01Speaker 3: one point thirty minutes, really strong usage. So I'm totally
- 45:04Speaker 3: fine going back to Norm. I'm a little bit more
- 45:07Speaker 3: lukewarm on like the Wiggins, Haimi Hawks, and Davey on
- 45:10Speaker 3: Steff tonight because they're getting ownership and bigger slate.
- 45:14Speaker 1: They made a lot of sense last night.
- 45:15Speaker 3: Where there's only a four game slate, seven games slate,
- 45:17Speaker 3: there's a lot more options.
- 45:19Speaker 1: So I'm not in love with them by any means.
- 45:20Speaker 3: But I do think that Hami Hawk as has the
- 45:23Speaker 3: best point per dollars ceiling at five point five K
- 45:26Speaker 3: should play thirty minutes off the bench, and yeah, I
- 45:30Speaker 3: like him the most. Don't think that khloware being downgraded
- 45:33Speaker 3: really means enough to consider, Like it's probably gonna be
- 45:36Speaker 3: more Jovic in that backup center spot, but I would
- 45:39Speaker 3: imagine they run back the same lineup from last night,
- 45:41Speaker 3: with Larson starting for a tether hero.
- 45:44Speaker 2: Man great Bright. That the King My question on the
- 45:47Speaker 2: King side or I guess it's not even a question,
- 45:49Speaker 2: just what you were saying. How I took it, Like,
- 45:51Speaker 2: if you're playing the league Monk, I think you just
- 45:53Speaker 2: save it for the night slate. I think there's too
- 45:55Speaker 2: much downside. Even if he has forty forty DK points,
- 45:59Speaker 2: which would clearly be like Heat, you might not see
- 46:01Speaker 2: him anywhere on the winner on a seven games late,
- 46:04Speaker 2: Like you need to get more than just a one
- 46:06Speaker 2: percent a point five percent guy right on your team.
- 46:09Speaker 2: He's still going to be super low owned, like maybe
- 46:11Speaker 2: three percent or whatever on the nights late. I think
- 46:13Speaker 2: it's better suited for that because man, you could get
- 46:17Speaker 2: everything right on your team and you get the twelve
- 46:20Speaker 2: minutes from Monk or whatever it is instead of the
- 46:22Speaker 2: twenty six, and I mean, you're just kicking yourself at the.
- 46:25Speaker 1: End of the day.
- 46:26Speaker 2: So that's what I had there. I do think Westbrook's
- 46:28Speaker 2: interesting if you do want to play multiple heat, but
- 46:31Speaker 2: like that point guard position is super super strong, so
- 46:35Speaker 2: I don't really have much more to King side looks
- 46:37Speaker 2: tough a lot of these guys though, on the heat,
- 46:39Speaker 2: would you be fine playing three heat on your team?
- 46:43Speaker 1: Uh?
- 46:43Speaker 3: Yeah, I think no, King Yeah, I'd bequol with that.
- 46:48Speaker 3: I think that there's enough upside for all three of
- 46:49Speaker 3: them to get there.
- 46:51Speaker 2: I agree they definitely project well enough, so I like
- 46:54Speaker 2: it all right before we go to the last game.
- 46:57Speaker 2: Want to touch on a couple things. Three hundred and
- 46:58Speaker 2: thirty five people watching live. I really appreciate that. All
- 47:01Speaker 2: we ask is the thumbs up, but helps us out
- 47:04Speaker 2: a ton and again, we have a daily pass you
- 47:06Speaker 2: can get in as low as nine dollars gets you. Sabersim,
- 47:09Speaker 2: I think just spending ten more dollars you get five
- 47:11Speaker 2: days though nineteen dollars. Roddy as does that include Sunday?
