NBA DFS Process | DraftKings & FanDuel Picks, Plays & Slate Breakdown | Thursday, 03/05/26

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2:07Happy Thursday. Hope everybody out there having a great day. Maybe enjoying some awesome weather, depending on where you're at. We've got 8D Sean Sullivan, Mikey, Ricky, Bob, Brandy, Noah, Winsolot, Deakin, hope all of you have a great day. All we ask is like, button and subscribe button helps us out a ton. Join by the man, one of the best NBA minds out there. Rio, six games, Spandle, Draft Kings, all the lock within our plenty of injury news. I mean, it's not even worth talking about all the QC's right now until we go game by game. But yeah, how we doing today and what you're thought on this last time was playing. So pretty good. I think the slate first glance was a little bit more difficult than some of the ones we've been playing recently. I feel like last night's was fairly straightforward. I think we hit on some of the pivots to make in that six years game. Although I didn't have any Jabari Walker that kind of came out of nowhere, but did see a report before that game tipped off. A beat writer was talking to Nick Nurse and he said that he was going to be playing some of the guys that are still trying to figure out.

3:09I forgot the exact wording was, but the guys that they're trying to learn more about. I didn't necessarily think that meant Kyle Lowry and Jabari Walker. I thought more so like Tyrese Martin and Dylan Terry, but those guys barely played. They did run on 11 man rotation, which was just tough because Maxi kind of failed. You still could have won tournaments with him because the scoring last night was generally pretty low. I think Brunson and Jalen Brown were both still optimal or I think maybe SGA and Brown were optimal last night. So flinging in one half was winning tournaments. I mean, that was what a terrible run out there soft, soft as puppy shit is what I'll say. I mean, come on, NBA. You didn't think that he should have got a Flaker too, but I mean, that was pretty bad. No, I mean, that's that's not like that. I mean, he didn't do that. He like threw his own out his chin. That's a Flaker one. That's some soft edge. I've seen Dremont get away with way more. Lou Dorr, like you like to say. No, I thought that was soft. I don't know. I've seen enough, like from Klingon, he's a he complains so much.

4:10I get it like he's big and people have to be more physical against him. But he's just every time he's getting like put back down, he's screaming in the rough space. And one that, I mean, I don't know how you guys saying that wasn't malicious. That was so clear. No, that's not. That's not. Oh, yeah. I'm on Doran's side for sure. I mean, yeah, he got him on the chin a little bit, but that ain't no, that ain't that way. No. I disagree. And I didn't even, I mean, I had him. I probably would have lost either way, but he was on his way to a massive massive game, for sure. I mean, like you mentioned about the Nick Nursuff and Talks, we were talking a little pre-show, March, NBA, DFS, I mean, projections ownership, obviously in all DFS sports mean a lot. Projections in NBA mean more than they do in any other sports. But this time of year, projections right now, compared to projections in like December, it's a lot worse, maybe not a lot worse, but there's definitely a lot more volatility and variance in it, because narrowing down minutes is a lot harder. A lot of projection sites, it's really hard not to just go based on like season-long numbers,

5:12but nowadays, like with teams tanking and what they're playing for. And like you said, Nick Nurs trying to certain games, certain matchups, teams play differently as well. You see teams rest their starter on the front end of the back-to-back, like the SGA because the next day, they're playing a good team. There's just so much that goes on right now. That's a part of the puzzle. You're really dialed in, like you are, and you go through the games talking about it. I feel a lot more inclined to be changing some of these projection numbers and definitely ownership, like we talk about a lot though, to kind of fit your thoughts more than I would in December, November, NBA DFS when it feels pretty set in stone before teams are like tanking and all that. So anything you want to say about that? No, I feel like you kind of broke it down beautifully. I think that's kind of the impact that the show has. We try to do our best of talking through those types of things. I consume NBA content basically around the clock and I'm always reading, writing, and just researching about it.

6:12So I'm trying to bring that to the show for you guys. And I think that's kind of a good part about being in the Discord, but I think that more so the show and the Slate plan will kind of reflect that as much as I can. It's just hard to get these questions to the Discord and then have to like rehash the same stuff. You've got to be dialed into the content at this point of the season. 100%. Yeah, we do these shows. For free, we plan on continuing to do them for free as long as we get those likes and subscribe. A lot of awesome comments and chat. But again, if you're not a member, when Rio is not on the show, he's on the show three days a week. But when he's not and you want his content, like you mentioned, the NBA Slate plan very in depth, based on the upper tier, the mid tier, the lower tier and Discord, a huge piece of our product. You can see Shiffonation.com. If you go to join the nation right here, you can get in as low as $9 for the day. No, that does not include Discord. I think the better deal would be getting the five days for $19. You get Discord. You get Sabersim. I mean, you get MMA content, you get NASCAR content, PGA showdown, NHL.

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8:13you would like. Yup, Flags in. This Brittany said, Rio talked a little bit about that pre-show. What surprises see that? Well, as we got in here, Luis, we appreciate you doing Brittany, Sean's on the same side. Everyone's against Rio right now. Casey in here, Bob Oh, so you got that right. Beautiful weather. Indeed. Jack, appreciate that. Sean, Jordan, William, Jake. I think I covered everybody. I say we get right into the first game of the night. Oh shoot, I didn't hold on. I got to type in, I always like pulling up drafting sportsbook to talk about the spread and the total that's up today. Here we go. My favorite are the wizards. Big boy total, 241 and a half. Unfortunately, no Kianti George. I was definitely looking forward to fire him up. He's been absolutely amazing this year. He is out due to injury management, rast slash. They want to lose this game and not playing Kianti is a more likely way to do so. That's the only new injury news for Utah though on the Washington side. No vuksevich, no Kishon George.

9:13Anthony Gill is questionable. Also, no Jameer Watkins. I'm not even trying to break down this wizard situation. We talk about it all the time. You really don't know too much. Like you're done with Will Riley, you say, I'll just let you take it away. The cool ball is the world. 4.9K is a good price, but he's not playing many minutes. Can he get there in 23 minutes? Ace Bailey looks pretty strong. You're Utah Jazz though, you know them very well. But Washington always gives me problems. And this game's going to have a whole lot of ownership due to the value on both sides. Yeah, I mean, the big news here is Tray Young making his debut for the Wizards. It kind of comes at a really odd time because I feel like the Wizards would definitely like to lose this game. The Jazz and the Wizards would play each other. This would be the first of their two games over the next two weeks, I think. So really big for the tanking standings. I'd be very, very happy if the Jazz lose both of those games. But kind of how we talked about when these two teams do face off or teams in the lower

10:15half of the NBA, you have to be very, very cautious. So I agree with you. Any sort of chalk ownership that we're getting from either side of this game, I would not feel confident in. And I see Will Riley getting a ton of games. So like, I don't even know if I want to, if I want to mess with that tonight. But yeah, things could definitely change for the Wizards in particular. They do have 11 guys projected to see men tonight. So pretty deep tonight in terms of guys that will get rotation minutes. And then you also just kind of take off some of the usage on guys, mainly the guards like Hardy, Trey Johnson, Shreef Cooper, Bob Carrington, I feel like they all will be pretty negatively impacted by Trey young returning. But I also think in turn, they're all offensive. We'll look a lot better. Obviously, it's a great match up for both these teams. Jazz are dead, last in defense, Wizards are bottom three in defense. So a really good spot to get some offense for them. But if Anthony Gil were to miss, then we could start to get into the Wizards a little bit more. I'd probably be looking to go right back to Julien Arise.

