Show full transcript 1:04 That's 5% cash back at different places each quarter like grocery stores, on gas, and at 1:10 restaurants. It pays to discover. Terms apply. See discover.com slash 5 for details. 1:20 We did the Eastern Conference. Now we're doing the Western Conference, the 240 game 1:23 rotations for every team to start the NBA season, Michael Bolton. 1:28 Thanks, Josh. It's Michael Bolton here, and it's time for another episode of the Locked 1:33 On Fantasy Basketball Podcast. Let's get to it. 1:37 Let's get to it, indeed. 1:40 You are Locked On Fantasy, your daily NBA fantasy podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast 1:47 Network, your team every day. 1:50 Hello and welcome to the Locked On Fantasy Basketball Podcast brought to you by Basketball 1:55 monster. 1:55 My name is Josh Lloyd, and I miss Tuckerbag, but I didn't miss doing the Western Conference 2:00 240 game. 2:01 And I just, just as I was about to start recording this, we had two big news pieces 2:06 dropped. 2:07 We'll talk about it when we get to their teams, but Ben Simmons, Torna Killies, out 2:11 for the season, Steph Curry, knee injury, which I'll get to when we talk about the 2:16 Golden State Warriors and their 240 game. 2:17 And all of the 240 games and the Eastern Conference was dropped earlier today is 2:21 brought to you by Fangirl. 2:22 make this your most rewarding season ever with Fangirl Awards Club every week. 2:25 Check the Fangirl app to see what's waiting for you. 2:28 We're going to go through every team. 2:29 We're going to look at their opening night or opening night adjacent 2:33 rotations, 10 man, nine man, 11 man, whatever we think the team is going to do. 2:37 How the minutes break down and again, give you an idea of how difficult it is 2:40 to find enough minutes for all the players that we want to get minutes. 2:43 It's the 240 game for the Western Conference. 2:47 So let's do it. 2:48 Let's start with the Dallas Mavericks. 2:51 Kyrie back 33 minutes a night is what I'm predicting for him. 2:55 It's been a long time since he tore his ACL. 3:00 March, 2025. 3:01 I think he should be okay to go. 3:03 Yeah, I do think he'll sit some back-to-backs 3:04 early in the season, 3:05 but I imagine his minutes will be normal. 3:07 The starting shooting out, 3:08 I do think it's gonna be Cormac Christie, 3:11 but I'm not certain. 3:13 I've given 26 minutes to Christie. 3:14 It could be Rissochet in that spot. 3:17 Oh mate, Le Crayon. 3:22 But I think we're going Christie 26. 3:24 I'm gonna go with Cooper Flag at 34 minutes. 3:27 Paul Washington Jr. at 21. 3:28 And then again, this lineup is very much up in the air. 3:32 I'm gonna go Daniel Gafford at 23 minutes 3:33 as the starting center. 3:35 Merez Johnson, I'm also gonna have for 23 minutes. 3:37 I could easily see Merez starting and playing 26, 3:41 but I think 23 at this point. 3:43 I'm not gonna pencil Derek Lively into this rotation 3:46 because who knows when he's back. 3:47 They've also got Santi Aldama, who is day to day, I would say, and there's a chance maybe 3:52 he doesn't play. 3:53 But I've got him in this rotation. 3:54 I've got Rissa Shay at 20 minutes and Naji Marshall at 26, who they continue to run as 3:59 a weird sort of non-shooting point guard option. 4:02 And he'll be a guy that probably gets the most minutes off the bench, I guess. 4:08 Yeah, maybe, I don't know. 4:10 And that's where it gets hard. 4:11 Like, how do I fit all the minutes in for Aldama? 4:13 I've got him at 15. 4:14 You've played a lot more than that in Memphis, but who loses out? 4:18 Maybe Christy plays 20 minutes and those six go to Aldama and they go hyper big, I guess. 4:26 And the last guy in the rotation I've got is Sergio Dillerera to be their backup point 4:30 cut. 4:30 I think it'll be Dillerera over Sassar. 