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- 0:16Speaker 1: All systems gone clear.
- 0:18Speaker 2: We lifting.
- 0:48Speaker 3: What is going on ship at Nation YouTube station. We
- 0:50Speaker 3: are back with another edition of the NBA Show.
- 0:53Speaker 1: It's the first one of the week.
- 0:54Speaker 3: We've had some NBA Cup games throughout the week, had
- 0:57Speaker 3: some two gamers, had some three gamers as well.
- 1:00Speaker 1: But it's Friday, It's time to get that money. It
- 1:03Speaker 1: is six games on the main slate on DraftKings.
- 1:05Speaker 3: Rio will bring you in right away. How's your week going.
- 1:08Speaker 3: What's been going on?
- 1:09Speaker 1: Man?
- 1:10Speaker 4: Weeks going well, It's been a little weird not being
- 1:12Speaker 4: on these shows on Tuesday Wednesdays. This week kind of
- 1:16Speaker 4: had a lot of free time, which is a rarity
- 1:19Speaker 4: at this time of year, but was able to get
- 1:21Speaker 4: on a good routine with the gym and the downtime
- 1:24Speaker 4: that we had with there being later games and then
- 1:27Speaker 4: also weird start times. We had a game the start
- 1:31Speaker 4: time like six pm Eastern the other night, and then
- 1:33Speaker 4: last night was at five pm. So it's kind of
- 1:36Speaker 4: been a kind of weird like navigating around that. But yeah,
- 1:39Speaker 4: been a pretty good week, very productive. So I'm looking
- 1:41Speaker 4: forward to talking some hoops with you today. And then
- 1:44Speaker 4: they got the Saber Series show a little bit later tonight.
- 1:47Speaker 4: With with sheets after NBA locks.
- 1:52Speaker 3: Yeah, looking forward to that, and yeah, we talked about
- 1:54Speaker 3: a little bit of pre Schok. Congrats on your ship
- 1:56Speaker 3: with the other night you entitled ship twenty k, which
- 1:58Speaker 3: it was more. But anytime you can get a ship,
- 2:00Speaker 3: but that's always good. Let's say hello to some people
- 2:02Speaker 3: in the chat. We got go collect as always, beat
- 2:05Speaker 3: you little neck. My man new Ones is in here,
- 2:07Speaker 3: Mighty Saints a new name. So welcome in Para Bay
- 2:10Speaker 3: Gaine Green, trisk get what's going on, triskt?
- 2:12Speaker 1: How you doing? Ricky Rose, Nice to see you again.
- 2:15Speaker 3: And then my guy William, Nice to see you, William.
- 2:18Speaker 3: What's going on, fam? How you doing in there? Like
- 2:20Speaker 3: I said, we got six games on the slate. We
- 2:22Speaker 3: got a few injuries to talk about. We'll talk about him.
- 2:24Speaker 1: As we get there.
- 2:25Speaker 3: We're gonna go game, but game as we do, always
- 2:27Speaker 3: as we always do. I got the first game pulled
- 2:30Speaker 3: up on the stone that's over there on our site.
- 2:32Speaker 3: We got the Chicago Bulls going into Charlotte to take
- 2:36Speaker 3: on these Hornets.
- 2:37Speaker 1: Some injuries, uh to talk about in this one obviously.
- 2:40Speaker 3: You know the guys on Charlotte that are going to
- 2:42Speaker 3: be out they've been out ball Sexton, I got Grant
- 2:45Speaker 3: Williams man.
- 2:46Speaker 1: Uh, they're all gonna be out.
- 2:47Speaker 3: And then the Bulls do get some guys back tonight,
- 2:49Speaker 3: but mainly uh Ao and Horder are still out for.
- 2:53Speaker 1: The uh for the Bulls, but everybody else looks probable.
- 2:56Speaker 3: Uh. Kobe White looks like he's gonna play. Jones A,
- 3:00Speaker 3: Zach Collins. I think they're all in rio. But if
- 3:02Speaker 3: I missed anything there, let me know. But if not,
- 3:05Speaker 3: talk to me a little bit about this game. I
- 3:06Speaker 3: think it's going to be a high scoring affair with
- 3:09Speaker 3: these two teams. We know the Bulls like to get
- 3:11Speaker 3: up and down, but the total is only two hundred
- 3:14Speaker 3: and twenty nine, which is not super low, but not
- 3:16Speaker 3: super high either.
- 3:17Speaker 5: But you got the Bulls two and a half favorite
- 3:19Speaker 5: headed into Charlotte. Yeah, I think you hit on all
- 3:22Speaker 5: the injury stuff. The Hornets do get Josh green back.
- 3:27Speaker 5: I believe this is his second game back, just to
- 3:29Speaker 5: kind of make things a little bit deeper with their
- 3:32Speaker 5: rotation and getting a little bit more.
- 3:35Speaker 2: This would be his first game.
- 3:36Speaker 4: Back actually this season, So they'll add some defense to them,
- 3:40Speaker 4: and then with Isaaca carl game back, I think that's
- 3:43Speaker 4: kind of big for the Bulls defensively. They've been really
- 3:45Speaker 4: really bad as of late. One of the worst teams
- 3:48Speaker 4: over the last month or so, six worst defense, six
- 3:51Speaker 4: worst rebounding team in the league. They're lying the second
- 3:54Speaker 4: most put back points per game and the most blocks
- 3:57Speaker 4: per game. So really good spot for some of the
- 4:00Speaker 4: Bigs on the Hornet side. I don't think that Acro
- 4:04Speaker 4: changes too much. I think that, if anything, it will
- 4:06Speaker 4: help some of their on ball defense. But I feel
- 4:08Speaker 4: like the things kind of are systemic for the Bulls
- 4:12Speaker 4: on defense right now, how bad they've been. I think
- 4:14Speaker 4: it starts with coaching. I don't know if Billy Donovan
- 4:17Speaker 4: is the right guy or if this is just a
- 4:18Speaker 4: bad personnel grouping, and a lot of talk about some
- 4:22Speaker 4: trades with like Kaminga and Sabonas, which is just I
- 4:24Speaker 4: don't really know what they're playing to do over there.
- 4:26Speaker 4: But this is still a team I definitely want to attack.
- 4:28Speaker 4: Their room defense is awful. They don't really have any
- 4:31Speaker 4: great on ball defenders outside of Isaaca o'corro, and even
- 4:34Speaker 4: he I would say is maybe just slightly above average.
- 4:36Speaker 4: So it does a good spot for these Hornets guys,
- 4:38Speaker 4: and then you get a ton of value with LaMelo,
- 4:41Speaker 4: Treyman and Consects and all out. They basically are down
- 4:44Speaker 4: to one true point guard on the roster and kJ Simpson,
- 4:48Speaker 4: but all the ball handling is going to be pretty
- 4:50Speaker 4: split down the middle between four guys because you can
- 4:53Speaker 4: have a lot.
- 4:54Speaker 2: Of guys that do similar things between.
- 4:56Speaker 4: Canipple, Miller, and Bridges in terms of usage and touch
- 4:59Speaker 4: times and stuff like that, it's been Bridges, I think,
- 5:03Speaker 4: in this situation, the guy that you want to get
- 5:06Speaker 4: the most of. He's shown the most minutes upside, but
- 5:09Speaker 4: also peripheral stats have been really good for him. He's
- 5:12Speaker 4: had the best role of all the starters for the Hornets.
- 5:15Speaker 4: He has a forty percent assist percentage, twelve and a
- 5:19Speaker 4: half rebounding rate, four point three minutes a touch time,
- 5:21Speaker 4: which are second in touchdown behind KG Simpson. I think
- 5:24Speaker 4: he's second in usage at twenty nine percent behind Brandon Miller.
- 5:28Speaker 4: So he's gonna be the guy I'm prioritizing on the
- 5:30Speaker 4: hornet side for sure. Great matchup for him, and don't
- 5:33Speaker 4: really worry too much about whoever they throw at him.
- 5:35Speaker 4: I think it'll be mattas bozellis on him, which is
- 5:37Speaker 4: definitely a good spot to attack, and then as a
- 5:39Speaker 4: guy that can get to the basket at ease here
- 5:42Speaker 4: versus Vucevic, I think that he's got a lot of
- 5:44Speaker 4: upside in this matchup.
- 5:45Speaker 2: So I love Bridges tonight.
