 Hey guys what's going on welcome to a new edition of the fan duel hurry up this is Arden Franklin here And I'm joined by the one and only Tom Beckiel as you look at tonight's biggest stars for the NBA action Tom How's everything? I'm doing good. We have a 10 game NBA slate to close out the week There are a ton of injuries across the board So we want to you know wait on those and we'll focus on the top studs that we want to be paying up for Absolutely and tonight we start with the Boston Celtics Jason Tatum JT's been on an incredible stretch literally just out of the week We saw him score 60 points against the San Antonio Spurs But he's been lighting up the entire league since the start of April average of 29 points per game Tom what makes JT such a goodbye tonight as he faces the Chicago Bulls So first off we know that Jalen Brown is out for the Celtics night and that means extra usage is going towards Tatum A player that we know already shoots the ball at Tommy when when Tatum is on the court and Brown is off the court He's holding a thirty five point two percent usage rate producing 1.35 fated points per minute that is a four point four percent increase in his usage. It's a 222 over under It's a close four point spread We see Chicago right in the middle of the league allowing forty four point four seven fated points per game Opposing power forward not really worried about the match or worried about the extra usage That's going to be flowing towards Tatum and ultimately they need him out there And they need him scoring 40 or 50 points because the Celtics are fighting for a playoff seeding We're down to the final few games of the season and this is the time it matters for a lot of teams So they're going to be leaning on Tatum that much more especially with Brown off the court Absolutely, I agree with you and what makes JT such a great player even in his fourth season in the league Tom is He's also a double-double machine since the start of April the man has produced eight Double-doubles and he had a stretch where he produced five consecutive ones So JT tonight against the Bulls with the way he's been playing you got to take advantage of that Up next is we're heading out west for a prime time Western conference matchup between the Portland Trail Blazers and the reigning world champion LA Lakers And we have to focus on game time. That's right Damian Lillard The all-star point guard has continued to do what he does best this season averaging a career best in points But he's also been embracing more of his role as a playmaker over the last three games He's averaging 30 points per game and ten assists Tom Why should anybody take the chance on game time tonight as he faced the Lakers? That's right when it's game time. It's game time and you know in the middle of april We saw Lillard set out a few games due to an injury if he came back He was looking good, but not great. He was scoring 35 38 40 fandal points Which is simply less than we'd be expecting from him But over the past four games he has posted 50 fandal points or more in every single game As you mentioned going for 30 and 10 in most of these games Which is great to see tonight the match against the Lakers I want to say is looking pretty good The Lakers have slipped and now are in the bottom half of the league when it comes to fandal points a lot of per game To opposing point guards. We see the Lakers on the second half of the back to back It's an eight point spread in favor of the trailblazers But we know the trailblazers played pretty fast and don't play a whole lot of defense So liking the back and forth potential and another 50 plus from dame tonight I can't blame you for feeling that way It's been crazy to see how the Lakers have been falling a bit on defense But again, dame is going to do what dame is going to do So if you have a chance to get dame tonight, you have to take advantage even though he's facing the Lakers You already know what time it is It's dame time Lastly, we have julius randall demand to myth the legend out of new york as he currently has the nicks in a top five seed And they're heading for a rematch the other week We saw them have a great game against the suns at Madison square garden And now they're heading to the desert to take on the suns Jay randall has been playing one heck of a season and his monster stretch continues tom Why would you take advantage of jay randall tonight as he faces the suns out west? So randall's coming in at $9700 and we certainly have a loaded power forward position tonight at tentacumpal All the way at the top we have tatum I just spoke about and we've randall sitting here as the third most expensive option I think he could go a bit overlooked tonight because on paper It's a slightly tougher match up against the suns compared to a tentacumpal Compared to tatum. We know he's getting introduced to all these sorts of things. So So if randall is not going to be as popular, I like him in tortoise tonight He has that 40 50 point kind of floor sometimes because he's out there for 38 minutes playing for tom timido We know he just plays his players a ton every single night And if he's going to be in this closer game, which is I think a six or seven point spread against the suns I like him hopefully less popular than the other two options and still able to go for 50 plus points If there's anything we know about tom timido and julius randall so far is that a randall's playing a lot of minutes and b is certainly getting a lot of shots So I can't blame you for saying why you would take a chance on j randall Who by the way some folks are starting to feel like maybe an nvp candidate, but you didn't hear that from me So hey take advantage of j randall if you have the chance tonight Folks that is that thank you once again for watching a new episode of the fan duel hurry up tom It's always thank you for your great insight. This is ardent franklin signing off. I'll highlight you next time