CSKA advanced to their tenth consecutive EuroLeague Final Four on Wednesday and Real Madrid made sure we will have at least one Game 5 by beating Efes twice at home this week. Barcelona tries to pull off the reverse sweep today. Milan is trying to get to its first EuroLeague Final Four in 29 years. Will there be another Game 5 next week or is the EuroLeague done until the Final Four at the end of May? Today will decide that!
St. Petersburg is still missing Mateusz Ponitka and Arturas Gudaitis, but they have been without them the whole time. Munich will be without Nick Weiler-Babb again as well. Nihad Dedovic could be active, but even if he is, he wont play enough minutes to be relevant. Other than that, we don't have much for injuries to worry about.
In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy EuroLeague lineup picks for DraftKings on 4/30/21. I’ll be providing multiple player suggestions for players at guard, forward, and center, aiming to highlight one option apiece at the high, middle, and lower end of the salary scale. Good luck, RotoBallers.
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DraftKings EuroLeague DFS Guards
Kevin Pangos, St. Petersburg ($9,800)
I'm done with the Baldwin roller coaster for a while. He was a complete dud in Game 3, but what's really pushing me away is that Munich won the game with Baldwin playing just 18 minutes. St. Petersburg needs Pangos far more than Munich needs Baldwin. That means a floor for Pangos that we can live with. The bad news? Pangos has more turnovers than assists in the last two games, both losses, after he put up nine assists to just one turnover in St. Petersburg's big Game 1 win. Win or lose, we know that Pangos will be between 20 and 35 DraftKings points. We don't have the same luxury with Baldwin.
Kevin Punter, Milan ($8,000)
Punter is like an Old West gunslinger. He shoots first and does everything else later. His peripheral stats are practically zero. Punter has gone cold from the floor in this series. He is just 12-33 from the field against Munich in this series. The result is that we get Punter at a cheaper price than he has been since February. I'm inclined to take a shot with Punter because the upside is there if his shot is falling. He's still shooting a good number of shots here. There's enough upside to chase this in GPP formats.
Zan Sisko, Munich ($6,500)
Sisko picked up some of the slack with Baldwin in foul trouble in Game 3, picking up a season-high eight assists. I will say that we can't count on that again, but Sisko has put up six assists several times this year. That's why we play Sisko. He not much of a scorer and his rebounding ability is fairly inconsistent. I see Sisko's output as being relatively safe. I said that after Game 1 as well. He then proceeded to foul out in Game 2 without recording an assist. I like the floor on Sisko with Weiler-Babb out, but the ceiling isn't that high, even if Baldwin is underwhelming again.
Also consider: Wade Baldwin, Munich ($10,500); Cory Higgins, Barcelona ($7,800); Malcolm Delaney, Milan ($7,500); K.C. Rivers, St. Petersburg ($5,800)
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DraftKings EuroLeague DFS Forwards
Brandon Davies, Barcelona ($10,100)
Barcelona went with what worked in Game 2 for Game 3. That was riding Davies like a rented mule. Davies has 105.25 DraftKings points in just 82 minutes in this series. St. Petersburg made a conscious decision that Nikola Mirotic wasn't going to beat them. The result has been Davies dominating this series on both ends of the court. Sure, Mirotic could troll and play like he did last year, but those games have been few and far between for this entire season. Right now, Davies is the most consistent Barcelona player and should be worth paying for.
Will Thomas, St. Petersburg ($8,400)
Thomas is playing a lot of minutes in this series as the Russians look for ways to combat the size of Barcelona up front. Thomas has responded with 68.5 DraftKings points in the three games and the nice $1,200 price hike to go with it. Still, Thomas is one of the few consistent pieces in these playoffs. Sometimes it's worth it to just pay up and forget it. We know Thomas is going to play big minutes, so the potential is there for his game scores to keep increasing like they have through the first three games.
James Gist, Munich ($5,700)
Gist was a dud on Wednesday, but the minutes were still there. We just need him to be more aggressive on the offensive end again. Gist is the only Munich player that had playoff experience coming into this series. The minutes are going to be there. We can only hope the production follows. Gist is at his best grabbing rebounds, but he's a capable scorer if need be as well.
Also consider: Vladimir Lucic, Munich ($9,700); Shavon Shields, Milan ($7,700); Kyle Kuric, Barcelona ($6,000); JaJuan Johnson, Munich ($5,200)