11:16I just, again, I've said it like three times already this week. Anytime somebody's that cheap and they're playing as many minutes as he is, then you have to have interest in him. And this will also be the best matchup that he has had in the past week. He played Orlando in Houston. So two pretty solid defenses. I feel like this would be a spot where he could flash more of a ceiling. And also it did okay, last game, but he had like nine points in a rebound. So pretty close to the double, double bonus, looks like a guy that could add some stocks. The stat line as well. I think it three stocks against the, I guess the rocket's in a few against Orlando last game. So I'm definitely keeping an eye on it and Gil in particular, but it does seem like he'll probably be returning. So the guards for me pretty much out of play. I don't really think I want to mess with like hearty at some ownership, definitely not playing Trey on a minute's limit. I don't really like what I'm going to be seeing from Bob Carrington now. The Trey is back, but yeah, I'll be looking at the wings. So like champagne is in play for me, block all the ballies and play for me. And then I guess will Riley is, but now it's starting to get like this is his ceiling

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14:28volley. I know that those guys probably won't be playing a ton of minutes, but I think we'll get a good permanent game from at least one of these wings in particular. I was looking at some of the perfect lineups up before coming on today. And these are the two teams that allow the most perfect players this season. The Wizards have allowed 20 people to end up in the perfect lineup. The jazz have allowed 19. The places that you would get the most perfect games from position wise will be point guards against Utah and small forward and power forward against Utah. So that kind of is in line with what I'm going to be playing on the Wizards side, cool volley champagne, a little bit of Will Riley. And if we're Washington, it's been centers, point guards mainly and then some shooting guards as well. Who I'm considering on the jazz side of things. I do really want to like Collier tonight because he's basically the only guy that they have that can handle the ball. They do. They were running a lot of offerings through Keyoncé, obviously. And then Lori kind of gets some secondary ball handling, but those guys will be out tonight. And then EJ Harcliffe is not really like a true point guard.

15:29I think he's more of just like a defensive guy like he doesn't do much else. So the world could be really, really big for Isaiah Collier. But he just might be too good. I think like if they're winning this game and he's doing really well, because I do think that he's a good NBA player, then they might just dial back his minutes. I'm not really super excited about playing him into a lot of ownership at 7.8K. Or more so, I don't want to play him at a high exposure rate personally at that price value. I do think that there's more likely outcome that he underperforms than overperforms his price tag. I do think Ace and Sensibar are in play though, because both of these guys will have really, really high usage. The thing for Ace though, this does feel like a ceiling price tag for him at 6.5K. And I think for us long as Cool Bali plays, he'll probably be getting that defensive assignment. So this would be one of his toughest tests that he's seen this season. So with that in mind, I kind of want to be underweight on him and maybe more Sensibar, but the minutes have been really gross for Sensibar. Yeah, so I don't really know what to do with Utah.

16:31A lot of these guys are predicting to see minutes. I think that I would play some mobamba though. He was the backup center last night, and he only signed a 10 days. So he's running out of games pretty quickly. He probably has one or two more games left on his contract. So it'd make a little bit of sense to get him maybe 16 to 20 minutes a night, which he could definitely smash in, because it's a great match-ups. I think bomba is probably the guy I'm going to get the most of on Utah tonight, but I think these guys might be a little over projected from what I'm seeing right now. Sabar has what four guys in Utah projected for above five value, I think that's a little too high. That's what I love to hear. A team trying to lose, that's going to be pretty popular, that's playing a pretty deep rotation, that's getting a lot of ownership. Yeah, I mean, you making case to fade, it makes a lot of sense. I don't have six games late, so I'll be looking to see where you think some other pivots in the mid-tier, lower-tier are throughout the slate, or like as the games go on. Washington's side, like, would you be fine playing Will Riley, Koolabale, and like a

17:35Champendi, or is that too much, or is it probably too max? I think I'd probably be max one of those guys, honestly. Max one of all Washington? Just the wings, like the Riley, Shependi, Koolabale grouping. Would you be fine with, I mean, you didn't really like anyone in the back court anyway? Not really. I mean, Jaden Hardy was kind of getting their last game, but he was playing too well, so he got pulled, so something like that could definitely happen. You might get 20 minutes from Trey Cooper, Koolabub, or Bob and Hardy tonight. It's just crazy. I mean, they're up high for 124 points, but Trey being back obviously tests something to do with that and throws a big wrench into things. Yeah, all right. I'd be good with like Koolabale and Reese, if Gills out, that'd be a pairing I'd be fine making. Yeah, I mean, this game's definitely getting some ownership to start it off though, and a lot of question marks in some hesitancy with Rio, so definitely interesting there. Let's keep a roll.

18:35Next game on the slate, Dallas Mavericks. Taking on the Orlando Magic, seven point favorites on the Magic, 230 and a half total on the Dallas side, Cooper flags in, like you mentioned, no Marvin Bagley and Brandon Williams is questionable on the Orlando side, Wendell Carter, Anthony Black, and Jonathan Isaac, all questionable. I mean, man, Paul has been a beast. That's the first thing that stands out to me. You definitely were on the last game, you hit in a big way, even though they blew them out. Or you hit a solid game, for sure. I can't remember. He had 30 plus real points got there early and often, 16%, I mean, yeah, signed me up for 16%. I do think when B will be more popular to spend, I probably think Cade. Maybe those two will be decently close, but I mean, there's enough spends on the slate that Paul is definitely, his ownership will be in check. So yeah, give me some, some polo and then the Qtex, Wendell Carter, Anthony Black, Isaac, we saw Goga get the start. Yeah, he's only 4K if Gogo was to start again.

19:36Always love playing Goga back from the Indy days. So yeah, what do you see in this one? Finding a hoodie that lasts through the season can be tough. The American Giant Classic Foolsip hoodie is made to last year after year. Snag the hoodie that brings comfort for life. 520% off your first order at american-giant.com with code staple20 at checkout. Are you a instructor challenged us to find inner peace? I found it faster than anyone. After 4 seconds, I stood up and screamed, I found Irvana, I win! They asked me to leave. I guess they don't respect winning. Bet 365 does, though. New customers get $365 in bonus bets just for betting $10. I must stay losers. Bet 365. Winning is everything. Gambling problem called 1-800-Gamber, 21-plus only. Must be physically located in Virginia. TNC's apply. In app only. Very surprised the Cooper flag is returning tonight. I thought that Friday would be the day because they are going to Boston tomorrow and he's from the New England area, Grupa, Celtics fan, and also Jason Tatum's making his turn.

20:37There was just like kind of all the narratives for him to return tomorrow. But he's going to be playing tonight. They didn't say, they said he would likely be on a minute's limit, but we've seen. He said minutes limit just like five minutes ago. Yeah. He would likely have a minute's limit, but that's kind of, you've got to take that with a grain of salt with Jason Kidd because there's a lot of times where some guys will return from injury and he says they're on a minute's limit, but then like is that minute limit 30 minutes where he would normally play 36. I don't know. But yeah, I think that kind of stood out was Dallas was nine point road dogs and now it's down to seven and a half, so that's a point and a half with Cooper flag returning. And it definitely makes things a lot tougher for the Dallas side of things. It's probably just going to be a max one and I honestly don't think I'd be getting much of these guys at all. It just feels like you're getting a little bit too cute, trying to pinpoint which guy is going to be the one that's going to hit tonight. I would be okay with Gafford. I'd probably be fine with Najee and PJ as guys and keep him our player pool.