4:32 Dillerera has been really good in pre-season, but maybe Dusty May decides that he wants 4:36 to do Naji Marshall strictly as the backup and have Marshall and Flagg back up Kyrie 4:41 and not Dillerera at all. 4:43 Again, I think Delores looks so good to me that he can immediately fit into that rotation. 4:49 But that is one of the harder ones I think the Dallas Mavericks to try and figure out 4:53 where all these players fit. 4:55 Let's go to Denver. 4:58 The headmaster Jamal Murray 35 minutes. 5:01 Easy lock that in. 5:02 Christian Brown at 30 minutes. 5:03 Cameron Johnson at 32. 5:05 I've been impressed with Johnson's preseason and I think he's worth picking late in 5:08 drafts, especially category leagues. 5:10 I'm only putting Aaron Gordon down at 28 minutes. 5:13 He could easily play more, and this is not just for what is the very first game of the 5:18 season. 5:18 It's just the beginning of the year. 5:19 There will be some games where they go harder, some games where they go a little bit softer. 5:22 But I'm going to Gordon at 28 again, just trying to keep the calf and the hamstring 5:26 from blowing up again. 5:28 And then Big Chungus, Nikolay Okic at 35 minutes. 5:30 I'm only given Demarda Rosen at 25 minutes. 5:33 I don't think that's enough for him to be a standard League relevant player. 5:36 Spencer Jones has been injured, it looks like he'll be available though. 5:38 I've got him at 18 minutes 5:40 Marvin Bagley at 13 minutes and Tyre-Stones at 13 minutes to back up point guard and center Murray and Joakic 5:45 I don't think there's really much crossover with those guys 5:48 And then I am throwing Trayvon Brazil into the rotation. It could be Alfa Diallo. I think Brazil's 5:54 Preseason has been much better 5:56 He's looked like a player that could easily just move into a Peyton Watson role 6:01 Maybe as late as early as late this season. I don't know 6:03 I've been super impressed with his finishing and his defensive stuff. 6:09 So I'm giving a slight benefit of the doubt there to Brazil being in the rotation, but 6:13 it could be Diallo who's in that spot there. 6:15 It won't be Strouda. 6:16 He's out for at least six weeks with a knee sprain, so no more Julian Strouda for a while. 6:23 Now let's talk about the Golden State Warriors and we just got the news again just as 6:26 I went to air here. 6:28 As I was redoing the graphics for the Kings, we got the Steph Curry news that 6:31 So he at open practice slipped and twisted his knee and hobbled to the locker room. 6:36 Now I don't think that it's a significant long-term injury, but it does lead into these 6:42 problems of why I am baiting Curry. 6:43 They are going to be bad. 6:45 Curry has had a lot of knee problems. 6:48 They said out loud they are going to be managing his minutes and it's going to 6:52 be a very sort of slow and deliberate process. 6:55 And now this happens. 6:59 I'm not sure he missed this time but I'm almost not even considering Steph 7:04 inside the top 40 now. I do have Steph projected at 33 minutes but I didn't 7:10 redo this graphic after that injury dropped so that might be 31 or 32. I've 7:15 got Pajemski at 32 and Guy Santos Alhelper at 29 minutes. Remember the 7:19 warriors are going to be missing Pozingas, Butler and Moody to start 7:23 the season so I'm not including them in any of this. I've got Santos at 29, 7:26 Yaxle Lenderborg at 30 minutes, and then I do think they start Draymond Green at 7:31 center more often than not, but I'm only playing him 28 minutes. If Curry does miss, 7:38 you'll see a lot more D'Anthony Melton and he'll become usable. I've got him at 7:41 20 minutes only here. Willie Dick, Will Richard at 17 minutes. He would play 7:44 more. And I've got Horford at 21, and the Horford Bassey-Draymond scenario is 7:48 one that I don't really know about yet. I think they'll start Draymond 7:52 because you want Santos in that starting group. But they started Bassey 7:56 in the last pre-season game. He played 8 minutes only. So it's a little bit tough. 