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NBA DFS Process | DraftKings & FanDuel Picks, Plays & Slate Breakdown | Wednesday, 06/03/26 · Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation

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Speaker 1: M fall. System's going clear, we lift m.
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Speaker 2: What is going on? Everybody?
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Speaker 3: We are back for a finals edition of the NBA Show.
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Speaker 3: It's been a minute since I personally have been on
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Speaker 3: a live stream. As you can see, you got a
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Speaker 3: different background now in a new new location. But always
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Speaker 3: excited to talk to my guy, Matt. Matt, it's been
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Speaker 3: probably two months now since we jump on a show
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Speaker 3: together and really talk some hoops. You've been crushing it
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Speaker 3: over on the MLB side of things as long as
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Speaker 3: as well as.
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Speaker 2: Everybody else on the MLB team. But how you doing today?
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Speaker 3: Looking forward to talking through This Finals should be a
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Speaker 3: one one, probably one of the most anticipated finals in
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Speaker 3: a really long time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, it should be a good one. If Wemby
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Speaker 1: wins it obviously breaking all the rules about right a passage,
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Speaker 1: young teams, young players, etc. But he's such an outlier
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Speaker 1: and every other aspect why wouldn't like Why would this
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Speaker 1: be any different? So excited to watch this series because
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Speaker 1: I know firsthand just how good the Knicks are blasting
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Speaker 1: my calves. Obviously after we got by the Pistons thought
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Speaker 1: of you a little bit. Didn't want to rub it
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Speaker 1: in Pistons kind of what I expected they were. They
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Speaker 1: had Kate and then nothing else. A bunch of tryhards
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Speaker 1: in the regular season. I respect their squad, not that
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Speaker 1: like I was really impressed with Cleveland in that series.
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Speaker 1: I just thought the talent one over in the end,
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Speaker 1: and Cleveland played with their food too much against Toronto
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Speaker 1: and Detroit two game sevens and then man, that game
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Speaker 1: one collapse against the Knicks will go down in history
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Speaker 1: and Cleveland collapses. And that's saying a lot because there
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Speaker 1: have been a bunch of them. But what an awful performance.
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Speaker 1: And the Knicks are where they are right now because
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Speaker 1: of it, swept the Calves a bunch of time off,
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Speaker 1: which they had before the last series. They're playing really
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Speaker 1: really good basketball. Obviously the Spurs, most would agree, are
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Speaker 1: the more talented team, especially up top. But I think
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a good series. I think this one
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Speaker 1: goes deep, six to seven games and most of the
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Speaker 1: games are competitive.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a great kind of lead up to basically
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Speaker 3: what's been going on in the playoffs. Definitely kind of
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Speaker 3: bury the lead a little bit and talk about each
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Speaker 3: team's paths to getting to this point. But yeah, the
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Speaker 3: very poor performance for the Pistons. Honestly just a all around,
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Speaker 3: like I think, a pretty big leadown for them, considering
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Speaker 3: they're the best team to East all year long, and
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Speaker 3: then you don't really make a splash move at the deadline,
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Speaker 3: Like their big move was Kevin Herder and he didn't
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Speaker 3: even write much or facto much to anything in the
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Speaker 3: playoffs when guys like Kobe White and some of these
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Speaker 3: other players were out there. You know, now the Chatters
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Speaker 3: that they're gonna go after Kawhi. Obviously that would make
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Speaker 3: them a lot better. But I think that the biggest
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Speaker 3: issue that they have is just not surrounding cad and
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Speaker 3: during with enough perimeter shooting. I mean, I started to
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Speaker 3: both the Thompson twins I think need to they need
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Speaker 3: to just work on shooting in the off season, Like
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Speaker 3: I don't know, they need to get in there with
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Speaker 3: lethal shooter and just practice for like three to four months,
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Speaker 3: just jumpers, thousands and thousands of jumpers all day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, this should be a really, really fun series.
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Speaker 3: So some people in check before we start to break
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Speaker 3: this down. Our guy Sean Sullivan, I know he's probably
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Speaker 3: not eight here live right now. He said he's got
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Speaker 3: some work stuff so catch you on playback. Jordan Newen's
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Speaker 3: what's going on?
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Speaker 2: Man?
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Speaker 3: I got a little neck him out. Been crushing it
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Speaker 3: with the showdown stuff on the site all year long
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Speaker 3: and especially in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Been a lot of fun.
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Speaker 3: Definitely been reading a lot of his articles as I
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Speaker 3: get more into you know, these Western conferences and Coins finals.
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Speaker 3: Game was a lot of fun just to kind of
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Speaker 3: hear his breakdowns. Michael w got our local Knicks fanatic,
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Speaker 3: Wardo's in here, Josey Morales, Jordan Newan's the nibrator.
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Speaker 2: What's going on man?
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Speaker 1: Like that?
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Speaker 3: Name our clients here, Gillies here. Yeah, they need to
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Speaker 3: find chip. Yeah, a lot of money for sure, lost
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Speaker 3: a lot of money there. All right, Well, I want
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Speaker 3: to touch on some of the macro stuff that we
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Speaker 3: saw from these teams throughout the entire season. Well, probably
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Speaker 3: it doesn't matter as much as we are now in
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Speaker 3: the finals, but just I think it's pretty clear why
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Speaker 3: these two teams are in the finals.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: Just look at some of the offensive rating stuff. Spurs
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Speaker 3: we're third in the season, Knicks were fourth defensive rating wise,
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Speaker 3: the Spurs were third, Knicks for seventh half court offense,
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Speaker 3: Knicks were third Spurs were fourth half court defense, Spurs third,
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Speaker 3: Nick seventh, So these are two of the best offenses
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Speaker 3: defense in the NBA. Really no surprise that these teams
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Speaker 3: are here. The Knicks led the way in the playoffs
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Speaker 3: and offensive rating by a really wide margin with some
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Speaker 3: of those massive blowouts that we saw, one hundred and
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Speaker 3: twenty three point three offensive offensive rating versus the Spurs
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Speaker 3: at one fifteen point four. You know, somewhat waited by
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Speaker 3: the blowouts, but still they had to play really well
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Speaker 3: in those games to get there. These are two teams
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Speaker 3: with the best net ratings in the playoff plus nineteen
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Speaker 3: point eight for the Knicks plus eleven for San Antonio.
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Speaker 3: The paths for the team to get to the finals
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Speaker 3: were much different. And you know, you could say what
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Speaker 3: you want about the Knicks pass like maybe the strength
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Speaker 3: of schedule was not as good. I think that we
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Speaker 3: can all agree that the West is better than the East,
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Speaker 3: but nonetheless you still have to play some really good teams.
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Speaker 3: And that was a historic eleven game stretch and honestly
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Speaker 3: the best that we've ever seen. I'm not sure if
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Speaker 3: you've seen some of the stats, but like the best
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Speaker 3: plus mind from an eleven game stretch, our best point
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Speaker 3: differential ever in eleven game stretch, not even the playoffs
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Speaker 3: or regular season, just the best ever. It was like
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Speaker 3: plus n two hundred and thirty six or something like that.
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Speaker 3: So you definitely need to be playing really good basketball
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Speaker 3: to beat those teams. Spurs definitely had a really tough route.
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Speaker 3: You know, they play the Blazers. I think we're you know,
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Speaker 3: a pretty good team for where they were seeded. The
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Speaker 3: Wolves obviously one of the better teams. They probably would
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Speaker 3: have been like a top three to four team if
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Speaker 3: they were in the East, which we might see in
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Speaker 3: a few years. And then they took the Ragning champs
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Speaker 3: to seven on the on the road and won that game.
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Speaker 3: So just a really really good path. The Knicks will
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Speaker 3: definitely have the advantage in terms of rest. They've been
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Speaker 3: off for over a week now, I believe, I don't
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Speaker 3: know exactly. I think it might be like nine days
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Speaker 3: something like that, which will help them because Ojin and
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Speaker 3: Obi was dealing with the hamstring injury.
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Speaker 2: Should be fully healthy now.
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Speaker 3: But then obviously the Mitchell Robinson hand injury is kind
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Speaker 3: of the big talking point here when you're thinking about
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Speaker 3: these teams and they how much time they've had off.
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Speaker 2: To you, who do you think it benefits the most.
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Speaker 3: Obviously the Spurs will have fresher legs, but the Spurs nickles.
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Speaker 3: But the Spur has been playing a lot more basketball
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Speaker 3: might be in better form. Like nine days is not
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Speaker 3: not a short amount of time to not be playing
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Speaker 3: any any games.
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Speaker 1: I think it. We kind of saw this in the
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Speaker 1: Cavs series. I think it definitely benefits the Knicks here.
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Speaker 1: So I think it'll benefit the Spurs for maybe like
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Speaker 1: a half because the Knicks haven't played for so long,
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Speaker 1: but they already went through that in the Cavs series.
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Speaker 1: Calves got up massive in the first half in that
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Speaker 1: series before the Knicks came back. I don't think they
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Speaker 1: let that happen again. And after the first half, I
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Speaker 1: think it really benefits the Knicks. I think the Thunder
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Speaker 1: and Spurs really beat up on each other for a
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Speaker 1: good reason. The Knicks basically cake walked all the way
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Speaker 1: to the finals. So I think the Knicks are really
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Speaker 1: live in this series because and that's a big reason
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Speaker 1: why the timing is right for them. They're healthy, they're rested. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I personally think it benefits the Knicks, especially because the Knicks.