21:38Like if they land in my line as the last man in, I'd be fine with that, but definitely not going out of my way to play any of these guys tonight, because it's really just not that great of a match for Orlando has been playing pretty good defensively over the last two weeks. The maps have been one of the worst defenses in the NBA and offences in the NBA. So one of the worst overall net ratings in the league. So it's a pretty good spot for Orlando to get some points up here. Similar style of game for them. Where Washington was one of the worst room defenses, Dallas is towards the bottom in terms of defensive room frequency that I should have had pretty good limiting effective fuel goal percentage down low, but Orlando is top five in offensive room frequency this season. So pretty good spot here for Orlando and I'm with you on Cooper Flag. I think that he's a pretty solid spend up here tonight. There's a lot, a lot of green flags looking at his profile over the last five to seven games. Sorry. Who does it? Cooper Flag. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of green flags for Paulo right now. One he has a really good match up a spot where he should be able to get to the rim with

22:41ease here, even with flag back, but he's coming off of a really efficient shooting night went 15 for 21 from the field in just 32 minutes. But over his last five game, five games we've seen a bit of a roll shift for him with an increase involvement percentage. He's up from 38%. It's a 47% on ball roll is increased a little bit to up 25.4% to 29.7% he's averaging more assist, more potential assist, and more points per game over his last five games. So I think that we're getting really close to him having a really, really big game. So I think that tonight could be that night if Dallas should keep it close, which it sounds like they'll be able to seven and a half points, definitely not blow out territory by any means. I'm pretty interested in Paulo tonight. I think we'll get at least one of Anthony Black or window card of junior back tonight. So kind of takes off the upside for Bane and Suggs a little bit for me for Bane. He's just almost 8K now and he wasn't really able to get done against Washington. So I don't necessarily think that this is a much better matchup for him. It's not terrible by any means, but not great.

23:43So I'm okay again away from him at this price tag. Suggs, I can make the case for it, but I think that the minutes are going to be still held in check. Like 28 is probably the high end for him right now, just with all the injuries he's been dealing with. Maybe in a close game, he gets pushed up a little bit more, but he's also not a great value by any means at 6.6K and with Black returning that does kind of take off a little bit of the upside for him. So I think I'm okay again away from those guys. It probably just be a max two of Paulo Bane and Suggs. Yeah, great match for one card junior, but I think that there are some better center options. I'll be looking to tonight. But if he's out, then yeah, go back to go get 4K. I think Moe Wagner would even be in play at 3.9K. It does sound like Jonathan Isaac is going to miss tonight. Don't necessarily think that does enough for these rotational pieces. And maybe condenses the front court minutes a little bit more for Orlando. Pretty easy. I'm kind of in agreement with our man, Scotty, no Dallas, Paulo, and yeah, if one knows

24:43out, then go go. But in the Moe Wagner, yeah, 3.9K, I mean, because go go would probably be, I mean, man, he'd be very popular. I don't know if he'd be quite as popular as last late when he was 3.6K, maybe it'd be close. Moe Wagner would be a solid leverage play pivot right in that same range. You wouldn't play it together by any means, right? No. Both center eligible. Not, yeah. What about if Wendell Carter does play though, 5.4K value showing to be solid, can you get there? I'm not exiting out, but I do have a couple guys that I prefer in that same range at center hurdle, clow wear, who will get to probably in the next game. I like those guys a little bit more. Yeah. We'll get to the clow wear right now. It was a great call on him. He would put up a really good score, like 1 or 2% last game. We'll definitely not be 1 or 2%. This game just shows how fast things can change in the DFS landscape, but the Brooklyn Nets and the Miami Heat, big favor, so the Heat 13 at points, 226 total in this one.

25:44On the Brooklyn side, there's still without Igor Demon on the Miami side there. So without Joe Vitch and Norm Powell and also Simone Fintecchio. Yeah. Still wear is the one that stands out right away, looking to be the highest on in this game. Very good game for him. Like I said, 1-2%. Yeah. I mean, you were right about Tyler Hero. Man, that was such a weird slate on Tuesday when we talked. I still saw people winning a lot of cheese with Tyler Hero. There were snowflakes around, but you made a very good case there. I'm really curious to hear your take on BAM. With everyone going to really clow wear at center, they are both center eligible, and last time when I asked Tuesday, you said you won't play together, you just think you're giving up a little too much. But if you're not playing where is your merit to play in some BAM, a lot of guys are projecting for over 5x value on this slate, clacks in, clowny at center, man. It's always tough for me to click Brooklyn right now, but yeah, 13th point favorites of the Heat. What are we doing? Yeah. Same thing with the Nets.

26:45You just unclick them, I think. I mean, these guys, they have a couple guys that project positively, but they're also coming with ownership, so that's not really a good marriage right there. So I would be, do you believe that ownership that is showing? I haven't ran teams. I think it's just kind of like a roster construction things. If these guys just land in some weak positions, then yeah, I do believe it because my guess is like that 10% clacks in 13% clowny, like clow wears 29 is like 42 or something. I don't know. I definitely could see it being higher than it is right now, but yeah, X out is, makes the job easy. Yeah, just do that or just keep it to max one and you're probably just keeping in clowny. I guess Terrence, man, because he's so cheap and that's kind of like, I'm still the most interested in Treyori and Daniel Wolf because they're the young guys that have, I feel like they have a little bit more upside than we are, like then the ownership is showing.

27:47So those would be the guys I'd prefer to get to if I'm playing Brooklyn, but yeah, it's a max one of Brooklyn for sure, but yeah, what were you saying about the, the BAM versus where? So I definitely think that there is some merit. I just want to check the high stake stuff because I feel like I don't want to show him where for 36 and BAM for 30. I don't believe that. Yeah, I'm not sure if I believe that. I don't believe the where stuff. I mean, I just, I think he fits in so many great builds and people will see like 29, 20 minutes, the past two games, the matchups good. There are other center options like, I think you might be a little more bullish on the Yakupertl stuff than maybe the field, but it's like, if you're not playing Wembee, I mean, a lot of people are going to go to kind of save slash mid-tierish and just land on wear at center. It feels. Yeah, I feel that way as well. Yeah, I mean, definitely, I think he's kind of like the, who's the person thinking of, we would always say, if he's chalky, you fade him, if he's not, then you don't fade him,

28:49but that's not a, that's not a base basketball, is it? Who were we talking about for football, like AJ Brown? No, I'm going to, it's going to come to me. It's a freaking Robbie Ray. Robbie Ray. Robbie Ray. Robbie Ray, if he's chalky. Yeah, that's right, that's right. Yeah, Robbie Ray. But yeah, it kind of feels like that with wear just because there's no, there's never a guarantee that he's going to be playing 30 minutes. He got, he got their last game, but he also picked up, I just want to check with picks up, but I believe picked up three fouls in like, like two minutes or something. Yeah, he picked up three fouls in actually like 15 or 20 seconds. Wow, that's impressive. Yeah, and then he played the last, what he checked in at the six minute mark in the fourth and finished the game. So 18 minute rotation to finish out the game. It feels a little bit shaky to play that type of player at this level of chalk, which probably is going to get higher, like as much as I love wear as a fancy option, I'm literally

