FanDuel NBA Core Plays: Friday, December 1st

Andy Means will be bringing Premium subscribers his top cash game plays and tournament pivots to build around. A former Duke basketball walk-on and now top-ranked DFS player, Andy will take an in-depth look into each of his core plays, and then blend it all together from a roster construction perspective. On weekends, the preseason maestro you all know and love, Allan Lem, takes the reigns.

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Friday, December 1st

THE CORE

1) Andre Drummond, C, Detroit Pistons – $8,800

Due to the huge blowout win against the Suns on Wednesday, Drummond’s minutes and fantasy production were down. That is good news for us tonight because it has resulted in a $600 decrease on FanDuel. That makes him a tad too cheap in my opinion and the rare instance where I want to immediately lock in a center in my cash game lineup.

After that blowout risk came to fruition on Wednesday, it doesn’t appear we need to worry about that tonight with Detroit only -1.5 on the road against the Wizards. Considering Drummond has been around 1.3 FanDuel points per minute this season, each additional minute is a big deal. He is averaging 33 minutes on the season, and we have seen him get up to the high 30’s on multiple occasions in tight games.


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Andy Means (meansy53)

Andy Means (aka meansy53) was a walk-on with the esteemed Duke University basketball team for 3 years before graduating in 2004. He also has a Master’s in Accounting from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and has been playing DFS since 2014 (qualifying for multiple Live Finals). In the summer of 2022, Andy took over the role of Premium Content Director for the RotoGrinders Network, overseeing the vast array of content that is created on RotoGrinders, ScoresAndOdds, and FantasyLabs. Follow Andy on X – @ameansy
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