NBA DFS Process | DraftKings & FanDuel Picks, Plays & Slate Breakdown | Friday, 03/06/26

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1:06not politicians. Vote yes by April 21st. Paid for by Virginians for fair elections. Vote yes by April 21st. Vote yes by April 21st. Vote yes by April 21st. What is going on? Ship it nation. YouTube station. We are back with another edition of the NBA show. We got your boy Ham and here. We got Matt and here and Matt. They're killing me in the comments

2:06sections saying, Ham is always late. Hey, Ham was on time today. Ham was not doing that funny business. Me and my boy Matt were catching up. I feel like it's been forever. I was out two weeks ago with my surgery. Matt was out last week. But Matt was definitely in the streets last Friday night, second place and I think seven, seven, seven. So congrats on that big hit. But nice to nice Friday. Nice to bring you in. Matt, what's going on, my man? Yeah, bro. Also feeling as mutual. It's not like it's been months since we've seen each other. So real happy to be back on here talking some hoops with you. Wish it were MLB, but still hoops for now. MLB coming up in the future. And yeah, man, part of what I love or part of the reason I love working here is, man, I'm doing three shows a week right now, each with a different person and I love each show and each person individually just as much. So these Friday shows is always a blast. We got a bunch of games tonight. Fun slate. So excited. Hopefully we can run it back. As you mentioned last week was

3:06a nice night for me. I listened to you guys show the Rio Fade or not the Rio Fade. The Najee Marshall Fade from Rio. We had talked about that a little bit. I think the day before and then me and him were texting about it, but man, 85% on Najee Marshall and the 777 getting away from it. 15 points. Yeah, like 15 DK points. So that just went a long ways. Yeah, man, excited. I hopefully run it back tonight and break down the slate with you. Yeah, can't wait to break down the slate. And if you came in here wanting to bitch about somebody getting taken out of the player pool and withdrawing late, you're in the wrong spot, baby, because we're talking NBA and here. None of that. Hey, nobody cares. Work harder, Matt. Get better lineouts if you're going to bitch about people getting taken out of your pool. I don't know if you know what I'm talking about. Are you talking about the golf? Yeah. Yeah, the Jake nap. Yeah, unfortunately played some golf this weekend. Didn't have Jake nap, but my life would probably better off with with Jake nap. I'm just reading here. Markey sports is going to nickname me sniffles. I feel like I don't

4:10snipple that much. Is that a thing? I don't know. Maybe he knows something. We don't know. Yeah, definitely. I'm more. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's just say that I don't look down upon safety meetings. So we'll put it in. Yeah, yeah. See, we got we got Matt likes him. Ham, Ham does not partake of them. Hey, to each his own. It's all good. But a lot of people over here at the nation doing one thing you said about about working here. That's phenomenal as well as that. You know, I was out with surgery and my guy Rio picked me up last week. You had a miss last week. Rio came in. We're always helping out with one another. So great place to be. Not only not only as a member, but also working here as well. Let's say hello to some people and chat. Sean Sullivan, as always. Jose is in here. Markey sports. Mr. Sniffles is in here. Luis Max Caz is in here. Jordan Nguyen's my man. Axtron gangrene. Juice man. Ricky Rose. What's going on? Ricky Collins in here. Sam's in here. Gangrene. I think that's everybody. Jake Swills late addition to the party.

5:15But yeah, man, let's let's break it all down. We got six games to talk about. We got the return of the Mac. Mr. Tatum, the cover boy is going to be back tonight. Can't wait to see how he looks. Obviously going to make the Celtics. I think to the number two seed anyway, Matt, but dad gum with him back in the lineup, assuming he could get a 80% Jason Tatum, they're going to be a tough out, taking on the Mavericks team, Mavericks team, trying to lose every game as possible. Almost got him a dub last night, but they're 14 and a half point favorites. Talk to me a little bit about this game Mavericks at the Celtics. Yeah, so tough game to love from a DFS respect to be perfectly honest, just because we've got a bunch of games tonight, not like a massive slate, but obviously bigger than a couple of the slates we've had recently. Now I'm watching out for every time I have to sniffle. Marquis sports definitely got in my head, so I got to put that to the side. Maddie Midnight. I like Maddie Midnight. That definitely could be true.

6:22Depends if I'm awake or not, but that part could be true. The sniffles though just in my head right now. Tatum being like, I'm someone who's played a ton of Jalen Brown. He's been Uber productive, really, really high usage. Tough to pay full freight on JB with Tatum back in any sort of capacity. Certainly it's going to be limited, but Tatum's better than Jalen Brown, and he's going to have the ball in his hands a ton when he's on the court. Doesn't mean Brown couldn't get there on such low ownership. I'm intrigued with Jalen Brown. I think in tournaments, he's intriguing as like a spend up to be contrarian option. Other than that, I'm not sure what else you can get to from Boston here. Dallas, Brandon Williams back tonight, Cooper Flag, obviously back, plan and limited capacity. This game looks like a wash from a DFS perspective. Just nothing that stands out from a projection pricing standpoint. There are good players on either side, certainly