29:50always being the drum to play clow wear. This feels like a good spot to get away from him and probably in favor of BAM, that's just like an easy straight line pivot in the same game or just some other center options. So I love where I'm still going to be playing a good amount of him, but yeah, I agree that the ownership is probably going to be higher than it's showing and there is definitely a ton of downside and pretty big upside to fading it and getting it right. So into BAM for sure, he had a huge game last game out pretty efficient to 2397, you know, Florida with a triple double could have had a bigger game if he got that last rebound. But six deals, 55 DK points, so definitely fine with him. I guess like I don't want to just say the same things I said about hero, but the nets are not bad defensively against guards. So I'm fine getting away from hero if the ownership gets out of hand. He is one of the better permanent guys with all these guys off the court. The season had a really strong usage rate as well last game, 35%, but only played 27 minutes.

30:50So probably more of a around the field type of play than playing over him at like 25% or whatever it may be. And then I do think that we get at least one solid game from somebody not named BAM or a Tyler hero. Finding a hoodie that lasts through the season can be tough. The American Giant Classic Foolsip hoodie is made to last year after year. Snag the hoodie that brings comfort for life. Save 20% off your first order at american-giant.com with code staple20 at checkout. Are yoga instructor challenged us to find inner peace? I found it faster than anyone. After four seconds, I stood up and screamed. I found her fauna. I win! They asked me to leave. I guess they don't respect winning. At 365 does though, new customers get $365 in bonus bets just for betting $10. Namaste losers. Bet 365. Winning is everything. Gamely for all of them call 1-800 gambler, 21-plus only. Must be physically located in Virginia, TNC's apply, in app only. So guys that I'm considering, it's basically the entire heat roster, but like Angel Wiggins,

31:55he's coming up with a little bit of ownership, but I do like the match up for him as a guy that is a very good transition score. Anything for Jaime Hakez? He did not overlap with Pele Larson at all last game, so I'd be a max one of those two guys. And I do have interest in Larson as well. And then Davion, I think, should be in player pools and I also think Casper is juxtaposed as should be in the player pool as well. At just, was he 3.4K now projecting like a pretty solid value? He had a pretty good game last amount and did close in the blowout if I'm not mistaken. He was, yeah, he did, he played the last like 12 minutes of the game. So I think that he'll get the regular rotation minutes in the first half and then a chance to play a little bit more towards the end if they do blow them out. What happened to a popcorn machine? Yeah, you got to, there's a couple of different sides you got to use now. I don't really know what happened, I haven't seen anything on Twitter, but yeah, they're gone. Um, yeah, I think Wiggins is pretty strong too.

32:57Man, just the 13 and a half point spread. Granted, there's like a decent amount of kind of big spreads. I mean, nothing like the slate we just saw, but like the next game will be 8 and a half. The magic was 7 and a half earlier than in the day 7 and a half though, if it's 9 points with 4 minutes left, like the starters will still be in. But this is definitely the biggest spread on the slate. You're aware stuff. And I do think that ownership is probably more like the 40% range, so you made a case to be underweight. I mean, 3,020 seconds is crazy, but bam, it feels like a very solid leverage play flips the roster construction kind of at center. If people go up at center, it's Wembee, otherwise they're just going to go to that 5K range. So I think that's strong for sure. Wiggins looks good. I like Tirol last game, he kind of talks me out of it. I'm going to think, I think I'm going to roll with what you said again since it worked out, but Brooklyn, easy fade there. Let me go through some rules real quick for Miami.

33:58So Max one, Bam, where Max one of Davion and Juckishonus, Max one, the Hawkeyes, and Pelle Larsen. And then I think it's going to be Myron Gardener filling in for Fontecchio. We didn't really talk about him, but is somewhat nowhere because Fontecchio did play 20 minutes last game and was checking in behind Andrew Wiggins. So I'd be Max one of Wiggins and Gardener if you are going to consider Gardener, which I think that you probably should bump him up a little bit because he's been priced and I blow out run if you're getting 20 minutes with somebody that cheap could be useful. I was going to ask like a lot of people are going to go to that jazz and Washington game for some value and like what other spots is their value, but you just talked about some of this game where obviously he's going to get ownership, Casperous. You just mentioned Gardener. I'm not really seeing too much value in this next game, maybe a little and pretty tough on the Toronto stuff as well. So yeah, I'm curious where throughout as we go to these games, if there's any sneaky value plays that pop up that can be interchangeable with this Washington Utah stuff, but Golden

35:03State, Houston, a game that's not projecting very well, ownership's not getting there too much, but eight and that point favorites are the Rockets, only two 12 and a half total by far the lowest on the slate, injuries on the Golden State side, no Moses moody, no Chris Deppes, no Will Richard, and Gary Payton is questionable on the Houston side. I mean, definitely big q-tags here, what, Shingoon, Amin Thompson and Jabari Smith are questionable. Really curious if you have any leans there, I mean, Reed Shepherd, he's been a frickin man, 6.3 K. I mean, I still got some interest, if there's no Amin Thompson, I think he's still a smash. There's no Shingoon in this spot, Capella 3.5 K. I don't know how much Jabari Smith, I mean, obviously he's playing like 32 minutes, so it means something, but do you have any leans on these q-tags? And then Gary Payton q-tag, usually I don't think mean too much, but they already have so many guys out, maybe it can open up some mid tier stuff on the Warriors that's going

36:06to be low on, but yeah, I'm all ears in this one, but mainly do you have any leans on these q-tags right now for the Rockets? I don't really, I feel like the Amin 1 was probably more maintenance related because we did seem to get a night off last week or the week prior for Shingoon, he got downgraded last night with the illness tag, so I mean, that's a little bit better than mid day today, day of the game, so I feel like he's probably more like 60-40 to play, and then Jabari's been dealing with this ankle injury for a while, so don't really have a good lean there, just going to have to be one that you need to be prepared for, because that's the clear spot to go to for value, and for upside in some of the studs, if we get at least one to two of these guys out, if it's all men or Jabari out, then Reachepard becomes a good play regardless. I kind of feel like he's in play either way, I think that they really need him to kind of come along nicely in the second half, and he has been doing that, provides a little bit of shooting that they didn't, or they just don't really have outside of like one

37:07or two guys in the roster, so I feel like he's pretty important to their long-term outlook regardless, but you take away main ball handling like Oman Thompson and Sengoon, it's going to make Reed look really good, it would make KD a very solid spender, I think Tari would be really hard to get away from, and then Klingka Pella at 3.5K almost must have played if Sengoon were to miss in my opinion, because he's only 3.5K, we saw him start a game against Dallas, not too long ago, played like 30 minutes in that one, so the minutes upside is really good, and I actually think that's a pretty good matchup for him, because the Warriors have become a really, really bad rebounding team as of late, so it'd be a good spot to attack with the front court guys. Him or Goga, if they both get to start, no Wendell, no Sengoon. I probably would go Kepella. Okay. That would make center real like the Bams, the Wembees, the, I mean even Kloeware, like that ownership then would definitely come down, but two center builds would be extremely popular, and I think that would make this late actually a lot of fun, I mean, you'd

