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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody, Welcome into another episode of

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Prophet Picks. If you are new, we do always start

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the show by being transparent. Didn't do any shows over

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the weekend. Last show we did was Friday, Friday and Saturday.

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I know I did go five and one, and then

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Sunday I went zero and one, So five and two

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since we last spoke. I am disappointed in myself for

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not getting to the window on two of the football

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games we talked about, and only getting to the winner

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on the loser window on the loser. Did not bet

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the Bears. I did not bet the Bills. I bet

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the Sorry yeahs Chargers. So that was pretty annoying. But

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otherwise five and two. You know, you can't complain too much.

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You know, good to be back with you. Have you been.

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Speaker 2: I've been better, But I'm okay, ski. I mean, we

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survived days. I guess they were. As I said to

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you off air, the NFL was a total disaster for me,

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but basketball was fine. I think yesterday it was a

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two and two split, nothing major. Saturday was a good

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basketball day. Friday, I believe Friday was the day we

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had Phoenix as our only plaid have to go back.

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These days fly by so quick. But I do think

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we left Phoenix as the play. I'm trying to look

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here for the chat on they played the Knicks. Now,

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that couldn't have been where I'm going. Whatever it was,

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it was okay on Friday. I do remember yesterday though

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it was pretty rough. Yeah, real quick here. There were

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probably a couple of points where you were saying to yourself, Damn,

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I'm glad I didn't bet the Bears. Damn, I'm glad

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I the Bills. But they both worked out for.

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Speaker 1: I'll say the Bills game went a little more how

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I expect it, Like, I know, as long as you

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get joshot in the chance, he's gonna win the game

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at the end, and I don't trust Trevor Lawrence and

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we saw what happened there. But the Bears game, I

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guess I didn't. I don't know they got down. I mean,

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they had been a good second half team, but twenty

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one to three, I did kind of feel like it

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was it was over.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: That's that's one of the games though, where you know,

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you see a lot of teams going forward nowadays. The

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Bears kicked a few field goals and that's the reason

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they were even able to come back and win the game.

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So coaches should be taking some notes there, you know,

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one more thing before Razor says, Hey, this is NBA.

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Don't need to talk about the Bears as a package fan,

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right there, Rob, You know, Razor, Yeah, let's have a

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day to day. But before I move on to basketball,

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I do have to mention one more thing because it's

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just on my mind. And Geo says he wasn't expecting

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from Herbert even though he took a beating out there.

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I wasn't expecting it from Herbert either. I did a

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lot of taking up for Herbert on multiple different shows

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and the Chargers and et cetera, et cetera, and I

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just looked like a I look like an idiot. We know,

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here's what I have to say, Robie. Know, the offensive

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line has been hurt since about week six, Like later

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it was hurt before the season. Joe Walt went down

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in Week six, So they've been the same bad offensive

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line for eleven weeks. Right. I don't understand why everybody

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all of a sudden is saying, oh, well, he has

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a bad offensive line, like he's had the same line

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when he was winning those games to still make the playoffs.

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Any thoughts on that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a couple of thoughts. First of all,

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you and I did talk about the game last week

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at some point, and the Chargers wanted that matchup. Right.

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New England wasn't really good as a pressure type team,

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so they thought that even with the injuries on their

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offensive line, hey week and defend Herbert. I come out

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of last night's game thinking, I mean, you you wanted that,

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you knew that, but the game plan looked like they

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didn't even understand anything. I mean, I don't know where

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that get. And I could say that for a couple

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of teams yesterday Philadelphia included. Philadelphia faces a defense in

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San Francisco that's been bad for ten weeks that had

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three guys across the middle linebackers that were five, six

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and seven on their depth chart. Now one two, three

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or four, five, six and seven, and your game plan

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is we'll just come out and run Barkley right into

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the teeth of the defense that is set up to

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stop part I just say some of these coaches skied,

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Jim Harbaugh and Nick Sirianni in particular, who had seven

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days to get ready for matchups where they had huge

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advantages in the game plans look terrible. I do somewhat

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feel for Justin Herbert, who's for his life for the

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last seventy eight weeks. I mean, he could he dropped.

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I think he's skittish at this point in time. He

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missed some throws where he did get out of the

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pocket and had guys and just missed them. And I

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think that's a product of just being extremely nervous about

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your protection. But like you say, it didn't go well

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for them. Credit to New England they gain planned better.

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I think Vrabel did. They showed some pass rush. Credit

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to San Francisco, certainly they game planned better. But I'm

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kind of glad this town is rid of the Eagles.

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And I won't say that about your Chargers because it's

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your team. But you know, some of these guys have

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to learn. You can't just come in with caveman mentality

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and think, oh, we're going to run over these these guys.

