What's going on and welcome to the NBA DFS Q&A show. My name is Tom Vecchio. I'll be here for the next 30 minutes, taking your questions about tonight's NBA Slate. As always, you can find this every Wednesday, 4 p.m. on the family YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, and Facebook page. You can follow me on Twitter at DFS underscore Tom. Loaded Slate. We have some interesting news to get to. We already have questions in the chat, so let's jump in. Starting off, Grim on YouTube is asking, Trayman, Brandon Williams, Pat Beverly, or Alec Burks, the better play at guard, or just played safe and safe salary with foreign drag at trial, Nato Will Barton and Josh Richardson. So are we choosing between the two groups?  I would side with that first group. You know, Trayman, you know, obviously the minutes are locked in for him. And if SGA is out, SGA is currently listed as questionable. Just plenty of minutes in usage for Trayman. I'm big on Brandon Williams for Portland. He continues just to be a consistent value option for the trailblazers because again, they are also very short-handed. So he's seen plenty of minutes. We can always be going there. Pat Beverly in a great game environment against the Lakers who play no defense. And Alec Burks is set to be very, very popular. And so if I have to choose, I would side with basically all four of those. Maybe Dragich makes his way into the mix, but I would take those players ahead of Nato and Will Barton, those two. Born to Laugh is asking, any three by twos I like. So three by twos, one of the bets on the Fandals Sportsbook will there be two plus threes in the first three minutes. So certainly looking at Hawks and Hornets minus one, 14 both teams take a ton of threes. We have a super high over under the team. We also have the Hornets as C shooting defense just to bring this up real quick. The Hornets allow a ton of threes. The second most made three corners from their opponents per game and Atlanta's also in the bottom 10. So two teams that shoot a ton of threes and allow a ton of threes. That would be one spot that I would go. Also looking potentially to Sun's Rockets. Another good spot. There's a little bit of juice on this one. So keep that in mind and then make the case for Mavericks Nets. You could certainly make the case for this one, but Bulls Jazz also two teams that take a good amount of three. So I would certainly go with Hawks Hornets as my number one option without a doubt. And then probably Mavericks Nets is another viable option for the three by twos in the Fandals Sportsbook. Born to Laugh is also asking six man play. This is the classic. Wednesday question. Who's a player that comes off the bench for a given team that may not be super popular that can produce plenty of points? First and foremost, Bogdanovich for the Atlanta Hawks. Again, Charlotte allows a ton, a ton of three pointers. We're dealing with a game that has a 240 point over under a one point spread. It's a pace of spot for Atlanta. Charlotte is number two in the league and pace Atlanta is sitting at 24. Bogdanovich comes off the bench and he takes not only a good amount of shots on a nightly basis, 13, 12, 19, 17, some of these recent games, but a good majority of them are from downtown two thirds or three quarters of his field attempts are all three pointers, eight, nine, seven, eight, 11, eight, 10, nine, six, 12. And his recent game is for three pointers. He has a floor of six three pointers more often than not, it's seven or eight. So Bogdanovich I have to say is absolutely the number one six man play on tonight. So that's where I'd absolutely be going. The Bones Highland has been coming off the bench obviously for the nuggets for most of the season. He certainly gets some shots, gets up some shots which is great to see. We like that. Same thing with Patty Mills for the Brooklyn Nets. His minutes will tick up just a little bit because they're at home. There's no career orving. You always can be looking there, but I would also look to of course, Jordan Clarkson. He is a six man winner, the award winner. So you can always look to him for the jazz but I'm also going to be big on Dante DiVincenzo tonight for the Sacramento Kings, a player that does come off the bench his minutes are generally good. We don't want to see him fluctuating like this but he takes a good amount of threes and the Bucks are actually the worst team in the league for the most three-pointers allowed. It also happens to be a revenge game for Dante DiVincenzo. So if you want to factor that in is certainly fine but he actually does a consistent amount when it comes to filling up the stat sheet along with taking a good amount of three-pointers. So I would go Bogdanovich. You can certainly look