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My name is Josh Lloyd and I've gone completely papillus.

Yeah.

I have.

Guess what we're here to do?

See your questions.

It is a Fantasy Basketball Mailbag.

Let's see what questions you guys have got.

Supermodels will just get straight cracking in.

I would say.

Good idea.

Oh.

Let's get him going.

Migs.

Says.

Oh, Migsie.

Says.

If it would come up on the screen.

I would love it if it came up on the screen because I thought I had it ready to go when

it was working.

Oh, we love when things don't work.

It's one of my favorite things actually.

Things that don't work.

Let's hope.

Let's hope I can get it sorted.

Where is it?

Anyway, I'll read the question.

Graham said a great game last night, even with him being in George back.

Scheduled aside, was it a bit fake or is Maksie's absence enough to hold in a 160 player

deep league?

I think that it is worth holding him.

I think that it's fine to hold him.

I think that again, Maksie coming back will be the tell.

His value will obviously drop with those other guys returning.

We saw some sort of proof of concept of it yesterday and I do think that it will be

able to, I do think it will be able to stick, so fingers crossed, that it sticks.

All right.

Again, no idea why these questions are not popping up.

It's so annoying because I had it prepared.

It was working.

It was off ready to go at the start.

Is it worth it to drop Jalen Green and BJ Edgecombe to turn two games into five?

Well, BD Tray, all these questions are right.

There's a little context.

I appreciate the question coming through, but when we talk about them, for some cases,

yeah, absolutely.

Your season end this week.

It's the easiest discussion of all time.

You take the three extra games.

That's easy.

Jalen Green, dropable, if your season goes into next week, is he good enough to hold

sort of, but also getting the extra volume is more important.

Edgecombe is a debatable one, because much like with the Grimes question earlier on,

he's going to lose, UCG's going to lose volume, Maxi will come back at some point.

I'm guessing I'd heard it even more.

I would think if you wanted to drop BJ, you probably wanted to do it a little bit earlier

in the week.

There is one game left in four nights for the sixes.

I get that, and that's the same with Phoenix.

I would be prioritizing dropping Green there.

The Edgecombe is a little tougher to me in that spot, but I think overall, if you desperately

just need it this week, then you have to do it.

There's really no other way about that, and I think Sunk's place tonight, I literally

have no idea.

These sort of questions I don't know.

Do I think you play tonight?

Maybe.

It would seem like it with an illness, but also it's just guessing.

We're about Collier the rest of the week.

We're Collier's a little bit of a different story.

He's got the hamstring injury.

It's the jazz.

They're clearly deprioritizing winning.

So do I think that we can consider Collier out for the rest of the week?

Yeah.

I think that's reasonable to assume that doesn't mean it'll happen, but I think that's

reasonable to assume.

Really annoyed.

This is just not coming up.

Is it?

Why is it not coming up?

Let's try again.

Love when stuff like that happens.

What's your very early projection for Ryan Rollins drive for the next season?

They're coming up now.

Great question.

Is it a great question?

It's actually not a great question.

Apologies to you, my guy.

I don't know.

I don't be incredibly honest with you.

I don't care, because there are so many things that happen between now and the end of

the next season.

Okay.

Ryan Rollins might be the starting point guard.

He might be a reserve.

Yannis might play.

He might be traded.

Kevin Porter might be traded.

I don't have any idea.

It is impossible tonight.

And even assessing Rollins a season from this season is almost impossible to do.

He played much of it without Porter and without Yannis.

And he was great.

And then there were times when Glenn and Reverson moved into the bench.

That's the other thing.

What if Glennon doesn't come back?

I don't know.

It is impossible to be able to predict that.

I've already wasted too much time thinking about it.

What's my thoughts on Dylan Cardwell's value with precious back?

Well, if there was any other franchise, you'd say what Cardwell is clearly more important

to the future of the franchise, but it's the king.

I don't know.

But also, I've also seen Cardwell play when precious has been there.

And I don't really think it's been significantly different either way.

So I don't actually think there's much of an impact there.

I think Cardwell is a rebounds and fuel goal percentage stream guy.

That's it.

Get some blocks in.

Nothing particularly changes.

Is Plowden still the move with Hayes back?

You know, I don't really think that Killian Hayes effects take one Plowden all that much.

They're all plucking plays a different position.

This shouldn't be as much of a priority for them as what Plowden is.

Plowden plays more minutes on a regular basis anyway.