38:08have to make, I mean especially fandled with just one, but draft Kings like the center would be super loaded, you'd have to make a lot of decisions. Yeah, I mean you're getting a pretty big discount on BAM, I would imagine being the guy that gets the biggest ownership change if we get Goga and Klingka Pella starting. Like BAM goes down to the, to be the least, and then like Kade and Paulo would be a lot more popular as spends, Wembe would go down, just roster construction wise. Yeah. But yeah, you kind of said it, if Gary Payne misses, like it's not a huge name in terms of like usage guy, but they, this is like Eston as they've been, so they would, right now they have, they do have 10 guys projected to get minutes, they could probably still add another body, like they have LJ Cryer on the, LJ Cryer on the roster would be a guy that would probably play a handful of minutes, but I mean, Kerr has been running things as tightly as he has this entire season. So I think there is some upside to these guys, I'm, I'd be most interested in the guards

39:12if all men were to miss because their on ball defense would get a lot worse when you take away him adding and reach up, or to maybe, maybe even if Jabari missed to, that would make their defense much worse as well. So I would keep an eye on those two in particular when it comes to the warrior stuff. I would like to match up a lot more for pods in Melton, I think that they're both pretty appropriately priced for the upside that they've shown the season. That's kind of it though. I was, there's actually one guy that I think is kind of sneaky as like a pivot and, and he's a cheap forward as well, but this Nate Williams, I think his real name is like Gina Thin Williams when you see him on like basketball monster in some of these other sites, but yeah, Nate Williams on draft Kings, he had huge game against the Clippers and again, if they lost, but he was kind of like the main talking point post game. There's a lot of good sound bites about him and how he was guarding quite Leonard, but he'd be a guy I would keep an eye on because I think he'll be in the rotation regardless with a chance for a bigger role if Gary Payne does miss.

40:13So I'll definitely be getting a good amount of him because I think I've seen enough from him in a small sample to know that he could be at least a decent permanent producer. Well, I don't fear no, man. I just fear God. Yeah, you grew up in this. Yeah, it makes you run through a brick wall. I like that shit for sure. I mean, he didn't even lock down quiet. I mean, quiet is still dead fine. But yeah, I mean, that was, that was pretty cool. Yeah, that's like the stuff where you just have, I mean, no one's going to play him. You see 0.12, obviously a projection would raise a little bit without Gary Payne, but it wouldn't get anywhere close to where people actually click it. So this is the time in March where I'd be a lot more willing to, I got Rio and Rio, I asked him this question like last week or something. How would you go about raising that projection? One way to do it, which I mentioned was you just say, you know, you want like 8%. Like you think he's 1% on you get 8x the field. You can just move it to like 15 and just see where you run it. What do you get?

41:14And then if it's lower, you raise it a little higher vice versa, you lower it, but Rio goes more in depth and tries to find like G league stats or backgrounds there. Find like what he thinks is point permitted is obviously a minute projection on him and kind of do it that way. So yeah, you can, if you're is dialed as Rio and you can do it that way, you have a solid feel on how many minutes he might play and try and come up like with historical data on a fantasy point per minute for him. That's obviously a way you can get a probably a more accurate projection. If you don't feel like that, but you know like, all right, I want to still get 7x the field or whatever it may be. You can do it my way against plugging like 16 and go from there and see what kind of ownership is spinning out. What's up, a x good to see you. OK, play the night Duncan Robinson first King. There's enough value to play Kate and Wembee. Yes, they're definitely is right now. One thing I think we need to be keeping an eye on.

42:14I think we're going to get a starting lineup change here. Actually, I don't know if they went this way last time, but I think they're going to have to start overlapping Gees Santos, Al Horford and Dream on Green. Every day the world gets a little weirder and a lot more awesome. Cool stuff daily takes a look at everything from mining in space to the latest in the fight against cancer to how AI is basically changing everything. It's all the cool stuff you didn't know you need it to know. Join us for cool stuff daily as we take a quick look at science, tech, and the wait, what stories that make you sound way smarter at dinner. Subscribe to cool stuff daily now because the future is happening fast and it's way too fun to miss. Hi, this is Alex Cantrowitz. I'm the host of Big Technology podcast, a long time reporter and an on air contributor to CNBC. And if you're like me, you're trying to figure out how artificial intelligence is changing the business world and our lives. So each week on big technology, I bring on key actors from companies building

43:16AI tech and outsiders trying to influence it, asking where this is all going. They come from places like Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and plenty more. So if you want to be smart with your wallet, your career choices and meetings with your colleagues and at dinner parties, listen to big technology podcasts wherever you get your podcasts. These guys are all powerful, eligible, but Al Horford and Dream on Powerfort Center. Not too interested in that because I just don't think that that light makes a ton of sense. But he sent us a pretty cool story, signed a three year contract, 15 mill kind of came from nothing. So it's pretty cool to see him get a contract. I mean, he's been very steady. Like anytime they need him, he plays his role, he does his job. And yeah, good for him, for sure. I mean, I don't know, pods, pods can be a little cringey. Every time I think of pods, he's like another Wisconsinite there. But I always think of that video with with LeBron and stuff. No, it was Steph and Clay and Dream on. That was funny.

44:16But I always love Gary Peyton. I mean, another dude that'll pick up full core, he'll grind for you at the Anthony Melton, Horford's, Horford, absolute buck killer. And this seems a little old. Dream on can be a little annoying. But when you get Steph here, like it's, this team can find a little bit for you, definitely not enough name value nowadays in the NBA, but I'll also say something kind of to cement my genith and Williams call is that the, I don't really think the Warriors can move up very much in the standings. Like they're pretty much locked into a play. And so it's just a matter of who they would prefer to play if they get through the plan. Because right now it's going to be like the bottom four is Suns, Warriors, Clippers, Blazers and the Suns are what four games up on each of those teams. So it's pretty much going to be a guarantee to be Warriors, Clippers, Blazers at the bottom three. So they just don't really need to be playing Dream on and outhorfer at a ton of minutes right now if they can get away from it.

45:19I think I'd really play the Blazers. Do you have a thought? Yeah, I think the Clippers are definitely the most dangerous team down low outside of the Suns. Yeah, you like them getting rid of Zubak, getting Matherin. You like that for their chances? I would love it if Yannick, Conan, Eater, Houser, the Barbarian could stay healthy. Cause I actually think that he's a stud. Like he's just, if you can develop, like if he can develop an offensive game outside of what he already does really well, I mean, he's like very switchable on defense, super athletic. And the game against the Warriors was like so impressive. Cause he was just tipping every ball, blocking every shot. So I think that it's a fine move. Like I've always been a big fan of Matherin. Not the huge just Dearest Garland guy, but he makes sense for this team. So yeah, we'll see. What about big brook? I mean, fine. Finally, yeah, I mean, the way he is, I love him on the box. That man transition pulled up from 45 feet steps into it.