- 5:46Speaker 4: I think he's one of the better overall plays on
- 5:49Speaker 4: the entire slate at seven point five K. But then
- 5:51Speaker 4: you get down to how you want to play, like
- 5:53Speaker 4: the Miller, Knipple and kJ Simpson grouping, because I don't
- 5:57Speaker 4: know if I really want to play three of these
- 5:59Speaker 4: four guys. I feel like I'm more comfortable going to
- 6:02Speaker 4: two of them, and I think that will kind of
- 6:03Speaker 4: lead you onto some a lot of the same type
- 6:07Speaker 4: of builds with kJ Simpson as your value piece and
- 6:09Speaker 4: then spinning up for Bridges. So that could mean that
- 6:12Speaker 4: Miller and Canipple will get a little bit overlooked. I
- 6:15Speaker 4: wish that the ownership was a little bit lower on
- 6:17Speaker 4: Canipple because I think that his permanent upside is better
- 6:21Speaker 4: than Brandon Miller's, just because he does a little bit
- 6:23Speaker 4: more and he's been way more efficient shooting the ball
- 6:26Speaker 4: this season. But they're projecting for very similar ownerships I
- 6:29Speaker 4: don't really think you're getting too much leverage there, as
- 6:32Speaker 4: they're only one hundred dollars price away from each other.
- 6:36Speaker 4: So with that being said, I do think that all
- 6:37Speaker 4: aside with Miller, with knowing that the ownership is going
- 6:40Speaker 4: to be summer, just because he said such a massive
- 6:42Speaker 4: usage role, taking a ton of shots, not shooting the
- 6:45Speaker 4: ball very well right now. But I think this is
- 6:46Speaker 4: a pretty good bounce back spot for him against Chicago, so.
- 6:49Speaker 2: I will lean him.
- 6:49Speaker 4: But like I said, I think I want to max
- 6:51Speaker 4: out two of those four guys and then it's a
- 6:53Speaker 4: great spot for the centers.
- 6:55Speaker 2: Mussa, Diabatte and kach Breanner going to be splitting it
- 6:57Speaker 2: down the middle.
- 6:57Speaker 4: I think kach Branner sees a little bit more minutes,
- 7:01Speaker 4: but there's not really enough for them to be smash plays.
- 7:03Speaker 4: I do think that you could get a pretty efficient
- 7:06Speaker 4: night from one of these guys. I would obviously lean
- 7:08Speaker 4: cockbrann because he's gonna be playing more minutes, but I'm
- 7:11Speaker 4: not really going out of my way to play him.
- 7:12Speaker 4: I think I'll sprinkle some of him because I do
- 7:14Speaker 4: think there is a scenario where he hits his upside
- 7:17Speaker 4: in a pretty decently big way, so I'm cool with
- 7:19Speaker 4: those guys, but obviously Max one of the centers. The
- 7:21Speaker 4: bull side kind of easy for me to break down.
- 7:23Speaker 4: I think it's just Giddyer pass Vouch just hasn't shown
- 7:27Speaker 4: the upside. You get way better value spinning down, Like
- 7:29Speaker 4: I'd rather play Cockbrand over Vooch if I'm playing somebody
- 7:32Speaker 4: at center in this game. Jock Lando, who will talk
- 7:34Speaker 4: about later, is a much better value place. I don't
- 7:36Speaker 4: really think you want to get to Booch in this
- 7:38Speaker 4: on this slate, and Kobe Wa should be closer to
- 7:41Speaker 4: the full so I think he's fine at six point
- 7:42Speaker 4: nine k really good usage numbers. I'm not really prioritizing
- 7:46Speaker 4: anything from Chicago because Charlotte's been okay. Defensively, they're kind
- 7:50Speaker 4: of like below average and mainly everything. I think that
- 7:53Speaker 4: Giddy obviously is the best from an upside standpoint. They
- 7:56Speaker 4: only have the same on ball defenders that could slow
- 8:00Speaker 4: him down, so I do think Giddy's pretty solid here.
- 8:03Speaker 4: He did okay in the first matchup, was one assist
- 8:06Speaker 4: away from a triple double in that game, so.
- 8:10Speaker 2: He's obviously got the upside.
- 8:11Speaker 4: But I think there's gonna be some better spend up
- 8:13Speaker 4: options or just better overall point for dollar players at
- 8:16Speaker 4: the guards position tonight. So not really prioritizing much in this.
- 8:21Speaker 4: On the Bulls, I think Maxis Buzellis is finally keeping play,
- 8:25Speaker 4: but everything else is just kind of I don't know.
- 8:27Speaker 4: You're getting a lot of guys back, and Kobe White
- 8:29Speaker 4: is a high usage guy, so it's just it's gonna
- 8:31Speaker 4: make it a little bit tougher to get really big
- 8:33Speaker 4: ceiling games from the Chicago bull side, So I'm okay
- 8:35Speaker 4: getting away from it. I think the Charlotte's side is
- 8:37Speaker 4: pretty straightforward, though, You're definitely gonna get to some pieces
- 8:40Speaker 4: on that side.
- 8:42Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking at the projections over here at the
- 8:43Speaker 3: Nation Yet, Hornets look very nice and Giddy's always in
- 8:47Speaker 3: play for triple double, so I like what you said
- 8:49Speaker 3: about that. Let's move on to the next game. Should
- 8:53Speaker 3: be another interesting game. We got the Hawks, we got
- 8:55Speaker 3: the Pistons. This is the Hawks first game of the week.
- 8:58Speaker 3: We got my boy, Jalen, Jalen Jordan, Jalen Michael Jordan
- 9:03Speaker 3: at ten to six Jalen Johnson. That is coming up,
- 9:06Speaker 3: just back to back, just monster games. If you thought
- 9:09Speaker 3: it was a fluke on Friday night. He said now
- 9:11Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it again on Saturday night and went
- 9:13Speaker 3: back to back triple doubles. Just absolutely obliterated Slate seventy
- 9:17Speaker 3: pieces in both games. He's been playing very well. A
- 9:20Speaker 3: Kong Wu for the Hawks, been playing better as I played.
- 9:23Speaker 1: His last game.
- 9:24Speaker 3: He had a very good game as well. Then you
- 9:25Speaker 3: got the Pistons Kate Cuttingham. We know what he can do,
- 9:30Speaker 3: Asar Thompson, But talk to me a little bit about
- 9:33Speaker 3: this game. Still know Trey Young, Still no porzingis it
- 9:36Speaker 3: is a seven and a half point spread. Any love
- 9:38Speaker 3: for any of these Hawks, any love for anybody on
- 9:41Speaker 3: the Pistons, You're all mute.
- 9:50Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 9:50Speaker 4: That's first time all year. I think, yeah, I'm not
- 9:54Speaker 4: super excited about this game. I think that these are
- 9:56Speaker 4: two pretty solid defensive teams that can take away some
- 9:59Speaker 4: of the strengths from the opposing teams. The Hawks have
- 10:03Speaker 4: been really good at taking away pick and roll, and
- 10:05Speaker 4: Caid hasn't really shown great upside in this matchups. I
- 10:08Speaker 4: don't really think that you need to go out of
- 10:10Speaker 4: your way to spend up for him at ten point
- 10:12Speaker 4: a k because you need sixty plus like to even
- 10:16Speaker 4: be like viable at his price, but you really want
- 10:18Speaker 4: like seventy at his price tag, which he hasn't done
- 10:21Speaker 4: very often this season, so I'd be okay, not really
- 10:24Speaker 4: getting to too much. On the Pisson side, I feel
- 10:25Speaker 4: like Duran should have a pretty good matchup. Obviously, he's
- 10:28Speaker 4: a beast and a Congu I don't think is a
- 10:30Speaker 4: great defender. No, Porzingis actually makes their the Hawks evens
- 10:34Speaker 4: a little bit better just from a defensive ratings standpoint,
- 10:37Speaker 4: but I do think that Porzingis is a much better
- 10:39Speaker 4: rimp protector than a cong Wu is a little bit
- 10:41Speaker 4: undersized at the center position.
- 10:43Speaker 2: So I'm fine with Duran.
- 10:44Speaker 4: He's got a really good upside even in limited minutes.
- 10:48Speaker 4: And then I think like Asaar and Tobias are just
- 10:50Speaker 4: fine as last man in type plays at their prices.
- 10:53Speaker 4: But Detroit's running things pretty deep right now. They have
- 10:56Speaker 4: a very deep team, and this is as healthy as
- 10:59Speaker 4: they've been the whole season, and so nobody is really
- 11:01Speaker 4: a standout option. The Atlanta side, it's pretty much Jalen
- 11:05Speaker 4: Johnson or Bus. I think you could make the case
- 11:07Speaker 4: for a Congo and nik Alexander Walker, but the prices
- 11:10Speaker 4: are getting up there for all these guys, really, but
- 11:13Speaker 4: the role has been really good for Jalen Johnson and
- 11:15Speaker 4: it is going to be a tough matchup. Asar Thompson
- 11:18Speaker 4: does ballot on Jalen Johnson's going to be looked to
- 11:20Speaker 4: get into the basket, so he could get him into
- 11:22Speaker 4: foul trouble pretty.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Quickly, which I don't really know who they would replace
- 11:27Speaker 2: him with.
