Latest / Hustle Sports Fantasy Podcast / Fantasy Basketball Finals Breakdown 🔥 What Actually Won the League
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- 0:32Speaker 1: Hey, whoa, what's going on?
- 0:33Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Hustle Sports Fantasy Podcast. Welcome back
- 0:37Speaker 2: to the Hustles Astra Boy TV where I got my
- 0:40Speaker 2: dog lighted with me. You know what I'm saying. I
- 0:42Speaker 2: ended up playing them in the championship, so you know
- 0:45Speaker 2: I had to bring them on here to recap the playoffs,
- 0:48Speaker 2: how it went, how different it is from the season.
- 0:51Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
- 0:51Speaker 2: We're gonna recap the season, give y'all some lessons that
- 0:54Speaker 2: y'all can use. Get y'all some dubs going forward next season.
- 0:57Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, The grind never start. Y'a
- 0:59Speaker 2: already know we're here to get a dub, So you
- 1:01Speaker 2: already know how I go down. Like I say, championships
- 1:04Speaker 2: a kid on my end, don't so hey look like it. Hey,
- 1:07Speaker 2: I appreciate you giving me that that first one, you
- 1:10Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, But it wouldn't look it came
- 1:13Speaker 2: down to decisions on both sides.
- 1:15Speaker 1: I wanted to how let you know how you doing
- 1:20Speaker 1: start them.
- 1:20Speaker 3: I'm here, humbly in the seat. First of all, got
- 1:24Speaker 3: to give us shut out to you because you dead.
- 1:26Speaker 3: You got that win and you deserve it.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Hey, I appreciate you. Hey, you know what I'm saying.
- 1:31Speaker 2: But getting to the championship ain't easy either. So you
- 1:35Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. It's lessons that they could be
- 1:37Speaker 2: learned whatever, wherever. You know what I'm saying. Like I say,
- 1:40Speaker 2: we're here to get a dub. We can learn from wherever.
- 1:43Speaker 2: Getting to the chip, winning the chip, getting knocked out
- 1:46Speaker 2: in the playoffs, it don't matter. So instead of celebrating,
- 1:48Speaker 2: we're here to break down the matchup, get youall perspectives,
- 1:51Speaker 2: get y'all with work.
- 1:52Speaker 1: What didn't you know what I'm saying? Excuse me?
- 1:57Speaker 2: You know, so you know, starting off, you know I
- 1:59Speaker 2: wanted to get into you know, the draft, and you
- 2:03Speaker 2: you know when you came into the season, what was
- 2:05Speaker 2: on your mind?
- 2:07Speaker 3: Well, clearly I didn't have an approach. I mean I
- 2:11Speaker 3: went to Karl Anthony Towns in the first round. He
- 2:14Speaker 3: clearly in the first round pick and he don't prove
- 2:17Speaker 3: that this season. Then I followed it with Brown Broun,
- 2:21Speaker 3: put up numbers I could have probably gotten later on
- 2:25Speaker 3: the draft, got somebody a little better in the second round.
- 2:28Speaker 3: Looking back on the draft, that'll be a drafted Anthony Simon's,
- 2:33Speaker 3: the Marcus or D'Angelo Russell and even Buddy Hill with
- 2:37Speaker 3: my last pick. And as the season progressed, you see
- 2:40Speaker 3: how many more players you could have got in the
- 2:42Speaker 3: draft instead of wasting them on picks like I did.
- 2:46Speaker 2: So, but I will say, I will say, I mean
- 2:53Speaker 2: to me, this draft don't look you know, it ain't
- 2:56Speaker 2: it ain't worked. It ain't terrible to me, Like say,
- 3:00Speaker 2: because we had twelve teams, you drafted from the twelve spot,
- 3:03Speaker 2: so you're starting off with Cat and Lebron you know,
- 3:07Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, maybe Hound Cat, but Broun
- 3:10Speaker 2: Jamar Mary. The fact that you got Denny in the
- 3:12Speaker 2: sixth round, to me, I ain't gonna lie. That was crazy,
- 3:17Speaker 2: Like there was no no way he should have slip
- 3:20Speaker 2: that far.
- 3:22Speaker 3: So the fact that I drafted Miles School, the fact
- 3:26Speaker 3: that I drafted Miles turning before then it don't make
- 3:28Speaker 3: no sense.
- 3:31Speaker 2: And was still able to double back and get Denny's. Hey,
- 3:37Speaker 2: we were sleep, so we was sleep like a mother.
- 3:40Speaker 2: That's crazy. But nah, I'm looking though, like you know,
- 3:44Speaker 2: so like when you say you didn't really have an approach,
- 3:47Speaker 2: you just were taken best available.
- 3:50Speaker 3: Na I was going off the names I knew. I
- 3:52Speaker 3: answer things you do, Okay, always been a Lebron fans
- 3:58Speaker 3: since O three. Uh, looking back on, I mean followed
- 4:03Speaker 3: the Nuggets pretty hard and Dero's in the household. Name.
- 4:08Speaker 3: I knew Marles Turner played, you know as big, he
- 4:11Speaker 3: was gonna put up points, Danny. I just lucked into
- 4:14Speaker 3: watching him a little bit early in the season because
- 4:17Speaker 3: I mean, I think our draft was a couple of
- 4:18Speaker 3: weeks after the season started.
- 4:20Speaker 1: We was two weeks behind.
- 4:22Speaker 3: Yeah, he was putting up numbers in the first half
- 4:24Speaker 3: of the season, so I lucked in them and then
- 4:27Speaker 3: locked up in the cltkhill where as Well had to
- 4:31Speaker 3: get the Miami he played on the roster.
- 4:33Speaker 2: Yeah, your ESPN recap to be aware, it was like
- 4:42Speaker 2: your most your your sneaky pig. What you got him
- 4:45Speaker 2: in the tenth m Nah that was a great scoop
- 4:50Speaker 2: in the team too. So you know, recaping, you really
- 4:54Speaker 2: was just looking for names that you knew, people you
- 4:56Speaker 2: could trust.
- 5:00Speaker 1: YEP, I ain't gonna lie you who was breaking up
- 5:04Speaker 1: a bit? I ain't. I ain't he.
