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3:10get me on a Tuesday, Rio, but we got six games. It's not in the association. How you been man? What's going on? I'm doing good. Doing a whole lot better. Now I'm here talking hoops with you. Always enjoy doing shows with my guy ham. So excited about that. Excited to talk through some basketball. Yeah, absolutely. Sean Sullivan. Here. What's up, Sean and our guy, Matt Bellman in the house. Thomas in the house. Appreciate each and everyone who's tuning in. Say what? Who's Matt? Matt Big Matt. No, I'm just kidding. Somebody in our discord yesterday said that. There it is. The go to himself. Appreciate everyone tuning in. Hit that like. Hit that subscribe button. We're going to break it all down for you. Rio, keep your phone value. The Indiana Pacers may be calling you to come play for them tonight. They have 10 guys questionable. We'll see who they try it out. They may be calling any and everybody to get in. But we're going to go game by game over here on the stone. We got the heat. Take it on the Hornets. Defense is optional in this game, especially for Miami. 234 and a half point total. You got the Hornets five and a half point favorites.

4:13Mr. 83 points himself. I believe is questionable. We have him listed out right now. We'll talk to him a little bit about this game. Heat at the Hornets. Yeah, Ben's down full. He's going to miss and it'll probably be out for, I don't know, like a week, maybe. Yeah, calf strain for him. Just I feel like that was caused by the whole 83 point game. You just win a meaningless game and put up a meaningless outline. And now you're out for a game that you actually needed. Bam. And they had a little bit of karma. But he's supposed to buy it. He said he would do it again. I get it. But I mean, this is definitely a big game for the standings in the East. The Hornets are about, I think two games behind the heat right now. And I think that they were really good chance of winning this game. I like them a lot. The last time these teams played just because they've been one of the best, probably the best three point shooting team in the NBA in the, since the all serve break, I think they have like three of the top five three point scores in the NBA right now. Brandon

5:14Miller, LeMellon, Khan, all three of the top five. So they're just bombing away from three right now. So definitely think that with the way that Miami plays defense where they are susceptible to giving up threes, it's a pretty good matchup for the Charlotte guys. But these are two of the better defenses in the East over the last two weeks. Miami is fourth. Charlotte is eighth. The schedule has been very favorable for Miami. So I would take that with a little bit of a grain of salt. But yeah, Charlotte definitely has a clear path of winning this game tonight. But with BAM out, going to be a lot of value that opens up on the Miami side. Call out, where's the first guy I'm looking to. I think that he's a really, really strong option. Even in the tougher matchup where, uh, Moose of the Abaud Tamer, I caught right in two of the better rebounders in the NBA. So the, they might be tough for him to get like a double double. But we know that where's been really good from permanent basis, especially in the games that BAM has missed the season. He's averaging just over 30 minutes for games. So he's had, he has earned the trust of Eric Spulscher in the games that BAM has missed. I'm averaging just under 37 DK points

6:14per game. So I'm totally fine with him at chalk. I think he's pretty solid. But the only downside is that Nikola Yovic is back tonight. And he's kind of been the guy that could eat into the minutes of where if he's not playing well. But I think that they'll definitely need his size and rebounding against the bigger front court, like the Abaud Tamer, or some really good with where. And then there's like a trio of guys that are priced fairly close together between hero Norm and Hawkez. We saw hero have a massive game against Charlotte the last time these teams faced. And we were all over him. He had, uh, was like 60 DK points for a rebound and an assist shy of the double double. But was a guy that you needed that night. And I have the same thoughts about him here that I did then as good as Charlotte has been defensively. It's not really because they have the best lockdown defenders on ball. They just have a really good team defense. I don't think anybody's really considering Lamello, Bridges, Miller, or Khan, lockdown defenders. That was the same reason I liked hero. And now with Bam how they might be able to run a little bit more of the pick and roll

7:14that they've kind of gone away from this season. So I think heroes in a really good spot here again. There's even a chance that they start him and power alongside of each other here, uh, because Norm did return over the weekend and was full in his return by 31 minutes since his first game off the bench. I think that they're going to be really leaning on these two for offense tonight. We don't have any data game wise for hero this season without Bam. He hasn't played a game without Bam this season. But last year he had some pretty good numbers. 60 DK points twice without Bam in three games. I had a 34 and a half percent usage rate. So really good numbers for, for Tyler here. So I'm good with two of those guys. Uh, then Hawke has not really getting a ton of ownership currently. But that could definitely change as we get closer to the lock. But I think that he's in a pretty good spot here as well. Um, could be a guy that uses like a pivot off some of these other forwards that are getting ownership like Josh Hart and Norm Powell is probably going to be getting more ownership as well. But he's been great without Bam this season averaging 37 and half DK points per game. So really good numbers for him. I'm very interested in all four