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It doesn't work. And to your point, real quick, I'll

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get on my soapbox, and this is an NBA show.

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I shouldn't even do this, but you brought it up earlier,

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and I swear to God, Liam Cohen is the guy

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walking around looking for the three points that he chow

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to just give up and take a zero for it

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in the second quarter. What are we doing going for

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fourth and two in the second quarter with eleven minutes

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left when you're winning the game? I'm you know, swear

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to God. I sat on Mike couch here in southeastern

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Pennsylvania with a buddy of my sons next to me,

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and I said, you know what, Josh Allen's going to

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go ninety six yards now for a touchdown. You can't

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give these guys opportunities. And I just wonder what these

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coaches are thinking. Get it. Changing three for nothing and

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then losing by three in the end makes no sense.

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It comes from analytics, I know, But I'm with you.

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Some of these coaches need to get that no pad

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out and take some lessons from guys who do it

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the right way. Sean McDermott did it the right way,

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you say, and that's why Buffalo won.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to it. You know, we got

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about five or six of those games today in association.

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There is a Monday night football game too, kind of

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forget all about it. But we'll start off how we

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always do. Looks like five thirty three, five thirty four

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Looks like thirteen total open two forty six and a half,

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two fifty and a half.

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Speaker 2: Robab you know.

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Speaker 1: Getting I mean, I mean, at some point you have

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to start raising these Calves and Jazz totals. I understand

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Niang is out for Utah Strews and Dean Wade out

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for the Cavs. Calves pretty healthy right now, as healthy

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as they've been in a while. So yeah, I understand

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why this total is so high. The one thing I'll

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say is Jazz have been a little bit more of

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an under team on the road over team at home.

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But they still, you know, a team that wants to

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get out and run doesn't play good defense. And the

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Cavaliers the same boat. They haven't been a really good

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defensive team. So I can understand why this total is

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really high. It would make me nervous to play it

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under but I mean, it is two really bad defenses here,

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But the same applies, right, I mean, can we still

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trust the Cavaliers to win by fourteen if they're not

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getting stops either? I think it could be a chance

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for Utah to be competitive and correct me if I'm wrong.

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Utah is off of a beat down. I mean, i'd

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like to think that, you know, they show some pride

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and try to compete tonight thinking about Utah plus here, Rob,

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you know, can't talk me off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the last two things you said were my angle,

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and I'll add one more to that angle. But when

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you lose one fifty to ninety five, there's got to

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be some sort of pride to come back and play

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hard the next game, and Utah has done it on occasion.

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Yeah they're a bad defense. Yeah they're a bad team,

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but we've seen them play better teams relatively close during

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the season. Second thing you said, what you always say,

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I mean came into my handicap here is how do

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we trust you laying thirteen when you can't stop anybody.

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It's just the way the caves are. And the third

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thing was that they rested Marketing in that beat down,

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knowing that they were prepping for this road trip, which

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is extended. Marketing will play today and Yerkic or Nurkic

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excuse me, didn't play. Use if Nurkic didn't play in

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that game either, And he's probable to go. So you

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get two bigs back for Utah, which I think is

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important here. I thought the points were a little extensive.

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Haven't had the courage yet to go ahead and take

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the points. But I think if I'm going to play,

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that's the way I'm going to go. Cleveland, certainly I

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would think wins the game. But do they win by fourteen?

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I'm not so sure that could be. You know, in

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a high scoring game, sometimes these numbers look a little

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bit smaller. But you know, I don't know. One thirty

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to one eighteen sounds reasonable to me, and that would

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be a Utah cover. So I think I would look

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Utah's way.

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Speaker 1: It will go over to the next game. It looks

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like Celtics the Pacers had I show an opener of nine.

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Looks like most spots have five and a half. Right now,

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we had we show nim Hard questionable, Jackson Mathern topping

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all out for the Celtics, minot out, Jaylen Brown doubtful,

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Houser questionable. I mean, you could be missing a lot

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of scoring for the Celtics team one with Jaylen Brown

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missing some shooting with Hauser, but you're also missing some defense.

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With not for this Pacers team, You're also missing some

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scoring with matherinnim Hard out would definitely hurt the scoring,

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hurt some pace. I don't know, this feels like more

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of an undergame here, Rob, you know, and I could

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only look towards the Pacers at the house here, you know,

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missing all those guys for the Celtics. Not that the

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Pacers have been playing great basketball, but they have been

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playing better defense than the Celtics. So I really hate

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the thought of backing them without nim Art and or Matherin.

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I know he's questionable, but I really want him out there.

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So this is a leane towards the Pacers right now.

