NBA Showdown $500K Game 7 Special [$100K to 1st] (SAS at OAK)<\/a><\/p>\nCaptain\u2019s Picks<\/p>\n
Jared McCain ($7,800 CP): With Jalen Williams and Ajay Mitchell both sidelined, the Thunder need a secondary playmaker and shot taker, as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been getting smothered. McCain has been that guy with a usage rate around 28% this series. The shooting efficiency has been rough, but most importantly, he\u2019s not gun shy and the environment isn\u2019t too big for him. It\u2019s within the range of outcomes that he gets hot and puts up a ceiling game. It really comes down to hitting shots because there is no doubt that he\u2019s going to hoist em up. In Game 3, he attempted 21 shots and finished with 24 points, good for 31 FPTS. An encouraging sign last game was the six assists and two steals. Role players often play better at home. This is McCain\u2019s time to shine.<\/p>\n
UTIL Plays<\/p>\n
Stephon Castle ($8,800): The outside shooting is the big bugaboo for Castle, but he still hoists em up with no hesitation. He\u2019s going to get plenty of good looks and has had games in which he\u2019s tickled the twine, so there\u2019s upside from a points perspective. Why I like Castle so much is because he\u2019s tough as nails, can get to the paint, rebounds, dishes out dimes and rarely gets rattled. He played in tons of high-level games in college and I think he plays with a fury and responds to everything OKC throws at him. He\u2019s put up at least 35 FPTS in five of the six games with two over 40 FPTS. The one game he \u201cmissed\u201d was 29.8 FPTS.<\/p>\n
Jaylin Williams ($3,000): Which Williams will we get in this one? He\u2019s played fewer than 18 minutes in three games and gone over 21 minutes in the other three contests. He has three games with 10 or fewer FPTS, but has three over 13 FPTS, including a high of 32.2 FPTS. His greatest asset is the ability to make it rain from downtown, and I think that skill will be needed to combat the vice-like half court defense of the Spurs. <\/p>\n
Victor Wembanyama ($13,000): Wembanyama has two games this series with 38 and 41.5 FPTS. In the other four contests, he went over 55 FPTS in each with three over 60 and a high of 84 FPTS. Even if he doesn\u2019t match salary expectations, he\u2019s going to put up raw points, but his ability to literally stuff the stat sheet in every statistical category makes the floor\/ceiling combo appealing. <\/p>\n
Fades<\/p>\n
De\u2019Aaron Fox ($7,800): Fox missed the first two games of this series due to an ankle injury. He re-aggravated the injury in Game 3, but played 31, 31, 33 and 26 minutes since. Unfortunately, he hasn\u2019t been right, shooting 10-for-37 and not exhibiting the meep meep Roadrunner speed. High ankle sprains are tough to play with and linger for quite some time, so it\u2019s been admirable that Fox has been playing, especially since he\u2019s been able to stabilize the offense and help the Spurs not turn over the ball so much. That\u2019s good for real life but not great for fantasy.<\/p>\n
The Outcome<\/p>\n
It\u2019s crazy how far the pendulum has swung from game to game in this series, especially recently. Oklahoma City looked so inept in games four and six (credit to the Spurs) but have hummed and put up at least 122 points in the other four contests. Most of those were at home, and that\u2019s where we are at for Game 7. <\/p>\n
Final Score: Thunder 117, Spurs 111<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stan Son gives his top NBA DFS lineup advice for Saturday\u2019s NBA Showdown contest on DraftKings between the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85,4048],"class_list":["post-703744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703744","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=703744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}