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I'm doing an 8-team H2H points league this year and I'm forever going to regret choosing CP3 over Westbrook with the 7th pick, aren't I? Westbrook led the league in fantasy points/game last season (mainly because triple doubles were worth 20 points) but this year assists are worth a little more and turnovers hurt a little more, too. I've also found that double-doubles are pretty much the best way to rack up fantasy points with this league's scoring settings, so that's what I targeted for my draft. Here's my draft results: 1. (7th) Chris Paul 2. (10th) John Wall 3. (23rd) Andre Drummond 4. (26th) DeAndre Jordan 5. (39th) Reggie Jackson 6. (42nd) Trevor Ariza 7. (55th) Nikola Mirotic 8. (58th) Greg Monroe 9. (71st) Ricky Rubio 10. (74th) Elfrid Payton 11. (87th) Terrence Jones 12. (90th) Bradley Beal 13. (103rd) Emmanuel Mudiay 14. (106th) Rajon Rondo 15. (119th) Tyreke Evans I put Tyreke on the IR and will probably pick up someone like Jordan Clarkson or Chris Humphries when waiver's over since I don't want to burn my 2nd priority. My team is pretty good for double doubles, but I really regret choosing Paul over Westbrook now.
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old dog child posted:12 team 9-cat, 11th pick. First time drafting categories. How did I do? Hibbert was 13th in blocks last year and will get plenty of use on that silly squad
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Oct 27, 2015 14:31
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Cool Buff Man posted:You were autobidding up people with a loving fury I am truly sorry about that
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Oct 27, 2015 15:26
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NickRoweFillea posted:I am truly sorry about that I blew my stack on 4 players so i didn't care and it was fun to watch people get owned
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Oct 27, 2015 15:29
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ihatepants posted:I'm doing an 8-team H2H points league this year and I'm forever going to regret choosing CP3 over Westbrook with the 7th pick, aren't I? Westbrook led the league in fantasy points/game last season (mainly because triple doubles were worth 20 points) but this year assists are worth a little more and turnovers hurt a little more, too. I've also found that double-doubles are pretty much the best way to rack up fantasy points with this league's scoring settings, so that's what I targeted for my draft. ihatepants posted:I'm doing an 8-team H2H points league this year and I'm forever going to regret choosing CP3 over Westbrook with the 7th pick, aren't I? Westbrook led the league in fantasy points/game last season (mainly because triple doubles were worth 20 points) but this year assists are worth a little more and turnovers hurt a little more, too. I've also found that double-doubles are pretty much the best way to rack up fantasy points with this league's scoring settings, so that's what I targeted for my draft. Not sure I understand the scoring, but Paul is better than Rus imo. His stats are going to go down because he won't have the same unprecedented usage rate. If DDs are important CP3 and Wall are studs, way better DD rate than Westbrook this year. Your top 4 picks will all be top 10 DD guys
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Oct 27, 2015 19:10
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gingerberger posted:Update: picked 5th I'm late on reading this post but it is so similar to my draft I just have to compare them... Update: picked 8th 1.8 Kawhi Leonard - It was between him and CP3, our draft could have been even more similar! 2.3 Al Horford - My plan here was to grab Horford and hope Millsap would still be around 3.8 Deandre Jordon- Millsap didn't drop, decided to punt FT% here, just as you did 4.3 Andre Drummond - Decided to grab my 3rd big here and solidify my FT% punting 5.8 Al Jefferson - 4 bigs in a row! Figured I'd have rebounds and FG% locked down with all these guys 6.3 Mike Conley - Realized I didn't have a single guard yet, Conley seemed the best available 7.8 Trevor Ariza - Tried to solidify 3PM with this pick and the next 8.3 Kyle Korver - See above 9.8 Elfrid Payton - At this point I have pretty much no idea what I'm doing - went for assists/steals 10.3 Wesley Matthews - ? 11.8 Jrue Holiday- ?? 12.3 Joe Johnson- ??? 13.8 Jabari Parker- ???! Roster is PG-SG-G-SF-PF-F-C-Util-Util-Util - 8 Categories (Points, Rebounds, Assists, Steals, Blocks, 3PM, FT%, FG%) Interesting how Ariza and Korver dropped so much farther in my draft.