- 11:27Speaker 4: I think they might want to bring in like Isaiah
- 11:29Speaker 4: Stewart because he's a pretty big body they can throw
- 11:31Speaker 4: on Jalen Johnson. But the role and just all the
- 11:35Speaker 4: numbers with Trey and poursing us off the court the
- 11:37Speaker 4: season suggests that he's a guy that can put up
- 11:39Speaker 4: a triple double in any single matchup every time he
- 11:42Speaker 4: steps in the court. Twenty eight zero point five percent
- 11:44Speaker 4: usage rate, thirty seven percent assist percent, and seventeen percent
- 11:47Speaker 4: rebounding rate with those two guys off the court this season,
- 11:51Speaker 4: So you can if you got ten point six K
- 11:54Speaker 4: for a power forward, I think that obviously Jillen Johnson's
- 11:56Speaker 4: gonna be your guy. I do think power forward is
- 11:59Speaker 4: really strong tonight. Though we'll talk about some of these
- 12:02Speaker 4: guys later. But Miles Bridges is three k cheaper than
- 12:07Speaker 4: Jalen Johnson with a similar role in terms of you know,
- 12:11Speaker 4: not having LaMelo Sex and Trey Man out there to
- 12:13Speaker 4: take away some.
- 12:14Speaker 2: Of the usage and touches.
- 12:16Speaker 4: But obviously Jen Johnson's got his role solidified and he
- 12:19Speaker 4: has shown seventy plus DK point upside multiple times this season,
- 12:23Speaker 4: so totally.
- 12:24Speaker 2: Fine with him.
- 12:24Speaker 4: But I do think the power forward, the strength of
- 12:27Speaker 4: the position is is really good tonight. So I'm not
- 12:29Speaker 4: prioritizing anything from this game in particular, and definitely not
- 12:33Speaker 4: prioritizing Jaalen Johnson.
- 12:36Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think the ownership will tell you that
- 12:38Speaker 1: as well.
- 12:38Speaker 3: We currently have, you know, the ownership around fifteen percent
- 12:42Speaker 3: on Jalen Johnson. Uh yeah, ten to six. That's a
- 12:45Speaker 3: that's a that's a lot of money.
- 12:46Speaker 1: Yeah. Shout out to my boy new No.
- 12:48Speaker 3: One's crushed it last week and then and then laid
- 12:50Speaker 3: the receipts back in the in the in the in
- 12:52Speaker 3: the discord Sunday morning, talking about all the plays. Another
- 12:55Speaker 3: great member of the community. Congratulations to new ones over there.
- 13:00Speaker 4: Uh, I appreciate the kind of words Mac. I don't know,
- 13:08Speaker 4: hopeful I would say, subscribe and put the notifications on
- 13:11Speaker 4: would definitely love to have you in here.
- 13:12Speaker 2: Appreciate the kind of words for sure.
- 13:15Speaker 3: Hecky, we got my guy Rio, we got my guy
- 13:17Speaker 3: Bellman in here doing their thing. Two of the best
- 13:20Speaker 3: in the industry. That's absolutely for sure.
- 13:23Speaker 1: Yeah, jail.
- 13:26Speaker 3: No, no, nowhere near you two guys, But yeah, I
- 13:28Speaker 3: appreciate it.
- 13:29Speaker 1: H Jalen john I love Jalen johnsonnight.
- 13:31Speaker 3: I know he's I know he's pricey, but man, he's
- 13:34Speaker 3: he's been crushing. But you're saying the pistons defensively, you
- 13:36Speaker 3: think you can shut him.
- 13:37Speaker 1: Down a little bit.
- 13:39Speaker 4: I mean yeah, like technically they can because this is
- 13:41Speaker 4: one of the best defensive units in the entire team.
- 13:45Speaker 4: But uh yeah, I mean he's the role is like,
- 13:49Speaker 4: it's it's elite, Like he's definitely worth the price tag.
- 13:54Speaker 1: Awesome stuff there. Let's move on to the next game.
- 13:57Speaker 3: Got another low total two hundred twenty four. Got another
- 14:02Speaker 3: seven and a half point favorite. Looks like Joel Embiid
- 14:05Speaker 3: is gonna be playing the night Tyrese MAXI, I guess
- 14:07Speaker 3: it's the biggest news.
- 14:09Speaker 1: I think he got a mid grade down grade, midday
- 14:12Speaker 1: down grade. Rio the questionable. If I'm not mistaken.
- 14:17Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just double checking because he was probably the
- 14:21Speaker 4: last time I saw and then I see him questionable.
- 14:23Speaker 4: I don't know if they've actually put in their injury report.
- 14:27Speaker 2: Yeah, he is questionable. I believe he was. He misshoot
- 14:30Speaker 2: around as well.
- 14:31Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't know that that makes me think
- 14:34Speaker 3: he's going to to miss. So let's talk about obviously,
- 14:37Speaker 3: if he's in and if he's out, who does that
- 14:39Speaker 3: benefit from the point guard position we got PG thirteen.
- 14:42Speaker 1: Looks like he's gonna be playing.
- 14:44Speaker 3: But Ubrey's out for the Sixers obviously, Nise Smith's been
- 14:47Speaker 3: out for quite some time. Former Belmont legend Ben Shepherd
- 14:50Speaker 3: is out tonight for the UH, for the UH, for
- 14:54Speaker 3: the Pacers. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna
- 14:56Speaker 3: talk about the Pacers best player Rio, because you know
- 14:59Speaker 3: who that that is. But talk to me about anybody
- 15:02Speaker 3: else on these Sixers and or these Pacers.
- 15:06Speaker 2: I don't know who you're referring to. Is a Siakam?
- 15:09Speaker 1: Nope, he's thirty two hundred bucks.
- 15:12Speaker 2: Their best player is thirty two hundred bucks.
- 15:14Speaker 1: Yep.
- 15:15Speaker 3: Oh my god, Gary Bird, Gary the goat, Baby, let's go.
- 15:24Speaker 3: I'm not gonna talk about him, but go ahead past
- 15:28Speaker 3: the Sixers.
- 15:29Speaker 4: I think he might have signed for the season, if
- 15:31Speaker 4: I'm not mistaken. Yeah, he signed to a standard contract.
- 15:34Speaker 1: Yeah. If the Pacers want to win, they know what's up. Man.
- 15:38Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just looking through some of this Philly news
- 15:41Speaker 4: because it does seem like MAXI would be more on
- 15:44Speaker 4: the doubtful.
- 15:45Speaker 2: Side of things.
- 15:46Speaker 4: Uh, just usually if you miss shoot around with an illness,
- 15:49Speaker 4: good chance that you're probably gonna miss the game. That
- 15:53Speaker 4: would likely start what put Quinn Grimes into the starting lineup,
- 15:57Speaker 4: and he'd be a really really good value play at
- 16:00Speaker 4: six point two K. But I would just say that
- 16:04Speaker 4: the the Pacers have been playing a lot better on defense.
- 16:07Speaker 4: I think a lot of that due to guys like
- 16:10Speaker 4: just buying in Nam Hard has always been a really
- 16:12Speaker 4: good guard defender. I think Matheren is pretty solid as well.
- 16:17Speaker 4: I don't really like Ben Shepard as a player, but
- 16:20Speaker 4: he is a pretty solid defender as well.
- 16:22Speaker 2: And then he got this Ethan Thompson kid. He's pretty solid.
- 16:25Speaker 4: Ben Shepperd's been out for a little bit, but it
- 16:26Speaker 4: seems Ethan Thompson kid looks like he's decent. Sackem's pretty solid,
- 16:29Speaker 4: and then Jay Huff much better than what they were
- 16:32Speaker 4: running out there with an undersize and skinny Isaiah Jackson.
- 16:36Speaker 4: Then you got guys like Tony Bradley Mixon. So it's
- 16:38Speaker 4: definitely a better team than the record would show, which
- 16:42Speaker 4: kind of is reflected by the game total. It's pretty
- 16:45Speaker 4: low in this one, but I do think that there
- 16:46Speaker 4: are some options in this game. Sixers are definitely a
- 16:49Speaker 4: team that I want to attack, especially with him Beat
- 16:51Speaker 4: in the lineup. I think it makes their defense a
- 16:53Speaker 4: whole lot worse because he's just, I mean, he's kind
- 16:56Speaker 4: of like a I don't know, like Brook Lopez towards
- 16:59Speaker 4: the end of his career in some ways where he's
- 17:01Speaker 4: just not the same reprotector that he was in the
- 17:03Speaker 4: years past, and he's definitely not moving around like he
- 17:06Speaker 4: was when he was younger. So their pick and roll
- 17:08Speaker 4: defense has been really really bad with him Beat on
- 17:10Speaker 4: the court of the season, which gets me onto my
- 17:13Speaker 4: favorite play in this game for sure on the Pacers side,
- 17:16Speaker 4: But I think that this guy is going to be
- 17:18Speaker 4: a really sharp pivot from some chalkier plays in the
- 17:20Speaker 4: later games, and that would be Andrew Nemhard at six
- 17:23Speaker 4: point six K coming off of a huge game, so
- 17:25Speaker 4: I do. I'm not saying that it's chasing to go
- 17:27Speaker 4: to him after putting up fifty six d K points,
- 17:29Speaker 4: but he's had a really really good role.