46:19I just hate how people can be seven feet tall in average, like three rebounds of game. Yeah, well, to be fair, I think brook almost kind of designed, like he boxed out for Yannis back in the day. And then he just, like that's just kind of what he does now. But no, I totally, totally hear you. And you mentioned EJ Harcliffe, right earlier for Utah. He's one of your favorites there because like you think Collier might just be too good. Hey, yeah. I think that Harcliffe has a role regardless tonight. I don't think they're going to be pulling him. Like I would be, I'd be surprised if he's a guy that's getting cut down. I feel like it'd be Collier, Philipowski, probably sensible. And then like love would not play deep in a game. If they're looking to win, I don't think Contra would either. So you probably get in the lineup of like Bomba, Harcliffe, Hinson, maybe Cody Williams and Sv, something like that. So yeah, Harcliffe is solid. Yeah, I mean, he's definitely going to come with ownership too. Like you're not sneaking it by any one, but you definitely were fine with him.

47:21You said Bomba was your favorite though. Spassmought on the nets. Yeah, no, no, that's when I definitely like, yeah, I broke the most. I mean, other times on the feet, if there's no doubt about that. But yeah, I mean, the box had Robin Moe peasant and Brick Lopez, yeah, oh gosh. All right, we'll keep it rolling. We got two games left, honestly. I appreciate everyone hanging out. 315 of you watching. Hope you're having a great day. Oh, yes. Again, like fun, subscribe button helps us out a ton. And if you do want to join us at the nation, plenty of options. We just have NBA only if you want that. We also have daily passes. Five day pass does include discord and access to Saverson, like we're showing here. NBA Slate plan. Rios always on that Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, DVP rankings and automated tool. Concert by the last two weeks, Rio and Matt and Ham's core, GPP core report. Mine for the cash, the stone, of course, has all the data in one spot and short on content, shout out to our man, Little Neck Monday through Friday. It does a terrific job on those, of course, projections and ownership draft

48:21kings and band, dual. Two games left. This one, definitely the best of the night in terms of real life ball in my opinion. I'm most first pistons actually is a good game, but I'm excited for this one. The Timberwolves and the Raptors for an F point favorite to the Timberwolves. Two 24 and a half total on the Toronto side. No culinary boils again. B.I. is questionable. Obviously big news on the Minnesota side. Why do they keep doing this? A midday downgrade for Ant for like, what was it? Rest, injury, maintenance or whatever. They did that last game too and then he played and I mean, when he plays, he's been actually phenomenal, but this game's at 8 p.m. Eastern. Slate locks at 7 p.m. Eastern. Those games to start are pretty good. No, again, like if you're going to Washington, Utah, that's mainly value, but the polos of the world, I guess it's really just polo because you hope you get the news before the Miami stuff with like BAM and you hope you get the rocket stuff. So I guess thinking more about it, you probably won't have like five plus roster spots booked up.

49:22But hopefully we get the news prior to lock and we don't have to worry about it. But yeah, it should be a four and a half point spread, Timbrill, two solid teams. Yeah, I guess if you are a believer in the Raptors, then that's a solid, solid team. But the numbers, they're half though. I mean, again, on the road against, I mean, unless that's numbers saying it, assume it ends out, but I don't think Vegas is that confident. No, I mean, they're capable of keeping games close against good teams, but they're just, I just don't think that they can get over the hump against these teams. You look at their recent run of games. They're one in three in the last four games. They beat the Wizards, but they lost to all real contending teams. They lost to the Knicks as far as in the Thunder. And then they've beaten Washington, Chicago and Milwaukee in like their last four wins or three wins, whatever it may be. So yeah, it should be competitive for sure, but I still think Minnesota kind of holds all the edges here. Definitely profiles is more of a defensive battle, Minnesota's seventh and defense. The Raptors are ninth, but both teams have a couple of clear areas that you can't attack.

50:26Toronto has never really been a team that's great on the numbers in terms of like frequency stuff with like the rim defense and three point defense. I think that there's okay spots to attack there, but they do have pretty capable defenders that can slow down guys like Julius Randall and Anthony Edwards. And then for Minnesota, they have the worst pick and roll defense in the NBA. Rudy Goveris just plays a ton of drops. So there's one guy, a particular really like on Toronto, but yeah, I'm assuming that both the question tags are in. It looked like Anthony Edwards was at shoot around it with a starters jersey on based on the Minnesota team rules, Twitter account and then Brandon Ingram with a thumb injury. I think he's dealt with this before kind of picked it up late in the game last time that they played. So that one's a little bit more up in the air, just kind of a maintenance, injury maintenance thing, like how how much you can tolerate the pain. So yeah, let's say like this would not look great as a game because the team in total are the game total so low, but what I do like is the minutes are really condensed on both these teams.

51:27So I think we can get a couple GPP tournament winning like scores here, at least viable scores here. So I think that this is a pretty solid game to attack with the prices flipping between Barnes and Ingram that gets me on to Scotty Barnes is a clear better play than bringing him tonight. Ingram should see a lot of Jay to make Daniels too and he's been held in check and a pretty big way over the last three seasons. We have about 170 plus minute, our positions sample size between these two guys and McDaniels is holding Ingram to just 17 and a half points per 75 positions over the last three seasons. So not great numbers for BI coming in with a thumb injury. I'd be looking to get underweight that I just don't really think that he's paying off this 8.8K price tag very often. Scotty Barnes does have a few tournament winning scores or at least tournament viable scores against the wolves in his career. Looking back as recently as last month, he went for 22-10 and a 50 and a half DK points really close to a bigger game. He got those two extra assists. He's actually struggled against Julius Rand on their head-to-head matchups.

52:29I don't really know if that I'm going to read it that too much, I feel like he can just fill up the stat sheet in a big way and then if Ingram were to miss, that would make it even better for Scotty Barnes. I do prefer him over Ingram tonight at the price tags and then what's between quickly and Barrett. Barrett's going to be the guy that's always getting more ownership just because he's at a weaker position and he's cheaper. Played a time minutes last night so I don't really have anything negative say about him but I do really like to match it for a manual quickly here. The wolves are the most detachable defense against pick and roll scorers which a manual quickly is coming off of a back-to-back double doubles, went for 23-5 and ate the last time that these teams met and I feel like I might have been on a show when these teams faced off and I was kind of saying the same thing about quickly tonight. The only thing that's kind of holding me back a little bit is that he's not super cheap anymore. If he was the same price tag as Barrett, I'll be playing a ton of him but 7.4K kind of makes it a little bit less likely that he's needed tonight but I do like him over RJ so I'll probably be projecting a couple points higher and maybe projecting RJ a little

53:30bit lower. And then Yaka Perdo at 5.2K do like him a good bit as a center option. Obviously the matchup is not great. He's going up against Rudy Gobert which is going to make it really tough against him but at the very least he should have a lot of rebound and chances because Rudy just doesn't stray too far away from the basket. So I'm cool with Perdo because I just think that he's good enough at least from like a per-minute standpoint to get there against tough opponents and he's actually done pretty well against Rudy Gobert in the last four matchups averaging over 30 DK points per game but the thing I like the most is that he played 30 minutes last game and gets the nicks. I think that the minutes are all the way back here for him so pretty good with Yaka Perdo at pretty low ownership. On the Timber Wolf side of things I would just imagine Ant was in and he's going to be full. Don't really have anything negative to say about the matchup for him. I think he's going to see a lot of Scotty Barnes. There's not a ton of data but between these two teams at least for Ant like they're kind of mixing in a lot of different guys defending him which could make things a little bit more

54:31confusing but yeah I don't really have anything to say I think that if you can get up to Ant which probably should be able to pretty easily then he's a fine option. I'd be looking to get under on Joyce Randall going up against Scotty Barnes just not a spot I'd like to attack if it is Barnes on Randall but at the very least Max one of Ant and Randall. Love the matchup for Gobert. I just think that he's a little too pricey right now. And then Jamie Daniels I'm kind of interested in because he played 40 minutes the last time that these teams played and that was in regulation. He's also shot lights out the season 45% from three point range so if we run into a hot shooting night and he's playing more minutes than usual 6.1 K I mean that's a pretty solid pivot off of RJ Barrett who's looking at chalk and going to be 600 more so I do like Jamie Daniels and then I'm fine with Nas Dante IO especially if Ant were to be out then I think IO and Bones become really solid value plays I probably would be a Max two of Dante IO Bones and probably McDaniels if Ant were to miss this game.