8:15of those guys that I mentioned. And I think after that, it's kind of a drop off. You could sprinkle in like Pelé Larson and probably don't need Dave on tonight. I think Pelé is in play for sure, just because they'll need his, uh, his own ball defense against the Hornets side. Four Hornets. It's basically the top four guys, Lamello, Brandon Miller, Conn and Bridges. Um, have interest in all three of them. Definitely think that Miller is a guy to be looking to go right back to. He had a huge game against the heat last time out. 53.25 DK points. Uh, Conn's been shooting great lately. And he went for six, six for 10 for three point range in that game. So I think that he's totally fine here as well. So it was somewhat had Lamello's number, um, been doing a really good job limiting him. I think that his matchup is pretty tough against Dave on, but it was encouraging to see that he played 33 minutes. The last time these teams face off, and it's a really big game. So I think that we could get four minutes from O'Mello, which definitely puts him into play. And then Bridges, probably the guy that have the least favorite or the least interest in, but he has played a little bit better as a play, but was really, really bad in that

9:17first match of a couple, like a week or two ago. Um, and then Kobe White got the 26 minutes last game, think that he's in play, but his minutes are pretty tied to, uh, Lamello balls. So I would max one those two guys if you're even considering Kobe White at all, but it is a good matchup for him. He's the exact type of guy that could be the Miami Heat defense. Yeah, excellent breakdown there. What I know, we always like to pick on Miami Heat guarding three pointer. How are they doing? I'm going to say they're better the last two weeks, but they still go up a ton of three balls. If so, I might have some, uh, Conn, you know, three pointers in my life. It hasn't been as much this season, but, uh, they are still giving it up. Okay. Yeah, it's about 11th over the last two weeks. Yes, that's too bad. Excellent stuff there. Forgot to mention, it's a St. Patrick's Day Rio. I think that's a green shirt you got on. If I'm not mistaken, looks kind of green. But, uh, yeah, it was actually, I was, I didn't even realize it was green when I put it on just

10:18kind of tossed it on, but yeah, any big plans for St. Olsay Patty's Day from my guy, Rio? No, I'm definitely going to be doing some green beers. Uh, out of the once the slate locks up at five, go watch the, uh, the WBC finals and hope that USA gets a dub. Any place for you? Yeah. No. Uh, yeah. That game on Sunday night was awesome. Uh, I just put the mannequin there. That was electric. And tonight's going to be the same with my boy Ronald Kooten on the other side. So I can't wait to watch that game. Can't wait to watch these six games. Let's go to the next game. We got the thunder. I think on an eight game win streak, if I'm not mistaken, going in to, uh, into Orlando to take on the magic SGA has been hoping, uh, Chad Holmer has been hoping my boy, Jared McCann has just been ballin when he gets in there as well. Um, this Thunder team is so deep, even without, um, uh, I don't know, Jalen Williams, the other Jalen Williams, one of the Jalen Williams, he's out tonight. Talk to me a little bit about this game. You got the Thunder, almost 10 point favorites

11:19taken on this magic team. Yeah, I don't like this game. A lot, uh, magic are on the back to back and their coach even said they had some tired legs. So that's why the minutes got a little bit managed. I just don't really think that Orlando can do enough offensively to keep this game close enough where we get it where we get big games from either side of this one. So I'll definitely be underweight the game as a whole. Um, I just say that okay, C has all the edges here on both sides of the ball. They are the best room defense in the NBA or Orlando's a team that basically doesn't have a ton of three point shootings that they have to get to the rim. Um, and I just don't think that they'll have that, uh, just that they won't have the path tonight. So I'm pretty fine getting away from their Orlando guys. Like you could always make a case for guys like Paulo just because he can get there without scoring Bane. I don't know the price is getting up there, but he's the type of guy that could beat them. You need three point three point shooting against the thunder. So I guess that would technically be him. Same thing for like Tristan to Silva. He's been playing a lot of minutes lately, but I'm really not like a true believer in him as a fantasy option. So Orlando's probably

12:22gonna be a Max Ward for me tonight. Okay, C. Finding great candidates to hire can be like, well, trying to find a needle in a haystack. Sure, you can post your job to some job board, but then all you can do is hope the right person comes along, which is why you should try zippercrooter for free at zippercrooter.com slash zip. Zippercrooter doesn't depend on candidates finding you. It finds them for you. It's powerful technology identifies people with the right experience and actively invites them to apply to your job. You get qualified candidates fast. So while other companies might deliver a lot of, hey, zippercrooter, find you what you're looking for. The needle in the haystack. See why four out of five employers who post a job on zippercrooter get a quality candidate within the first day. Zippercrooter, the smartest way to hire, and right now you can try zippercrooter for free. That's right. Free at zippercrooter.com slash zip. That zippercrooter.com slash zip zippercrooter.com slash zip. Finding great candidates to hire can

