NBA DFS Live Before Lock (Friday 11/22/24) | DraftKings & FanDuel NBA Lineups

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Join Eric Lindquist and DK DFS (@DK_DFS) for the Deeper Dive and Greg Ehrenberg and Eric Lindquist as they finalize the top DraftKings and FanDuel NBA DFS lineups for tonight’s games. We’ll cover everything you need to know in these final minutes before lock, including last-minute injury updates, player news, and lineup adjustments with the best NBA DFS picks today.

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[Music] [Music] [Music] and we are live welcome to the NBA deeper dive it is Friday November 22nd I am very happy to say that out loud because today means that tomorrow is the weekend I am Josh Angelman I’m joined by DK we’re brought to you by us sign up for castic using the links in the description follow us both on Twitter our names are below our heads uh hit the like button subscribe to the channel hit the notification B I think I hit all the things that I normally do in this intro I don’t think about it ever it just comes out DK what’s going on eight games NBA cup yeah happy Friday man um solid MBA slate uh got a new computer too so that’s that’s nice um but yeah shaping up to be a pretty pretty decent DFS slate um ownership is is pretty spread out right now we’ll see if that changes when we get more news but um I think it’s it’s going to be a pretty interesting slate for tournaments ownership is spread out depending on the site you’re playing on and we will get into some of those salary intricacies at FanDuel tonight who decided we’re just gonna create some salaries for players that make no sense and create a value play in Nick claxon that they’re they’re probably some like he’s a rookie so that should be fun and we’re going to get into that right now Brooklyn Nets four and a half Point dogs in Philadelphia 23 and a half total woof that’s gross so let’s start with Brooklyn who not really getting all that much ownership we had some Q tags earlier today for Dorian finny Smith and for Nick Claxton we got word earlier today that both of those guys are going to be in so we don’t have anything weird going on on the Brooklyn side and on the DraftKings end of it there’s really no ownership coming in 7% to cam Thomas unowned across the board here for the rest of these dudes let’s hit the DraftKings piece of this first how do you feel about cam Thomas do you like anything here for Brooklyn yeah I don’t think there’s anything that stands out here for Brooklyn again no one really getting much ownership cam Thomas getting the most I think he is the easiest guy to get to sub sevenk he’s got shooting guard small forward eligibility um only missed one game so would doubt he’s going to be on any sort of limit I think he’s full go um so yeah Camp Thomas is probably the easiest guy to get to obviously again he has the high ceiling on this team um you do have Nick Claxton back um he’s missed a few games now it’s been like a little over a week um so there could be a a slight limit on him U be interesting to see if I think if embiid plays for Philadelphia it’s a little bit more likely that claxon starts if MB does not play then they might bring him off the bench um but yeah like a lot of these guys are kind of priced up from when a few of these nets were out now they’re basically fully healthy so um I think at least on draft Kings it’s cam Thomas for me and that’s about it I completely agree I got to 12% of Cam Thomas when I ran my Sims I essentially didn’t get anything else like I got one share of schruder one share of Dorian Smith that could just randomize out a little bit later FanDuel side though slightly different for Brooklyn and I’m quite confident I know why it happened uh Nick claxon is the flatman 3500 on FanDuel and he is projected for 66% ownership now that makes per sense to me he should be that owned he’s clearly the best value play on the Slate it’s pretty hard to ever get a value play be better than this without having a team missing like 10 dudes there’s only like you need that like they only have eight active type situation when somebody gets that price it’s rarely for a center like this I think it’s very clear that they changed his name and they don’t have the price history of who he is and he is just a madeup new Nick Claxton and he got the flatman salary because he hadn’t played for the last three days that’s the only way that this could happen yeah that that doesn’t make any sense but I mean Min price on FanDuel then yeah he’s like an amazing play there um you think it’s because like a name thing like they had Nicholas and now it’s Nick or something I I think that that’s really the the only way that that would make sense to me is that they switched that name and whatever history is attached to that name is not attached to a player ID it’s attached to his technical name and then when he was out for a couple days he got flat Min when he came back in as the new name and never got the price update and it slipped through the cracks until they got posted yep well um that’s kind of dumb but uh again it’s it’s hard to ignore him there on on FanDuel yeah yeah he just he looks great uh people brought it up on the strategy show this morning like is there any sort of opportunity cost because you have some other pay up centers you know yic is going to be on this slate and be exists and it’s like yes sometimes in that scenario like obviously you can easily build lineups that are have centers that aren’t getting all that much ownership in comparison but if Nick Claxton is even semi close to being able to play his normal minutes the amount that you’re spending on a on a f on a salary or a a Fantasy Point per dollar perspective is going to lap every other potential Center he’s not just some madeup dude he’s a real Fantasy Point per minute guy that in theory could play 29 minutes today like he normally does I don’t necessarily think that’s what’s about to happen I want a little bit than that but even still you’re just you just don’t find Value like this on slates all that frequently unless it’s just teams have no players right and like at least right now there’s not a lot of like standout value so he’s gonna look even better you could have you know some other value opening up with like FID sits or yoka chits but at the moment there’s not a lot of like amazing value so I totally get why he’s getting a lot of ownership yep he looks so damn good it’s insane if you’re bulk play like if you’re a mass entry type guy the you’re going to have him in probably half your stuff pretty pretty naturally and I get it you’re seeing some ownership coming in to Ben Simmons to Dorian finy Smith and to cam Thomas on FanDuel but nothing to the extremes that we’re seeing for claxon I mean claxon is the extreme today I think Ben Simmons looks okay because he has that point guard Center eligibility decent flexibility although he’s blocked out by his own teammate do you like does anything else catch your eye on the FanDuel side this is just the one team that is like distinctly different um let me take a look um so on the FanDuel side outside of um Claxton yeah I mean I think Dorian FY Smith reasonable that price Ben Simmons does have um point guard Center eligibility so I guess a little bit easier to get to him but um yeah nothing nothing else really um for the Nets now on the Philly side we have a giant piece of news hanging in the balance and that giant piece of news is Joel embiid questionable for left knee injury management I just assume that he would be late getting to the arena there’s no real ownership coming into Philly if Joel embiid is in 10% to yabas on DraftKings is the only player across both sites that got north of 9% McCain has a little bit coming in embiid’s got a little on DraftKings Cayla Martin has a little on FanDuel I think this whole team looks terrible if Joel embiid happens to be in agree yeah I think this team’s pretty hard to get to if MBI does play but my lean at least right now is that he won’t play now this is an early game so we will get that news but um he was like at shootaround but he didn’t participate um so that kind of leads me to believe that he won’t play um and then that could open up a ton of value for Philadelphia um you would most likely get drumman in the starting lineup and then yabui backing him up both those guys would be good values obviously like Maxi McCain UB would all look better I want to keep an eye in the news there for Tyrese Maxi did you see that report um before last game um on the Tyrese Maxi stuff I was like I don’t even know what that means they were like he’s on a very I forget what the exact wording was but I was like that doesn’t even make any sense I was like does that mean he’s not limited or does that mean he’s very limited it’s that stupid Nick nurse coach speak where you never know how many minutes that person is going to play until he just comes back and plays 36 out of nowhere that feels familiar yeah they said the the report was he will have a pretty short minutes restriction that was before last game I was like wait does that mean he’s barely limited or does that mean he’s barely playing yeah or the the minutes restriction won’t last long like it’s a games worth yeah the the context of that one is a little murky yeah if embiid ends up out then it’s you’re paying way more attention to McCain Maxi’s probably still off the table but you know if he if you just somehow plays 33 minutes out of nowhere then you’re not all that sad you got to him uh yabas gets the Boost obviously Andre Drummond goes from completely uninteresting to like maybe you could talk about him it’s a completely different look for Philly if embiid is in or out which shouldn’t be all that surprising but if he’s in doesn’t look all that good what a gross first game yeah it’s terrible better games to come for sure let me make sure I have the uh Cup standings up as well so group a Brooklyn’s one and one Philly is already out so they’re not playing for any sort of like running up the score Point differential stuff Brooklyn is technically still alive although that would be a real interesting run out for them to beat Philly beat orlandoo and uh win that group but and then somehow pray that the Knicks lose and you lose your they won’t have that tie break technically the Nets can still move on as one of the wild cards so they have something a little bit more to play play for than Philly Philly is totally done Boston and Washington so this one was looking like it was just going to be normal uh for Boston and then just before we got started 37 minutes ago we got word that Al Horford is ruled out due to illness we’re seeing about 20% ownership coming into Tatum like 20 to 25 on Jaylen Brown across both sites same situation for Derek white 20 to 25 and then there’s not much else happening on the FanDuel side DraftKings on the other hand 10 to Drew holiday 10 to pton Pritchard 15 to Sam Hower close to 20 for kayada close to 20 for Luke cornet you’re basically getting to everything that shows up on the floor for Boston today do you have a preference of these dudes because I think that I do okay well I think I like The Bigs I think the bigs are probably the easiest to get to um so last game that Al Horford missed um the Celtics started um kada at the five he only played 21 minutes but he was in pretty severe foul trouble um and then you had Luke cornette play the backup five and they basically split the 48 Center minutes uh the last game that Horford missed you didn’t see Xavier Tillman play until the last minute of garbage time um so if the Celtics run that similar rotation and you get the full 48 minutes for kada and cornette I think both look really good I think it would be maybe a little bit easier to get to cornette because he’s a bit cheaper um coming in at 34 and and kayada is there at 44 um so yeah I like both the centers a good amount and then I do think it’s a you get like a slight bump of minutes to guys like Pritchard and Hower I think they’ll just have to play a little bit more so they look slightly better um and then I think any of the main guys are are fine here with white brown Tatum and Drew I always have a tough time picking between the main guys um do you have like a preference on like the the starters at least like the the main four I prefer Jaylen Brown and I tend to prefer jayen Brown the the price savings the positional difference both really helpful when I look at it I mean I basic like I don’t have a huge separation between Jaylen Brown and Tatum it’s not a it’s not a big gap but I tend to get to more Jaylen Brown than I do Tatum they both look really good though neither one of them is the guy that I have my eye on though Sam Hower 3500 small forward power forward eligible and he’s starting to play more in the game where Horford missed and then the next game Drew holiday missed that’s when we got 25 minutes out of out of Hower and 26 minutes out of Hower so now we’re we’re moving Horford again the minutes have been starting to little like ramp up a little bit for Hower and then this is another one of those situations that uh the Celtics guys were talking about before the season started where you know when they play some [ __ ] Squad like the wizards they become the pton Pritchard Sam Hower show and they try to get these other guys involved a little bit more so I see those minutes coming up I see great positionality I see a really good price I see a matchup where they should just absolutely destroy Washington and I just look at it and think I kind of want to get a little bit more Sam Hower Now The Field’s there he’s 16% owned it’s not like I’m I’m finding some diamond in the rough here but I like the functionality of his salary here and I like the flexibility I’m getting it could just as easily be Payton Payton Pritchard as the guy that goes bananas in this one I mean it could be any of them it’s not like they’re going to meet any resistance from the Wizards uh but kind of have my eye on Hower yeah I like that call um also to note in that last game um that Horford Miss uh the game was a blowout um you did see Pritchard close that game in a blowout um you know it’s not been every time that the Celtics involved in a blowout that he closes but he did close that that that most recent time he played 36 minutes too