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NBA Quick Hit | December 16, 2023 | DraftKings DFS Picks, Plays and Process · Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation

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  Fall. System's going clear for lift off. What's up, guys, you're
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  batcheated here? Are gonna be talking about this? Uh NBA DFS slate Saturday,
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  December sixteenth, we got a nine games slate on tap. I got
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  some injury news. I'm gonna be going pretty quickly in this one. Don't
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  really have a ton of time to go super deep into all of the matchup
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  based stuff. Just gonna be running through some of the plays for each game.
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  Got a busy day ahead of me, so it will start with the
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  Philadelphia seventy six ers taken on Charlotte Hornets two thirty one over under Philly favored
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  by nine. Yeah, on the Philly side, pretty much just gonna be
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  embid for a bus, embad or bus for me. Here, a really
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  good matchup versus Charlotte, who struggled versus opposing centers this year with no Mark
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  Williams, so he's a really, really strong spind up. I could see
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  him getting his full workload since he's been limited to about thirty minutes in the
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  last two games due to blowout. I think the Hornet should be able to
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  hang around here. We could see a big ceiling performance out of embiid,
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  so I like him a lot of suspend up and on the Charlotte side,
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  Terry Rozier has one of the best roles right now for ball handlers and point
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  guards. Just been dominating usage, been dominating, assist percentage, time,
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  possession, all that. Price a getting up there at nine K. But
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  it was tip for matchup versus the Anthony Melton, but his minute should be
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  should be sky high, so I don't mind him at all. I think
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  I prefer Miles Bridges and to Terry Rozier in this one easier matchup versus Tobias
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  Hair, and his minute should be really high too. If PJ. Washington
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  were to Michigan, a little bit less interest if PJ is in, but
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  I still think Moles Bridges is a fine play. Let's move on to the
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  Atlanta Hawks. Taken on in Cleveland, Cavaliers got a solid two thirty six
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  over under Cleveland favored by two and a half. Yeah. On the Atlanta
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  side, I think this is a sneaky good matchup for Trey Young. The
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  Cavaliers play a lot of drop coverage in terms of pick and roll, so
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  I think that just with the way he's been playing right now, the way
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  he's been shooting, the way he's been assisting, I think that he could
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  put up a pretty solid score again here, and yeah, they drop coverage.
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  Matchup should be one that really benefits him. Should be able to get
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  a ton of open looks from three, and should be able to set up
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  his his teammates for some open looks. I like Trey Young as well at
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  ten point one Clint Capella if DeAndre Hunter were to miss, sees a pretty
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  big minutes boost. Got up to thirty four and thirty five minutes in the
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  last two games that Hunters missed. They're starting to run him and a Yakakongu
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  more side by side as the four and the five, which is definitely boosted
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  both their their upsides in minutes and in uh in fantasy scoring. So I
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  like Capella a lot. If Hunter were to miss again on the Cavaliers side,
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  they're gonna be really thin. No Darius Garland, no Evan Mobley for
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  quite some time, so we're gonna see pretty heavy minutes from the main main
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  four guys, Donovan Mitchell, Jared Allen, Max Strus, Karris Lavert and
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  yeah, I love love Donovan Mitchell here. Really good matchup, even though
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  he's gonna be going against the Jean Tae Murray just uh. I mean,
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  the Hawks are top four paced team, top bottom four defense, bottom four
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  rim defense, bottom ten three point defense. They allow the fifth most points
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  in transitions. I think that Donovan could put up a really really big scoring
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  night just with all the usage to go around with no Mobiley and Garland.
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  Jared Allen should see a pretty safe minute flour here going against Clint Pella probably
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  gets up thirty five, thirty six, and the Hawks are bottom four rim
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  defense, bottom seven and DVP versus center on the year, so this is
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  a pretty solid match for him at a you know, almost seven K.