7:27on the Boston side. Again, Jalen Brown, Peyton Pritchard. It's tough to say any of these guys are priorities. I think they're just tournament plays. If you think this game plays really high to the over or something like that. Again, just because the projections and pricing don't look great doesn't mean that guys won't get there, but it's hard for me to see here and say I love anything from this game at all. It's Jalen Brown for me, and even that's like very reaching on this slate at this price with Tatum back. Yeah, I agree, and I'm not playing Tatum at 8K. I don't know how many minutes we got to project it for 20 minutes currently as you see there. He's almost got to be on a minute restriction. This game not going to be close. What about your boy, Najee Marshall, though? See, that's six six. That doesn't seem to entice you at all. Not really, just because Flag is back and he's not playing like that. Flag is right. You're right. Yep. I didn't think about that. When he was in that point, forward role, that's the thing about Najee. Why I call Rio the Najee

8:29Whisperer. It's not just that night. It's the night before also. We were talking up until lock or after lock until that Dallas game locked. He got me on Najee over. I think it was Jeremy Correa or something. And Najee went nuts the night before he was chalk. So that's why I call Rio the Najee Whisperer. It's both nights there. So tonight, I can't imagine he likes him here. I don't like him. Doesn't project great. Doesn't project to play a ton of minutes. Flag back. No thanks. Last question. What about if if Gafford were to miss, he's currently listed as doubtful. Any of these Dallas guys? I mean, Bagley at 4-8. Does that like do you like that or conversely? Would you go Keta or my boy, Vooch? You missed the show last week, Matt, but I was shitting on Vooch. I think he was like 5,100 or 5,000 on Fandall. And all he did was go and put up like 28 and 15 last Friday night. So what about if Gafford misses? He put up 52 draft

9:32Kings points last Friday night, 28 and 11. What about any of these centers in this game? I don't know. Bagley's doubtful. So he's not playing and Gafford. So Bagley and Gafford are out. Then the problem is you're left with Dwight Powell and Musa Cise. Dwight Powell stinks. I hate playing him at any points, especially at 4-3. He's not even flat. 3K. He's 4-3. Musa Cise kind of intriguing, especially in the game they're likely to get blown out. He's questionable himself, I believe. But I mean, someone's got to shoot the ball. Who's going to shoot it? Who's going to get the rebound? I mean, PJ Washington 6-2? Yeah, he's coming. I think he was decent last night. I mean, yeah, the problem is to your point, like someone's going to do something, but it's not a good spot. And it's not like their players are dirt cheap. Like the guys that will actually do things like Najie Marshall, he's 6-6. PJ Washington, he's 6-2. Cooper Flag has a price. So you need more

10:35than them just to do things. You need like good games from them, and I don't just don't see it here. Yeah, agree with you there. You've lost the guys too high. All right, so no love, no love there. Maybe we found some goodness in this, the heat. My boy, Bam was balled in last night, taken on the hornets. I don't know if you saw that shot that that Lamello hit from like 35 feet the other night. I'm like one foot. I think it was against the wizard. She just drained to that guy. I think it was in Boston. I think it was in Boston. No, it was. It'd be Boston by 20. It's somebody about 20. Yeah. I go from loving Lamello to hating Lamello. Depends on my mood. I feel like more than him. There's certain things I just love about him. And then there's certain things I really don't like. Again, just depends on how I'm feeling. Yeah. All right, well, good deal. Let's talk about this game a little bit. So you got you got the hornets who are playing pretty good. Seven and a half point favorites against the heat. Like I said, the heat played last night. I think I scored, Bam. He did okay, but $8400. A pretty good price tag to pay. Talk to me a little

11:38about this game. Heat at the Hornets. The average cost of a D wine, Virginia is $11,352 and 47 cents. Drinking and driving costs more than your drinks. Learn more at what's the damage not org. Brought to you by Virginia DMV. You're having a good time. You're out drinking with the boys. Now it's time to pay the tab. $11,352.47. Wait, what? Well, there are court costs, attorney fees, higher insurance costs, damage to your car, D.Y. Fines. Not to mention the damage to your social life. Plan a sober ride or pay the price. Drinking and driving costs more than your drinks. It could cost a life. Learn more at what's the damage dot org. Brought to you by Virginia DMV. That was so rough as a collet wear fader last night. I played three lineups. I played Reese and Wembee and two of them. Reese went. Reese had a really good game. Went for like 40 plus. Wembee went for like almost 80.

12:40But collet wear off the bench at like 70% ownership had to go for like 60 fantasy points off. I think 15 combined blocks and steals. Yeah. Just an insane performance. It was against Brooklyn. So like can't say it was like unexpected. But anytime someone puts up a stat line like that off the bench at that high ownership. And I don't play him. I'm going to complain about it. So that's what I'm doing here. But that's the game we play. So I know that I could have worked out on my side also. It just didn't last night. From the Miami side they got guys in play here because of their price tags. I don't love the matchup. Charlotte has kind of changed their complete tune around from Charlotte of old. They are good defensively and they don't play at that fast of a pace. A pretty slow place pace actually. So it's not that like I love the spot for Miami. But they got guys that are too cheap. Byron Gardner, the flat 3k projected to play you know anywhere from like 20 to 23 minutes depending on where you look.