8:00 I got Hawford at 21, I got Brandon Williams at 15 who'd also become at 8:04 least a deep league pick up if Steph misses. And I do have Bassey at 15 minutes 8:08 but this is the foreseeable future legend here, Steve Kerr. Bassey might play 20, 8:13 he might play 10, he might play 0 and it's all Dreymond and Hawford. We just 8:17 don't know. We really don't know how they're gonna do it and then 8:20 Melton and Richard and Williams could pick up if they don't go with both 8:23 of Horford and Bassey coming off the bench. 8:26 It's a tough one to try and figure out 8:28 and further complicated by this fresh news of Steph 8:32 injuring his knee to at least some extent. 8:36 Houston Rockets are a team that I think 8:37 will run a nine man rotation. 8:39 Fred Van Blythe, they said that there's no restriction on him. 8:42 They'll be careful on back to backs. 8:44 Now, I don't think that that means back 8:46 to 36 minutes for Van Blythe, 8:47 but it is Imo Yudoka and he's done that in the past. 8:50 So, I'm going somewhat conservatively at 33 for Fred and he's a great late picking drafts. 8:57 A men Thompson at 36 and Kevin Durant at 35 see no reason why they would be lower than 9:02 that. 9:02 They could be higher even. 9:04 Jabari Smith at 33 and then the delicate dancer Alperin Shangoon at 32 minutes. 9:08 Why do I have Shangoon at 32? 9:10 Well we know what MAO jerk is like. 9:12 That any inkling of any poor defence by anyone on the court, he has his targets to 9:17 blame and one of them is Shangoon. 9:18 and he's got options of Adams and Smith to play at center which gives him the 9:24 opportunity to bench Shangoon which he does often so I've only got 32 for 9:28 Shangoon and you'll also notice again this is really hard to do and I'm only 9:33 using a nine-man rotation here but the bench minutes are tough man the guys 9:37 that everyone loves to pick late I don't think it's going to work I've 9:41 got Marcus Smart at 22 minutes he's not one of the guys people love to 9:44 draft but I think that given his history with Yudoka and what he brings I think 9:50 he's gonna be used a lot. I've got Tarri next season at 20 minutes because how 9:55 do I get extra playing time? Especially when you look at the fact that I've got 9:58 Reed Shepard only at 15. And maybe you say yeah if Everley plays 30 they take 10:04 four away from Durant and a man Thompson gets reduced but have you 10:06 met him at Yudoka? He's not doing that I don't think. He also the 10:11 The Tauracy does not like playing Reed Shepard, and he has got many other options. 10:16 So again, if you want to give Eason 26 minutes, find the extra 6. 10:20 If you want to give Reed Shepard 24 minutes, find the extra 9, because I can't. 10:25 And I've got Steve Adams at 14 minutes, so not even all of the backup center minutes 10:29 behind Shangoon. 10:31 And that is a 9 man rotation. 10:34 That is incredibly hard to get Eason and Shepard, who might be the 7th and 8th 10:39 men in this rotation. Enough playing time to matter for 12 team leagues. I just, it's 10:44 very hard to see how that works out. 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If you haven't seen it, news on Steph 13:26 Curry hurting his knee I have no updates on it at this point whether it's how 13:31 serious it is or anything like that it doesn't I don't think it's serious but 13:36 we're not quite I don't quite know that yet but the one for Ben Simmons is 13:41 confirmed torn Achilles season over let's go to the LA Clippers next and I'm 13:48 doing this with no Max Truce no Brad Beale no Brandon Ingram and no Yannick 13:53 Conan and Nita Halza. 13:54 They're gonna be out for a while. 13:57 So I'm going Darius Garland at 33 minutes. 14:00 I think given all those injuries 14:01 that Keaton Waggler will start. 14:03 I think that would have been Max Struess. 14:05 But I think it'll be Waggler. 14:05 I've got 28 minutes for Waggler. 14:07 Derek Jones Jr. at 28 minutes. 14:10 And then the Impitzu, Rui Hachimura at 31. 14:14 Impitzu. 