Lineup examples with breakdowns will be posted later this afternoon.  With only two games, we are doing gpp's only tonight.

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FanDuel Lineup breakdown:  

Top Play(s): The player or players I’m 100% locking into my lineup. Today’s top plays: Irving and Durant.  These may also be two highly owned players tonight. As the third highest priced point guard, and Irving will be in one of the two pg spots in all lineups here tonight.  I also like Durant tonight over LeBron due to not believing LeBron is 100% ready to go tonight.

Core Group: Instead of trying to have exposure to everyone, I like to build lineups around a core group of players.  Today’s core group:  Irving, Durant, Love, Crowder, Capela.  On a two game slate, this will be a slightly larger core group than most nights, but I feel confident with this group.  I mentioned Irving and Durant above, and Love and Crowder seem like the 70% owned picks with the PF spot cancelling itself out basically.  If you listened to our daily podcast, you heard how high Jon and James were on Capela, and I agree.  I didn’t feel like taking a weaker center in Horford for more, or a defense minded center in Thompson.  With Blocks and steals at 3 points, I’m rolling with Capela tonight.

Pivots: The unknown about how much LeBron will push himself tonight drove me to Rose over Smart. They also happen to be the only two point guards in their price range tonight.  The hope by having Harden in the main example is that this lineup has the top scoring player at each position tonight.  The hope after that is for the #2 option at the other four spots to beat the similar options.  Since Harden struggled vs GS last season, and not sure how the Boston young guys will perform tonight, the pivot takes them out, and replaces them with the veterans you can feel more comfortable about.

Alternative Routes:  The salary remaining leaves you with the option to go LeBron over Durant, or Paul over Irving.   I can see plenty of users going the “stacking” route tonight, and loading up on team’s starters or bench players.  If looking to fully stand out while taking some risk in gpp’s tonight, the PF and Center spots would be your best option.  Crowder will be a popular option for at his price, and could say the same for Love.  Feel free to go cheap with Bell or Mbah a Moute over Crowder, or straight pivot to Anderson.  That second PF spot, if Green goes for under 40 FD points, may be key to gpp’s tonight.  Another podcast option from today was Baynes in the center spot.  Make sure he is good to go for playing tonight.