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Speaker 1: We're here. The round before, you know, went down huge
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Speaker 1: in Game one, and like I said, I just don't
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Speaker 1: think they let that happen again. And then after the
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Speaker 1: first half, I think it's all about the rest that
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Speaker 1: it benefits. So that's my take at least.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I would tend to agree there. I mean,
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Speaker 3: og Anobia I think is like one of the biggest.
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Speaker 3: He's probably the most or the second most important player
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Speaker 3: on the Knicks in my opinion. Like you could argue,
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Speaker 3: obviously Brunson is up there cat parts important, but like
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Speaker 3: og just his impact on both sides of the corpus,
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Speaker 3: especially defensively with his versatility. But getting him healthy I
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Speaker 3: think is gonna be huge for them. I wouldn't be
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Speaker 3: surprised if he's playing like forty plus minutes right off
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Speaker 3: the bat, probably averaging forty minutes a game in this series. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's kind of funny though, Like I saw on Twitter
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Speaker 3: people saying that the Knicks got there just without the analytics,
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Speaker 3: just basically off the power of friendship, because these guys
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Speaker 3: are so close and there's definitely definitely something to be
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Speaker 3: said there about a team with chemistry.
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Speaker 1: I said, they're fine to latch.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 3: I mean, these guys know each other a lot, obviously,
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Speaker 3: all the Villanova guys playing together. But chemistry is like
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Speaker 3: a it's something you can't really measure, but it's got
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Speaker 3: such a big impact on a team sport, especially like basketball,
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Speaker 3: like more than anything else. Just the team that likes
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Speaker 3: each other and will play for each other is really
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Speaker 3: hard to be. You could also say about San Antonio,
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Speaker 3: they looked like they have a ton of chemistry as well.
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Speaker 3: Young team definitely defight all the odds. Like you said,
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Speaker 3: they're pretty much breaking all the rules, Like there's never
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Speaker 3: been a team as young as them with as little
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Speaker 3: experience as one the finals. But rules and you know,
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Speaker 3: all these things have to be broken eventually, so maybe
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Speaker 3: the Spurs will do it. All right, Well, let's jump
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Speaker 3: in to some of the matchup stuff, so if you
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Speaker 3: want to, I want to start with the knick side
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Speaker 3: of things. We'll go about this a little bit different,
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Speaker 3: just kind of talk about matchups that we're seeing like individually,
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Speaker 3: and then we'll get into some of the captain plays
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Speaker 3: and I guess like some rules and stuff if we're
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Speaker 3: setting any towards towards the bottom. But then we'll give
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Speaker 3: our predictions in some of our conviction plays towards the
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Speaker 3: end here. But on the knick side of things, I
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Speaker 3: guess we can start top with the Brunson and kat stuff.
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Speaker 3: Since those are the two stars for them. What are
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Speaker 3: you expecting from them?
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Speaker 2: To see?
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Speaker 3: Matchup wise and then just overall fantasy wise, what are
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Speaker 3: you expecting from these guys?
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Speaker 1: Well, the first thing I think about when I think
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Speaker 1: about both those guys, and I'll start with Brunson. He,
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Speaker 1: for my money, is the best to tough shot maker
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Speaker 1: in the league. So like spots like this, like yeah,
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Speaker 1: san Antonio is really good defensively, but I just you know,
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Speaker 1: good no matter what they throw at him, Like he's
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to get his in a close game. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Knicks have done a really good job this whole
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Speaker 1: postseason and towards the latter half of the season of
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Speaker 1: like latter quarter of the season. Actually like having the
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Speaker 1: ball out of Brunson's hands. It's part of the reason
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Speaker 1: they're playing so much more free at the end of games.
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Speaker 1: Like he's their leader, he's their engine. I'm confident in
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Speaker 1: Brunson right now. I just feel like he's that guy.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna carry this team. He has carried this team,
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Speaker 1: so no matter what san Antonio throws at him, I
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Speaker 1: like Brunson a lot. Here Towns, I think it's much
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Speaker 1: more of a wild card. So for me, I think
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Speaker 1: that the Knicks put Towns. I think they kind of
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Speaker 1: throw Towns and og at Wemby. But I'm worried about
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Speaker 1: foul trouble with Towns. Like we know, offensively, he's super talented,
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Speaker 1: but I'm just not sure this is the spot for him,
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Speaker 1: and I'm worried about foul trouble. That's kind of my
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Speaker 1: first read when I think about Brunson and Downs. How
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Speaker 1: do you see them?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally agree with everything that you said about Brunson.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's I think Conford pound like the best
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Speaker 3: scorer in the league right now. I don't really like
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Speaker 3: see Wardo talking about the the Brunson stopper. I mean
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Speaker 3: I agree with him, Like there hasn't been anybody in
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Speaker 3: the playoffs has really been able to slow him down.
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Speaker 3: I think that this is probably the toughest matchup that
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Speaker 3: he'll see, just not because of you know, Vassel or
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Speaker 3: Stefan Cass Like those guys are great one on one defenders.
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Speaker 3: I think Dylan Harper will probably get hit the matchup
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Speaker 3: a little bit, but it's just the impact that Wenby
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Speaker 3: has and the gravity that he has on defense. I
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Speaker 3: think that what they're going to be doing is putting
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Speaker 3: Wemby on Josh Hart and then just kind of having
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Speaker 3: him playoff like they did a lot with the OKAC
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Speaker 3: matchup last game, and that was what really made it
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Speaker 3: tough on on shake Gilgis And he's got to be,
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Speaker 3: if not the best or the second best tough shot makers,
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Speaker 3: like also much taller.
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Speaker 2: Like I still think.
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Speaker 3: Brunson is great enough and undeniably a good enough score
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Speaker 3: that he's going to get his his buckets toward at
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Speaker 3: the end of the game. But I could see it
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Speaker 3: being a slower burned for him in the first couple quarters,
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Speaker 3: like first couple of minutes of the game, just kind
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Speaker 3: of I don't know, getting into the flow of things.
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Speaker 3: They do have a lot of yeah effect, like it's
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Speaker 3: gonna we'll see what happens. But I do think that
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Speaker 3: he's gonna he'll he'll make like he'll be undeniable at
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Speaker 3: the end of the game.
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Speaker 2: I don't like an in.
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Speaker 3: A close game, he's gonna be cooking whoever's in front
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Speaker 3: of him one on one. I don't really don't think
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Speaker 3: anybody can stop him once he gets going.
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Speaker 1: I see a point though, like will he do enough
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Speaker 1: prior to that to like make you want to captain
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Speaker 1: him for DFS purpose? This is really what people are
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Speaker 1: here to see. So I get where you're going with
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Speaker 1: all this.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there was times where he had a
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Speaker 3: solid game, like he's not really known as like a
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Speaker 3: like he's not your prototypical point guard. It's gonna be
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Speaker 3: averaging like twelve plus assist a game. Did have a
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Speaker 3: couple of games where he was flirting with or I
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Speaker 3: think he actually probably did get a couple of double doubles.
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Speaker 3: But in those games, the DFS output wasn't great, Like
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Speaker 3: you really want Brunston when he's scoring thirty five to
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Speaker 3: forty points a night. I'm not certain where he ends
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Speaker 3: up points per game wise when the series is all
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Speaker 3: said and done. But I will be interested to see
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Speaker 3: the adjustment, said Mike Brown and the Knicks coach of
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Speaker 3: Seph will make because they do a really good job
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Speaker 3: of creatively finding their guys space away from Wemby against
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Speaker 3: some of the just like the replace stuff from earlier
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Speaker 3: in the series or earlier in the season. They played
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Speaker 3: each other three times and they were finding ways to
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Speaker 3: get these guys the boss. I think that they'll be
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Speaker 3: able to drop some plays for brunts. And in terms
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Speaker 3: of Kat, though, I do agree with you as well.
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Speaker 3: I think that he's a really big wild card to me,
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Speaker 3: like feels like he's he's got to get going early
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Speaker 3: in the series. I think he's got to be the
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Speaker 3: guy that really stretches to court and gets Polls Wenby
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Speaker 3: from the basketball if Wenby is on him, like I
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Speaker 3: need to see Kat shooting four to six threes in
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Speaker 3: a night, and maybe even more of some of these nights.
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Speaker 3: But I mean, he does have slightly better floor than
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Speaker 3: Brunton out stay right now, just because the rebounding stuff,
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Speaker 3: and if they are going to continue to use him
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Speaker 3: as the kind of point forward or points center like
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Speaker 3: they were pretty much up to this point in the playoffs,
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Speaker 3: then I could see him like maybe he doesn't have
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Speaker 3: the best scoring night, maybe he's at like fourteen points,
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Speaker 3: eleven rebounds, a assists, Like that's a you're piling up
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Speaker 3: fantasy points at that point. I I think reluctantly am
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Speaker 3: saying Kat is a slightly better captain play than Brunson,
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Speaker 3: but I will probably end up with more Brunson just
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Speaker 3: because I'm a little bit more confident in him just
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Speaker 3: being the true alpha for this team. Like usage is
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Speaker 3: really really going to condense on these guys in the playoffs,
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Speaker 3: like we've seen all year long, and I think Brunson's
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Speaker 3: just gonna find his spots. Let's jump into the secondary
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Speaker 3: plays for the Knicks here, the we pull up Saber
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Speaker 3: here filter, let's group in like the heard Bridges and Ananobi.
