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Is Stuckey a decent value for 3900 at Portland? He had his minutes increased to 25-30 with PG and Miles out. Put up 21 and 31 fppg in his last two.

Thinking about him or Troy Williams.

Bledsoe, Lavine also high on my projections. For whatever reason my projections have Beal just ahead of Tyler Johnson so I will probably steer clear of him tonight.

I’ve been thinking about that… And I think the answer is fluid. It’s slate dependent. With 10 games, a ton of great match ups, and potential value all over the place, this is a good slate to fade, IMO. It also depends on the site… For example, on Yahoo, his price went up from 56 to 57. He’s a must play still. On DK, he’s an insta fade for me. I can’t make a decent roster with him.

Then again, what do I know?

Agreed

Dom Twam also had Crawford as his highest guard in his model last night and he didn’t do anything. I think he gives us useless info.

Troy Williams and I also like Baldwin IV with second unit at min price on DK

Couple of questions….

1). Can anyone tell me about Ed Davis and Portland? The last time they played IND, Davis scored 30 plus. Were there any special circumstances or conditions?

2). What’s going on with Ricky Rubio min? His gamelogs vs. NYK were amazing last season. But he’s not getting 35 min anymore for some reason… Anyone know what’s happening up in Minnesota?

Highest in his model doesn’t mean he’s garunteed to do good. That game was supposed to be a blowout and it went to double ot. Dom gives us good educated into rather than your useless shit taking up this space.

I don’t agree or disagree with that. I’m just saying NBA is very volatile and unless you max entry you will always have bad picks that were in great spots. I don’t see him giving totally useless info. Just take it for whatever you feel might help your thought process.

T-Wolves fan here so I watch all of their games. The wolves really struggle to get guys to score points outside of Lavine, Wiggins, and Towns. They have been going to Tyus Jones at the end of games because he has been playing well and adds a lot to the offense. I don’t think Thibs is going about this the right way, but that is what’s happening.

Tyus really needs to come off the bench for about 8-10 minutes in the first half and second half as well. Play him alongside Dunn if you are really concerned about developing Dunn at this point, but we need Tyus’s offense off the bench.

Evan Turner is someone that keeps getting into more of my lineups.

Who do you guys like at FD SG for 5k or under? I feel like there’s some good options , Lou, KCP, Josh Richardson – but can’t decide on one

Crawford was a good play that just didn’t pan out – it’s the risk you take with those lower priced guys. Played 35 minutes against a weak team and took 15 shot (3rd most on the team behind Reddick and CP3), they just weren’t falling for him last night…

I mentioned it earlier but I think this group of players will struggle with Thibs and the control freak he is .

Who are the value plays today?

I like tony Allen a lot because of injuries, secondary I would say Rodney stucky. He’s getting close to 30 mins and has potential to go off especially without George and miles

15k

Beal is a situation where I’m looking at his trend and expecting his performance to exceed projections. He’s hit 45+ YFP in 4 of his last 5. Hard to ignore that upside despite the matchup.

I can never get him right :(

+1 and the fact he has hit on a bunch of random names too. Holmes the other day just to name one. Usually random ass names no one is looking at. The models are not some magic DFS atm machines. They point you in a direction. As the human, you need to understand that once that BK/LA game was kept close, the model becomes irrelevant. If your theory was blowout, then Crawford and Speights would have thrived according to models. Simple as that.

Thibs is going against Rose today, who he despises. Just sayin

^ Rose revenge game vs old coach narrative?

I really hope the Sixers continue to baby Embiid so Holmes stays cheap and we have an automatic PF punt available on games where Embiid sits…

Stuckey is a pretty good punt if you need one tonight IMO. Fast paced game and Blazers have given up some big games to scoring guards off the bench.

Anyone on Zach Lavine??