14:16 This might be the first time ever that I'm like, 14:18 hey, maybe we can draft Rui in category leagues. 14:21 And then starting at center, 14:22 I've got Isaiah Jackson at 26 minutes. Could be more, could be less. Coming off the bench, 14:28 Colonel Kobe Sanders at 22 minutes and Chris Dunn at 23 minutes. The only guy I could see 14:33 starting over Wuggler would be Dunn, but I don't know how Tyler's going to approach that. 14:39 I've got Dick for 18 minutes. Grady also expected to play 18 minutes in my rotations here 14:45 and I've got Brooke Lopez at 22 minutes to back up Isaiah Jackson and then I think the 14:49 final spot will go to Bubba Miller at 9 minutes, just a name to watch for very 14:52 deep leagues. We've also got of course, you know, all those players coming back 14:56 like Conan Neiderhouse, Abiel, Streuss, Ingram at some point that have got to fit 15:02 into this rotation. So this is the early part of the season rotation and 15:05 they've still got a lot of questions they need to answer. For the Lakers, 15:09 let's just go a pair of 36 minutes for Don Chichin Reeves, Quentin Grimes at 31 15:13 and I believe it has been confirmed that Zaire Williams will be the 15:17 starting 4, I don't think that means 30 minutes. I think it's still going to be a 15:20 very messy rotation. So I've got Zaire starting with 23 minutes and Walker 15:24 Kessler at 31. I think Sundarum and McKellishvili is still worth having on 15:29 12 team rosters, but I'm only predicting at 22 minutes. That may not end up being 15:33 enough. Jake LaRavia, if he'd been a starter, I'd be somewhat interested but I 15:37 find it hard to get him to 20. I've got him at 16. I've got Colin Sexton 15:41 if he's available at 18 minutes. Matisse Liable at 19 minutes and 15:45 And Kavon Looney, for some reason, at 8 minutes. 15:49 I would hope they don't play Looney, but I just get the feeling they'll get him out there 15:53 for those 8 minutes. 15:54 Maybe it's Vanderbilt, but it does seem for whatever reason that Looney is ahead of him. 15:58 So that's where we're at with that Lakers rotation. 16:04 The Memphis Grizzlies. 16:05 With this one, opposite to Houston, I'm going 11 men. 16:08 It's Thomas Isolo. 16:09 Thomas Isolo. 16:10 This is what he likes to do. 16:11 So I've got Milk Jerome at 26 minutes. 16:13 If Tide Drone hits 30 minutes, that is a top 30 player. 16:17 I've got Jalen Wells at 25, and I've got the chicken. 16:21 Cedric Coward, kooka ka-cha! 16:23 At 28 minutes. 16:25 Cam Buzza only at 29, 16:27 mainly because I just don't know 16:28 how Islo's gonna run his rotations. 16:30 Buzza should play 30 too, he looks awesome. 16:32 But at the moment I'm going 29, 16:34 and I'm going 26 for Zac Edie. 16:36 Coming off the bench, Jeremy Grant, 16:37 not really draughtable at 26 minutes. 16:39 I've got Greg Jackson II at 17. 16:42 I've got Cam Spencer at 16 and Scotty Pippen at 17, sorry, but I like Pippen a lot. 16:50 But to get to 24 minutes to be a standard league guy, that means Spencer wouldn't play or maybe 16:57 those 10 minutes I've got in Hendricks wouldn't be there. 16:59 That's possible. 17:01 I'm going 11 deep. 17:02 There's no Isaiah Stude in this. 17:04 He's out for a few more weeks. 17:05 So I've got Quitten Post at 20 minutes and Taylor Hendricks at 10. 17:09 just to give a little bit of extra in the forward depth department but maybe they 17:14 go 10 deep Jackson Hendricks doesn't play and those 10 minutes you get six of 17:18 them onto Pippen and four of them onto Jackson to get to 21 and 23 for Pippen 17:23 that that's that's a possibility there as well with the way that that 17:27 rotation could look but we just don't know how Eslo's gonna handle it in 17:32 Minnesota I think this one's pretty straightforward I got Lamello at 32 17:35 two and Anthony Edwards at 35. I heard John Krasinski dunked on the other day. They were 17:40 talking about Lamello Ball's minutes. He said, I do not think this team is going to baby him 17:43 and give him protection on those minutes the way that they did in Charlotte, which is my 17:47 thought on it as well. They did not trade for him to play him 28 minutes a night. So I think 17:51 he's going full starters minutes or close enough and at least 32. And I've got it 35. 