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Speaker 3: There's definitely a lot to unpack here. I think that
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Speaker 3: to me, Josh Hard is like the X factor in
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Speaker 3: this series because I think that his range of outcomes
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Speaker 3: is as wide as it can get. Like they're gonna
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Speaker 3: be leaving him open a ton. He's like technically like
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Speaker 3: quote unquote the worst three point shooter that the Knicks
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Speaker 3: are going to be putting in the starting lineup. But
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Speaker 3: even the season, he shot what thirty nine forty from three,
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Speaker 3: So still a really really good shooter. And he can
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Speaker 3: when he gets a gun. We've seen him hit four
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Speaker 3: plus in a game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I think that he's gonna be huge in the series.
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Speaker 3: I was listening to some just a bunch of podcasts
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Speaker 3: leading up to this, and if Wenby is gonna be
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Speaker 3: on him, like the best way to tire Wenby out,
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Speaker 3: it's not really with physicality.
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Speaker 2: I'd say it's.
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Speaker 3: More with like like transition scoring and just like pace
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Speaker 3: of play, Like if you can get Wenby sprinting back
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Speaker 3: on defense, he's gonna be a lot less effective on offense.
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Speaker 3: I feel like Josh Hart just like clearing out right
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Speaker 3: as soon as the shot goes up and getting some
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Speaker 3: transition buckets to get Wenby back on defense is gonna
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Speaker 3: be what really really makes a difference here. So I
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Speaker 3: am like, we know that Josh Hart has the slate
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Speaker 3: breaking ceiling to be on an optimal captain, Like there's
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Speaker 3: even a range of outcomes where he's the highest scoring
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Speaker 3: player on the slate, like in a grinded out game,
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Speaker 3: if he goes for like forty five and nobody else
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Speaker 3: is topping forty, he's gonna be the guy you need.
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Speaker 3: But I also think that he's got the type of
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Speaker 3: floor at eighty two hundred that could really bear you,
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Speaker 3: and there are ways that the Knicks could play away
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Speaker 3: from him. We've seen McBride, Landrw Shalmon, and Joran Clarkson
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Speaker 3: all the guys that have had their moments in the playoffs,
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Speaker 3: and McBride and Shaman in particular, I think are two
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Speaker 3: interesting options because we know that they can get hot
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Speaker 3: from three. I think that they match up good enough
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Speaker 3: on defense where they could see extended minutes. I was
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Speaker 3: looking at some of the minutes from Heart in the playoffs.
17:24
Speaker 3: In last series. He had a floor of twenty four,
17:26
Speaker 3: but that was in a huge blowout. The low in
17:28
Speaker 3: a game that was close was thirty one minutes, So
17:30
Speaker 3: that feels like the like I put him at, like
17:32
Speaker 3: thirty one thirty two is like the floor for minutes,
17:34
Speaker 3: and then like thirty six to thirty eight is the
17:37
Speaker 3: ceiling for him. But if you run into like that
17:39
Speaker 3: thirty one minute game and he's not effective and we
17:42
Speaker 3: get like seventeen or eighteen from Shaman and McBride, that
17:46
Speaker 3: could be that.
17:47
Speaker 2: Could be the difference maker.
17:48
Speaker 3: I think that those guys will go pretty overlooked, especially
17:51
Speaker 3: Landrew Shammon, who to me, I think matches pretty well
17:54
Speaker 3: here and you need a lot of shooting when you're
17:56
Speaker 3: playing against a team like the San Antonio Spurs because
17:58
Speaker 3: they just have such good room defense with Wenby down low. Yeah, like,
18:03
Speaker 3: what what do you see in between the trio of
18:05
Speaker 3: Josh Hart, Michal Bridges and ogm Nov You could take
18:07
Speaker 3: it which any way you want.
18:09
Speaker 1: So for me, it's almost like a gut Field type
18:14
Speaker 1: of thing with these three guys because they're all similar
18:16
Speaker 1: enough in how they play. I am in agreement with
18:20
Speaker 1: you that I think Josh Hart is the biggest boom
18:22
Speaker 1: bust of them all. We saw in the Cavs series
18:25
Speaker 1: Calves basically just let him shoot, left him open. I
18:29
Speaker 1: think the Spurs implement a similar strategy here and let
18:34
Speaker 1: Heart beat them. In Game one against the Calves, they
18:39
Speaker 1: basically benched Heart for Shamit, and Shammitt was awesome. Heart
18:43
Speaker 1: lost a ton of run after that. Heart was really
18:45
Speaker 1: really good in the series and paid off. I think
18:49
Speaker 1: every other every other game you needed him in DFS,
18:52
Speaker 1: So I'm in on Heart here. I like the Knicks
18:55
Speaker 1: in this spot again. I think they learned from that
18:58
Speaker 1: Cleveland series. They're not going to fall down early. I
19:02
Speaker 1: think san Antonio coming off that, you know, they just
19:05
Speaker 1: won Game seven on the road against Okay. See, like
19:09
Speaker 1: the more I'm talking about this. The more I like
19:10
Speaker 1: the Knicks in this spot, I just I think they're
19:13
Speaker 1: built for this game tonight, and that means I like
19:16
Speaker 1: their role players. They've been playing well. All of them
19:20
Speaker 1: have been playing well. Like the problem with all of
19:23
Speaker 1: them is that I like all of them. I don't
19:25
Speaker 1: love any of them, but I think they all have
19:29
Speaker 1: high upside and low enough floor where they're all wildly
19:32
Speaker 1: in play, especially in builds where you're just going heavy Knicks.
19:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely agree with that.
19:39
Speaker 3: There Bardo's X factors Mkil Bridges, I mean, I can
19:44
Speaker 3: see that. I think that he's definitely gonna be everybody
19:47
Speaker 3: on the next that's gonna be seeing minutes is really
19:49
Speaker 3: extremely important. But Bridges is definitely gonna have a big
19:53
Speaker 3: assignment on.
19:54
Speaker 2: Both sides of the court.
19:54
Speaker 3: He should get dearon Fox both ways, which will put
19:57
Speaker 3: him in a pretty good spot. I think Fox probably
20:00
Speaker 3: the worst defender in the starting unit for the Spurs.
20:04
Speaker 1: Yeah.
20:05
Speaker 3: I mean, he's a guy that's been shooting the ball
20:06
Speaker 3: extremely well. Basically, had like one or two really bad
20:09
Speaker 3: games in playoffs, then it's been really good. I don't know,
20:11
Speaker 3: I think like the true shooting numbers really north of
20:14
Speaker 3: seventy percent, just really good for a guy that is
20:16
Speaker 3: mainly a jump shooter. So definitely like that call there.
20:20
Speaker 3: I think he's got a good prize. To me, I
20:21
Speaker 3: would probably be going with Og if I was choosing
20:24
Speaker 3: one at captain because I do think that OG's got
20:27
Speaker 3: just a much higher ceiling and he's historically been a
20:30
Speaker 3: playoff riser, a guy that will average more Fantasy points
20:34
Speaker 3: in more minutes, just more points in general in the playoffs.
20:36
Speaker 3: So I feel a little bit more confident in a
20:38
Speaker 3: guy like Og who's only six hundred dollars more than
20:42
Speaker 3: Mikal Bridges. So that's probably the STANDO would be taking.
20:47
Speaker 3: And then yeah, we definitely got a definitely gotta talk
20:50
Speaker 3: about Mitchell Robinson. Yeah, I don't know if I mean,
20:55
Speaker 3: he is massive in this series. I think if you're
20:57
Speaker 3: gonna get a guy that can impact the game in
21:01
Speaker 3: a way that could really just extend possessions for the Knicks,
21:04
Speaker 3: I mean the Spurs overall this season we're a really
21:08
Speaker 3: good rebounding team, but it's a different game in the
21:11
Speaker 3: playoffs when you're asking Wemby to be the focal point
21:13
Speaker 3: on offense and defense. And there was a lot of
21:15
Speaker 3: times in the OKAC series where you see guys like
21:19
Speaker 3: like Jalen Williams and his harnsiin Chet kind of getting
21:22
Speaker 3: those like back door long rebounds because Wemby is just
21:26
Speaker 3: gas from going up and down the court, like Mitchell
21:28
Speaker 3: Robinson is a guy the best. It's like between him
21:32
Speaker 3: and Steven Adams is the two best offensive rebounders in
21:35
Speaker 3: the entire league. Like fourteen impactful minutes lined up against
21:39
Speaker 3: Wemby where he's just just dominating him with physicality. I
21:43
Speaker 3: think that he's a guy that's gonna be extremely important
21:46
Speaker 3: this series. The thing is he has the hand or
21:49
Speaker 3: peak gain tree, whatever you want to call it. He's
21:50
Speaker 3: gonna be playing tonight. Got a surgery, so he should
21:53
Speaker 3: be good. He's not really a guy that's gonna have
21:55
Speaker 3: the ball in his hands a ton But.
21:58
Speaker 2: You got to imagine that impacts his game in some way.
22:01
Speaker 3: I mean where you need to, you know, have your
22:03
Speaker 3: hands in the ball, Like it's gonna be gonna be
22:05
Speaker 3: harder for him to actually rack up points and rebounds
22:08
Speaker 3: if you can't actually grab the ball. I don't think
22:10
Speaker 3: it's gonna change his shot as much because he's just
22:12
Speaker 3: not a good shooter, Like when he goes to the
22:14
Speaker 3: free free throw line, he's probably missing one out of
22:17
Speaker 3: three shots, so or making one out of three shots,
22:19
Speaker 3: so that's not gonna matter too much. But yeah, I
22:22
Speaker 3: mean the impact that he has if he's healthy, I
22:25
Speaker 3: think it's just massive.
22:26
Speaker 2: So I guess you what do you see on Mitchell Robinson.