he played a lot so I like the call there on Hower again I think Pritcher looks good too really I think you can make the argument for any of any of the main rotation players for Boston um I think they all look pretty good in the spot yeah I mean we’re talking about the main eight guys from Boston Tatum Brown white holiday Pritchard Hower kada cornette they’re all at least 8% owned eight is the low man to Pritchard and his price is just a little Juiced for the role that he was getting a little bit ago when some people were out but if you ignore the Pritchard one you’re basically at like 15 to 20 on all of these guys like they’re it’s and it makes sense I mean it’s it’s as good of a matchup as you’re going to get and as I mentioned for the standings before they are one one and they need to run back a little bit of Point differential and try to run this one out they’ve got Washington and Chicago left they should be expected to win both of those games but their point differential right now is only plus two across those first two games they need to keep that up if there’s any weird ties they now have the tiebreaker over the Cavs they don’t have it over Atlanta so I’m expecting them to just pedal to the metal destroy these guys if they can they’re going to get up so many threes today yeah it’s a good point like I I think the starters even if this game does get out of hand could could get extended just because they lost that game to Atlanta so yeah would not be surprised about that so basically Boston needs Atlanta to lose two games then if they want to advance right is that how it works I guess if those three teams like if Cleveland beats Atlanta yeah and everybody just beats the Wizards in Bulls I in theory we could get a three-way tie at three and one at which point I don’t I think then point differential is the tiebreaker since everybody would have a win against each other so then you need like the clean run out and like Atlanta’s got Chicago and Cleveland you would expect them to beat Chicago Al it’s in Chicago that’ll be a coin flip match and then when they face Cleveland I mean they’re going to be decent enough underdogs so that we’re looking at a three-way tie unless a major upset happens good point okay yep and one of those teams will likely not go through because of just point differential in general a couple their teams have like pretty sizable ones like if the magic somehow don’t win the group but have like they have a plus 37 point differential right now it’ll be hard to overcome that when you’re coming back from 25 points down right now with two to go is there anything that you want to say about the Washington Wizards because they are essentially unowned joval got to 7% and nobody else has more than three I I don’t want any of these guys yeah I think this teams really hard to get to um I mean they ran a they’ve been running a decent rotation like they basically played eight guys in their most recent game but a lot of these guys are priced up you do a Brogden back that that hurts some of these guys Brogden himself I don’t think he playable yet you know he’s still getting ease back into it um you know kuzma’s minutes not really been there even in competitive games um I just think it’s pretty hard to get to this team jv’s getting the most ownership I agree I think he’s probably the easiest guy to get to but I mean when he’s on the court Boston’s just going to cook them defensively so um yeah this team is is almost a cross off to me Tyrese Maxi will see increased minutes Friday per coach nurse so the question is what is the increase right is it 20 to 25 minutes is it 20 to 35 minutes like what is the increase yeah uh last time out Tyrese Maxi played 20 as you just mentioned so yeah I expected it to go up from that too but 21 on the table yeah it’s so dumb it’s so dumb oh man let’s get out of that game for for now for the 1200 view that are here hit that like button let’s run that number up a little bit because we want to bump it up for the live before lock crew that will be showing back up here at six o’clock you’re going to get Greg you’re going to get Eric they’re going to take you all the way to seven and then they’re going to stick around for another hour for playback shout out to Eric for covering my playback stream tonight I really do appreciate that one um but yeah two more hours of coverage and you know if we’ve got a lot if we got some injury news or late swap stuff to do there’s no better place to be than on playback with Greg and Eric while we’re getting updates to the site information we’re rerunning our Sims we’re letting everybody know what those changes mean so if you want to uh keep your finger on the pulse of what’s Happening from 7 o’clock to 8 o’clock the best place you can go is playback we’re watching the games if you have league pass you can watch along with us you just have to link your account if you don’t have League Pass we have 20 VIP passes that we can hand out so that you guys can watch along with us so it’s a fun time we’re just all watching games sweating bets sweating lineups me normally it’s just me complaining about whoever I played the most playing incredibly poorly it’s a tale as old as time but today I will turn that job over to Eric game number three the Golden State Warriors taking on the New Orleans Pelicans Warriors are 10 and a half Point favorites in New Orleans 222 total there is very little ownership coming into Golden State I’m not surprised by that it makes a ton of sense to me eight sorry 9% to trace Jackson Davis is the high Mark I thought it was eight to Andrew Wiggins now they’re slightly more owned on FanDuel Curry green and Wiggins are all around that 10 to 15 range there’s not a lot of ownership coming into Golden State it makes sense three guys play normal rotations and then nine more guys play anywhere between 1 and 26 minutes and I don’t know which one it’s be every night and I don’t want to try to figure it out today yeah I think I think when this team is like close to fully healthy they’re they’re pretty hard to prioritize um Jackson Davis getting the most ownership I think that’s kind of just a price point thing because he’s 3.7k really don’t have much confidence in his minutes at all like there’s been games where they’ve really limited his minutes um Center is pretty high opportunity cost too right we just talked about the Boston centers I feel way better about there’s some other centers we’ll talk about too so kind of hard to go there um Lindy Waters has started the last couple of games for Golden State um the minutes have been decent on him in those starts 28 minutes and then 23 it’s just that he’s not going to be a great Point per minute player playing along had the starters um and it’s not like Steve Kirk could definitely just pull the rug if he struggles and barely play him uh we’ve seen that so many times before again I have very little confidence in the rotation at all um the assist numbers and Draymond Green have been been decent of late over the last five games 61.2 passes made 12.6 potential assist minutes hovering around 30 so I think draymond’s like a reasonable play if this game does stay competitive but um yeah there’s there’s no standouts obviously if you want to get to Stephen tournaments that’s fine 9.1k is a reasonable price point he has the highest healing of anyone on this team but as you mentioned it’s just like it’s kind of like they run like a somewhat normal rotation for Steph draymont and Wiggins and then it’s just like who knows what’s going to play who’s going to play what after that yeah any anybody can get that additional run depending on how that’s that game is going like Gary Payton’s probably not going to play a ton but in theory he can get up to like 18 every one of these other guys have massive range like you’re probably if you’re playing if you’re 150 maxing you’re probably getting like small bites of a bunch of these dudes if you’re just trying to funnel to one lineup I just don’t know how you prioritize Golden State totally agree and then we get to the Pelicans I guess it’s starting to get better uh Jordan Hawkins welcome back available Brandon Ingram available Eve Mei questionable still no Alvarado herb Jones Carlo Movic CJ McCollum Deonte Murray or Zion Williamson Zion apparently not close uh so that’s interesting Daniel Ty is just now not a part of this team I mean he is with the team not like Cody Zeller for Atlanta but uh even even short-handed they have uh leaned now on Trey Jameson so we only have ownership on DraftKings coming into Trey Murphy he’s 12% owned that one seems fine to me he’s a real player on the Pelicans so I would be happy to have him in lineups the FanDuel side has similar ownership for Murphy 20 for Brandon Ingram who’s still just 8600 there and another 10 to Jordan Hawkins who is 4,400 not the 5700 that he has on DraftKings on the pel side for DK it’s it’s really Murphy and nothing else for me yeah agree and that that quote too about Zion was they’re like oh he’s not remotely close not close not remotely close I’m like why do they have to say it like that why couldn’t they say he’s close to returning they had to like say oh it’s not even remotely close but um yeah I mean you have you have Murphy back you have Ingram back um you have Hawkins back on DraftKings some these guys are priced up from when those guys miss so it’s pretty hard to get to this team I I agree with the ownership here I think Trey Murphy is the easiest guy to get to I don’t think he’s on any sort of a limit anymore play 30 minutes in the most recent game I think in a competitive game you’re probably seeing around that maybe a little bit more um you know the ceiling is the highest on Ingram but you know the price point is already up on him um and how about uh Al Payton out of nowhere uh starting that most recent game um that was wild he’s 5100 on FanDuel today I wanted to play him on DraftKings he wasn’t in the player pool I was pretty annoyed about that because I was like I really wanted to play him well you’re not playing him today no definitely not no and most of these guys are full stop unplayable I mean Brandon Boston Jordan Hawkins Jeremiah Robinson Earl Javonte green Trey Jameson Antonio Reeves for pton and Jamal Kane are all 0% owned and that is correct agree yeah it’s it’s gnarly I I hate it for the PS I really lik them I was anxious to see what they were going to look like I had a full strength team like they’re they were deep they took a a team that had depth and other than the center position although Eve Mei looking better than I was going to expect him to I’ve never seen a team erase depth that quickly yeah it was literally like every games at least one person is going down with the main guy yeah I mean what Deonte Murray made it through like a half yep it’s brutal it’s brutal yeah this is just not a game that’s pulling a lot of love and not a game where I see a lot of spots to try to Corner the market so we move it on to the Indiana Pacers we five and a half Point dogs in Milwaukee 237 total a little bit more love here but it’s basically just the names you’re used to and we still have injury news to try to figure out in this one Q tag Tristan Newton uh that one’s probably not the one that everybody’s interested in Q tag Ben Shepard Q tag jarus Walker and then on the buck side everybody that’s normally available is Giannis is in Damen Lillard’s in so we got like 10 to 15% ownership on halberton seum Maan and Turner on DraftKings nobody else is really being rostered at this point less ownership coming into those guys on FanDuel although you do see seak get to 10% I don’t have a preference here from Indie I have more of cakam than anybody else but I don’t have any sort of big stand but those four Dudes in particular given the amount of minutes that they play I am more than happy to have like 10% of all of them yeah I like the scene for tournaments I think some of these guys are going a bit under owned I think math is the one at least right now that stands out to me coming in sub 10% owned uh 6.4k um in their most recent game it was a blowout but he played like 17 and a half first half minutes um we have seen mathine you know start in competitive games and push for you know 37 38 minutes um this team is you know pretty small when when Miles Turner is not on the court like the rebounding numbers for Matan um have gone up like he’s gone two of the last five games he has 12 rebounds so um I’m a little bit surprised the ownership is is not there on mathan I think he’s probably my favorite tournament play right now in Indiana also like Miles Turner um you know he was on Pace for like 36 minutes last game I think he’s gonna have to play all the minutes he can handle um assuming he can avoid foul trouble so I think mathine and Turner are the two standouts to me um and then will’ll keep ey that injury news um Ben Shepard jarus Walker both on the injury report um you did have Quinton Jackson uh start last game played 27 minutes and he could not miss um so keep an eye on that um if if Ben Shepard’s out and Jackson starts again he could be a reasonable value option um and then TJ McConnell I think would also play a little bit more in that scenario if Ben Shepard does not play um but yeah right now for me I think it’s it’s Maan and Turner I like them a good amount for tournaments no disagreement I’m over the field on Maan right now Turner came out great in my optimal run 6500 is a really nice price tag for him I’m cool with all these guys halberton I whatever I say he’ll do the opposite so um right now I’m neutral that’s not going to help anybody there good luck figuring out which side you’re supposed to be on when I don’t have a side but for the other guys they they look solid and I like the Quinton Jackson shout out you know got that start played uh just shy of 27 minutes it’s last time out you can’t expect the scoring to look like that and it didn’t go well while he was out there negative 17 for the game but price isn’t ideal but if he has to start again and you can give him 26 27 28 minutes in a projection he will then become a value option that you can click on like what I prefer getting to someone like Sam Hower in that situation probably just because of the positionality but um and the price tag but he’ll look okay like he goes from you can’t look at him at all to