- 17:31Speaker 2: All the potential.
- 17:32Speaker 4: Assists and touch time stats are really in line with
- 17:34Speaker 4: somebody that should be priced at this price, SiGe. And
- 17:37Speaker 4: then you take away the matchup with Tyres Maxie, where
- 17:40Speaker 4: he would have been chasing him around all game. I
- 17:42Speaker 4: think it's much better to throw him on quinnin Grimes
- 17:44Speaker 4: or McCain or wherever it's going to be and kind
- 17:46Speaker 4: of save some of his effort for offense. But I
- 17:49Speaker 4: think it's a really good spot for Andrew Nemhart tonight.
- 17:53Speaker 4: He's averaging over seven points per game. Pick and roll
- 17:56Speaker 4: Sixers are the third d worst pick and roll defense
- 17:58Speaker 4: this season, and over the last seven games or so,
- 18:01Speaker 4: Sixers are allowing the second most fantasy points to opposing
- 18:04Speaker 4: point guard. So there's a lot really trending in the
- 18:06Speaker 4: right direction for Nemhart. I think that he's a extremely
- 18:09Speaker 4: good pivot off of Darius Garland, who's looking like he's
- 18:11Speaker 4: going to be four times as high owned as Nemhartz.
- 18:15Speaker 2: I love that call.
- 18:16Speaker 4: Out on him, and then that's kind of it. Siakaman
- 18:19Speaker 4: nine poine k not going to go there. I think
- 18:21Speaker 4: it's more matchup dependent. Nothing really stands out here. If
- 18:24Speaker 4: they were playing the Bulls, I would have interest in him,
- 18:25Speaker 4: but they're playing the Sixers, so I'm not.
- 18:27Speaker 2: Super interested there. I think Matherin is fine.
- 18:30Speaker 4: There is a little bit upside for him at seven
- 18:32Speaker 4: point two K against a team that is slow and
- 18:34Speaker 4: old and struggles to get back in transition, but that's
- 18:37Speaker 4: going to be about it for me. I really like
- 18:39Speaker 4: Nemhart tonight on the indie side, and then with Maxi out,
- 18:43Speaker 4: like I said, I think it'd be Grimes starting. That
- 18:45Speaker 4: would make Embiid, Grimes, Paul George all look a lot better.
- 18:48Speaker 4: Edgecomb would get a lot better. He's off of his
- 18:50Speaker 4: minutes limit, played thirty eight minutes last game. I wouldn't
- 18:54Speaker 4: want to play edge combe in'say any sort of ownership,
- 18:56Speaker 4: just because even with Maxi out, it's going to be
- 19:00Speaker 4: a lot of Embiid and Paul George and then even
- 19:02Speaker 4: Quentin Grimes is a guy that can use up possessions,
- 19:04Speaker 4: so he would just be probably the fourth option on offense.
- 19:09Speaker 2: The only way that he could really kind of negate.
- 19:12Speaker 4: The negatives that you have with him losing usage to
- 19:14Speaker 4: guys like Embiid is that he is capable of playing
- 19:17Speaker 4: upper thirties minutes. I think he probably lands at like
- 19:20Speaker 4: thirty six tonight on the high end, which is flying
- 19:24Speaker 4: for his price tag. But that would also that might
- 19:28Speaker 4: put an m hard on him if Maxi were to
- 19:31Speaker 4: be out. So yeah, I'm not super excited about edgecumb
- 19:33Speaker 4: but I think Joel Embiid, after seeing him play thirty
- 19:36Speaker 4: minutes last game, he just had what four or five
- 19:38Speaker 4: days off, so he's probably playing thirty again tonight. Obviously,
- 19:43Speaker 4: Joel Embiid's still a really good point permitted producer at
- 19:45Speaker 4: this point of his career. And then you have to
- 19:47Speaker 4: add in the fact that if Maxie were to miss,
- 19:49Speaker 4: he probably is the guy who the offense.
- 19:51Speaker 2: Is running through.
- 19:52Speaker 4: Not too worried about the matchup versus Jay Huff. Pacers
- 19:55Speaker 4: still are really bad room defense. I think there's a
- 19:57Speaker 4: lot training in the right direction for Embiid.
- 20:01Speaker 2: Yeah, and then Grimes and Paul George.
- 20:02Speaker 4: I like Paul George regardless, but with Maxi out, I
- 20:06Speaker 4: feel like he'd be a lot tougher to get away
- 20:07Speaker 4: from at six point one k because he has shown
- 20:10Speaker 4: pretty solid permanent production this season, even while playing alongside
- 20:13Speaker 4: MAXI and Embeat, and then you take away Maxy, He's.
- 20:16Speaker 2: Gonna be really tough for me to get away from.
- 20:17Speaker 4: So yeah, lots of like on the Philly side, but
- 20:20Speaker 4: thinking them hard is the guy I'm gonna be much,
- 20:23Speaker 4: pretty heavy on tonight in this game.
- 20:26Speaker 3: Yeah, did you touch on McCain. I've seen a couple
- 20:29Speaker 3: people in the chat asking about McCain. If MAXI misses
- 20:33Speaker 3: at only forty one hundred, maybe I missed it, but
- 20:35Speaker 3: I don't think you said McCain.
- 20:37Speaker 1: So no love for McCain.
- 20:38Speaker 2: No, I definitely would.
- 20:39Speaker 4: I don't think he's gonna start though, and I feel
- 20:42Speaker 4: like people will. They're probably expecting him to start as
- 20:45Speaker 4: like directly starting in behind MAXI, but it would be
- 20:47Speaker 4: Quinn Grimes. I'm almost certain you'd have to figure out
- 20:52Speaker 4: the groupings, like how how would you play McCain. I
- 20:55Speaker 4: think they talked about his h the adminis restriction. I'm
- 21:00Speaker 4: off of come off of coming off of him excuse
- 21:03Speaker 4: me pretty soon. So twenty six from him would be
- 21:06Speaker 4: really good at his price tag, But I probably would
- 21:09Speaker 4: be careful playing him with like Edgecombe or Grimes.
- 21:14Speaker 1: Last question, where does where does embiid rank?
- 21:17Speaker 3: Like if you were just ranking the sinners, where would
- 21:20Speaker 3: you put him on the slate?
- 21:24Speaker 1: Assuming max he's out.
- 21:25Speaker 3: Let's let's say, obviously, I think he gets a lot
- 21:27Speaker 3: more shots with Maxiel, but MAXI sits.
- 21:29Speaker 1: Where do you rank Embid?
- 21:30Speaker 4: I mean, even if MAXI were to be in, like
- 21:32Speaker 4: he's a top three center on the slate, I would
- 21:35Speaker 4: say even probably the second best because you can play
- 21:38Speaker 4: mobiley and Saltia, power for it and forward, So I
- 21:42Speaker 4: would say, just like guys that only have center eligibility,
- 21:45Speaker 4: he'd probably be second behind Jock, and then he would
- 21:47Speaker 4: probably be first if MAXI were to miss got it?
- 21:51Speaker 3: Great stuff there, And before we go any further, I
- 21:53Speaker 3: got to say, what's up to my guy?
- 21:55Speaker 1: Bj bj?
- 21:56Speaker 3: I just unregistered in the FanDuel Streetsman, if you're in there,
- 21:59Speaker 3: I'm out.
- 22:00Speaker 1: Hope you're doing well.
- 22:01Speaker 3: My brother. Appreciate you tuning in, as always appreciate everybody
- 22:04Speaker 3: tuning in. We're halfway home. Make sure you hitting out,
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- 22:13Speaker 3: National Basketball Association season.
- 22:15Speaker 1: Next game up on the slate. We got the Calves.
- 22:17Speaker 3: They've been struggling as of late, but they are slated
- 22:20Speaker 3: to score one hundred and thirty points. The Wizards missing
- 22:23Speaker 3: pretty much everybody that's worth a darn over there in
- 22:25Speaker 3: the Nation's capital. Two hundred and forty five and a
- 22:29Speaker 3: half point total. But we also have a fifteen or
- 22:31Speaker 3: fourteen and a half point spread. Rio, So Darius Gardal
- 22:34Speaker 3: looks good to me. Your boy Donovan Mitchell always looking good.