22:29
Speaker 3: It's not a cheap tag compared to some of the
22:31
Speaker 3: Spurs guys in that same range, but to me, he
22:34
Speaker 3: feels like another guy with a pretty wide range of outcomes.
22:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's another one. We talked a little bit before
22:41
Speaker 1: the slate about, like, you know, how worth it is
22:45
Speaker 1: it to get different on showdown stats like this, because
22:48
Speaker 1: you know, most times when you're getting different, you're playing
22:50
Speaker 1: negative EV lineups. But when you have game one situations
22:54
Speaker 1: like this, there is more of an unknown, and I
22:56
Speaker 1: think Mitchell Robinson is the epitomy of that. Like, I
23:00
Speaker 1: don't know, man, like kept hearing he's gonna be fine
23:03
Speaker 1: and play and he's gonna play. But at first he
23:05
Speaker 1: thought it was just a finger like the pinky I think,
23:07
Speaker 1: and now you're hearing it's the hand that's no buano, bro, Like,
23:13
Speaker 1: I don't love hearing that he's not a guy they
23:15
Speaker 1: relying for huge minutes, so like you don't need a
23:19
Speaker 1: monster score out of him, but also is helive to like,
23:24
Speaker 1: you know, leave the game a minute in and not return,
23:27
Speaker 1: probably more so than other players. I don't know, maybe
23:30
Speaker 1: not at all, but have to imagine like that's at
23:33
Speaker 1: least on the table. So I like him here because
23:37
Speaker 1: they're gonna need him, like they need his physical presence inside,
23:40
Speaker 1: Like that's just the fact of the matter. But you know,
23:44
Speaker 1: it's a ownership type thing for me because I do
23:48
Speaker 1: think there's more risk than normal and a four K player,
23:53
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna get high enough on
23:55
Speaker 1: low or that's a legit concern, Like how do you
23:57
Speaker 1: see it?
24:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean in comparison to I mean Kelden, It'd
24:05
Speaker 3: be tough for me to click on Mitchell Robinson over
24:07
Speaker 3: Kelden Johnson, just straight up because we know that Kelton's
24:10
Speaker 3: going to have his role for sure, and like you said,
24:11
Speaker 3: the range for Mitchell Robson could be really like he
24:15
Speaker 3: could definitely pick up, but he could reinjury his hand
24:17
Speaker 3: like it's broken, and if there's discomfort, they're probably not
24:20
Speaker 3: gonna push him through it, and then even like Harper
24:24
Speaker 3: Champenni are not that much more expensive. So yeah, I
24:29
Speaker 3: don't know if if he's like, if he's hovering around
24:31
Speaker 3: the ten percent range, then I'd probably want to be
24:35
Speaker 3: over the field there, just because I really do think
24:37
Speaker 3: that he's a guy that is extremely.
24:39
Speaker 2: Impactful in matches as well. I didn't I wanted to
24:41
Speaker 2: look up his.
24:42
Speaker 3: Numbers versus the Spurs this season because I feel like
24:46
Speaker 3: he was pretty big in some of those games.
24:50
Speaker 2: Minus the NBA Cup.
24:52
Speaker 3: Oops, pull this.
24:55
Speaker 2: Up real quick.
24:58
Speaker 3: I guess he only played one game the Rigulars season,
25:00
Speaker 3: not the NBA Cup. Yeah, so he played eighteen minutes
25:08
Speaker 3: in an NBA Cup game, four points, fifteen rebounds to
25:11
Speaker 3: assist three stocks. Like that's the I think that's like
25:14
Speaker 3: the ceiling game from him. He's plus nine in his
25:16
Speaker 3: eighteen minutes. I doubt that he's playing eighteen minutes tonight.
25:21
Speaker 3: I think that the high end is probably like sixteen
25:24
Speaker 3: unless Kad gets into a huge Valle trouble. But even then,
25:27
Speaker 3: I feel like they're probably have minutes cap on on
25:30
Speaker 3: Mitch rob and they'll probably like maybe get to some
25:32
Speaker 3: Ara hock Cordy a little bit like just to get
25:36
Speaker 3: some energy out of out of Wemby in that matchup.
25:40
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
25:40
Speaker 3: I think that he's definitely got to be a guy
25:43
Speaker 3: that's in your playerpool, But like you said, is it
25:45
Speaker 3: worth taking the risk, Like I think for single entry,
25:47
Speaker 3: you're probably not playing him. Mmm, I'll definitely have I
25:50
Speaker 3: would say, if I had a guess right now, like
25:52
Speaker 3: fifteen percent. Maybe a little bit more depending on where
25:55
Speaker 3: the ownership lands, but I would say like fifteen percent
25:58
Speaker 3: is probably where a.
25:58
Speaker 1: Vietnam Yeah, in the field, that makes sense.
26:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, definitely not a guy that I want to
26:03
Speaker 3: take a stand on. But I do think that he's
26:05
Speaker 3: extremely important this series for them, Like maybe maybe later
26:09
Speaker 3: on in some of these home games were totally the
26:11
Speaker 3: crowd behind you, I could see him just getting like
26:14
Speaker 3: four to five offensive rebounds in one possession. All right,
26:19
Speaker 3: let's jump over to the knick side. Unless there's anything
26:21
Speaker 3: else you want to touch on. I don't really think
26:23
Speaker 3: that we need to go through like the Alvarado's and
26:27
Speaker 3: on forties, like like maybe maybe Wardo has a take
26:30
Speaker 3: on on Droid Clarks And I do think that he's
26:32
Speaker 3: going to play some not sure if it's going to
26:34
Speaker 3: be enough, so I probably won't have much there, Like
26:38
Speaker 3: I doubt that he's gonna be thirteen.
26:39
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm reading like some of the chat.
26:42
Speaker 1: I don't know, news man, I don't know if Mitch
26:47
Speaker 1: rob is capped minutes wise, Like you know, I think
26:51
Speaker 1: he plays his normal run because I think he did
26:53
Speaker 1: that the type of thing where like he hurts his
26:55
Speaker 1: hand and he can't play or he's playing his normal run.
26:57
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a type of thing where like
26:59
Speaker 1: they're limiting in his minute. It's because it's a hand
27:01
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Do you agree there?
27:02
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I do.
27:04
Speaker 3: And like that his normal run would probably and the
27:07
Speaker 3: median side end up at like fourteen fifteen, right.
27:09
Speaker 1: That's the other thing, Like he doesn't play big minutes anyways,
27:12
Speaker 1: so like he's just a guy that they want for
27:14
Speaker 1: his like instant impact and the run he's out there.
27:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that they'd be the Knicks would be
27:20
Speaker 3: smart to match up a lot of Mitch Robinson's minutes
27:22
Speaker 3: with Wemby personally just kind of give because KD is
27:26
Speaker 3: not the same type of physical presence that Mitch Robinson is,
27:30
Speaker 3: Like one of the biggest guys in the league. I
27:32
Speaker 3: really think that he could just kind of throw Wemby
27:34
Speaker 3: around or at least like try to rough them up
27:36
Speaker 3: a little bit, kind of be like the the goon
27:38
Speaker 3: in a sense, and just really kind of give him
27:41
Speaker 3: some some hard fouls or like some really tough minutes.
27:43
Speaker 3: That's how I'd probably do it, Like get an early
27:45
Speaker 3: sub for Kat, give Mitch Robb like three or four
27:48
Speaker 3: minutes against him right away. Yeah, I'm not really considering
27:52
Speaker 3: hug party Jordan personally.
27:54
Speaker 2: I was just kind of.
27:55
Speaker 3: Throwing out some ideas in terms of like the the rotation,
27:58
Speaker 3: like who could see minutes if things go awry for
28:01
Speaker 3: Mitchell Robinson ward of things, potential double big lineup could
28:05
Speaker 3: see that. I mean, it's nice when you got a
28:07
Speaker 3: guy like Cat that can stretch the floor. I'd be
28:09
Speaker 3: interesting to see how the Spurs combat that. But let's
28:11
Speaker 3: jump over to the Spurs side of things, obviously, I
28:14
Speaker 3: think it all starts with Wenby, Like let's just start there,
28:16
Speaker 3: because he's kind of cemented himself as I would say,
28:20
Speaker 3: the best.
28:20
Speaker 2: Player in the world. Now.
28:22
Speaker 3: That was just a great performance from him in the
28:24
Speaker 3: Western Carmens Finals. Western Carmens Finals MVP. Yeah, I mean
28:29
Speaker 3: really just willed his team to win. I think it
28:31
Speaker 3: was awesome that they got to win on the road,
28:34
Speaker 3: But this is gonna be I mean, I don't know
28:37
Speaker 3: if i'd say this is a tougher task because Okay,
28:39
Speaker 3: so he's probably as good as it gets defensively, but
28:42
Speaker 3: you're probably seeing, like I said, with OJ Andoby, like
28:45
Speaker 3: the most versatile defender in the league. In my eyes,
28:48
Speaker 3: I think power for Pantin's probably the best defender in
28:50
Speaker 3: the league, even though I don't think he even made
28:52
Speaker 3: First team All Defense, which is crazy. But he's gonna
28:57
Speaker 3: have to see a little bit of OG. I think
28:59
Speaker 3: they'll start with Cat on him because they did run
29:01
Speaker 3: more of like the prototypical big against Wenby in the
29:04
Speaker 3: season series. I think long term, it's probably gonna be
29:07
Speaker 3: like if when the season's over or the series is
29:10
Speaker 3: over and we see who lined up against Wenby the most,
29:12
Speaker 3: I'd imagine it's OG. But I do think that that
29:14
Speaker 3: tonight they'll start with Kat and then so Mitchell Robinson
29:17
Speaker 3: on him. Kat's been playing much better defense, they give
29:20
Speaker 3: him his credit, still not the lockdown defender that I
29:24
Speaker 3: think that they would need against Wenby. But I'd be
29:26
Speaker 3: interested to see how they how they deploy Kat against him.