to Patty Mills, go to Jordan Clarkson, go to Dante DiVincenzo. All those are good. And then Jordan Poole is kind of I would say a bit more of an obvious answer. A player that's been super, super hot as of late. You're looking, but any value for starting Lamar Stevens or Olivier Sarr, Grimm is asking on YouTube. Yes, Sarr is the top overall projected value play on Number Fire. He's giving me the starting lineup for OKC who we know is super short-handed. He's $3,500 the minimum salary. We know we should be out there for a ton of minutes. Great matchup going up against San Antonio sitting as the seventh-worst team for the most vandal points of life per game to send. And the issue is what are you, what are you doing if you're going to Sarr? Because where are you going to be paying up? Because obviously you can't play Jokic, you know, I would say Embiid, but Embiid popped up as questionable. So it would come down to, you know, not playing Jokic, not playing Towns. Personally, I'm very high on Trey Young. He is the covered boy for the thumbnail today. I'm personally high on Trey Young. And of course, Kevin Durant's at home because there's no Kyrie Irving in a close spread game against Dallas where ultimately Durant has to do a lot of the heavy lifting and offense for the Brooklyn Nets.  Because if you're trying to pay up from being a Jokic, you want to drop down and take the value, where are you going to be paying up? So I would certainly look to do this in some lineups. I definitely want to be getting to Jokic in some lineups or Carlton Towns. Want to make that, make that clear.  Grimm is asking even though it's not an NBA question is still basketball. Who's your final four? Final four. I have Texas Tech in there. I have Auburn in there. Texas Tech, Auburn. I think I have Tennessee. They're in the top right and the bottom left. I forget why I have the bottom left, but Texas Tech, Auburn, Tennessee are three. Aaron is asking, hello, Jim. Are you there? No, Jim is not there. He does not do basketball. Jim does football, golf, NASCAR. List any team, the first matchups. List away teams first in the matchups during the future podcast.  Okay, we can make that change. Are the Knicks still showing a lot of love on this huge slate? The Knicks, we should see Alec Burks as a popular option tonight just because he is out there consistent. I'm personally a fan of RJ Barrett. As I said on the podcast day, I really like RJ Barrett just due to the volume of shots that he's getting on a nightly basis. We're talking about what really should be a minimum of 20 field go attempts. This game doesn't have the highest over-under 222 compared to some of the other ones on the slate. We're looking at the high 220s, 240, 235. These are up in the 238 region for some of these. These are very, very high scoring games. So I, like Alec Burks, he should be popular, but I also like RJ Barrett a lot due to his potential tournament value. DJ is asking, do you think Portland has enough to beat the Knicks and take the spread? Same question with the Bulls and the Kings. So I said that on the podcast today. I'm not sure why the Knicks are favored by so much when these teams are only separated. Like the Knicks are 28 and 40 and Portland's 26 and 41. Like these aren't dramatically different teams. So I think that it's, what is it? 11 points, 12 points for the Knicks. It's 12 and a half points. I think that's a little bit much. You know, we did see Portland win over the weekend against Washington. They kept it close against Atlanta for a while. So I like Portland a little bit against the spread. I know they're not the greatest team in the world, but the Knicks are, you know, sub 500 team against the spread as well. So 12 and a half points seems like a bit of a lot for two teams that are separated by, you know, two wins in the standings. Like I know Portland's not good, but I kind of like them on a spread tonight at 12 and a half. I will say I haven't taken Portland. I would like them in the grand scheme of things, but the bets that I have me tonight are Kevin Durant over 42 and a half points, rebounds, assist. As I said, he's going to have to do a lot of the heavy lifting for it's now up at 43. I got it at 42. He's going to have to do a lot of the heavy lifting for the Nets. They're at home in their most recent home game against the Knicks over the weekend. He had 37 field goal attempts, 37. Some of these games are on the road. He's taking, you know, 21 high teams. That's because Kyrie Irving is playing. There's no Irving tonight. I'm expecting 25 field goal attempts at a minimum for Kevin Durant and, you know, 42 and a half or 43. He can get there on pure points alone. So I took the over on 42 and a half for Kevin Durant. Tonight points