Fantasy Benchwarmers

We went live yesterday for our usual quickie and answered some questions from you guys! It was sure fun! Something's not right with AD right? If not for the steals and blocks, he has been quite a disappointment. I hope it's just some case of championship hangover. Christian Wood got bit by the dreaded injury bug and his injury would most likely cause him to miss time, probably lots of time. This c...

Okay, I know you are tired of talking about LMA, but hey, for a player you picked probably in the 3rd, 4th or 5th round and currently performing outside of the top 100, it is worrying. Just when we thought he was slowly picking it up, he will get shelved for a few games. So what should we do? Check the full pod to find out. At least John Collins is slowly picking it up as he has sneaked into just...

It's always a question being asked in a lot of fantasy groups - should I drop Chris Boucher? In this quickie we talk about the high upside, low playing time Raptor. What should we do with him? Another Raptor we talked about in the past quickies for poor performances and a possible buy low player played his best game in the NBA - Fred Vanvleet! Robert Covington also played his best game as a Blazer...

After that awesome Jump Through Hoops episode, it's time for Tuesday's Daily Fantasy Quickie. We kick things off with some injury updates - Aaron Gordon will be out 4-6 weeks. Who do you think comes back from injury first Gordon or Caris Levert? What to do if you have a Gordon in your lineup? PJ Washington got injured this morning and this is something his owners will be anxiously waiting for a ti...

It's the love month! And some love was given to Marcus Smart owners after reports came in that he will only miss 1-2 weeks due to calf strain. Pascal Siakam owners are also quite happy with another good performance after a string of missed games and lackluster showing. Russell Westbrook took advantage of Brooklyn's poor defense and exploded for 41 points with usual counting stats and nice percenta...

We did not discuss much about this in the quickie, but did you guys see that game winner by Dame Lillard?! My goodness! Really good defense but much better offense there. He is currently top 4 fantasy player for 9-cat league and really giving his owners a lot to cheer about. The one guy who finally got to play and make his owners relieved and happy is Jimmy Butler. After being out due to COVID, Bu...

In today's quickie, we discussed the surprising inclusion of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George to the Clippers roster after being under the COVID protocol. That got a lot of managers scrambling to get them in their rosters in time for today's game. The biggest question though for today is: Is it time to ride the Hassan Whiteside train once again? Whiteside teased us with two good games in less than 20...

A lot of trade rumors in the NBA have already been circulating social media the past few days so we decided to look into them and assess what will be the impact fantasy-wise of these trades in case they do happen. We talked about Bradley Beal, Andre Drummond, Kevin Love, Lonzo Ball and a few more. Of course like any of our weekly shows, we invited a couple of new found friends, Benny Benitez of pi...

Thank God it's Friday!!! In this quickie we talk about some of our problem players. We started off with the Lakers' Dennis Schroeder and Montrezl Harrell, then the disappointing situation Demarcus Cousins is in. Did you see how bad Kelly Oubre was this morning? He seems to be back to his struggling ways...will this be the Oubre we should expect for the rest of the year? And what about Draymond Gre...

There were a number of good news especially for managers who own Derrick White, Domantas Sabonis and Al Horford. Then there is Pascal Siakam who returned from a mild injury and posted another disappointing stat line. Add him to a list of disappointing all-star level players. Well, at least John Collins and Lamarcus Aldridge gave their owners something to be happy about. Derrick White is about to r...

Remember the NBA Bubble that ended the 2019-2020 season? Remember how good players like Jamal Murray and Donovan Mitchell were? Well, I hate to burst your bubble, but we've been victimized by the bubble performances. Tell us, which bubble stud is living up to the hype? I don't know about you, but we couldn't think of anyone. Oh well. Let's talk about James Harden. Commish Eric has been receiving a...

I can't believe that it has been 5 weeks and we have yet to talk about Luka Doncic! Well, if he shoots his free throws like he did today, we'll probably notice him more. Free throws is the one aspect in his game that many fantasy managers dislike about Luka, and this year he has been pretty decent averaging 76%. Just last week he averaged 80% on his free throws. If keeps this up and add a steal or...