- 5:09Speaker 3: Ohh yeah, I was just going with names I was
- 5:10Speaker 3: comfortable with. I mean, I didn't really do research before
- 5:13Speaker 3: the draft, see who was trying to who wasn't. I
- 5:16Speaker 3: was just going with up what I knew. Temple, Buddy Hill,
- 5:20Speaker 3: I mean I don't I don't know why I dropped
- 5:22Speaker 3: the buddy.
- 5:28Speaker 2: But he he was in that uh but he was
- 5:32Speaker 2: in that uh the communal trade.
- 5:36Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah, he started the season goal safe
- 5:40Speaker 3: right right.
- 5:42Speaker 1: That ain't crazy at the last pick, I ain't a lot.
- 5:46Speaker 1: That ain't crazy.
- 5:46Speaker 2: I mean, you know at that point, you really just
- 5:50Speaker 2: throwing darts anyway. That's probably extremer guy anyway, So you
- 5:55Speaker 2: know that was your mindset going over people that you
- 5:58Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, you knew, you know what? Like,
- 6:03Speaker 2: do you feel like it was a point that came
- 6:05Speaker 2: where you had to pivot faster than you really wanted to.
- 6:11Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, like you mentioned that had the twelfth pick,
- 6:14Speaker 3: which mean I had the next pick in the next round,
- 6:16Speaker 3: So I really didn't have time to plan out that
- 6:19Speaker 3: second pick. I mean I had time, you know, in
- 6:21Speaker 3: between those picks, but once it was my turn to pick,
- 6:25Speaker 3: I had to double right back and be on the clock.
- 6:28Speaker 3: So I mean that wasn't easy. I feel like I
- 6:30Speaker 3: might have rushed a couple of picks just to get off,
- 6:33Speaker 3: you know, before the time went off. So yeah, go ahead, No,
- 6:41Speaker 3: I was saying that twelve pick. I mean, it's nice
- 6:44Speaker 3: to have that pick back to back, but it don't
- 6:46Speaker 3: get much time to stripe jobs.
- 6:51Speaker 2: So you will with things you do, you know what,
- 6:54Speaker 2: So that that right there, cruise, there's no one way
- 6:59Speaker 2: to win chip. You just gotta be on it. You
- 7:02Speaker 2: gotta be locked in, you know what I'm saying. You
- 7:05Speaker 2: went with names you knew, and then it's crazy. We
- 7:08Speaker 2: ended up doing the trade for check in Carl Anthony
- 7:11Speaker 2: Towns and to me, you know, like I said, up
- 7:14Speaker 2: until All Star Break, I felt like that trade was
- 7:16Speaker 2: a wash. Think Cap maybe separated themselves towards the end.
- 7:20Speaker 2: But you know, for the fact that you made a
- 7:24Speaker 2: trade like that, you maneuver it on the waiver wire.
- 7:28Speaker 1: You know, that'll show you right there.
- 7:29Speaker 2: You know, it don't matter how you start off, it
- 7:31Speaker 2: matter how you you know, what you decide to do
- 7:34Speaker 2: over the course of the season, and you know it
- 7:37Speaker 2: matters what you do on the waiver wire.
- 7:40Speaker 1: You know. For me, I ain't a lot when it
- 7:42Speaker 1: came into the drive.
- 7:43Speaker 2: I wanted people that got multiple categories like if you
- 7:48Speaker 2: can get me twenty points five or sis five rebounds,
- 7:52Speaker 2: like that's the guy I wanted over the big score personally,
- 7:56Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like, I feel like fantasy
- 7:58Speaker 2: reward people who who you know, stuffed the sheet, So
- 8:05Speaker 2: I feel like that's who I really wanted to rock with.
- 8:08Speaker 1: So to hear your strategy, you know, kudos to.
- 8:11Speaker 2: You to even you know what I'm saying, to manage
- 8:14Speaker 2: your way to a chip like that, you know, to
- 8:16Speaker 2: appearance for sure, like it's that's hard to do.
- 8:21Speaker 1: That's hard to do.
- 8:22Speaker 2: So you know when you so after the draft, you
- 8:25Speaker 2: got into the season, you you started off strong.
- 8:28Speaker 1: What you started off with? A no?
- 8:32Speaker 3: Ain't no? I think.
- 8:35Speaker 1: So a no? When did? So?
- 8:38Speaker 2: Did you feel like you had to shift off of
- 8:41Speaker 2: your strategy based on your squad?
- 8:45Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely feel like I had to shive to
- 8:47Speaker 3: morow seeing who was hot, who was not, who was
- 8:51Speaker 3: getting managed, who was staying healthy. H you only get
- 8:54Speaker 3: one high R spot, so you got to manage it well.
- 8:57Speaker 3: So I mean what I would go off of it
- 8:59Speaker 3: is just who was hot at the moment, and you
- 9:03Speaker 3: know I would always give them two games. That's what was.
- 9:05Speaker 3: My rule was, I'll give you two games if you ain't.
- 9:08Speaker 3: If you ain't producing the two games, you gotta go.
- 9:11Speaker 3: So I wasn't besides my main guys that I held
- 9:15Speaker 3: on to the whole season, I mean I was letting
- 9:18Speaker 3: them go quick. I mean you could see from the
- 9:20Speaker 3: drive to where I ended, I only got six maybe
- 9:24Speaker 3: seven guys on the team that lasted the whole year.
- 9:31Speaker 1: Yeah, I see seven Sugs, Oh, probably eight Suggs.
- 9:37Speaker 2: Where galling Denny, Dumar, Mury Lebron And then like I say, oh,
- 9:47Speaker 2: that's where you traded cats.
- 9:49Speaker 1: So what was that seven? Yeah?
- 9:51Speaker 2: So so did you have another approach outside of who
- 9:58Speaker 2: was hot?
- 9:58Speaker 1: Like, did you look at anything? I guess when it
- 10:00Speaker 1: came to the waivers or who you streaming?
- 10:04Speaker 3: Yeah, what I would do is I'll go back to
- 10:06Speaker 3: the previous games, see how they're performing, looking at the scorers,
- 10:11Speaker 3: fantasy scorers. Mainly. Later on I learned check the points
- 10:15Speaker 3: in the field goal percentage, three points made, rebounds, assist.