a guy that ends up in 5 to 10% of lineups mhm Milwaukee side 20% ownership coming into Giannis on DraftKings no no surprise there 121 power forward Center eligible 10% to Dame no ownership coming into anybody else slightly different story on FanDuel though it’s 20% to Damen Lillard at 8,400 and a crisp 51 to Giannis as an $1,800 power forward I am more than happy to get to Giannis we have a ton of value on the Slate at this point so getting getting to that sort of price range isn’t bad um and I’m too Xing him right now so what do you want to do with Giannis yeah I like Giannis a good amount here um love a spot against the Pacers reasonable price point not insane ownership so um I think Giannis looks really good um I have no issue with Dane either 8.9k coming in around 10% ownership um I do like Brook Lopez a good amount he’s someone I’ve you know usually don’t get to a lot but the minutes have like quietly ticked up on Lopez like last game um he got the starters got pulled the last minute or so like Brook Lopez is on Pace to play 36 minutes in that game yeah um I know there’s I think there’s one game that went to overtime but still over the last five games 37 40 30 40 35 minutes so he’s averaging like 35 minutes a game um so I kind of like Brook Lopez as a contrarian Center play um and then I think it’s pretty hard to feel good about any of the other rotation players like you know Gary Trent Jr Toran Prince AJ Green I mean AJ Green has been playing uh you know pretty good for this team but the price is up he’s relatively score independent um Andre Jackson’s been starting but the minutes have not really been there and he’s also not a good point per minute player so um Giannis and damee mainly and then I like Brook Lopez as a contrarian Play I Like The Brook Lopez shout the minutes the minutes change has been pretty interesting to see um I could I can see that path for sure I have him under owned so I’m not getting to him in my lineups right now but I like he is a guy that if I ended up with like 15% I’d be pretty happy about it based on my data these aren’t injuries for today it’s tomorrow you don’t see Cade Cunningham out pelvis all that uh frequently not a lot of pelvis injuries happening in the NBA and then the other one that I just want to mention because it’s fun to see assar Thompson listed as questionable uh for Saturday it would be nice to see him get back that was uh that’s some scary stuff for him so want to see that happen for him yeah yeah you’re you’re right on the pelvis thing I don’t think I’ve ever like rarely have seen that but went tilted me I um was the other night I faded lamelo and he foued out in overtime I’m like oh yes let’s go I have Kate Cunningham a low ownership and then you see Kade cing him right to the locker room too like great yep yep yep I mean I had some I had a bunch of Cade that night too and was a little bit lighter on the Mellow it was uh frustrating it was a wild game too pelvis pelvis pelvis pelvis it’s a fun word I don’t really like I I know the like the general location of pelvis but I don’t really know what that means yeah yeah kind of same yeah I know what like I know what area of my body pointing it to it like like you guys can see yeah hips and stuff somewhere in that neighborhood General hip area yeah exactly well I cannot help you guys at all about learning what a pelvis is you guys can figure that out on your own I can help you guys sign up at stochastic for absolutely no cost there is a link in the description of this video or Jordan will drop that in chat you can click that link you’ll head to a page that’s going 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higher than Brooklyn and Philly it’s really hard to make that back up 34 points is just 34 raw fantasy points that are included in this game that says nothing for the assists that happens on those back baskets the additional shots that create rebounds there’s way more fantasy points to go around in this one than something like Philly and Brooklyn and that’s why you’re seeing everybody be like Inplay is Atlanta’s starting to get guys back so that’s kind of taking a bite out of it but you look at Atlanta and see anybody that jumps out um I think Jaylen Johnson is probably the guy I like the most 8.3k reasonable price point uh missed one game came back played like 37 minutes or 35 minutes and lost the last um what was it four minutes due to a blowout so yeah um yeah him and Trey young are gonna play Big minutes also um as we mentioned like atanta is two and0 in the group so um I think you could see a slight bump in minutes to the main guys so um yeah no one’s getting sane ownership I think Jaylen Johnson is the standout for me no issue with Trey young either the price has come down he struggled a bit um with the shot but the assist numbers are still there if you can get a shot going we know the ceiling is there and this is like a get right spot against the Bulls who play very little defense so yeah the two main Hawks I think look pretty good next guy getting ownership is Clint capella coming in around 10% no real strong takes on that oku coming in around 3% is a little bit interesting Atlanta will usually ride the hot hand so I think factoring that ownership I would slightly prefer OKO to Capella um you’re getting around 10% to bonovich um the minutes uh were you know slowly ticked up for him last game um so game one he came back and played 18 minutes game two 23 minutes I’m assuming and he shot two of 14 in that game too I’m assuming you’re probably gonna see around 25 minutes or so for bonovich makes him okay but you know kind of cap sealing because I don’t think he you know has 30 plus minutes in his range outcomes yet um also DeAndre Hunter has played really well for this team but you know he has been injured a lot so I don’t know how many minutes he can play but both those guys are still in play because the price points um don’t think there’s anyone else I mean the price is up on um Dyson Daniels he to be out there a ton but more so um for defensive purposes so um yeah I like Trey and Jaylen a good amount and then some of those secondary pieces I think are reasonable plays I have eight different Hawks in at least one lineup it’s and like I’m not surprised by that in any way that’s a great spot just yeah there’s just there’s so many fantasy points to go around and look the same thing is about to happen on the Bulls one two three four five six I have nine Bulls in at least one lineup we’re getting 25% ownership to LaVine on DraftKings 40 on FanDuel dunu is 40 on FanDuel Tory Craig is 35 on FanDuel and unowned on DraftKings amazing uh Kobe white and z and Nicole Lovich are both 15 to 20 on DraftKings is 15 to 20 on both sides there’s so much coming in here Patrick Williams is out for this one I’m assuming we’re just going to get Tory Craig starting again like we did last time out who are you getting to here because the guy that I have the most of on DraftKings is IO dumu but I also have 20% of LaVine 20% of white 20% of Vu 10 plus of Jaylen Smith and Josh giddy I have too much of all of this yeah there there’s a lot to like for Chicago I think the issue for me is trying to figure out like all right who do I really like the most I like the io call I think you know they’re going to lean on him we’ll probably a little bit more um just as you know Defender at Trey young we’ve seen that in the past so um 5K IO I think is a a solid value play I think Tory Kraig starts again he started last game for um Pat Williams I think he’ll start again and draftking is a little bit tougher to get to though because the price point um Josh giddy only coming in around 15% owned I think he’s a pretty interesting play um the minutes on him are not secure but the ceiling is there if you get a game where giddy plays like 31 32 minutes in this spot like he could break the Slate so I like the upside on him there’s a little bit more risk though with him as opposed to some of these other main bowls LaVine getting the most ownership agree with it reasonable price there at 74 it’s got nice eligibility um no issue with vo or Kobe white either you know if you need a a punt play like Jaylen Smith I think that’s fine he’s gonna backup vo pretty good point per minute player I do think we’ll probably get better value if you know we get a couple guys ruled out here um depending on on when we get that news but um yeah a lot to like hear from the Bulls um in a super high total game I in this game across 50 DraftKings lineups I have representation from 17 guys on an eight game slate I don’t think like I can’t even picture a scenario where that’s ever happened before that is it’s just everybody showing up everybody that has a pulse yeah if you’re living and breathing you’re gonna be shown up yeah sorry to uh dalen Terry you didn’t quite make the cut but if I gave you another minute you probably would it is boy like I have a random share of Julian Phillips now do I think that’s going to stick around no he’s not good he doesn’t he plays like 15 minutes a night I think that that was just uh the case of a random lineup out of 177,000 showing up like the number 50 spot or something like that but either way there’s just there’s a never-ending supply of like 10% plus owned dudes for Atlanta and Chicago terrible terrible like the fact that DraftKings got out in front of Tory Craig to 4500 and FanDuel is just like no no 3,800 we’ll keep that one around for a bit here’s a 35% own guy that shouldn’t exist the day after he’s already started it just keeps happening it just keeps happening Portland and Houston the Blazers are 12 and a half Point dogs in Houston 224 total now this one is an absolute mess on the Portland side to the point where we basically can’t even talk about it DeAndre Aton is still doubtful with a deep contusion to his right index finger okay does it have to be like do we need like explanatory words that deep contusion what so like Zion thing where they’re like close like why do we need that he has a big cut on his right or like so it went to the Bone I don’t know just say right index finger contusion why does it have to be deep what does that matter who’s writing this Jeremy Grant is questionable with an illness uh scoot Henderson questionable with a left quad uh contusion and then Anthony Simons questionable with a right hand sprain assuming that aon’s status does not move anywhere and I don’t expect it to we are getting 20% ownership coming into Robert Williams on DraftKings at 4,800 with power forward eligibility along with Center kingan gets to 10 Shaden sharp gets to 10 I think it’s reasonable to be able to talk about those three guys now like Williams and kingan no matter what that news is probably doesn’t affect those guys all that much you know if you lose all three of them maybe you get like Robert Williams playing alongside of them for a minute or two just because you run out of bodies but the status of Grant Simons and Henderson changes everything we talk about for Portland if they’re all out then everybody’s playing like Delano Banton and Denny AIA probably looks insane and everything changes if they’re all in then probably not all that great yeah agree with that um I think the easiest guys to get to right now knowing what we know are the two bigs Robert Williams 4.8 Donan clingin 4.4 they’ve basically been splitting the center position um Robert Williams has been closing games he did get pulled at the very end of that most recent game but usually he is the guy that will come back in and close um so yeah I think the two bigs are are solid options right now um the only other guy getting some ownership is Shaden sharp um Portland did run a very tight rotation last game um like shadon sharp played 37 minutes um Jeremy Grant played 38 minutes um kamaro’s minutes have quietly ticked up two um he over the last um four games 38 35 35 and 38 minutes now the downside is he’s just not a great Point per minute player but um again the minutes have ticked up on him and then yeah things are going to get real crazy if you start getting a couple of these guys ruled out Simons Grant scoot like it could be Delo banton’s season as you mentioned Danny Advia and then you would probably start looking to some of these value plays too if like multiple guys get rolled out like Chris Murray or Ryan Rupert something like that so yeah this could be a really really gross situation yeah this is one of them where this isn’t even like a live before lock thing probably but this game starts at 8 o’clock which means we should get the Portland injury news at 7:30 which means being on playback tonight at 7:30 for when everything happens here Greg and Eric are going to have the answers for you of what you need to do for your swaps for eight three games locking at 8 o’clock another 10 o’clock at 10:30 you’re gonna have plenty of options to move this stuff around playback. vastic is going to be the place you guys go for your answers I don’t have much else to dig in here I mean there’s too many different permutations of three questionable guys uh making up 80 something minutes of Portland so uh play Robert Williams though I do think he looks good Houston oh these guys are getting quite a bit of ownership across the board uh call it 20 to Van vet on DK 20 to Jaylen green 20 to alurn shenon 20 to Dylan Brooks just shy of 20 for Javari Smith and around 10 for Aman Thompson and tar e now it’s way less on FanDuel van vet’s $700 more expensive Alber and shenon $300 more expensive Dylan Brooks is $500 more expensive Jabari Smith is $600 more expensive expensive almond Thompson is $900 more expensive uh t e is $800 more expensive so there is ownership coming into these guys on FanDuel but it’s a lot less except for Jaylen green who’s actually a $100 cheaper on FanDuel than he is on DraftKings he’s getting 33% ownership on FanDuel I have a ton of this Houston team I’m over the field on Van vet I’m over the field on Jaylen green I’m over the field on shenon I’m neutral to Brooks I’m neutral to Jabari I’m neutral to Aman Thompson I’m a little bit over on E this is one my most exposed teams how do you feel about Houston yeah there’s a good amount to like here I think my favorite play is probably shenon U the minutes have also ticked up on him recently so last game dealt with some foul trouble and the game blew out the game