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  Max Strews and Caris Lavert also going to see huge minutes. Strews has been
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  one of the biggest beneficiars with no Daris, Garland and Mobley on the court
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  this year. He's a seven point usage bump in his his usage rates,
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  so he should be a fine play. I think I prefer Karros Lavert though,
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  just going to be seen all the all the minutes, and we'll take
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  on a really big ball handling role, regardless if that's off the bench or
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  starting. He's a fine play regardless, and we'll have to keep an eye
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  on the don't what they do with the starting lineup. Could see Craig Porter
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  Junior step in there and take on the point guard role again. But if
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  he doesn't start, I don't think that he's in play. He's just been
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  out of the rotation for quite some time, so that'll do it for that
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  game. Chicago and Miami next got a lower total to eighteen. Miami favored
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  by five. I have two of the slower paced teams in the league,
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  so makes sense. Hea'd are really struggling to defend the interier right now with
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  no Bam out of Bio, so I think that Vucevich has a really good
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  matchup April one. K is definitely a fair price sect for him. He's
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  been playing really well lately fifty six and fifty eight DK points and back to
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  that games, so he's a fine play. Kobe White, one of the
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  better players in the league over the last two weeks, just been crashing it
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  minutes or sky high ball handling has been trending upwards too. I think if
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  you're take into account what he's done over the past two weeks, he's just
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  a little bit under priced for his role, so I don't think that seven
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  point seven k is it's too crazy to pay for him, and then I'm
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  pretty much just fading. The Miami heat in the side just don't really seem
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  much that stands out, and let's move over to Phil dot or Indiana versus
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  Minnesota two forty one over under with Miami or Minnesota favored by nine big injury
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  news. If Tyres Halliburn were to miss, then I think that all of
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  you know Benigmatheren, TJ McConnell, but heal Bruce Brown would definitely be in
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  play here. Definitely would make TJ mccollin a really good value and five point
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  one k he could definitely pay up the price. I've always been a solid
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  fantasy point per minuted guy when he gets the minutes, so he would definitely
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  be the preferred option. If Alburn is in then I just don't only have
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  much interest in the Indiana side. They're running a pretty pretty deep rotation right
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  now, so we're not seeing anybody kind of separate, so I'd be fine
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  getting away from Indiana. If Aliburn is in Minnesota, it's going to be
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  the main three guys for me, Kat and Edwards and Rudy Gobert all have
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  great matchups. I think I lean Kat just he's been one of the safer
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  guys and gets really one of the better matchups versus for opposing power forwards,
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  so I like him the most. I think that you could play all of
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  them, but I would be cautious on how you're grouping them. For me,
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  would be Max one Kat and Anthony Edwards and Max one Cat and Rudy
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  Gobert, and then yeah, Nasri definitely in play as well. Fifty five
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  hundred. He's got huge upside, one of the few guys in that range
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  that comes off the bench that could really give you forty, So I wouldn't
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  mind him at all as a value piece. Let's move over to Brooklyn versus
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  Golden State two thirty five over under Golden State favorite by three. Don't really
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  have a ton of interest in this game. I'm kind of fine getting away
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  from the Brooklyn guys. If there was one person to pick out, I
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  think it would be Nick Claxon. He'll have probably the best matchup on the
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  on the net side, just the Warriors kind of towards the bottom of the
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  pack in DVP versus centers and then the Warriors. They're pretty pretty easy to
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  I mean, it's a tough team to peg. They run a pretty deep
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  rotation, so you're not really seeing huge myths from anybody. So I don't
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  think even Steph Curry, projecting as well as he is right now, is
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  much in play for me. I'd much want to look to guys like Jonathan
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  Kaminga and Brandon Podziemski. POD's got it to thirty five minutes. Last game,
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  he led the team in minutes, so I think that he's probably my
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  preferred option down there. Kamino is still limited to around twenty five minutes,
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  so his role didn't change much even though he was starting. But those would
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  be the two guys I'll be looking to. Okay and now he got okay
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  See taking on Denver to thirty six, Denver favorite by four. Solid matchup
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  for SGA here with no KCP, who's their best on ball defender? Okay
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  See playing super fast and paced, one of the best offenses. I think
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  that you could definitely get to him at ten point five. K Jayalen Williams
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  and Josh Gid would be the out of two guys I'd be interested in.
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  More So the giddy side minutes are not going to be there, but his
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  his usage and just the fantasy scoring has been up the last two games.