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14:27And those two guys do have the best matchups. I'm not really high on shades tonight. It's not because I think that the matchups difficult. Obviously, Jay and Sucks is a good defender, but just Orlando doesn't really send a ton of help. So they have pretty poor pick and roll numbers. I don't think Shay could get it going there. But I think that Shay is just better in big gaming environments like you saw in San Antonio and in Boston. He had huge games or Denver. He's had some really big games against us because those are true contending teams. I just don't think that he's going to really be getting up for a game like Orlando. So I do think that AJ Mitchell is a pretty solid option at 5k. And there's a lot of guards are getting some ownership tonight in that similar range. And I think that he's just really good and has been getting the start. I think he started two games in a row now. And their head coach basically said they just want to get him more minutes because he's been out for so long. Kind of get him get his his feedback under after missing so many games. But I mean, he's a really solid permanent producer. 1.1 face. He points for

15:27minute to season. Should be playing around 27 to 30 minutes and a pretty good matchup. Well, he'll be avoiding Jayland Sucks. I think that AJ is a pretty solid option here. But yeah, probably a max one on both sides of this game. I think that's a pretty poor fantasy game. Yeah, excellent stuff there. Yeah, they feel like the magic always just slow it down. And when they're playing these games in in pair Bay, yeah, that was a bad way to end the game. 100% certain. Another baseball question, Rio, enter out on the ABS once the regular season starts. I don't know. I think it's a slippery slope because the more you start to rely on like robots and technology for calls, they kind of waters down the game. So I think there needs to be a little bit of a human interference. But yeah, I don't know. I do like it because some of the calls from these zones are just egregious. Some of them are so bad. I'm all for ABS. We'll see we'll see how it does during the regular season. Good stuff. Four games left. You haven't done so already. Hit that

16:31like, hit that subscribe. We got the next game up on the slate. We got the pistons and they got some guys going in for 83 themselves, taking on this wizard's team. Hopefully they're not falling late in the fourth quarter, but pistons at the wizards. We've been picking on the wizards all season long with big men, any big man that you like tonight. There's a ton of people out. Trey is going to be out tonight. Sarr has been out for quite some time. Anthony Davis. I don't think he's played in three years is out and Keeshaan George is out all for Washington. It's also been a little bit about this game. You got a bunch of dudes missing for Washington and the pistons should take care of business tonight. Yeah, I'm hoping that the wizards are on a west coast roacher pretty soon. So we'd stop playing them on the main site because it's just been difficult to break down what they're going to do. They're starting to do their best Memphis Grizzlies of Personation playing guys like mid 20s up or 20 minutes every night, which just makes it tough because they are a team that looks decent for value. But I'm always going to be on the

17:31other side of it because I don't think these guys are very good that they're going to be shrouded out there. You see guys like Will Riley getting ownership like Bob. I think like there's like two guys on this roster that I think are true NBA players and that's like Bob and actually there's three like Bob Trey Johnson and Champagne. I think are guys that can definitely compete on teams. But those guys are going to play. You're the Will Riley. Oh, I don't who said that. I thought one time in chat you said you love Will Riley or he like went off for 25, one night you said something about him. I don't know if I've ever said I love Will Riley. I mean, I've played him before. I've definitely played him like you've had to you've had to play him a few times a season thing that this is probably one of those spots where he's got to be in play just because they are thinner than usual. And he's probably the only guy that's going to be playing 30 plus minutes. I think that he's going to close and blow out. You might need like 36 or 38 minutes for him to really pay off this tag, which he I guess he can do. But I think there's a very clear path to get away from him because it is Detroit and they're 20.100

18:36dogs. So they might even like this could be as far as they don't even break 100. But for Detroit, I am I do prefer Cade over Shay if we're getting it to that same range for point guard. I just don't like it with cool ballie. I don't know who they're going to put on him. I could see Cade putting up a huge set line in three quarters, three to half quarters if the game's close enough. I just think he's a better option than Shay tonight. Much better team told us well. So I'm pretty I'm pretty fine with Cade. I don't think that I really need to go to him because the game is going to be a huge blow out. But if you're landing in like the 3 point or 11.3 K for point guard, I would cite with Cade here. But I think Durin is really good, 8.3 K. You know, Isaiah Stewart to the minute floor should raise a little bit. But I mean, we just seen what these centers continue to do against this Washington front court. So I think that Durin is a very, very solid option here at 8.3 K. Do agree with Sean. I think I thought I was sneaky, but he just returned from the equinjury like one game ago,