13:43It's going to be really chalky. But 3k playing a bunch of minutes projects well. We you know power forward eligible not like the weakest position but always helps when you're forward eligible and cheap. So he looks good here. Could go right back to wear in this spot 5400. Again it's not nearly the matchup. And if he were going to be owned like he was last night, I definitely want to fade him. He won't be. So that's kind of why I'm a little bit intrigued. But he'll probably be higher on than he should be. And I just feel dirty about playing him tonight after I didn't last night. So probably not for me. But I get it. Jaime Hakez looks like a cog in the machine type of play at 5900. Small forward eligible week position. We know he can get there. He can have spike upside games. Pele Larson. Like sure. I'm fine with him. David Mitchell. Yeah. I mean these guys kind of are just filler pieces. I'm with you. Like I'm not playing Pele Larson on this late. Maybe it was like a last guy in. But even then like I think

14:45you can do better. If I'm multi entering though, I guess like that's my point. I'm not like taking any of these guys out of the field. Because their price tags all look good enough where like they could each individually get there. Even if none of them are guys, I'm like, I need to roster except for maybe Myron Gardiner. And I could see, you know, why you would feel that way about Kulawer. Bam, I just think it's too expensive here. Especially with other center options we have on this slate. 8400. Like isn't crazy for him. But he's just kind of a no man's land with how this slate is priced out with, you know, expensive guys. Obviously, Yoke itch. And then cheap guys that we'll get to like Isaiah Jackson. So what about on the Charlotte. So yeah. So the Charlotte side looks. So the Charlotte side looks pretty good because they got a bunch of good players and the matchup is good. But they're healthy and they're priced accordingly. So there isn't one guy in Charlotte. Like looks stands out and looks like one of the best plays on the slate. But if you

15:47told me you really liked Brandon Miller at 7700. I'm cool with him. If you told me you like Lamello Ball here at 8700. Totally good with that. Con Caniple 7200. I think it looks fine. My favorite. I think because he's the cheapest is Miles Bridges at 6400. He's also the most volatile which honestly, I'll take that in GPP's because there are games that will hold me the highest score on the Hornets. And if you get one of those at 6400, you're in a really good spot. Now you're not going to project them for that. But in tournaments, I think I like Miles Bridges the most. But all these guys look similar enough to me where I think that it's kind of, you know, dealer's choice. Yeah, excellent stuff there. I mean, I'm just looking at some of these, some of these Hornets guys, they seem, I don't know, man, they just play so many dudes and I feel like they spread it out. So Bridges is your favorite. He's my favorite, but it's close. It's not like I'm sitting here like, oh, he's by far my favorite. That's just kind of a gut call. Yeah. All right. Good stuff there. Let's

16:49set on to the next game. We got the trailblazers taking on the rockets. The rockets played last night, I believe. Denny is doubtful again tonight or questionable, but don't think he's going to place Mr. Bunch. Donovan Klingin, fresh off throwing elbows to faces is back in line of the night. Drew holiday, his best game in quite some time should be in the lineup. Rockets played last night. I think you have Jabari Smith and Amin Thompson are both questionable, but I think both of them are slated to play. Talk to me a little bit about this game. I think this is going to be some an offensive affair, but talk to me a little bit about this game. Portland going into Houston. It's only a six point spread. Yeah, I like this game. I think this game is sneaky, especially from the Portland side. I'll keep saying it. With Denny like projected in every night and not getting ruled out till after lock, it's lowering the Portland ownership. You know, it's the the Portland ownership is just coming in a little bit lower than it should. And I think we see a similar story here. I don't expect that need to play because he hasn't played in six games. Maybe

17:52I'm wrong, right? If so, I'll certainly pivot. But the two guys were Portland for me. Three guys, I should say, the two point guards drew holiday and scoot and then dotted and Klingin. Like, I don't know, I'm surprised that Klingin isn't projected for more ownership because he's just continues to be too cheap. And I know the matchup isn't insane or really good on paper, but he's just too cheap for his median production right now. 28 fantasy points in 12 minutes before he got ejected last time out. He is just absolutely smashing this price tag and not to be the victim, like a game log watch victim, but just look at his box scores. He's too cheap at 7,600 well-rested after only playing 12 minutes. I also kind of like this game. Klingin is like, as at least as of right now for me, a core play. I'm playing Klingin here. I like him more. If Denny's out, I like all Portland more if Denny's out. But if and when he presumably is out, I like drew a lot. I like Klingin and I'm like Scoot Henderson. All three of those guys, we saw Scoot start last time