29:31
Speaker 3: If you remember in the OKAC series, like they were
29:33
Speaker 3: picking up one be basically rise he crossed half court
29:36
Speaker 3: and okay, see you know they get away with a
29:38
Speaker 3: lot of contact, but they were basically like boxing him
29:41
Speaker 3: out from getting even close to the paint as soon
29:43
Speaker 3: as he crossed cross half court. If the Knicks do
29:47
Speaker 3: that same game plan, I mean I could, I'm already
29:49
Speaker 3: seen it in my head, like Kat just getting a
29:51
Speaker 3: little bit too physical Wenby like throwing his head back
29:53
Speaker 3: and we're seeing like two quick vows from Kat early on.
29:59
Speaker 3: But how do you see this going for Wemby? I guess,
30:06
Speaker 3: I mean, I.
30:07
Speaker 2: Don't really know.
30:07
Speaker 3: I'm kind of going back and forth on my pick
30:08
Speaker 3: for the series, but I think if the Spurs win,
30:11
Speaker 3: it's because Wenby is going for like averaging like thirty
30:14
Speaker 3: to fifteen in the game. I just think that he's
30:16
Speaker 3: gonna be able to score a lot in the series.
30:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, honestly, the guys we talk about on
30:20
Speaker 1: the next they can't really stop Wemby. Like it's gonna
30:22
Speaker 1: have to be a really team effort. They're gonna have
30:24
Speaker 1: to tire him out. I think tonight they could be
30:28
Speaker 1: successful in that, just because again you talk about the
30:32
Speaker 1: matchups and how it's not necessarily a tougher spot for
30:36
Speaker 1: the Spurs because okay See is so good defensively, and
30:38
Speaker 1: I agree with that, but mentally it's a whole other level. Man,
30:43
Speaker 1: Like you beat okayc game a couple of days later
30:48
Speaker 1: against the veteran team that's rested, Like, sure, the Knicks
30:54
Speaker 1: are talking about this might be the only chance they're
30:56
Speaker 1: ever here, you know what I'm saying. The Spurs are
30:58
Speaker 1: all young and green, which sometimes can play out to
31:00
Speaker 1: your benefit, and I do think they're more talented, which
31:04
Speaker 1: is why I think the series is gonna be phenomenal.
31:07
Speaker 1: But I could see the Knicks just coming out with
31:10
Speaker 1: a really really strong effort tonight, tiring out Wemby. And
31:15
Speaker 1: I'm with you, like I think if the Spurs win
31:17
Speaker 1: this series, they're gonna need top notch Wemby, and he's
31:19
Speaker 1: so good he could struggle in the first half and
31:24
Speaker 1: then dominate the second half, just because that's how good
31:27
Speaker 1: he is. Like he always has stretches where he's just
31:30
Speaker 1: you see stuff you've never seen before. So I don't
31:34
Speaker 1: know exactly how the Knicks are gonna play it. Like Wemby, Ultimately,
31:40
Speaker 1: in spots like this, he's almost impossible not to play.
31:44
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of like whether you want to
31:46
Speaker 1: captain him or not. I'm leaning towards no. We'll get
31:49
Speaker 1: to that. But certainly I think this game is close enough.
31:53
Speaker 1: I think that he's the centerpiece of everything where his
31:56
Speaker 1: imprint's gonna be pretty big in this contest.
32:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do see. Yeah, it's a good point. I
32:04
Speaker 3: saw that from from Deacon. I think you talk about
32:08
Speaker 3: that basically yesterday or the day before. Definitely highly emotional win.
32:12
Speaker 3: But I think that, you know, if Papa is still
32:15
Speaker 3: there and talking to these guys, still get them right,
32:16
Speaker 3: I think they'll be they'll be good.
32:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they'll be good. It's just tough though,
32:21
Speaker 1: like you know, I mean they're young, Like I don't know,
32:25
Speaker 1: Like I really feel like this spot and the timing
32:28
Speaker 1: plays into the next favor and how good the West
32:31
Speaker 1: is really helps the Knicks because okay, because San Antonio
32:35
Speaker 1: is way more beat up to the flip side of that, though,
32:38
Speaker 1: maybe the West is just that much better than the East,
32:40
Speaker 1: and the Spurs are gonna roll that's also in the cards,
32:42
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
32:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, are you expecting more of like a defensive battle
32:47
Speaker 3: or offensive because I think it's gonna be a high
32:49
Speaker 3: scoring series.
32:51
Speaker 1: So I think it's gonna be a high scoring series,
32:53
Speaker 1: except tonight, where I think it's like rymy, because I
32:55
Speaker 1: think the Spurs are a little bit flat tired, and
32:59
Speaker 1: I think the Nick are gonna come out with a
33:02
Speaker 1: really good defensive energy just because of what happened in
33:04
Speaker 1: game one last last series. I think that if the
33:08
Speaker 1: Spurs like are making shots early, the Knicks will match that.
33:13
Speaker 1: But I think it's grindy personally tonight.
33:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could definitely see that, Michael. We'll get to
33:19
Speaker 3: that after the uh, after we break down the stories,
33:22
Speaker 3: we'll talk about our our player pools. All right, let's
33:25
Speaker 3: jump down to the next grouping basically the rest of
33:29
Speaker 3: the starters and Dylan Harper.
33:31
Speaker 2: We can toss those guys in.
33:35
Speaker 3: I mean, Castle, man, he's been great defensively this entire playoffs,
33:40
Speaker 3: been you know, pretty He's seen some like okay, not
33:45
Speaker 3: great defenders, and basically every round the series, averaging nineteen
33:47
Speaker 3: point two four point nine to six point seven assists
33:50
Speaker 3: per game in the playoffs thirty seven DK points. Definitely
33:53
Speaker 3: a guy that could like kind of in that Josh
33:55
Speaker 3: hart type of mold where he could fill up the
33:58
Speaker 3: stat sheet and a lot of different ways and be
34:00
Speaker 3: the guy that you needed up top. But I do
34:03
Speaker 3: think that this is a tougher spot than normal for
34:05
Speaker 3: Stefan Castle unless he can get hot from three. I
34:08
Speaker 3: think it's gonna be Josh hart On on Stefan Castle,
34:11
Speaker 3: and I really think that Heart matches up pretty well
34:13
Speaker 3: against Sam Hart is like basically the same size. I
34:16
Speaker 3: actually don't know like they're height and weight, but to me,
34:19
Speaker 3: Josh Harp plays a lot bigger than he is, and
34:21
Speaker 3: I think Is can match Stefan Castle Sefon Castle's physicality.
34:26
Speaker 3: You also got the kind of negative effect from Castle
34:30
Speaker 3: gonna be in the guy that's in the actions a
34:32
Speaker 3: lot on defense because he'll either be on Caro Anthony
34:34
Speaker 3: Towns or Jalen Brunson. They were putting Castle on Cat
34:37
Speaker 3: earlier in the season. If they do that again here,
34:40
Speaker 3: obviously there's foul risks, but like Brunson also one of
34:43
Speaker 3: the better foul drawers in the league. So Castle those
34:46
Speaker 3: type of guys, just like Josh Sharboard. They have a
34:49
Speaker 3: wider range of outcomes, but more so for Castle, not
34:51
Speaker 3: because of the way that he are like, not because
34:55
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna do poorly, but more so I
34:56
Speaker 3: think that the range for him could be foul chob
34:59
Speaker 3: early and maybe it could be one of those games
35:01
Speaker 3: where he's got like five fouls and only plays thirty
35:05
Speaker 3: thirty two minutes stuff like that, which would be tough
35:07
Speaker 3: for me to get behind at his price tag. Yeah,
35:11
Speaker 3: what have you seen there between Castle and I guess
35:13
Speaker 3: like if you want to go into Darren Fox and
35:15
Speaker 3: maybe doing Harper can group in all those guards together.
35:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think you just the last one you
35:21
Speaker 1: brought up about Castle is the main thing for me.
35:24
Speaker 1: It's how pricey he is now because of how good
35:27
Speaker 1: he's been, And I just don't know if I want
35:29
Speaker 1: to allocate this salary there considering everything you mentioned, the
35:34
Speaker 1: issue is san Antonio and is a good problem for them.
35:38
Speaker 1: I think it's got a lot of guys that are
35:41
Speaker 1: similar after Wemby, that do similar things, that are fundamentally sound,
35:46
Speaker 1: that are all good defenders Castle, vicell Champagne. You know
35:52
Speaker 1: how much I love Harper dearon Fox to a lesser extent,
35:56
Speaker 1: but we know that he can in any given game
35:59
Speaker 1: carry the load offensively. I think he's a wildcard, and
36:03
Speaker 1: his price is low enough he'll get ownership where I
36:07
Speaker 1: think of all the others on San Antonio, like after
36:10
Speaker 1: Wemby obviously because of his price, and then we know
36:13
Speaker 1: the ball will be in his hands. Is his Fox,
36:15
Speaker 1: we suck Castle really have a massive Western Conference finals.
36:20
Speaker 1: And the truth of the matter is with all these
36:22
Speaker 1: San Antonio guys basically outside of Wemby, Like they're gonna
36:26
Speaker 1: be games where it's Wemby, Castle and the Cell. Then
36:31
Speaker 1: there's gonna be games where it's Wemby, Fox and Champagne,
36:36
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like Wemby's the constant, but
36:40
Speaker 1: the next game it might be Wemby, Harper and Fox.