rebounds, assist. I have the Hawks minus one and I also have Trey Young be over on his points rebounds, assist sitting at 44. He's a player that's gotten for 40 plus in two straight games, not, you know, not expecting him to go for 40 every single game. But this game has a massive overrunner and it's the Hornets. We're not worried about their defense with a 240 overrunner. So I like the Hawks on the spread. I like the overunder for Trey Young, the over on his points rebounds, assist. So those are the three bets I'm on. You know, I had interest in Philly at two and a half, but then Embiid pops up as questionable. Let's just give this a refresh. He popped up as questionable earlier in the day. And, you know, I thought Philly would be in a spot to bounce back, certainly a tough match against Cleveland, but in a spot to bounce back after a loss against Denver. And now he's listed as questionable. So I had interest in going at the 76ers, you know, two and a half earlier today. I don't have interest until Embiid is ruled in. Can't be taking them or I wouldn't feel comfortable taking them against what is a good Cleveland team. So that's what we're looking at. So besides Embiid when it comes to injury news, LeBron James is always listed as questionable. Most of the time he ends up playing, you know, LeBron could go for again, 50 plus real points and the Lakers still lose that game. We need an update there. SGA, I think that the SGA news is pretty important on tonight's slate because Murray is shaping up to be a popular option. It's a 230 overrunner, which is certainly very solid. But with the 13 and a half points spread already and if SGA gets ruled out, this is going to, this could expand the spread even more. And at that point, I think it lowers the fantasy viability of Murray, Yaka Pertle. I'd still have some interest in going to Keldon Johnson in the grand scheme of things, but, you know, Murray reaching and exceeding value in a game that could have a 15 point spread. It puts things into question at that point. DJ is also asking about the Bulls and the King's spreads. Yeah, the last part to your earlier question forgot about that. The Bulls, I would be least confident in just, Utah's good at home. Bulls have been struggling a little bit as of late. Zach Levine, he's, you know, missing some games. His list has questionable. He's going through shoot around. I have my concerns about Zach Levine is some of these recent shooting performances. He's dealing with his knee injury. You know, is the 100% healthy? He's dealt with multiple injuries this year. So I have a little bit of concern when it comes to the Bulls. A higher spread game or a higher over-ender game just means that we should be seeing more variance overall. So maybe the Kings who actually been putting up a good amount of points lately can keep up with the Bucks. And we have seen the Bucks drop some, some weird games this season. So I would actually feel more confident with the Kings taking the extra eight, the eight points over, you know, the Bulls and their offense a little bit in question right now. So that's where I would go. I prefer the Kings. Realistically, I don't think I love either of those teams. Tonight, I would have much more interest in going to, like I said, the Hawks, the 76ers if, and B plays and then Portland. I think 12 and a half is just too much for the Knicks. They're blowing all these leads. They're not playing defense. If you even following the NBA, you know, the Knicks can't keep a lead once it gets to the fourth quarter anyway. So that's where I would be going on those. If the average list is probable, that's of course good to see because this is a great game environment going against the Lakers who do not play any defense high over under. We do have a large spreading favor of Minnesota as we probably should expect. Just giving the fact that the Lakers are bad this year in Portland or I should say Minnesota actually looks like a solid team overall. Would another spur outside of Murray come into play if SGA sits Devon Vasell or Kelvin Johnson? I assume you mean if there's auto correct there or I would, I like Kelvin Johnson. I like his game. He fills up the statute. Good amount. Certainly gets up some three corners, which is always good to see increasing his ceiling. So Kelvin Johnson at 6400 obviously has to do just a little bit less compared to Murray who's all the way up at 10.7. Listen, I love Murray's game. I love him from a fancy perspective. Love betting on him on his points rebounds assist. But if SGA doesn't play and we're dealing with what could be, what is it at now 13 and a half? Like it could get to 15 realistically. You know him sitting in the fourth quarter is a possibility. So I would go to Devon Vasell and