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Also maybe a leane towards the under and he thoughts

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from you on Celtics Pacers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it totally shows the respect that is

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given to Jalen Brown being out for the Celtics. And really,

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I mean a lot of it's already put into the

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Indiana Power rating because they've been so injured all season long,

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but really not a ton of respect given for their

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injuries as well. And like I said, I do understand

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that a lot of that is already built into the

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Indiana Power rating. But you know, the nmhard injury is

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key to knock it down three and a half points.

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That's for Jalen Brown and nothing else. That's the consideration

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here from the market. Jalen Brown had a lot to

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say about the referee Saturday night and how lousy they

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were at their job. So if he sits, maybe the

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refs won't take it out on Boston. But if he plays,

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I'm not so sure the refs. It would be a

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little whistle happy for the home team here to sort

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of reply to him. He is listed as doubtful. I'm

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kind of with you that and I don't you know,

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under doesn't come out of my mouth very often, but

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it's hard to see this one getting above two twenties.

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Not hard, I shouldn't say it that way, but it's

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difficult to see it getting over to twenty six here. Indiana,

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for what it's worth, is trying for three straight up

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wins in a row for the first time this year,

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so I think there'll be motivation there for Indiana, a

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little bit of you know, a confidence builders numbers. Almost

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rather have Jalen Brown playing and take nine, to tell

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you the truth, Ski than have him not playing and

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only take five and a half. The one thing about

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Boston the guys that they have on the floor can

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heat up and shoot it from three. That would be

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the only scary part. But if given my choice, I

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think I'd look under.

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Speaker 1: All right, we have another game that we just saw

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last night. Yeah, if you just saw this last night,

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it was an overtime game Sixers and Raptors open three

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still looks like three or three and a half depending

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where you shop. Total came down from two twenty two

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and a half to to nineteen or as low as

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two nineteen. As far as the injuries, and again, this

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is when they both played last night. You could get

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some guys roared out throughout the day. You have both

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mbat and Paul George questionable, ingram Is questionable, r J. Berry, Hurdle,

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Walter all out. This is not really the kind of

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situation a game I want to really be involved in. Here.

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You know, no rest for both teams, back to back,

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both off overtime. I just who knows what we're gonna get.

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I would like to think that you know, teams are

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hurting on the defensive end, or you know tiger legs

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means less defense. But I don't want to put money

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on it at this moment, and he throws from you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought for Philly's ski that they intentionally rested

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George n Embid last night, and I expected them to

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come back and play today. The fact that they're not

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announced as in yet kind of makes me wonder if

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what's going on with the two of them is a

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little more serious than first anticipated. I mean, they're both

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on you know, this injury management type of deal in

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back to back, So if they don't play the first,

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you expect them to play in the second. They've both

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been playing regularly the last you know, three weeks or so.

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If they play, I probably want Philadelphia here only minus

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three and a half. Toronto obviously way more banged up.

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If in fact those two go, and if Embiid does go,

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I mean the matchup of him against Colin Murray Boyles

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at center would thrill me from a Philadelphia standpoint. I'm

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gonna have to wait on the injury report here. I

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will say this about Toronto somehow, some wai ski they

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won that game yesday and they did not shoot at all,

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thirty nine point eight percent from the field, only fifteen

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point six percent from three. And there's got to be

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a little positive regression on a fifteen point six percent

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night five of thirty two, so they probably make a

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few more threes here. Numbers obviously bet down because of

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the injury situation last night, overtime, little fatigue. I don't know.

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I'm gonna wait and see. But by the time I

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wait and see, this number goes up, right by the

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time and Being and Georgia, if they are announced in

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this game, goes from three to six or three and

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a half to six, because if it's two of them,

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So I don't know, you almost have to be proactive here.

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I really did think, just living in the area from

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what I had heard that they were just rested intentionally

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last night. So it does kind of surprise me that

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no official word has been given yet.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it going here, Nets and MAVs, this

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one opened up three and a half. Looks like three

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and a half or four total came down on this

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one too, from two twenty one and a half, I'm

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seeing two nineteen and a half there for the Nets,

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Igor Hi Smith, cam Thomas, and Williams all out for Dallas,

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no ad, no Brandon Williams. Well, I'm sorry, no a

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d Brandon Williams and PJ are both doubtful. Gafford is questionable.

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I mean, missing a hell of a lot of rim

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protection in this game for this MAVs team. And when

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they have Denmar at point guard, I think they played

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faster without Cam Thomas, less points for the Nets, you know,

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maybe some more defense. So I'm not sure really which

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way I want to go with that. The Nets did

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play yesterday, right, and the Nets have not been good

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on the back to back. If we look at it

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from that perspective, it should be Dallas at home. I

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guess Lean, Dallas lean, Dallas lean over just because I

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think they're gonna play up tempo tonight and if they're

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gonna win, they probably just gonna have to outscore the

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Neettes because they don't have a whole lot of remprotection.