19:38point 24 minutes. I don't really think that I want to spend up nearly 6 K for a guy, likely on some sort of minutes restriction. He did fill the stat sheet the last time they seemed face off. He had six stocks, felt one rebound shy of a double double. So clear upside for him. But yeah, I just don't I don't know. I think that he's going to be needed here. The Paul Reed should get the backup center minutes. There's no guarantee that he's playing the blowout tonight because they do have Tolo Smith, who is like the fourth string center when they're fully healthy. But he'll probably be out there and blow out if the game is it's like a 30 point game going into the fourth. It'll be Tolo Smith and probably not Paul Reed. So I don't I don't know. Like I do want to play some Paul Reed tonight because he could be great from a permanent basis. He's averaging around 19 minutes per game without Isaiah Stewart this season. A couple of those came when he was actually starting for Stewart and Durin. But I mean, the very like the worst he could do is get two rotations and then maybe put up like five Xs score. But yeah, I don't know. I think that I just like they're in too much here to go down there. But I don't know. Gross game overall. I think you got to consider some of these wizards guys.

20:43But I'm going to be pretty I'm going to limit how much I play like it's probably going to be a max two of these guys for me. Yeah, what kind of star Thompson make any shot outside of a darker layup? Uh, like a floater maybe. Free throws if he gets like 10 times the line, he can make like six of them. I think his over under on number of three. He's made this year's like one and a half. And I'm taking the under on that guy. Yeah, I love Dern as well. 80, 80, 382 on Fandall. You don't see many 19 and a half point spreads Rio in the in the NBA. So tough scene for the Wizards fans out there. Are they going to cover it? Um, I mean, you literally you got Angel Reese Jr. out there. Gosh, that's that's that team's horrible. Kendall Gill. Man, that team's pretty brutal. I'm taking the pistons to cover that 20. What do you think? That's a huge number. But yeah, I can

21:44definitely see it happening. But I wasn't OK. See a 20 point favorite pretty recently. I don't think that they haven't covered. Oh, against, uh, they don't remember who it was against. They were, I think I think you were Matt were talking about this. They were like 17 and a half versus the Hornets earlier in the season and lost. Yeah, that was like kind of when the Hornets really turned around their season. Yeah. So who you got? You taking the, you taking the points? You, you taking, taking, taking, taking Detroit. I probably take the points. Can't pass up plus 20. My boy knows Kendall Gill. Do you remember Kendall Gill Rio? Was that before your time? Where did he play? He played at Illinois, the fighting Alanae and the Charlotte Hornets. Yeah, it might have been a little bit past my time. He'd probably play with, um, Larry Johnson, grandma, ma. I think you went to Illinois. Someone fact checked me on that. But yeah, I think you went to Illinois. All right. Anyway, next time up on the slate.

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24:49Indiana Pacers, I mentioned earlier, no one's playing for them. They're all questionable. Pascal Siacum, probably not going to play on this one as well. He got another big spread, another team tankin, 14 and a half. Talk to me about this game, Rio. Anybody on the Pacers, any, any, uh, cheapies that you like over there? And then what about the Knicks and Alvarado, Colac and the rest of the cheap guards for them? I mean, the Pacers are a joke, honestly. Like, they have four guys that are not listed on their injury report. They have what 17 Q tags and one doubtful tag, a couple out tags. Like it's just, I don't think that I can even talk about things. I don't know who's going to be in or out. I would, I get kind of a, I don't know, shoe and answer early. Say a bad answer to say that just got away for projections. But I just don't really know who's going to even be playing tonight. So it's going to be difficult for me to even give any sort of take. I would say if Cam Jones is starting a point guard, he'd be pretty good, just because he's capable of playing a ton of minutes. But yeah, I don't really have anything to say about the Pacers right now. I'm just going to be waiting to see who's in, who's out. How's that even legal to like put 17 dudes on the injury report?