before that though he played 39 minutes and then the game before that was a blowout the game before that he played 33 minutes in a blowout so you’ve seen a lot of blowouts recently but um you know in the first half shanon’s minutes have been pretty solid um when he avoids foul trouble and he’s only 88.4k so um really like the upside on him um I will mention you know if you do start getting you know a couple those main Blazers ended up getting ruled out then like there’s there is some blot risks for sure but um yeah really like the the upside here on shenon reasonable ownership coming in around 20% um and then it’s similar ownership to a lot of the other rotation players you mentioned Brooks green Van Vleet Jabari Smith um I don’t really have any strong takes in those guys I think they’re all fine plays um no real standouts there um I do kind of like Tara e at his ownership sub 10% 5.7k in competitive games he’s playing you know around 25 minutes with ceiling like he he has the upside to play a little bit more too um you he play 31 minutes two games ago against Milwaukee pretty good point for minute player so I like the upside there on on tar e at relatively low ownership again a men Thompson’s mins have been pretty solid too he’s coming in around 10% um no issue with that either so good amount to like here from the Blazers but or from the the Rocks should say I should say but shingun I think is is my favorite play is he the guy I have the most he is I have more of shingon than anybody else so we are in lock step there I got the 34 of shenon 28 of Jaylen green 24 of Van vet everybody else is in the teens it’s just a lot of volume it’s a lot of volume oh I like it though and this could look even better for Houston what is the status of these two teams in their groups this is West group a oddly enough this is a matchup of two undefeated teams in West group a Houston picked up the win over the Clippers and then obviously Portland uh hit Minnesota on that back-to-back beat him twice but the first one was in the uh in the NBA cup so one of these two teams is going to go to two and0 it obviously seems like the that Houston is going to be the the answer to that one considering their 12-point favorites but technically speaking the Blazers are still in a decent spot in this group having only played one game I don’t think it’s going to look decent for them when all is said and done yeah I think after this it’ll not be looking good for them nope I’m expecting Houston to be two and0 and uh on their path to winning West group a although they still have uh their next one is at Minnesota that will be a big one anything else for Houston here uh no I think ready to move on alrighty one last call for likes folks just shy of 2,000 people in the door we’ve got 219 I don’t love the ratio you guys are better at this am I going to have to bring back the gimmick letting you guys know if you don’t hit the like button the screen goes black at 6 o’ let’s just say that that’s going to be what happens screen goes black if we don’t get to 400 likes on this show you won’t be able to see or hear anything from live before lock I know some of you will believe that Dallas Mavericks three and a half Point dogs in Denver 225 total this one is interesting because Luca donic out right RIS Sprain and Nicole yic questionable H still working his way back I guess from is the birth of a child allegedly there is no ownership coming into the Dallas side 4% to Jaden Hardy is the most of anybody on the FanDuel side we do get PJ Washington as the only guy into double digits I think this will probably end up looking a little bit different once we get an official starting lineup I think then you could feel a little bit better about who the dude is going to be that replaces Luca but Kyrie is already sort of prohibitively expensive you know you want to roll the dice on Grimes or Hardy or Den witty perhaps depending on who we think is going to get those increased minutes like I get it but on the surface right now I don’t really like anything from Dallas yeah you would think you would like more too Luca being out but I mean they priced up Kyrie a good amount um dating back to last year I mean the numbers are really good for Kyrie with Luke off the court 31 and a half% usage um and then he had has a about 35% assist percentage um and um he is averaging 1.43 fantasy points per minute it’s just again DraftKings priced him up to 99.8k not like completely out of play but definitely hard to prioritize him um in the most recent game that Luka donic missed they started Quinton Grimes played him around 20 minutes um and then you saw about 25 minutes for Jaden Hardy Off the Bench Hardy’s getting the most ownership on this team I think he probably is the easiest to get to three 9k if he can find his way into a few extra minutes the cealing definitely is there for Hardy like he’s not afraid to shoot so um I think Hardy’s a reasonable value option but um yeah I mean it’s it’s pretty tough I will say I think the centers would look a little bit better if yic get ruled out that being Lively and Gafford uh but their price points are up too 55 and 54 on draftking so like you would think there would be a lot more to like Luke out but there really isn’t if you said this my apologies I was uh texting my wife to try and save my collared shirt that I need to wear after we’ve done this but do you have a do you have a guess as to who is gonna start like do you have an expectation of someone that does pull the minutes I I think Grimes will start he started the most recent game for Luc out um could be Hardy though I mean Hardy played well Off the Bench um but my lean right now is Grimes and then they’ll if um they need like more offense they can just play Hardy a bit more yeah yeah we got 21 minutes out of Grimes in on the 17th when Luca was out we got 20 4 out of Hardy we did get to 17 out of deny and then he went straight back to not playing this most recent game but all bets are off for me on that one I I I do think that it could sort of be whatever the hot hand is out of that Trio as the guy that really takes the big step forward whoever you want to choose in this one at least as of right now depending on how the news breaks like you can take a stand on whichever guy you think is going to be that guy and then be up and over the field and and ultimately put yourself in a decent position if you happen to be right I’m just too nervous to try to have it all out that they all sort of just look unappealing that’s a shame I thought there was going to be a bunch of value here it’s weird you you remove LCA donic from everything and somehow nothing shows up I didn’t I did not expect that in any way and then we get to Denver they also have absolutely no ownership coming into this team the most that is coming in is either 7% to joic on DraftKings or 7% to Julian Strather as well every ownership number on the FanDuel side is lower yic is 12-2 on DraftKings 125 on FanDuel if he’s in I can’t imagine he’s Limited in any way he just goes out there and continues to be Nicole yic it’s not like he’s coming back from an injury or anything along those lines so what do you want to do with him if he’s playing yeah I think if if yic is in uh I like the upset of him like like you said uh would I don’t think there’s any limitations because it’s just personal reasons uh for um the birth of his kid so um yeah like the upside on joic if he does play ownership sub 10% um this one’s a tricky one because I was trying to do some digging on Twitter to see if y just gonna play and I couldn’t find anything definitive he didn’t practice yesterday um but this is back in Denver um so yeah this one’s a he could like just got in last night sorry what’ you say like he could have just like got in last night or something it’s not like they need him to show up at practice like I’m sure he can just do whatever he wants yeah but I don’t know the beat writers didn’t know either there no shoot around I was just I couldn’t find anything definitive I don’t like I don’t hate taking a stand in tournaments and like playing for for him to be out this is a late game like you could play for it and maybe yic gets ruled out after like the first six game start and then you get like sarch and Jamal Murray and guys like that at lower ownership and they should be if we knew the news earlier um so if you want to like take a stand like that in tournaments I I think that’s reasonable um but yeah if yic is in there’s not really much else if he’s out then we’re looking looking right back to like Jamal Murray who gets a pretty big usage and assist bump Westbrook had a triple double last game played 30 plus minutes in that game though however starge dealt some foul trouble and Denver kind of just played small ball so I I don’t think we’d see 30 plus minutes again from Westbrook if yic is out um sarch would be in play uh he started at the five last year games yic just missed um even a guy Julian strawther I think would be a viable value so um yeah there this team would look a lot better if yic is out if yic is in it’s really just yic and that’s it well the guys that like we can’t hunt down news for it does not surprise me in any way that like mums the word on yic like nobody probably asks him because nobody wants to bother him because they know that he’s him like I’m sure the beat writers have no interest in like hunting that down because it’s just like well what are we going to get here they’re just going to be koyi they’re everybody’s just going to be like he’ll be back when he’s back and they’re just going to move on and once he’s back he’s just back yeah I assume the beat writers love him like and they’re just not saying anything that would be my guess they just they would rather be on team yic and Report nothing yeah I think so too because I mean it’s been like I don’t think there’s ever even been official word that like his wife had a baby it was all just like well this is what it seems like it’s going to be but right and that’s what I was trying to find on Twitter I was like do they have the baby at I was like I couldn’t find anything you I’m pretty good at usually finding that stuff on Twitter but yeah there’s I couldn’t find anything yeah I think that’s just a case of the Denver people just being like look we’re not looking into this like we know and we’re not doing anything about it you guys can get that information later which I love good the one guy that doesn’t care about any of the pump and Circumstance of this stuff leave them the hell alone we closed this one out Sacramento Kings three and a half Point favorites in La 220 total kings are getting people back deard de rozan is back damont sabonis is back and those guys being back have removed all ability to really want to get to Sacramento 2% ownership to dearon Fox is the highest mark on DraftKings 5% to dearon Fox is the highest mark on FanDuel I like the idea of getting Fox and sabonis uh particularly on FanDuel as gpp pivots to some guys that might be pulling some ownership the fact that sabonis gets that power forward eligibility for only 4% ownership for him that makes me a little interested because you do have that increased flexibility he doesn’t get boxed out by that Nick Claxton value in the same way as some other people that are centers the fact that has power forward Center might be the that might be more wrong than Nick Claxton being 3500 there is no person that is less of just a center than Damon sabonis so thank you very much wife for letting that buzzer go off as much as possible that’s a fun noise for the show what do you want to do here with Sacramento yeah so at least Sacramento and DraftKings I think they’re pretty hard to get to um the price points have gone up on guys like Fox and Murray and herder and ly and Keon Ellis because you had what three games without demard de rozan and two games without sabonis they’re both back um so I think it’s really hard to to feel good about any of the the main Kings um if I had to play one it probably would be sabonis but none of them are getting ownership and I agree I I think it’s it’s it’s it’s really hard to to get to these guys yeah we I mean we’ve had monk out for a bit now uh D rozan and sabonis both missed a couple games and we saw everybody else’s price just incrementally rise and when all in it becomes very difficult to separate from the pack I don’t think dearon Fox is going to go and just shoot every time he has his hands on the ball like he did for the past three games so it’s tough on Sacramento now we are getting a little bit more ownership coming into the Clippers Norm pal still out with that hamstring strain so we’re getting like 20 to 20 to 25% ownership to harden across both sites a largely unowned a zubot who is always kind of interesting to me in any sort of gpp coffee done kpj all around 15% ownership on DraftKings only kpj got to that same range on FanDuel cuz coffee and Dunn are both more expensive on FanDuel than they are on DraftKings even Derrick Jones Jr and is getting a hair of Love at 7% anybody standing out to you because unfortunately for me I think it’s kpj and I hate it um I think look at the ownership at zubats um the price point has come down 7.2k um in a competitive game you’re probably seeing around 35 minutes from him and again the only ownership isn’t really there um so I like the upside there on aich zubats um James Harden coming in around 20% agree with it good matchup reasonable price point um so like the upside and Harden as well um kpj uh done coffee all in that like 15% ownership range um I don’t really have any super strong takes there um coffee did start uh last game played 33 minutes you saw Jordan Miller get dusted off he played about 15 minutes off the bench the Clippers still did run a 10-man rotation they did not trim it down to nine um but yeah outside of that there’s really not much else um again Derrick Jones Jor getting a little bit of ownership I think he a okay value play uh but yeah looking at the ownership uh and the price point I think zubot is the guy that that does stand out there we go everybody you did get up to 325 likes so I’m going to give you guys the chance to get 75 more before we turn this one over to live before lock we reached the top of the hour eight up eight down DK tell the people where to find you yeah you guys