- 47:15Speaker 2: So Tuesday night right now, let's see Tuesday night, Wednesday
- 47:19Speaker 2: night or Wednesday night would be twenty four hours Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
- 47:24Speaker 2: It's either Saturday night or Sunday night. I don't know
- 47:26Speaker 2: exactly which one would be. You get the five days
- 47:29Speaker 2: right from tonight, so I believe all of our content
- 47:32Speaker 2: will be up by Saturday anyway, so you can get
- 47:34Speaker 2: everything there and take pictures if you want it. But
- 47:38Speaker 2: it'll take you, I believe till Saturday night. If I'm
- 47:40Speaker 2: not mistaken. You get golf, you get MMA or NFL.
- 47:43Speaker 2: Content would be up. Definitely, a great NHL is going on. NBA,
- 47:47Speaker 2: I think it's a great time to use that nineteen
- 47:49Speaker 2: dollars or five days for nineteen dollars, you get Sabersim,
- 47:52Speaker 2: you get the discord. We would definitely love to have you.
- 47:55Speaker 2: But I do think nineteen dollars for five days is
- 47:57Speaker 2: better to take advantage right now than the nine dollars
- 48:00Speaker 2: for one day. Man Matt likes Bam and Westy. All right,
- 48:04Speaker 2: there you go. P Techio. Any thoughts on him.
- 48:09Speaker 1: Uh No, not really.
- 48:10Speaker 3: Just kind of feels like the Milik Monk type of
- 48:12Speaker 3: play where you still got to get everything else right.
- 48:14Speaker 1: But he has been better.
- 48:16Speaker 3: Yeah, NICs like God for sure played twenty seven minutes
- 48:18Speaker 3: last night. He honestly wasn't even that good. Like his
- 48:21Speaker 3: plus minus was was bad.
- 48:23Speaker 1: I don't know if they really want to just give
- 48:25Speaker 1: him a ton after one.
- 48:26Speaker 2: Yeah minus he was minus twenty.
- 48:29Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 48:29Speaker 2: Did he get more run because of the blow out too?
- 48:31Speaker 2: I take it.
- 48:32Speaker 3: I don't know if he was out there for the blowout.
- 48:34Speaker 3: I know he played regular rotations since, but he might
- 48:37Speaker 3: have closed. He did not close twenty seven. I mean,
- 48:41Speaker 3: if you're guaranteed he's getting it.
- 48:43Speaker 2: If if he was going to get that extra stint
- 48:44Speaker 2: and get thirty three thirty four, I guess that definitely
- 48:47Speaker 2: could do worse. But probably a night's late. What's up, Torn,
- 48:51Speaker 2: what's up kid? Great to see you and yeah, thank
- 48:54Speaker 2: you anxious man. Oh right there. Oh we asked like,
- 48:57Speaker 2: but that ratio a little hurtful right now, but we
- 48:59Speaker 2: got one game left to hopefully fix it out and
- 49:02Speaker 2: real will be talking for a little while because if
- 49:05Speaker 2: you look at just ownership in this last game looks
- 49:08Speaker 2: like the most cumulative ownership on the slate Golden State
- 49:11Speaker 2: Warriors and the Toronto Raptors. We are looking at refresh
- 49:17Speaker 2: two twenty four and a half total. Three and a
- 49:19Speaker 2: half point favorites are the Warriors on the Warriors side,
- 49:22Speaker 2: though they lost Jimmy Butler yesterday to a tour in
- 49:25Speaker 2: acl Brutal. Also got news shortly before the show. Horford's
- 49:29Speaker 2: out tonight resting. Then Draymond, Will Richard, and Guie Santos
- 49:34Speaker 2: are all questionable. Draymond missed yesterday's game as well, so
- 49:38Speaker 2: three big Q tags. And again, remember how the slates
- 49:41Speaker 2: lock three games at ten eastern, but we very well
- 49:44Speaker 2: might not have this news for the first four games.
- 49:47Speaker 2: It's pretty smart. I think backloading heat stuff looks good
- 49:50Speaker 2: real like this Denver Lakers game. This game's obviously good,
- 49:54Speaker 2: so I think you should have a decent amount of
- 49:55Speaker 2: roster spots in the majority of your teams. On the
- 49:59Speaker 2: Toronto side, I know Colin Murray Boyles that is the
- 50:02Speaker 2: only injury news there, but yeah, take it away. However,
- 50:05Speaker 2: you want Golden State stuff without Jimmy and these Kew tags.