- 10:20Speaker 3: Once I got in further into the season, I learned
- 10:23Speaker 3: how to look past the names and look past how
- 10:27Speaker 3: many points a game it was getting, because points per
- 10:29Speaker 3: game don't always equal how many fantasy points they get in.
- 10:34Speaker 1: That's a great point.
- 10:36Speaker 2: That's a great point because you know what I mean,
- 10:38Speaker 2: you could be a bucket in real life, but in fantasy,
- 10:41Speaker 2: if you just a bucket, it ain't that it ain't good,
- 10:44Speaker 2: but it ain't as valuable.
- 10:46Speaker 1: It's somebody doing something else.
- 10:48Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean, my boy bab scored eight
- 10:53Speaker 3: three points in the game, and I think it's fantasy
- 10:55Speaker 3: total for that game was in. They like, how does
- 10:58Speaker 3: that even make sense? That breakdown?
- 11:02Speaker 2: When you look at Yokids and Luca, they done had
- 11:05Speaker 2: a multiple one hundred point games. You know, we an't
- 11:08Speaker 2: be probably god, I feel like he got one, you
- 11:11Speaker 2: know what I mean? Yeah, and he only had a
- 11:14Speaker 2: hundred with eighty three. So they'll show you right there.
- 11:16Speaker 2: I mean, Bucke's is good, but they ain't that you
- 11:18Speaker 2: know to tell out? Ain't the end all?
- 11:20Speaker 1: Bey'all? You know? For me?
- 11:23Speaker 2: You know, I like the stream like I feel like
- 11:25Speaker 2: I like to keep a core intact. I got like,
- 11:28Speaker 2: I got like seven guys. That's my like, I'm not
- 11:32Speaker 2: moving them cool with them. If I could stream the rest,
- 11:35Speaker 2: I wanted to be you know, closer than nine. Well,
- 11:38Speaker 2: because we can play teen I wanted to be closer
- 11:40Speaker 2: to like eight nah, you know, And if I stream
- 11:44Speaker 2: one or two spots, I'm cool.
- 11:46Speaker 1: But for me, every.
- 11:48Speaker 2: Move, you know what I'm saying, Like, I feel like
- 11:51Speaker 2: every move you gotta it, gotta be decisive, you gotta
- 11:55Speaker 2: have a purpose for it.
- 11:56Speaker 1: Like you can't just be doing stuff, you know what
- 11:59Speaker 1: I mean.
- 12:03Speaker 3: And you can't hold on the guys too long, like
- 12:05Speaker 3: I said, if they showing they're not, you know, produce
- 12:10Speaker 3: them for you gotta be willing to let them go sometimes.
- 12:12Speaker 3: And I feel like that's the lesson I learned now
- 12:14Speaker 3: I'm gonna carry in the next season.
- 12:18Speaker 1: That's what you learn to carry in the next season.
- 12:21Speaker 3: Now, just one of the things I learned to carry
- 12:23Speaker 3: in the next season. Don't hold on a player too
- 12:25Speaker 3: long just because you you might like them on the court.
- 12:29Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right.
- 12:31Speaker 3: Cool.
- 12:31Speaker 1: So that's a good sidue because you know, you say,
- 12:34Speaker 1: that's one one thing.
- 12:35Speaker 2: Don't just go by players, you like, what's something else
- 12:38Speaker 2: you learn over the course of.
- 12:40Speaker 1: This season that you're gonna take in the next season.
- 12:46Speaker 3: Don't get it, I mean, once again, don't get to attached.
- 12:50Speaker 3: Don't go for the big names. I mean, you're gonna need.
- 12:53Speaker 3: One thing you're gonna need is a superstar. Probably gonna
- 12:56Speaker 3: need to at least and I mean it's probably twenty
- 12:59Speaker 3: guys out there right now that could get you forty
- 13:03Speaker 3: fifty eight Fantasy points a game. Yeah, so you're gonna
- 13:07Speaker 3: have to build Rossis starnm from you know, first pick
- 13:10Speaker 3: our first round, second round draft, and then from there
- 13:13Speaker 3: build with solid role players that you know are gonna
- 13:17Speaker 3: be consistent. So my main takeaway from this season going
- 13:22Speaker 3: in the next season would be focused on building a
- 13:25Speaker 3: team and focus on building up roster that you're comfortable with.
- 13:32Speaker 1: Yeah, now I feel you on it. You know what
- 13:35Speaker 1: I'm saying.
- 13:36Speaker 2: Comfortability Like that's I don't know, like that's everything to me,
- 13:42Speaker 2: especially like like.
- 13:44Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie.
- 13:44Speaker 2: It broke my heart when I had to drop Queen
- 13:47Speaker 2: Grimes and you ended up grabbing.
- 13:48Speaker 3: Him tosh them up.
- 13:52Speaker 2: Yeah, I hated to drop him, but he got hurt,
- 13:56Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. But I don't know, like
- 14:00Speaker 2: you gotta Yeah, I like that comfortability. You gotta you
- 14:03Speaker 2: gotta be you gotta know what your roster could do.
- 14:07Speaker 2: But you always gotta look for for for areas to
- 14:11Speaker 2: improve as well though.
- 14:14Speaker 3: At the same situation in the some of my phones,
- 14:17Speaker 3: I hated to drop Nage Marshall. My opponent picked them
- 14:20Speaker 3: up as soon as I dropped him, and Nauge was
- 14:23Speaker 3: aftering forty the rest of the week fantasy points.
- 14:28Speaker 2: Yeah, see, I was gonna bring him up too, like, Hey,
- 14:34Speaker 2: I know you were saying he was up, and I
- 14:35Speaker 2: know we talked offline. You say he was up and down,
- 14:39Speaker 2: but he mowed up and down though. That's for sure. Hey,
- 14:45Speaker 2: we needed.
- 14:49Speaker 3: Especially with that Cooper flag. And that's also what I
- 14:51Speaker 3: looked at too, which I'm gonna carry in the next season.
- 14:54Speaker 3: If you know you got someone like ain't go out,
- 14:58Speaker 3: you can pick up McDaniel's or and a nas read
- 15:01Speaker 3: that's just first is able to pop the mind. Or
- 15:05Speaker 3: you know, just looking at the injury report and picking
- 15:07Speaker 3: up who may step up in the absence.
