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This is why I love Pritchard tonight ⬇️ Boston on the 2nd leg of a B2B and has not posted their injury report yet but could have some guys sit against a Brooklyn Nets team they will be heavy favorites against. There have been multiple quotes over the years of Boston giving Pritchard more usage in these situations where they are heavy favorites or they want to give a "Active rest" type of game to their main stars. 2nd leg of a B2B against the Brooklyn Nets fits that perfectly. Jaylen Brown said this about using Pritchard against weaker teams: “We gonna play through Payton, let him go for 30. Play through Sam, let him shoot 10 threes tonight. We gonna still win the game. It doesn’t have to be the normal way, but that gives those guys confidence. That gives those guys the ability to run free. We (are) gonna need that down the line.” He is over in 16/16 games in the L3 seasons where Boston wins on the 2nd leg of a B2B. There is also upside some Boston players sit. When Mazulla was asked about the possibility on the 2nd leg of a B2B last night, he did not shut it down but rather said he would trust the sports science team. Mazulla has coached there for some time now and has rested their stars on B2Bs before. This is Tatum's first full-year coming off an achilles tear and Paul George is significantly older than Jaylen Brown was, so I would not be surprised to see it here.

29 minutes last game thanks to some Myles Turner foul trouble but this is not completely out of nowhere. There were some reports before the seasons started that although Turner would open as the starter, it would not be long before Ware overtakes him if he does his job well. He is averaging roughly one PR every minute on the court and now gets a Pacers matchup with no Zubac and lots of pace. Expect him to be efficient when he is on the floor and I would not be surprised to see 20+ minutes from him even if he is on the bench, or sniff 30 again if he joins the starting lineup after closing the game last time.

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Here is why I love this play⬇️ 9+ Targets in 4 of his last 5 games with 19 and 21 in 2 of his last 3 games. The big game to look at is the Houston game with 21 targets. In that game, they basically did whatever they could to keep Ceedee away from Stingley Jr. and threw to him basically every time it was any other defender. The Eagles play a similar scheme and have their own elite lockdown corner in Quinyon Mitchell. He has also had 10+ targets in all 3 matchups with the Eagles in the last 3 seasons as a divisional game where, just like the Houston game, they had a lot of success and keeping Ceedee Lamb lined up away from Mitchell. Last season everyone yapped that George Pickens might be better than Ceedee Lamb and conveniently ignored that Ceedee Lamb had a high ankle sprain injury. As we frequently see with High Ankle Sprains, we saw a dip in effectiveness for Ceedee when he returned last season, but we have seen the old Ceedee Lamb come back this season, basically getting open on every route and being the priority of the offense. I say all this because although the Single-High safety defense usually funnels targets to both him and Pickens, Dallas should use Pickens as the "Sacrifice" and put him against Mitchell and Woolen often, leaving Ceedee with the softer coverage. We know Dallas is going to want to throw the ball, especially if it means not running at Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis, then everything points to Ceedee. Mitchell is elite and would hurt Pickens. Woolen is actually athletic enough to limit Pickens in his chances. Ferguson is horrible against Cover-1. Flournoy is in a good spot but is not a high-volume option. All roads (targets) lead to Rome (Ceedee Lamb).