 Hey everybody, welcome inside Studio 34. This is the FanDuel Hurry Up. I'm Greg Susman. Today I'm joined by Drew Dinkmeyer of dailyrotor.com. Take a look at some of the top players on the board in fantasy basketball tonight, along with some of the top values that you could play in DFS over on FanDuel. What's up, Drew? Not much. I'm excited. This is a four-game slate. It's nice and compact after MLK days in the NBA, but I'm excited. This is a good slate to talk about, and so happy to be here. It is a good slate to talk about, and let's start with the Oklahoma City Thunder. It's our in-play game of the night with the Thunder and the Blazers taking place at OKC. Russell Westbrook's shot has been cold, but from a fantasy perspective, he's got the job done. Yeah, he's been really bumping up the rebound rate, the assist rate of late, and the usage rate has started to tick up in the direction that we've seen from Russell Westbrook in the past. Certainly once the shooting stroke gets figured out, you'll see a big fantasy explosion come forward, but with Russell Westbrook, when you're talking about the top fantasy players on any slate, especially on a four-game slate, you can't go without talking about Russell Westbrook. He's our top projected scorer at the point guard position. Not a particularly great matchup tonight with Portland, who's a pretty good defensive team, especially against opposing point guards, but you know, Russ projects for over 55 fandal points for us, and one of the top plays overall on the entire slate. Westbrook's obviously always a top play tonight against Portland, which should be a fun matchup against Damian Lillard, a lot to like with Russell Westbrook. Next up, we go to Minnesota, where the Timberwolves are taking on the Suns again. It was a close game a couple of games ago where the last time these two teams played, and Carl Anthony Towns, well, he scored 28 points in the first half. The problem was he only scored two in the second half. Why will it be different tonight? Well, the thing about Carl Anthony Towns, you look back on that game, and he was just 8 for 22 from the field. So he's actually played Phoenix twice this year, and he's averaging 29 points, 12 rebounds, and four assists in those two games, but he's only shot 40% from the field in those two games. And obviously with Carl Anthony Towns, you expect him to shoot closer to 50% from the field. The Suns' interior defense is really, really stretched tonight with DeAndre Aitin and Rashawn Holmes, likely out, so you'll see a lot of dragon bender at center, and that's just a huge mismatch in favor of Carl Anthony Towns. So he is one of our top projected overall plays on the slate, projecting just behind Russell Westbrook, right around 55 fable points as well. Certainly worth a look in your lineups. No unleashing the dragon tonight? Maybe a little bit later, at least not against Carl Anthony Towns. Tough matchup for Bender as Towns is going to be awesome. We mentioned Russell Westbrook earlier, and now we get to the other superstar on the Thunder. And at some point, Drew, we got to stop calling Paul George the other superstar. He's just having a better year than Russell Westbrook. He has. He's been a more impactful, offensive player. Certainly he's been competitive with Russell Westbrook in terms of usage rate this year, which is something we haven't seen from the Thunder in a few years, since back with Russ and KD. And Paul George is kind of fit right into that old Kevin Durant role from a fantasy perspective as well, racking up steals and blocks, racking up rebounds, and having a huge impact on both real life and fantasy basketball. And so when you look at the small forwards on the slate with Kawhi Leonard ruled out, you've got an opportunity now where Paul George is the top projected player at that position. Another one of the top projected overall plays he projects for us for just over 47 fan duel points tonight. Feel really good about Paul George and what he can do on any given night tonight against Portland. We said it with Ross and we'll say it again with PG 13 should be a high scoring outing and a really good spot to use Paul George in DFS. Up next, we go to Toronto where Kawhi Leonard surprisingly is out tonight. Another day of rest. He was not actually with the team yesterday. They thought he'd be back today. Maybe back. He's not playing. It is the first night of a back to back. The Raptors play again on Wednesday against the Pacers, which means both Kyle Lowry and Pascal Siakam are going to step up. Yeah, the thing about with Kawhi out, we have such a big sample of games this year because he's been rested so frequently that we know exactly where the opportunity set is going to go. And in Kawhi's absence this year, you know, most of the production goes to Kyle Lowry, Pascal Siakam and Serge Baca. And you look at the power forward position today and you're without a lot of the big names on this slate. So Pascal Siakam immediately becomes one of the top overall projected power forwards on the slate. We project them for over 40 fan duel points tonight and we project them for mid 30s minutes. And the big thing with Pascal Siakam of late is the rebounding rate has really been on the rise. The absence of Jonas Fallon-Chunis. They've had to play him a little bit more at the center position, staggering him and Serge Baca a little bit more. It's really helped the rebounding rate for Pascal Siakam, which over the last five games has been above 15%. And that really funnels into his overall fantasy production as he's a guy that can take the rebound and then lead the fast break. What Drew said makes a lot of sense because Kawhi's been out so often this year, we know exactly what happens when he doesn't play. And it's a big night from Siakam, so make sure you get him in there. Up next, we go over to Phoenix where Devon Booker, as long as he's healthy, he's the man for Phoenix. Deandre Aitton ruled out, which means even a higher