- 15:12Speaker 2: That's a good point because it opened up a move too,
- 15:14Speaker 2: because they can go to.
- 15:15Speaker 1: The I R. So you know they you you, yeah,
- 15:20Speaker 1: you lost.
- 15:21Speaker 2: You might have lost fifty, but you if you can
- 15:23Speaker 2: get thirty, that could.
- 15:26Speaker 1: Lead to it. Ud.
- 15:28Speaker 3: Speaking of the I R, don't be afraid to use
- 15:30Speaker 3: if you know a guy just out because of the
- 15:32Speaker 3: illness he out of the day, move some move him
- 15:35Speaker 3: to the I R because then you saving that acquisition
- 15:38Speaker 3: or the matchup pick up for later on in the week.
- 15:42Speaker 3: So I learned that late in the season, which I
- 15:43Speaker 3: probably waited too late. If a guy only out for
- 15:46Speaker 3: a game, still move him to the I R spot.
- 15:49Speaker 3: It opens up a ropsis spot without having to pick
- 15:52Speaker 3: up anybody from the wave war mm hmm.
- 15:55Speaker 1: It's a good point. It's a good point.
- 15:58Speaker 2: And you gotta match out to got to max out
- 16:01Speaker 2: them matchup acquisitions. I live for them, Like to me,
- 16:06Speaker 2: that's how I got a lot of dubs, honestly, Like.
- 16:10Speaker 1: I know, y'all.
- 16:11Speaker 2: You know you you had a crazy record and you
- 16:14Speaker 2: started off really strong.
- 16:15Speaker 1: Well you you was you was holding the whole year.
- 16:17Speaker 2: Though, you know what I'm saying. What you finished fourteen
- 16:21Speaker 2: and three. Yeah, so you was holding the whole year.
- 16:25Speaker 2: So you was one of the toughest opponents. But I
- 16:28Speaker 2: feel like that's what keep you competitive. Like if you
- 16:31Speaker 2: ain't you don't have you know, if you ain't had
- 16:34Speaker 2: a crazy drift that you in love with something that
- 16:37Speaker 2: you just you know, super excited about, you gotta match
- 16:41Speaker 2: You gotta max out the matchup acquisitions, because I promise
- 16:45Speaker 2: you them seven moves in a week and then you know,
- 16:49Speaker 2: for All Star Week, you know, because how the games
- 16:53Speaker 2: broke up, you get eight.
- 16:54Speaker 1: So you know, that could be the.
- 16:57Speaker 2: Difference between you know, being well, nineteen games, you know,
- 17:03Speaker 2: being six and thirteen as opposed to being you know,
- 17:08Speaker 2: ten and nine fighting for a playoff spot. So make
- 17:12Speaker 2: sure y'all maxing out the matchup. Actually, don't play with that.
- 17:15Speaker 2: Leave a spot for screaming. That's what it's fun our music.
- 17:20Speaker 2: It'll help you.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So let's let's let's let's go get
- 17:27Speaker 1: into this matchup. Though, you know what I'm saying.
- 17:29Speaker 2: I know you, I know you really don't want to
- 17:31Speaker 2: talk about it, you know what I'm saying, but I
- 17:33Speaker 2: definitely appreciate you coming on. I want to break it
- 17:36Speaker 2: down to help the hustles out there, to you know,
- 17:39Speaker 2: possibly get a dub.
- 17:40Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, because we can learn from everybody.
- 17:43Speaker 2: How can you know what I'm saying, Like, we all
- 17:45Speaker 2: here to get a dub so we all can learn.
- 17:47Speaker 2: So let's break down this chap Championship matchup. What was
- 17:51Speaker 2: you thinking about going into that week?
- 17:55Speaker 3: Going into the weeks. I looked at her, what y'all mean,
- 17:58Speaker 3: I do often so on Sundays, I'll go all the
- 18:01Speaker 3: way Sunday through Saturday, seeing who going who, who's slided
- 18:06Speaker 3: free day. What I noticed is my main guys was
- 18:11Speaker 3: all going on the same day, I think, three or
- 18:14Speaker 3: four days after week, and so I felt like I
- 18:18Speaker 3: had a shot staying with my roster the way it was.
- 18:21Speaker 3: I mean, I Adam mckel mchal Bridges right before the
- 18:25Speaker 3: right before the championship week started, but other than that,
- 18:28Speaker 3: I felt like, out of them three or four days,
- 18:31Speaker 3: I was gonna put up enough points to stay at
- 18:33Speaker 3: least competitive and you know, staying the running, just because
- 18:37Speaker 3: I had all them guys on the same day. And
- 18:39Speaker 3: I mean, Jamal Murray was on fire at that point,
- 18:43Speaker 3: so I already knew he was gonna carry the team
- 18:46Speaker 3: like he did the whole season. And I just I
- 18:49Speaker 3: guess I must have felt too comfortable with the roster.
- 18:51Speaker 2: At I saw the anger lie that McHale Bridges scooped though, like.
- 18:59Speaker 1: You know that I was a great one because I ain't.
- 19:01Speaker 2: I stared at him so long, but I knew if
- 19:05Speaker 2: I grabbed him, I was never gonna.
- 19:07Speaker 1: Drop, and I ain't want to be. I wanted to
- 19:09Speaker 1: keep a spot over. Nah, I ain't gonna lie.
- 19:15Speaker 2: You know, you was definitely a formidable opponent, you know
- 19:17Speaker 2: what I'm saying. I shared the score on the on
- 19:19Speaker 2: the championship episode from Wednesday. You know, I only won
- 19:23Speaker 2: by a hundred, so it wasn't like you know, it
- 19:25Speaker 2: was just crazy like so you kept the roster the same, No,
- 19:32Speaker 2: I know. For me, like I say, I'm big on matchup,
- 19:35Speaker 2: ack was issue. So that's really how I went to
- 19:37Speaker 2: that matchup, trying to break it down, saying because I
- 19:41Speaker 2: because before the matt before it even started, I looked
- 19:45Speaker 2: at the schedule and I saw that you had a
- 19:48Speaker 2: schedule advantage towards the back of the week. So from
- 19:53Speaker 2: like Thursday to Sunday, I think like three out of
- 19:57Speaker 2: four days you had more people playing than I did.
