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Get ready for a thrilling NBA Fantasy Basketball journey as we break down Thursday’s NBA games, featuring the Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics, Toronto Raptors, Miami Heat, Sacramento Kings, and New Orleans Pelicans. With injury updates on Mitchell Robinson and Kawhi Leonard, this episode is packed with insights for fantasy managers looking to gain an edge.
Join Josh Lloyd from the Locked On Fantasy Basketball podcast as he provides a game-by-game analysis, highlighting key players like Tobias Harris, Jrue Holiday, and Kelly Olynyk. Discover streaming options tailored for different league sizes and learn how the NBA Cup schedule impacts your fantasy strategy. Will the Sacramento Kings and New Orleans Pelicans’ favourable schedules give you the upper hand?
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Thursday it’s non-nba cup day there are three games on let’s preview it let’s talk about streaming options and let’s listen to the goat Michael Bolton thanks Josh it’s Michael Bolton here and it’s time for another episode of the locked on Fantasy Basketball podcast let’s get to it let’s get to it in day you are locked on fantasy your daily NBA fantasy podcast part of the locked on podcast Network work your team every day hello and welcome to the locked on Fantasy Basketball podcast brought to you by basketball monster my name is Josh Lloyd and you forgot about the essence of the game it’s about the cones I’m also the lead fantasy Analyst at baskball monster.com and you can find me on Blue Sky Josh ly. b.so on Twitter at red rockball on Tik Tok at Red roore bball and on Instagram @ lockon fantasy basketball today’s episode is brought to you by Game Time download the game time app use the code locked on ABA for $20 off your first purchase also check yourself over to locked on.com and sign up find your favorite team and sign up for a newsletter that covers all the information all the stuff that you need to know delivered to your inbox daily with a brilliant newsletter lock on daily.com you’re double banging here of course you’re watching the video audio we’re heading towards 90k Subs on YouTube so if you ever thought that you might want to be a sub well you can go and do that over there and get those numbers up speaking of numbers up we’ve had two games each of the last two days and now we’ve gone up to three that’s actually a 50% increase so bang off we go these are teams now that that are not part of the NBA cup and I will just throw the usual PSA out there yes yes there are going to be games on Saturday two of them in fact there are going to be extra games added on Sunday two extra games on Sunday yes will it be on ESPN of course it will Yahoo absolutely every single fantasy platform yes it will be there those teams that win the NBA cup quarterfinals will be on Saturday the teams that lose will be on Sunday those games will count I assure you I guarantee you that is Ironclad locked in locked on Guarantee yes good thank you let’s um let’s preview these these games on Thursday um compressed start times as well for these games I believe they all start within 30 minutes of each other let me double check that I did look at it and now I’m going to look at it again um yeah so there’s a 2730 games and an 800m game just the other thing that we got um in terms of news we got an update on Mitchell Robinson who’s not returning until the end of January you know that I’ve been very adamant about not holding on to him and cool like that’s another two months away so yeah do not roster Mitchell Robinson we also got an update on um old mate kawh lard in the the news from uh sham Shan was that the return is not imminent again not a shock at all whatever sort of interesting little things you want to find but like this is the way that that I went through it and I talked about it the other day is say if they’re going to hide footage of him practicing that’s a bad sign if the big news is the kawh Leonard has started shooting that is a horrible sign because you would have assumed that he was just doing shooting anyway so none of that is good and I don’t think we’re getting kawhai back until January but I don’t know and you know that I’m just 100% out here I am out and maybe that ends up being wrong it might end up being wrong with him it might end up being wrong with old mate Joel and beid but I don’t care that is my current stance on those guys for all of the reasons that I’ve detailed in the past very very clear stuff I think um all right what else we going to do here we just do what we need to do let’s talk about the games let’s go in and talk about what is on my radar for these three games on Thursday the first game up the dto Pistons up against the Boston Celtics and there’s been just a couple of changes that injury report since I did get this prepared what we got was uh both Wendell Moore and assar Thompson for Detroit off the injury report and what we did get for Boston is Jason Tatum added to the injury report questionable tag that’s interesting um I think he’ll be okay and I think it’s partially just to you know Prov always provide um plausible deniability for when they rest him but he’s on the