I don't think it has any impact on him, to be honest.

Anything really.

Well, I'll be doing a fantasy player award show.

Yeah, I'll do that at the end of the regular season.

Definitely 100%.

We do that show.

Always.

Then we do our recaps on sleepers and bus and see how we went.

Then we go to team reviews and all that sort of stuff.

We do all of that stuff.

Okay.

Let's go through all of this.

Do I drop Dylan Cardwell for Jeremiah Fears today?

Dylan Cardwell?

Kataila.

There's a lot with this one.

Get more of your questions in here, guys.

This is again, I like illustrating questions not to dunk on people or anything like that

because that's not what we're about here.

But it's not.

What we're trying to do here.

Do I drop Dylan Cardwell for Jeremiah Fears today?

We're talking about before Thursday's games.

Both of these teams are in the advantageous schedule position being one of only three teams

or two of three teams that play three times in four nights.

The Kings and the Pelicans.

So you're gaining zero games here.

So that probably wouldn't be the move that I would look to.

Just in terms of you're not gaining anything.

They also are completely different players.

You're talking about a center who's a rebounds and blocks field-gop percentage guide

versus a point guard who scores and gets some steals.

Completely different sorts of players.

Now Fears probably gets a boost in one of these games

because the Juntae Murray is going to sit

in one of the back-to-backs, not today, but on Friday I'm guessing.

So he probably gets a boost there.

But you're not gaining anything from this in terms of volume,

which is one of the main things we look at.

Is there a volume game?

No.

There's not.

Is there a stat difference, obviously?

I would think that if you scaled your roster hard enough,

you'd probably find someone who plays only twice

or maybe only once for the rest of the week.

Who's a fringe back end guy?

This one is like, it's a little shuffling deck chair sort of stuff

where it's up to me or maybe, but also maybe not.

Is the marginal gain worth it here?

And it might not even be a gain.

I think looking at it that way is an interesting way

to better way to do it, I think.

Or what's my opinion on double doubles the category?

I'm glad you asked.

I'm sure people have heard me say this before.

Terrible category, useless category, disgracefully bad category.

Do not have that as a category in your leagues.

Do not have double double bonuses in your points leagues.

It's stupid, it's ridiculous.

Why?

Why?

Why are double doubles considered important?

Why is a game of 10 points and 10 rebounds

valued more importantly than 35 points and 9 rebounds?

Why?

Why, what's so exciting about a double digit?

Why?

The other part of it is, is it's a binary stat.

You can't get two double doubles.

You can't.

I either get one or zero.

They are bad vansists, that's ones and zeroes.

I don't like them.

The other part of it is, is that they're incredibly limited

to be able to find those off the wavewire.

So you may either go hard into them

or you don't compete really in them at all.

Finding like 10 rebound players

and 10 assist players off the wavewire,

almost impossible to do.

It's a terrible category.

It's an arbitrary number that's binary.

That also is waiver limited.

So I'm glad you asked the question about my thoughts on it.

D-Win, find around my playoffs and waver a stat

with people who are 40 to 60% rusted

and more highway side hooded stream.

Well, for a start off, D-Win,

you don't just look at roster percentages

to decide who you want to stream.

Just look to stream who the better player is.

I don't know if you're a point seeker or a category

and a category should be relatively obvious

or actually both formats.

In a category, you want to make sure

you're hitting the right categories.

In a point seeker, you're looking for

who's producing the more fantasy points.

So look what they've done.

If you don't want to dig into projections or stuff,

just go, what have they done the last two games?

Seven games, two weeks.

What's the trend looking like?

Is there a reason that the trend is a certain way?

Players are in, players are out, all that sort of stuff.

But if your league is full of all these guys

that you think are so good, then it's hard to go wrong,

yeah?

What becomes more important in that scenario

is that you do stream.

If there's just a lot of value on the waiver wire,

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Let's answer more of your questions.

Oh, mate, here says I wouldn't trust

the sumo once Edward's comes back.

No, you shouldn't because the literature

we saw the evidence of it, it wasn't good enough.

He's a stream level player in that particular scenario.

I've Gordon and Watson.

I'm not sure who to drop both on minutes restrictions.

I think that if you dropped either of them, it would be okay.

I don't think there's a clear winner there.

I think Watson's obviously a little bit behind Gordon

and he's rehabbed and he is getting the minutes back up.

But either one, I think you'll be okay.

Do you drop Julius Randall for Herb White or Monk

for Final's Week?