usage rate, if you can believe that for Booker, is that why he's in there tonight? Yeah, this year with Deandre Aitton off the floor, we've seen a usage rate of 32.7% for Devon Booker. So the ball's going to be in his hands a lot. He's been growing the assist rate of late as he's been kind of settling into that, you know, point guard role that he's kind of taken over, kind of the James Harden role where you're initiating the offense, but you're also getting a lot of shot attempts for yourself. And that game with Minnesota, you know, high total, close competitive game last time when the two teams played in Minnesota in the last game. We expect Devon Booker to have a great night tonight as well. Booker always a fantastic offensive play tonight without Deandre Aitton. It's even more obvious. Finally, before we hit the break, our last top play of the night is with Dallas and that's with Luca Donciak. How come you like Donciak, even though Dennis Smith Jr. is once again expected to be in the starting lineup? Yeah, Donciak is definitely benefited from the absence of Dennis Smith Jr. He takes over a little bit more of a true ball handling role and with that, you've seen him contend for triple doubles. You've seen, you know, all the things that you kind of would have expected from Luca Donciak in, you know, year two or year three. He's already doing in year one as a teenager in the NBA. It's incredible that the return of Dennis Smith Jr. certainly limits potentially some of the upside but the thing you have to remember is while Dennis Smith Jr. has been out, so is JJ Berea. And so a big usage, ball in his hands type backup guard that Donciak was often paired with and kind of reserved lineups when they staggered Dennis Smith Jr. Donciak is now off the floor as well. So he's still picking up a lot of opportunity from when we saw earlier in the season when Luca and Dennis Smith Jr. were playing together and Luca was playing a little bit more off the ball. Dallas has really revitalized their offense while playing through Luca. We project him for over 43 fandal points tonight and while the price tag has gotten up there, he's one of the top overall projected scores at the shooting art position. Donciak, a top play overall tonight according to DailyRoto.com. Even with DSJ back, as you heard from Drew, make sure you get Donciak in there tonight. Those are the top players on the board. Well, six of them anyway. When we come back, we'll give you the six top values according to Drew Digmire of DailyRoto.com. Stick with us. We'll be back right after this. Back with you here on the FanDuel Hurryup, Drew Digmire and Greg Sussman hanging out. We gave you the top plays on the board for tonight's NBA DFS slate according to Drew Digmire. Now, let's get into the top values. How do you fit some of these big guys in there? It's by using some of these cheaper value plays. And we start with the Clippers and we start with shy Gilgis Alexander. What makes him a good player tonight when everyone kind of seems pivoting towards Patrick Beverly? Yeah, the interesting thing about both Gilgis Alexander and Beverly is they both saw a huge opportunity in terms of their minutes upside the last few games with the absence of Lou Williams. And Lou Williams is expected back tonight but wouldn't be surprised if his minutes are managed just a little bit. And the big thing here is the absence of Danilo Galanari really shifts the Clippers to just trying to get their best players on the floor and they need scoring, they need ball handling. They can play Gilgis Alexander kind of up in position because of his extremely strong wingspan and so they can play more of these three guard lineups. So we expect Gilgis Alexander to hold a little bit more of the minutes increase that he's seen of late than Patrick Beverly and he doesn't have the same price increase that Patrick Beverly has had of late. So we view him as one of the best values on the entire slate at under 4,000 at a point guard position that, you know, does have some alternative options that you can strongly consider but there aren't many plays below 4,000 on this slate that are as solid as shy Gilgis Alexander. Gilgis Alexander, as what I like most about him and Drew said it, minute seems sustainable. Patrick Beverly saw that huge uptick and that price well, it went up with that uptick. Gilgis Alexander's didn't under $4,000 tonight. Really good price to pay the young guard in LA. Up next, we go to a former Los Angeles Clipper. We go down to Dallas with DeAndre Jordan. It's not a huge savings but what makes you like Jordan tonight? Yeah, the center position is trickier to find, you know, true like a solder relief type of value but DeAndre Jordan at 7,000 does look like a really good value to us. He gets through revenge game if you believe in the narratives has averaged 22 and a half rebounds per game in the previous two games against the Clippers. The Clippers play a lot of undersized front court minutes with Montrez Harrell who is an incredible offensive player and a great grinder but he's undersized to play the true center position. So DeAndre should have a size advantage there and this is one of the cheaper price tags you've gotten on DeAndre all season long. His price had floated up into the 8,000s a few weeks ago. Now it's back here, you know, right at 7,000. We view him as one of the best values at the center position. One of the best values on the board at the center position, DeAndre Jordan. Make sure you get him in there tonight. We continue on and go to Minnesota where the point guard position, I know a lot of fantasy owners have begged for more Tyus Jones but even with a new head coach and Ryan Saunders it's been more the same. Jeff Teague, Derek Rose. Yeah and with Derek Rose tonight you've got a big opportunity set potentially available as Jeff Teague is questionable and, you know, they're not sure if he's going to be able to play and Teague's been battling illness been battling