 Hey everyone, what's going on? I am Greg Sussman joined today by Tom Becchio. Fandall on Christmas Day, a tradition unlike any other. Tom, let's break it down and let's play some NBA DFS, man. Yeah, it's one of my favorite places of the year, up there with opening day of baseball, thanksgiving, football, it's gonna be a good one. Absolutely, so let's get right into it. Let's start with some of your top studs on the slate and we begin in Houston with James Harden. Playing a Warriors team, this is not what the NBA imagined on Christmas Day, but us DFS players, we'll take it. Yeah, not certainly the same Warriors team we've seen in the past few years. And, you know, we look at the slate overall and we have Attenticumpo and Harden over the top. Who do you want to go to? It's certainly a tougher matchup for Attenticumpo going up against the 76ers in what could be a slower pace game. And also I'm looking for the most potential upside. We have the Rockets coming in as nine and a half point road favorites, but we just look at Harden and we see that, you know, 1.43 Fandall points per minute. A usage rate sitting at 31%. Right now, the Warriors really not good on defense overall, allowing 44.5 Fandall points per game. They're shooting guards. I expect Harden to blow past that and we want the most upside. And there aren't many players that can consistently score above 70 Fandall points. And if Attenticumpo is in a bit of a harder matchup, why aren't we leaning to Harden in a significantly easier matchup in what should be a faster pace game overall and just more conducive for fantasy points? It's going to be fast paced and fun. James Harden and the Rockets, you know, they shoot the most threes per game. You know, they make the most threes per game. They're in a good spot here against Golden State. And listen, when they get up to their big lead, it's going to be because of James Harden. He's in a good spot and worth paying up for on Christmas Day on Fandall. If you don't want to go with James Harden or you want to go with a stars and scrubs approach, there's certainly other things that you could do. There's other stars that you could get in there. One like Anthony Davis and what's the game of the day between the Lakers and the Clippers? Yeah, this game is certainly looking to be probably one of the best on the slate. You know, we have two very competitive teams, two playoff bound teams, and most importantly, it's a two point spread. We should see closer spreads across the board, but we're looking at Davis who should be playing, you know, 35 plus minutes, reaching towards that double double. We know that the Clippers are generally pretty solid on defense. You know, Power Forward is kind of you know, the road for them. Right now they're allowing, you know, 43.9 Fandall points per game to Power Forward. The league average is at 44.3, so it's really not too tough for Davis. And we look at the Lakers overall. It's LeBron and then AD when it comes to their usage, both sitting at 30 and 26%. Davis is averaging 1.30 Fandall points per minute. And if this game is going to be staying close, we know that all of the shots are not going to be going to, you know, KCP or Dainy Green too much. It's going to be in LeBron's hands. It's going to be in Anthony Davis' hands. So that's what we want in our lineups. Anthony Davis, when he's out there, one of the best players in the NBA. The Lakers have been struggling as of late. AD has it. Against the Clippers in a matchup that everybody's been watching, AD deserves to be in your lineup. One more story that is at least worth mentioning here is Nikoli Jokic. So they'll get snapin' better as of late, but they've played a lot of games in a short amount of time, playing on Monday night and now here back again on Wednesday. What do you think about Nikoli Jokic? First of all, I think his price is really solid at 9.4. We're not reaching too, too much. If you're really trying to get in, you know, hard and end Davis into those lineups. It's a massive pace-up spot for Denver. They're 27th right now in the league when it comes to pace. The Pelicans are fourth. Extra possessions on the ball is always fantastic. And we've seen, you know, Jokic have a bit of an up-and-down season to start, but he's really turned things up as of late. 40 more Fandal points in eight of his last nine. He's a phenomenal passer, so we see him, you know, push towards a triple-double in a lot of these games. We also have a solid matchup going up against the Pelicans, allowing 51.7 Fandal points per game to center. So we have a modest price tag, I'm gonna say, at 9.4 for a player who is reaching towards a triple-double, a pace-up spot, a weak defensive matchup. It's basically everything you could possibly want for a high-end center. He is a high-end center, and he's certainly worth putting in there because he's a walking triple-double. Like you said, someone that always has the ability to put up numbers across the board. Can't say that about everybody. Nikol Jokic, in a good spot on Christmas. But to