18:54out. I like Portland here. I'm going to go ahead. How does Shen Gune, is he not good on defense? Like 76 seems out of me, but you obviously don't mind the price. Don't mind the matchup. Are you just betting, betting on, betting on Klingin? I'm betting on Klingin. Like it's not even about Shen Gune. It's the Houston matchup isn't great. They don't play at a high pace and their defense in general is good. Not that Shen Gune's on the elite defender because he's not, but Klingin, at least to me. And maybe I'm reading this completely different than how to field is, based on what you're saying. He's too cheap to me. Like he is just smashing this price tag game after game in better spots than this in spots similar to this. I think Portland's competitive here. He's a man amongst boys and a lot of the matchups he faced. Now Shen Gune is big, but he's not going to stop Klingin on the board. So I like Klingin. I'll continue to play him at this price tag. I suspect that with another couple big games. He's going to be over 8k for the rest of the season. Wow. What about Klingin versus Holiday?

19:58I know they're obviously different positions, but same price in essence. It sounds like you like Klingin overdrew. Would you play him together? Max one? Yeah. No, I would definitely play him together, especially if Denny's out. If Denny's in, it's easy Klingin overdrew for me because I don't think Denny affects Klingin as much as everyone else. If Denny's out, I think Denny's really close. I still prefer Klingin, but I think they look very similar in both equally strong plays. And I think they correlate very well together in close games. You're going to see them play good minutes. You could see a bunch of holiday assists to Klingin. I like playing them together and hope that Portland spikes. What about, I know we said that Thompson and Jabari are both questionable. What if, let's say, one of them were to miss, and you're both of them were to miss, does that, do you like St. Petersburg? It's all about Shepard. If anyone's out and Shepard starts, it's Shepard. So, I think Shepard, he's playing really, really well right now. He's open right now.

21:05He's been balling. He's been playing right now as is. So like, you get any one of those guys out, he'd become a priority play for me. And then all the other guys would look better. So like, if I'm ends out, I would like Katie and Sangoon a little bit more, but the main beneficiary if anyone's out is Shepard right now. Yeah. He's been playing about 35 minutes tonight too. So that's pretty, pretty impressive. Jordan likes Sangoon tonight. I guess he likes his matchup versus Klingin interested to see $9,400. Pretty expensive price tag to pay or, yeah, $9,400 for Sangoon. Good stuff. I can't wait to watch this game. I think it was a double over Tom Thriller two or three weeks ago. Now we get the rematch, but this time it's in Denver 52, 80 feet above C level. Peyton Watson still out. We got Josh Hart questionable. Cam Johnson question as well. And Aaron Gordon listed as questionable his first action in a little over a month and a half should he get the get the go tonight, which he would probably start, but you mentioned the joker.

22:09He had a triple double last night. Murray is been on the heater all season. I feel like we're talking a little bit about this game. Nick's at the nuggets. Yeah. So definitely a game that's going to be appealing from both the real life and the FS perspective. No doubt 10 versus I'd probably a little bit easier to excuse me. Talk about just because it starts and ends or it doesn't end, but it always starts with yoke it's expensive tag 12.5. And we don't have great value tonight. And some of the other really good value is at center. But it's yokich. He can nuke any slate. He's on tonight. There's no exception. You know, in a matchup that I'm certainly not scared of against the next. If you can fit yokich, play yokich. I don't think you have to go out of your way to like jam in all the value because it's not that type of slate. But that also will mean yokich comes in lower own than on a lot of slate. We've seen recently. So yeah, I like yokich a lot if you can get them. Jamal. I mean, he's shown a bunch of spiked games recently. You're paying full

23:14freight for him with yokich in at 911. But he's played really well with yokich in this season. He plays a ton of minutes. I think if you're playing for this game to go off, Jamal is certainly in play always in play as a pivot off of yokich. Like if you're not playing yokich, certainly you're more interested in Jamal. It's not the type of slate where like if you're not playing in yokich, you need Jamal. Like we had a few games ago when they played Utah. But certainly, in any non yokich lineup, Jamal is going to look better. After that, nothing really on Denver is going to be a priority for me, especially with with AG, Gordon, questionable here. Even if he's out, like it's yokich and Murray for me. Those are the guys that I'd be interested in. Anything else is just side pieces, I guess. So let's talk about yokich for a minute, 12 fog. You said there's not a whole lot of value. I mean, how many points like, how many points if yokich got, how many would you be happy? Like what's his over under right now?

24:15I mean, not projection. I think like 60s, like 60, 70. For me, what would I be happy with? What I would be happy with and what I would be worried about if I didn't play him same answer is 70 plus. Yeah, I'm just looking. I'm obviously, you know, don't want to go all game log watching all the time, but double OT 45 minutes. He had a 30 point triple double and scored 67 and a half last time against this mix. Not mean that doesn't mean anything other than that's how many he had. But yeah, I think 70 on this slate is what you're going to need for him to be on the winner. I like that. I like that number. The problem is like he's capable of giving you like 90, which at that point, you're dead if you don't have him. More worried about that than like the 70, which again, 70 you'd want him, but I think you could win with or without him at 70. Anything more than that, you probably need him to win. Awesome stuff. Anything else on the next side that you want to touch on?

