Fantasy Basketball Strategy: Fear the Blowout?

I received an interesting comment from one of our readers named Peter yesterday on my article discussing starting fantasy players against teams who have poor defensive ratings.  Basically, his point was, if you start fantasy players who are facing weak defenses, could that strategy backfire since your fantasy player could sit if the game becomes a blowout? 

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Fantasy Basketball Advice: Play Against the Weak Defense

When setting your daily fantasy basketball roster or playing daily fantasy cash games, one of the most important factors that should influence your roster selection is the quality of the opposing defense.  What may look like a difficult roster decision between two equally talented players often turns into a easy call once opposition is considered.

The Bottom 5 defenses (ratings in parentheses)  in the NBA through Week 8 are :

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