Kelvin Johnson for the spurs. I will say some of the other value plays that I'm on. I'm going to be on Brandon Williams again and again. Just consistent minutes for him. Consistent production. Absolutely love that. Like I said, I'm on Dante DiVincenzo as well. Williams DiVincenzo and Olivier Saar are the three value plays I wrote up today on Number Fire. The daily article that I do. So these are some of my key value plays tonight. I know Berks for the Knicks isn't too expensive. He should be decently popular tonight. $5,800. These are kind of the players I've been filtering in. Like I said, Trey Gungs, the cover boy for this video. So he's certainly in there. I'm betting on his over points rebounds. The same thing with Kevin Durant's going with his, the over on his points rebounds assist. It just makes a lot of sense. Super high over ender game for Trey Young. Charlotte plays fast. They don't play defense. No Irving for the Nets. Durant's going to go for 25 field go attempts. Add in seven rebounds, six assists, something like that. Easily go for 40 plus real points in any given matchup. Even though this only has a 220 over runner, right? 220, 221 for the Brooklyn Nets and the Dallas Mavericks. But a close spread game is always good to see. So this is where a lot of my core line of builds have started. If I'm not going with Saar, you know, paying up for Jokic is always a great option. You also have to find a ton of value at that point, but falling just a little bit further down. I mentioned the Andre Aintay. I'm certainly on board with going to him. I like Bobby Portis tonight. A, due to the savings and of course, the matchup against Sacramento is phenomenal. The second worst team again, centers this year for the most needed points allowed. So if I'm not paying up for Jokic, I like going to Bobby Portis. Yacca Pertle also has a great matchup. The Thunder are the third worst team against centers, allowing 57.77 fandom points per game. So it's absolutely an easy matchup for everyone on the Spurs. I'm just worried about the spread overall. So I would lean towards Bobby Portis. If I have to choose between these two at the same salary. Dream on green. I'm not going to have any interest in him. He's on this minutes limit going to be playing 20 to 22 to 24 minutes, whatever it is. They said for about a week. So, you know, $6,600. He has to do a decent amount in order to reach value. And I just don't have interest in him when he's going to be on this minutes limit. If you want to go to Porzingis at $7,600, which we could all say is pretty affordable for Porzingis. His minutes are on the uptick, which is good. 21, 25, 27 in this most recent game. They had a day off. Hopefully he gets around 30 because he's been producing over one fan point per minute in all of these recent games. He's $7,600, which is affordable for what realistically should be the main usage player for the Wizards. So $7,600 is a salary. I certainly like for Porzingis who's on the upswing in terms of minutes in terms of production. That's where I'd be going at center if I'm not paying up for Yolkitch, which of course is a great idea. Always going to towns is also a great idea. $4,500, you know, it can be a little bit tough to get to, but it's certainly valuable if you're trying to jam in these three top stars, you have to find some value with the forward positions, which you can certainly do if we flip to the forward positions of where we are looking at for value. Aaron Gordon, not really my type of value play. Rudy Gaye should be immensely popular tonight because he's likely going to be in the starting lineup for the Utah Jazz just because they're dealing with some injuries. So if you really wanted to pay up for Yolkitch, you know, $4,500 left per player. You have two players that are going to be jumping into the starting lineup, or I should say are in the starting line of a Rudy Gaye and Rudy Brandon Williams for the value. You have three immense stars in your lineup and $4,500 for two players left. If you don't want to go all the way up to towns or Yolkitch you can drop down two towns from Yolkitch and it gives you a little bit more flexibility. Do you like any of the Tyrese Maxi player performance doubles or Gallinari for the same thing? Let's take a look at those. So Tyrese Maxi player performance doubles. Let's see. So this would be a spot that, you know, ideally we would wait for the Embiid news because if Embiid is out, you know, if we're looking at the 76ers lineup, it really should be Hardin and Maxi as number one and number two when it comes to usage and, you know, overall feelable attempts. So if we don't have, so there's no update on Embiid, I don't assume it's going to be coming closer to the game, but Maxi performance doubles. So 