One pick up left, debating up a couple of George possibly.

Okay, you're in Final's Week.

This is important.

I love this detail in Turtle Roachie.

If that is, in fact, your real name.

Do I drop Julius Randall who plays one more game this week?

Yeah.

Herb Jones, three.

White, I'm sure that's Kobe, probably two games.

Monk, probably three.

Or a debate on picking up Paul George who also has one.

Do not make the mistake, guys.

Do not add a one game player for your Final's Week

when there are three game players sitting out there.

Don't make the mistake.

All it takes is Julius Randall have a 12.40% shooting night

and the one game looks dreadful.

For Paul George to podcast his way through to 11 points.

Go the three.

That is an absolute no-brainer decision to me.

No, zero qualms about making that move.

That is an easy call, but do not add Paul George.

You're swapping a one for one.

Do not do that.

It's half a must-roster this week.

I don't have your schedule on top of my head

but I know that I don't have one game left.

But yeah, he is.

Yeah, he is.

Let me go and have a look.

So I'm not completely just talking out the old back door.

What is the pace of schedule the rest of the week?

We saw it yesterday.

I know that the first game after Zubat's was ruled out

for the rest of the season, it didn't look great.

But the role was there and that is what is the important part

of that.

Indiana Paces.

Two games left.

Very clearly must-roster.

There are.

That's including Thursday.

There are seven teams left.

You play just one game for the rest of the week.

Cleveland Dallas, the Lakers, the Wolves,

the Sixers, the Sons, and the Spurs.

That's a lot of dead weight that you guys can cut.

Blue as blue is.

I hate to be that guy,

but your kids did repeat his approximate value

from last year.

You were sure you were not alone

in thinking he could not.

You hate to be that guy, but you are being that guy.

Must really pain you to be that guy.

What I said about your kids,

if you want to get into it, what I said about your kids is,

he might have maintained his relative value

or all possible, right?

What I said was, I don't think that Nicolio Kitch

and I'm going to bring up his numbers.

I don't think he's going to play 37 minutes a night.

Check, didn't.

So under 35, right?

Didn't think that.

I said I didn't think that Nicolio Kitch

was going to shoot 42% from three.

Check, didn't, 38% from three.

I said I don't know that Nicolio Kitch

is going to average a triple double again.

That one looks to be wrong

because he's currently averaging a triple double.

That's fine.

I said I don't think Nicolio Kitch will average 1.8 steals.

Check, not averaging 1.8 steals.

So I was correct in all of those things.

You can talk about relative value.

I don't, again, that's, I don't think that that's true

because he, all of the things that I was concerned

about him not repeating, he didn't repeat.

Outside of, I don't know that it will maintain

averaging a triple double.

That was one of the things that I said.

So, did I still have yokitches the number one pick

or number two pick?

I debated it number one because if you're in default Yahoo

leagues next week, they played two games.

Just remember that, they played two games.

But yokitch's last season,

let's even talk fantasy points.

Average 64, 62 this season.

Is it a huge amount?

No, but it is a decrease

because all of those things that he did last season

were not likely to hold.

And for the most part, they did not.

And saying that someone is going to be worse than they were,

does not mean they're going to be bad,

does not mean they're going to be useless,

does not mean they're going to be not worth it.

It just means that a lot of things that carried

weren't going to carry over and they did not.

So, there you go.

What ever happened with that shack take?

What, what shack take?

What does that mean?

Do I expect Carfield Palski to sit with anyone

so injury will he actually play the back-to-back?

I think anything's on the table for Utah, honestly.

I think it really does depend a lot on the opponent.

So, let's go through and have a look at their schedule.

Denver and Phoenix.

Cleveland, Denver, Houston, OKC, New Orleans,

Memphis and Alakas.

So, honestly, there's one team there that's terrible

and that's Memphis.

New Orleans is not particularly good,

but they're going to try to win.

So, while it's frustrating that they continually

keeping Phillip Palski's minutes down,

he sat last game because it was against Washington.

So, I'm not going to be particularly worried

about absences.

Why do I hate my Capota?

I mean, I don't.

I don't.

What?

OK, sure.

Yeah, I don't.

That's a good question though.

So, I dropped Pertle for the big sneeze or Diabate.

Semi's in the point.

Yeah, Pertle's value in a point is not as good

as it is in a category league.

So, no problem there.

You're gaining more games.

