Kawhi Leonard has posted over 50 FDP in three of his last five games
Geoff Lambert discusses Saturday night’s NBA lineup advice on FanDuel.
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Point Guard
Raymond Felton (LAC): $4,600 @ DEN
With Chris Paul out 6-to-8 weeks, Felton will get the bulk of the work at the point guard spot with Austin Rivers playing more of a two-guard. Felton has gone over 25 FanDuel points in three of his last four games and the one he didn’t he only logged 17 minutes. With no Paul, he should easily get 30-plus minutes and tonight he gets a great matchup with a Nuggets team that is second worst to only the Nets in points allowed to opposing point guards.
Kemba Walker (CHA): $7,900 vs BKN
Walker put up 46.8 FanDuel points last night in a blowout victory over the Raptors, and he did that in only three-quarters of work. Tonight he gets the Nets, the worst team in the league defending the point guard position. As long as the Nets can keep it close, Walker should have no issue going over 40 FD points tonight.
Shooting Guard
Devin Booker (PHO): $6,500 @ NY
Booker has been on a tear of late posting 37 FanDuel points or more in four of his last five games. Only the Nets and Nuggets are worse than the Knicks in points allowed to opposing shooting guards. The Knicks aren’t good enough to blow out the Suns, so expect Booker to log heavy minutes and put up a nice stat line.
Jamal Crawford (LAC): $3,900 @ DEN
Crawford still hasn’t broken out of his recent shooting slump, but he was able to supplant that in his last game by grabbing eight rebounds. I don’t expect him to grab eight boards tonight, but a matchup with the worst team defending the two-guard spot could break him of his slump.
Small Forward
Carmelo Anthony (NY): $7,900 vs PHO
Despite all the off-the-court controversy surrounding Anthony lately, it hasn’t affected him much on the court yet. He just dropped 50 FanDuel points on the Wizards two nights ago and now he gets a great matchup with the lowly Suns. The Suns play at the highest pace in the league meaning this is a pace up game for the Knicks. You can bump up expectations for all the Knicks skill players as there should be plenty of shots taken in this one.
Kawhi Leonard (SA): $9,600 @ CLE
Don’t look now, but Leonard has been on fire. He has five straight games with 40 or more FanDuel points, with three of those going over 50! This will be a game both teams will “get up for” and Leonard and LeBron James should both have big nights. I’m taking Leonard over James because he’s $900 cheaper.
Power Forward
Zach Randolph (MEM): $5,900 vs HOU
Only the Blazers and Lakers give up more points to opposing power forwards then do the Houston Rockets, and while Randolph isn’t the dominate player he once was, he can still exploit a good matchup. In fact, he did just that about a week ago against these same Rockets when he posted 35.4 FanDuel points in Houston.
Ersan Ilyasova (PHI): $5,800 @ ATL
Ilyasova is having a career year, and even with this tough matchup, I think he can hit value once again tonight. Only twice over his last ten games did he not log over 25 minutes and he hasn’t had single-digits in the points column since Dec. 2. He also tends to shoot more when Joel Embiid is out of the lineup, something I expect after an injury scare last night and this being game two of a back-to-back.
Center
Rudy Gobert (UTA): $7,800 vs IND
Gobert has been a monster on the boards over his last three games averaging 20 rebounds. Let me say that again. He is averaging 20 rebounds a game over his last three. Only four teams are worse than the Pacers in rebounds allowed to opposing centers as they give up just over 15 per game on average. Gobert should have another field day in the paint in this game.