20 plus points and Philly to win at plus 245 if Embiid is out looks good and there's correlation there. Okay, how would Philly win if Embiid is out? Well, Embiid is out. It probably means that Hardin and Max are going to be both going for big games. So some combination of the 245 here or the two plus made threes obviously not as big of a line there, but 18 plus points like this one, Hardin 25 plus points Philly to win at 186 looks pretty realistic if Embiid is out. Some of these are pretty good. You know, could you jump on some of these early because maybe their lines change if Embiid is ruled out? I think that's fine as well, but I would say three or four of these are pretty realistic for these 76ers. The next one would be Danil Galinari for the Hawks. Of course, he's in the starting lineup, seeing some big minutes because John Collins is out, player performance doubles.  So and of course, as I mentioned before, Charlotte, they do not play defense against threes. We always can be looking there. So two plus made, oops, two plus made threes for Galinari and Atlanta to win in a one spread game. I already said I'm on Atlanta minus one. So, you know, I'm already on Atlanta to win. So that one looks good. Great match of 15 plus points kind of along the same line if he's going to be stepping out and hitting some three pointers, he's probably be getting to the 15 points whereas he been recently 15, 13, 14, 14, 10. So he's, he's right on that edge. He's taking a good amount of three pointers per game. I would feel a little bit more comfortable with the two plus threes and Atlanta win rather than the 15 plus points. So if I have to choose between those, that's where I'd be going seven plus rebounds. That's obviously a little bit of a stretch, 18 points. Again, a little bit of a stretch whereas he been last time he was over 20 was again Chicago 21, you know, that would realistically come down to him hitting a good amount of shots, which is certainly doable in a game that has 240 points. If you want to, you know, a little bit of a dart throw and get one to Galloway 18 plus points, that's fine, but I would be much more comfortable with the threes and the 15 plus points for those. Do I like the Tatum boost? Let's see what the Tatum boost is for that for this. See, is that listed on the game or is the boost listed is, is that only on the mobile app where you can see the boost listed? 20 plus points. I don't know if I can't, I don't know where the boosts are listed on desktop always. So I would say probably yes, Tatum is obviously no fantastic, but if we're looking at along the same lines of a player performance double, 32 points is a lot for him. Is it on boosts? Is it on the, oh, boosts right here. I thought it was on the NBA specific page. 25 plus points encourage hit four plus threes at 160. Okay. I mean Boston is a good defensive team against threes during the top 10 for the fewest allowed per game. So that would be the main like drawback where and Steph Curry has been going through some ups and downs when it comes to his shooting performances. I will say the addition of Draymond Green in the lineup does make Curry a little bit of a better shooter overall. We've seen that over the course of the seasons that they've been together that Draymond Green does open up the spacing. He's also phenomenal passer. So the four plus threes is probably something I would struggle with the most. I would be more confident in Tatum hitting 25. I would want better odds realistically. I probably want a little bit better odds. I probably want closer to 200 if we're going to be relying on Curry to hit four plus threes. That's realistic of what I'd be looking for. Rob on Facebook is asking, how do I feel about Evan Forney and Deandre Hunter? So if I have to choose between them, I'd certainly be going to Deandre Hunter in this game that has a 240 overrunner at $4700 compared to the Knicks game which does have a large spread which again I'm not super confident but it's a 222 overrunner. So between the spread and the overrunner I would side with Deandre Hunter over Evan Forney and realistically Forney isn't the main usage player for the Knicks not saying that Deandre Hunter is either but with RJ Barrett, Berks and Randall doing most of the work for the Knicks. I don't want to be going to a player that's under one fated point per minute also under 20% usage. Not saying that Deandre Hunter is better than those but the game environment certainly pushes the scales in favor of Deandre Hunter. So the injury news on tonight's slates centered around mostly Joel M. Bede, Shay Gilgis Alexander and LeBron James. Of course he's always listed as questionable. Andrew Wiggins is listed as questionable again for the Golden State Warriors. If