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Oct 27, 2015 19:32
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the Cruel Buff Man and I have remarkably similar basketball opinions and I think half of our respective squads were taken through a frustrating outbidding of the other. edit [closing a book]: HALF EvanTH fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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Oct 27, 2015 20:24
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EvanTH posted:Hibbert was 13th in blocks last year and will get plenty of use on that silly squad Thanks, that's very reassuring. Everyone laughed at me when I picked him, so I thought I made a colossal gently caress up. Deron and Hibbert were panic moves because I had to pay attention to the stove. Do you think I need to make any changes or is my team decent enough to ride for the first couple weeks? I wish I paid more attention during the offseason but I stopped following news after the emoji fiasco since everything was pretty much downhill from there. I started going through the SAS thread but I'm still in September. 
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Oct 27, 2015 20:38
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Cool Buff Man posted:I blew my stack on 4 players so i didn't care and it was fun to watch people get owned westbrook, pg, melo, and tristan thompson?
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Oct 27, 2015 20:45
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NickRoweFillea posted:westbrook, pg, melo, and tristan thompson? bosh EvanTH posted:the Cruel Buff Man and I have remarkably similar basketball opinions and I think half of our respective squads were taken through a frustrating outbidding of the other. Yea, we're good boys, good thinking basket boys Cool Buff Man fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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Oct 27, 2015 22:24
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Am totally new to fantasy bball although definitely not new to fantasy sports. Is my yahoo-guided team total garbage or just mostly garbage? I'm planning on using this season as a learning experience so I'm not fussed about much.
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Oct 27, 2015 23:52
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^ Looks like fine picks to me, how many people in the league?old dog child posted:Thanks, that's very reassuring. Everyone laughed at me when I picked him, so I thought I made a colossal gently caress up. Deron and Hibbert were panic moves because I had to pay attention to the stove. Do you think I need to make any changes or is my team decent enough to ride for the first couple weeks? I wish I paid more attention during the offseason but I stopped following news after the emoji fiasco since everything was pretty much downhill from there. I started going through the SAS thread but I'm still in September. In my mind Deron Williams is a darned good player who'll put in 8 threes in a game and 12 assists then get injured the next day. I might wait a month or two until he puts up some monster game then try to trade him for someone else who's slumping (but will recover) and has some categories you need because it's hard for me to imagine him playing a whole season. Bosh Wall and Monroe all seem like fantastic picks to me, although I'm sorta thinking Butler's overall production will be down this season since his coach is no longer a psycho who demands 40mpg. Hopefully he ticks up in efficiency? EvanTH fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Oct 28, 2015 |
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Oct 28, 2015 00:09
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EvanTH posted:^ Looks like fine picks to me, how many people in the league? It's 12 people -- I honestly just have no idea. I wasn't even sure what high or low numbers would be for fantasy so really went by whatever dude the yahoo draft machine pointed to
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Oct 28, 2015 00:17
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First season for me as well, did this last night, it is 10 team ESPN standard pubby league. I think I have boards, blocks and steals locked. Should be okayish on assists. Don't know if I have enough points, and if my percentages or going to be good enough.Think I am alright on 3's too. Drafted 7th, should have taken CP3 over Cousins, but I did what I wanted to do. Please critique!
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Oct 28, 2015 00:38
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EvanTH posted:^ Looks like fine picks to me, how many people in the league? Appreciate it, I'll keep that stuff in mind. I'm glad you like most of my top picks. Yeah, I am hoping Butler will produce better by being efficient since I am not expecting 40 minutes a game out of anyone on that roster.
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Oct 28, 2015 00:38
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Drafting a team tonight with the only prep being 10 minutes spent on this thread. Let's go basketball.
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Oct 28, 2015 02:02
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I'm taking over a bad 10 cat h2h keeper league team with this roster. (FG%, FT%, 3pm, OREB, DREB, AST, STL, BLK, TO, PTS)  Suggestions on who I should be keeping or dropping from this team? I've never played in a keeper league. I've heard some of the other teams are keeping as many as 6 players. I probably don't have a chance because some of the other teams are too stacked from playing for years. Edit: that picture is terrible. Current roster is Trey Burke, DeMar DeRozan, Harrison Barnes, Kenneth Faried, Dwight Howard, Marries Speights, Avery Bradley, Josh Smith, Deron Williams, Nikola Pekovic, Gerald Green, Ryan Anderson, Tony Wroten, Taj Gibson, John Henson, Marcus Smart, IR Carmelo Anthony, IR Kobe Bryant. I'm thinking I might drop Henson for Meyers Leonard before the draft. Spacebump fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Oct 28, 2015 |
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Oct 28, 2015 02:50
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here's some players to watch for your larger leagues: Jordan Hill has been a low-end consistent producer for 10,000 years now Bojan Bodganovich should get plenty of looks on his hot trash team the last time Lance Stephenson was on a good team that could carry him he lead the league in triple doubles watch the Knicks (or at least look at their box scores if you can't stomach that)--somebody has to put up numbers other than Melo, my guess is it'll be Calderon, Williams, O'Quinn or maybe Galloway Shabazz Muhammad may approach 20ppg and still be fantasy worthless but it could work in your league rookie hype is fun but it seems unlikely that Stanley Johnson will statistically outperform Marcus Morris this season possibly improving bigs: Alex Len, Steven Adams, Zeller brothers
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Oct 28, 2015 20:07
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Who should I let hang out on my bench and occasionally start: Alec Burks or Hezonja? I stashed Burks as my last pick in the draft but just noticed that Hezonja is available.
