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Alright, we're talking Friday, we're talking streaming options.
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You should be able to fit somebody on to an active roster without benching one of your
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existing players and you should be able to do that for the rest of the week.
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So let's get that cheese, let's get that bread, let's get that dough, let's get that
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whatever, I don't know, something, something, talking about something.
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Should we look ahead?
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The games start at 7 p.m.
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And who is in that first game I hear you ask, the first game of the day is the Clippers
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at the Paces and that is at 7 p.m.
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And that is the only 7 p.m. game.
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We do have a couple of 7 30 p.m. games, the Heat at the Caves and the Hawks at the Celtics.
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Then we have a couple of 8 p.m. games, the Rockets and Grizzlies, that's 8 p.m. Easton
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of course, Rockets at Grizzlies, Bulls at Thunder, 8 30 p.m. we go Pelicans and Raptors,
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9 p.m. Jazz, Nuggets and then 7 p.m. Pacific.
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We go Dallas, Portland, Washington and Golden State and then finishing with the 7 30 p.m.
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Pacific time game, Brooklyn and the Lakers.
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If you look at these games where are the risky, rusty, tanky, blow-outy games, is the
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first one Clippers Paces or the Paces can keep it close and I do think that after this
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one we might see a little bit more from them in terms of being able to play their two
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way guys and we'll see what they do but that's after this game.
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The next one of those games it's going to be a Warrior's Rockets Grizzlies, the Rockets
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test we need to win the Grizzlies are bad so that could be a disaster game.
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The Jazz and Nuggets obviously, the Jazz are bad but look they can be frisky I think
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Denver will cook them but it's one of those ones where Utah doesn't need to sit guys
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most likely to be able to put together the loss there after and then Wizards Warriors
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but honestly the Warriors are so bad at the moment that this game might actually stay
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close which actually might be bad for the Wizards, they might have to sit guys to preserve
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the loss and the nets are going to get absolutely smashed by the Lakers so there are a few games
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with some concerns there.
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The first game is Clippers Paces, I've got Jalen Slawson listed doubtful here, this will
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be the final game that he is required to miss.
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Now I don't know whether he's doubtful or not but I think that again my thought on this
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and based on the things that they've said is that they are trying to get their two way
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guys into full eligibility status and they've done it with Peter and Thompson and I think
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they'll do it with Slawson and then they'll be able to roll the final eight games of the
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season so I don't think Jalen will play here, Jordan Miller, Mr. Laskayne for the Clippers
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I'll put him questionable, maybe Kauai pops up as well, don't know, Heat Caves, injury wise
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here, I, ooh Jalen did get upgraded, he got upgraded to questionable so that's a positive
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step, Jalen Tyson and Dean Wade are out, Max Strus is playing, okay, Max Strus is playing,
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that's interesting, oh no hang on, that's the, what, what about that, no, yeah, Strus is
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playing, okay, yeah of course it makes sense, I was getting confused because I thought that
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they were going to sit him on the back to back Strus so he could play against Miami but
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they played maybe two games at all, so he did sit the last game against Miami and he's
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back for this one, my bad, Jalen Tyson out, Dean Wade out, Jared Allen questionable,
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on Miami they dropped in a homie Huck is, questionable tag so be aware of that, not that
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he is a roster supplier at this point, Hawks and the Celtics, Jalen Brown, Maximum Derrick
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White and the Pustel, the nut that I may have skated are all questionable so I'm going
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to guess that Boston sort of targeting this game is a bit of a rest game, this is also
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we've got the situation coming up soon with Jason Tatum perhaps sitting a back-to-back
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coming up so I think that they might be getting some rest in for some of these guys and
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then we'll see they just got to obviously preserve themselves and be healthy hitting into
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the playoffs, so don't be surprised at least two of those three sit, I've got the Bucket
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Johnny Kaminga listed as probably all there, he's not on the injury port so he'll play that
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was more just a tag that I put on there, understanding that it's the first of a back-to-back and
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maybe he sits one of them and will probably be the game on Saturday, Rockets Grizzlies the
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next game, this is the first of a back-to-back for Memphis, I think that tied your own
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milk and the chicken said you're coward, go go go go go go go play and then sit on Saturday
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and I think that Jimmy Mashack and Jaylen Wells and Ryan Repair will not repair is in the
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two-way contract issue scenario so with Mashack who's also dealing with an injury and I think
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that if Jerome and Cowell played those guys a little sit here and then maybe they're available
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on Saturday would be my guess, the Rockets are pretty injury free, Bulls and Thunder we
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know that Jaylen Smith and Jayden Ivy got ruled out for the season but what we don't
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know at this point is whether BDNR is available or Anthony Simons, I just I don't want them
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to bring Simons back it's going to make things a lot more complicated but I'm sure he will.