- 50:08Speaker 2: If that scenarios, it's gonna be hard to talk about
- 50:11Speaker 2: it right now. But projections, ownership cores like, everything's updated
- 50:15Speaker 2: throughout the night, so you are definitely gonna want to
- 50:18Speaker 2: be around your computer for this lock to see starting
- 50:20Speaker 2: lineups too, in who's out and adjust if you have
- 50:23Speaker 2: a lot of spots.
- 50:24Speaker 1: But take it away, I'll start with Toronto first.
- 50:27Speaker 3: I feel like that one's a little bit more straightforward,
- 50:29Speaker 3: but I also think that there are a few ways
- 50:31Speaker 3: that could surprise people.
- 50:34Speaker 1: I wouldn't. People probably are.
- 50:36Speaker 3: Expecting Sandro to start, and I think that is for
- 50:40Speaker 3: sure one of the more likely outcomes, but I wouldn't
- 50:43Speaker 3: be surprised if they kept Shed out there for the
- 50:45Speaker 3: Steph Curry assignment, have him chasing around more of like
- 50:48Speaker 3: the defensive defensive stopper, and then they go with O'sha
- 50:52Speaker 3: in the starting lineup as well instead of Sandro, and
- 50:54Speaker 3: then Sandro is coming off the bench, and then you
- 50:55Speaker 3: get Scottie Barnes playing center, which would make him a
- 50:58Speaker 3: lot more interesting. Definitely don't have a ton of interest
- 51:01Speaker 3: in him right now at nine point four k starting
- 51:04Speaker 3: alongside Sandro, but if he is starting at the five,
- 51:06Speaker 3: I think that's interesting and it honestly makes a.
- 51:08Speaker 1: Little bit of sense.
- 51:09Speaker 3: The Warriors have a lot of guys that are They're
- 51:14Speaker 3: very capable of going small if Draymond were to be in,
- 51:17Speaker 3: so I wouldn't be surprised if they did do that.
- 51:19Speaker 3: But just keep an eye on that, because I do
- 51:21Speaker 3: think Sandro is going to get a lot of ownership,
- 51:24Speaker 3: and rightfully so, I do like him a ton because
- 51:26Speaker 3: I think that he's going to have a role regardless,
- 51:27Speaker 3: But I wouldn't be surprised if he was coming off
- 51:30Speaker 3: of the bench the Warrior's side. Yeah, so a lot
- 51:35Speaker 3: to talk about it. I feel like right now, the
- 51:37Speaker 3: best options, regardless of what happens to these Q tags
- 51:40Speaker 3: are Curry and Pods. I mean, I think Curry is
- 51:44Speaker 3: really good. He was pacing for like thirty four ish
- 51:48Speaker 3: minutes last night, only played twenty eight because he ran
- 51:50Speaker 3: into foul trouble early in the fourth quarter and then
- 51:53Speaker 3: the games was a blowout. He didn't see the court
- 51:55Speaker 3: for the rest of the rest of the quarter, so
- 51:57Speaker 3: I'd imagine he's full tonight. Only played twenty eight last night,
- 52:00Speaker 3: so yeah, it should be well rested for this one.
- 52:03Speaker 3: And no, Jimmy, he's the guy over the last two
- 52:05Speaker 3: seasons that has been the one that improves the most.
- 52:08Speaker 3: It leads a team with a twenty eight point seven
- 52:10Speaker 3: percent assist percentage over the last two seasons, averaging just
- 52:13Speaker 3: under one point four Fantasy ports for a minute, and
- 52:17Speaker 3: we know that he's got a ton of upside. I
- 52:19Speaker 3: think the price SiGe is really good to an a
- 52:21Speaker 3: point ak, so just kind of adds to the list
- 52:23Speaker 3: of very very strong point guards and then Pods too,
- 52:26Speaker 3: you do, it does get a little bit tougher when
- 52:28Speaker 3: you have Pods just listed at point guard with the
- 52:31Speaker 3: strength of position, but you can play three pretty easily.
