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00:00I like your lineup and I like the strategy.

00:05One thing that I like most about it is that I think there's a certain reliability to it

00:10in that you know that the guys that you mentioned that you rostered there are going to be out

00:14there on the floor for at minimum, let's say 14-15 minutes in the case of Jalen Williams.

00:20We don't really know what Isaiah Joe's workload going is going to be, but you got to figure

00:25at baseline, it looks like that.

00:28It's maybe even up to 20-25, all things depended.

00:32So I went a little bit different.

00:33I'm chasing the potential triple-double and big-time points and paying up for Luka in

00:39the captain spot.

00:40As you outlined, I think you want to throw multiple darts at the board when it comes

00:44to a showdown lineup like this with a Luka, with a Shea, especially if you're going with

00:50some sort of lesser than and value, if you will, in that captain spot.

00:56But the way that I wound up doing it, and maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't, I've

00:59got Luka there at captain and I want to continue to pay up for some of the guys who really

01:05could go out and perform at a very high level, which means in the flex, I also have SGA.

01:12You have to have him on the OKC side.

01:14And I also have Kyrie Irving, who, as we know, is capable for a real big bounce-back

01:19game from what he did in Game 2 and blowing up and getting you 40, 50, even in excess

01:26of that, fantasy points.

01:28But then, obviously, when you do that, you need to have some value.

01:31And so, like you, I was looking at Kayson Wallace and Isaiah Joe.

01:35I put both of them in the lineup and I think both of these guys, one, are prone to shoot.

01:41You look at the shots per minute, like these guys are going to come out firing whether

01:46they start or come off the bench.

01:48But that leaves you with very little, which is basically a punt play for a final spot,

01:52which you do have to risk a zero on.

01:54So I'm looking for upside and hoping that we don't get the goose egg, and that's Gordon

01:58Hayward.

01:59He is, again, dirt cheap, obviously.

02:03He'll probably be owned in a fair percentage of lineups with people thinking the same thing,

02:07who want a Luka or an SGA in that captain spot.

02:10But that's the approach that I took.