MISCALCULATED: Josh Lloyd BREAKS DOWN His WORST Fantasy Basketball Sleeper Picks Of The Year

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🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Top NBA fantasy projections fall short—how did early draft darlings like Ausar Thompson and Jordan Poole disappoint managers and transform head-to-head league strategies? Josh Lloyd scrutinizes his preseason misses, spotlighting missteps on players like Jakob Poeltl, Toumani Camara, and Herb Jones, and explores how injuries, coaching decisions, and volatile categories like steals upended expectations. Did overvaluing late-season surges and role security set fantasy managers up for a letdown?

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0:00.0	You guys ready to yell at me?
0:03.0	This is the time.
0:04.1	I'm going to tell you I was wrong.
0:05.3	You're going to tell me I was wrong.
0:06.7	And Michael Bolton's going to tell me nice things because he is a nice man.
0:10.3	Thanks, Josh.
0:11.5	It's Michael Bolton here.
0:12.8	And it's time for another episode of the Locked-on Fantasy Basketball podcast.
0:18.5	Let's get to it.
0:19.4	Let's get to it in danger.
0:22.3	You are lockeded on Fantasy, your daily NBA fantasy podcast, part of the Locked On
0:28.5	Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:33.5	Hello and welcome to the Locked On Fantasy Basketball podcast brought to you by Basketball Monster.
0:38.3	My name is Josh Lloyd and despite having knee surgery yesterday, the bulls are listing me questionable for tomorrow and the blazers are refusing to pay for any transport to and from a hospital.
0:49.3	What are we talking about today? I know what we're talking about. We're talking about the players that I said,
0:55.0	oh yeah, these are the guys we want. Look at their ADP. They don't know what they're doing, these people, these ADP is too low. You should look at these players and draft them and get some value, and I was incredibly wrong. I'll say that now. I was wrong on the players I'm going to talk about here. For some, there are reasons that could have been foreseen, some they couldn't, but that doesn't remove the fact.
1:13.7	That for these group of players, I was too high on them, maybe just too high in general, and I was wrong. You can clip that pie out if you want, and you can just play it on a loop to yourself. When you go, Josh, it's so bad, who's doing, just replay the part of me saying, I was wrong. Just supercut it. Somebody's smart enough
1:30.8	to do that. Creates. to yourself. When you go, Josh, it's so bad as I'm doing, just replay the part of me saying,
1:27.8	I was wrong. Just supercut it. Somebody's smart enough to do that. Create some sort of supercut. I was
1:32.7	wrong. I was wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. I was too high on these blokes. And it did not pan
1:40.0	out. Let's go through six honorable or maybe dishonorable mentions to start things. Oh, should I
1:45.6	address the elephant in the room? Yeah, I did have knee surgery yesterday. I was supposed to stay
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