- 20:01Speaker 3: So yeah, I want to say Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- 20:04Speaker 3: I had the whole team playing, all time players.
- 20:07Speaker 2: Slaughter, right, Yeah, it's Sunday. Sunday is the big one though,
- 20:15Speaker 2: because I ain't gonna lie. When I saw that, I
- 20:17Speaker 2: just knew you probably was gonna get the due. But
- 20:21Speaker 2: what I think ended up helping me is Saturday. I
- 20:27Speaker 2: think I had like four people playing. You had like three. Yeah,
- 20:33Speaker 2: but you had so many people playing on Sunday you
- 20:37Speaker 2: really couldn't drop nobody.
- 20:38Speaker 1: To really make a move Saturday up.
- 20:42Speaker 3: And that's what hurt That ended up hurting me in
- 20:44Speaker 3: the long run because that was my thinking. I'm like,
- 20:50Speaker 3: I could go ahead and try to go for the
- 20:52Speaker 3: kill shot Saturday, but I'm like everybody playing Sunday. I
- 20:56Speaker 3: was like the only person I could have dropped with Lebron,
- 20:59Speaker 3: But Lebron I couldn't drop because I drafted him second
- 21:03Speaker 3: in the league.
- 21:04Speaker 1: So I ain't gonna lie I would have dropped.
- 21:08Speaker 3: I think it was I think it was locked if
- 21:10Speaker 3: I am mistaken because ain't like your top two picks,
- 21:12Speaker 3: you can't drop them.
- 21:14Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right, drop them. Yeah.
- 21:18Speaker 1: So that's tough. That's tough. But yeah, I think that's
- 21:23Speaker 1: the one thing that helped me.
- 21:24Speaker 2: Like I feel like you was kind of in a
- 21:27Speaker 2: position to where if you dropped them, like the people
- 21:29Speaker 2: you was dropping them for wasn't gonna do what they
- 21:31Speaker 2: was gonna do, you know, and then you would have
- 21:34Speaker 2: to find back to backs, which that was kind of
- 21:37Speaker 2: hard that week too, So now I ain't gonna lie.
- 21:40Speaker 1: It was crazy. I was, I ain't gonna hold you.
- 21:42Speaker 2: I was nervous though, because I was down going into Friday.
- 21:45Speaker 1: I believe on Thursday at least, you know what I'm saying. So, uh,
- 21:52Speaker 1: if there's anything you could do differently now and not just.
- 21:56Speaker 2: Championship related, just over the course of the season, what
- 22:00Speaker 2: would it be.
- 22:03Speaker 3: I mean it ties into Championship week, hold on certain
- 22:06Speaker 3: players as longer than I should have, So I mean
- 22:10Speaker 3: anything I would have done different, which we talked about
- 22:13Speaker 3: it previously. On the last podcast, I was on DeMar derozen,
- 22:18Speaker 3: which it hurt me because I want to say, either
- 22:21Speaker 3: the championship week or the week before, he went out
- 22:23Speaker 3: there and dropped sixty Fantasy points and I'm like, all right,
- 22:27Speaker 3: here we go, here we go. You know he ready,
- 22:30Speaker 3: you know, backt with eleven fifteen. Then he decided not
- 22:36Speaker 3: to play Championship Sunday. I'm like, yeah, yeah, So, I mean,
- 22:44Speaker 3: like I said previously, holding on the players too long
- 22:48Speaker 3: probably was my biggest downfall.
- 22:52Speaker 2: But the rosa was straight because, like you're saying, he
- 22:57Speaker 2: would have a game with sixty and you see that sixty.
- 23:00Speaker 1: He's like, bro, I can't drop this dude. I'm gonna
- 23:04Speaker 1: be honest. That's what helped me keep eighting is long.
- 23:07Speaker 2: You know, over the course of the season, honestly, he'd
- 23:10Speaker 2: have a game where he just go flat out nuclear,
- 23:13Speaker 2: you know what I mean, And.
- 23:14Speaker 1: Then he got get come back eight Fantasy.
- 23:22Speaker 3: Same thing with Clue where And the thing that hurt
- 23:25Speaker 3: me with Clil where is I'm sitting there watching the
- 23:27Speaker 3: games live and I'm seeing him either not getting minutes
- 23:31Speaker 3: becausepol playing five or six minutes a game, he won't
- 23:34Speaker 3: won't see him for the red of the game. Well,
- 23:36Speaker 3: when he was out there, he was looking lost. You know,
- 23:40Speaker 3: he wasn't involved in the offense, his defense was lacking.
- 23:44Speaker 3: And I'm seeing this with my own eyes. But I'm like,
- 23:48Speaker 3: I can't let him. I can't drop him. At this point,
- 23:50Speaker 3: he done got me here, so I can't drop him.
- 23:55Speaker 2: And that's where like, I feel like, that's why, you know,
- 24:00Speaker 2: his career looked the way it does. But I do
- 24:03Speaker 2: feel like Fantasy wise, it was a great school because
- 24:09Speaker 2: when he do go crazy, you know what I'm saying,
- 24:12Speaker 2: He's gonna go crazy.
- 24:17Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, because he got the talent talents there
- 24:20Speaker 3: and like you said, fantasy he I want to say
- 24:24Speaker 3: he was averaging close to thirty, if not thirty, he
- 24:26Speaker 3: was in the twenties for sure. Yeah, so I mean
- 24:30Speaker 3: he a good late round pick up.
- 24:32Speaker 1: He started the season off crazy. I ain't gonna lie.
- 24:34Speaker 2: I mentioned him on one of the early early episodes,
- 24:38Speaker 2: but you had already you draft him.
- 24:40Speaker 1: But yeah, he was hooping.
- 24:42Speaker 2: He was hooping, so I don't know, though, I hope
- 24:45Speaker 2: he get opportunity though. He seemed like he got you know,
- 24:47Speaker 2: at least that Tyson Chandler type ro and you know
- 24:51Speaker 2: what I'm saying, this future for sure.
- 24:57Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. I feel like he got the upside.
- 25:00Speaker 3: Just he gotta get out of his own way.