25:18No, that answer like again, though, that's a great question because like it is slate dependent and this is not a slate with good value. There's a reason Myron Gardner is getting so much ownership. Other than him and Isaiah Jackson, like the other good value is in like the five six seven K range. So I don't think Yoke is going to be very highly owned here. So maybe that number is slightly less because of that. Maybe it's like 67 instead of 70. I don't know. Yeah, this says 10. Man, you think it's going to be low? I think it's going to be like 25. Do you think it's lower than that? Do I think it's lower than 25 or than 10? 25%. I think it's probably around 25%. I think it's if you gave me the over under at 25%, I would take the under, but that's I think it's a perfect number.

26:20Yeah, at 20% I would take the over. So somewhere somewhere in that and also that could change if we get random someone out, you don't even mean because value change everything. But as it stands now, I mean the problem is the value is just not there. And he's he's uber expensive. Like you can fit him, but like fitting him with other guys that you want to play is difficult. Hold get owned because he's Yoke and he's that good, but it's just not the type of slate where it's three easy value pieces and then Yoke and then figure out the rest later. It's just not that type of slate. Yeah, Ricky, ask a good question. Single entry, would you would you dare fade in? I mean, I don't even think that's like, I don't look at it like that because I think that most people aren't going to play him. So like, yeah, I think not playing him is wildly in play. You're always fading Yoke at your own risk. But he's going to be, I mean, even in single entry stuff, probably 30% owned. So so many of the

27:25percent of the field isn't going to have him. So not only gets a crazy fade at all. A hundred man field, I bet you 50% of people have Yoke's. I would I disagree, but I also think it depends on like how like what the buy in this for that field. President Barack Obama Virginia, we are counting on you. Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to raid the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years, but you can stop by voting yes by April 21st. Help put our elections back on a level playing field and let voters decide not politicians. Vote yes by April 21st. Paid for by Virginians for fair elections. Nicole hosts Easter every year. That's why she shops at BJ's wholesale club, stocking up on spiral ham, baked goods, fresh flowers, candy, and five dozen eggs. I've got a lot of baskets to fill. Nicole's not worried because she knows she can save big

28:29and get it all done in one trip. It's like winning the Easter egg hunt. When you save everyone wins. Get a $15 digital coupon when you spend $150 in one transaction now through April 5th. Visit BJ's.com slash Easter coupon for details. BJ's your Easter destination. 100 plus I get your point like I think he'll be higher on in those contests. I think you're going a little bit overboard saying 50% only because it's hard to fit him man like and there are other good players on this slate like Kauai is going to be popular. Wembee is going to get a little bit of love and then even if you take those guys out like Brandon Miller a couple of the other really good plays on this slate are centers. Kalaueir, Osoi, Gadara, and Isaiah Jackson. So like the circumstances of this slate I don't think he gets high at that high in any contest. That's just my opinion obviously though. Yeah. No, I love it. That's what we're having these conversations. Great stuff. Great stuff in the chat as well. We talked a little bit about the center position

29:29for Dallas. We don't we don't like the the backup Dallas centers think fade them at your own or play them on your at your own risk but I don't I don't like him. Yeah, that's more of a play at your own risk. Not fade at your own risk like. Yeah, yeah. Play at your own risk. Yes, thank you. Yeah, you have played at your own risk. Fade. I think you're I think you're in the money if you fade the backup Dallas centers. You're boy, the white, the white pal. Next what about what about the nicks? We didn't touch on the nicks. I don't know at the media job. No, you didn't. I love those combos. I think people like here and that more than even the breakdown of the games now. I like talking about it more. So any questions like that bring it on. The nicks do look appealing here. Josh Hart questionable as you mentioned. Michele Bridges really good price to get 6k. He's getting ownership as he should. Small forward eligible. I like him here at 6k. He's getting owned the field likes him too, but I think he's a solid play. Josh Hart himself 6500 can always play him in competitive games. Jalen Brunson. Yeah, like

30:33you're paying full freight for him at 9k, but he's been good recently and he's got upside in this spot in what should be a competitive game where he plays a ton of minutes. So I got no issues with Brunson between him and Murray at the same exact price. That's tough. It's easy to say that if you play yokets, you aren't Brunson with him. So I get that. I also think Murray has the higher ceiling. We've seen Murray throw up multiple 60 plus games recently. Brunson has that in his bag, but much less frequently, I should say. So that's a tough one. OG, I think is in play here. You've got Mitra back tonight. So I'm not going to mess with Carl Anthony Towns, but you know, his offensive game is good enough where he's got upside anytime he steps on the port. Just haven't seen it a ton this season quite frankly. I like the nicks. The only guy I would say is like a priority piece would be McCale Bridges. But if you get Josh Hart out, everyone looks better.