injury report in terms of the spread it’s 13 1 12 points to the Boston Celtics um Detroit plays just Thursday this is their only game for the week and then they don’t play Friday Saturday or Sunday uh but they do play Monday and they do play Thursday Saturday the week after remembering that next week there are no games Tuesday Wednesday not entirely true there was one game on Tuesday it is the NBA Cup Final that does not count for Fantasy that game next Tuesday does not count so for our purposes Tuesday and Wednesday next week are zero game days so Detroit goes Thursday this week and then Monday Thursday Saturday next week whereas Boston is a Thursday Sunday this week into Thursday Saturday next week so still a bunch of huge huge holes Bobby Clinton is out for the Pistons and then like I said assar and wend mo were out of the last game but they are available and ready to play Sam Hower has actually been downgraded to doubtful for Boston so that just helps guys like pton Pritchard it helps guys like Al Horford and then there’ll just be a malange of nonsense through the back end of that rotation with cornette maybe or tman maybe aada maybe some walshy action in there as well although I think Jordan Walsh might have been slammed onto the injury Port as well yep he is questionable there too so that’s our injury stuff what am I going to watch on the Detroit side of things the thick hogman Tobias Harris who has had some real struggles what I want to see from him is a bit of a usage rise but being able to maintain the uh efficiency which has improved lately I do think that there’s still a little bit more we can squeeze out of the old thick hogman and then for the Celtics it’s almost a similar sort of a scenario because it’s Drew holiday a guy that in the past has had very strong fantasy value that has started this season quite poorly I’m less confident in drew that I am in Tobias I want to see though um what I think the last time was that we saw holiday where he was taking a million threes in that game against Memphis but it’s more about like our defensive stats going to come and where is the efficiency and where does it lie as we move forward in terms of stream guys leaky Beasley is available in over 60% of Yahoo leagues and he’s a top 30 player over the last week he has always been prone in his career to inconsistency but honestly he’s been way more consistent so I think he’s actually probably worth a look here and then Al Horford’s the guy that’s 34% rosted over on Yahoo meaning he’s available in a lot of spots as well and while like there’s so few games on like you use him like very clearly he is a guy that gets rosted in these formats the second game another 7:30 p.m. Eastern game is Toronto up against your Miami Heat um no spread available for this one this is both of these teams only game for the week uh left over so they play Thursday then they’re off for three days and then both teams play Monday Toronto goes Monday Thursday Sunday I is Monday Friday Saturday we know that Scotty Barnes is out I talked about barnes’s ankle injury in The waer Wire show earlier today quickly is going to be out uh the shark Bruce Brown is going to be out Josh Richardson is out for Miami while pal LaRon is doubtful and old mate Trey Legend um locked in super serious contract year legend Jimmy Butler is probable for the this game so he is going to play on the Raptor side of things it’s all about sort of watching the cinic dynamic along with John mobo and OA abaji and Davon Mitchell and the prestige penis great a dick because it’s who’s taking over from Scott barns Alin at the moment is really only playing Center we’ll see if they give him any power forward minutes remember that Barnes was splitting point guard power forward minutes uh in his role so we’re going to need to replace some point guard stuff we need some power forward stuff and there’s just a bunch of different guys they can go to if if the lick plays 23 minutes then yeah we’re all in about him as a 12 team League player I’m just not sure we’re going to get there for the Miami side of things ter roier has been very bad most of the season is it a foot thing is he a wash thing is it a heat thing I don’t know but he hasn’t been good but we are continuing to watch him to see where do the minutes go if they go back to 24 then we lose even more confidence if it pushes to 30 then we gain confidence back in terms of stream guys I do think abaji is the guy if um you’ve got no dick left on your waiver wire aaji would be the second reference to me and then you could look at a Mitchell after that a Linux W lunks again I they have only been using him as a center and we’ll see if they do give him power forward minutes he’s got the best permanent fantasy production of all this group but I just don’t know and then for the Miami Heat the guy they’re giving minutes to at the moment unbelievably is Drew Smith Smitty played like 26 minutes last game 24 the game before that is’s getting minutes over Huck there’s no Lon available here Josh Richardson’s out Burks is out of the rotation so yeah Drew Smith available like everywhere in fact that probably deserves their old double on extra Diamond titanium Platinum sort of a drop here Smith is getting