You've got one extra game from Achoa,

he plays them all,

and one extra game from Diabate,

very confident he plays them all.

So, I think that does make sense.

That is 50% extra for the week.

And yeah, like, again, if you make it into the finals,

you don't have 10 teams rushing to grab Pertle,

you've got your opponent.

Not a big deal.

In a point C, totally reasonable stuff.

It's not worth dropping Ty Jerome or Aiton,

both day-to-day and Jerome is in my I.R.

slot for Leonard Miller, is it?

OK, pizza boy.

Ty Jerome is not day-to-day.

Look, OK, here's the Ty Jerome story.

He missed the last game.

He seems to be missing every second game.

He's, I think he's going to play in the next game.

I'm not worried about that.

But like, Ty Jerome plays like 55% of games.

Aiton's also not particularly worth it.

Now, I've got no idea what's going to happen with Leonard Miller.

The balls are very confusing with this,

but there is a chance.

We know Jaden Smith's done for the year,

but there's a chance that BDNR doesn't play next game as well.

So, they're going to have Yubba Selay and...

I've been inclined to...

I think losing Aiton's not a big deal.

Jerome, what's the grizzly schedule like?

He probably plays one more game this week.

I'm guessing?

They play...

Yeah, they're going to back-to-back Friday Saturday

against Houston and Chicago.

So Jerome's playing one more game.

So, yeah, look.

Just double it up.

Double it up.

Is Usman Jenga hold in 10-10 points?

They're almost certainly not.

He is more of a 12-team lead guy.

He's more of a category guy than a points they play.

But no, no, no.

Is Colin Gillespie a drop for Fias?

One more game the rest of the week.

The team's getting crowded.

Fias has three games.

Gillespie's going to play 27 minutes.

Fias probably plays, say, 66 minutes.

That should be the simple sort of equation to you on that one, I think.

I think.

Okay.

Josh, I love your content.

I join a diased league this season.

Any chance you do a diased league content,

especially for next draft class.

Cheers from Portugal.

Thanks, man.

Because that's a great way for me to promo.

Is that once the regular season ends,

we do so much stuff on this channel.

We still do one episode a day.

Don't do six a day.

Here's one a day.

But there's tons of diased league content.

We do all the season review shows on each team talking about

dynasty prospects on those teams.

I do probably 15 to 20 NBA draft episodes,

mock drafts, scouting, processes,

dynasty ranking lists, all that stuff.

Do heaps of it.

Heaps of stuff.

Okay.

Let's have a look.

Again, you're asking the question,

fears or Paul George rest of the week.

One guy will play one game.

Fears will play three.

I'm going to guess if Paul George won't play 60 minutes in that one game.

That's my guess.

And I don't sound stupid, right?

The pears are not very good.

You get a real stinkers,

but you also has three of them.

And George has one.

That's a big, big difference.

It's a big difference.

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Jose says, Josh, can you do a show explaining the names?

Some of them are creative for a guy here.

Yeah, but maybe we have to get a 100k.

If we get to 100k subscribers and I'll do a nickname show.

Simple.

What I have against Kennedy channel.

I hate him exactly the same way that I hate my copotter.

I hate them all.

All these guys.

Part of it is.

I'm like, I want to say that.

I want to say that.

Do I think Mr. Curry comes back with the next two weeks?

Seth or Steph?

Who cares?

It's.

Do I think Steph's back in two weeks?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I do.

I do.

Who has more value from the Kings already got monk finals week?

Who has more value?

If you're going to ask questions on that, you've got to give options.

Who has more value?

Who are you debating between?

They come play out in.

Devin Carter, I like looking at.

Is Maxim Rano great because you're only told that monk is great.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Okay.

Will they...

I don't know the answer to these questions.

Will these guys play in all three games?

Have Jones, Blake Monk, the Plough King, Day Corn Plough.

Will they play out three games?

Maybe.

They've got three games on the schedule.

There's nothing to suggest that they won't outside of the Kings and the monk nonsense, but anything can happen.

Especially when you're dealing with trash like the Kings.

But I think we have to assume there's nothing that's outstanding on these guys in terms of injury

or nothing that suggests in recent times that they're sitting random back to backs.

So I think we have to take that chance, right?

Do you prefer maximizing games played or keeping high quality players with you?

Go ahead and thanks for tuning in for just this part of the show, man.

As a general rule, I don't care how good the player is.

If someone is getting 65 minutes versus someone getting 30, it's almost impossible for that player.

