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DraftKings EuroLeague Basketball Picks October 11

By Mike Marteny

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 03: Alexey Shved, #1 of Khimki Moscow Region during the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague match between Khimki Moscow Region and Maccabi Fox Tel Aviv at Arena Mytishchi on October 03, 2019 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Ivan Korzhenevskiy/Euroleague Basketball via Getty Images)
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 03: Alexey Shved, #1 of Khimki Moscow Region during the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague match between Khimki Moscow Region and Maccabi Fox Tel Aviv at Arena Mytishchi on October 03, 2019 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Ivan Korzhenevskiy/Euroleague Basketball via Getty Images) /
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ATHENS, GREECE – MAY 06: A general view during the EuroLeague Final match between Panathinaikos and CSKA Moscow at the Oaka Arena on May 6, 2007 in Athens, Greece. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images /

DraftKings EuroLeague Basketball Picks October 11

Friday is again the heaviest day of round 2 of the EuroLeague season. Our DraftKings EuroLeauge slate is loaded, but thankfully only six players top five figures. Are any of them worth using, or should we go more balanced? First, we had better check the injuries.

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Out: Cory Higgins, G, Barcelona; Nemanja Nedovic, G, Milan; Stefan Jovic, G, Khimki; Shelvin Mack, G, Milan; Kevin Pangos, G, Barcelona; Jayson Granger, G, Baskonia; Chris Kramer, G, Khimki; Gustavo Ayon, F, St. Petersburg; Sergey Karasev, F, Khimki; Arturas Gudaitis, F, Milan; Anton Pushkov, F, St. Petersburg; Egor Vialtsev, F, Khimki; Evgeny Valiev, F, Khimki; Andrey Zubkov, F, St. Petersburg.

Questionable: Shane Larkin, G, Efes; Peyton Siva, G, Berlin; Pau Ribas, G, Barcelona; Nik Stauskas, G, Baskonia; Rodrigue Beaubois, G, Efes; Jordan Loyd, G, Valencia; Dmitry Khvostov, G, St. Petersburg; Aleksej Pokusevski, G, Olympiacos; Stefan Peno, G, Berlin; Vladimir, Micov, F, Milan; Johannes Thiemann, F, Berlin, Artem Pustovyi, F, Barcelona.

That’s a huge injury list! Once again, the Efes frontcourt and Khimki benches are pretty beaten up. That could mean value Efes and more minutes for the Khimki starters.

Casspi coming down with a stomach bug just before tip left me scrambling for a replacement. Quincy Acy was solid but adding Jeffrey Taylor in my other build led to cash. My core of Calathes and Deshaun Thomas was a great foundation with James Gist and Perperoglu providing nice value. If I wouldn’t have missed on Billy Baron it could have been a really good day.

The rotations can be frustrating sometimes as more players see the court than in your average NBA game. The games themselves are also shorter, playing four ten minute quarters as opposed to 12 minutes in the NBA. The court is smaller, the lane is bigger, and the three point line is closer, but the action is still what you would expect from world class basketball!

For DraftKings EuroLeague, we can’t expect 5x value like in the NBA. Most winning lineups are around 180-200 DraftKings points, which is around 3.5 – 4x value.