- 52:35Speaker 3: But yeah, he's probably my favorite value play on the
- 52:37Speaker 3: entire slate. He was what five K last night all
- 52:39Speaker 3: the way down to four point three K. Now with
- 52:41Speaker 3: Jimmy out, I think he makes the most sense as
- 52:43Speaker 3: a guy that can add more of that secondary ball handling,
- 52:47Speaker 3: either alongside Steph or in that in the second unit.
- 52:50Speaker 3: So I think Pods is very very strong tonight, probably
- 52:53Speaker 3: the guy that I'm starting with as my value play,
- 52:57Speaker 3: and a lot of.
- 52:58Speaker 2: Warriors to be like, like Jimmy got hurt in the
- 53:01Speaker 2: last game of the night, the pricing was already out,
- 53:04Speaker 2: So not only do all these Q takes like the
- 53:06Speaker 2: pricing is like Jimmy Butler's playing, which is why a
- 53:09Speaker 2: lot of them already getting ownership. And we have a
- 53:12Speaker 2: lot of QUE takes now that can even be out
- 53:13Speaker 2: to make it even more appealing. So that's why these
- 53:16Speaker 2: Warriors are getting ownership and rightfully so it's they're just
- 53:19Speaker 2: mispriced for their role now.
- 53:21Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. Yeah, So the will right Will.
- 53:26Speaker 3: Richard, Uh gotcha, that's obviously a big one. I feel
- 53:32Speaker 3: like the way that they would replace him is probably
- 53:35Speaker 3: like probably Buddy Healed. I mean, you have to replace
- 53:39Speaker 3: a guard with another guard. It feels like Buddy just
- 53:41Speaker 3: slides in pretty easily there. I don't know if Buddy
- 53:44Speaker 3: would be starting, but he would obviously be very very
- 53:46Speaker 3: interesting if he was starting. If Richard were to get
- 53:48Speaker 3: ruled out. I think the view Richard Moore as like
- 53:51Speaker 3: the like a defensive guy. He doesn't really do a
- 53:53Speaker 3: ton of offense. He had, you know, fill up the
- 53:55Speaker 3: statue last game, only had five points, but seven assists,
- 53:58Speaker 3: two steals in a block. So maybe instead of Buddy
- 54:02Speaker 3: it's Gary Payton. But I'm kind of viewing the Anthony
- 54:09Speaker 3: Melton as a guy that's replacing the Jimmy Butler role.
- 54:11Speaker 3: In some ways, it was Gary Payton that was slotting
- 54:14Speaker 3: in or checking in behind Jimmy Butler last night, but
- 54:17Speaker 3: I think with Melton back, that's going to be more
- 54:19Speaker 3: of his role. So I like Melton the most of
- 54:22Speaker 3: these secondary guys outside of Moody. I feel like Moody
- 54:24Speaker 3: is is probably the safest behind pods like him. Him
- 54:29Speaker 3: and Pods feel very very safe at their respective price
- 54:32Speaker 3: tags and just the roles they're gonna have. But I
- 54:35Speaker 3: like the lower ownership on Melton, and he really has
- 54:38Speaker 3: the upside that can kill you for not playing him.
- 54:41Speaker 3: So I'm gonna definitely bump him up a bit. He's
- 54:43Speaker 3: limited from a minute standpoint, but they might just have
- 54:46Speaker 3: to play him twenty five plus with Jimmy out. So
- 54:49Speaker 3: I'm looking to him, but it gets really really confusing.
- 54:54Speaker 3: And then if Draymond Green, I think Draymond plays tonight, but.
- 54:59Speaker 1: You never know.
- 55:00Speaker 3: Steve Kerr, he said he expected Draymond to play, but
- 55:02Speaker 3: I don't think he even knows when he's.