Does the one playing one game to equal that production?

Now, it does depend, obviously, like Yo-Kitch.

He can do it in one game.

You're talking about Julius Randall.

We're talking about Jalen Green.

Give me the three game guy.

Give me the volume, most of it, most of it.

But usually, look, it's really as simple as like, okay, this guy average is 25 fantasy points.

My man here average is 40.

Alright, chance of 75 fantasy points versus chance of 40.

I've got a big buffer to be wrong there as well.

That's how I like to look at that.

How many spots do I want to have streaming in finals week?

Shadow, that depends a lot.

It's a really good question.

I can tell you it's one, I can tell you it's four, but I don't know.

Because I don't know what you league dynamics are.

And I don't know how many moves you have for the week.

If you have seven moves for the week, get five streaming spots.

Also, look at your roster.

What level of player do you got?

Is your roster populated infected with Javon Smalls, who have been solid enough and take one

play out in these guys?

Because they're all replaceable.

Bes and Bings will pop up all the time.

Is the back end of your roster, is your 11th best player?

Let's use...

Who can I use as an example?

Let's use Sadiq Bay.

Is that your 11th best player?

Let's use...

Tile hero.

Is he your 11th best player?

Then you want to probably hold those guys and not stream them.

In general though, I think if you're in finals week and you've got like a standard four moves,

if you're not streaming at least two spots, you're doing yourself a disservice.

Probably go up to three, honestly.

It just depends on what the back end of your roster look like and what your...

like move capability is.

Daikon Jeffy is just signed with Sacramento.

Stream guy maybe.

Maybe?

Yeah, look, he will probably get submitted some guessing.

I don't know when, but I'm not going to be so excited about that.

Dejonte Murray is clear to play today.

Yep.

First coming back to back, then we'll probably sit tomorrow.

Try me if you still question what is there still a bump for fears and pull.

But I don't.

Look.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sort of.

I'm not sure about pull though, because pull seems to only play if there's point guard and it's available.

And if Murray and fears are there, then that there aren't.

But Murphy not playing.

It doesn't prove like this is more shots available in the pool of shots.

So it might like give more minutes to fears, but it will probably give more shots in that scenario.

If that actually happens.

How do you feel about trading?

Let's say I first ran out of who has a bad playoff schedule for a play who has a good schedule come playoff time.

I did this season.

Looking good so far.

I think a lot of times people overvalue the playoff schedule from too far in advance.

I think you're making a bunch of trades to trade away your good players for worse players with one extra game over three weeks is an insane move.

That's a terrible move.

You go, well, my guys got 12 games and this guy's got 11 games.

This guy's got 12 for stupid.

Like don't do that.

If you've got someone with a two game week or has nine games and you're getting a 12 game guy, it can be useful.

Right.

But I think the main utility in the way we attack playoff schedules is not the top three or four guys on your team.

It's more the back, the middle to back part where it becomes more important.

So you think it's looking good for you that season.

Great.

That's working out for you.

I'm not sure I'd be trading away first round of because of playoff schedule.

I would be very cautious about my first round of having a two game week.

Nicolio Kitch.

And I know he's been awesome all the way through.

I'm going to say he's been so good.

Josh is the number one player.

Let's see how it feels if you're in the championship week next week.

Where he plays two games and you lose because of that.

Which is all that I was saying at the beginning of the season in terms of.

Hey, there has to be some decision on this or some discussion on this about your kitchen one because of that playoff.

Because I'm assuming you all play to win the championship.

Not to say your kitchen was great for 22 weeks.

So we'll see how that goes.

Will Tobias Harris play.

I'm just going to give him a call.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I haven't looked at it nowhere about the best prospect in the upcoming draft.

No idea.

That is what the end of the regular season is for for me.

I know the names, but I'm not going to sit here definitively and tell you about it because I don't like to do that.

I don't like to make stuff up without looking at it, researching it, thinking about it, talking to people.

And I have a whole draft process that we go through.

We start off, we do some mocks, we talk to a bunch of different people.

I read, I watch, and then opinions are shaped and formed over time.

And then we get to the draft and my opinions start to lock in.

So it's an ongoing moving process.

But at the moment, no idea.

Do I think there's a slight possibility of taking one player back to back?

I have no idea why he would.

I mean, if we go to any scenario, is there a slight possibility?

Yes.

If you want just a pure answer to that question, yes.

There is a slight possibility.