25:53I don't know. I mean, they got fined once, but it clearly wasn't enough. But yeah, that's, it's crazy. How much they have? One, two, three. I'll give it 12. And then if you count the out tags, it's 15 that are either questionable, doubtful or out. That's pathetic. All right. So nobody on the Pacers, that we're going to talk about just because we don't know who's suiting up. And what about the next one? No, Jalen Brunson? Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, so no Brunson. Obviously, we're going to get somebody starting. It should be Jose Alvarado, but I want to be surprised if it's somebody else. But I mean, if it is Alvarado, I just don't see how he's not the best play overall on the entire slate. I mean, he's a good permanent producer. The matchup will be really good. 3.2K. Like, I really have nothing negative save about him. I'd be like definitely locking him from playing single entry contest satellites, whatever. And then he's got to be, and probably 80 to 90% of your 150 max, I would say. I just don't see how he doesn't wind up off more if he's starting in this matchup. So I'm totally fine

26:57there. But yet, Kat, I mean, he's going to be pretty good. And Mitch Robinson is questionable as well. I think that they'll probably give him the night off. Don't know who they're playing upcoming this week. But I think that they're off until like Friday. So they can really play their guys full minutes here if they wanted to. If the game is like semi closed, then they're going to be playing his guys full minutes. Be a cat. I mean, he's been really good as a permanent producer in the non-Brunson non-Mitch Rob minutes 1.4 face points from him. I think he's averaging 48 is drafting the points without Brunson this season. He's been like the low is like 45 DK points. So at the very, very worse, you're getting a really solid floor. But you are getting access to a really high ceiling. So I think Kat is a great option here versus a team like the Pacers that just struggle to defend the interior. You're struggling to rebound. There's just a lot working in his favor. After those two guys, it does get a little bit trickier. But I do think that like heart OG bridges and even Jordan Clarkson made to a lesser degree. Lange Shaman are in play here. Hard is the guy that I could see taking off the high end upside of Josef Rado because he is

28:01capable of ball handling and like pretty much every game that he's played without Brunson this season. He's been closer to triple doubles, averaging 10.8 points, 9 assists, 9.3 rebounds in 4 games without Brunson this season. So obviously a very strong option here at this current price tag. OG won off against the Pacers. They do always struggle against wings. And I think with Michail playing so poorly, it's kind of shifted a little bit of usage and offensive workload to OG's direction. Yeah, like Michail, I don't know. He's just not playing great right now. Maybe this tired legs. I don't know. Maybe he's doing some sort of injury, but just down really bad right now. If there was ever a spot for him to bounce back, I think it would be this one, but still he's kind of losing minutes of Shaman in Clarkson at time. So I don't feel super confident there. I want to be crazy about Jordan Clarkson. If he does become chalky, but he's obviously an option. There's only 3.5 K shooting guard, small four eligibility. Pretty easy to get to him. He'd be one of the guys that could he into Michail Bridges.

29:02And I think Tyler Collick, you know, dark throw. Maybe he plays more, probably get the back of guard minutes. And then definitely would be out there and blow out what she could just rock up a ton of stats. I think that he's for sure in play as well. Yeah, excellent stuff there. Those, those nicks are tricky with all those cheap guards. Alvarado looks good. We got it. This isn't this may be a first for me, Rio. We got a guy asking or woman, would you buy any AJ Mitchell rookie cards? I don't know if I am legally allowed to give advice on trading cards, because I know nothing about it. But I do like AJ Mitchell. I just don't really know if like what the true ceiling is for him. If it's not winning the six men of the year this year. Yeah, they just have so many, so many guys that are going to be coming up. Like I don't necessarily know. I do like AJ Mitchell a lot. They's really, really solid player.

30:02Yeah, we got name no one cares about. He's tuning in a lot. He hears you talking about AJ Mitchell and Will Rally all the time. So appreciate you tuning in. I'm going to have people out here buying a wheel right here if you call it soon. Combo pack. Will Rally AJ Mitchell Combo pack guy. Now we know what new ends is tuned in. It is that time of the show where we talk about his Milwaukee Bucks and the honest, the Greek freak. Take it on the Cavaliers. Ryan Rollins is questionable. No Jared Allen's night. My favorite player in the National Basketball Association. Keon Ellis is in this contest. Powerful or eligible Keon Ellis, if you will. Talk to me a little bit about this game. You got Matt's Cleveland Cavaliers taken on Jordan's Milwaukee Bucks. You got to be the only person in the world who has Keon Ellis as their favorite NBA player. That's true. That's not true. He's my least favorite player.