can find me on Twitter that’s going to be dkor DFS or on YouTube DK DFS there we go enjoy your weekend buddy we’re gonna have some fun now I’m done till Monday don’t come looking for me for Saturday and Sunday I got nothing but fun to have with a brief blip on Sunday of something less fun but that’s okay it’ll be good I’ll see you guys Monday live before lock coming up next sh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] what is happening guys and it is time for the final live before lock of the work week because it’s Friday night so Eric and I are not only doing live before lock tonight we’re also gonna be hang out on playback together after this so not one hour of Eric and I together but two hours and this could also be a massive slate for lad swap tip to tip we’re going to we might even wrap our hoods inside of each other and whatnot but if you go ahead and look it’s called docking if you go ahead and look at the injur reports for today Eric it is insane just absolutely insane the things that are involved on the injury report right now because we’ve got Nicole yic questionable to play in a late game because we’ve got the late games on draftking I’m kind of surprised they did the full eight game slate because when I first looked at the times I thought this was going to be a six gameer on draft that’s how they’ve been doing it this entire season but I’m actually kind of happy they’re doing the eight games there’s there’s a part of me that’s like these smaller slates but with the field getting a little bit sharper we have seen so many dupes and overlapping lineups this year that I like they were getting the couple extra games and potential other situations for late swap so yage is questionable that’s going to be a potential late swap scenario jol and beid is questionable that’s in the first game of the Slate so that’s something that’s going to come up while you and I are doing this show here then also for the late game Anthony Simons is questionable Jeremy Grant is questionable scoot Henderson is questionable so Portland that could be a spot Eric where a lot of value opens up and that’s not one of the super late games it’s 800 PM eastern time but still that is something that if we don’t get on this show it’s something that is potentially going to come up during the playback show and that’s something that’s really important EES Mei we’ve got him as questionable jar Walker is questionable Ben Shepard is questionable so that is going to round out the rotation players who are on the ninj report if you guys haven’t done yet like the video subscribe to the YouTube channel Eric what is happening oh just too much uh too much I’m telling you right before the show it’s like it’s probably the most uh important late swap that you could possibly run into I mean you either want to get to the likes of the same Denver pieces that we’ve been trying to make a thing or you want to get zero of them and you want to just filter your way into some yic um I guess at least the prices are elevated to places where we don’t have to like go crazy with it but yeah I mean we’ve got so much news everywhere I keep refreshing and and things just constantly keep changing for me as you know every every new iteration and we’re gonna we’re just getting started really I mean 54 minutes here until lock we got a lot to figure out yeah shout out to uh Rob Strom who I mean Rob has tweeted at us I mean he says King of the single bullets I don’t know three times four four times twice some amount of times that was more than once over the course of the last couple of weeks with him winning big gpps over on FanDuel or at least coming towards the top of those gpps with just a single lineup so a shout out to Rob and thank you very much for the Super Chat we appreciate it and then also Chris Williams gifting out five YouTube memberships to bring himself some good karma so Chris thank you very much for leaving us those uh okay injury news just came in but it’s for tomorrow no big deal so Chris thank you very much for the gifts very much appreciated and you guys I see some people turning green there in the YouTube chat so that is courtesy of Chris Williams so give him a thank you if you guys just ended up getting that free sub right off the bat here Eric of all these players who are questionable which ones do you think are going to end up impacting your lineups the most what’s most important to you on the injury reports I mean the combo of Simons and Grant is pretty damn important um I’d say out of anything that’s probably the one I mean I want to get to joic if he plays I don’t want to get to anything if he does as well like other than him um but yeah the Portland news is just gigantic I mean that’s sitting there at 800m Eastern time it’s staring you in the face Donovan Klan starting now for DeAndre Aton who’s going to be out again he’s doubtful we’re still waiting for matis thull to get back here but scoot Henderson Jeremy Grant anreddy Simons you could have three pieces that rotation that normally play 28 plus minutes 32 plus minutes uh you know in the case of Simon Grant I mean this is just the spot to be paying attention to and then what are we expecting or I should say what are you expecting for Joel embiid that is news that we are going to be getting during the course of this show because it’s the first game to lock on this slate he’s questionable he’s a game time decision so that game locks in 52 minutes some point during the show we’re going to get that information and we don’t have to make any kind of uh you know changes in our lineups to make space in case something happens because it’s going to be the first game on the Slate here but what is your read on Joel and be and if he does play do you think he gets full minutes me he was a late ad this morning it’s I don’t know what to tell you I I have no clue we’re going to find out so I haven’t been stressing about that one very much uh I generally don’t stress out the first game unless we are really getting into crunch time and we don’t have that news my expectation is that you would still get you know some kind of combination of Drummond yabu I think we’ve seen yabu outplay Drummond at points this year where he gets a little bit more run considering the matchup on the other side being Brooklyn where you get a non-traditional five uh in in Ben Simmons Off the Bench you know you probably want to keep it that way just a little bit more undersized for um you know for yabu there and then if he just runs with it he can run with it Nicholas Claxton I’m assuming we get Drummond starting if you get MB out but right now I have no idea what to make it but I guess the real question is with the current version of this Sixers team no Paul George Kelly UB probably going to be starting there you get McCain who’s played awesome really the only bright spot in a dim season for the Sixers and then Tyrese Maxi who now gets his minutes elevated whatever the hell that means thanks Nick nurse for absolutely nothing Joel embiid at 10-1 is this somebody you want to play against Brooklyn I need a little bit more information I’ve been playing Joel embiid well been playing I’ve played him the last two games last game actually went very well and could have gone exceptionally well if he didn’t get hurt during the game because Joel embiid ended up getting full minutes for the most part other than the the he had to go to locker room twice last game he’s clearly not healthy and I don’t know how he is going to be able to make it through a full season because he starts the season a couple of weeks late all kinds of well more than a couple weeks late actually he ended up starting his season let’s see yeah November 12th so nearly a full month after the start so three and three weeks after the season starts you get Joel and be makes his debut he plays he doesn’t play all that well the first few games he works himself into shape and then last game it’s only the fourth game he’s played of the entire season we’ve got months left he has to go to the locker room twice he’s limping up and down the court in the second half honestly I feel terrible for him at this point too because the public reaction is like oh this guy he’s so soft just think his body’s broken down he’s a gigantic human being who isn’t super old or anything like that but he’s turning 31 soon and on his frame I just don’t think his body could handle it anymore I think he really feels the public pressure to go out there and play every day at this point if it was not for all of the narratives about him publicly I don’t think he would have finished the game last time out because he did not look good physically but he got it out and he played really well especially from a DFS standpoint if he’s out there I’m going to want to get some exposure to him in gpps but my my gut feeling is that he doesn’t end up playing based on how he looked physically last game yeah he doesn’t look right he didn’t look right during the Olympics anybody who watched the Olympics knows Joel embiid came out and that very first game I mean I I think you and I both said it on I maybe I’m just like misremembering but I think we both said something on Twitter within like the first two minutes of that game was like oh [ __ ] they need to get Joel embiid off the floor and luckily Kevin Durant played really well as they started ramping him up as the games went along and it kind of hid Joel embiid they were able to utilize him in certain spots where he was very very effective and looked much much better coming down the stretch of that but you know that’s around a of All Star now he’s got to carry a cast and I’m just not sure that as you said his body can’t really do it I feel like I think I’ve watched every single minute that he’s played so far this season and all I can really say is that like the Joel embiid who was you know charismatic running up and down the floor Killer Instinct it just looks like he has no Swagger which is such a weird thing to say and even against Memphis he was getting some bailout calls I mean he was getting hacked on the post and that was under you know the circumstance Triple J guys like that trying to guard him and um Joel andb got to the line 14 times in that game if you don’t have that built-in floor of getting to the line and you know you’re not getting those same calls and that’s really been the calling card of him every time we get to the playoffs is that they start to let them play a little bit more and Joel embiid can’t take the contact can’t necessarily get to the line the same way so yeah Joel embiid’s just kind of a hit and miss guy uh I’m not going to go as far as to say we need to look at officials and see who’s officiating each game but like that him getting to the line is a huge deal for like his fantasy floor yeah we’ll get more information on him in terms of whether he’s playing or not something else that is relevant to me about the Joel embiid situation is there’s also no Paul George that team is in all kinds of disarray did you pay attention to the minutes for tyres maxy last game because they were pretty bizarre really very much so 20 that it was kind of surprising just to like have him come in and then I thought he would play at least like 24 26 I mean what are we looking at CU again 22 32 makes embiid and McCain look terrible but like 24 I mean not that I’m really looking at playing a ton of McCain or anything today but like man 28 30 of Maxi this is really problematic we’ve seen this multiple times where he’ll just take up enough of the usage that none of those other guys are going to look good if embiid doesn’t play my intuition is that we see close to full minutes for Tyres then like the best tourn reason I asked about did you see his rotations last game they were insane he played the first five minutes of the game did not check in for the rest of the game and then played almost the entirety of the second half normal stuff normal stuff the only reason so there was a lot of weird things about that game so he played almost the entire second half until the end of the game where it was blowout run and then Joel and beid who was questionable to play and was limping up and down the court they had play in garbage time at the end of the game which was great for my fantasy teams that day very bizarre decision for the 76ers as a team on the whole because they they didn’t have Maxi playing in garbage time they didn’t have McCain playing in garbage time they have embid playing in garbage time but we just had Tyrese Maxi play 15 second half minutes would have been more than that if it wasn’t for a blowout if he could play 15 minutes in one half which I think was influenced by the game being somewhat competitive in the second half up until the end and also Paul George getting hurt where they needed to lean on him more we’re also a point in the 76 or season where they they kind of can’t afford to just keep losing games and say hey we’re waiting for the playoffs to get healthy because they have to actually make the playoffs and that’s something that’s really becoming a big question mark I think they’re close to a pick them to make the playoffs now at at sports books so as long as Maxi feels good today I do think that there is an opportunity especially if Joel Andi doesn’t play and they need him for him to be playing 30 plus minutes with massive usage all right well then minus six on 17 and a half points is a full send uh go team I’ll tell I have Tyrese Maxi I bet him this morning at um uh e to1 to 25 plus points that seems good I’m gonna bet it was a couple things number one is and it’s not to say he has to play those more minutes but the fact that he played 15 second half minutes last game that indicates to me that he’s potentially capable of playing 30 plus minutes and then on top of it as well the potential with Joel embiid him being gimpy and maybe not playing today so that that’s a long shot play that I have on maxing same reason why if embiid does not play today I am going to want to play some of maxian gpps the field is not going to play him and I think there’s opportunity there so that’s my overall take on the Philadelphia 76ers situation and now we just sit back and we wait for any of that news to break let’s go into Discord to see if any questions came in for us and we do all right so some questions here in disc and if