he's not in there, Jordan Pool becomes a bit more viable. That would always be good to see and what is a very close spread game. Not a super high overrunner but also two teams that are pretty solid on defense. DJ is asking CJ Elaby or Aaron Gordon. Aaron Gordon is not a player I've really been going to it all this season or outside of the first month or two. I was pretty high on him to begin the season just with Jamal Murray and then Michael Porter got hurt. He's a bit up and down when it comes to his production barely at one fan to point per minute when Elaby for the Portland Trailblazers his minutes are a bit more secure. I know we're dealing with a smaller sample size so we can't take this into account at 0.55 but I just don't love Aaron Gordon or Jeff Green. Jeff Green, a bench player. Ultimately I would side with Elaby. Are we dealing with the same salaries for these players? Let's see Gordon is what are we looking at for Aaron Gordon? $4,800 and Elaby for Portland is $3,800. I'd rather just take the savings. I'd rather take the $1,000 of savings and try and spend up somewhere else on the slate. Jeff Green, a bench player for a bench player I probably wouldn't be going there in the grand scheme of things. I would side with Elaby for that. So tonight's slate. We have to worry about the Embiid news and if Embiid is out, what are they going to be doing for their starting lineup? Is Deandre Jordan going to be in there? For the 76ers if... Oh, Deandre Jordan $3,600 if Joel Embiid is ruled out. I guess he could be starting. I probably wouldn't want to go to him. I don't think Olivier saw her for the Thunder is just a better value play at that given salary. So I don't think it matters if Deandre Jordan is in the starting lineup for the 76ers. I would certainly side with Olivier Sarr for the Thunder against the Spurs, which is of course a great matchup. The seventh-worst team against the Senors this season for the most feigned points allowed. Which of the two do you spend up for? Durant, Luka or Dejante Murray? I would side with Durant and Luka. I'm worried about the spread in this game for OKC and the Spurs. It's 13 and a half points. We're waiting on the SGA news. I mean, let's just be realistic about things. If the Thunder lineup is not good to begin with, right? Outside of SGA. If he doesn't play, this is just a bad team. And the Spurs winning this game by 15 or 20 points and Murray not playing at all in the fourth quarter is a concern. I would side with Luka in a game that has a three-point spread. That's just how I, you know, try and look at things. Games that have close spreads and high over unders players that see good usage, good minutes. You know, how many boxes of those can I check off for a given player? You know, are they needing the starting lineup? Look, these sorts of things. Keep it pretty simple. You know, close spread game. Yes, the overrunner isn't as high, seven-point differential, but the 10-point spread is obviously a lot. And if SGA is out, I don't have a whole lot of faith in the Thunder keeping that game close. So I would side with Durant and Luka out of that group and then Luka ahead of Murray. Trended Watford or Kuzma and or try and get to Randall. Trended Watford or Kuzma or try and get to Randall. So the question would be, this is what Grimm on YouTube is asking. The question I would have to follow this up is if you're trying to get up from Watford to Randall, what do you use? Like, where are you taking the $900? Where are you upgrading? Like, what's the next swap? Because you're just, you're not going to leave $900. I would suggest not to leave $900 on the table if you're doing that one-for-one swap. So where would you be spending the $900 to upgrade what other spot? That's really what it comes down to, because I think Kuzma is fine. That game is a good overrun. It's higher than the Knicks, also closer spread than the Knicks. Watford is going to have plenty of minutes secure. But if you are upgrading to Randall, where are, you know, or you're going from Watford to Randall or down from Randall to Watford, you get what I'm saying. Where would you be changing the next position for the $900? Try and add $900 to your guard position. So yeah, if you can spend up to get to a Fox or a Young or Lamella ball, wherever it might be, Kairi Rojir, I think that's a certainly a viable option if you're going to take the savings from going from Randall to Watford. That's a viable play because we have some great guards on tonight's slate. Joseph on Facebook is asking, is Devon Chenzo a good cheap play? Yes, Dante Devon Chenzo is actually one of the players I wrote up on Number Fire for the three value plays on tonight's slate. Here, the value plays for tonight's the article I do every