So what stats stay the same? What stats change? What can we rely upon? Well, we can rely on Michael Bolton.

Thanks, Josh. It's Michael Bolton here, and it's time for another episode of the Locked-on Fantasy Basketball podcast. Let's get to it. Let's get to it. Indeed.

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Starting tomorrow, we are going to have the series that I've done every year for at least the last five years,

where I get a beat reporter on that covers the

local team from the lockdown podcast network and we talk about the team we're not going to go through

and go who do you think is going to be a good fantasy option because that's not what that person

knows about that's not what they talk about and who cares right you don't want to hear somebody's

opinion who isn't interested in fantasy basketball about that stuff. What we do is we get

them on and we talk about the team and we ask questions that we need to know before we make

our determinations of player values of rankings, ADPs, draft strategies. And then once we're

into September, I go through and I do a fantasy-specific team preview.

Who are the sleepers? Who are the busts? Who's got good value? Who can do this? Blah, blah, blah. All that sort of stuff. So this is the process that we've used year upon year upon year to get into our minds how to approach the upcoming season. We talk about base sort of strategies. We talk about the overall idea of the team because as much as we're playing fantasy, real life matters, the real life value of the team. What are they trying to do? Who are they going to play? Who are they prioritising? What are the lineups? What are the rotations? What is the coach going to do differently? All that stuff is important. And then we bring all that into our fantasy value and it's all a crescendo as we bring up towards

draft day hopefully at some point in October. So that'll start tomorrow. Now there will be other

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