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02/20/2016
Doug Norrie

Daily Fantasy Basketball Injury News and Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 2/20/16

Welcome to the daily updates and injury news article. We'll try and update it right up to line-up locks with as much information as comes across our desks. Let's get to it!

Last night's picks can be found here, so you can wrap your mind around what you need to be looking at before lineups lock tonight.

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Now let’s look at some news that’s come in throughout the day to see if anything’s changed in our minds or in the NBA landscape. It's a shorter slate and a light news day, but we'll be updating as stuff rolls in. Also throw out some ideas in the comments and we can take it from there.

What We Know

Bosh and Out Wade. Miami Value Everywhere.
I was tempted to put pictures of every single Miami Heat player here but just decided on these three guys. They pulled out the improbable last night playing without their three best players and somehow beating a full-strength Hawks squad. There were a lot of guys who went to the moon last night having to pick up the slack for the injuries. A few notables included:

Luol Deng 30/11
Goran Dragic 17/10/5
Josh McRoberts 19/10/6

And there were others. Basically, none of the Miami guys have prices anywhere close to what they should be if the two highest usage guys on the team are sitting out. All of the starters are in play today even with Whiteside returning. His return could cut into the big man minutes for sure, but the backcourt run should remain relatively untouched.

 

What We’re Waiting to Know

Gorgui's Dieng's Minutes
Mr. Gorgeous has been playing just a ton of late, going over forty minutes in three of his last four games. That kind of run is directly tied to the Wolves not having Pekovic and Garnett in that time. Both are game-time decisions for tonight against the Knicks. If I were to pick now, I'd say Dieng sees similar run tonight simply because even if both of the bigs came back, it's unrealistic to think either plays any kind of significant minutes. Dieng's been averaging a double-double over the last 6 games or so and the price hasn't creeped totally over the threshold. Power forward is almost always a problem so Dieng moving to that position on FD and DK has helped his value. It should keep up tonight.

 

The "every lineup" guys

Note - this doesn't mean I'll actually play each of these guys in every lineup, it just means they are the foundational pieces spit out by our optimizer in all of the top 5-10 lineups. Obviously, you'll want to go against the chalk plays in big tournaments.

Al Horford - FD 7200 DK 6600
Opponent - MIL
FD Proj. Pts - 35.42 DK Proj. Pts - 36.03
Oof. He's showing up everywhere. And I don't know about you, but to me this is doesn't feel great. Now our system doesn't weight our feelings into it (for better or worse I suppose). And it's tough to think about Horford as a "game-changer" when it comes to your lineup. But Milwaukee is about league average against centers and Horford has a diverse enough game that his floor is high enough considering his price. As of right now, I'm tempted to take Horford because KAT's price has really jumped and the other centers are in tougher matchups. But I'll admit it doesn't feel great.

Chris Paul - FD 10000 DK 9400
Opponent - GSW
FD Proj. Pts - 46.15 DK Proj. Pts - 48.08
He's showing up everywhere and I like it. He's the cheapest of the three big point guards on FanDuel and just $100 more on DK than Wall. The latter has a tougher matchup against Miami (though admittedly this version of Miami is much different than the rest of the season). GSW and LAC have the highest over/under on the day and it isn't even close. You'll want to have some exposure here without a doubt, but it's tough. Many of the other guys are fairly priced and you'll have to sacrifice to stack the game on the main slate. But Paul is full systems go.

Kristaps Porzingis - FD 6800 DK 7300
Opponent - MIN
FD Proj. Pts - 36.59 DK Proj. Pts - 37.81
He's not "everywhere" but it's close enough. Zinger's seen the minutes level off in the low-to-mid 30's over the short term (read: since Fisher was fired) and that's really all we were waiting on for the guy. He'd get randomly benched for long (and very annoying) stretches early in the season and I had more than one night of furiously watching the bench to see if he was checking back in. Here's to hoping those days are over.

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31 Visitor Comments

  1. Is Wade out? reports his mri was clean and only listed as questionable from what I can see.

  2. If wade plays… Do you like any of the other 2nd tier pgs more than dragic?

  3. Never mind… I’ve answered my own question after looking more into the system plays how it would likely play out…. But I’ll have to wait and see..

  4. Going with:
    Paul
    Dragic
    Crawford
    Redick
    Deng
    Carmello
    Porzingis
    Dieng
    Horford
    Feeling pretty good about this lineup. Good luck everyone!

    • Scotty i have that same lineup! Lets eat tonight

      • One thing I would say about that lineup is that fading GS completely seems pretty risky. Solid plays for tonight at all spots though, using each of those guys in multiple lineups.

        • CP3
          curry
          Korver
          Gerald green
          Deng
          Barnes
          Zinger
          Dieng
          KAT. I was also looking at that. Which u think i should play most of my $$ on?

        • Right. It never feels good staring down a Steph late game surge when you don’t have him in your lineups.

  5. CP3PO
    RUBIO
    LAVINE
    WIGGINS
    DENG
    Bazemore
    Millsap
    Dieng
    whiteside

  6. How wiill Whiteside’s availability effect McRoberts? (if any)

  7. Crazy how many lineups you can get even with such a short slate. I’m rolling

    C3, Curry, Thompson, Green, Deng, Melo, McRoberts, Dieng and Bogut

    Betting on the Heat in a high tempo game, Bogut because he should actually play some since DJ will be on the court a lot, Dieng and Thompson for safety and then CP3, Curry and Melo as my 40+ fp guys.

  8. Great stuff!
    Khris Middleton has really done well in b2b on the road this year beating implied total by 9pts with 88% consistency on 9 count. He should also benefit from the PACE too

    • Interesting look at him. I think there is other SG value out there (Green, JJ, Jamal) that it’s a slot I’m going cheaper

  9. Scratch that.. Just now see Bogut moved to questionable…. drat!!!

  10. Tom
    Bogut is questionable tonight keep ur eyes on the news

  11. Thanks Dan. Saw that in the latest update after I posted.. News this am makes sense now. Warriors chasing Anderson Varejao this am didn’t make much sense but Bogut’s achilles is nothing to fooll around with.

  12. Suppose that really brings Speights into play if his minutes tick up. He seems to be a point per minute guy.

  13. I feel like so many point chasers are going to go for McRoberts. At 3500 he needs about 5 good minutes of basketball to hit value lol. Hard to pass up even in limited minutes with whitesides return.

  14. I think this is about as solid as it can get….
    Dragic
    Paul
    Crawford
    Green
    Deng
    Melo
    Porzingus
    Dieng
    Jordan

  15. Imagine Deng is going to be the chalk heavy owned SF but the other SF spot is tough. Got to pay up for Melo and GA and then you get a bunch of guys who have upside but can also flat out kill your lineup.

  16. I have a pretty similar lineup but can’t fade curry and don’t like wall on dragic.
    Paul
    curry
    green
    jj
    winslow
    deng
    dieng
    zinger
    DJ

  17. Dieng crushing dreams..including mine 🙁

  18. Dieng is screwing me so hard. 330 in the 25.00 slam with Curry, Klay and Crawford still to play 17 plus minutes. The 9.1 makes me want to scream. On paper is was such a good play.

  19. Crazy the scores the past two nights. People going to blow past 400 again.

  20. Will… maybe Fanduel want notice if you swap your C to Lopez and move Dieng to Milsap 🙂

    Agree on Dieng. Seemed like a chalk play but hindsight I supposed the guy was gassed from 40+ last night.

  21. yup. the double OT is gonna take it to the 4’s

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