- 22:37Speaker 3: You mentioned Mobile a minute ago, But talk to me
- 22:39Speaker 3: about this game. Who's your favorite Calve? Anybody on the
- 22:43Speaker 3: Wizards that you like? I know we got some injuries
- 22:45Speaker 3: over there. Still no Sar, still no Kolabali, still no Middleton.
- 22:52Speaker 3: We know Kisser's been out with what a risk for
- 22:54Speaker 3: quite some time. They know Jared Allen, no Max Strus
- 22:57Speaker 3: still for the Calves, but Calves at Washington.
- 23:00Speaker 4: Yeah, before I talk about this game, I did want
- 23:02Speaker 4: to say, what's up to BJ two Mistalk and Hoopsie
- 23:05Speaker 4: the man. Hope that everything's going well with you. Hopefully
- 23:08Speaker 4: the football and basketball season has been treating you well. Yeah,
- 23:13Speaker 4: great spot for Cleveland here kind of a bounce back spot.
- 23:15Speaker 4: I would say, just from a season standpoint, the Cavs
- 23:19Speaker 4: have been pretty underwhelming just in comparison what we saw
- 23:22Speaker 4: from them last year. They were one of the better
- 23:24Speaker 4: offenses in the league. I think a lot of that.
- 23:27Speaker 4: You know, they don't have a lot of their off
- 23:28Speaker 4: ball scoring that they had earlier in the season and
- 23:31Speaker 4: last season with Sam Merrill out and then Max Shrus
- 23:34Speaker 4: been injured for a while. So I think once they
- 23:36Speaker 4: get these guys back and healthy, they'll turn things around.
- 23:40Speaker 4: But they're not a scary team by any means in
- 23:43Speaker 4: the East, so I think that Washington can hang around.
- 23:46Speaker 4: I like Washington better when they have guys like Middleton
- 23:49Speaker 4: and CJ. McCollum and Alex Sarge because they can keep
- 23:52Speaker 4: games a little bit closer. But with that being said,
- 23:55Speaker 4: this Cleveland stuff is really hard to overlook because it's
- 23:58Speaker 4: just such a good matchup for basically everybody, but mainly
- 24:01Speaker 4: the mobiley Mitchell and Garland grouping. Just Washington's getting beat
- 24:06Speaker 4: all over the core. The transition defense is terrible. On
- 24:08Speaker 4: ball defense got a whole lot worse with no Blall
- 24:10Speaker 4: Coolabali now and the room defense is always going to
- 24:13Speaker 4: be a struggle, especially with no Alex Sar out there.
- 24:18Speaker 4: Ranking these guys, I have it mobiley number one over Mitchell,
- 24:23Speaker 4: mainly because he's cheaper, but also his offensive rating numbers
- 24:29Speaker 4: and just offensive production gets a lot better in the
- 24:32Speaker 4: minutes that he shares with Darius Garland. He's kind of
- 24:35Speaker 4: been closely correlated with him positively over the course of
- 24:38Speaker 4: their careers. So getting Garland back and healthy after playing
- 24:43Speaker 4: thirty two minutes, I believe the last game a couple
- 24:45Speaker 4: of days off in between games. I really like Evan
- 24:48Speaker 4: Mobley here.
- 24:49Speaker 1: I'm going to be.
- 24:49Speaker 4: Playing center tonight, which is also plus for him from
- 24:51Speaker 4: a rebounding standpoint with no Jared Allen out there, and
- 24:54Speaker 4: it's just the un elite matchup for opposing bigs against
- 24:57Speaker 4: this Washington front court. With him having powerful to eligible
- 25:00Speaker 4: it makes him one of the best overall plays in
- 25:02Speaker 4: the entire slate. And I'm usually the anti Evan Mobley guy,
- 25:06Speaker 4: but I do think that he's a lot better with
- 25:09Speaker 4: Dais Garland out there, So I'm going to be really
- 25:12Speaker 4: heavy on Evan Moby tonight. Definitely a potential core play
- 25:15Speaker 4: if I can make things work. I really want to have.
- 25:19Speaker 4: I want to come away with my lineups with at
- 25:21Speaker 4: least two of actually probably at least three of Mobley, Bridges,
- 25:28Speaker 4: Santi and Anthony Davis. We'll talk about a little bit later,
- 25:32Speaker 4: but I think that power Forward is really strong tonight.
- 25:34Speaker 4: Evan Moby is one of the top options, so I
- 25:35Speaker 4: love him tonight. I think that sorry, Donovan Mitchell obviously
- 25:40Speaker 4: still really good nine twenty a K, really good price
- 25:42Speaker 4: sect for him. He put up what like forty nine
- 25:45Speaker 4: DK points in just twenty six minutes against Washington the
- 25:48Speaker 4: last time out. With Garland getting a little bit healthier,
- 25:51Speaker 4: that does slightly impact him, impact him negatively. He's still
- 25:54Speaker 4: gonna be the focal point on offense, but the permit
- 25:56Speaker 4: numbers are a lot worse. While sharing the court with
- 25:59Speaker 4: Garland down to one point three fantasy points for a minute,
- 26:02Speaker 4: I do think the matchup is a little bit is great.
- 26:05Speaker 4: So it's like I don't really want to overlook that,
- 26:07Speaker 4: but I do think that you can get similar point
- 26:10Speaker 4: per dollar production from other spots at guard tonight and
- 26:13Speaker 4: Darris Garland, I think is a guy that you could
- 26:15Speaker 4: look to at six point four K. So I do
- 26:17Speaker 4: I lean mobilely over Mitchell. Totally fine with Mitchell. If
- 26:20Speaker 4: you need a nine point a K shooting guard, he's
- 26:22Speaker 4: clearly the best option. I would say at the entire position,
- 26:25Speaker 4: between like him and Ca Nipple and Cedric Coward, I
- 26:28Speaker 4: think are the guys that look really good from a
- 26:31Speaker 4: value standpoint, But I do Lean Mobley here, and then
- 26:34Speaker 4: I think Darris Garland also at six point four k
- 26:36Speaker 4: really good. Nicee him good to thirty two minutes last game,
- 26:39Speaker 4: but he's just been extremely inefficient shooting the ball this season.
- 26:43Speaker 4: I would probably want to be max one of Mitchell
- 26:46Speaker 4: and Mobley, and then probably Max one of Garland and Mitchell.
- 26:51Speaker 4: I think that in the big games that Donald Mitchell has,
- 26:54Speaker 4: it's probably taken away from other people, definitely taken away
- 26:56Speaker 4: from guys that are scoring the ball.
- 27:00Speaker 2: Be okay having two of Mobile and.
- 27:01Speaker 4: Garland together, I think that, like I said, they do
- 27:03Speaker 4: positively correlate, So I'm fine with that.
- 27:07Speaker 2: I think that's it for Cleveland.
- 27:09Speaker 4: I think Tyson is fine at six point one K,
- 27:11Speaker 4: should play a good amount of minutes, but I think
- 27:13Speaker 4: that's probably gonna be where I cut things off for Cleveland.
- 27:16Speaker 4: And then on the Washington side, they should have some
- 27:18Speaker 4: pretty solid value pieces.
- 27:21Speaker 2: I think the two guys.
- 27:21Speaker 4: I'm really looking at are Bub Carrington and just In champagnee.
- 27:25Speaker 4: Bub honestly a really poor point per minuted guy, but
- 27:29Speaker 4: he does have games where he can spike for big
- 27:33Speaker 4: stat lines just because he can. Like he's a decent
- 27:36Speaker 4: rebounder for his size, a pretty solid passer when he
- 27:39Speaker 4: gets to his spots and is looking to facilitate more.
- 27:43Speaker 4: But he played thirty seven minutes last game. I think
- 27:45Speaker 4: that they're gonna need him out there for a lot
- 27:46Speaker 4: again tonight because he is a solid defender. You have
- 27:48Speaker 4: two really good guards on the other side with no
- 27:51Speaker 4: cool bally. I think that is definitely a plus for
- 27:52Speaker 4: Bub Carrington, So I think he's really good at four
- 27:55Speaker 4: point five k. You can use him with kJ Simpson
- 27:59Speaker 4: or even as a pivot off of kJ. I think
- 28:00Speaker 4: that's totally fine. But I like Justin Champagne a lot
- 28:04Speaker 4: here as well. If I knew that Champagne was playing
- 28:06Speaker 4: close to thirty minutes tonight, that'd be a guy that's
- 28:09Speaker 4: like almost a lock candidate for me because his part
- 28:13Speaker 4: permanent rates are really really good in the relatively small sample.