minutes Smith is providing value and he’s at least in consideration to be a stream guy with only uh with only the three day three games on so yeah don’t like don’t sleep all mate Drew Smith we’re going to back talk come back to talk about one more game it is the Pelicans and the Kings and then some more streaming stuff but today’s episode is brought to 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pelicans and Kings have got the bonus schedule over that period of time the problem is we got a million guys in and out for these squads Tre is out for Sacramento dein Carter is out Isaac Jones missed the last game he’d been producing enough deep League value to be important but he missed the last one I think you’ll be okay U we’ll see dead Ros and Malik monk were excused from practice they said that if it was there was a game that day they’d likely be able to play so I’m just going to just softly put them as probable on this list but I think that they’re okay so we don’t worry too much about D rozan and monk there and then for the Pelicans we know there’s no Zion there’s no Brandon Ingram there’s no uh neua Legend Jordan Hawkins Jose Alvarado is out and then it’s the ones who missed the last game Daniel Tyson Carlo Movic what a disappointment Movic has been I thought there was a real shot for him to get get Center minutes um before training cam opened and then as soon as we saw him getting zero minutes of that first preseason game we went up absolutely not get out of here and he must just be not showing anything or maybe Willie Green’s bad at coaching or maybe it’s a mix of the two but makovic and Ty were both out last game so we just got um way more Eve Mei in that matchup with Jeremiah Robinson ear playing at Center as well Javonte green also missed the last game with ankle soreness like I suggested might be the case I think that people use or teams use that last game before this little break here to give guys with some soreness a little bit of a chance to get some extra rest in so that’s why I’ve upgraded green myself personally me injury report Legend I’ve upgraded Javonte green to probable here that’s not official that’s what the asteris means is that it’s not official I just think that it’s probable that Javonte green is available what am I going to watch on the Kings Malik monk continues to start and and I don’t think there’s really going to be much that changes there but we are seeing Mike Brown get a little bit tured just thinking about what Kevin herder is providing because herder’s last couple of games have been very strong he’s put up very good numbers off the bench but we know what herder is he’s wildly inconsistent but as soon as brown fixates on something and focuses on a big performance well he often can uh foreseeable future his way into changing things up so there’s still no real sort of setness in terms of what happens with herder or Alice who might be a 20 minute guy or a zero minute guy or herder might be 13 minutes or 25 minutes and monk had been playing 35 does he go back to 30 I don’t know and that’s what we want to see for the Pelicans Eve Mei played big minutes last game 31 of them in fact and I think that the fact that we’ve got no Zion and no Ingram will allow Mei to play more minutes moving forward because there’s less impetus to run those smaller lineups I don’t think the Jordan Hawkins eventually returning will impact that but I never you never know it might in terms of stream Guys fan of pants Kevin herder is the stream for Sacramento and it is BJ Boston for New Orleans although I don’t expect him to do it what do what he did last game the 28 minutes he got that may have been inflated by three or four more minutes as well due to Javonte Green’s absence but also due to the fact that he was hitting every shot and he didn’t do much else he to me requires big minutes in big usage to be a standard 12 Team league guy BJ Boston but maybe we get good BJ in this game I don’t know he’s streamable without feeling super confident although again the best schedule the five games over the next 11 days belongs to the pelicans and Kings so if you were considering BJ that gives you that little bit of an extra boost to get some more games in from him and uh through this time period let’s take a look at some schedule based stuff there’s still no back-to-backs there’s no nothing really interesting happening chunk wise but we’re going to go through and look at the fives and twos and we have got a period here of a 7-Day period which is Thursday through to Wednesday next week and all of the teams that made the knock out round of the NBA cup have one game in the next seven days it is again worth remembering that Tuesday and Wednesday next week have zero games on the count but Atlanta Dallas Golden State Houston Milwaukee the Knicks the Thunder and the magic all have one game in the next seven days and that one game is either Saturday for the winners or Sunday for the losers and that is the only time these guys play between Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday so it’s actually five real life days and they all play once everybody else plays twice in that time frame so when you’re considering the value of these players it’s not like