31:37Bridges looks better. OG looks better. And then even Brunson looks better. So just, you know, pay attention to that news. Yeah, pay attention to that. And who's going to win the game? I like Denver at home. They won last night against the Lakers. Should be a good game. I don't have a strong take there. Who do you think? Yeah, I hope to nuggets. I hate the, I hate the nicks. I got a lot of hate nicks. Brunson just flopping around in there, flailing his arms. I can't stand that stuff, man. I don't even think we've done a show since Harden got shipped to Cleveland, Abweigh. Mal, I don't think so. But we might need one because we talked about Garland. I think we did one. Okay. What? How do you like it now? Three weeks in? I like it. I like that. Garland hadn't played a single game yet. Yeah, right. No, Garland just, he can't stay healthy. I know he's out tonight. I think he's played one or two games.

32:38I like it. I mean, the Cav got another dog. Someone who is available that can take the load off Mitchell. Now it's been unfortunate. Mitchell has been out like four or five games. So haven't seen them at full strength. But all in all, they kind of push their chips forward with Mitchell. And I like it because I think they're live to come out of the East this year. And even though I think the West up top is better than the East, even OKC isn't as infallible as they were last year. They would probably beat Cleveland in a series. But I don't think it would be the lock like it was last year. And even last year, they were in game seven against Indy. And Indy was cooking before Halbert and got hurt. So you never know. Yeah, I can't believe the Pacers took him seven. But anyway, that's a story for another day. Let's move on to the next game. We got two games left. If you haven't done so already, please hit that like, hit that subscribe button. It helps us out a ton. And if you are driving in the Scottsdale, Arizona city limits, please watch out. Dylan Brooks is a madman out on the streets. So make sure you steer clear of all

33:43DB Dylan the villain back to it back at it again. In as always, he will not be suiting up tonight. He has a broken hand. But talking a little bit about this game, no Dylan, but from the from the looks of it, everybody else is pretty much going to be in Jordan. Good one. Obviously still out Mark Williams, but outside of that and and Dylan Brooks outside of that looks like the pelicans are pretty healthy with Zion, trade Murphy, my boys to deep bay, but should be should be another game that gets up and down. But talk to me a little bit about this one, Pelicans at the Suns 226 and a half point total. Yeah, this game is at least from a 30,000 foot view appealing from a DFS perspective. Certainly pieces from both sides are appealing if nothing else. We'll start with Phoenix. I think they're probably a little bit easier breakdown. Actually, they're both pretty easy, but from the Phoenix side, two main guys I'm looking at here, actually three, we'll call it. Starting with Oso,

34:46Oso Gidaro just looks like a guy you can plug and play here. He's not dirt cheap, but with Williams out in this spot, 5,200. He's been pretty productive. He looks really good. I like him quite a bit. I'll be playing him. So I like Oso Gidaro a lot. I like Devon Booker. I think he is at least in play here. He hasn't shown a ton of upside this year, but man, he's only 8,300, so deep book, one of my favorite players in real life. I can get on board with some book here in a game that I think is competitive. And as you said, gets up and down the floor. Jalen Green, another guy I like here, shooting guard, small forward eligible, not getting a ton of ownership, priced pretty fairly in a game I like. So I like Jay Green. I like Grayson Allen. Also, he's more expensive than I'd like more than green. So I like green a little bit more, but he's been good this year and has spiked upside. So I think those four guys, if you're playing

35:50at a bunch of lineups, maybe Colin Gillespie are all in play with Oso, like the priority piece that I'll be playing a bunch of. What about Ryan? No, I mean, Metro Boone was asking no Ryan, so no Ryan done. I'm with you on that. No, I'm not looking at you. I know you're one of the pills. So go ahead. No, unless he's like dirt cheap and you got a bunch of guys out, I'm not really looking to play him and you have neither here. So got guys back and he's 4,200. So watch, he's going to go for 30 DK points tonight, but it won't be on my squad. From the New Orleans side, a bunch in play, main priority for me is Dejante Murray. I'm a huge Dejante Murray fan in general, not playing like a ton of minutes, but Uber productive when he's on the floor. Kind of reminds me a little bit of Ty Jerome, but I think there's more minutes upside with him. I'm on Dejante Murray here. He's just a guy I like a lot from a fantasy perspective. I mean,

36:52he's got massive upside, even in little in limited minutes at this tag. Like if you know anything about his game, NBA DFS from years past, he can fill it up in a hurry. He's guy like talking to myself more on him as we, as I talk about him, because I just like him a lot. So him and Oso, the two priorities for me for this game, but I also like Sidiq Bay, as you mentioned him a little bit. I think he looks like a cog in the machine type of play again, talked about those guys a couple times and he fills that, fills that role here. Zion, he's coming off a good game, was worried about the injury situation, but he looked pretty good. So I think it's 7,900. He's got upside tray Murphy, also as upside of this tag. Hate that he's only guard eligible, but it is what it is. I like this game outside of Murray. No one else from New Orleans is like a lock and load for me, but I could see myself playing a bunch of this game in any one lineup. I don't think you have to do that, but I could see it for sure. Yeah, good stuff there. Devon Booker, I like your call on him.

