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5 NBA FanDuel Value Plays to Target on 1/31/18

Brett Oswalt  —  @bRo14thekid Jan 31st, 2018
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Tristan Thompson, C, Cleveland Cavaliers

FanDuel Price: $4,200
Projected FanDuel Points: 16.6
Projected FanDuel Value: 3.95

Tristan Thompson doesn't have the easiest of matchups tonight. He will go head-to-head with Hassan Whiteside and a slower-paced Miami Heat team, yet there's reason for optimism here.

Kevin Love has been ruled out for the next six-to-eight weeks because of a broken hand, so it's going to be almost impossible for the Cleveland Cavaliers not to roll out Thompson at center each night. In a bigger, grind-it-out kind of game on Wednesday, that should especially be the case -- and we should fully expect Thompson to thrive. Per NBAWowy!, he's averaged 0.85 FanDuel points per minute without Love compared to 0.61 beside him this season.

In the two games he's started and played more than 25 minutes, Thompson has averaged 9 points, 10 rebounds and 23 FanDuel points across 29.1 minutes per game. If he's in there for 25 or more minutes against Whiteside, we should expect a nice payoff from the Cavs center.


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