- 28:17Speaker 4: With all these guys out he's at one point one
- 28:19Speaker 4: to two Fantasy points for a minute, and he actually
- 28:20Speaker 4: leads the team in rebounding rates. And it's kind of
- 28:24Speaker 4: a thing with both the champagne brothers, like they're both
- 28:26Speaker 4: really Oh, Anthony Edwards is out for anybody playing FanDuel
- 28:29Speaker 4: or Showdown, but both the Champagnie brothers are really really
- 28:33Speaker 4: good rebounders for their position. So I think that Champagnee
- 28:36Speaker 4: is pretty good here, and I think that they're going
- 28:38Speaker 4: to need his wing defense as well in the spot,
- 28:40Speaker 4: So I like him the most as the best value
- 28:44Speaker 4: playing this game on the Washington side. And then like Kishan,
- 28:47Speaker 4: George and Bagley and CJ, I don't think you need
- 28:50Speaker 4: to prioritize those guys. I feel like if you're playing
- 28:53Speaker 4: Kishawn or CJ. McCollum, it's probably in the game script
- 28:55Speaker 4: where the game is staying close, Cleveland is going to
- 28:58Speaker 4: be scoring the ball. In that scenario, you're probably assuming
- 29:02Speaker 4: Washington keeps it close by being effisial on offense and
- 29:05Speaker 4: the offense going through those two guys. So I think
- 29:07Speaker 4: if you're playing Kishon, George or CJ, I would pair
- 29:12Speaker 4: it up with one of those three main guys on
- 29:14Speaker 4: the Cleveland side is how I'm looking at it, and
- 29:15Speaker 4: then Knox One, Badley.
- 29:17Speaker 2: And Vuksevitch as well. I think that's probably it.
- 29:22Speaker 4: I don't really know if Trey Johnson back really impacts
- 29:25Speaker 4: enough for me to want to play him or for
- 29:28Speaker 4: me to get off of guys. I just think that
- 29:30Speaker 4: he probably takes whatever minutes would go to like a
- 29:33Speaker 4: Jamiir Watkins or Kim Wentmore.
- 29:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that covers it all.
- 29:39Speaker 3: Cam Went Moore and the doghals there in Washington. You said,
- 29:43Speaker 3: Champagnee thirty minutes, he's a lot. What about a twenty
- 29:46Speaker 3: six minutes? We currently haven't projected twenty six minutes?
- 29:49Speaker 1: Like, is that still good?
- 29:50Speaker 3: I mean, that's obviously good enough to play, But how
- 29:52Speaker 3: risky are you getting with him playing twenty six minutes?
- 29:56Speaker 4: I would probably get him a little bit over the field,
- 30:00Speaker 4: like probably forty to fifty percent in my lineups.
- 30:03Speaker 2: I would say have him if he was getting twenty
- 30:05Speaker 2: six minutes.
- 30:07Speaker 3: Yeah, You and You and new Ones, You and News
- 30:10Speaker 3: are a lot of the night rio. So you know
- 30:12Speaker 3: we're gonna have to gonna have to get that in
- 30:15Speaker 3: the two Shippers Tonight question forty going back. My guy
- 30:18Speaker 3: Jose wants to know cutting Ham or Giddy. It's cutting
- 30:21Speaker 3: Ham for me, but interested to hear what you have
- 30:23Speaker 3: to say.
- 30:27Speaker 4: I mean, the prices are pretty far off. It's a
- 30:32Speaker 4: thousand away from each other, so I don't really think
- 30:34Speaker 4: it's a it's not. It's a twelve hundred price difference,
- 30:37Speaker 4: so it's not really a one by one. It's more
- 30:40Speaker 4: so about what spinning up for Cade and down for
- 30:44Speaker 4: somebody else does for your lineup. They're both, I mean
- 30:47Speaker 4: they're pretty even from like a points per dollars standpoint.
- 30:49Speaker 4: I don't really have a strong take. I guess I
- 30:52Speaker 4: would go with Giddy just because if that allows me
- 30:55Speaker 4: to spend up elsewhere, I'd prefer that.
- 30:58Speaker 3: Yeah, good stuff, I didn't realize it was twelve hundred bucks.
- 31:01Speaker 3: Is kind of yeah, it's almost two different types of
- 31:03Speaker 3: players there. Moving on to the next game, we got
- 31:06Speaker 3: job back in action. Won't be confronting Denny whatever. Denny's
- 31:12Speaker 3: Abdija's last name, however, he says last name to Night.
- 31:14Speaker 3: But we've got the jazz, your Utah Jazz going in
- 31:17Speaker 3: to take on the Grizzlies should be a should be
- 31:19Speaker 3: an up.
- 31:19Speaker 1: And down game.
- 31:20Speaker 2: Your Memphis Grizzlies. Huh, your Memphis Grizzlies.
- 31:23Speaker 1: My Memphis Grizzlies.
- 31:24Speaker 3: Yes, Ham versus Rio tonight, but two hundred and forty
- 31:27Speaker 3: one points total with Jaw back, you're talking about Jock earlier,
- 31:31Speaker 3: He's going to be super popular on this slate, Zach Edie.
- 31:35Speaker 3: In case you don't know, I think he's out for
- 31:36Speaker 3: four weeks, I think is what it is. But talk
- 31:39Speaker 3: to me about this game. I'm interested in it. Jazz
- 31:42Speaker 3: at the Grizzlies with our boy Kiante George has just
- 31:46Speaker 3: been been having a pretty good season.
- 31:48Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 31:49Speaker 4: I feel like if there was a game that you
- 31:51Speaker 4: could get four pieces of and really stuck it up,
- 31:54Speaker 4: it would be this one. Jaw returning does kind of
- 31:58Speaker 4: shake things up a little bit for Memphis, but not
- 32:01Speaker 4: too much because I don't think you're really considering him,
- 32:05Speaker 4: and I definitely am not confident that Jaron Jackson Junior
- 32:09Speaker 4: is even good anymore, so I probably would not be
- 32:11Speaker 4: considering him. But the value is coming from Santi and
- 32:15Speaker 4: Jock Landel, so it's pretty easy to get two Memphis guys.
- 32:18Speaker 4: And then I also really like Cedric Coward tonight at
- 32:21Speaker 4: five point four K because he's just a hooper, so
- 32:25Speaker 4: I think it's pretty easy to get at least three,
- 32:28Speaker 4: but I could see myself getting four pieces from this
- 32:30Speaker 4: game in total. Both these teams are pretty bad defensively.
- 32:35Speaker 4: I think that well, Memphis has been playing really well.
- 32:37Speaker 4: A lot of that was due to Zach Edy, though
- 32:39Speaker 4: when he was on the court, this team got a
- 32:41Speaker 4: lot better on defense. The room protection was really good,
- 32:43Speaker 4: and just overall they were a much better defensive unit.
- 32:47Speaker 4: He's out for a month. And then you add in
- 32:49Speaker 4: jaw which I don't think Jaw is a good defender either,
- 32:51Speaker 4: and this was a team that really lacked on ball
- 32:54Speaker 4: defense earlier in the season, So adding jawback I think
- 32:57Speaker 4: makes us a really good spot for the offensively, and
- 33:01Speaker 4: both teams kind of struggle with similar things. The Jazz
- 33:05Speaker 4: have always been one of the worst three point defenses
- 33:07Speaker 4: in the league, and they also played fast. Memphis should
- 33:11Speaker 4: play a lot faster with Eedy out and Jaw in,
- 33:14Speaker 4: and the Jazz are allowing a ton of points in
- 33:16Speaker 4: transition the second most three is per game, and then
- 33:19Speaker 4: Memphis is bottom six and three point defense, so there's
- 33:21Speaker 4: kind of two clear spots to attack. And then also
- 33:24Speaker 4: the rim defense will get a lot worse for Memphis.
- 33:26Speaker 4: So on the Utah side, I think there's a ton
- 33:29Speaker 4: of scoring upside for both Luri and Keyonte tonight at
- 33:31Speaker 4: eight K and seven point six K, respectively. Laurie with
- 33:35Speaker 4: you know, being one of the better catch shoot guys
- 33:36Speaker 4: in the league, one of the best three point shooters
- 33:38Speaker 4: in the league against the team that struggles to defend
- 33:40Speaker 4: three point defense, and he can also take guys off
- 33:42Speaker 4: the dribble at times in a close matchup. Thirty five
- 33:45Speaker 4: to thirty six minutes from Lourie is within the range
- 33:48Speaker 4: of outcomes and even some potential for more because they've
- 33:51Speaker 4: been will Hardy's really been tightening up the rotation or
- 33:54Speaker 4: just kicking guys out of the rotations that are not performing.
- 33:56Speaker 4: So I think Laurie does have a good bit of
- 33:58Speaker 4: scoring upside here. He is competing with a lot of
- 34:01Speaker 4: really strong power forward options. That's the only downside because
- 34:04Speaker 4: I do think that he's probably fifth or six on
- 34:07Speaker 4: my list of power forward tonight. But I'd be fine
- 34:10Speaker 4: with Kyance at seven point six K. He's had a
- 34:12Speaker 4: really good season, really good role. All the numbers indicate
- 34:16Speaker 4: that he's definitely worth the price.