17:58 Dude, that sounded so Aussie there. 18:00 And, and, Jada McDaniels at 33. 18:04 I've only got the bucket Johnny Kaminga at 26, 18:06 because I think he's gonna start, 18:07 but I don't think he's gonna close. 18:09 So I don't think he's gonna play the full starters low. 18:12 Get that into your bucket. 18:13 Rudy Gobert, I've got it at 33 minutes. 18:17 Rudy Gobert, Rudy Gobert. 18:25 And then coming off the bench, 18:27 Io Dussumu at 28 minutes, 18:29 who I think will play more than Kaminga 18:30 and will be in closing lineups. 18:31 and 28 minutes is probably enough to grab him in late rounds, I just don't like him in round 9 or 10. 18:37 Terence Shannon at 18, Yoarm Beranget playing the 15 minutes behind Gobert, that's not enough 18:42 outside of streaming to be useful in standard formats. I've got Trey Lyles at 10 and The Big 18:48 Stiffy, the 5 minute man. Bones Highland at 10 minutes as well. Jaylen Clark might get in there 18:53 at some point and maybe they don't use Lyles but I think they will, their forward depth is 18:57 is putrid, so that's how I've got Minnesota looking 19:01 with that rotation. 19:04 The New Orleans Pelicans, yeah, good luck. 19:07 I've got DeChante Murray just sitting at 31. 19:09 Now, it's because he just hasn't played 19:12 in the preseason with this toe issue. 19:14 I think he can get to 33, but this is another one 19:17 of the ones where you look at everyone's minutes 19:18 and you go, I'll play more, I'll play more. 19:21 And I go, yeah, like how though? 19:24 How will this happen? 19:25 I don't know. 19:26 I've got Murray at 31. I've got Herb Jones at only 26. I've got Trey Murphy at 33, 19:33 Zion at 29, and Old Lang Zyne Legend at New Year's Eve Misi at 25 minutes as the 19:39 starter. I'm going with Jeremiah Fiers at 27 minutes off the bench. I think Fiers 19:44 look really good in preseason but he won't play 22 because you'll see some 19:48 of the minutes I've given to other players and maybe this just doesn't 19:50 work. I've got the Le Cheval, the Depressed Penis, Sadiq Bay at 24 minutes only, and I've 19:57 got the Blizzard Derrick Yass Queen at 20. Again, both of those guys are like, well Bay 20:01 should play 30, Queen should play 26. Yeah, how though? Again, very easy to say they'll 20:08 just go with a nine man rotation. Will they though? I don't think they will. Because 20:12 my other two guys, again, Ben Mather and 15 minutes. Should easily probably get 20:17 23 but how the easy target is fears plays 20 minutes but I don't know why 20:25 they would do that but they could and I've got Jordan pool sliding it as the 20:29 10th man for 10 minutes but it's it's all seems ridiculous Murray seems too low 20:35 Joan seems too low Queen seems too low I actually think the Bay 20:40 Matheram even fears I think seems a little low but they can't all play this 20:45 This is why it's going to be an annoying team to try and deal with during this season because 20:50 you figure it out like this again, get your pen and paper out, scribble stuff down. 20:54 You figure this out because I don't, I can't work out how the minutes can align. 