day. Saar, I've spoken about Brandon Williams, Dante Devon Chenzo. So he's one of the players that I like this game has a 240 over-under. It's got an 8.5 point spread, which is fine. You want to factor in the revenge going up against his former team. That's certainly okay. But more importantly, he comes off the bench and plays a solid amount of minutes. He fills up the stat sheet a good amount. He's also taking a lot of threes, five, three, three, six, six, six, five, six, three point attempts in these recent stretch of games. Milwaukee's deadlastedly for the most three-pointers allowed per game to their opponents. So regardless of like a revenge narrative, which is always fun to add in, Devon Chenzo is just a good play. Taking three-pointers, high over-under game, fills up the stat sheet, et cetera, et cetera. What is that site you use for the stats on the players this site? Right here, this is just team rankings. If you're talking about this one, team rankings, you can get a ton of stuff here in terms of the team stats, how they play in terms of offense, defense, rebounding, you name it. You could be looking at anything for this one. This is Number Fire. Obviously, our site with Fandall looking at this. This is all of our projections. The main stuff for this site, it's Fantasy Pros for the defense versus positions for the black screen one. That's why I think this is what you mean. This one here with the black bar up top, teamrankings.com. They have it for all sports, not just MBA. So yeah, great resources, Fantasy Pros, team rankings, obviously using all our tools on Number Fire as well. Always looking at the spreads, how teams are performing against the spread, how they trend in terms of overs and unders. We want to target teams that obviously hit the overs, higher over-under games, et cetera, et cetera. So great resources out there. You got to fold it all into the mix on a daily basis to give you what you are looking for. The one you were checking in Beads status on, this one, oh, this is just, this is Twitter. This is just typed to dark mode on Twitter. But this is just underdog MBA, getting it for news as, as always. Scotty Barnes or Jalen Brown. Scotty Barnes, he's been, he's been cooking lately for the Raptors, filling up a stat sheet a ton, taking plenty of shot attempts. Then Bleat in and out of the lineup. So extra usage for Scotty Barnes, always good in a close spread game. Not to say that this isn't a close spread game, but if then Bleat is out, I would go to Scotty Barnes, between Scotty Barnes and Jalen Brown. All right, so that does it for today's show. We'll be back next week at 4 p.m. on the family YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook page. You can follow me on Twitter at DFS, I'm just for a comment. Until next time, good luck in your contests.


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Hello oscillatorsync here and today I'm excited to share with you my new free sample pack called DRM1 Four Ways and by way of introduction the track you can hear now is made exclusively using these samples. The sample pack is available for download on Gumroad and you'll find a link to that in the video description. The pack is priced as pay what you want which absolutely includes free so if you can't afford to pay for them or just want some samples for free then please grab them and enjoy them with my blessing. But if you want to chuck a couple of quid my way to help support the channel then as always your support is so so appreciated and anything I make will go towards helping you make better videos about more wonderful synths. So for those of you who just want the vital statistics the sample pack is made up of 113 samples taken from the Vomone DRM1 drum synth and each of those samples has been processed four different ways to make for a total of 452 samples. I'll get to what those four different flavours are in a moment. The DRM1 for those of you not already acquainted with it is a wonderful fully analog eight voice drum synth that is proudly not one of the classic Roland boxes. It has a wonderfully raw and stridently electronic vibe and has incredibly wide range and controls which is why at least one of the kick drum samples was actually generated by the snare voice. See if you can spot which one. The sample pack comprises all of the usual suspects, kick, snare, clap, cymbals are all present and correct. The samples marked as drum are where you'll find toms, congas, wooden sounds along with other electronic blips and bleeps. The samples marked as multi all originate from the awesome multi voice on the DRM1 where you can expect to find glassy metallic plinks, zaps and techno-staps. Finally though the samples marked as tone. The flexibility of the DRM1 means that