55:32Great breakdown really hard for me to add too much more. I thought quick are if like it was Goga if there was no Wendell Carter and and no Shingoon like Ant would be someone that's ownership goes after again just because of position eligibility a little bit no like Yaka hurdles would go way down. Go Bears would even go down more. I love the Jayden McDaniels call I always hype him up I mean he's just a really good best I'll play competitive games are games that I want to play Jayden McDaniels and he's not going to get much ownership like you mentioned the RJ Barrett will but you're quickly you're definitely getting that ownership discount from quickly off of RJ Barrett I don't know Scotty Barnes feels like a little more difficult for me to click today but he will be pretty contrarian not much more for me to add there we do have one game left I don't know if you want to give away your secret secret to Rio I mean Roto grinders has a feature about us don't know if it's behind the paywall got you it's on a NBA IQ I believe you want

56:34to give away your secrets here has fantasy data for players I don't know if you means like when you say like it easy way to find like his last three games against the wizards like this here have been 47 42 are you just like game log watching like I know Roto grinders also you can click on their on their name and then just keep scrolling so they play them I mean that muse is a really good spot to use if you want to see like Scotty Barnes last four games against the wolves then it could do stuff like that but a lot of the other stuff that I use in terms of like usage and permanent stuff is behind the paywall oh yeah there it is behind the paywall you can find that as you've been asian.com NBA slate plan right there all right one game left hi this is Alex Cantrowitz I'm the host of big technology podcast a long time reporter and an on air contributor to CNBC and if you're like me you're trying to figure out how artificial intelligence is changing the business world and our lives so each week on big technology I bring on key actors from companies building

57:39AI tech and outsiders trying to influence asking where this is all going they come from places like Nvidia Microsoft Amazon and plenty more so if you want to be smart with your wallet your career choices and meetings with your colleagues and at dinner parties listen to big technology podcast wherever you get your podcasts every day the world gets a little weirder and a lot more awesome cool stuff daily takes a look at everything from mining and space to the latest in the fight against cancer to how AI is basically changing everything it's all the cool stuff you didn't know you need it to know join us for cool stuff daily as we take a quick look at science tech and the wait what stories that make you sound way smarter at dinner subscribe to cool stuff daily now because the future is happening fast and it's way too fun to miss what's going on Brandy good to see a great game Detroit pistons and the San Antonio Spurs are you getting this you called him brandy earlier

58:41you know I was just you know just giggle because you and him both said the exact same thing without even you seeing this message and he any all caps it like he was like yelling at me like don't give it away which very fair real puts in a lot of time a lot of work and yeah it's a big benefit our members have just as much as in discord NBA a lot of moving pieces things change starting lineups change that dictates a lot of like just be I hate to bring it up Mark I know I know it's a sad subject of your swap like with gill and Williams and stuff when he wasn't starting in this and that and I mean sometimes it works out with Hugo Gonzalez a couple nights ago sometimes it does with gill and Williams but you like we get a lot of brand of starting lineups or things we don't expect an NBA's a lot of moving pieces and nowadays especially or March DFS versus like November projections are good you definitely need to use them as a baseline but it's not end all be all like I pretty much think NBA projections are most of the time um but you have more room to maneuver

59:42nowadays so yeah discord is a very big piece of our product that ship and nation a lot of members I'm in here in the youtube chat in the discord community as well all right last game pistons and the spurs three and a half point favors of the spurs two twenty eight and a half total in this one spurside no Harrison Barnes on the piston side I am seeing no injury news so pretty much two healthy teams two very good basketball teams solid over under I guess but yeah this game should be competitive and I mean seeing the air in Fox at 6.5 Ks just crazy so you want to start there castles sub seven K Dylan Harper's been good I know you're probably going to say a max two of them ownership like some people are getting some some ownership I don't know maybe Wendy's a little higher on but center is really good on this late so if like Wendell Carter's out in goga opens sink goons out clink of hell opens then I think he's probably where he's showing right now if both of them are in I think maybe Wendy's a little more popular than this since you can double spend if

1:00:45you do want but take it away yeah it seems played well I don't know if it was last week or the week before but pretty recently he got shut down I think it was last week had a awful shooting night I mean it's a fun castle really gave it to him there but um the thing that was fun to watch about the game was you did see playoff like minutes for those teams and I kind of feel like we could see that again I don't need to double check these teams might be on the front end of a back-to-back I'm not sure who they play I think I'll check for you yeah I think San Antonio might play the Raptors tomorrow or somebody like I think they play another Easter carbon team but regardless I would kind of imagine that these teams play okay Clippers so I guess I mean I don't know I think this one's probably more important for them to kind of get more like a playoff like nothing for the Pissons tomorrow and then they got the nets okay yeah so this this will be a big one for the Pissons and because they obviously lost that game against the Spurs and I do think that the Pissons have a really really soft matchup or soft schedule coming up the next week or so

1:01:47so I feel like they're probably going to sit some guys in that game on Saturday and play their guys a ton tonight but yeah for the I mean it's going to be the same way that like defensively how you want to attack these teams of Pissons our team that can give up three point shooting and as we saw Devin Vaselle and Julian Champagne lit them up last game they went for it combined 12 from 19 from deep and it's going to be really tough to beat a team like the Spurs where they get that type of output from your secondary options on offense and then with how well when be played on both ends of the court the Vaughn Castle was great on defense even I thought Fox played pretty good defense in that game didn't really shoot that ball that well but really good game for the Spurs overall some kind of interested in the same guys that did well last game and it's not like a game log thing it just makes a ton of sense but for Wembe played 36 minutes had a 21.17 rebound double double to go along with seven stocks and I think that he could produce something similar here Detroit is a third worst and three point offense from a frequency standpoint but the third

1:02:48highest offensive room frequency team in the NBA so they're going to be looking to get to the basket which means that Wembe should have opportunities to get more blocks and steals and things like that here it's just a lot of pick and roll so they're going to be attacking Wembe a lot with the Duran and Kate stuff and I mean if he's playing like 34 35 minutes which I feel like he should be projected at versus where Saber and some of these other places have him in like the 31 and a half like 32 minute range I'd probably be running in closer to like 34 35 so I'm fine with him even in a tough matchup you know getting beef stew back definitely will help them but I just think that Wembe too good as a permanent producer to kind of overlook even in a tough matchup between Castle and Fox I do have a slight lean for Duran Fox tonight I just think that the matchup is not great for Saphon Castle for especially with the way that he likes to score which is basically all around the basket there will be times where he'll get some open looks like teams will leave him open kind of give him the dream on green treatment because he's just not a great three point shooter so I guess like maybe his overs in the three point market are kind of interesting if you can