20:59 And it's a tough task for Jamal Mosley to get guys in the minutes we think they should 21:05 play and get them to play them. 21:08 The Thunder Shay 33 minutes, the Hong Kong mattress case and Wallace 30, the Bronco 21:14 Jalen Williams 32 minutes. I have no idea what to expect from Chet Holmgren. He just hasn't played in 21:21 the preseason. I've got him at 29 and that's sort of what I expect as a regular thing, but 21:26 opening night he might only play like 26. I've got Hartenstein at 26 minutes there 21:32 and then coming off the bench I've got AJ Mitchell at 28. I was very underwhelmed with 21:37 Mitchell's preseason and it does worry me that a lot of what Mitchell did last season 21:42 was when multiple players were out and when they all came back he played like 25 minutes and did 21:46 nothing. Now Dort Wiggins and Jail were all gone but still like I've got him at 28 minutes there 21:51 and there's going to be players in this rotation that you say well he's got to play more and again 21:54 how because I've got Jared McCain at only 20 minutes. He shouldn't be touched in any sort of 16 22:00 team league but people will suggest he should play more. I've got Pig Williams, Big Jail in 22:07 Williams at 13 minutes. 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I've got Rochia Fleming for nine minutes 26:58 They did bring in dwap wreath on a two-way 27:00 But I don't think he's gonna be a part of it every night rotation 27:03 But Fleming can play some center as well and I can go small also with miles bridges at center 27:07 That's why the Igadaro and mother watch minutes don't add up to 48 27:10 But of course, maybe they will maybe they'll push it to that number 27:14 The next team is the Portland trailblazers. I just I'm gonna throw this up there 27:19 And I'm going to tell you, I don't know how this backcourt is going to look. 27:25 As of today, the 19th of October for me, I've got Lillard playing 32 minutes. 27:30 He will start. 27:31 Done. 27:32 I've actually got Drew Holiday next to him at 28 minutes, and I don't feel good about 27:35 that at all. 27:36 I've got Tamani Kamara and Denny Avdia both at 33 minutes, locked those in. 27:40 And I've got Donny Klingon at 28. 27:42 But that other spot I just don't know. 27:44 I've got Tamitrius Marant at 27 minutes and Sterling Henderson at 26 coming off the bench. 27:51 Either of those guys starts, we get more intrigued, I'm not sure that Drew is worth a 12 team 27:57 roster position at the moment, I don't think Scoot is, Marant probably is, but I think 28:02 it's going to be pretty frustrating. 28:05 Got the Rock DJ Robbie Williams at 20 minutes who's an interesting blocks stream guy, and 28:09 then their team is so shallow and somehow they still cut Jeremy Sohan that after 28:13 After that first eight, it is bad. 28:16 It's Vitt Crachy and CD Sasoko. 28:18 So I tried to pump most of the minutes into the top eight, 28:20 but I don't know Mike and Nori's philosophy on this. 28:22 I've got Crachy at eight minutes and Sasoko at five. 28:25 But I don't know. 28:27 Are we gonna get Jason Kent out there? 28:29 The big fella Chris Youngblood? 28:31 John Tongee? 28:33 That's the other options, 28:34 because everyone else is a center. 28:36 So it's gonna be tough. 28:38 Speaking of tough, it's been a rough go for Ben Simmons. 28:43 Back surgeries, mental health stuff, year out of basketball, professional bass fishermen. 28:49 And now after looking excellent in the last preseason game, allegedly 28:53 securing a starting spot for Sacramento, he's 20s Achilles today. 28:57 So the season is over. 28:58 He'll be 31 by the time next season rolls around. 29:00 And you really worry about him playing ever again in the NBA, to be honest. 29:05 I had it all set for simmers to even get up to 27 minutes 29:08 and actually be worth a 12 team look. 29:10 And now I don't think so. 29:14 obviously he's not. I was thinking about somebody else at that point. He is not worth it, right? 29:19 You're not even worth it. You cannot draft Ben Simmons and drop him immediately if you've 29:23 got him. I don't have Maxime Reignot or Dylan Cardwell in this rotation because they're 29:28 going to be out a few weeks at least to begin the season. So I'm going with Acuff 29:33 at 32, Levine at 32. Simmons being out bumps a little bit more value into Sabonis, 29:39 into Acuff and into Levine. 29:42 All right, at this point, 29:43 I've got Deandre Hunter stepping into Simmons's spot 29:45 at 29 minutes. 29:46 We do not draft Deandre Hunter. 