DraftKings EuroLeague basketball picks October 30

Alexey Shved, #1 of Khimki Moscow Region before the 2019/2020 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season Round 8 match between Khimki Moscow Region and AX Armani Exchange Milan at Arena Mytishchi on November 14, 2019 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Mikhail Serbin/Euroleague Basketball via Getty Images) /

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BELGRADE, SERBIA – NOVEMBER 28: Jordan Loyd of Valencia Basket in action during the Euroleague match between Crvena Zvezda Mts and Valencia Basket at Aleksandar Nikolic Hall on November 28, 2019 in Belgrade, Serbia. (Photo by Srdjan Stevanovic/Getty Images) /

DraftKings EuroLeague Guards:

Shane Larkin has been cleared to play, but how much and in what capacity remains to be seen. There’s still too much gray area for me to spend top dollar on Larkin. With Shved it was a different story. He dominated in the domestic league game. We have no barometer for Larkin.

Speaking of Shved, I love the matchup between him and current EuroLeague leading scorer Jordan Loyd. I might run them both, but it is hard to pay 23K just for guards. That only leaves 27K total for the other four slots. If only using one, Shved is the cash play. Loyd is the GPP guy.

If Larkin plays it will take some of the production away from Micic and Krunoslav Simon. I kind of want to see how this plays out first before I spend five figures on a guard that is facing a certain production reduction.

The price on Nick Calathes is nice in cash games. However, his floor has been so low this year that he’s hard to trust in any situation. Langston Hall is the built in undercard in the Shved-Loyd match, but he appears to be a much safer option than Calathes at this point.

The middle tier is littered with inconsistent players. The exception would be Rodrigue Beaubois. He has between 16 and 23 DraftKings points in every game so far. Guys like Kostas Sloukas and Cory Higgins have more upside though.

Luca Vildoza is still a great bargain at his price. Barcelona is not an easy matchup at all, but I still think Vildoza has better than a puncher’s chance at 20 DraftKings points.

Shaq McKissic and Aaron Harrison have been stealing each other’s thunder here and there of late. Sloukas has a lower ceiling when both of them play. It’s a tough thing to decipher how Olympiacos is going to use these guys, but they all have upside for GPP tournaments.

If you want to avoid the Olympiacos puzzle, Torrian Walden has been very good for Belgrade so far this year. He doesn’t have a high ceiling, but the high floor makes up for it.

Errick McCollum has finally been cleared for EuroLeague play, but it remains to be seen how much he will play and what role he will have. McCollum is just like his brother C.J.: He’s a knockout shooter. If McCollum plays, this price looks very nice.