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3 NBA FanDuel Studs to Target on 12/4/18

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Damian Lillard, PG, Portland Trail Blazers

Price: $9,900

We've got five games on tap tonight, and nobody on the slate is priced above $10,000. That means that any studs we look at are going to come with some caveats -- if there was nothing negative to say, they'd be priced up with the top tier studs in that $11-12,000 range.

Damian Lillard ranks only 13th in the NBA with 43.7 FanDuel points per game, though that is the second-highest average on tonight's slate.

His low floor is what has held him back from truly elite production, falling below 30 FanDuel points in 4 games this year with another 5 below 40, but his upside is outstanding. He has 5 games with at least 56 FanDuel points on the year, and 2 of those (59.4 and a season-high 62.6) have come within his last 3 games.

His offensive volume is up lately, notching at least 22 field goal attempts in 6 of his last 8 games (averaging 22.5 per, with 23.4 per over his last five games), and after topping 39 minutes only once in his first 19 games, he has hit that mark in three of his last four, with 37.4 minutes in the game that he missed the mark. That's an average of 39.9 minutes per game over his last four.

The Dallas Mavericks allow top-12 fantasy efficiency to opposing point guards this year, and they have allowed opponents to shoot the league's 11th-highest effective field goal percentage. That buts Dame in a good spot to turn that volume into another big night.