you guys are a stochastic sub and you want to ask Eric and I questions over the course of the show throw it in Discord I’m always looking at it uh lson 407 says can we address how to handle a positional lock button on Nick claxon on FanDuel and what will we do if we get Late Center news all right so FanDuel PR have you built out lineups for DraftKings and FanDuel or just one yeah they they they’ve done this in the football streets and now they just did in NBA I mean we can have this conversation there’s the game theory aspect where if he gets hurt or you know hey what if you get yic out there at 2% where nobody else plays him and you just jam it there I mean I’m going to let the Sims tool do a lot of the work he should be in a large majority of your lineups over on FanDuel I built it out he was in nearly 100% of my stuff so far he’s so hard to get away from and it’s whoever did the pricing for FanDuel today is the same one who’s managing the servers last night the whole thing’s been botched it’s it’s gone a stray it’s Ry it’s it’s Terri he he’s nearly minid price it it does it it doesn’t even really matter how many minutes you think Nick Claxton plays it’s really should he be more or less expensive than $4500 and the answer is pretty clearly he should be more expensive than that so uh Nick Claxton I think that he should be in the majority if not all of your lineups on FanDuel and then lson your question can you address how to handle a positional lock button on Nick claxon on FanDuel yeah so uh well one thing is if you’re just running our Sims you are going to be getting to a lot of Nick Laxton which should be the case as far as locking him in it doesn’t have to be exactly 100% I’ll tell you that just from running our data without making any kind of changes to it on FanDuel he showed up in over 90% of lineups anyway and I wouldn’t take him out and hope for late swap news to show up because you’re not going to get somebody better than I think I think I said 4500 before I meant 3500 on FanDuel you’re not going to get a better value play than Nick claxon at Min price tonight nope there’s nothing that’s going to open up better than that nope you’re not just play yes you are the other questions that we have in here one is from M Grizzly wants to know what moves are we making to accommodate for news after lock Eric is there anything that you have done in your lineups to prepare you for the situation that we are fairly likely going to have which is Portland Trailblazers news not coming out until post lock yeah it’s going to be disturbing disgusting really really frustrating but uh a couple of things I’ve done I’ve just kind of made sure that I got to a little bit more Portland something’s going to I feel like break my way uh and if it doesn’t I think you have enough games still surrounding that 8:00 P.M eastern time 5:00 P p.m Pacific window uh we’ve got three games we’ve got Dallas Denver with joic pending we have enough other stuff that I think is interesting that backloading your lineups we’ve talked about the way that you can go about doing it Greg and I do it slightly slightly differently I’ll go in and change it at the projection level um after the fact I’ll make sure that I get that ownership on the front end uh kind of where I want it or where I it’s more of like a feel thing I mean we play NBA DFS every single day I have a pretty good sense of where things are going to land if the news breaks a certain way and so I try to kind of find a nice middle for the time being where I’m going to boost them and I’m going to get to certain guys uh Greg will go in sometimes and just kind of strictly Roi boost or you know find it there but sometimes you want to build it out with those lineups in there so that you can Sim them against those other lineups with the change projections but a couple of different ways I hate the analogy but to skin a cat there’s lots of different ways to do it yeah so and also every slate is different there’s not like a one-sized fits-all answer I do agree with what Eric had said there though which is there’s only two games in the first locking games we’ve got Brooklyn and Philly we’ve got Boston and Washington and so over over on FanDuel I like Nick Clon at Min price if we’re talking about the draftking side of things which I I think M Grizzly plays on if I’m not mistaken so as far as DraftKings goes I don’t know about you Eric I don’t have a massive amount of exposure to the first couple games on the say like I think kayada is a strong value option at $4,400 I have some other guys that have a little bit of interest in if if jool and beid gets rolled out that’s going to change a lot of this but at least for me right now I just don’t have that much exposure to the early games without making any adjustments so I don’t really feel like I have to make too many strong accommodations for the injury news beautiful yeah most my exposures coming to later games uh and even some of the contrarian guys I like uh we’ll talk about in a little bit like when we do the nuke of the night my favorite contrarian play on this slate as of right now also somebody’s playing a little bit later of a game yep let’s see what we have here this is from sa Johnson wants to know will I limit my uh kada exposure on DK for late swaps now is in about half my lineups and I’m cool with that he’s in a good matchup against the Washington Wizards he’s a good fantasy producer there’s no Al Horford the only way that this would change for me is if kada doesn’t start then I would have to move some things around but I’m cool with kada being in about half my lineups same I I have a little less than half but yeah I’d be cool with him being in half yeah he’s a good value option I don’t want to I don’t want to take him out of my lineups in the same way that over on FanDuel I know sha G just left the Super Chat where he feels a little bit differently which uh is totally fine if you want to be really contrarian sha said that at the ownership and the field size on FanDuel he says if you’re playing to win 0% Clon for me too many paths to failure and so many other centers it’s that TP for me that’s typically not how I play I would I’m I’m much more apt to go 100% Nick Claxton and just differentiate elsewhere than go to 0% Nick Claxton but as Eric said there’s many ways to skin a cat you go about it different ways uh but for FanDuel yeah I’d still want exposure to Nick claxon in the first game but as far as other guys go there’s also not that many accommodations that I feel like I have to make over on fbl set myself up for any kind of late swap news uh next question here is from Braden Braden AKA Russell wants to know weird question gpp single entry where you can’t late swap on an app I play on all right so if I’m not mistaken Braden plays on bet 365 I think he does the fantasy contest there if I’m wrong that I’m thinking of somebody else but not important uh draft game settings how do you predict the late news for late games to get leverage where people only do the games at lock ah all right so who are some of the players that You’ maybe prioritize from Portland Derek who would benefit from the news but it’s also not so risky because keep in mind he’s playing on a slate where there is no weight swap so we have to figure out who are players that could benefit from players is being ruled out from Portland that also like you don’t want to just say Jeremy Grant and then Jeremy Grant doesn’t play and you take it zero so my first nomination is Time Lord I think Robert Williams already looks viable and he is in a position to look from being good to looking great and under owned on a site with no late swap in the event that some of these guys from Portland get rolled out so Robert Williams certainly won for me anybody else who you would say that maybe prioritize for a slate that doesn’t have for a site that doesn’t have late swap yeah Delano banton’s gonna play either way too uh it would look much much worse if you got Anthony Simons in there but I mean he’s had such an upside they’ve really rolled him out there and you have the chance of scoot sitting as well uh the combination of those two I mean I would say Shaden sharp as well because he’s just purely going to get the minutes no matter what but I’m assuming uh I’m not looking at the salary there at bet 365 but my guess is that he is probably a little bit higher than that of Delano Banton if it’s falling in line with what we have on DK and on fanduels so I will nominate Banton all right let’s see if there was any other questions in Discord there is not and there has been no other information on Joel and beid we have found out that Steph Curry he remains probable and Steve Kerr that he is likely going to play so let’s here’s what we’ll do Eric let’s do the nuke of the night now and then if there’s no other injury news that breaks afterwards we just talk about the exposures we have right now but let’s do the nuke of the night while we’ve got this little bit of a downtime between questions and injuries so Jordan play the [Music] animation bang bang bang it is time for the nuke of the night Eric you have just absolutely been obliterated into a gazillion pieces you are dust but your nuke of the Knight won’t be so Eric let us know who who is a gpp play that you are targeting for tonight’s slate I love that he didn’t smash the Slate last time out against Orlando he had to take on Golden State previous to it two of the worst defensive matchups I’m in love with James Harden for DFS tonight he’s in the very very late game 10:30 p.m. eastern time it allows me to backload some salary into my lineups as well and so he was one of the main guys I wanted to give a boost to I’m not saying necessarily that we know what’s going to happen with joic but you want to get to some Jamal maray in your life where we finally saw that ceiling and we’re seeing high 30s minutes well I can transfer some of that over from Harden but by boosting Harden and getting to some of him he’s getting a Sacramento matchup that’s up in Pace and with Norman Powell out we definitely seen an opportunity for him to go out and smash now the assist rate you know I you got to have a mere coffee knocking down some shots you have to have some of these ancillary pieces knocking down shots but he just got done with like the two worst defensive matchups you can ask for besides OKC in the entire NBA and now his price goes from 9600 back to 9300 I think he is an awesome gpp play I have him in north of 30% of my lineups right now James Harden nuke of the night here’s somebody who this is one of your guys too you’re gonna like this one Eric I’ll guarantee it right now so I I’ll just say his name Trey Murphy and then and then I’ll talk about him a little bit here too so do you remember the price point on Trey Murphy towards the tail end of last year of course I do he was like mid sevens and you know what we were paying full Freight for it and now you’ve got a guy here in Trey Murphy who is uh like a thousand or so less expensive than he was towards the tail end of last year and there’s a bunch of guys out for the Pelicans and it doesn’t seem like we have to worry about any kind of minutes restriction for him anymore the last two games he’s played 30 minutes what happened though the last time out the game was a blowout so it doesn’t play pretty much all of the fourth quarter or at least not the end of the fourth quarter he lost about five or so minutes to blowout run so I don’t think we have to worry about any kind of restrictions on Trey burphy and he’s kind of getting played by the field as if he’s restricted he’s only projected for around 10% ownership so you got this guy who’s underpriced relative to his situation last year his situation is way better this year than what it was at the tail end of last year and then the reasons is price is depressed it just doesn’t really come into play at this point there’s there’s no real concerns for me about the minutes restriction and you look at his usage rate too so we’ve seen him play in four games so far this year he’s got a 27 a half% usage rate because of all these guys being out so I think Trey Murphy is underpriced I think he’s under owned he’s going overlooked by the field the only player I currently have more exposure to over on DraftKings is kayada other than that I I love Trey Murphy I can’t believe he’s not more popular he is one of my favorite plays on the Slate as well I’ve got him if you want me to just list off my like four favorite tournament plays I mean again I’m just looking through my lineups I love shenon I love Trey Murphy I love uh James Harden I mean there are so many good tournament plays today it’s not even funny and it’s going to come L down to positionality too that’s the thing that I like about Trey Murphy is small forward power forward out of all the potential pieces that could end up chalky from the Portland side they’re all like point guard Center SL power forward like oh we got MB ruled out we should probably just there we go all right all right Joel embiid Joel embiid he is out uh fin finish your thought then we’ll talk about the Jo and oh dude I’m just I love you I was able to get some money down on the old minus 106 uh Tyrese Maxi 17 and a half points I wouldn’t have done that without you there we go now hopefully actually hits it but as opposed to uh when I have you bet double doubles that have insane closing line value and don’t remotely come close to hitting go team yeah so let’s uh let’s talk about jool and beid a little bit here the the good thing is we’ve kind of already discussed a lot of this with Joel embiid we talked at least about my stance on tyres Maxi I think that he is somebody who’s going to end up playing uh not full minutes but I think more minutes than what most people expect I want to see what our projection is on him I might manually boost our projection on Tyree Maxi just maybe give him a couple of extra minutes on the projections page just because I want to make sure that he shows up in lineups for me but I’ll when when we get that update I’ll be relaying it to you guys Jordan will throw it on screen and then we’ll dissect it a little bit Andre Drummond I assume back to starting at center that is a piece that we have not yet discussed here Eric what do you want to do with the front Court here because Andre Drummond