- 55:04Speaker 1: Right or wrong.
- 55:05Speaker 3: Like you just don't really know what Steve Kurse. I
- 55:07Speaker 3: wouldn't be surprised if he missed again. It's just gonna
- 55:09Speaker 3: be a situation you're gonna have to You're gonna have
- 55:12Speaker 3: to account for it, like you're gonna want to backload three,
- 55:16Speaker 3: three or four players from this team or from this
- 55:18Speaker 3: game alone.
- 55:19Speaker 2: I would say, yeah, thats gonna be my follow up
- 55:22Speaker 2: to you, like just kind of recapping it's the last
- 55:25Speaker 2: game of the night, but looking at first games to
- 55:27Speaker 2: the games to lock at ten Eastern Philly, Sun's really
- 55:31Speaker 2: not much interests like zero very likely Clippers Chicago definitely
- 55:36Speaker 2: a little Clippers interest, but I mean I don't see
- 55:39Speaker 2: more than like three. Having three guys in this game
- 55:41Speaker 2: and three even feels hot. Two or less. Spurs Houston
- 55:45Speaker 2: game wasn't great. Did like this Minnesota Utah game. But
- 55:48Speaker 2: even if you played like one from the Clippers, even
- 55:53Speaker 2: three from this game, I mean, you still have four spots.
- 55:56Speaker 2: If you go too like you can have five spots
- 55:59Speaker 2: like these are clear. Lakers Denver Real liked it a lot.
- 56:02Speaker 2: Miami looks really strong multiple guys in this game, so
- 56:05Speaker 2: just naturally you're gonna have you should have a decent
- 56:08Speaker 2: amount of spots open. It's mm me, it's hard to
- 56:11Speaker 2: make like a strong rule obviously. I mean that's like
- 56:15Speaker 2: ownership is gonna be there late. So if these these
- 56:17Speaker 2: guys nuke and stuff early, you can have ownership like
- 56:20Speaker 2: discounts and stuff from them. But it's really hard to
- 56:23Speaker 2: be making lineups and not having at least three guys
- 56:27Speaker 2: in the ten pm Eastern window, and even having three,
- 56:29Speaker 2: you're probably under the field and probably too light in
- 56:33Speaker 2: my opinion.
- 56:34Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree that it feels.
- 56:35Speaker 3: It just feels like a slave where you probably are
- 56:39Speaker 3: max one to max two of the first three games
- 56:43Speaker 3: and then and then you could start to make more
- 56:45Speaker 3: of a decision when you when we get to Minnesota
- 56:48Speaker 3: in Utah like halfway through the night.
- 56:50Speaker 2: Yeah, and again we're just talking like we're not getting
- 56:52Speaker 2: this injury news. If all this injury news comes out
- 56:55Speaker 2: right here at seven eastern and forget it. Like obviously,
- 56:59Speaker 2: random stuff can pop, but for the most part, I'm
- 57:02Speaker 2: not expecting to get this eight pm or ten pm
- 57:04Speaker 2: Eastern news at seven eastern or close to that. Maybe
- 57:07Speaker 2: we get it before Minnesota Utah, and you almost get
- 57:09Speaker 2: these first three games, we get the news and boom,
- 57:12Speaker 2: you're playing a pretty much a four games slate. You
- 57:14Speaker 2: could argue like four of the best games to target anyway.
- 57:18Speaker 2: So yeah, for the first couple, not nearly as appealing.
- 57:22Speaker 2: I think Harden the wembys I thing mainly spends you're
- 57:25Speaker 2: looking at any any final thoughts from you coming up
- 57:30Speaker 2: on an hour. Again, appreciate all three fifty hanging out
- 57:32Speaker 2: watching live, watching on playback. I hope everyone having a
- 57:36Speaker 2: good day.