36:43
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like the other guys are
36:45
Speaker 1: pretty interchangeable. That's why it's all about Wemby. Fox is
36:49
Speaker 1: my favorite at seventy six hundred, I think, even though
36:53
Speaker 1: he probably has the lowest floor. And then I know
36:57
Speaker 1: he got asked about Harper earlier. Interesting to hear your
37:01
Speaker 1: take on him. I know, I think someone asked me
37:05
Speaker 1: if I think he's gonna play thirty minutes tonight. I
37:08
Speaker 1: don't and I don't project him for that, but I
37:12
Speaker 1: think there are scenarios where he plays close to that,
37:14
Speaker 1: and he's the guy that you want from san Antonio.
37:17
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen it already in the playoffs, So
37:19
Speaker 1: definitely interested in Harper here. My biggest issue with like
37:23
Speaker 1: nailing down the san Antonio pieces is they're all pretty interchangeable.
37:27
Speaker 1: That's why this slate is pretty conducive to playing one
37:30
Speaker 1: point fifty, So I get it for sure.
37:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, he made some good points on deeron Fox. I
37:35
Speaker 3: do think that he's kind of the wild card. Like
37:37
Speaker 3: you said, when I was just kind of like researching
37:40
Speaker 3: and doing some rineups for this game, he was the
37:43
Speaker 3: guy that stood out to me because kind of, you know,
37:45
Speaker 3: if you were here with us in the regular season,
37:48
Speaker 3: you you know, we talked a lot about these games.
37:49
Speaker 3: Like the Knicks, we're a team that were really really
37:53
Speaker 3: attackable in pick and roll situations because of the way
37:57
Speaker 3: that both kar Anthony Towns and Mitchell Robinson played dropped
37:59
Speaker 3: coverage like Fox is kind of the perfect Like if
38:03
Speaker 3: Jaylen Brunson was going against his own team, I play
38:05
Speaker 3: him one hundred times out of one hundred, just because
38:07
Speaker 3: of the way that he's able to beat those.
38:09
Speaker 2: Drop coverages and pick and a roll.
38:11
Speaker 3: Fox is similar, definitely not as good, but also one
38:14
Speaker 3: of those guys that has, you know, not time playoff experience,
38:18
Speaker 3: but just NBA experience where if the game is closed
38:21
Speaker 3: down the fourth quarter and you need a bucket, you're
38:24
Speaker 3: probably looking at him like the ball is gonna be
38:26
Speaker 3: in his hands or in Webby's hands.
38:27
Speaker 1: I do not think the moment is too big for
38:29
Speaker 1: him totally with yeah.
38:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we saw it and okay, see, he's
38:32
Speaker 3: just he's able to get to his spots in that
38:34
Speaker 3: kind of like float range and then he's got enough
38:36
Speaker 3: room he's gonna make it.
38:38
Speaker 1: They don't need him a lot of times, and they
38:40
Speaker 1: haven't needed him, but I think this is a spot
38:41
Speaker 1: where they're gonna need him because I think he's a
38:43
Speaker 1: close game. Like that's the luxury of how good san
38:47
Speaker 1: Antonio has been. They got a lot of good dudes,
38:49
Speaker 1: and then to give a night it can be harper
38:51
Speaker 1: the cell castle. I think Fox is in a good
38:54
Speaker 1: spot here, and I don't know if he gets enough
38:56
Speaker 1: ownership for how low his price tag. Has fallen.
38:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say the one the one thing I
39:02
Speaker 3: have against playing Fox is like good price tag for sure,
39:05
Speaker 3: but if he's not scoring, like I really think that
39:08
Speaker 3: you need like twenty five from him because he's been
39:11
Speaker 3: kind of like relegated to adding no peripheral stats, like
39:14
Speaker 3: he's not going to be chasing boards, he's really not
39:16
Speaker 3: chasing assists, Like it's all kind of going through Wemby
39:19
Speaker 3: and Castle at the moment in terms of those stats
39:22
Speaker 3: in particular, So it makes it really tough for him
39:24
Speaker 3: to separate a lot. I think he's a much better
39:27
Speaker 3: flex play than he has a captain play, like like borderline.
39:31
Speaker 3: Not in my playpool as a captain personally, but definitely
39:33
Speaker 3: think he makes a lot of sense, Like he's just
39:35
Speaker 3: in that range where it's easy to click on him
39:38
Speaker 3: and like og or him and McHale something like that.
39:41
Speaker 3: But to answer your question with Dan Harper, yeah, I
39:43
Speaker 3: agree with you. I don't think he's playing thirty minutes.
39:46
Speaker 3: There's that's definitely within his wheelhouse. I think the way
39:48
Speaker 3: that he gets there is with is with foul trouble
39:54
Speaker 3: from Castle or if they're more comfortable going with that
39:57
Speaker 3: three guard lineup, which they've shown to do so in
39:59
Speaker 3: the playoffs. But either way, I really like this the
40:03
Speaker 3: spot for Dylan Harper. I just think that he's big
40:05
Speaker 3: enough on defense I can hang with anybody on the Knicks.
40:08
Speaker 3: And I also think that he's got enough of a
40:11
Speaker 3: offensive game where they're really going to need him at time.
40:13
Speaker 3: So I think the Harper really really good. He might
40:16
Speaker 3: be even match up with some pretty weak defenders in
40:18
Speaker 3: the second unit on the Knicks, like if they're putting
40:21
Speaker 3: guys like Shaman or McBride. McBride's fine, or like Clarks
40:24
Speaker 3: and something like that. Paus m Ferato, like he could
40:27
Speaker 3: really really cook.
40:28
Speaker 2: Like he's probably.
40:29
Speaker 3: Around like a one fantasy apartment producer in the playoffs
40:33
Speaker 3: right now. But it could be a situation where he
40:34
Speaker 3: goes off for like eight points in a really really
40:37
Speaker 3: short spurred and then at fifty four hundred, not a
40:41
Speaker 3: ton you need to do to be optimal. So I'm
40:43
Speaker 3: definitely into him. He definitely makes my playerpool as a
40:46
Speaker 3: captain as well. And then Vessel and Champagne I think
40:50
Speaker 3: are two guys that we gotta be considering here, and
40:53
Speaker 3: I think both should be in consideration for a captain
40:56
Speaker 3: as well. We saw Champennee be the optimal captain the
40:59
Speaker 3: night that I actually took down that tournament. I only
41:02
Speaker 3: had two of him, but I really did like the
41:03
Speaker 3: matchup for him against Oka See, just with his ability
41:07
Speaker 3: to be impactful on the on the boards as well
41:09
Speaker 3: as being a guy that can stretch the court and
41:12
Speaker 3: just have a quick trigger on the catch and shoe stuff.
41:14
Speaker 3: It's kind of similar here in the sense that the
41:17
Speaker 3: Knicks I believe are the second biggest corner three point
41:20
Speaker 3: final in the NBA behind Oka See, So Vassil and
41:24
Speaker 3: Champagne are two of the guys that are the best
41:26
Speaker 3: options for the Spurs in that sense. I'm really liking
41:28
Speaker 3: Champagne here though. I just think that there's he's been
41:31
Speaker 3: too good on both ends of the court to be
41:33
Speaker 3: cut down by a guy like Calden Johnson, and the
41:36
Speaker 3: same could be said for Vasill. Like the only way
41:38
Speaker 3: that these guys are really getting cut down, I would
41:39
Speaker 3: say is if they expand the rotation a ton. But
41:43
Speaker 3: if I'm the Spurs, I think you just run with
41:45
Speaker 3: what's been working and keep it tight because you got
41:47
Speaker 3: to you gotta get a win at home, so I
41:49
Speaker 3: think you got to lean into these guys a lot.
41:50
Speaker 3: I'm really liking both of Vasel and Champagne, but I
41:53
Speaker 3: do have a slight lean to Champagne over vassill any
41:57
Speaker 3: an he takes there on those guys.
42:00
Speaker 1: I like both those guys too, because the other thing
42:02
Speaker 1: is like, this is a slate where you want Wemby
42:05
Speaker 1: and Brunson, So you know, finding one of those guys
42:08
Speaker 1: Asell Champenny six case range captain a low ownership makes
42:14
Speaker 1: a lot of sense in my eyes. I think Harper's
42:17
Speaker 1: in that mold too, because we've seen him get offensive,
42:19
Speaker 1: I get hot offensively, and for how I see this
42:23
Speaker 1: game playing out potentially like the next taking advantage of
42:28
Speaker 1: the Spurs maybe having tired legs and getting up and
42:30
Speaker 1: Harper's that sparkplug off the bench, So I definitely could
42:33
Speaker 1: see that. I like all three of those guys lower
42:36
Speaker 1: priced as like alternative captains to the obvious guys up top.
42:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, it's just kind of running some uh,
42:45
Speaker 3: just like Rob builds on sabersim and a lot of
42:50
Speaker 3: times when you're getting like the Wemby Brunson cat lineups
42:52
Speaker 3: as captain, you need to dip into the like the
42:56
Speaker 3: Carter Brian Harrison, Barnes Alvarado range.
42:59
Speaker 2: Which I would for not to do.
