James Harden SWOOSHES His Way To 50 Points | Fantasy Basketball Recap
The Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder are dominating the NBA, but what does this mean for Fantasy Basketball? Josh Lloyd breaks down the latest NBA action, including Payton Pritchard’s standout performance for the Boston Celtics and James Harden’s 50-point game for the Los Angeles Clippers.
With insights into the Utah Jazz’s tanking strategy and Ausar Thompson’s minutes restriction controversy, this episode is packed with essential updates for Fantasy Basketball managers. Josh Lloyd from the Locked On Fantasy Basketball Podcast offers expert analysis on player performances, injury updates, and potential waiver wire pickups. How will Bam Adebayo’s role change with Jimmy Butler gone, and what does Harden’s big night mean for his fantasy value? Don’t miss out on these crucial insights—watch or listen now to stay ahead in your Fantasy Basketball league!
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31 Comments
Brother, my teams are all an infirmary 😂 Please help encourage us to let go of big names who will be sat out in favor of guys that are gonna actually play? It's tough to do, and some of us need a little push, I think.
I think the Lakers will win the title. LeBron is playing at the level, statistically, that he was during his 2013 MVP season when he played for Miami. With Luka looking like Luka again, and Redick's coaching looking like he's a great COTY candidate, with their rotations and stategies, I feel like my guys have a great, great chance!
Huge, vintage night for my favorite birthday twin and the crux of the greatest one-liner in "White Iverson" (w the possible exception of "I'm saucin', I do this often") James Harden, indeed ♥💪🏿✨
Folks from Utah are called Utanasians
Jazz fans = in Danny Ainge we Trust = unlimited tanking is OK while we reminisce Carlos Boozer making the All-Star team
Brandon Williams has handles. That's important in the NBA. He's going to get a ton of run in Dallas.
Klay had to play 35 minutes in a blowout loss. (facepalm)
his highlights looked fine, but they don't show the missed shots
Marshall… undeclared reference?
Traded away Sengun Brunson and McDaniels for Kessler Mobley and Aldama playoff time
hahaha have a cup of soup on me. not literally on me hahaha
Neurotic to the bone no doubt about it
Hey Josh, massive Jazz fan here. I love that we are finally deliberately tanking to get a big name but I doubt it’ll amount to anything lol
Josh I’ve got 8 injuries at the moment fighting the dude this week for the 2nd seed, 2nd gets 1 week bye in playoffs… current injuries vanvleet, Washington, Beal, ware, gobert, porgzingis, holmgren, collins. Idk what to do I’m facing the first seed next week then week after playoffs start. Pray for me lol 10 team points.
So clingan should be kept when he had one good game out of 5 but collier is a stream when he has more games proven to be better and is the primary ball handler
Can you start doing a stocks line of the night? Call it stock demon of the night lol. Love the show rarely miss these ✊🏼
Chance of Kessler playing 3 games next week?
Here's the stress and joy in fantasy:
Had to go with 3 of 4: Giannis, McDaniels, Filipowski, Duren.
I knew Filipowski would have a good one for sure.
I guessed Giannis would play less minutes (B2B, Mavs), but he's a monster lately.
McDaniels – cooking lately, so is Duren who played a B2B Clippers.
Benched Kyle F, got a stinker from Duren but Giannis and McDaniels were great. 🙂
Hey Josh, would you accept a AD trade for Mobley? I would be giving up Mobley. 2h2 12 team 8 cat
Utah= Utes
I still think BOS and OKC are top favorites…. but it is very impressive what CLE is doing….
Davion Mitchell is still lurking in waiver wires and should be rostered maybe a tad more than he is… Agreed he is mostly AST/STLS and if you look at his numbers for shooting he has been shooting way over his head last 30 days… 56% FG is nuts for a PG…. that would have to come down I reckon? Also strange how super low his REBS are at… only 1.8 per game over the last 30… so right now it appears he is a three category useful for FG%, AST, STLS… Aalthough not sure the FG is going to be this insanely high). I know that I have teams with Conley or Alvarado and I'm lurking watching going "hmmmm that is probably an upgrade for me" and MIA has back to back FRI/SAT so that could be a good time for people to stream him in and possibly hold longer…
Kyle Anderson. I mostly agree with you, but he is a bit more than a "deeper league option"… He is a weekend streamer option here for FRI/SAT if if if you need AST and defense… It appears he has been in the rotation more recently and got 25 mins here… I'm fairly intrigued in my unique builds… assists from a forward can be useful…. (since many forwards don't get assists)
Agreed mostly on the way you talked about Clingan and directed people to hold… people freak out that he only scored 2 points… but he still remains a hold because of what he does with rebs and blocks (7rebs and 1block here is fine) and sometimes can pop off if he gets more minutes…I did probably overhype him in comparison to what he is… still his blocks upside is kessler esque… but yeah… lol
I don't think you throw away the game for pritchard, but you should SELL HIGH on the game… (standard leagues still have a trade deadline until 19 hours from now) That's probably the BEST advice when a guy does something that isn't going to remain…. (although I think a high level of threes will remain for pritchard, but of course the shooting % will come down)
Oscar Tshiebwe super solid 13rebs in on 19mins… This kid might be the best per minute rebounder in the entire NBA…. Just insane what he is capable of… (Although I'm surprised there was no stocks cuz his g league and college numbers pop off for that too). Like you said, if Kessler and Collins are out… fire him up! (I added/streamed him in 2 leagues)
Another one to help the algo:
The Bucks have 21 games left, and Giannis needs 16 games with +20 minutes to be eligible for All-NBA honors.
They might rest him in B2B, but it's not certain.
It seems they are trying to tackle this with a minutes restriction. He's still producing monster numbers.
Traded away Jalen Green for Bam 2 weeks ago(sell high+buy low)
I’m loving it!
Ausar Thompson. Nice rant. LOL. Although I take an itty bitty slight issue with it… Why? Cuz Ausar is SPECIAL… regardless of higher minutes or lower minutes he will be great… You make some valid points about him no longer being on a minutes restriction supposedly yet he was already getting mins before this "announcement" … but the bottom line is he is TALENTED and special… I guess that's my main point… And that's why everyone else is getting excited too…. If he got more minutes it would mean more steals, more points, more fantasy value… but like you stated Tobias Harris is there thus probably limiting the mins of Ausar to usually being in the mid to upper 20's range…. (still very very fantasy worthy in that range)
Utah is liable to get cooper flag and still do the same stuff…
Have the teams that tank lower their ticket prices to a dollar if you going to rob your fans from enjoying high-level basketball.. tanking will ruin the NBA
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