a lot of the voices can be stripped away of their drumminess and you're left with a very cool raw synth tone. I've taken a bunch of samples with the voices set this way because they're great for melodic and harmonic parts too. All of the synthy sounds in this demo song come from that pool of samples. The tone samples are all tuned to see where possible although the pitch and frequency knobs on the DRM1 are pretty sensitive so please forgive a stray scent here and there. In terms of the four different flavors of samples, the first is marked as raw and it's just as it sounds. These samples were taken straight from the individual outs on the vermona in through my audio-fuse studio interface and topped and tailed in the door. No additional processing was applied. These will be great if you want to apply your own processing or if you're using them in an environment like Ableton Drum Rack or Ultra Beat in Logic where you have the flexibility to apply processing in real time. Also on a personal level I think some of the higher pitched and noisiest cymbal and multi samples sound the sweetest in their raw guys but your mileage may vary. Next we have the samples labelled as punch. These samples have been processed in the box with a plug-in chain to add more punch and thwack and a bit more sustain. These samples are also a bit more focused in the mid-range and generally sound more finished to me. These are going to be useful where you want to access the basic tone found in the raw pack but you're using them in an environment where you need the samples to sound like a finished track so I'm thinking hardware samplers especially or building set-and-for-get kits in the box. For those of you who are interested in the plug-in chain it goes air windows tape which is a great simple and free tapifying plug-in which is just doing a little bit of smoothing out of both the transients and the top end. Brainworks Focusrite SC channel strip. This is doing most of the transient shaping enhancing the front end attack of the note and bringing up the sustain and body. It's also doing some analog modelling fairy dust as well. Sometimes I'll load this plug-in on a track and just leave it there doing nothing because it's doing something that makes things sound a bit larger than life. I like it. After that we have Phil's cascade which is a model valve saturation unit. I'm using it here as a bit of an enhancer for the samples. It's not obviously distorting which it definitely can do when you push it. More just adding some push to the sound sort of like a bring-forward in the mix control. Finally there's dangerous backs which is hands down my favourite EQ plug-in for general tone shaping. Every jam I've recorded in the last year will have this on the master. It's gorgeous sounding. Here it's just doing a really good job of a wide smile curve polishing up the highs and lows nicely. The next flavour is called grit and if I'm being honest this is probably my favourite of the four. Here the samples have been re-amped through a fantastic pedal called the Accomplished Badger made here in the UK by Frederick Vets. The Badger is a Germanian pre-empt pedal that's quite unlike a lot of other overdrive pedals and trust me I own a lot of them. It reacts more like an old mixing desk being driven hard to my ears and here it's been used on a low gain setting to give the sample some real analog grit. I love how focused and characterfully mid ranges on these samples. Snares and claps in particular sound really full without being too aggressive and you can hear the pedal acting a bit like a compressor as the circuit tries to catch up with the transients. It's a sound character that I really like which is why I had to try pushing it further. The final of the four flavours is called smashed and it's the sound of Germanian transistors being pushed too far. This is the Accomplished Badger pre-empt hanging on for dear life in the face of too much gain. Honestly some of the lower pitch samples get pretty much destroyed by this setting but can be very cool in the right glitchy context. Snares, claps and cymbals absolutely smack almost like some kind of analog chiptune hybrid on some samples. This might not be the flavour that you reach for if you want conventional drum sounds but in the right environment these might be a secret weapon. Anyway I really hope you enjoyed these samples and if you did please do give the video a thumbs up and maybe share it with any like minded musicians it really helps to spread the word. If you make music with any of these samples please let me know either in the comments or on Facebook, Twitter etc. I'm really excited to hear what you create with them. Anyway as always thanks for joining me until next time take care bye bye