Tonight, I’ll be looking to have a couple plays with Reggie Bullock involved. Bullock has been impressively consistent when it comes to 3-point shooting. He averaged 36% on the season and has hit 2+ threes in every playoff game this season. Bullock saw his minutes drop slightly and ended up fouling out last game, but I don’t see that happening again tonight. I don’t think he’ll see 40+ minutes like he did against the Jazz, but I think if he plays 35+ he’ll be able to get us 2+ 3s. Bullock almost exclusively takes 3s, and on 53 FGA in the playoffs, 49 of the attempts were 3s. He’s taken an average of 7.0 3s a game and I fully believe he will go at least 2 for 7 or better tonight. To go with his 2+ threes, I’ll be going to Bullock’s rebounds. All we need from Reggie for this one is 4+ boards. Bullock has cleared this every playoff game, averaging 6.0 rebounds. For an SGP that has hit 7 out of 7 playoff games, I think there’s a lot of value in -110.
Play: 0.55U Bullock 2+ 3s / Bullock 4+ rebounds -110 (DK)
I’ll also be going back to the two 1Q leading scorers in Luka Doncic and Devin Booker. Doncic averaged 9.5 points and 2.6 assists in the regular season and it seems that he is back to his full 12 1Q minutes. In Game 1, Luka had 14 points on 9 FGA and 2 assists while Booker had 13 points on 8 FGA. I expect both of them to take at least 5-6 shots and think that they both clear 8 points again easily. All we need from Book is 6+ and 7+ from Luka, which they could both get on 3-4 FGA. To go with Reggie 2+ threes again, I’m going with Luka 2+ 1Q assists. He has cleared this number in 3 out of 4 playoff games this season and all 13 playoff games vs the Clippers, with the one miss coming when he first returned from injury vs the Jazz and only played 9 1Q minutes. I think he’ll get 2+ dimes in 12 minutes tonight and there’s a decent chance one of those leads to a Bullock 3.
Plays: 0.65U Booker 6+ 1Q points / Doncic 7+ 1Q points -130 (DK)
0.5U Doncic 2+ 1Q assists / Bullock 2+ threes +100 (DK)
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