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Richards would have low-end big-man streaming value but I sort of hope that he doesn't
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play so that gives way more opportunity for Leonard Miller, I think what'll happen is
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like Isaac Acoro will start and Miller won't start, it'll be Buzellus that moves back
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to the four but just losing a lot of Biggs does help Leonard's value and he's way higher
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upside than what old mate BDNR is, the Pelicans and the Raptors, Emmanuel quickly has been
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ruled out again with his planter fascia, I think you can drop him, I don't know when he's
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coming back but it's just too much uncertainty around it so drop him, that's okay at this
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time of the year because he might be in and out, miss games, the limited minutes, who
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knows, you have to make, sometimes you have to make tough calls on that, I don't believe
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the Dejonte Murray will play on Friday, he's sitting, he's playing Thursday I think you'd
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be out on Friday, at the moment I don't know about Kenneth Murphy III, he is still questionable
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for Thursday so I'll put him questionable here on this one.
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Next game, Jaz and Nuggets, Kionte George, we don't really expect him to come back this
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season, Bryce Sensible, rest of the last game so he should be available but I do not
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think that is our collier plays and Kyle Filipowski, touch and go whether he's available with
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his illness but it is against the Nuggets that don't really need to sit guys in order
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to guarantee a loss, Aaron Gordon sat the last game on the back to back so he should
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be available and returning, Mavericks, Trail Blazers, Dan Gafford out again, Caleb Martin
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out again, Deep Aliq's Tyler Smith is getting some rotation minutes and he is available
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whereas John Policatus is not going to play, he's been getting some minutes there too,
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with Gafford out it's more for Peter Washington to do, it's a little bit of Dwight Powell
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Streamy stuff but not all that exciting, well a bit crachy dealing with a car issue they
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just won't rule him out for multiple games and I don't really know why, Wizards and Warriors
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Steph and Hawford are going to be out here, don't know about Quentin Post and then for the Wizards,
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Trey Johnson, Alex Sarr and Tristan Vukchevich are the real important ones, I think Sarr actually
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plays but limited minutes Vukchevich I don't know and Johnson, it doesn't really matter,
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like Trey Johnson is not good enough to be a 12 team lead guy, Sarr is too limited minutes-wise
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in games played to be a 12 team must and Vukchevich needs Sarr out permanently to be a 12 team guy
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and to not be hurt and he's not so I'm just avoiding most of those guys on the Washington side of
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things, Nets Lakers is the last game of the day, I don't expect Danny Wolf to play, also don't
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expect Noah Clowne to play but he might, but that doesn't mean that I expect Josh Minor to play
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because I don't know what they're going to do with him, they're all over the shop, no one
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try our A missed the last game, he should be back but also don't know and really don't care
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and on the Lakers side, Aiton Hutchimura and Smart all missed the last game so I would say there's
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me to do that but you can be sick. Should we get in and look at schedule hacks streaming values
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that sort of stuff yeah it's the right time of the day to do that. The back-to-backs it's one
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team on a second night it is the palikance and we already expect that the jonte Murray is not playing
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on friday but then there are four teams that play friday and saturday the hawks so we're watching
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for coming up the bulls not too worried about anyone there the grizzlies milk coward whoever else
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they decide and the jazz collier not gonna play both from certainly maybe doesn't play any of them
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and then not anyone else I'm super super super worried about in terms of sitting there
12:24
it gets even more interesting if you're getting chunky if your lead goes through to next week
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you can start to make some moves for that because there are eight teams that play three games in
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the next four nights so you get the two games in three nights which for this week which yeah that
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is the max you get plus you get a head start from Monday the hawks the Celtics the bulls the grizzlies
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the heat the thunder the jazz and the wizards so I believe they're about 20 teams that play two
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games between friday and sunday but these eight teams give you the advantage of getting an extra
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game to start next week so you don't have to make the move to stream somebody for Monday you're
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already making sure you've got a Monday player for next week so if you're looking to do that get
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your two games in three nights friday through sunday target these eight teams first hawks Celtics
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bulls grizzlies heat thunder jazz wizards to give you that little bit of an extra leg up there are
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no fives or two so we don't get to sing the song what we can do though is have a look at the back
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to back shots the stream options we take on friday to saturday got five names for you now it is
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risky and a lot of these guys but that tends to be the case at this time of year price sensible by
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expected is back and he plays both games but I don't know Greg Jackson the second in Memphis
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Elijah Harklaus for Utah Taylor Hendrix formerly a Utah now of Memphis and Cody Williams
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I guess it is conceivable any of those five guys could sit on the second night of a back to back
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but they also have by far the most value of players that are available for both games over that back
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to back so the risk is there and you need to work out in your particular league where you're
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sitting what the matchup looks like how can you can you afford that risk do you need to play
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a little safer because that's all going to depend obviously on where you're at let's look at
