OKC Thunder to Focus on Strategic Flex Plays Vs. Mavericks
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00:00 I like your lineup and I like the strategy.
00:05 One thing that I like most about it is that I think there's a certain reliability to it
00:10 in that you know that the guys that you mentioned that you rostered there are going to be out
00:14 there on the floor for at minimum, let's say 14-15 minutes in the case of a Jalen Williams.
00:20 We don't really know what Isaiah Joe's workload going is going to be, but you got to figure
00:25 at baseline.
00:26 It's looks like that it's maybe even up to 20-25, all things depended.
00:32 So I went a little bit different.
00:33 I'm chasing the potential triple, double and big time points and paying up for Luca in
00:39 the captain spot as you outlined.
00:40 I think you want to throw multiple darts at the board when it comes to a showdown lineup
00:45 like this with a Luca with a Shea, especially if you're going with some sort of, you know,
00:52 lesser than and value if you will in that captain spot.
00:56 But the way that I wound up doing it and maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't.
00:59 I've got Luca there at captain and I want to continue to pay up for some of the guys
01:05 who really could go out and perform at a very high level, which means in the flex, I also
01:11 have SGA.
01:12 You have to have him on the OKC side.
01:14 I also have Kyrie Irving, who as we know, is capable for a real big bounce back game
01:20 from what he did in game two and blowing up and getting you 40, 50, even, you know, in
01:26 excess of that fantasy points.
01:28 But then obviously when you do that, you need to have some value.
01:31 And so like you, I was looking at Kayson Wallace and Isaiah Joe.
01:35 I put both of them in the lineup and I think both of these guys, one are prone to shoot.
01:41 You look at, you know, the shots per minute, like these guys are going to come out firing,
01:45 whether they start or come off the bench.
01:48 But that leaves you with very little, which is basically a punt play for a final spot,
01:52 which you do have to risk a zero on.
01:54 So I'm looking for upside and hoping that we don't get the goose egg.
01:58 And that's Gordon Hayward.
01:59 He is again, dirt cheap, obviously he is, you know, he'll probably be owned in a fair
02:05 percentage of lineups with people thinking the same thing who want a Luca or an SGA in
02:09 that captain spot.
02:10 But that's the approach that I took.
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