- 57:37Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 57:37Speaker 3: I would just say with the Warriors stuff, it's you. Definitely,
- 57:40Speaker 3: I don't feel too confident outside of two, like two
- 57:43Speaker 3: guys I know for sure are gonna play a lot
- 57:45Speaker 3: of minutes, and that would be Curry and Pods and
- 57:47Speaker 3: then Moody is in there as well.
- 57:49Speaker 1: But they have.
- 57:51Speaker 3: Guys available tonight, like Kaminga can play, even Steve Kurt
- 57:55Speaker 3: like they obviously report us asked him last night if
- 57:57Speaker 3: he was gonna play Kamingo or if he thought about
- 58:00Speaker 3: He said for sure, but you don't really like obviously
- 58:02Speaker 3: don't trust him. But they have guys available like Pat
- 58:04Speaker 3: Spencer might get in there, malev Leon's LJ cryer. These
- 58:07Speaker 3: guys played last night, so they have bodies they could
- 58:09Speaker 3: throw out there.
- 58:10Speaker 1: And Kurr does weird shit all the time.
- 58:13Speaker 2: I mean, saying that makes you feel makes me like
- 58:16Speaker 2: a little less inclined to try and guess the secondary pieces.
- 58:19Speaker 2: The problem is we know Pods, we know Curry, we
- 58:22Speaker 2: feel like we know Moody, and I don't know Melton
- 58:24Speaker 2: feels pretty safe in the sense that he's gonna take
- 58:27Speaker 2: on a pretty big load and a solid point per
- 58:30Speaker 2: minute guy. So yeah, the Draymond and the Richer like
- 58:33Speaker 2: those those are pretty good are pretty important Q tags
- 58:35Speaker 2: though for already how thin they are. And again the
- 58:38Speaker 2: big thing why Golden State's getting so much injury, there's
- 58:40Speaker 2: so much ownership, No Jimmy Butler, that was the last
- 58:43Speaker 2: game of the night yesterday. Pricing is already out, so yeah,
- 58:46Speaker 2: these guys are priced like Jimmy's in Yep, you guys
- 58:50Speaker 2: said point gard is strong. But with Gordon Ayton Smith
- 58:53Speaker 2: Reid separately, a few hundred dollars is hard enough. Yeah,
- 58:57Speaker 2: but like you're comparing like nas Reed and Jail Smith
- 59:00Speaker 2: and eighton, like all those guys compared to like and
- 59:03Speaker 2: granted their higher price, but like the Clayton's, the pods,
- 59:06Speaker 2: like that's the really strong James Harden only point guard,
- 59:10Speaker 2: steph only point guard, Like those guys are projected, Jamal. Yeah,
- 59:15Speaker 2: three point guards will be the most popular route and
- 59:17Speaker 2: it's probably the best way to go on a lot
- 59:19Speaker 2: of builds. I got nothing else. Real're talking seven game slates,
- 59:25Speaker 2: phenomenal job. Like always, you'll have your slate plan up.
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- 1:00:03Speaker 2: time of the year. Any final thoughts before we get
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- 1:00:09Speaker 3: You forgot to mention about my Patriots being in the
- 1:00:11Speaker 3: AFC Championship game.
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: Come on now, yeah they are, But now I really
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: need Denver and I feel a little unlucky. I got
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: a couple of good survivors stuff, but I'm relying on
- 1:00:23Speaker 2: Stidham and that is not fun. How do you feel?
- 1:00:27Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, you gotta feel good going into ignowing
- 1:00:29Speaker 3: that you're playing a backup. Definitely was a lot of things.
- 1:00:33Speaker 3: We had really good variance this here.
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: I'll say that.
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:00:36Speaker 2: I mean, that's part of the game you gotta play.
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: Was in front of you, and you gotta win those games.
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: You hold up the super Bowl trophy when it's all
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: said and done. Yeah, maybe in twenty years a couple
- 1:00:45Speaker 2: of people remember how soft that schedule might have been,
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: but most people aren't talking about the schedule. They're just
- 1:00:50Speaker 2: talking about the championship. With that being said, Rio, I
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: am hoping that they fall a little short. Go Broncos
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