has been massively disappointing in the in previous games where he started in place of embiid yeah I mean he’s just been terrible uh we didn’t get official word that Andre Drummond starting I’m assuming he does I think you do too as well I mean we’re gonna get to him we’re gonna get to Yaba we’re gonna get to Jared McCain we’re gonna get to Tyrese Maxi I mean those are going to be your main four Kelly ubri yeah tsunami poy season as well um but my main thing with Andre Drummond is that you’re going to know what whether or not when you like how much you played how your night is going immediately because at 5K he is he has legitimately 20 rebound upside on the other side of this one he also could play legitimately 12 minutes because he has been so atrocious and they’ve shown that they can go to yavo they’ll go they’ll go that direction they can go small ball I mean you get Ben Simmons out there playing backup five and you know pretty much everything’s on the table by the way I can’t wait for him to check into this basketball game as assuming he doesn’t start that’s going to be real fun but uh we’ll be covering that one on playback for sure I I think the main thing to just say is that everything is now on the table because none of these prices have been adjusted yet we had them rise rise rise when NBA was out now he’s been back here for a couple of games Jared McCain’s Rosen risen because his minutes have two his product production has as well even though it’s Brooklyn on the other side not exactly the most Pace up spot you got to like him you got to like him at 6,500 no Paul George no Joel embiid no problem getting to anything on the Philly side here’s a here’s a fun fun thought experiment how many minutes does McCain play today because his time has been insane I I would say purely because I mean Eric Gordon was so bad to start off this season he was shooting like 29% from three and I’m assuming we’re going to get like 12 minutes of him um it’s it’s hard to project him for fewer than 36 I mean it’s really hard to project him for less than 36 he played 41 minutes last game I know he did that’s what I’m saying he played he plays over I think he plays over 40 okay I’m I’m gonna put him in at 38 and I bet he just shows up as one of my most popular players anyway yeah so here’s the playing time for him over the course of the last four games and it’s really hard to project guys for minutes like this but I think it’s just what it should be he plays 41 minutes last game the game before he plays 37 but it was also a blowout so he plays 37 and missed out on I think it was five or six minutes of playing time because of the blowout at the end of the game game before that he plays 31 and a half against Orlando but he fouled out so kind of capped out on what he could have done for playing time there and then the game before that he played 38 against the Cleveland Cavaliers I feel like I have to expect him to play 38 at a minimum based on that’s that’s what I said I’m going to put minute 38 and then I’m going to kind of adjust from there what needs to happen we’ll see where ownership lands too because uh for all intents and purposes he is still scoring dependent and whenever you get scoring dependent chalk I I get a little bit nervous but I mean there’s just so many minutes and so much usage up for grabs you do get Maxi back and again we haven’t had a ton of McCain and Maxi minutes this this season I think Maxi still going to win out in the usage why wouldn’t you um but does something change in the assist rate he shown he has double digit assist I can’t remember which game that I think it was Cleveland um Jared McCain has shown double digit upside in the assist department but he averages like two and a half or three or something when I looked at it this morning uh I I am quite positive Jared McCain will show up in lineups no matter what I do with him he hasn’t projected all that well for us we just got a projections update he is in for 36 and a half minutes and that has him for 33 and a half fantasy points at $6,500 on DraftKings FanDuel McCain is $6,700 he projects for 32.829468 5K we have him for 27 and a half minutes that’s not particularly aggressive that still gets him to 33 fantasy points as a projection I have him I I had almost 100% of my last runs so that’s going to be fun go go team Andre Drummond definitely looks really strong right now what’s interesting though is for the other pieces on the team yabu and we’re still waiting on a starting lineup unless that just came through which it hasn’t I’m assuming Andre Drummond starts I don’t think he’s a guarantee to start but right now I’m assuming that’s going to be the case yabu s assuming he comes off the bench we have him in for 22 and a half fantasy uh for 22 and a half minutes that puts him at about 21.8 fantasy points it puts him in play for sure makes him a good value option but not somebody who like you absolutely have to jam if he starts totally different situation if he starts and I think yabu selli outrageously good value play at $3,600 anything else that stands out to you on the Philadelphia 76ers it stands out to me uh I think we’re gonna get big minutes for Caleb Martin uh no Paul George uh there are ways that this game goes small with Ben Simmons at the five for a lot of it um you know Brooklyn has the opportunity that you know with Claxton there I think Claxton 5800 on DK probably gets interesting to some extent you’re getting a much worse Defender and Drummond out there um just kind of like thinking of what else stands out to me I just got all my minutes done uh rerunning one more time here I I did the same thing as you where I once we had that in I bumped it up I think yabu is really good 3 600 it’s hard for me to not think there are lots of ways where that just ends up being like 22 minutes for Drummond 26 for yabas he played 31 against Cleveland and that’s a that’s a front Court you would definitely think Drummond would be equipped for but no they opted for yabu there played 24 against Orlando basically split it there how many did uh I’m just going through popcorn machine here how many did Drummond play in that spot he played uh Orlando he played all of four minutes in that game uh again this Drummond thing has me so so freaking nervous uh we now are getting Portland news so I’ll shut up uh well we got scoot Henderson let’s see if there’s other players who are going to get ruled out here let’s see this is incredible that it’s all coming out before lock at least see what happens just one one piece of news on an island from Portland we’re really going to do it like that oh we starting starting lineup yeah it’s yabu okay so yabu great play Andre strowman I think is still maybe a contrarian option but not somebody I’m going to be prioritizing yabui is the best value player on this league now no there will be no better value than yabu I mean we could get all three of those Portland pieces out and you’re not going to get something going up against Houston that’s going to look better than yabu does against Brooklyn uh barring something really insane happening uh yabu the guys a Fantasy Point per minute player who is 3600 with power forward eligibility on today’s slate I’m going to 100% I just know it yeah this is uh the hero of the Olympics got his way back into the NBA olypic play he’s awesome though he’s I love him and he’s been good Simmons starting who’s starting oh Simmons is starting for Brooklyn they I was gonna say they do not want him to check into that game as a standalone piece because could you imagine the reign of terror that would come down he’s going he’s going to is this better or worse they’re going to have to introduce him as a starter now it’s oh but he gets that out of the way and every time he touches the ball he’s going to get booted but could you imagine if they say checking in for Nicholas Glon Ben Simmons on the side of the desk and he comes in by himself it would be the greatest moment of all time but like also not for him he is going to be getting booed tonight he is going to be getting booed let’s answer some of your guys questions here I saw a bunch of super chats that shepher out and it’s not goingon to matter all that much I Che walk news but all right just scoot Henderson out for now so scoot is out and all right oh maybe we are getting more because now Eon was just ruled out officially I’ll give it a second Jeremy Grant now please so Jeremy Grant and Anthony Simon’s also really massive the the scoot Henderson news matters less if Simons is in are people going to play Quinton Jackson today uh starts again cuz he should start again potentially it’s 4K played 27 minutes I mean he shot the ball nuclear well but he was fun all right let’s answer you guys questions this Portland news I’m not just gonna stare at Twitter for something to happen James McGruder says am I able to create a lineup on DraftKings after lock if I have nothing save for my reserved lineups four games later on mobile uh why even just enter enter I think the answer is no but I don’t know for sure I I I think the answer is no I think the answer is no too yeah I think you have to have players put into it but also you’re playing with fire there you’re playing with fire man make fire yeah Sean says Hey Jens could you review some of your favorite value plays on DK thank you all right yeah so yabui now easy easy Top Value play layup kada that’s another one k looked good before uh before we even started the show and players got ruled out I mean the thing now too is that you don’t have Drummond starting so it’s not going to strip away uh like there would have been a desire to play Drummond um again it it made sense they go they went away from Drummond and you know it’s like one of those things you don’t know after a couple of games with them be back do they go back to it they went to yis but yeah kada is definitely there uh I’m going to probably I mean we got scoot Henderson out so I’m going to get to Delano Banton am I going to call him like a priority at 5100 probably not so there’s that um but he’s definitely kind of an interesting one we’ll see where that ownership lands as we update everything here because there’s a shitload of stuff to update what do you think about Amir coffee because I mean he is such a bad fantasy performer but now if he’s going to be starting if he’s going to have usage it is Sacramento on the other side I mean are we playing a cheap Amir coffee for Value I mean the question is our favorite value plays on the Slate he’s not one of my favorite value plays correct yeah that’s that’s the right way of saying it and I will say I don’t really like IOD dunu right now at his current ership uh I never did I shorted him in the market he’s got like a 19 and a half PR in a nuclear game they’re still going to give Josh gidy the the opportunity to play himself into you know a certain amount of minutes he’s been so bad this year that it’s hard to justify and they’ve brought in IO defensively but um I don’t like him at 5K at this ownership so right now favorite value plays uh kada yabui that’s certainly going to be the for me the other ones like I wish we had the Portland news right now so I can answer a little bit better because Banton well no because Bon’s 5100 so I wouldn’t consider him a Top Value play yeah I’ll leave it with those to for now kayada and yabui and then we’ll see what else ends up breaking uh particular with the Portland Trailblazer situation which if we don’t get more of the news now we’ll definitely get it while Eric and I on playback after this ends uh price Productions wants to know are there any upside players in low ownership spots he particularly like tonight tyres uh Tyrese Halbert and dearon fox those are a couple people that he asked us about uh yeah yic he seems good yeah I mean jic is projected for nothing say legitimately nothing yeah it’s probably come down because of the news and the value opening up at Center I’m refreshing yep all right yeah we got a fresh ownership update yeah we’ve got yic for 7% ownership on a slate with a bunch of value he’s Nicole yic we don’t know his status but if he does end end up playing I mean he’s just been out because his kid was born it’s not like he was dealing with some injury or anything like that so I assume he’s full good to go from a minute’s perspective 7% yic with a lot of value uh yes yes please yep I generally like that idea you get a built-in $3600 piece that is in 100% of my lineup so that seems good let’s see what else we have for any other any other pay up options you like that are low owned um I mean Andre Drummond isn’t low owned I think we’re assuming he still gets minutes and we still like him at 5K um it’s not as much as him starting uh yeah that’s it for now Bob Williams I mean I’m still going to get to him no matter what in some lineups but it would especially be nice to have Jeremy Grant the heck up out of there so uh we’ll just kind of move along all right next question is from Jeff Olen Jeff wants to know hey guys I’m trying to get to the next level in TFS trying to power up he says he’s curious what sites we found most useful for advanced stats and so forth thanks guys all right so for me most useful is need more funds just to look for onoff court data there’s there’s a lot of stuff people look into that I don’t really find to be all that helpful for me personally for my DFS process but of the stats that I do think are useful the the situations where like today jool and Beads out and I think it’s useful to look at some scenarios hey with Joel and Bea what was Tyrese Max’s usage for instance last year so I would say uh yeah I need more funds previously called NBA woi that’s the site that I overall find to be most helpful but I mean I don’t look at I don’t know is there any other Advanced stats you really look at that you find are helpful for you for DFS I definely think onoff Court stats most important yep same same here I go to nba.com I do the potential assists I always think that that’s good where you can kind of find guys who maybe were setting things up and didn’t have the didn’t have it show up in the assist percentage um but yeah on and offc court is going to do a lot of the work for you I mean I basically just live on ad more funds uh I love dunks and 3es but yeah there’s there’s no doubt about it on offc court