- 25:01Speaker 2: It seemed like, yeah, and don't we all so what
- 25:07Speaker 2: you ask?
- 25:07Speaker 1: So, so, so what do you what do you.
- 25:10Speaker 2: Think was the biggest moves that decided the championship match?
- 25:14Speaker 3: Though, tar Reese maxim I ain't gonna lie. That hurt.
- 25:22Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie. That probably hurt the worst because
- 25:26Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm expecting him to be out to the playoffs. You, oh, yeah,
- 25:31Speaker 3: I'm glad you ain't snatched up Max, and I'm like,
- 25:33Speaker 3: maxie back and he was like, yeah he you know,
- 25:35Speaker 3: game time decision on Saturday. And I'm like, of course
- 25:38Speaker 3: he is. When I only got three guys going, so
- 25:41Speaker 3: I'm hoping he got rushed. Boy came out to drop
- 25:44Speaker 3: what sixty, I'm like, it's a wrap. I knew Saturday
- 25:49Speaker 3: was a rap.
- 25:51Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's so funny. So when I saw the news,
- 25:58Speaker 2: I was just waiting too thirty.
- 26:00Speaker 1: It was crazy.
- 26:01Speaker 2: I ain't even have to wait till a thirty because
- 26:03Speaker 2: the first game had started.
- 26:06Speaker 1: Yo. I was praying, you ain't gonna grab him.
- 26:08Speaker 3: So I wasn't even checking for him because it was
- 26:12Speaker 3: supposed to be.
- 26:12Speaker 2: Out to he was supposed to be out yo till
- 26:16Speaker 2: now exactly. I ain't know he was coming back. E.
- 26:19Speaker 1: I just happened to be scrolling on Twitter.
- 26:22Speaker 2: Or x now and the Boys Underdog say he was
- 26:27Speaker 2: a game time decision. I'm like, what, that's crazy. That
- 26:31Speaker 2: was like five days earlier he had like like like
- 26:35Speaker 2: a finger fracture or something.
- 26:37Speaker 3: Broken bone in his finger or something like that.
- 26:40Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, I ain't gonna lie that. That
- 26:44Speaker 2: probably was the.
- 26:44Speaker 1: Move for me too. I ain't gonna hold you.
- 26:47Speaker 2: I think I think it came through right when I
- 26:49Speaker 2: needed it, like, because like I said, I was down
- 26:53Speaker 2: late in the week in that.
- 26:54Speaker 1: Matchup, so that MAXI scoop I had. I needed that.
- 27:00Speaker 3: But I mean as far as my team going with
- 27:02Speaker 3: IRB Jones, for I think the first two days, three
- 27:06Speaker 3: days of the matchup and him dropping like forty fantasy
- 27:10Speaker 3: thirty fantasy the next night, I felt like, I'm like, Okay,
- 27:13Speaker 3: I got a chance. And then I doubled back later
- 27:16Speaker 3: on in the week with Jay when Williams, once I
- 27:17Speaker 3: realized check was out, he came out with forty five.
- 27:22Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, I got this. It's so Saturday
- 27:26Speaker 3: is what it came. It really came down to.
- 27:30Speaker 2: Nah, I ain't yeah them great moves too, because I
- 27:33Speaker 2: looked at j Dov and for whatever reason just didn't
- 27:36Speaker 2: hit the button cuz ain't you know, I wouldn't hear
- 27:40Speaker 2: nothing about when he was coming back.
- 27:43Speaker 1: So that was a great school. That was a great school.
- 27:47Speaker 2: So over the course of so instead, you know, let's
- 27:49Speaker 2: look long term, over the course of the season, what
- 27:53Speaker 2: was the biggest move or moment that decided your season.
- 28:02Speaker 3: Well, I mean I drafted him, so I wouldn't say
- 28:05Speaker 3: it was, you know, the biggest move I made, But
- 28:07Speaker 3: there's Garland coming back from jury really helped me out
- 28:10Speaker 3: with my roster because I mean we joked about it before.
- 28:13Speaker 3: I was full of nothing but small forward power forwards.
- 28:16Speaker 3: I really ain't have no guards on the team besides
- 28:18Speaker 3: Jamal Murray and I was streaming really the rest of
- 28:21Speaker 3: them and Jay when Suggs played like once a week,
- 28:25Speaker 3: it seemed like so for guards. With there's Garland coming back,
- 28:31Speaker 3: and I mean he immediately produced when he came off
- 28:33Speaker 3: the yard.
- 28:34Speaker 1: So.
- 28:37Speaker 2: Yeah, I figured that Clippers train was gonna be good
- 28:41Speaker 2: for him though. Yeah, Nah, that was it. Yeah, that
- 28:46Speaker 2: was that. That definitely prepelled you for sure. That's actually
- 28:50Speaker 2: what helped you keep the bye.
- 28:53Speaker 3: Yeah it got me to buy, was theres Garland?
- 28:56Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Garland definitely got you to buy, that's for sure.
- 28:59Speaker 1: For uh. I like that. All right, So what's one
- 29:05Speaker 1: move you would change?
- 29:08Speaker 2: And we're gonna go season first, and then we'll go
- 29:11Speaker 2: to the championship matchup.
- 29:16Speaker 3: Season I'll probably say going back to the draft, you
- 29:18Speaker 3: got to get a superstar in the first rown or two.
- 29:22Speaker 3: Other than that, I'm gonna keep rping back to it.
- 29:26Speaker 3: Should have let the mar go a long time ago,
- 29:30Speaker 3: and no disrespect at the Bartosa because he still could play,
- 29:35Speaker 3: but he just wasn't it and I held on to
- 29:38Speaker 3: him too long.
- 29:41Speaker 2: Bro.
- 29:42Speaker 1: I'm looking at the draft.
- 29:46Speaker 2: So you drafted car and in the Towns twelfth in
- 29:49Speaker 2: the first round.
- 29:51Speaker 1: You get a twelfth pick.
- 29:53Speaker 3: But do you believe you your first round pick?
- 29:54Speaker 1: Though? No? However, this who wait happened Lebron?