43:00
Speaker 3: Like, if you definitely should be playing a good amount
43:03
Speaker 3: of Wemby at captain, you probably should play a lot
43:05
Speaker 3: of a good amount of Brunson in towns. But the
43:09
Speaker 3: way that you can get away from those really poor
43:11
Speaker 3: builds and just guarantee that you're getting six roster spots
43:14
Speaker 3: that are going to be playing and are going to
43:16
Speaker 3: be racking fantasy points is to go cheaper. But before
43:21
Speaker 3: I get I guess just not to get two ahead
43:23
Speaker 3: of ourselves and go into the captain stuff. But I
43:26
Speaker 3: do think that we have to take a look at
43:28
Speaker 3: Kellen Johnson, Andy, Carter Bryan when we're going cheap. Keldon,
43:31
Speaker 3: I think we know he is going to have the role.
43:32
Speaker 3: I'm not expecting a huge jump in minutes. I think
43:36
Speaker 3: around fifteen to twenties where he'd be more often than not.
43:39
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's really gonna be out playing
43:41
Speaker 3: Champagne or like doing enough on the defense where they
43:44
Speaker 3: prioritize him over Champagne. I think he's gonna be playing.
43:47
Speaker 3: I think he's fine, But I do think Carter Bryant
43:50
Speaker 3: is a sleeper pick. Early on, like if you he's
43:53
Speaker 3: the guy that I'd be comfortable going to if I'm
43:54
Speaker 3: playing Wemby at captain and I need a cheap guy
43:56
Speaker 3: more than Alvarado or Harrison Barnes or Join Pars or.
44:00
Speaker 2: Anything like that.
44:01
Speaker 3: Looking at some of the game ones over the last
44:03
Speaker 3: couple of series that these SPURSA played, Carter Bryant played
44:06
Speaker 3: sixteen minutes and fourteen minutes in each of the last
44:09
Speaker 3: two game ones, So if you're getting an upticking minutes,
44:12
Speaker 3: it's likely coming tonight. He's the only guy I'm really
44:15
Speaker 3: setting a rule on because his minutes have to come
44:18
Speaker 3: from somebody. I think it's coming from a Wing. I
44:20
Speaker 3: doubt it's coming from fox Castle or Harper, so i'd
44:25
Speaker 3: probably be setting a max two of Bryant, Vassell and Champagnie.
44:31
Speaker 3: I think it's coming from one of those two guys.
44:35
Speaker 3: But yeah, I really would prefer not to go that
44:38
Speaker 3: cheap if I didn't have to. We can touch on
44:41
Speaker 3: the I guess we didn't touch on Cornett. This is
44:44
Speaker 3: a good thing that Sean brought up before we pass
44:47
Speaker 3: it on. I don't really think it's much of a
44:49
Speaker 3: Cornet series. It's just tough for him to really see
44:52
Speaker 3: a lot of minutes when they probably want to get
44:53
Speaker 3: wemby thirty eight minutes a night, so you're getting ten
44:57
Speaker 3: from Cornett at most, and then you really need him
44:59
Speaker 3: to a couple lot of points that I do prefer
45:01
Speaker 3: Carter Bryan over Cornett, but any thoughts there, Yeah.
45:04
Speaker 1: Prefer Brian over Cornett stinks. I can't do Cornett and
45:08
Speaker 1: if I play one fifty, I wouldn't x M out
45:10
Speaker 1: of the pool, but I would never be building around
45:12
Speaker 1: him or like prioritizing him in single entry type or
45:15
Speaker 1: hand build. Uh, it's Carter Bryant. Give me the athlete,
45:21
Speaker 1: you know. I think that's what they're going to need
45:22
Speaker 1: more in this series is athletes because the next are athletic.
45:25
Speaker 2: Uh.
45:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a Cornett spot for me at all.
45:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Brian's gonna mix. Like when I was
45:31
Speaker 3: thinking about the series, he was the guy I could
45:33
Speaker 3: have seen gay more minutes just to mix in some
45:35
Speaker 3: defense on Brunson, because he's long enough and like agile
45:41
Speaker 3: enough to stay at least give him some some issues
45:46
Speaker 3: if like Castle is getting cooked or if he's just
45:48
Speaker 3: getting in a foul trouble early.
45:50
Speaker 2: I think that cart Bryant will be a guy that
45:52
Speaker 2: they go to a little bit. Uh yeah, I don't.
45:55
Speaker 3: I think you're just hearing what you want to hear,
45:57
Speaker 3: because I didn't say they're a bad defense. I didn't
45:59
Speaker 3: say the weak defenders, said they're weaker defenders. All right,
46:03
Speaker 3: let's shove it to the uh the player pool for
46:06
Speaker 3: our captains here. Obviously, you're a guy that plays less
46:09
Speaker 3: lineup's not really doing a lot of win fifty. But
46:11
Speaker 3: if you're building, let's say, three to five lineups, where
46:14
Speaker 3: would your captain playerpool start an end?
46:23
Speaker 1: I lost? You can you hear me?
46:25
Speaker 2: You got me? Oh?
46:36
Speaker 3: Can you guys, if you guys are here, can you
46:37
Speaker 3: confirm you can hear me?
46:38
Speaker 1: Or Matt?
46:40
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I just said no.
46:43
Speaker 2: It's all good.
46:44
Speaker 3: Uh So, as a guy that plays less lineups than most,
46:48
Speaker 3: if you were playing three to five lineups tonight, where
46:51
Speaker 3: would your captain playerpool start an end for both teams?
46:55
Speaker 1: This is kind of piggybacking into right like what Jose
47:00
Speaker 1: Morales is asking, because I am interested in the Harper
47:04
Speaker 1: cappitining so obviously like it starts with Brunson and Wemby.
47:08
Speaker 1: If you can fit one of those two guys, I
47:11
Speaker 1: prefer Brunson. He's a little bit cheaper. I like the
47:13
Speaker 1: next year your points about just how tough it is
47:16
Speaker 1: for guards of Brunson's ilk to get there because of
47:19
Speaker 1: Wemby's prowess is well taken. So those are the first
47:23
Speaker 1: two guys. But after that I'm interested in from the
47:28
Speaker 1: Nick side og because I think his ceiling is super
47:32
Speaker 1: super high. I think Towns is interesting in tournaments because
47:36
Speaker 1: I think he's low owned and his ceiling is high.
47:38
Speaker 1: And then it's the three Spurs, the Cell Champagne Harper.
47:43
Speaker 1: Harper is the cheapest, I think, the most volatile, but
47:47
Speaker 1: I think he's got the highest ceiling, not even just
47:50
Speaker 1: points per dollar, like the actual raw highest ceiling. So
47:53
Speaker 1: I like Harper here in tournaments you're going for first.
47:57
Speaker 1: He's won a couple of slights already the past couple
47:59
Speaker 1: of round. So that's how I see it. Tell me
48:02
Speaker 1: how you differ.
48:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say pretty much the same. Like there's
48:06
Speaker 3: six guys in the Spurs. The thing you consider everybody
48:09
Speaker 3: in the starting lineup and then down to Don Harper
48:11
Speaker 3: will make my playpool. I would imagine right now, I'd
48:15
Speaker 3: have probably the most Wemby out of anybody in the slate,
48:19
Speaker 3: I would want to be overweight to Champagne and Champagne,
48:22
Speaker 3: Harper and Vessel for sure. I agree with you and
48:24
Speaker 3: Neil Harper play. I think that he's very live to
48:27
Speaker 3: be awful tonight. That definitely think he's got the most
48:30
Speaker 3: ceiling out of these three, like pure ceiling. But I
48:32
Speaker 3: would say Champagne is probably the guy that's more likely
48:36
Speaker 3: to get there more often than not. But I like
48:39
Speaker 3: all three of those guys, think that they are going
48:41
Speaker 3: to be largely impactful in this series and then probably
48:44
Speaker 3: would end up around the field, if not under on
48:46
Speaker 3: Fox and then probably under on Castle as well. I'm
48:48
Speaker 3: not in love with the matchup for Castle and just
48:51
Speaker 3: not really in love with the upside for Fox personally
48:55
Speaker 3: on the.
48:56
Speaker 1: Good No, I just I'm with you on facts like
49:00
Speaker 1: what you said, like you need somebody, Like the fact
49:04
Speaker 1: that you need so much real scoring from him kind
49:07
Speaker 1: of makes me not like him in Captain, just because
49:10
Speaker 1: I think it just be such an outlider performance for
49:12
Speaker 1: him to fill up the box score, which is kind
49:14
Speaker 1: of what you need when you're a captain.
49:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I totally agree there. Yeah, they're just not
49:21
Speaker 3: not in love with the matchup for Sefan Castle. I
49:23
Speaker 3: think that there's probably a little bit more downside than
49:25
Speaker 3: upside for him at this price tag, because at eighty
49:28
Speaker 3: four hundred, what would you want there? Like imagine, let's
49:31
Speaker 3: just say that like Wemby two of Wemby, Kat and
49:35
Speaker 3: Brunson go for their projected score or like right, you know,
49:40
Speaker 3: Santa deviation like three or four points on each side,
49:44
Speaker 3: then what would you want from Sefon Castle in order
49:47
Speaker 3: to need him at captain like forty five to fifty?
49:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, at least probably. The thing is like with how
49:52
Speaker 1: pricing is in a late if you're playing Wemby and Brunson,
49:58
Speaker 1: like especially if you're captaining of them, like you're definitely
50:03
Speaker 1: only getting to one of Castle or talents if one
50:06
Speaker 1: of them, like maybe not even one of them. So
50:09
Speaker 1: like you're gonna have to concede a lot to play
50:14
Speaker 1: Castle here because of how high priorities like Wemby and
50:18
Speaker 1: Brunson are. I get Castle's price because of how good
50:21
Speaker 1: he's been. But you know, we see stuff change, things
50:25
Speaker 1: change series the series. I just don't think I personally
50:28
Speaker 1: and we see this similarly, it seems don't want to
50:30
Speaker 1: pay full freight for Castle here at the start of
50:32
Speaker 1: the series when I don't love the spot for him either,
50:36
Speaker 1: based on everything that you laid out. So yeah, I
50:41
Speaker 1: think we see that really really similarly.
50:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking at some of these lineups, like for
50:49
Speaker 3: Castle Captain, you'd probably you probably I think you would
50:53
Speaker 3: still want Wemby, but you're probably fading both of towns
50:58
Speaker 3: in Brunson, which I think is interesting, Like if you
51:00
Speaker 3: go with og and Bridges and then a value spur
51:04
Speaker 3: and then maybe like you're landing on Kelton or something
51:06
Speaker 3: like that. It's for the last player. I think that
51:08
Speaker 3: makes sense. But yeah, definitely not a guy that I
51:12
Speaker 3: am willing to take a big stand on some and
51:14
Speaker 3: I just just for the reason it's like we just
51:16
Speaker 3: talked about.
51:17
Speaker 1: He's just pricey. He's been phenomenal though, so like I
51:20
Speaker 1: get why some people will go there and would want
51:22
Speaker 1: to plant their flag there. He's he's awesome, man. Like
51:27
Speaker 1: that team is fun to watch, absolutely, you know. I
51:31
Speaker 1: like a bunch of their guys, so good one man,
51:33
Speaker 1: no doubt about it.
51:35
Speaker 2: Yep.
51:36
Speaker 3: Finishing off for finishing things off for the Knicks for me,
51:40
Speaker 3: probably going to be overweight to Brunson, just because I
51:42
Speaker 3: think that he can be undeniably the best player in
51:45
Speaker 3: the game and be the guy that you needed a captain,
51:47
Speaker 3: like you said, is a little bit more comfortable to
51:49
Speaker 3: click on him over Wenby at these price tags, Wenby
51:52
Speaker 3: definitely probably got the higher ceiling overall, but I think
51:54
Speaker 3: that Brunson definitely live to be optimal, and I would
51:58
Speaker 3: say the same for Kat too, just easy for him
52:00
Speaker 3: to rock up the fantasy points. I'd probably end up
52:03
Speaker 3: around the field on hard and Og probably wouldn't want
52:06
Speaker 3: to take a huge stand there, and then probably under
52:09
Speaker 3: on mckill bridges not playing any non starter and captain
52:12
Speaker 3: for the knickt tonight. All right, let's go to I
52:16
Speaker 3: guess we don't really do this often, but you know,
52:18
Speaker 3: you can call whatever you want. I'll just say, like
52:20
Speaker 3: conviction or bet On plays the guys that we're gonna
52:23
Speaker 3: be heavily featured in our lineups if we're playing. I'm
52:26
Speaker 3: definitely playing tonight, so I have a I have a
52:28
Speaker 3: pretty good take. But if you want to kick things off,
52:30
Speaker 3: I think I already know where you're gonna go. But
52:32
Speaker 3: I guess if you were playing like three lineups. I
52:35
Speaker 3: got that you'd potentially be be locking.
52:41
Speaker 1: Man, I'm gonna say, Harper Bro He's just so cheap,
52:44
Speaker 1: like for a guy that I think has such massive upside,
52:47
Speaker 1: gimme Harper. I'm super high on him anyways, Like he
52:50
Speaker 1: fits basically any type of bill And with how I
52:54
Speaker 1: see this game playing out, it's Harbor for me. Like
52:56
Speaker 1: he's just I get why he's Bryce where he is,
52:58
Speaker 1: he's vow at that, but he's so cheap for like
53:01
Speaker 1: how good he is if he gets run like he
53:05
Speaker 1: he is can smash this tag, which most players around
53:09
Speaker 1: this price point. I just don't think I have the
53:11
Speaker 1: upside that he does. So he's my guy. I love it.
53:18
Speaker 2: Had a feeling you were gonna go there.
53:20
Speaker 3: Definitely a guy that was kind of top the list
53:22
Speaker 3: for me as a guy that's gonna be heavily featured
53:25
Speaker 3: in my my portfolios and I just want to look
53:27
Speaker 3: up one thing before giving mine out. Uh yeah, Okay,
53:37
Speaker 3: that's just kind of solidified it for me. I'm going
53:40
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go o g oj Anobi as the guy
53:42
Speaker 3: that I'm gonna be heavily invested tonight. I think that
53:46
Speaker 3: his ownership at Captain or do we have him met? Yeah,
53:53
Speaker 3: eight percent, I'd probably imagine. I think I said I
53:56
Speaker 3: was gonna be around the field, I'll probably end up
53:59
Speaker 3: in like the twelve to fifteen percent range. I probably
54:01
Speaker 3: want to get double the field there and then let
54:03
Speaker 3: everything else fall. But I'm just really I think the
54:05
Speaker 3: O Jesus canna be huge in the series. The time
54:08
Speaker 3: off for him has been massive. I think that the
54:11
Speaker 3: hamstring sounds like it's all but healed up. So I'm
54:15
Speaker 3: I'm really liking what I'm seeing from OG the historic
54:18
Speaker 3: playoff riser. If I had to choose another one, I
54:20
Speaker 3: would go with Champagnee. I'm just liking those guys, the
54:23
Speaker 3: shooters at home for the Spurs, and that that cheaper
54:26
Speaker 3: range like Champagne of a cell Harper. I think all
54:28
Speaker 3: those guys are very very strong tonight. All right, Uh,
54:32
Speaker 3: you want to give your serious predictions so people can
54:35
Speaker 3: clip this and then make fun of us, or we
54:37
Speaker 3: can use it as amo later down the line if
54:40
Speaker 3: we get it right.
54:42
Speaker 1: Yeah. I like the next year, man. I just like
54:44
Speaker 1: the Knicks in this spot. I think the age and
54:46
Speaker 1: the Western Conference comes to comes to a barn for
54:51
Speaker 1: the Spurs and kind of bites them and bites them
54:54
Speaker 1: in the butt. Here, man, I just the next and
54:57
Speaker 1: playing such good ball. I never thought that I would
54:59
Speaker 1: think an e kind of seem would win the finals,
55:01
Speaker 1: but I do. Now give me the Knicks. I think
55:04
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a long, hard, rd fought series, but
55:06
Speaker 1: I think this is the knickt Steel home court tonight.
55:09
Speaker 1: And I think this game, this series goes six because
55:14
Speaker 1: if it's seven, then they got to win in San
55:15
Speaker 1: Antonio again. But I wouldn't put to pass them either.
55:18
Speaker 1: So give me the Knicks and six.
55:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I had to. I had Nicks and six.
55:24
Speaker 3: I think it's kind of a cop out answer, but
55:26
Speaker 3: I do think if it goes seven, then I would
55:27
Speaker 3: favor the Spurs. But all in all, I'm gonna go
55:30
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say Nicks and six. I just think that
55:32
Speaker 3: the time off is gonna help them experience just Jalen
55:36
Speaker 3: Bronson factor.
55:37
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna play huge.
55:39
Speaker 3: So my it's kind of an emotional hitch for me
55:42
Speaker 3: because well, I guess not really because I'm not putting
55:44
Speaker 3: any money on the Knicks.
55:45
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, if the.
55:48
Speaker 3: Spurs win, I'll be happy. I'm not gonna be upset
55:50
Speaker 3: if the Knicks win because I chose them. But yeah,
55:52
Speaker 3: I do think the Knicks are gonna are gonna win
55:54
Speaker 3: this one, so I'm sure Wardo and other Knicks fans
55:57
Speaker 3: in our discord are probably.
55:59
Speaker 2: Pretty happy about that. Yeah, that did it.
56:03
Speaker 3: It's good to get in here and talk some hoops
56:06
Speaker 3: with you. There's no no guarantee that we will do
56:09
Speaker 3: another show for the playoffs, So if this is the
56:11
Speaker 3: last one, then obviously you know at everything we said
56:14
Speaker 3: the last NBA show and we appreciate you guys tuning in.
56:16
Speaker 2: But well, we'll see.
56:18
Speaker 3: We'll try to squeeze in one next week if if
56:22
Speaker 3: schedules line up, if we do go, if we go
56:24
Speaker 3: six or seven, then I would maybe we'll have to.
56:28
Speaker 2: We'll see when Game six or seven is, but.
56:30
Speaker 3: We'll probably have to fire up one more stream for
56:33
Speaker 3: one of the two of those games.
56:34
Speaker 2: But yeah, any any closing thoughts about no.
56:36
Speaker 1: Man, just happy to get back on here with you.
56:38
Speaker 1: It's been too long. Hopefully we get a long series
56:42
Speaker 1: and we can get on here from Gime next week
56:44
Speaker 1: and you know, talk some some more hoops because it's fun.
56:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely appreciate you guys.
56:49
Speaker 2: Tuning in.
56:50
Speaker 3: I know it was kind of a last minute thing,
56:51
Speaker 3: but you know, it's nice to nice to talk hoops
56:54
Speaker 3: with my guy, and I appreciate all you guys for
56:56
Speaker 3: all support. As always, we'll catch you guys in discord
57:00
Speaker 3: two hours and forty minutes until tip off, so we'll
57:03
Speaker 3: get the course up and our guy little Neck does
57:05
Speaker 3: have the sleep plan up already, so go check that
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Speaker 3: out if you remember, and we'll catch you guys later.
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Speaker 2: Good luck tonight, and the spank