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points league streaming and we'll start with 10 names for the Yahoo points format number one is
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Bryce sensible who is a big points league guy big points scorer should get a lot of opportunities
14:27
to do that Greg Jackson also a big points guy Elijah Harklaus is probably going to play a lot of
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minutes I'm guessing and he's been playing pretty well last season from memory someone fact check
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me on this but when the judges were terrible down the stretch Harklaus was on the team and he still
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didn't get into games they're like I don't even know I don't even know if we get to do this be it
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in play but a little bit different this season so he's improved a lot so maybe there's a little
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bit of investment going into Harklaus here Rob Williams is also there and then milk Jerome who's
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been dropped in a lot of leagues is down to 28% roster rightfully so he plays every second game so
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he get like two games a week out of him max sometimes one but that makes him an elite stream on
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a day like this if you're just doing single day stuff Kennedy Chandler still the 10 way 10 days
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still going for Chandler so I expect these minutes we are assuming that his air color is out here
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by the I'm Gevon Small in Memphis Anthony Melton for the Warriors Jamal Shed with our Emmanuel
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quickly out and then again we're going bottom the barrel 0% roster here no offense to bears but
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bears and bang 0% roster he's a decent enough Yahoo stream guy if you do ESPN points leagues we
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go to Bryce since more again Gees Santos L help we're still available in a lot of ESPN leagues he
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should not be step his out Moody's done up for the season obviously so Santos is going to play
15:42
a lot of minutes and look very assess it when Steph comes back but I don't know when that is
15:46
so let's go with it the Rock DJ Robbie Williams Elijah Harklaus Gigi Jacksonness at ESPN points
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stream guys and then five more names Kennedy Chandler risky on a 10 day guy but I think he plays
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around 30 James Huff in Indiana he just should be Rossett I think everywhere especially
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category leagues the National Tile Jaros Walker hello again just a must-roster player that is not
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Gevon Small and Anthony Melton as you're other ESPN points stream guys it's quite a bit of quality
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responsibly okay okay shall we move on to category league streaming I reckon we probably should
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really not much more to do at this stage let's talk about the points category remember I'm
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using the basketball monster advanced roster percentage metrics here and that means no one over
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60% some one to 45 some under 25 some of the 12s under five Jeremiah Sasha fierce is the top point
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streamer working under the assumption that de jonte Murray is out now New Year's Eve miss you
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should also get a bump in these games but fears gets should get more usage Elijah Harkler's
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doing pretty well you can get double digits scoring at him brand of Williams is always if you don't
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like the way Jason kid uses him but maybe he gets 24 and gets 12 to 13 points over top and he's
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doing pretty well at the moment a little bit of minutes but all he uses a scorer and then there's
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Marvin Bagley which again is low um low upside really it's more of a deeper league play with
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gaffer out he's probably not going to start but we can get a low end double double out of him which
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means double digit scoring which is useful for some of us for threes it's sam scob it's slamming
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Sammy Merrill it's Carlton Bubb Carrington the winter soldier max streus sam house and Lou
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daughter somehow snuck his way onto that list he does it threes I'll give you that
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but that's a deeply play obviously assists we're going Davie on Mitchell Jamal Shed
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Kennedy Chandler Timothy John McConnell and Walter Clayton Jr so not some not bad options there
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including a couple of starters in Mitchell and Shed and Chandler who probably plays start as minutes
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for steals Elijah Harkler is very good at this he's still ready through the roof
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Keon Alice is also good at it the rabbit hunter Alex Crusoe is also very good at it
20:13
Lou John Concha if he starts we stream him in everywhere and then Jimmy Watkins also gets
20:17
multiple steals consistently in Washington I don't know what they're going to do with Justin
20:20
champagne if he's going to play or not or saw or any of those guys and I think leaky black
20:24
probably doesn't play so that should help Jimmy Watkins get more opportunities for free throw
20:28
percentage cam spencer Walter Clayton Jordan Poole should be in the rotation with Dejante Murray
20:34
sitting Kormack Christie and the spiral look canard for rebounds you're going to see a lot of
20:41
Rob Williams here Rob Williams Linda Miller Isaiah Jackson who's playing really well and he's
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moving into definite twelve team stream discussion Isaiah Jackson Marvin Bagley and then
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deeper leagues Oscar Sheeway for blocks it is unsurprisingly Robbie Williams color Mackovich Keon
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Alice Isaiah Jackson and Jackson Hayes now the reason that you don't see Eve Missy's name appear
21:01
here is that he's rostered in like 81% of advanced we're using our advanced roster metric on
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basketball monster I know he's a 60% cutoff so if Eve Missy's available in your league then yeah
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he's going to be here because I think he's going to start and play twenty seven minutes
21:13
but that's the reason he's only included on these lists
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four fuel call percentage that's the rock DJ again Robbie Williams it's Jackson Hayes and Jackson
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Hayes would bump up on those list if we knew deon rating was out by the way Marvin Bagley Isaiah
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Jackson and Colin Murray Boyle who was pretty good in that last game for the power for the raptors
21:31
where he played like twenty four minutes and put up some okay numbers for your guard build points
21:35
and threes assists and steals and free throw percentage E.J. Harklaus Given Small and Jamal
21:40
shed the old J. S's Walter Clayton and then Zaya Williams who I just wish I had confidence in
21:45
him starting because he's been getting steals at such a high level but he could get DMP at any point
21:51
and then for Big Men rebounds blocks fuel call percentage and steals Rob Williams
21:55
Isaiah Jackson Keon Alice Carlo McEvitch and lastly Lil Jon Conchart
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all right that is the end of a streaming show for Friday for the 10 games there you
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