- 30:01Speaker 2: Which was you tryon Durant, Harden, Devin Booker, Damn, Evan Mobley,
- 30:11Speaker 2: Zion Sengoon, Jalen Brown, Sika, Josh Getty. Now it's like
- 30:21Speaker 2: a few names on there I wouldn't take. I wouldn't
- 30:23Speaker 2: take cat Over, but a lot of them. I'm looking,
- 30:28Speaker 2: you know, like that might be a good school. He
- 30:33Speaker 2: gonna get a double double.
- 30:36Speaker 3: Yeah. I just feel like you need, like you mentioned,
- 30:42Speaker 3: somebody like Kevin Durant, You need somebody like him, or
- 30:47Speaker 3: even like a Kawhi Leonard. I don't think you drafted
- 30:49Speaker 3: the Kawhi Leonard even, but I mean he was like
- 30:52Speaker 3: one of your main players all season.
- 30:55Speaker 1: I got him in a sentence.
- 30:57Speaker 2: Yeah, Nah, that's crazy that everybody.
- 31:02Speaker 1: Was scared of Kawhia.
- 31:06Speaker 3: I mean he had the injuries, but when he was
- 31:08Speaker 3: out there, he.
- 31:13Speaker 2: Yeah, he wasn't playing back to backs like recently, but
- 31:18Speaker 2: he definitely played a good bit of the season though
- 31:22Speaker 2: he had the ankle injury early in the season, and
- 31:24Speaker 2: then once he came back from there, he was he
- 31:27Speaker 2: started rolling.
- 31:30Speaker 3: I think I old of him. Took James Harden over
- 31:32Speaker 3: Cut in hindsight, Harden, yeah, short.
- 31:45Speaker 1: He was.
- 31:45Speaker 2: He went in the second round pick sixteen. Yeah, I was, Yeah, no,
- 31:51Speaker 2: I probably take hard Nah, Yeah, I agree, I.
- 31:58Speaker 1: Actually, but like.
- 32:05Speaker 2: I don't know about the rent though, honestly fantasy wise anyway,
- 32:09Speaker 2: fantasy wise, he.
- 32:12Speaker 3: Came on stronger in the season towards under the season.
- 32:15Speaker 3: For from what I remember, who Kevin Durrant.
- 32:20Speaker 1: Oh like Mobiley Bam.
- 32:26Speaker 3: I would have took BAM over Cap.
- 32:28Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're a Heat fan though, Like, but we
- 32:32Speaker 2: take the bias out you taking BAM over Cap fantasy.
- 32:39Speaker 1: I can't get more rebounds than BAM.
- 32:42Speaker 3: But BAM also getting more sense, I feel like too. Yeah,
- 32:46Speaker 3: I mean the offense really run through BAMD need the
- 32:48Speaker 3: point guards sometimes on the court.
- 32:50Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Mobley Zion, Jaylen Brown though like that
- 32:59Speaker 2: that was crazy.
- 33:00Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, special with Tatum being out.
- 33:06Speaker 1: Yeah, with Taytum being out. Yeah, James, that's a good one.
- 33:12Speaker 2: So all right, so, oh on my bad? What was
- 33:17Speaker 2: your one move you would change over your season?
- 33:20Speaker 1: Oh? You in the drafted cat. That's why we got
- 33:22Speaker 1: on the whole subject. All right. So for the championship,
- 33:26Speaker 1: what's one move you would have changed?
- 33:30Speaker 3: Out the way harder on Saturday out of you know what?
- 33:34Speaker 3: Harder Saturday the club? Because I want to say, you
- 33:37Speaker 3: was up at like forty fifty and going into Saturday.
- 33:41Speaker 1: Yeah what I felt?
- 33:43Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 33:43Speaker 1: No, I was up.
- 33:44Speaker 2: I think I was up like twenty six, and then
- 33:48Speaker 2: after Saturday I was up like forty eight.
- 33:52Speaker 3: Yeah, so I feel like I shouldn't try three people
- 33:56Speaker 3: going on Saturday.
- 34:00Speaker 2: I ain't gonna lie Saturday made because I looked at
- 34:04Speaker 2: the moves. I had u six moves by Saturday and
- 34:09Speaker 2: you had only had three.
- 34:11Speaker 1: Yeah, so you really could have went crazy.
- 34:14Speaker 2: Hey I'm glad you didn't, though.
- 34:19Speaker 3: I was trusting on Sunday and let me down.
- 34:24Speaker 2: Yeah all right, So look, heartbreaks competition, you know what
- 34:31Speaker 2: I'm saying.
- 34:31Speaker 1: It happens that way. It's gotta be a winner.
- 34:35Speaker 2: But the good thing about sports is always next year.
- 34:40Speaker 1: So you know, what's one.
- 34:41Speaker 2: Thing that you would give to anybody who watching, is
- 34:44Speaker 2: anybody who listening, what's one lesson you would tell them
- 34:48Speaker 2: to take into twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven basketball season.
- 34:54Speaker 3: Basically just an accumulation everything we're talking about. Go after
- 34:57Speaker 3: guys that's gone get points. But also check that field
- 35:03Speaker 3: overcenterge because that plays a role into it. Well, I
- 35:06Speaker 3: have to get somebody that is willing to share the ball,
- 35:10Speaker 3: get rebounds, make the three pointer. Other than that, focus
- 35:17Speaker 3: on the draft. The draft is key. I mean, you
- 35:18Speaker 3: could definitely build your team like I did through the
- 35:22Speaker 3: wave wire and the acquisition during the season. But I
- 35:26Speaker 3: feel like if you have a strong draft, or you
- 35:29Speaker 3: you know, you have a draft that you feel like,
- 35:32Speaker 3: like you said, at least nine people that you were
- 35:34Speaker 3: out with the whole season, it'll make a lot easier
- 35:36Speaker 3: for you during the season.
- 35:41Speaker 1: Nah, I like that.
- 35:43Speaker 2: Yeah, because the draft is important, and nine, that number
- 35:47Speaker 2: might be high or better. Yeah, that number. You might
- 35:50Speaker 2: not find that number in the draft. You might not
- 35:53Speaker 2: get nine out the gate of people you're gonna hold
- 35:56Speaker 2: the rest of the season. But if you come away
- 35:58Speaker 2: with six and then find three along the way of
- 36:02Speaker 2: the season. You probably got a good season.