1:03:50lie that up to like three or four because I do think they will get a lot of open looks here but I'd probably take the under on him going off for 16 points again he didn't shoot at all that great and I just think that it's just not a great spot for him he's gonna be guarding Kate as well which does come with some foul risk so I think there's pretty easy ways to get off of Castle for me and then I grew with you on Fox 6.5k I don't know when the last time he was this cheap it probably is the cheapest he's been this season but for sure like maybe over the last like I don't even know six seasons potentially I mean he's been a pretty high permanent guy in his career but the thing that was interesting for me he had a 25% usage rate the last time these teams faced off which was a little bit above his season average took 17 field goal attempts which is the most that he's attempted in a game since mid-January and at 6.5k you just need him to do a lot less to pay off his price tag but if you're getting the same type of shot volume just a little bit better efficiency because he actually didn't shoot the ball that well then I do think he has a good chance of reaching a ceiling game here at 6.5k so very interested in deer and fox very surprised

1:04:56that Vaselle is not getting any ownership I guess he's kind of priced up from where we're used to seeing him but I mean he's shooting the ball lights out right now I think it's kind of a situation where you just ride the hot hand shooting 62.5% from three point range over his last five games 77% true shooting just really good form for him I think he's earning more minutes as well so I'm pretty cool with Vaselle and I think the same thing could be said for Julian Shepenny he's only 4.7k so you're kind of comparing him to some of those wizards guys I guess this is a little bit of a pivot but he shot 53% from three point range over his last five games and I think that the minutes floor is really good for him now that Harrison Barnes is out but also pretty high minute ceiling we saw him play 36 minutes against the pistons last time these teams face off so I'm pretty pretty in on Shepenny I'll be lower on Dylan Harper I just don't think that this is a good spot for him kind of can get exposed on defense against the team like the pistons I'm okay get away from that Keldin is a pretty useful salary saver at 3.9k

1:05:56with the shooting guard small forward eligibility and then one guy I'll be sprinkling in a little bit of his card of branch I think that he is earning more minutes as well with Harrison Barnes out he played 13 first half minutes last game so training for about 26 that's what he got to but a lot of that was in blowout against the sixers but I do think that he could probably play like 20 minutes a night which could be enough for him at 3.6k you five playing three spurs when B Fox champ penny when B Fox Brian when B Fox Kelvin yeah yeah I think that'd be fine right as for the pistons side of things yeah I mean you could go back to Cade definitely stuff matchup castle locked down last game but I would probably I'd guess that he does better than five for 26 shooting the ball tonight kind of salvage they bad game with a decent fantasy output things the double double and five stocks he's been doing like he's one of the best shoplocking point cards in the NBA just because he's so big there's actually a good defender so I do think that

1:06:59he's fine at 11.2k but you're starting to really need a lot from him at this price tag so I'm I just think that when B if like you're just in a vacuum is a much better play for three-inch dollars cheaper so I probably be looking to go there but the other guys in Detroit I think you're okay like Durin gonna get overlooked tonight at 8.2k minutes will come down a little bit with Stewart back but he was huge in the last game that they faced off 25 and 15 in like 29 minutes he lost a little bit of run towards the end of the game because they were just shooting so bad and they kind of needed to come back a little bit but I think that he's just needed too much this matchup so I'm cool with Durin a Saur I think is interesting at 5.7k because he was a guy that really got cut down in that last game but bounced back really nicely in his last four at least 35 DK points in each of his last four games I just think that these two two big of a guy on defense that they need to cut him down here some I probably run him at like 28 minutes tonight not really too

1:08:00interested in Tobias and then I agree with our guy who was it I mentioned Duncan Robinson I think that he's okay here because he's just so cheap and they put up 11-3s last game so I think just yeah there you oh no it wasn't him he was making fun of him which we don't we don't play shame we don't play shame here there it is I actually thought that was it oh guys my bad first Kings when we get reels on your side come on David Duncan's either going for 30 or he's going for six but not me one that's the type of player he is for sure watch him that game though he was coming off so like there was a lot of design looks and he was getting pretty open looks yeah office screens I mean I don't mind the play one bit for sure you just need shooting against Wembee like you can't you can't be attacking the basket yeah yeah no I think that's a good good point Nicholas I appreciate UFC video UFC please I'm waiting on UFC so tonight Big Marley and I will be talking some UFC if you just go to

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1:10:08just thinking how that would look though because I feel like it'd be pretty tough to get five yeah it'd have to be like Duncan and Assar like there I don't think you're getting you're not getting like when being cade maybe you are if we get more center value but you'd be like what a Duncan cade castle fox kelvin or champagne like champagne episode like you wouldn't yeah one of cade when be and then you're playing more so value and then a mid tier spurs or something I mean this seems like a really good game to get to for sure so the Q tags are way not ant you think he plays Ingram you think he plays Gary Peyton is actually pretty important but I mean it's this game right here and it's five third east and hopefully we get it not just like right at the buzzer but that Houston stuff Jabari Shingoon I'm in Thompson like that that news can flip the slate on the head right there of Wendell Carter's out in Goga starting again so we are definitely are waiting on news on this slate don't don't build right now right after the show and just turn off your laptop definitely get in the discord get your underdog fantasy labs whatever

1:11:11notifications you need on notifications from Austin discord Rio takes the chat a lot yeah any final thoughts before you or for you before you get on here no I mean I think we probably will get Houston early because they are a scene that does put out their star lineup really early so maybe they do the same with their injured report which should be which would be nice having all the information going into the slate but yeah fun breaking it down as always like talking hoops it's good uh nice uh viewership and people showing up in the comments so appreciate that yeah always makes the show fun Rio puts in a lot of work as the least you can do is just hit that thumbs up hit that subscribe button it does help us out a ton you're looking for some pga content round two showdown that is at seven p.m. Eastern big Marley and I eight forty five p.m. Eastern I will Nicholas I will definitely be on the lookout for you I hope you are in the YouTube chat for the UFC video Max Holloway Charles Olyvera not many more fights you can draw better than that hey before we go though I need yeah I need your prediction Charles Olyvera or Max Holloway minus

1:12:13225 Max is sitting around right now uh yeah I think Max has got it um I don't know I just feels like for to beat Max you kind of got knock him out unless you you believe he can just sub him which I feel like Max's ground game is pretty solid so I feel like it's gonna be I think it's gonna be Max but it looks like you might have a take there I'm definitely on Charles at the money plus one nine he's a big thing but I I think Charles is very live to knock out Max Holloway I really oh yeah Charles has uh I don't even know if it's called sneaky power nowadays but man he is he's vicious and it's not I mean Max's chin's really really good but we saw what happened with uh we saw what happened with uh to pour you and once that chin starts getting cracked a little bit I do worry that he's got the he's got the touch of God though 100% got the touch of touch of death but yeah even last fight uh Max got cracked a little bit I mean once it goes it can it can be a little scary but yeah I I'm not comparing Charles to Ilya by any means there I I think the numbers a little wide yep that's good there and but I do think a fight fade could be in play Max round 3 KO if he

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