31:05I think it's the worst in the honest. Different kind of hate, but yes. The honest is a really good tight end though. I'll tell you what. He'd be amazing on the phone. I don't really know what the Bucks are doing. Even listening to the honest's questionable. He got banged up last game. They are eliminated from the playoffs basically. I think they have probably less than 1% chance to make the playoffs now. I would just shut him down for us this season. There's no point in playing him, honestly. I'm expecting him to miss tonight. The Rollins midday downgrade with an illness tag is never a good thing. They're probably going to be missing guys here. I think if we're getting multiple of these Q-tags out, then we can start to talk about Bobby Portis and Calcuzma KBJ a little bit. I think it would probably come more into play at 7.8K. As it stands right now, it's just a max-1. I just don't think they're going to be able to keep this game closed. I have to feel like the Cavs have all the ways to win here. Milwaukee's

32:07bottom four defense over the last two weeks. Cleveland's top three in offense. The Bucks are the second largest three-point funnel this season. Cleveland is top three in three-point frequency over the last two weeks. There's just a lot of ways that the Cavs could really run up the score here and kind of put this one out of reach really quickly. I do think that the Cavs guys aren't play down to Mitchell James Harden. Two guys that are dominating most of the usage for Cleveland. They were shifting a little bit more in Harden's favor just because they are running more of like a pick and roll center offense around him. But despite a bounce back last game, he still had really good usage in the games with James Harden this season. I'm fine with him. I think that he'll be really good on a permanent basis. I think Harden will too. We've seen the Bucks give up really big games to lead guards over the course of the season. So I think both guys are firmly in play here. The only downside is that there's a lot of blowout risk here. And I do think that the game does have a big likelihood of blowing out. I'm not super into Mobley here at 8.8K. I get it. He's I guess he's cheap enough with no Jared Allen, powerful and eligible. So they'll

33:11probably fit into some builds. But I don't really see the tournament winning upside for him when you got to share usage with guys like Mitchell and James Harden. But if you honest were to miss, then it would get a little bit better for him as a matchup. And then I don't think that anybody else is really in play. But think your boy Max Truz could be a guy that you ladder up some some three point props on. He looked great in his first game back. Six for seven from deep. We got to do something about the hairline. But he looked really good in that game. And definitely he's a me and Matt talk about it a lot. Just his contributions to the team come play off time. I think it'll be really big. So I'm a big fan of them getting him back. But I think that there are some I don't really know what his lines are. But if you get like one and a half or two and a half, it's pretty solid number for Truz. Don't be hating on a man's hairline man. Come on now. We got we got some bad hairlines over here as well. So I'm a boy. I'm a boy. Mad Max. What about and you might have you might have mentioned it, but KPJ and you love for KPJ at seven eight. Yeah, I missed it if you if you did.

34:15Like if these guys are in probably not, but if you're honest, I think it's going to be I just don't know if they're going to really be needing or needing to or wanting to play him a ton right now. But yeah, I mean, he's going to have all the usage in the world. And it's not a really not a terrible matchup. So I'd have a little bit of interest in him. I thought I had one more question for you. Now, but we'll move on. Someone's Bobby Portis got mentioned as the only Bucks player are a resident Milwaukee and Michael. Any any love for for Portis as the only but yeah, I mean, he can only get better if you honest and turn a word of mis probably going to have to start in that instance. And we know what the type of upside that he has. So yeah, for sure. Yeah, all right. One game left. If you haven't done so already, hit that like, hit that subscribe button. I know what I was going to ask. Different positions, but assuming the honest does play. Yannis versus SGA versus Kade. Who's your favorite top spin-up tonight amongst those three?

35:19Yeah, it would still be Kade. And then I would have SGA ahead of Yannis. Yeah, just don't I just don't really imagine. He's playing. Yeah, probably, but I don't know how much I'd actually like realistically end up getting. I just don't I just don't see it right now. Like there's no reason to be playing him anything close to normal minutes. So I just don't see it. Got it. All right. Awesome stuff. One game left on the main slate. The stunts taken on the antless timber wolves. My boy, AO is going to be playing. Should be warning. The following Zippercruder radio spot you're about to hear is going to be filled with F words. When you're hiring, we at Zippercruder know you can feel frustrated for Lauren even. Like your efforts are futile and you can spend a fortune trying to find fabulous people only to get flooded with candidates who are just fine. Fortunately, Zippercruder figured out how to fix all that. And right now, you can try Zippercruder for free at zippercruder.com slash zip with Zippercruder. You can forget your frustrations

36:23because we find the right people for your roles fast, which is our absolute favorite F word. In fact, four out of five employers who post on Zippercruder get a quality candidate within the first day. Fantastic. So whether you need to hire four 40 or 400 people, get ready to meet first straight talent. Just go to zippercruder.com slash zip to try Zippercruder for free. Don't forget that's zippercruder.com slash zip. Finally, that zippercruder.com slash zip. The sun shining birds are singing and all feels right in the world. Until the season changes and suddenly you lose your motivation to get out of bed. In fact, one in five people experience some form of depression no matter the season or time of year. At the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, our vision is to build a mentally healthy nation for all because we want you to live your best life and be your best you all year round. Please visit mentallyhealthynation.org to learn more. Talk to me a little bit about this game.