Sundays and Friday is such a high volume day that you need to focus in on the Saturday and the NBA Cup teams you don’t they play fewer games all the NBA Cup teams play fewer games over the next seven days than the non-nba Cup teams so it’s an idea to be able to switch off of those guys if you want to get a bonus game in by getting some of these players from those other teams and then like we said Kings and Pelicans with that five game uh boost versus everybody else who does not play five games during that um time frame which again is a good way I think of being able to provide some value we’re going to come back and talk the streams of the day in a sec but today’s episode is brought to you by Fel Sportsbook you can tackle all of the NFL action in fact maybe you could dunk on all the NBA action if we’re going to use puns based on the sport with Fel America’s number one sports workk right now new customers can bet $5 and get $150 in bonus bets if you win that first $5 bet the Fel Sportsbook app gives you everything that you would need to place those live bets on the NFL live stats stats not stats live stats yeah they’re there the live play byplay 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that I would prioritize but aaji is likely available in more spots according to the numbers we have most of you have already grabbed dick and we don’t have to consider that as an option but if you’ve got an ability to get dick that is what you do abaji is your 10 Team Stream guy your 12 teamer is I think Drew Smith largely on some threes and steals with some assists but that can go arai really quickly arai what a great word that is also spouted really weirdly it not really it makes sense but when you look at it you go really ay no arai side note linguistic Corner Duncan Robinson your 14 team streamer he’s also a guy that can pop in 20 points with 6 threes or play 20 minutes and have three points you know the deal with Duncan that is the case with so many of these three point stream guys and then for your deeper leagues your 16 teers I’m going to go with faner pants um you could easily say take herder over Robinson because herder’s last couple of games have been very good but also remember the upside of a starter like Robinson is higher than the than the upside of a bench player like her you could Al put also put both of those guys ahead of Drew Smith if you wanted to as well depending on your level of confidence for Yahoo points leagues I’m going to go with abaji as my stream guy there and then for ESPN points because he’s he’s available in like a million leagues Al Horford is available and you should be looking to use him in that scenario if we’re just going to go to the 10 teamers we use a 65% roster cut off on B monsters advaned metric we go to abaji Drew Smith Duncan Robinson Kevin herder John mobo and Isa Stewart these are going to be applicable to almost every League though hardly any of those players have any level of high roster percentage numbers for 12 team as I go to Haywood High Smith KY linic which you could you could these are all so so close that the order of them doesn’t really matter that much uh Davon Mitchell’s there Keon Alice is there H hakz hun is there and Kevin Love even though love barely played in the last game he’s got the ability to have have close to a double double in like 14 minutes and another player that’s just finding someone who’s going to get minutes if we go to deeper League type streams Jeremiah Robinson erl with the absence of Ingram and Zion going to get some minutes especially if Tyson makovic are out jacobe Walter who can easily pop off for big scoring nights he doesn’t always do everything else but you can easily put him ahead of a bunch of the other players as well that is how tight all this stuff is got Tim Hardway Jr there Javonte green I’m put it going to put Jamal shed back into the rotation he’s been out the last two just because of numbers but given the fact that now baresa is out I think we’re going to see some shed and shed can be a steals Guy that can help you in that category and the last name on that list is someone we’ve really never mentioned at all in this show this season and that is Simone fonia and there was times last season where fonio was being rosted in 12 team leagues but he has been like really marginalized on the Pistons this season but for a day like this um with the three games on I think fono is worth somewhat of our time a little bit deeper leag for Yahoo points we do start there with Osa abaji we can go to Malik Beasley Al Horford Johnny mobo Dunkey Robinson and Davon Mitchell and lastly finally the ESPN points stream options Al Horford Malik Beasley Duncan Robinson osai abaji Davon Mitchell and Kevin fanter pants herder that is a rapid fire preview of all of the action for Thursday I’ll be back later on today with a recap of the two two quarterfinal games for the NBA cup Hawks Knicks and warriors Rockets so stay tuned for that in the meantime go ahead and double bang get us towards the 90k subs thumb it up leave your comments as well and again remember guys be kind to ourselves especially over stressful periods always try and find the things that 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