Yes.

Does it make any sense for him to play the back to back?

Absolutely not.

Do I think he'll play it?

Not in a million years.

Is there a slight possibility?

Yes.

Yes, there is a slight possibility.

We'll say, though.

We will say.

Triple, anomancium, verbanium, spicely here.

You know, that's good stuff, man.

That's a really good lake.

Why can't dunks be a category?

It would bring up big stats and he's also fun.

That's a good question.

I guess that the majority of box schools are just not tracked.

Do you, like, okay.

Ask these guys this question.

Do you have any idea who leads a league in dunks?

Do you have any idea what an average of dunks per game is?

Per player, per team.

Anyone have any clue.

It's not a track stat that anyone cares about.

And it doesn't actually, like,

does it have any, like, tangible impact on winning?

Also, no.

Like, in real life basketball.

Is it fun?

Sure, but, like, it's just something that nobody cares about.

From a, oh man, it won a game.

Five dunks.

No one ever cares about it.

And that's fantasies about stats that attract

and a known and no one has any idea about that.

So, like, I get it.

But, I don't think so.

Am I going to assemble a league this year?

I am not going this season.

Maybe next year, I don't know.

Is Eve Missy still a streamable option?

Eve Missy's value is significantly higher

when the Shonte Murray is out,

which will be one of the next three games.

But again, volume trumps all.

There are three teams with three games.

So, Eve Missy is going to have 20 minutes, 20 minutes, and 27 minutes.

So, let's go six, seven minutes, maybe.

Across the three games.

There'll be some duds in there.

But if you're committing to adding Eve Missy,

you're doing it for three games.

And you're doing it for Friday's game in particular,

where Shonte is out.

Yes.

Is Gigi Jackson an immediate ad for Stoplight?

Am I even going to answer that?

Could you say the word Stokes?

That's that word's boundary out here, bro.

You can't say Stokes is a terrible word.

I'd add Gigi for his arse bounce.

If I'm adding you for anything.

Anyway.

Gigi an immediate ad for threes and steals and blocks.

I wouldn't say that Gigi is a particularly high level

steals and blocks guy.

Threes, yeah, but these just points.

Points is what he is.

You get him for points.

You can drop Tristan De Silva after today.

De Silva only has one game on Sunday after.

Yeah, and Memphis has two.

Sure.

Double him up.

Will Gigi play both?

There's a risk that he doesn't.

But yeah.

Is Scooterson break out coming soon?

No.

I am out on that happening.

With three years in, there's been the occasional flash.

The injuries have heard obviously, but I'm not going to.

Yeah, I don't think so.

If you skip the question, it doesn't mean that you read it,

but don't think it's a good one or you just missed it.

Should we repose again?

Like there are a million questions that come through here.

So I don't even read every one of them.

I see what I can.

So if it doesn't get answered, post it again.

Maybe I see it.

I mean Thompson is fourth in dunks.

Other than that, it's all big men.

Okay.

Cool.

What at what numbers?

I honestly couldn't tell you.

What's an average?

1.2 dunks a game?

I have no idea.

It's not something I've ever looked at or thought about.

Is Missy Worth adding for two games for two?

Oh, okay.

She don't get today's game.

There will be two games in three nights.

And if I go and have a look,

I guess there is going to be way more teams

that then have that volume schedule.

Let me have a look.

I'm sure someone knows the top of their head.

I don't.

I'm not smart enough for that.

So, all right.

Oh, yes.

Are you talking like 20 teams have two games in three nights

between Friday and Sunday?

And he's Missy.

He is not good.

He's not good enough for that.

Now, he'll have some solid value on Friday,

but the advantage that you have is not there.

Like that three game advantage is not present

when 19 other teams, rough estimate,

also play the same volume of games.

Do I play basketball in real life now?

I'm a 46 year old man with a torn ACL.

I do not.

Sorry.

Do I think Franz Wagner returns next week?

I honestly have no idea.

I would say his return is coming soon,

and if I had to guess if he's back next week

or doesn't return at all,

I would say next week.

But they're very cagey about return dates,

the old Orlando Magic.

Who is the biggest surprise in a good way this year?

Someone that you will really be looking for next season?

Two parts out.

I'm going to ask the second part first.

Who will you...

Is it someone who you'll really be looking for next year?

That's not how I work.

That's not how I do any of this stuff.

I don't necessarily look at it that way.

I give equal attention to every player.

Because I have to.