- 34:17Speaker 2: Tag.
- 34:18Speaker 4: The touch time, role, potential assists, and drive stats have
- 34:21Speaker 4: all been really good. And he is a guy that
- 34:24Speaker 4: does play a lot more minutes in close games. Obviously
- 34:26Speaker 4: they won't throw him out there when it's a blowout,
- 34:28Speaker 4: but he should play upper thirty minutes tonight in a
- 34:31Speaker 4: close game, and then Nurki should be better with Dy
- 34:34Speaker 4: out there five point eight K. He is a guy
- 34:35Speaker 4: that does have forty plus point upside, so I'm okay
- 34:37Speaker 4: going to him. I don't really think that we see
- 34:39Speaker 4: a crazy spiken minutes because they are giving some of
- 34:42Speaker 4: the backup center runs to Philip Kowski, so kind of
- 34:44Speaker 4: a you know, obviously negative correlation there.
- 34:46Speaker 2: I wouldn't play those guys together.
- 34:49Speaker 4: I think Ace Bailey is fine at four point six
- 34:51Speaker 4: K as a really just like a correlated piece in
- 34:55Speaker 4: this game. Should play lower thirty minutes and it's a
- 34:58Speaker 4: good matchup. He just the usage has not really been
- 35:01Speaker 4: great for him. You're gonna need a lot of scoring
- 35:04Speaker 4: for him to pay off in a big way, which
- 35:06Speaker 4: seems a little tougher to come by when you have
- 35:07Speaker 4: to compete with Laurie and Keyante. So I'm not in
- 35:11Speaker 4: love with Ace Billy as an option. Tonight, but I
- 35:12Speaker 4: think he's okay. And then a guy if you really
- 35:15Speaker 4: need a cheap guard option not named Garrison Matthews, then
- 35:18Speaker 4: Walter Clayton Junior at three point five K is a
- 35:22Speaker 4: really good option. It seems like Isaia Colliers in the
- 35:24Speaker 4: doghouse and Clayon Junior, a guy that they spent a
- 35:26Speaker 4: first round draft capital on last season, a guy that
- 35:30Speaker 4: is really talented can overlap with Kanti George a bit.
- 35:34Speaker 4: I think that he's a pretty strong option at three
- 35:36Speaker 4: point five K, and he makes a lot of work
- 35:39Speaker 4: in some of those bills. I like him a good bit.
- 35:41Speaker 4: And then, like I said, for the Memphis stuff, I'm
- 35:43Speaker 4: prioritizing Santi and Jock. I think you can play them together.
- 35:47Speaker 4: I would not play more than two of Jaron, Santi
- 35:51Speaker 4: and Jock, and then I guess it would probably be Max,
- 35:55Speaker 4: one of Cam Spencer and John Morant. Jen Wells is
- 35:59Speaker 4: finally keeping your player pool. He's a mainly catch ashoe guy.
- 36:02Speaker 4: Really good matchup for catching you guys, and he's been
- 36:05Speaker 4: pretty consistent a couple of games in the thirties over
- 36:07Speaker 4: the last six or seven so games, but more likely
- 36:09Speaker 4: than not ends up in the low twenties, and then
- 36:12Speaker 4: I think Cedric Coward is a really really good option
- 36:14Speaker 4: at five point four K.
- 36:17Speaker 1: Would you play Jaw with Jock and Santy or is
- 36:22Speaker 1: that too many? Too many Grizzlies.
- 36:25Speaker 4: Jaw with santin John. I think that's fine. I don't
- 36:27Speaker 4: think that those guys negatively correlate. It's just with Jaw
- 36:31Speaker 4: returning from a calf injury, you're probably getting him capped
- 36:34Speaker 4: at like twenty eight minutes. I would say is like
- 36:36Speaker 4: the high end, but I feel like he probably lands
- 36:38Speaker 4: at like twenty five to twenty six.
- 36:42Speaker 1: And then Ricky wants to know you talked to cedricx Hooper.
- 36:45Speaker 3: Yeah, I think even with him shooting bad, Rio is
- 36:47Speaker 3: still on him.
- 36:48Speaker 1: Correct me if I'm wrong there. And then.
- 36:52Speaker 3: We just talked about this longly. If yeah, Tyson, Tyson's
- 36:54Speaker 3: and I guess in play tonight. I don't think he's
- 36:57Speaker 3: gonna bus could he bust? Absolutely, but you know, minimal
- 36:59Speaker 3: interest I think from from both Rio and myself on
- 37:02Speaker 3: that one. Excellent stuff there. We're moving right along. This
- 37:06Speaker 3: is the last game on the slate. I heard you
- 37:09Speaker 3: mentioned a d a minute ago, which was kind of
- 37:10Speaker 3: scary to hear. I saw a rumor today Rio and
- 37:14Speaker 3: I don't know if it's true or not, so I
- 37:15Speaker 3: need a validated But Klay Thompson, Megan Stallion, they're on
- 37:19Speaker 3: they're on thin ice. So we'll see if that, you know,
- 37:22Speaker 3: ups his game. We'll see if that's even true. But
- 37:24Speaker 3: we're here to talk basketball. Got the Brooklyn Nets. Never
- 37:27Speaker 3: Brooklyn Nets ever in your life, unless it's Michael Porter
- 37:31Speaker 3: Junior or Nick Claxton or somebody that's gonna put up
- 37:33Speaker 3: a fifty piece on you. But going into the big
- 37:36Speaker 3: d taking on the other Nimhar Ryan, Nimhar Cooper Flag
- 37:40Speaker 3: PJ talked to me about this game. Low total, another
- 37:44Speaker 3: low total, seven and a half points spread, things that think.
- 37:47Speaker 3: I think that's been the theme of the night. But
- 37:49Speaker 3: Nets at Mavericks.
- 37:52Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, once again you bested me in the
- 37:55Speaker 4: pop culture knowledge because I didn't even know about that.
- 37:58Speaker 4: So thank you for informing me on the relationship between
- 38:02Speaker 4: those two people. Yeah, you pretty much said it like
- 38:07Speaker 4: it's I don't really know if it's even worth breaking
- 38:09Speaker 4: down the matchup stuff for anybody other than MPJ and
- 38:12Speaker 4: Nick Clason. These two guys are basically doing everything for
- 38:16Speaker 4: Brooklyn on offense, MPJ has kind of put all the
- 38:20Speaker 4: rumors to rest that he can't function as like a
- 38:22Speaker 4: number one option without Jokic, and he's done great this
- 38:26Speaker 4: season in Brooklyn. Brooklyn's playing a lot better. I think
- 38:29Speaker 4: that they do have a really solid defensive scheme, but
- 38:33Speaker 4: what they do well is like stopping the pick and roll.
- 38:37Speaker 4: There's still a pretty bad transition team, still below average
- 38:40Speaker 4: rim defense, and you don't really have to worry about
- 38:43Speaker 4: any any sort of like high volume pick and roll
- 38:45Speaker 4: score on Dallas tonight. So I feel like what they
- 38:47Speaker 4: do well can kind of be negated in this matchup defensively.
- 38:51Speaker 4: But I do like MPG at a point three k
- 38:54Speaker 4: totally fine price tag for a guy that has had
- 38:58Speaker 4: really high volume scoring and high fish and see shooting
- 39:01Speaker 4: top fifty six d K points in three straight games,
- 39:05Speaker 4: gets a little bit of a tougher matchup than the
- 39:06Speaker 4: ones he has seen as of late. Over those three games,
- 39:09Speaker 4: he was playing New Orleans, Chicago, and Charlotte, three pretty
- 39:13Speaker 4: bad defenses. I don't think Dallas is great, but they
- 39:15Speaker 4: do have PJ Washington, who I would say is an
- 39:18Speaker 4: above average wing defender. So slightly negative for MPJ, but
- 39:22Speaker 4: if you're playing somebody on Brooklyn. I think it is
- 39:26Speaker 4: MPJ is a clear option, and then Claxon would be next.
- 39:29Speaker 4: But he does have to guard Anthony Davis tonight, which
- 39:32Speaker 4: brings a little bit of foul risk. But I like
- 39:34Speaker 4: what I've seen from him coming off of his second
- 39:36Speaker 4: triple double this season last game. I think the offense
- 39:40Speaker 4: looks a lot better when it runs through him then,
- 39:43Speaker 4: more so than some of these other guys. So I
- 39:44Speaker 4: think he's fine, but not probably not a top four
- 39:48Speaker 4: or five center option on this slate tonight, and then Dallas,
- 39:52Speaker 4: it's pretty much.
- 39:54Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I'm not gonna say Ady or Busk.
- 39:56Speaker 4: I do think that there are some guys that can
- 39:58Speaker 4: reach value, but Ad is the clear number one option.