37:59Oso, what about, what about Klingon and Oso in the same lineup? Obviously it would take up your center and you too. What about you, you found playing both of them? I am. Because the thing is, I don't think Yoke, it's just a lock. We talked about him. Kaleware isn't a lock for me, especially if he gains ownership, steam. The real guy you're fading pair, honestly, we haven't talked about him yet, is I.J. A Jackson. And you know, this is an interesting like DFS topic when you have these. We're going to get to him. Yeah, like we can just kind of lean into it now. Okay, let's do it. I like Isaiah Jackson here. He projects well at 3,300, but when we say or when I say he projects well, if you get 22, 23 fantasy points from him, that's a good score. And he doesn't even project that well at 3,300, you'll take that. But with only being able to roster two centers, if Oso goes for 40 here and Klingon goes for 50, let's say

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40:13As they had Jackson won't be on the winner tonight. Okay, so you think he's not a good play at ownership? I mean, no, I mean, he's going to score what 25 points. If he gets 25, that's a good game for me. If he told me he was getting a good game. I'm not saying it's not a good game. I'm just saying he won't be on the winner. Well, that kind of goes into what I'm into what I'm saying is that if you get two centers, like, let's say, right, then like his even 25, you don't want. He's what we talk about like an NFL too. Yeah, so it's like, uh, yeah, you can get Jackson's fine from like a salary saving perspective. But yeah, I mean, clean in Oh, so, Yo Kitsch. I mean, I know, obviously the price is completely different. But like those dudes could go for 30, 40, 50, 80, winby. Yeah, for sure. No, we see that's very similarly. Like, I'm fine playing Jackson. If there are lineups I really like, like if I want Yo Kitsch really bad or if I need a cheap guy

41:15with Oh, so, and I'm not playing clinging in that lineup, like, I get playing him. I'm not going to have zero of him, but I will say to like the first build I make, if I were playing one line up tonight and someone just asked this, I'm pretty sure me personally, I would have clinging and oh, so, and all this talk about Isaiah Jackson and these other guys makes me understand why clinging won't be highly owned. And I love that. What about this? Would you go one of the big boys and then, and then, and then, um, Isaiah Jackson? You mean like Wembee or Yo Kitsch and then Jackson? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, certainly. Like, I don't think Oh, so is unfaithable. Like, he's not a guy you have to play. I just like him quite a bit at that price tag. So, yeah, totally. I think that a lot of, I want to see a lot of the Yo Kits lineups will have Isaiah Jackson. They'll be played together quite a bit. Yeah, makes, makes sense. I didn't do the math, but they're probably about the same price, right? Right around 15K. Uh, would that be 15 eight for those two and then,

42:19well, you guess you're saving a little bit with Osso and, uh, and clinging, but I know you're not saying Osso's a must play. Yeah, definitely. Um, like, I like him here, but definitely not a must play. What about, what about, um, yeah, let's look at this next game, right? You got Kawaii going home to take on the Spurs, Wimbee. Man, Wimbee's just a freak. Like, like, that dude is so long. I was watching the piston games a couple, I think Friday nights ago. The dude's just so long. He just blocked shots out of nowhere. He drained threes. Man, he's a good ball player. But it's all to me about this game. Just should be an interesting game. Like you said, Kawaii, uh, he's in a great spot. Uh, but the Clippers at the Spurs. This might be the highest on game, oddly enough. And I got nothing bad to say about it. Um, starting with the Clipper side. So you've got Garland out, which we just mentioned. Four guys getting ownership here. Just talked about his Ajax and so don't really need to talk

43:23about him anymore. Kawaii shooting guard, small forward, eligible, going back to his old stomping grounds. Yeah, I like Kawaii here. Like, if you're not playing a Yoke, it's Kawaii looks really good because it's not going to be that hard to fit him. You can play him at a bunch of positions. I could see Kawaii being a building block from me here and playing him in, you know, two or three lineups or whatever it is tonight. Talked about his Ajax again. Then Benny Math, Benedict Mathurin, no Garland here. That microwave score off the bench. 6400. Yeah, man, I can get on board with some Benny Math at 6400 here. Not a, like, ultimate priority for me. Like, Kawaii might be, but in play, for sure, Derek Jones Jr. More pricey than I would like, but value is at such a premium tonight. Like anyone under a five K that's going to play a bunch of minutes like that is at least in play for me. So no, he sucks, man. Yeah, I don't want to, as I'm talking about him, I'm like, I don't want to play him. So I'm glad he shouted that out because he sucks. I'm not playing him here.

