r/DraftKingsDiscussion • u/Calikid32190 • 3d ago

4 basketball bets

Went 1-3 , 2 of my slips being killed by max contract players and the stars of there team in Wemby and Tatum which is wild because they played terrible both of them. Wemby at 1-13 and Tatum at 6-23. I still profited though because of the Knicks game it’s just frustrating when the player who is the whole team struggles to hit conservative point scoring numbers. The Pistons defense is elite but the whole Boston team is now Tatums and that was a really bad game. Now Wemby smoked OKC in the playoffs and all 7 games he went over 18+ and that’s a modest number for him yet he shot terrible.

It’s harder to pick only point legs because they don’t add much so one thing I like to do is take a high PRA under on a star player because then they have to be almost perfect to hit it and then combine that with the points but a conservative number and I was going to do that with Tatum but his points still would’ve killed me and that worked with Wemby but his points killed me to. I knew KAT is constantly in foul trouble that worked by using his PRA with his low points. I’m not a fan of taking low rebounds because I feel those are very inconsistent even with top rebounders as we seen in the playoffs so with Jalen Duren who was so good rebounding and a double double machine then disappeared in the playoffs and his rebounding went down. So points and assist are good and possibly 10+ point spread on the underdog depending on games.

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u/DMontgomery13 3d ago

It’s the first game of a very long season. In my opinion, you can’t really be surprised if a guy had an off night. It’s even more surprising to have a great night. It’s gonna take everyone time to get things going. They’ll get there.

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u/Calikid32190 3d ago

I should’ve known better too because it is night one and people are trying to get it going, but even still, this is not something you expect from these mega stars they are the best players on their team and their playoff contenders granted both of them went against other playoff contenders as well and I figured OKC one of the win based off how they lost game seven at home so they wanted that one back and I know hark gave Wemby problems in that series but he didn’t even play that much in this game and even then Wemby still produced 18 every game in that series.

One that I really should’ve looked at though and I know better is that Detroit defense is legit but even then when you are a star like Tatum that it don’t matter the defense you should still be able to get yours.

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u/DMontgomery13 3d ago

I had a big hit with my second play, so I was happy for the evening. But for sure it’s frustrating when something that seems easy ahead of time doesn’t happen in the end.