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Oct 29, 2015 01:01
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So my opponent had like 6 people play last night and I had 2. He outscored me by like 60 points on the day, so I guess I'm basically screwed this week since he just happened to have a ton of people who played on opening night. I checked the rest of the schedule for this week and we're fairly evenly matched in the number of players each day but man, this is going to burn me out pretty quick if I need to reset my lineup every drat day. It'd be cool if I could just set the lineup for the week. Wouldn't mind doing individual days if I could do them all at once.
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Oct 29, 2015 01:55
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Inspector 34 posted:So my opponent had like 6 people play last night and I had 2. He outscored me by like 60 points on the day, so I guess I'm basically screwed this week since he just happened to have a ton of people who played on opening night. I checked the rest of the schedule for this week and we're fairly evenly matched in the number of players each day but man, this is going to burn me out pretty quick if I need to reset my lineup every drat day. You can set them in advance. Go to your team page and look in the area above the player stats. There should be a date with a little arrow or some kind of indicator. Yahoo has an arrow but I forgot what ESPN uses; either way, there is a way to change what day's roster is showing on your team page.
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Oct 29, 2015 02:07
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Oh hey, look at that! There's a big orange link that says "set your roster" Thanks :-)
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Oct 29, 2015 02:50
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So Nate Robinson was just waived which mean Ish Smith will be getting a lot of PG minutes, at least for the next couple months. I'm trying to decide if I should drop: Aminu, Ed Davis, or Rondo for him. I'm punting points and ft% in a 10 team, 11 cat (8cat + Ast/To ratio, DD, TD) and feel like I want to pick up another guard but I feel like Aminu, Davis, Rondo all have a lot of potential upside. I kind of want another guard, I'm way strong on Reb (Deandre and Drummond) but could use some 3PM and Ast help. Dropping Aminu feels like I'm losing a lot of Reb (fine) but losing a DD threat, and a decent amount of stocks (I'm strong in both categories). Should I just cut bait?
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Oct 29, 2015 21:31
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ihatepants posted:I'm doing an 8-team H2H points league this year and I'm forever going to regret choosing CP3 over Westbrook with the 7th pick, aren't I? Westbrook led the league in fantasy points/game last season (mainly because triple doubles were worth 20 points) but this year assists are worth a little more and turnovers hurt a little more, too.
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Oct 29, 2015 22:28
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gingerberger posted:So Nate Robinson was just waived which mean Ish Smith will be getting a lot of PG minutes, at least for the next couple months.
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Oct 29, 2015 22:35
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Yeah... 2 days into our season and so far I'm really not a fan of H2H points for this sport. As I set my line up for the rest of the week it really became just putting as many minutes as possible in my starting lineup. If we keep this format next season I'll likely just go for most minutes played as my main drafting metric after the 5th round or so. That might be overstating things a bit maybe, but it really feels like a lot more of a crap shoot than FFB so far. I would much prefer a category league where more strategy could have been employed.
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Oct 29, 2015 23:23
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Someone offered me Tyson Chandler for my George Hill earlier this week and I still have it sitting here. Having second thoughts about it after Hill's huge game yesterday while Ty had a terrible one against a relatively subpar frontcourt. Should I still pull the trigger? I have Rose, Payton, Marc, D-Will, Porter, Batum, Mirotic, Middleton, as sources for assists, 3 pointers and steals so I probably have some leeway there and improve on my weak spots like rebounding, FG% and blocks. I guess I'm really concerned with whether yesterday's game is just an aberration for Ty or is it a tell-tale sign of an old man who got his contract?