It's my job.

I can't focus on the guys that I draft.

I can't focus on my guys.

I can't focus on this.

I don't have this player.

I don't know about them.

I can't focus on this guy.

I was good.

So therefore, this is what I really want to pay attention to.

I've got to pay attention to everything.

Because the guys that were bad become good

and guys that were good become bad

and different things change all the time.

I need to be across every single player

that plays in the NBA at all points.

So, is there a bunch of guys that surprised me?

They're good.

Yeah.

Peyton Watson's elevation this season out of this world.

Kiyante George, what on earth happened?

Where did that come from?

Kishon George.

Unbelievable stuff.

Heaps of those sort of players happened.

But that doesn't mean I'm like man.

I'm really going to pay this.

Yeah.

Huge attention to Peyton Watson.

It's going to be massively up my draft board

because I've got no idea.

I have to pay equal attention to every player.

Because everything in the NBA with projections and drafts

it's all a puzzle.

It all has to fit together.

Peyton Watson can be great.

But if he stays in Denver and they bring in another starter

and he's maybe a bench guy and they don't pay him

that it doesn't matter.

They're not going to wait for injuries to strike for that to happen.

Then he's not going to thrive as much as we hope he would.

It's all puzzle.

It's all context related.

I was pretty high in Peyton Pritchett this season

because the Celtics cleared out a bunch of space

and he was minutes way to go up.

They didn't.

Then he's shooting fell off.

But next season Tatum's going to be there

from the start of the year and they might make other moves.

So that doesn't mean I'm going to be in on him.

It might not be.

I've got no idea.

I need to see how it plays out.

There's only one thing that I know that it's going to happen

is I'm going to be all about Nicholas Vitchovich.

It's probably it.

What explains a lack of blocks from a men Thompson?

That's one of the things I'm probably going to go through

in the off season.

I'm going to think that it's one of those things

where he's just not contesting as many shots at the rim.

And he's playing World Point Guy.

We're last season playing a lot of power forward center

and just positioned him closer to the rim defensively.

That's my guess.

That's my guess.

I'm out of a state keeping Aaron Gordon.

And I've got three more ads.

I need to use two on Cavs players.

Why do you need to use two on Cavs players?

Okay, that's not a question though.

That's what I'm not going to end on that

because that's actually not a question.

Let's do one more.

Quarterfinals.

Should I drop Grant or Pritchard for Devon Carter?

My opponent just picked up play out and three point is made.

Three throws, rebound, six deals, box turnovers.

I'll one or two points per year.

That's tough.

Adding Devon Carter with three games this week,

I think makes sense.

You're talking about dropping Jeremy Grant or Peyton Pritchard

who I'm going to guess have two games remaining.

Let me double check that.

Portland two, Boston two.

Three games of Carter versus two of Grant.

What categories did you say?

Yeah, okay.

So Grant's not going to help you in many of those.

Pritchard will help you win some of those.

Three to two is not as advantageous as three to one.

That's a tough one.

That's a tough one.

I think I probably would be okay dropping Jeremy Grant there.

Is Peyton Pritchard a hold on 18 points?

You know that.

Look at the fantasy points, the averages.

Look at the fantasy points of the guys on the wavewire.

Look at what your ability is to stream in.

A good general rule is.

What the guy is on the wavewire,

if you add five fantasy points to that,

is the value of streaming in.

So you've got a guy that's worth 30 on your team.

The wavewire is populated by 10 guys averaging 25 fantasy points.

That 25 fantasy point guy can be considered an equivalent

of about a 30 to 32 fantasy point player

if you were just using that spot to stream.

So Peyton Pritchard's averaging 30, for example,

and you drop him and then the guy that you add

is a placeholder for a streaming spot,

which is about worth about 32 fantasy points.

So it makes more sense out there.

I think the value of it's actually higher than 32,

but I think about it.

Like you can get six games a week normally.

And let's say 25 points a game, 120, 150,

divide that by four, which is the usual amount of games.

Somebody plays, then you're talking about,

it's about 36.

About 36 fantasy points.

If the guys on the wavewire average 25,

then a streaming spot is valued about 36, 35.

Let's say 35.

So plus 10.

So anyone who, in this, that sort of scenario,

is averaging significantly less than 35 fantasy points

around your main roster.

You get way more value from streaming someone in.

I think that's the better way to view it.

All right.

Guys, I reckon we might wrap that up now.

Got through without technical difficulties.

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