get all these stars out there, you won't need some value plays as well. So let's go with some of these under-the-radar guys, some of these cheaper players. And that brings us to Toronto with a rendezvous with Hollis Jefferson. The Raptors are one of the most beat-up teams in the NBA. They're playing on Christmas, and let's get some value out of them. Yeah, the early game against Boston, you know, shouldn't be one of the higher-scoring games. It's also gonna be one of the lower-pace games. And I know a lot of people don't like to target players in the earlier games. I think it's gonna be a lower total. But Hollis Jefferson, like you said, the Raptors are just so banged up right now. He's gonna be playing a ton of minutes. He's 4.1 K tonight. We look at his production when we adjust for Gasol, Pasco Siacum and Norman Powell off the court this season. He's still producing 1.06 Vandal points per minute, which is really, really solid. We look back at his game log. Obviously he was a bench, a clear, clear bench player up until the last few days. We're gonna see him out there playing 20, 25 plus minutes at over one Vandal point per minute. It is a solid value. Even though the game environment overall isn't gonna be amazing, you need a player like this can at least be productive and reach value in your lineups. It's not exactly to be a fast paced game. It's not going to be a high scoring game potentially. But Ryan to Hollis Jefferson at a per minute basis could be a good start. The minutes hopefully will be there. He doesn't cost really all that much. So it doesn't take a lot for him to reach value. We think RHJ can get the job done on Christmas. Another value that is worth playing here, Tom, that you believe anyway is worth playing is Gary Harris of the Nuggets. Gary has looked better as of late for the Nuggets. He's our old favorite of ours. Why do you like Gary Harris on Christmas? Yeah, like you said, he's been turning up as of late. He's reliant on pure scoring for the most part in order to reach or exceed value. Doesn't necessarily fill in a whole lot when it comes to rebounds and assist. We actually look at their starting lineup with Jamal Murray, Nikola Jokic, Paul Milsep and Will Barton. He actually sits last among those five with a 15% usage rate, 0.64 Vandal points per minute. And that's nothing you want in your cash game lineup. That's nothing to get truly excited about. But, circumstantially, for this matchup, it's a massive pace-up spot, like I said with Jokic. He's shooting the ball better as of late, taking four or more three-pointers a game. And the Pelicans right now are allowing 41.2 Vandal points per game to shooting guards. So we take the pace-up spot. We take a player that could truly be lower-owned, even for a five-game slate, who has the ability to hit threes. And he can exceed value as he's been doing recently. On the five-game slate, Gary Harris makes the perfect value player to get in there. And you have to, like I said, trend it, and we both said, trending up here as of late probably won't be very well-owned, especially in the tournaments, which makes Gary Harris a fine play here on Christmas. One last player to get to here, Tom, and that brings us to Lou Williams. Not exactly the value play that's one of these guys that's like $3,000 or 3,500, rather, but somebody that is a little bit sneaky and out of the radar. Why do you like Lou Williams? Yeah, Lou Williams, I think, is a little bit too cheap. We know he hasn't had the best season. His new, I'm gonna say somewhat of a new role. He's still coming off the bench, but really, the Clippers team has made up completely different this year than it was in years past. 5.1 K for him tonight. A player that we've seen above $7,000 at large times this year, last year. He took 20 shots in his most recent game, but we have to consider the fact that Kawhi wasn't in that game. Lou Williams is actually a starter. But then if we look back even further at his game flow logs, we know he comes off the bench, as I said. And he's playing when Kawhi and Paul George aren't on the court. So he's taking 15, 13, 14, 17-ish field goals a game off the bench, not competing for usage. And he's gonna be in a two-point spread game which should be very fast-paced, very competitive. So 5.1 K for a player who is known as a, you know, a bit of an old-school microwave player comes in off the bench, gets hot, gets the scoring going quickly. He can drop 30 real points in a very exciting Christmas day game against the Lakers. Lou Williams unheralded throughout his career, one of the most underrated players in the NBA. He's undervalued right now on Fandle, which makes him well worth putting in your lineup here on Christmas. That's gonna do it for us here on The Hurray. For Tom Vecchio, I am Greg Sussman. Enjoy the games, have some fun, and, you know, hang out with your family a little bit when all this NBA is going on. Should be a great day at basketball, so hopefully you can win some money. Have a great day, and we'll see you back here tomorrow.