37:25Phoenix Suns without my god Dylan Brooks taking on Minnesota low total 200 and 21 and a half point total. Now the T-Wall generally are good at defense. I talked to me a little bit about this one. Yeah, that's what I would think too, but looking at the numbers, they've been all over the place this season and they've been exceptionally bad over the last two weeks. They're bottom five in in the NBA and defense, given a more rim score than usual, turning the ball over a ton. Yeah, but I mean, this game has a ton of playoff implications here. The suns, I believe, are two games back on the on the wolves right now. And there's a real shot that they could definitely surpass them because ants can be out for one to two weeks now that they said with the knee injury. And I think they have a pretty tough schedule coming up as well. So there's the wolves are kind of down bad right now. It's not they're guys that they need to play well or not playing well. Jayden McDaniel's gun ice cold. Dois Randall was playing terrible before doing better against O.K.C. But yeah, I think that this game, even with the low total considered, is probably the best

38:32game like this one. And I would say the Miami and Charlotte water two ones that I could see myself getting to like four guys in the game in total just because I think the minutes are going to be really, really tight for both sides. The suns are more capable of spreading it out a little bit and they aren't back to back with their guys playing pretty big minutes last night. But I think that they would really, really want to get the win here on the road. I think that they can win it. I think that they're there's some value in the the money line streets for them betting. It would be good for them. That's out already. We're giving bets out already with the sun's money line. I would say I like that number tonight. Yeah. Yeah, so the injuries on both sides definitely will condense minutes and we kind of know that the wolves are already a team that runs a really tight rotation because their deep bench unit is not really trusted. But moving and like it's going to condense a usage on guys and then the suns still without Dylan Brooks and Mark Williams will also likely be without Grayson Alan he's doubtful. Then Haywood Highsmith is questionable as well. So two guys that we're playing

39:36decently big minutes for them will now be out tonight. And the guy I think that the guards are in a really good spot here for the suns. The wolves are dead last and pick and roll defensive season. Booker is top nine and pick a roll scoring. Jalen Green is not too far behind him. Both of those guys have been playing great as of late. Booker has been playing really really good though. 34 points for Game Over's last five on 63% true shooting. I think we're starting to see the booker that we've kind of been used to seeing over the last few seasons and having a guy that Jalen Green out there as much usage as he takes away. I think it could open things up a little bit more for him. You said another lethal score. I think it's really good for him. So I like both those guys a ton here. If I don't get Booker, I want Jalen Green and vice versa. I think that one of these guys will be will be heard from tonight. So I'm really high on them. And I even think Kong Lesby is a guy that should be considered as well. The minute should be strong for him. Probably going to be overlooked with all like the strength of the mid to your options. And he's actually been been a pretty solid permit producer as well this year with the current injury situation for Phoenix. I think that he's

40:38for sure in play. But I think that's probably it. I don't think I need to go into into the rest of the rotational guys like also not really an option. I think Royce could be in a player pool. But that's probably it may be good one too. So they might need some more defense. But I'm just really really high on Booker Jalen Green and Gillespie here. And then the Wolfside a lot to like here. Obviously I owe getting the start likely for Ant is going to be a pretty easy click at 4.7K with that shooting guard small for eligibility. Good positionality for him. So I think that he's probably the second best value plan on this slate tonight. Maybe third behind where I think that Jose Alvarado where and I are three of the best value place tonight. And then Randall at 7.7K. Good price. I for him. Don't really worry too much about the match up, especially no Brooks out there. The rim defense has been a little bit worse for the sons with with no Mark Williams and no Dylan Brooks. I think that he's in a pretty good spot here. Averaging 45 and a half DK points for game without Ant the season should be should be able to hit that threshold here. And I think

41:38that 7.7K really cheap price. I for him. Not as high on go bear is something that his role will change as much. And he's not a super cheap value play, but definitely in play. I think that I'd want to get to not as but I'm a little bit concerned about the shoulder injury. They said it's really affected him shooting the ball, which we've seen kind of the efficiency go down a little bit. But he's generally a guy that is the one you want to look to when Ant does miss games. I'm really enticed about the price tag for him at 5.5K. But if the ownership gets really high, which it likely will, then there might be a little bit of a little bit of merit of fading him, maybe for go bear. And then Dante, Jamie McDaniels, Bones, Kyle Anderson, all guys that do make the player pool. Dante's been great without Ant the season, but 5.7K, a little bit more expensive. Jamie Daniels, they just need more out of 5.3K is really cheap for him, but he's probably coming off of his worst stretch of basketball over the last week or so. I just can't put together a strong game,