- 36:07Speaker 3: And don't be afraid to go for the rookies. Everybody
- 36:11Speaker 3: slept on East Bailey all season. I think I picked
- 36:13Speaker 3: him up after all Star break. I mean, ain't nobody
- 36:19Speaker 3: think Colin was gonna be what he was gonna be?
- 36:21Speaker 3: Everybody as soon you know, Cooper Flags he did what
- 36:24Speaker 3: he did. But at least, you know, have faith in
- 36:27Speaker 3: the rookies, so saying.
- 36:30Speaker 2: Yeah, But the thing with Cooper though, is he missed
- 36:33Speaker 2: a lot of games. Con he ain't really miss a
- 36:37Speaker 2: lot of games. They both hoo. I mean they are
- 36:39Speaker 2: through hoo. They probably gonna give it to Cooper flag
- 36:41Speaker 2: Rickie the year who you think.
- 36:44Speaker 1: Oh.
- 36:46Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he nice?
- 36:52Speaker 1: Oh biased?
- 36:53Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I hope Coop get it,
- 36:55Speaker 2: you know. But the circle back though to the you know,
- 36:58Speaker 2: to the lesson of in the next season. You know
- 37:01Speaker 2: what I'm saying for me, don't be scared to stream like.
- 37:08Speaker 1: Players. Some players are hot.
- 37:10Speaker 2: During a specific point of the season, and if you
- 37:13Speaker 2: can get in on that high streak, it's probably gonna
- 37:17Speaker 2: lead to you having a successful street season. Don't be
- 37:20Speaker 2: scared of the risk. You know what I'm saying it
- 37:23Speaker 2: Sometimes it is gonna go against you. But knowing when
- 37:27Speaker 2: to get out, knowing who to go scoop next, who
- 37:30Speaker 2: to replace him with, you can save your season.
- 37:33Speaker 1: So don't be scared to stream.
- 37:34Speaker 2: That's that'll be the lesson that I take in the
- 37:37Speaker 2: next season, especially for this basketball.
- 37:40Speaker 1: Do not be scared to stream, you know what I'm saying.
- 37:43Speaker 2: Understanding roles, Understanding opportunity because opportunity changing throughout the course
- 37:48Speaker 2: of the season for sure.
- 37:51Speaker 3: And just because they might be a flavor person on
- 37:55Speaker 3: the court, on the court or watching them on TV
- 37:59Speaker 3: doesn't always with a fantasy. That's another lesson I would
- 38:03Speaker 3: have to take it the next season. So you might
- 38:05Speaker 3: want to get somebody from your favorite squad, but you
- 38:08Speaker 3: gotta think are you gonna be willing to let them
- 38:11Speaker 3: go during the season when it's time.
- 38:13Speaker 2: To let them go, or are they even the best
- 38:19Speaker 2: available person for you? Or you just got them because
- 38:23Speaker 2: they play on your squad? H Hey, so you know
- 38:30Speaker 2: they bring us to the end here though, Hey, I
- 38:33Speaker 2: want to salute you. Oh I mean, yeah, there we go.
- 38:38Speaker 2: Let me salute you making it to the championship. Like
- 38:41Speaker 2: I say, you know, use dominant all year. You was
- 38:44Speaker 2: definitely formidable opponent for everybody to watch it.
- 38:49Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, this is what it is,
- 38:53Speaker 1: This is what it looked like.
- 38:55Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Putting the work in, putting
- 38:57Speaker 2: the grind, and we got two different philosophy.
- 39:00Speaker 1: You know, we ended up in the path to a championship.
- 39:05Speaker 2: You know, sometimes you gotta you gotta be the best
- 39:08Speaker 2: to be the best, and that's how it work in
- 39:09Speaker 2: this season. You know what I'm saying, don't matter how
- 39:14Speaker 2: you get there, as long as you execute. You already
- 39:17Speaker 2: know its numbers over narratives, you know what I'm saying.
- 39:20Speaker 2: And hey, like, but we get out of here. Definitely
- 39:23Speaker 2: want to appreciate you pulling up one more time, helping
- 39:27Speaker 2: the people out getting ready for next season.
- 39:30Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate.
- 39:31Speaker 3: You, no problem. And once again I gotta give you props.
- 39:35Speaker 3: I wasn't gonna bring it up, but I got at
- 39:37Speaker 3: least take one shot at you. You know, you just
- 39:40Speaker 3: talking offline in November, you said I'm playing for a
- 39:45Speaker 3: playoff spot, and I laughed at you because I'm like,
- 39:49Speaker 3: you playing for a playoff spot. In November but you
- 39:52Speaker 3: had it in your mind to where you wanted to go,
- 39:54Speaker 3: and it turned out the way you wanted it to go.
- 39:57Speaker 3: And I just always think back to that. It's not
- 40:00Speaker 3: it's never too early to plan for the championship.
- 40:06Speaker 2: Yeah, because because the thing I oh, well, hey, that's
- 40:11Speaker 2: a good point. I'm glad you brought it up. Because
- 40:13Speaker 2: one more lesson I'll give it to y'all. Don't don't
- 40:18Speaker 2: pan it.
- 40:19Speaker 1: It could look crazy.
- 40:20Speaker 2: And I told in November and you could be smooth
- 40:22Speaker 2: sailing about January.
- 40:26Speaker 1: Turn the whole.
- 40:27Speaker 3: Season around, turn the whole season.
- 40:32Speaker 2: Right, So yeah, do not pin it. So yeah, I
- 40:35Speaker 2: appreciate it. Hate it had to be you, but it
- 40:38Speaker 2: had to be you. Hey, if y'all like more breakdowns
- 40:42Speaker 2: like this, go check out.
- 40:43Speaker 1: My championship episode.
- 40:45Speaker 2: You know where I have conversations like, oh I'm breaking,
- 40:48Speaker 2: I'm having breakdowns like this about the route to a
- 40:52Speaker 2: championship appearance for y'all.
- 40:54Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
- 40:55Speaker 2: That's on the Huston Sports Fantasy podcast channel. Y'all appreciate it, y'all.
- 41:00Speaker 2: Good check check me out. You know what I'm saying, y'all,
- 41:02Speaker 2: have a good