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Oct 29, 2015 23:57
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Disharmony posted:Someone offered me Tyson Chandler for my George Hill earlier this week and I still have it sitting here. Having second thoughts about it after Hill's huge game yesterday while Ty had a terrible one against a relatively subpar frontcourt. Maybe try countering to get a little value like turning an 10th rounder into an 8th rounder. Generally though, if you need Reb, FG%, Blk Ty is probably a good move. I'm in an awkward spot where somebody dropped Ty in my league, and I just have to put a claim in for him, even though I really like my bigs right now.
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Oct 30, 2015 00:00
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Trade got vetoed anonymously. It's a fair trade and clearly a case of GMs cockblocking me or something. Oh well, it probably worked out better for me since my best bet is to go the 5-4 route. Here's how I look like right now (take note that week 2 is halfway through and not all of my players got to play much this week):  Looks like my FT% and AST are in good shape with STL and 3PM right up there. I think my TO and FG% are bound to improve now that I got rid of Rose to nab McConnell. 
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Nov 5, 2015 15:51
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Disharmony posted:I got rid of Rose to nab McConnell.
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Nov 5, 2015 18:12
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Fast Luck posted:Hahaha. I'm not criticizing the move but I am laughing at the fact that Rose has sunk to the point where he's being dropped for TJ McConnell. He's my trojan horse. I'm hoping there's some schmuck who's going to add him out of pure name value only to see his team plummet big time on some CATs when Rose has a 2-16/5 turnover game per usual, and he won't drop him despite the string of bad performances hoping that he'll turn it around soon. Edit - and then he puts up 29, 7, 9 on 50% shooting. I guess what I really want to say is I hate Derrick Rose. Disharmony fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Nov 6, 2015 |
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Nov 6, 2015 00:42
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Alright so halfway through our second week and I'm starting to have some fun. Our league allows 7 waiver wire transactions per matchup and so far only 3 of us are active on the market. This means most weeks my opponent will be occasionally caught with 3 or 4 players vs an entire 10 player team on my side. I'm already killing it this week, but tomorrow I have a full roster vs. his Drummond/Wade/Hibbert. Now those guys could absolutely blow up and kill my buzz, but I'm pretty happy to pit 10 dudes against them. The other 2 people who are active on the waiver wire and I comprise 3 of the top 5 total points in our league. I wonder if people will get smart and get more active or if they'll just roll over and wonder why they're getting beat by 50+ points every week.
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Nov 6, 2015 10:49
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I doubt the majority of owners are going to be interested in streaming 7 guys a week. Might be a non-awful setting in a league full of very dedicated owners but in a league of normal people I don't think you gotta worry about the other owners getting in on that sort of thing. Personally I prefer a league where the better team wins, and where you're adding guys you think may be good, instead of a league where you just stream to a full roster but hey if those are your league's settings then may as well use them. Just be wary of dropping and losing long-term good players for short-term one day lineup filler, and make sure your league doesn't have a season moves limit (which it should).
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Nov 6, 2015 16:49
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Super glad I drafted #2. If I had the number one pick, I undoubtedly would've taken Brow. Instead I have Steph, who is absolutely murdering everything.
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Nov 7, 2015 06:24
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Fast Luck posted:I doubt the majority of owners are going to be interested in streaming 7 guys a week. Might be a non-awful setting in a league full of very dedicated owners but in a league of normal people I don't think you gotta worry about the other owners getting in on that sort of thing. Personally I prefer a league where the better team wins, and where you're adding guys you think may be good, instead of a league where you just stream to a full roster but hey if those are your league's settings then may as well use them. Just be wary of dropping and losing long-term good players for short-term one day lineup filler, and make sure your league doesn't have a season moves limit (which it should). Agreed. We play with 40 transactions per year to prevent streaming since it mainly rewards people with tons of time, nothing else.
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Nov 7, 2015 19:40
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Is Drummond going to keep this up? I mean jeez
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Nov 9, 2015 11:36
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Need some advice. Would you guys drop Gorgui Dieng for Zaza Pachulia right now knowing someone will probably pick up either player. I'm in an active 14 owners league.
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Nov 11, 2015 10:19
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I would. Zaza has no competition for center minutes except for Powell and has been pulling up double doubles out of his rear end.
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Nov 11, 2015 11:04
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Powells also playing out of his mind for a bench big and I've been riding that train to gravy city. He's also getting a ton of minutes because of Dirk/Zaza's conditioning.
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True, but Zaza is better at almost everything else - rebounds (obviously), FTs, assists, even the defensive stats he's suppose to suck at, in nearly identical minutes. Which reminds me: I wonder what happened to Powell's 3 pointers. He's really good at it and gives him another dimension as a fantasy prospect.
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