42:39been found a ton. Yeah, I want to go back to him because I think that this would be a spot where they really need his defense. We might see like 38 minutes out of him. So I do have interest in him in that sense, but a little bit worried from what we see him from as of late. Yeah, real quick, going back to the suns. I like the Gillespie call. Do you like him more? Like does it matter if if let's say Grayson gets ruled out? Like would you bump him up or that doesn't that doesn't really matter? And like if if high Smith and Grayson are out, does that give Gillespie more minutes? I mean, I'm already expecting Grayson now because he's doubtful, but yeah, it would it would bump up his minutes a little bit. Booker had 50 DK points last night. Jalen Green had 50 and back to back games. The two games prior to that. So the suns are on cylinders. That'll do it. That's all six games. We appreciate all 350. Have you tuned it in? My cat got more airtime than me did today. I don't know what he was up to. But Rio, we come to my favorite part of the show.

43:41You've been 23 and oh, this year in the bets given out on this stream or something like that. Can we make it 24 in a row? And you can't give out a sun's money line bet. That's not the official bet, but give me your give me your best bet of the night. I just spewing propaganda all all show tonight. I didn't look at it. It's close to 23 now. It's something in a little a little bit. I'll promise you that. Have you been tracking it? No, we got to get those numbers again. Oh, speaking of tracking, speaking of tracking, can those can those Utah jazz give me one more W. Mr. Mr. Hebrew Cheetah did call over 20 and a half wins for his Utah jazz and they're sitting on 20. So I need one more win, Rio. Give me one more win for the good guys. I think it's possible. We play the Wizards next Wednesday, six years. The official unofficial tracker, 1941. That's what I'm going with.

44:47That's pretty pretty good. I could start a patreon with those numbers. That's not subscribed. You'd have at least one subscriber. I appreciate that. Yeah, I don't know. It'd have to be something with like always like three point lines games against Miami or it seems against Miami. So it would have to be whichever one of like Lamello, Khan, Bridges or Miller have the best. We can't be on the fence, man. You got to give us one. You got to give us one. Do you have Khan's numbers in front of you right now? Give me seven seconds and I'll pull them up. All right, because that's usually like looking at his, but if it's like four and a half or probably four and a half, we're probably three and a half to be pretty high. And if that's the case, then you got to be probably looking to like Max Drew's or Sam Marles. They're all three and a half Miller, ball and Kinepple, Kinepple, whatever. But yeah, they're all three and a half.

45:47Lamello has the worst odds at minus 140. Brandon Miller's plus 136. All right, then let's go. Let's go with Brandon Miller over. You said it's over three and a half, three and a half plus 136. Oh, no, I take that back. I don't like that. Let's do, you know, look at Struse. Yes, let's see what Struse says. I'm gonna say one and a half. Let's see. Not listed. He's so terrible, not even listed. If you can get number on Struse, wherever you're placing your bets, I would do that. But let's go with Colin then. All right, so if you can get a number on Struse, we're taking over on Struse. If not, we're going, Colin. Yeah, Colin over three and a half to go 24 and one on the season. All right, one more question in four weeks in Indianapolis on Monday night. Who's going to be cutting down the nets? I'm definitely the wrong person to ask. I don't I don't pay much attention

46:49to college basketball. You're not part of the madness. No, not really. Not unfortunately. I don't I don't even know like seating. I'm paying attention to the prospects coming in, but not the teams as much. Yeah, Duke looks good. Wisconsin does not look good, but I do like your enthusiasm, Michael. He's asking me who's the better play, Alvarado or AJ Mitchell. I'm taking AJ Mitchell. Oh, no, I mean, I don't know if there's, I don't know like the question like, what do you mean better play isn't like who's going to get more points is the way I assume that I'm taking Mitchell, even with Alvarado starting. I mean, I understand there's a price differential between the two, but I'm taking I'm taking a guy that I can actually shoot the basketball in that AJ Mitchell. All right, no, I don't want to go against Hebrew, but so you think Alvarado outscores AJ Mitchell. Yeah. All right. Let's see what the projections are. Not that that means everything. 22 versus it's likely not updated yet. Yeah.

47:57All right. Well, I'm going AJ. Hopefully, hopefully I can rub it in in Rio's face after he goes 24 and one. So any final remarks before we get out of here? No, not really. Appreciate everybody tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow with the other Matt, Matt Embellman, who nobody in our discord knows his name, but yeah. The other Matt is back. He'll be back tomorrow. Appreciate all of you tuning in. We certainly appreciate we bring his show each and every day. That's our four plus games Monday through Friday. Hit that like, hit that subscribe button. It helps us out of time for my guy, Hebrew Cheetah. I'm ham. We're going to get out of here in one second. Yeah, we're out of here. Just ship it.

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