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  Last two games, got over or up to forty one DK points him back
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  to back games, but still hasn't top thirty minutes, so it might be
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  a little thin. And then yeah, on the nugget side is pretty much
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  just joke. It's or bust. Good matchup versus Chad and okay see okay
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  See's bottom nine and DVP versus center position, so solid matchup for him.
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  They'll do it for that game's move over to Dallas and Portland. We got
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  two thirty four over under Dallas favored by five excuse me, uh? And
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  yeah, Luca, great play here again. Maverick's same story. They're gonna
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  be pretty thin with no Kyrie and some of the other secondary guys, maybe
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  no Seth Curry here. His minutes have been extremely high lately and he's playing
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  to that MVP caliber that we know from Luca. Sixty three DK points in
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  three straight games definitely has the upside to get up to ninety DK points.
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  Has already shown that in you know, a week or two ago. I
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  think this is a matchup where you know, pretty solid over under close bread
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  good, just really good matchup for him. I think he shows out tonight
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  and puts up a seventy plus pointer in this one. And then yeah,
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  the Portland side getting a little bit tougher with them getting fully healthy, getting
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  brogged in Jeremy Grant, DeAndre Aden backs that kind of take things a little
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  bit of the upside on guys like Anthonty Simons, Shade and sharp Man.
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  It should still be really high for those guys, but just I don't see
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  we're I don't think we're going to see the mid forty to fifty point game
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  from them as much going forward with with this team getting fully healthy, I
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  think, just price adjusted in matchup based, I would kind of lean to
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  DeAndre Aiden as my favorite play on the Blazers Mavericks the bottom half of the
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  league and rim defenses here in bottom six and DVP versus center, so he
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  would probably be my preferred option. Okay, Utah taking on Sacramento two forty
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  over under Sacramento favored by nine. Pretty big injury news in this one,
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  got the Jazz going to be without Clarkson, John carl omer Year at seven
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  and possibly tat Horn Tucker and the Kings have Darn Fox is questionable. On
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  the Jazz side with all the injury stuff, I think the guys you have
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  interested in would be Walker Kesler and Calling Sexton. I think Gloria is going
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  to be on a pretty strict Minister Stricken right now, just coming back from
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  the hamstring injury. Pretty solid matchup for both Sexton and Kessler. Wants to
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  Simmotus Sabonis not the best interior defenders. I think Kesler could definitely get it
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  going and put up a big boy score at sixty four hundred. And then
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  on the King side, yeah, I mean, if if foxes out,
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  they'll probably start Davion Mitchell. I don't think that he'd be in play,
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  just a really low usage, low fantasy guy. Much rather get up to
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  Malik Monk. He sees a really big usage bump and huge assist rate boost
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  with no Darn Fox on the floor, and similar story to Sabonis, a
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  bit of a tougher matchup versus Walker Kessler. Jazz have kind of shored up
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  there into your defenses here, but Sabonis assist rate goes up to thirty six
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  percent with no Darren Fox and he's already been playing really well this year from
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  a playmaking standpoint, don't do it for that game. Let's move to the
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  Knicks, last last game of the night, New York Knicks and the Clippers.
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  Pretty easy one to break down. I think. On the next side,
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  you're just looking to Julius Randall and Jalen Brunson here a slightly into Brunson
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  just for the price tag and matchup. Pretty tough matchup for Julius Randald,
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  gonna be going against Kawhi Leonard, one of the better powerful defenders in the
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  leagues. I think it's a pretty tough matchup for Ranald to get there.
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  And then the Clipper side, if Paul George were to miss, I think
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  you could go right back to James Harden. Kawhi Leonard would have a lean
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  to James Harden also for the matchup, going to see probably RJ. Barrett
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  Devincenzo type guys. And yeah, I mean that's pretty much it. If
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  George is in, I think I would have a lot less interest in the
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  Clipper side, probably just be a full fade of this game if if George
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  is in. But yeah, that's gonna do it for this one. Good
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  luck to you everybody. Hope everybody has a good weekend, good Saturday and
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  good Sunday of football and yeah, happy holidays. See you guys later