injuries and they had been trying to manage Derek Rose's minutes and keep him around 30 minutes but last game without Tyus Jones with Jeff Teague ill and unable to play Derek Rose was extended up to 38 minutes and they basically, you know, broke the glass in case of emergency. Tonight might be another one of those situations where they're simply down ball handlers they're having to play Jared Bayless a decent bit and so Derek Rose might have the opportunity to get into the mid 30s and minutes and his price tag had finally just started coming down because his minutes were being managed. We saw earlier in the season when Derek Rose was able to play those mid 30s minutes the huge upside especially on the scoring. Now you've got a really favorable match up against Phoenix a close competitive game on the road and in a reasonable price tag for Derek Rose he looks like one of the better values at the point third position. Huge spot for Derek Rose and if those minutes are managed well I mentioned Tyus Jones before he could be someone that's even cheaper that may be a desperation punt play over on Fandall. As we continue on here on the hurry up we stay with the Minnesota Timberwolves and we head on over to Andrew Wiggins is the third Timberwolves that we've mentioned here on today's show drew after the cat and after D Rose why do you like Wiggins and the Timberwolves so much tonight? Well you know on the road you expect a more competitive game environment and what we've seen with Minnesota since the absence of Robert Covington is the fact that they've gotten into a little bit more of these track neat shootouts because they're just not as good of a defensive team without Robert Covington one of the league's best defenders on the perimeter and so I think this is a game that's going to be close and competitive in Phoenix Phoenix is a team that does play up tempo they have struggled defensively this season and Andrew Wiggins has you know the price has kind of hovered around this mid tier level all season long in the you know low sixes high fives mid sixes because he's so dependent on scoring that you you don't see a lot of consistency to his performances overall but this is a matchup where it should be fast paced it should be a lot of points on the board and it should be an opportunity for Andrew Wiggins to deliver on his price tag in the low six thousands. Last time daily varoto mentioned I should put in Andrew Wiggins he lit up the board for over 40 fantasy points hoping for the same tonight in this game between Phoenix and Minnesota there's a ton of options and our final two options tonight on the Fandall hurry up are in this same game let me start off at small photo position where TJ Warren has been a big time scorer all season long I don't think anything different will happen tonight. No I think he'll have a huge opportunity set alongside Devin Booker with the absence of DeAndre Aitton you know replacing Aitton in his mid 20s usage for a guy like Dragon Bender and you know usually in the teens in terms of usage just opens up more opportunities for the other scorers in the starting lineup and that's primarily Devin Booker and TJ Warren and Warren's been a bit more efficient in the games with Booker alongside him kind of carrying that offensive burden allows a little bit less defensive attention on TJ Warren and he's kind of delivered the price tag has not moved up he's been playing really heavy minutes of late north of 36 minutes and a bunch of games averaging 36 minutes over the last five games we've gotten projected for 35 so I think there's even a little upside beyond that and for me mostly it's getting a lot of shot attempts against a defense that is deteriorating on the perimeter with the absence of Robert Covington so I think this is a good matchup for the perimeter scoring of Phoenix both in terms of increased opportunity and the matchup facing a Minnesota team without Robert Covington Yeah I think it's a great spot for TJ Warren again Devin Booker is going to have a high usage rate but you're going to see Warren's scoring go up that's DeAndre Aitton tonight against Minnesota specifically against Andrew Wiggins not exactly a stock defender so I think there's a lot to like with Warren tonight Finally staying in Phoenix we already know most likely there's no DeAndre Aitton or he's back at Rashawn Holmes last time that meant Dragon Bender got the start and once again that looks to be the case can Bender put up the points again tonight He certainly will have the opportunity to whether he can stay on the court and stay out of foul trouble guarding Carl and Anthony Towns remains to be seen but I think one of the great things about Fandall setup this year is that low drop score knowing that you can take some risks on some players that are cheap and can get into foul trouble and you know might not hurt you as much and Dragon Bender went out and put up a double double in that start last game against Minnesota it was interesting that Phoenix shows not to play Ryan Anderson in that game giving all the center minutes both to Dragon Bender and Quincy A.C. I would expect Bender to basically play as much as he can stay out there on the court tonight he's just 3800 he just put up a double double in the same matchup if he can stay out of foul trouble he's got a lot of chance to succeed and the power forward position is a particularly difficult one to fill so he makes a lot of sense on this slate with Fandall scoring in the drop score rule Bryce is just under $4000 as long as Dragon Bender can stay on the court well there's obviously a lot to like with no Rashad Holmes and no Deandre Aten Bender the obvious play hopefully he can stay on the court that's going to do it for us here on the Fandall Horry and tomorrow Jim Sinis returns to talk a little NFL DFS as we get you ready for the Super Bowl coming up in just a week and a half for Drew Diggmeyer I'm Greg Sussman thanks so much for watching and good luck tonight