Flashy Stats Fantasy Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Welcome back to the Flashy Stats Fantasy Podcast! We come to you today after a months-long hiatus with our unfiltered (after all, season two of FSFP is edit-free, so our takes are right off the dome) thoughts on the top prospects for the 2021 NBA draft. Following where we think players will land in the draft, we talk through the following upcoming rookies:

1. Cade Cunningham

2. Jalen Green

3. Evan Mobley

4. Jalen Suggs

5. Jonathan Kuminga

6. Scottie Barnes

7. Davion Mitchell

8. James Bouknight

9. Moses Moody

10. Keon Johnson

We talk on some other players with rising draft stock coming out of the NBA combine and NCAA tournament like Ziaire Williams (who, by the way, did not get into a train crash… you’ll see once you listen to the episode), Tre Mann, and Jalen Johnson, as well as other prospects that we’re not huge fans of, such as Franz Wagner, Josh Giddey, and for some, Kai Jones.

We answer the burning questions going into the 2021 Draft: Should the Houston Rockets pair Evan Mobley with Christian Wood, or create a high-scoring, soup throwing backcourt by pairing Jalen Green with Kevin Porter Jr.? Is it worth it for the Oklahoma City Thunder to take Scottie Barnes at 6, or do they look for a backcourt mate for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander like Mitchell or Moody? Do the Orlando Magic take Kuminga at 5 and the best available guard at 8th, take two guards at 5 and 8, or even trade up with the Cavaliers? Who is the most NBA-ready player for the Golden State Warriors to add at 7? Is Troy Weaver the G.O.A.T. (spoiler alert: yes)? All this and much more comes with the inaugural episode of FSFP season two. We hope that you enjoy the listen!

Oh, elephant in the room – we will be touching on the NBA Playoffs in a future episode. This has been a super exciting playoffs despite all of the injuries to stars like Giannis, Trae Young, Kawhi Leonard, James Harden… well, mostly everyone… and after we know which teams are in the Finals (hopefully after tonight – Go Bucks), we’ll recap the playoffs and all of its fantasy basketball implications. Until then, enjoy this episode, and we’ll be back next week!

In today’s episode of the Flashy Stats Fantasy Podcast, we discuss and debate the latest news and trends in the world of fantasy basketball and the NBA.

We have created a template, splitting the episode into four unique segments, that will remain relatively similar for each week of the rest of the fantasy season – let us know if you have any ideas or criticism for how we can improve this format going forward!

Current news events:

• Derrick Rose was traded to the Knicks from the Pistons for Dennis Smith Jr. and a pick – whose value will this affect? (Immanuel Quickley, Elfrid Payton)
  
• Free KD! – Kevin Durant under COVID protocol while the rest of the Nets team continues to play + potential fantasy replacements for KD
  
• Injuries to: Christian Wood, Larry Nance Jr., Marcus Smart, Lamarcus Aldridge, OG Anunoby, Deandre Hunter – Players whose value will be impacted by these injuries + who to keep on your team and who you can drop
  

Re-cap of last week’s games:

• Tyrese Haliburton and LaMelo Ball (now a starter) headline the Rookie of the Year conversation with great weeks
  
• Ridiculous performances by Steph Curry, both Nikola’s (Vucevic and Jokic), Fred Vanvleet, and… Kelly Oubre? Am I reading this thing right?
  
• Pascal Siakam aka Spicy P becomes Jalapeño P with a great week
  
• Stormin’ Norman Powell keeps rollin’
  
• “PWilly” Patrick Williams is the love of Giuseppe’s life (can he get Mike on board the PWilly train? Coming after this commercial break)
  
• Gary Trent Jr. and Thaddeus Young enter fantasy relevance due to key injuries on the Trail Blazers and Bulls
  
• Draymond Green continues to make his last name ironic by getting every fantasy stat but points + the weirdest stat line of all time?
  

Predictions for next week and beyond:

• That’s why they call him Chris Boucher (he’s back)
  
• Someone’s gotta step up on the Orlando Magic – 4/5 starters injured (Free Vuc) – Chuma Okeke, Dwayne Bacon, Mo Bamba?
  
• All those players people have been picking up in Memphis are going to lose their value as the team gets healthier
  
• Vince triples down on his take that Michael Porter Jr. is overrated for fantasy
  
• Buy low on Seth Curry
  
• Joe Harris stock is going to the moon
  
• It may be time to drop Immanuel Quickley soon
  

Potential pick-ups and advice to win your week:

• Jakob Poeltl
  
• Patrick Williams
  
• Stash Caris Levert, pair with Jeremy Lamb
  
• Ride the wave of Anthony Edwards and Eric Gordon
  
• Pick up Kyle Anderson, drop Dillon Brooks (unless you don’t care about FG%)
  
• Leave Justin Holiday and Cody Zeller on the waivers
  
• T.J. McConnell is an excellent steals and assists streamer
  
• Hamidou it – with SGA and Maledon out, it’s Diallo’s backcourt now!
  

In this episode, we look forward to the NBA Draft by prospecting the different players, both collegiate and international, that are projected to be drafted in this year's lottery + beyond. We talk through the prospective top 3 - Anthony Edwards, James Wiseman, and LaMelo Ball - plus some of our favorites out of this year's draft class, including Killian Hayes, Deni Avdija, Onyeka Okongwu (007), Obi Toppin, and Patrick Williams. Mike gives us our daily dose of sleepers (if you're impatient and want to know now, he's loving Devin Vassell, R.J. Hampton, and Jaden McDaniels), and we each put out our own personal top 5 rookies going into the draft, as well as our thoughts on who the Detroit Pistons, our home team, should take.