rules all and the next question that we have here is from Jason oder Jason oder wants to know how do we feel about locking joic in 20 Max and then late swap later if need be so I like joic as a contrarian play but no no no don’t don’t lock him in also uh you know for joic you’re also locking in a guy who could potentially not play and if you don’t have another piece to swap off of it or you’re you’re potentially leaving $122,200 on the table uh and moving down to what in the late window uh damus sabonis for 2400 less he’s the next guy there at Center if you go that route uh he’s the next guy in any capacity uh that you would go down to Milwaukee locks at 8:00 p.m. eastern time so there’s just no there’s no swap off of him so I don’t know what to make of it Nicole yic owns Denver everybody loves him he is the chosen one nobody’s going to step on toes there to give us the news so you’re just kind of building You’re Building him into your lineups ahead of time but I would never just say lock him here I mean yeah you would want to lock him in certain capacities but we still don’t have all the value we would want on the Portland side to make it work yeah uh me uh messy out uh yep so we’ve got uh no mei4 today that’s not going to massively change anything for me with the Pelicans it’s just going to mean that I I I already like Trey Murphy more it’s just another guy who’s out there for the Pelicans does it open up a particular a particular value guy for you you feel like you have to smash in because I think they just slide Jeremiah Robinson Earl over to the starting center now I think there’s a chance you get Trey Jameson um like not a non-zero chance I mean I think the the leader in the clubhouse is yeah you slide him over you have Trey Murphy you have Robinson Earl you have Brandon Ingram you have javante green you have Brandon Boston or Jordan Hawkins I guess would be the other one I mean it’s going to come out in some kind of iteration of that I don’t think it opens up a ton yeah Boston Hawkins Ingram Murphy and then yeah Jeremiah Robinson ear I think is probably the the most sensical guy at the five especially when it’s Trace Jackson Davis on the other side out of this one I mean this game’s going to go small for most of its minutes next Super Chat is from or at 14 he wants to know can he play Luke cornette or is it too thin uh it depends to what extent I think he’s he’s a good leverage pivot off of kada in some lineups but I wouldn’t I wouldn’t want to make him a core piece or anything he’ll be a guy who’s probably in 5% of my lineups or something yeah he’ll be he’ll be in a couple of them I mean if you get blowout run the problem here is that it’s NBA cup and I looked at the differential I can’t remember exactly what it is I just know Boston they were I mean were projecting for like full run for all the guys even though they’re 14 and a half 15 Point favorites everywhere so it’s uh it’s pretty straightforward to me that uh that you know they’re going to play kada for most of the minutes he’s been pretty darn good for them next question let’s go into Discord now do you like Sam Hower at all speaking of Boston uh I did four I’m going to have less I think I had I’m rerunning my lineups now okay if memory serves correct we had I I had them in around 20% of my lineups and I think it’s going to come down a little bit just because better value has opened up as it should next question we have one here from Mike T wants to know is claxon a lock on FanDuel in 150 Max no he’ definitely been my most rostered Center but uh not a not a lock yeah there’s there’s a lot of ways where you play 100% but yeah uh I ran lineups before the show it looks very very different now uh I should actually take a look is yabu is he the same positionality he’s power forward only yabi is power forward eligibility yeah and I here’s the thing I would want to have a couple of shares of 5700 Drummond like I would make sure that I had a little bit of Drummond but uh yeah Claxton would still be my most rostered Center by far next question is from the Black Mamba what are we doing with the Dallas guards they’re kind of already like particularly Kyrie my first thought when Luca got rolled out is like oh I’m gonna play so much of Kyrie tomorrow and look at the pricing he’s nearly 10K on DraftKings and he just doesn’t show up in that many lineups he’s priced as if he’s priced as if Luca’s out yep helpful is there anybody else that you’re getting to in a bunch of lineups from Dallas I know it seems like hey lucaa we should just be jamming Dallas but uh it just isn’t the case they’re they’re price for the situation price for the situation right way of saying it we’ve got Stokes asking us thoughts on boosting yic I have no issue with that none yeah do it do it get yourself a little bit more exposure to him Zack attack wants to know after Claxton who are the Elite values on FanDuel uh yeah yabui is certainly one of them let’s see my FanDuel lineups outside of yahui a t Craig is $3,800 on FanDuel that’s another really strong value option uh we’ve got Kevin Porter Jr’s $4,300 on FanDuel I think that’s a really good value option so yeah th those would be the guys for me anybody else you would add to that nope everything sounded great plus I’m not playing FanDuel so I don’t want to sound like an idiot there we go always sound like an idiot yeah Rosa says does claxon not starting Dent enthusiasm at all on ph no he’s M price he’s 3500 he’s going to play and uh again this can be strategic in order to not oh I just got paid by X that was nice of them um yeah I got uh I just was trying to run something in the background I’m G to focus just on DK and not sound like an idiot all right uh so I mean the answer is well also I never expected him to start he’s he’s coming he’s coming back from a little bit of a layoff that’s why the price is so low but no because it it’s not unexpected this is what we were anticipating the entire time we were never projecting him for 30 minutes or anything like that correct it’s really no change this is what was anticipated all along Einstein wants to know any interest in Trey young in a pace up spot against Chicago uh maybe a little but I I prefer Giannis I prefer y OIC Eric mentioned James Harden before I prefer him it’s hard to prioritize Trey young for myself is he somebody you’re gonna have a lot of he’s just he’s just one of the pay up options for me but not not anything important nothing important for meh another question about Nick Claxton uh Mr Co cam favorite plays at each position for a fandu gpp yeah so Center Nick Claxton power forward I’ll say yabui small forward Cory Craig shooting guard that is going to be Trey Murphy for me and then point guard that is James Harden for me over on FanDuel uh next question here is from oh nobody we’ve answered them all there were so many questions just assume a man has no name how are you doing on your lineups there Eric not great Bob um we’ll find out here in a second uh I was trying to do some of the the different adjustments here that I want to do for Portland uh that is obviously very important to build and some of the guys that we think are going to be major beneficiaries here we obviously are going to have stuff updated uh as the night goes on as we get more news but Jeremy Grant and Anthony Simons that’s gigantic I’m not going to be forgoing what I like here from Philly though in any way shape or form yeah that’s a key uh key discussion Point here at this point I’m hoping the guys from Port and I almost never think this way I want the guys from Portland to play at this point because I really want to get exposed to the early game I’m not taking yabui out of my lineups I’m not I’m not going to forego anything like that I’d rather just play the guys on the early the Early locking part than try to reserve lineups because I I don’t think there’s going to be better value than yabui that opens up in all likelihood nor do I we got a question here from M Grizzly wants to know how much Drummond are we getting to the boom bust has him 51% optimal U make sure that you are looking at the boom bust updated for all of the most recent information uh but there’s upside in Andre Drummond but I don’t know what I run lineups here I don’t expect him to be in a massive amount of lineups for me he’ll be in lineups but I don’t like 50% or anything yeah he’s in 18% of my lineups right now yeah I’ll run stuff and let you know my my priority or my preference is to play yabu Sally yep I have a hundred so yeah I I like yabui look at that clean sweep wants to know is Jared McCain a lock tonight no no he’s a good play I like I like him um I’m not gonna get to him as much as what I was thinking I still have him in like you think you’re gonna land on McCain then well we’ll see let me let me actually I’m Gonna Save this because then I have to upload something just as a placeholder while I’m [ __ ] around um we’ve got him ah I’ve got him in 28% of lineups I almost had that on the number that’s amazing all right I think I’m gonna have a little bit more than that okay but I’m also I’m raising his projection compared to what we have I’ll be higher I’ll be higher on him than what we are you’re just so hot Gregory thank you I appreciate that Eric so welcome bug booy says thank goodness it’s not bum hour that is what he calls any show with Josh great analysis ah ah there we go well unfortun bug boy I appreciate the compliment I don’t think that Josh is going to value that particular opinion very highly so I’ll make sure it gets to him though I will I will absolutely make sure that that gets to him it’s important it is important I will personally hand deliver that message and then Stokes wants to know if we are boosting anyone for the Portland news no I’m just running my stuff and what I get to is what I get to here uh I want to play I I don’t want to I don’t want to lower my EXP exposure to guys like yabui or McCain for for the Portland situation was there anybody that you boosted for that uh Shaden sharp a little bit okay yeah that’s reasonable yeah I can turn him into more Banton if I want to I’m going to have some of that swap ability that exists there in that window uh I gave a little bit of a boost to Delano Banton but the main thing is it’s just like having that salary available to me because I’m going to have lineup spots available to me still all right I’ve got my final Sim running for the slate and I’ll see what ends up popping up here uh Eric just curious as you’re doing your final iterations of your lineups is there anything that you are trying to prioritize or anything that is showing up maybe differently than what you would have expected when you’re kicking off the final version of your lineups um I really had a force Maxi and I had to do that just from the projections so uh that was that was something you and I both did with the specific guards um Payton Pritchard is really interesting I think for tournaments uh I normally say that about him the same way that I talk about T.J McConnell who I also find to be somewhat interesting for tournaments there’s no reason that Quinton Jackson’s just going to go out and go eight for 10 from the field and do whatever he did last time and there’s iterations where they have him out on the floor with Tyrese halberton and you want to get to my guy TJ McConnell uh your exotic play of the night if you will is he is he no probably Donovan kingan at this point would be for me but um I am finishing this up here the other guy that I don’t know if the field actually does this at 12 12 like 14% but like I saw that Jordan that wasn’t very nice Josh giddy do you have any Josh giddy in your life as we’re finishing things out because he is like okay because he is like the feast or famine type dude on this slate and I’m either going to really really regret doing what I’m doing here with him and and and legit genely getting North at 20% I’m really really going to hate it um I just I don’t like the io Junu piece because I feel as though you still and it’s Patrick Williams being out that obviously benefits him there as well but I think that you’re going to get Josh giddy get that first opportunity to go out and do his thing I think bogdon bogdanovich is actually a better tournament player we’re going to eventually see the the the switch flip he’s 4700 in an awesome game environment like if I were to go to anything there DeAndre Hunter’s been awesome in the early going too but bogdanovich we’ve seen get that usage Once Upon a Time in the land far away I think at some point in time we’re going to see him matter again final version of lineups are you are you done with yours I’m curious see the most of at each position we could compare okay yeah let me give me one more second and I will tell I’ll be able to do it with you right now there we go right so I will start then and that should give you the second there to be able to get everything in go but for me it is Jared McCain at point guard who I do think we’re GNA get it I do think we’re gonna get 40 plus minutes out of Jared McCain tonight yeah I like him a lot more than I like Tyrese Maxi for what it’s worth how much did I end up with uh I ended up with a lot yeah Jared McCain for me a point guard shooting guard that is uh also Jared McCain for me so uh I’ll switch point guard for me actually ended up being Fred Van vet but I’m pretty spread out at the guard positions other than McCain I have a ton of McCain I don’t have anybody else in more than 25% of lineups right now at the guard spots oh okay I like that that’s good McCain yeah at shooting guard that’s that’s what’s up small forward that is my nuke of the night Trey Murphy Trey Murphy power forward that is yabui for me yabui 100% And then at Center for me that is kayada kayada all right there we have it and that is just about going to bring us to lock but there’s still news to come guys so come join Eric and I over in playback if you haven’t done yet like the video subscribe to the YouTube channel and don’t forget also if you want to sign up for any of the at stochastic links for that down below in the YouTube description box you can sign up with one of our affiliate partners that gets you a free month of core access to any sport of your choosing for each of those you sign up for links for 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