44:25But again, I don't think it's the worst play in the world. San Antonio side also getting a lot of ownership. And I don't disagree with it. Talked about the lack of value tonight. Dylan Harper, 4500 projected for good ownership. We kind of know his deal at this point. He's not going to play a ton of minutes, but he's very productive when he's on the floor. And it's 4500. He just looks really good from points per dollar perspective on this slate. Kelvin Johnson, I was high on him last night. He was okay. I mean, certainly wasn't happy with him, but he didn't kill you either. Price up here, getting basically the same amount of love because value is so tough to come by tonight. So I'm fine with him here. I'm not like prioritizing him, but you could do a lot worse at 4300. Wembee himself. He falls in line with like Yokech. Upside in spades, as we saw last night, also has minutes volatility. So you never know last night, season half, 39 last night,

45:30where they've kind of been playing him, you know, high 20s all season. And you kind of expect that to come down on the second half of a back to back. But we don't know that if he plays 35 here, he's going to smash. So in tournaments, at least in play, and then the two guards, the two other guards outside of Harper, Castle and Fox. Fox, I was high on last night at 6500, still under 7k. Just too cheap for him. He's been inconsistent this year, but you just need so much less from him when he's under 7k that I'm fine with him. And then Castle at 7k, even totally good with. I think this is the game I want a bunch of, even though like I look at it and I'm like, man, the New Orleans Phoenix game looks better from a DFS perspective in San Antonio LA. The pricing is better in this game though. So I get it. Like I don't think I want to games tack this game and roll like seven deep in any of one lineup. But in any one lineup,

46:31I'm probably going to have a couple pieces because the pricing is right here, whether it's Isaiah Jackson and Kauai and Dylan Harper or Keldin Johnson and Fox. Like there are just pieces and play all over here. Let me ask you this. What about three point specialist Brooke Lopez projected to get 30 minutes. Newans brings up a good point with two centers or, you know, I'll call them two centers. Two people that could play center. What he would, what about him at 5100, maybe a pivot off in Jackson, although the price isn't obviously the same. But what about what about Brolo? The pivot would be off of Oso because they're like the same price and that's going to be a no for me. Okay. Yeah, like I get it because he's like the same price point as Oso and he's going to play a decent amount of minutes. But there's nothing there where I'm like, I think he looks good as a pivot. That doesn't mean that he won't outscore him because DFS is random. But from rejection standpoint,

47:37I mean, I'm seeing Oso project like seven, eight, nine points better, which I think is appropriate. Would you play Kauai and Mathering together? Yeah, I don't think I wouldn't play them together, but I think if I'm hand building like either of them individually look better because I think that like the Mathering big, big ceiling gain probably comes at the expense of Kauai and vice versa. But there are certainly scenarios where like the Clippers just spike and you want as much LA exposure as you can get. And those are the two main guys. So I wouldn't set any rules against them being together. But if our hand holding it probably wouldn't happen that often. Anything else in this Clippers at the Spurs game. I don't think so. All right, that'll do it. That's all six games. Excellent break down there. I think the moral of the story is, are you going to play Nikola? Are you going to play Wimbee?

48:41Hot price center where we got some, I'll call them cheaper center options to go through. All right, it's that time, but it's that time of the show, Matt. We got to go, uh, let's go seven K and below. No, six K and below. Let's go six K and below. Who's going to leave the slate six K and below most points tonight? That's an interesting price point. Six K and below. Who's going to leave the slate? Maybe seven K. I feel like seven K is too high. I know who you're going to say. Well, no, he's over seven K. So yeah, let's go seven K. Yeah, seven K is actually trickier for me because under six K I was going to say, oh, so so under seven K, I am going to say, let's run it back. We'll go to Aaron Fox, who's just under seven K. The Aaron Fox. Sorry. I like. No, I'm changing it right now because this is a guy. I love him. Dejante Murray under seven K is my guy here at 6400. All right, I'm going

49:42I'm going to give you a, uh, I don't love it, but I'm going to go with my guy PJ Washington 62. One thing is going to go for about 20 and 10. 10. He's going to be unowned, unowned, you know, I know he's not a center, but no, no centers. He may get some extra run. They have to play the five, but I like, I like it all 6200. That's the best point you made about him. No, I was going to say a joking the entire show, but I didn't want to hurt your feelings, but no, I'm kidding. The best show, the best point you made about him. We didn't talk about that, but that's a good point, like in general, with all their centers out, he might be the guy you want. He could play a ton of center minutes here and he's not expensive. That's actually really interesting. I'm glad he brought that up. Yeah. I've got a couple of reach shepherds in there. We don't hate that either. We love reach shepherd, especially if I'm in or a Jabari were to miss. One other thing I was going to say, and I forgot

50:43what it was, but that oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Tatum. I know you're probably not playing on Fandall when someone put it in the chat, but Tatum's only 5,500 on Fandall, which I think is much more palatable if you wanted to play him over there. I'm not saying he is a must play, but 5,500, he could play 25 minutes, 20 to 25 minutes and pay off that tag. I don't hate that at all. Any closing remarks before we get out of here for the weekend, Matt? No, that does sound intriguing, though, 5,500 Tatum. Yeah, I think I probably just play him there, right? Like I think you just have 5,500 that we got to. Yeah, that's weird, but yeah, first game back. In any event, that'll do it for us. That's all 6 games. We appreciate all 350 of you tuning in. Just do us a favor, hit that like, hit that subscribe button. We come to you five days a week when there's four or more games in the National Basketball Association. We enjoy bringing these shows to you each week. I got you covered

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