If you want to learn more about the next class of NBA rookies and the future superstars of our league, this episode is a must-listen. We debate, inform, and talk up most of the players in the draft - check it out and let us know if we got it wrong or right!

If you enjoy this episode and want to be notified for future ones, please make sure to subscribe to the podcast below, as well as follow us on Twitter @FlashyStatsPod and on Instagram @flashystatsfantasysports. The NBA offseason is really picking up steam, and we've got to wrap up our NBA top small forwards series, so stay tuned for our next couple of episodes, which we'll be devoting to talking about our opinions on all that!

In this episode, we continue to talk through our top 25 fantasy basketball small forwards for the 2020-21 NBA season. These are some of the most fun players to talk about, and we debate (actually, there was a lot more agreement than normal on this one) about the placement and fantasy value of:

12. TJ Warren

11. Andrew Wiggins

10. Tobias Harris

9. Kelly Oubre

8. Jonathan Isaac

7. Khris Middleton

Everyone had an opinion on every guy on this list - almost all of them were someone's near favorite or near least favorite small forward in the league - and this conversation was a ton of fun for us! We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

If you liked this episode and want to be notified for future ones, please make sure to subscribe to the podcast below, as well as follow us on Twitter @FlashyStatsPod and on Instagram @flashystatsfantasysports. The NBA Draft is coming up this week, and the offseason is really picking up steam, so stay tuned for our next episode, which we'll be devoting to talking about our opinions on all that!

Ok, first thing's first - if you are Tony Snell, Cameron Johnson, or Doc Rivers, do not click on this episode. You will leave upset. If you're anyone else, join us for this installment of our rankings series, where we analyze and debate who the best small forwards will be for the 2020-21 season. Mike's voice is dead for this one (if you're wondering why he sounds like Nick Saban), but that doesn't stop us from putting him on the ropes with some of his hottest takes. We get through a lot of great players here, and had a lot of fun with this one - we hope you enjoy it too!

18. OG Anunoby

17. Duncan Robinson

16. Bojan Bogdanovic

15. Gordon Hayward

14. Danilo Gallinari

13. Robert Covington

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Timestamps: The Graveyard - 2:07 Creepiest/Scariest NBA Mascots - 12:14 Trick or Treat - 26:18 Welcome to the inaugural Halloween edition (and definitely my favorite episode so far) of the podcast! Fair warning: This is probably the least amount of actual content we've ever put into an episode. Led by our emcee Poltergeist P, we joked around about NBA mascots (don't look at a picture of Slamson the Lion after 9:00 pm), searched through the graveyard for players in need of a career revival, and trick or treated with some of our favorite, and least favorite, NBA players. As the episode progresses and we get more and more slap-happy, our conversation gets funnier and the digs at certain teams and players (sorry in advance Collin Sexton) get more personal. This is definitely one you're not going to want to miss out on! To be notified for future episodes, please make sure to subscribe to the podcast below, as well as follow us on Twitter @FlashyStatsPod and on Instagram @flashystatsfantasysports. Our next episode will be a continuation of our small forward series, so stay tuned for that one next Friday!

Welcome back to another segmented episode of the Flashy Stats Fantasy Podcast! Like episode 14, we start off with current events in this ep., before diving back into the second parts of our buy/sell and guess that players segments. We talk through a number of topics, including:

- Who's The GOAT?

- The NBA Finals and initial free agency outlook

- New coaches, and old coaches on new teams

- The Phoenix Suns (of course)

- Elfrid Payton's evolution of hair and persistency in relevance

And much more! This is our favorite episode yet, and we hope that you enjoy it.

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Next Friday, we release our next installment of small forward rankings. Stay tuned!

This week's episode kicks off the next installment of our 2020-21 player rankings series - small forwards! We started from the back of our list with this episode, and covered players ranked 25-20 in our conversation today. And we learned one thing for certain - Mike either loves or hates every small forward in the NBA. There's a lot of great debate in this episode, and we hope that you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making it!

25. Marcus Morris

24. Jerami Grant

23. Mikal Bridges

22. Will Barton

21. Otto Porter

20. Rui Hachimura

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Talk of the NBA Finals, new coaching changes, strange predictions from us, and brand new segments highlight this episode of the Flashy Stats Fantasy Podcast. For the first time, we split our episode into segments; we discussed current events going on around the league, played our own version of Guess Who, and debated through buy/sell predictions. This one was a blast to record, and we think you'll have a ton of fun listening and playing along at home! Time Stamps: Current Events: 0:32 Guess That Player: 20:26 Buy/Sell: 37:52 If you enjoyed today's episode, make sure to subscribe to the podcast below, as well as follow us on Twitter @FlashyStatsPod and Instagram @flashystatsfantasysports, for notifications and to interact with us! Next Friday, we will be releasing Top 25 SF's for the 2020-21 fantasy season. Stay tuned! Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

As we head into the NBA Finals tonight, we finish our series on top shooting guard options for the next fantasy season. We ended up talking about a lot of players from the playoffs in this episode, including Tyler Herro and Marcus Smart, and may have forayed into the New Zealand Bobsled Team... yeah it got kind of weird. We had a ton of fun with this episode, and hope you enjoy it!

Top 20 SGs, Part 2:

16. Marcus Smart

17. Tyler Herro

18. Luke Kennard

19. Josh Richardson

20. Malik Beasley

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