- 40:01Speaker 4: Nine point five K usage has been really strong for
- 40:03Speaker 4: him returning from the injury. Has had five days off
- 40:07Speaker 4: in between games, so should be closer to full if anything, tonight,
- 40:11Speaker 4: and I like attacking Nick Claxon.
- 40:12Speaker 2: I don't think that he's a.
- 40:13Speaker 4: Great rip protector, slightly undersized for defending a guy like
- 40:16Speaker 4: Anthony Davis. I'm expecting a pretty big game out of
- 40:19Speaker 4: Ad tonight. Nine point five K power forward eligibility really
- 40:22Speaker 4: good there, so I like ad a Ton. I think
- 40:25Speaker 4: Cooper flag playing a lot better alongside of a true
- 40:27Speaker 4: point guard, but seven K a little bit tougher price
- 40:30Speaker 4: tag for him to pay off. I don't mind PJ
- 40:33Speaker 4: because he is mainly like a catch and shoot guy
- 40:35Speaker 4: that like kind of a three and D wing, But
- 40:38Speaker 4: he spiked for some steals games. As of late, the
- 40:42Speaker 4: nets are their bottom three and turnover percentage of the season,
- 40:47Speaker 4: so there's a little bit of upside for him there
- 40:49Speaker 4: to maybe get like three or four steals, hit a
- 40:51Speaker 4: couple of three pointers. I think that he could pay
- 40:52Speaker 4: off his price egg at six point a k. Then
- 40:55Speaker 4: Najie Marshall should be in the starting lamp again. I
- 40:59Speaker 4: would imagine he's kind of always okay when he's starting,
- 41:03Speaker 4: can't hit for some big games. I would love to
- 41:06Speaker 4: get to one of Nemhard or Brandon Williams if I
- 41:08Speaker 4: knew which one was gonna be the guy that's getting
- 41:10Speaker 4: more minutes. We saw two huge games from Ryan Nemhard
- 41:12Speaker 4: and then he kind of went back to playing low
- 41:15Speaker 4: thirties minutes.
- 41:18Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
- 41:19Speaker 4: If I knew that he was playing thirty i'd have
- 41:20Speaker 4: interest in him. But I'm just not too sure that's
- 41:22Speaker 4: going to be the case. The minutes a kind of
- 41:24Speaker 4: trended in Brandon williams favor as they went for a
- 41:27Speaker 4: little bit more offense over defense. So I would be
- 41:31Speaker 4: max one of those two guys if you're considering them,
- 41:33Speaker 4: but not really confident in either one running away.
- 41:36Speaker 2: With the minutes.
- 41:37Speaker 4: So ad the main priority in this game, MPJ Claxton
- 41:40Speaker 4: on the net side, and I think PJ and Flagger
- 41:43Speaker 4: are fine.
- 41:44Speaker 1: What about if DeAngelo Rosswell misses, It's not gonna mean
- 41:48Speaker 1: much other than you know, take his fifteen minutes, Like
- 41:51Speaker 1: do you think Williams or nim Hard gets those? Do
- 41:54Speaker 1: they split them?
- 41:54Speaker 3: Does that do anything to those guys? You know, did
- 41:57Speaker 3: divvy up d Low's minutes at all?
- 42:00Speaker 4: I don't even know if he's really been in the
- 42:01Speaker 4: rotation much as of late. I feel like he's been
- 42:05Speaker 4: playing low teens. I guess I would kind of they
- 42:08Speaker 4: might bring somebody else in, like a Hearty, or maybe
- 42:11Speaker 4: those just go to like Christy or Clay. I feel
- 42:14Speaker 4: like there's been very little overlap from Brandon Williams and
- 42:17Speaker 4: right now Hart, if you want to talk about that
- 42:20Speaker 4: for a little bit.
- 42:20Speaker 2: I can stall and kind of pull up popcorn machine
- 42:22Speaker 2: and see if there's been.
- 42:23Speaker 1: Any Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
- 42:26Speaker 3: I mean, like you said, he's been playing right around,
- 42:29Speaker 3: you know, literally in the teens thirteen to eighteen minutes
- 42:33Speaker 3: the last several games there. I would just assume that
- 42:37Speaker 3: those minutes got to go somewhere. Yeah you said, you
- 42:40Speaker 3: said Christy. I mean, so Christy has been playing low
- 42:44Speaker 3: twenty minutes, Williams and Russell around the same price at
- 42:47Speaker 3: four K. So I mean something to think about, like
- 42:50Speaker 3: if you want a cheap guard. I don't know if
- 42:52Speaker 3: we're going to need it tonight, but that's kind of
- 42:54Speaker 3: my take. I don't know what you found, if you
- 42:56Speaker 3: found anything yet.
- 42:57Speaker 1: If so, let us know.
- 42:59Speaker 3: I'm getting I'm getting a lot of flak in the
- 43:01Speaker 3: chat reo. They said you're here to talk ball, not Barbie.
- 43:03Speaker 3: So I won't bring up any more pop culture. We'll
- 43:06Speaker 3: keep it strictly business because that's all Rio is. He
- 43:09Speaker 3: doesn't have time to look up Klay Thompson and Meghan
- 43:12Speaker 3: the Stallion, you know, on a Friday afternoon.
- 43:15Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, pretty much. No overlap between Brandon Williams and
- 43:22Speaker 4: right Nemhart of our last two games. The minutes from
- 43:25Speaker 4: Delo came from one first first half rotation in the
- 43:29Speaker 4: game against okay See. They got blown out there, obviously
- 43:32Speaker 4: every team does against okay See. But then he played
- 43:34Speaker 4: the last eight or so minutes in blowout, so that's
- 43:38Speaker 4: kind of and the same thing or not the same
- 43:41Speaker 4: thing in the game against Houston, but he did play
- 43:45Speaker 4: about a four minutes then at the very end, while
- 43:49Speaker 4: neither Brandon.
- 43:50Speaker 2: Williams or on the court.
- 43:53Speaker 4: So he's just kind of I think he's kind of
- 43:54Speaker 4: dead now. I don't think his injury really does much.
- 44:00Speaker 1: On it. Excellent stuff there.
- 44:01Speaker 3: That's all six games. We appreciate you certainly tune it in.
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- 44:08Speaker 3: the Warriors. My guy beg little Nick breaking it all
- 44:11Speaker 3: down on the showdown Slate tonight, no aunt tonight, So
- 44:14Speaker 3: it should be should be exciting stuff over there, all right.
- 44:17Speaker 3: My favorite portion of the show rio you can't be
- 44:19Speaker 3: Evan Mobley. Let's just say, let's say under eight k
- 44:25Speaker 3: who's the biggest point getter tonight?
- 44:27Speaker 1: Under eight k ak and under we'll say that.
- 44:36Speaker 2: Well, let's let me do that.
- 44:37Speaker 4: Let's do seven K and under because I feel like
- 44:39Speaker 4: there's two guys that are clear options in that seven.
- 44:42Speaker 2: K to ak Rangel Bridges seven K and under.
- 44:46Speaker 4: Yeah, Bridges and Embiid are the guys in the upper
- 44:49Speaker 4: seven K and above, but seven k below. I'm gonna
- 44:52Speaker 4: go with my guy, Andrew Nemhard against Philly. I think
- 44:56Speaker 4: it's a really good spot for him to put up
- 44:58Speaker 4: a solid that line. I think he's going to be
- 45:01Speaker 4: scoring the ball. It will against a team that struggles
- 45:03Speaker 4: to defend pick and roll with a cement feet joyling.
- 45:06Speaker 2: Beat out there. So I'm liking Andrew them hard.
- 45:10Speaker 1: I like that call right there. Last one, this is
- 45:12Speaker 1: this is more for me. Give me your top. This
- 45:15Speaker 1: isn't a gambling show, but give me your top wager
- 45:17Speaker 1: on the slate tonight.
- 45:19Speaker 2: Oh you already know I was gonna text you on
- 45:20Speaker 2: the side. I got three lined up already.
- 45:22Speaker 3: Give me the best one so the people can get
- 45:24Speaker 3: we can all go make some money tonight.
- 45:26Speaker 2: Okay, the best one is going to be Lori Marketing
- 45:33Speaker 2: over two and a half threes.
- 45:35Speaker 3: Laurie Marken and the Sharpshooter in Memphis over two and
- 45:39Speaker 3: a half threes. That'll do it for us. Make sure
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- 45:44Speaker 3: We'll have the showdown tonight. I'll be doing a slate
- 45:47Speaker 3: plan all weekend. Then we are back on Tuesday with
- 45:51Speaker 3: another show with my guy Rio and title on Tuesday.
- 45:54Speaker 1: Appreciate, appreciate all you tuning in.
- 45:59Speaker 3: Have a good weekend, stay out of trouble and don't
- 46:01Speaker 3: do things that people up in the North do.
- 46:05Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. Until next time, let's ship it.