29:49 Now, it could be, it could be Precious Atua, 29:52 but the reason I'm not putting Precious Atua in there 29:54 is that who the hell is gonna be their backup center? 29:58 I think it's gonna be Precious. 30:01 I've got Hunter at 29, Keegan Murray at 34, 30:03 and Demonta Sabonis at 33. 30:06 I've got Atua at 24, 30:07 and I've got Malik Monk at 21. 30:09 Now a lot of people also thought that when Simmons went down they asked me this on Twitter 30:12 Hey, is this me in a big moment for Malik Monk? I'm not... I don't really think so 30:16 I would love it to be but that is not because I don't think Monk is good enough 30:20 I do. It's I think the coach isn't good enough to be able to understand to play him in because I also think 30:26 That Simmons was going to be playing basically like a four and not a point guard 30:31 It was gonna be Acuff Levine back court 30:34 Murray Simmons front court 30:37 So, Simmons out, Hunter in. 30:39 It does mean a little bit more for Monk to do, but I'm not sure it's going to be the 30:43 26 that we need for him to be a 12 team guy. 30:46 I've only got him at 21. 30:47 I've got Nick Clifford at 16, Dayquan Plowden at 9, and John Moebo at 10, just to give 30:54 some depth in the front court. 30:58 Which Cardwell and Reyno will come in eventually, but that's again when we get to the 31:02 the problem of rostering Reyno, 31:05 when Simone is still there, 31:06 how does he possibly play enough minutes? 31:07 Cause he's still gonna have to get a chore in there 31:09 and Hunter and Clifford, your guests and maybe Monk. 31:14 It's really quite difficult, 31:15 but that is honestly heartbreaking stuff for Ben Simmons 31:18 on the verge of a comeback 31:19 where we started to look really good 31:21 and now you just don't know where it goes. 31:23 That's bad. 31:25 San Antonio Spurs, Fox Harper Castle all starting, 31:29 31 minutes for all three of them is what I've got. 31:31 I've got Devin Vasell at 28 minutes, 31:33 and then the big foul of Victor Merminyama at 33. 31:36 I don't know whether the thick Hogsman, 31:37 Toby Harris is gonna be available, 31:38 but I'll put him there at 20 minutes. 31:40 And I think he probably can get to 25, 31:42 but also there's, if he's not starting, 31:44 there is no guarantee in that. 31:46 I've got Julian Champani at 24, Alcabayo, the horse, 31:50 Kelden Johnson at 15. 31:51 And again, this is where I go, 31:52 well, okay, Harris could play 26. 31:55 Champani, he could be a 29 minute player. 31:58 Kelden Johnson, the reigning sixth man of the year, 32:00 and you've got him at 15 minutes. 32:01 Yeah because how else do I do it? Where else where do the minutes go? 32:06 Because Harris Champagne are clearly better than Kelton Johnson. 32:09 How does he play? I've got Luc Cornette at 13 minutes, which is not even all of the back up 32:16 minutes behind Wemby because I think they'll go occasionally with some random Harris at center 32:20 lineups. And then I do just sneaking in so I can play the sound as the 10th man playing 32:26 14 minutes, the pencil, Harrison Barnes. 32:29 Barnesy! 32:35 And that's the San Antonio Spurs. 32:37 Which leaves us one more team. 32:40 And that is the Utah Jazzmen. 32:42 And I'm not including use of Nurkic in this lineup. 32:45 Qiontay George, 33 minutes. 32:48 Darren Daz Peterson. 32:51 DP. 32:53 The double stuff. 32:56 29 minutes. 32:58 I've got a... 32:59 Mm, mm, mm, mm. 33:01 Can I call him the Kmart thong, the double plugger? 33:04 That works. The Kmart thong. Darren Peterson. 33:10 Larry Markin in at 33 minutes. Jaren Jackson at 31. And then Jackson Hayes starting at center 33:15 for 22 minutes would be a blocks in field goal percent streamer. I've got Eris Bailey at 29 33:20 minutes. Josh Akogi at 19. And Isaiah Collier at 14 only. Is Collier better than that? Like, 33:26 I would argue maybe not, but some would. I got Bryce Sensible at just 15 minutes.
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