I'm not sure if you still remember, but the Washington Wizards are still part of the NBA and they finally played their first game today after a string of postponements in the past couple of weeks due to COVID outbreak and protocols. We look into the players to use as they slowly get their core players back. If you are a Myles Turner and OG Anunoby owner, rejoice as they gave us some fine fantasy s...

Happy Sunday everyone! In today's quickie, we got tired of talking about underperforming centers so we decided to honor the centers who are overachieving versus their ADPs and other late first rounders who have leapfrogged the early to mid round picks. We focus our attention on Joel Embiid and Nikola Jokic. Without taking into consideration the injury risk, who would you want to own moving forward...

Captain Capela is the story of the day! After his 27 points, 26 rebounds and 5 blocks effort in his last game, Clint Capela followed up with a rare triple double 13 points, 19 rebounds and 10 BLOCKS! His managers sure are quite happy with the way he is playing. As for the rest of us, let's be thankful if he is not in our opponent's team for this week. Trae Young also came back to life after a stri...

We all know Fantasy Basketball is a game, a competition and aside from the usual rules that are set by your fantasy basketball platforms, what other non-written rules should be followed? Is it right to pull out from a trade when a player being traded in fantasy gets injured/traded? Is it okay for competing managers to agree on sitting out players just to preserve the score in H2H battle even befor...

First off, thanks for joining our impromptu/surprise contest today! We hope to do more contests or "pakulo" in the future. Congratulations as well to the winner...check out who won at the start of the quickie. On to the quickie. We look at a bunch of players in the buy low/sell high tiers as well as the waiver pickups (owned in less than 40%) and drop players. We also look into a few trade options...

Nice to see some players returning from injury put up some great stat lines, but none was greater than Clint Capela’s! He was in our trending up list, but like what commish Eric said, we never expected something like this. There were also a couple of firsts today that had fantasy managers observing keenly. It’s the first time the Brooklyn Nets’ Big 3 shared the same ball. The results were nice for...

Sorry for another late upload, I was out this afternoon and dated my wife for dinner so it was tough to squeeze in editing and uploading. Nonetheless, here is your Daily Fantasy Quickie! In today's quickie we discuss the beneficiaries of the Myles Turner injury (though this seems like a short-term one) and why we are a bit worried about Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram. With just 2 games in the slate...

Looks like the excitement of CJ McCollum owners on his hot start will be short-lived as his foot injury will sideline him for about a month and based from Eric’s research that is probably the best case scenario.    We also look into the Cam Johnson/Jae Crowder position battle in Phoenix after they made some surprising lineup changes in today’s game. Washington looks to be doing the herd...

I had a pretty good week in fantasy, despite the setbacks in some of my teams with KAT and Nurk going down. My losses weren't as lopsided except for one so that felt good considering the PPDs this week. To be honest, as commish Eric and I do our daily quickies and weekly podcasts, I feel my fantasy game is improving bit by bit (the bar is not high really). Our discussion also gives me ideas on pos...

*sigh* Another Lamarcus disappointment. Today was even worse as Jakob Poeltl outplayed LMA not only in minutes played but in stats provided. We don’t even know if it’s a buy low “opportunity” still, but with 13 games in, it seems like the expectations should be lowered. Hopefully he won’t end up in the DROP list. Though I won’t be surprised if he did. John Collins is another guy who is putting up...

Another day another COVID casualty. It is quite unfortunate what COVID has done to Karl Anthony-Towns. As if seven family members, including his mom were not enough, now it is KAT who will fight his own battle against the virus. I know fantasy managers are frustrated, but let's just hope he recovers and comes back better. Well, Kyrie's coming back, but the Nets play without James Harden just yet,...

This was a topic that was suggested by one of the supporters of the pod. If your fantasy basketball team is now sitting at the bottom of the standings, what can you do to slowly rise back up and contend for a playoff spot? We make some suggestions on how to assess your performance and what moves you can make. It is not easy, but it is not impossible as well. At times the challenge of moving up fro...

Nurk Alert! Well not a good kind of alert as Nurkic tried to get his fantasy owners a nice block which ended up in him getting injured and will now be out for at least 8 weeks. Just as he was trending up our fantasy radar. It's been a roller coaster season for Nurkic owners, but injuries are a part of the game and we just have to deal with it and find ways to compensate the loss - making this game...