Bryan Armetta breaks down Tuesday\u2019s one-game featured NBA playoffs DFS slate to find two undervalued players to slot into your lineups.<\/p>\n
The Eastern Conference Finals get started this evening, with the Knicks hosting the Cavaliers. On this one-game featured NBA DFS slate, every decision matters for fantasy managers. Superstars will take the court tonight, including Karl-Anthony Towns ($10,800), Donovan Mitchell ($10,400), Jalen Brunson ($10,200) and James Harden ($10,000).<\/p>\n
As previously mentioned, options are limited tonight. Still, there\u2019s several under the radar names that are worth consideration in this one. Snagging a few low-cost role players could boost any lineup this evening. Which bargains deserve a closer look ahead of Tuesday\u2019s Cleveland-New York matchup?<\/p>\n
Set your\u00a0DraftKings<\/a>\u00a0fantasy basketball lineups here: NBA Showdown $400K Shootaround [$100K to 1st] (CLE @ NYK)<\/a><\/p>\n C Mitchell Robinson, New York Knicks ($4,400)<\/p>\n Despite his reputation as New York\u2019s x-factor, it hasn\u2019t been the busiest postseason for Mitchell Robinson. Granted, it\u2019s not as if the team has needed him to do much during rounds one and two. Through nine playoff games, the big man is averaging 5.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 0.8 blocks (14.9 FPTS). Both Atlanta and Philadelphia employed the hack-a-Mitch strategy to mixed results. Still, the center\u2019s miserable shooting at the line (41 FT%) is something that limits his overall minutes. It\u2019ll be interesting to see if Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson goes with a similar approach in this series.<\/p>\n Even with his free-throw struggles, Robinson is capable of dominating in this matchup. Back in 2023, his prowess on the glass proved crucial during New York\u2019s first round victory over the Cavs. Granted, that was three years ago. Opposing bigs Evan Mobley ($8,800) and Jarrett Allen ($7,000) aren\u2019t pushovers, either. Still, as a unit, Cleveland is giving up the 15th-most fantasy points to opposing centers this season. This postseason, the Cavaliers have recorded the third-worst defensive rebounding rate out of all 16 teams. That does\u2019t inspire much confidence when it comes to boxing out one of the sport\u2019s premier offensive rebounders.<\/p>\n SG Sam Merrill, Cleveland Cavaliers ($4,000)<\/p>\n Much like Robinson, it\u2019s been an inconsistent postseason to put it mildly for Sam Merrill. To be fair, that\u2019s to be expected when the vast majority of your production comes from scoring. Over 13 playoff appearances, the guard is putting up 8.1 points, 1.2 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game (12.9 FPTS). Still, he\u2019s shooting 46% from the field and 40% from three-point range during that time. To boot, Merrill is coming off of a 23-point performance (30.8 FPTS) in Game 7 against the Pistons. He\u2019ll look to carry over that momentum tonight in the Eastern Conference Finals.<\/p>\n Although the Knicks are a better team than Detroit, they aren\u2019t as formidable when it comes to guarding the perimeter. New York has allowed 13.6 three-pointers made per game this season, 12th-most in the NBA. Merrill has had some modest success in this spot as well. The sixth-year pro has scored at least 11 points in two of three meetings with the Knicks this season. With Harden and Mitchell drawing in plenty of defensive attention, there should be several open looks from deep for Cleveland\u2019s shooters. At just $4,000, Merrill is a worthwhile dart throw on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Armetta breaks down Tuesday\u2019s one-game featured NBA playoffs DFS slate to find two undervalued players to slot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-681237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}