Welcome into the Friday edition of the Value Index.
Tonight we have a smaller Friday night slate than usual with just 7 games on tap. For today’s Value Index, I am most certainly going to be focus on PF/C. There are a lot of great plays at these two positions tonight and I hope I can help you decipher why you should pick player A over player B, or something of that nature.
I don’t want to ramble on too much here, so I am going to go directly to today’s picks. Look around for the Weighted Consensus to see where the experts around the industry are looking at for roster construction.
Time to get started!
Nikola Jokic – PF/C – Denver Nuggets – $8,400 – 5x = 42 FP
Analysis: We have yet to see that ceiling game from the Joker this season. Last year it was 50-60 fantasy points nearly every night. He’s got a 47-point effort under his belt this season, but the production on this Nuggets team has been spread out so far. But the Nuggets get the Atlanta Hawks, a team full of role players that have played well so far. Jokic is an athletic big man that can run up and down the floor with anyone. The Hawks are one of the worst teams in allowing fantasy points to centers, 62.4 FPPG to be exact. There’s not a big man on this Atlanta team that can challenge Jokic down low or anywhere really. I can really see some easy boards for him and the team funneling some extra shots his way due to his matchup.
LaMarcus Aldridge – PF/C – San Antonio Spurs – $8,200 – 5x = 41 FP
Analysis: No Kawhi Leonard? Good. LaMarcus Aldridge leads the team in usage rate this season, a product of the absence of Leonard and even Tony Parker. He has a 30 percent usage rate, one of the best in the league. The Spurs are on the road tonight taking on the Orlando Magic, a team that typically struggles with power forwards and other big men. Orlando has allowed 51.8 fantasy points per game to PF this season and that is good for 9th in the NBA in FP allowed to the position.