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What do you think you're being on?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't even lean anyway. I just fall down

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flat on this one. I can't play it like you

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say the three. I mean, Lively has already been out right,

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so no Ad he's out for a little bit of

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time with the finger injury, and then no Gafford is

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zero verim protection and when Brandon Williams plays Dallas is

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able to keep up the pace. It doesn't all fall

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on them hard. You know, you can bring him in

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and they still go fast without him tonight, probably get

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some of our favorite Cooper flagging bullet. We don't know

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what happens, right, but I don't want to play the

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Brooklyn side off of the back to back and with

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their roster here tonight. So for me, it was just

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a complete I couldn't even find an angle for the total.

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Tell you the truth, money push Dallas up, total down.

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I don't know I could counter both. So for me,

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that's just a complete pass. We could speed up the

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process here by just me skipping this game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I would. I would have to go

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with the Mavericks if I'm playing that one right there.

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Lakers and Kings opened up minus eleven and a half,

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down as low as nine total, open two thirty down

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as low as two twenty eight and a half. As

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far as the injuries for this one, the Lakers will

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be without Reeves and Theeero. So looks like Rui is

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not on the injury report tonight. It doesn't show him

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in the start. Expect to start a lineup, but He's

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off the injury report for the Kings. Murray Sabonis and

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Schroeder will not be playing tonight. Yeah, Schroeder supposedly, you know,

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meeting some people in the back happen some words, maybe

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some little more than words in the back after Luca

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was letting them have it on the court last game,

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these teams play again, I just you know, you know

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how I feel about the Lakers. It's very hard to

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get me to, you know, lay expect them to win

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by double digits, just because I don't view them as

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the best defensive team.

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Speaker 2: But this is the.

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Speaker 1: Kings we're talking about here. They have been pretty pathetic.

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Lakers did only just oh yeah, Lakers beat them by

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twenty four last time they played. I mean, Lakers are

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Lakers are past, I guess just because I really more

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than more than not one the Lakers laying as many points.

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I absolutely do not want the Kings. So just the

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fate of the Kings Lakers are nothing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it at tay the truth Ski. It's the only

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game that I played so far and I did. I mean,

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I'm partial to the Lakers side here, and I took

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a shot play in their team total over here tonight.

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Obviously there's a little bit of fireworks. I think that

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we're Shrewders concerned that the suspension is because he took

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a swing at Luca after the game, and so you know,

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Luca fired up against anybody, even if Shrewder's not on

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the floor, just kind of screams points. In my mind,

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Lakers don't play a heck of a lot of defense,

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so they'll probably have to outscore them here. Sacramento came

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up with a crazy win yesterday over Houston, crazy in

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the fact that they won by double digits against a

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team better than them, which they never do, but not

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that Houston's on the card tonight. But I just want

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to go back to something that you pointed out a

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couple of times last week, and it seems to be

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ringing true. I mean, without shng Goon, they're not the

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same team, even close to being the same team. So

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that win yesterday I can somewhat justify. Lakers haven't scored

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points as of late, which is why I said to

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start this that I'm taking kind of a chance here,

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But I do think they'll bounce back with points here tonight.

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Ruy probably helps a little bit on each end defense

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and offense. But I think my main thing here is

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just you know, when you have Luca in kind of

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those I don't want to call it revenge, but he

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wants to get after you type situations. He usually does

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the job. So I'm gonna I tried Lakers over one

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eighteen and a half here. I think it's probably a

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good side.

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Speaker 1: Man. I'm looking at this a little bit more, and

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I mean this is kind of actually man, it's kind

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of screaming to me some I need something in this game, rabo.

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I'm going to continue to look into this more. But yeah,

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the Lakers off back to back losses. Yeah, the Kings

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off of an upset when Lakers laying nine and a

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half on the road. That's standing out to me. Lakers

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two days rest compared to zero we know about you

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know that advantage there.

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Speaker 2: I got some numbers with that, if it helps you

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along any written in my notes here, the Kings are

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one in five ats with no rest and the average

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score differential in those games is minus twenty two point eight,

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so that certainly would cover for you. And then if

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they've played a game this year with any length of

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rest disadvantage, which they have tonight, rest disadvantage. There are

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only three and ten against the spread, so I know

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you like a couple of those technical numbers. Those I

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don't know if they push you right to the window

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or not, but they're certainly helpful if you're building a

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case for the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: And the last time these teams played, the Lakers were

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also off of back to back losses. They meet the

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Kings by twenty four, granted the Lakers were at home.

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I think the Lakers did have well, no, they did

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not have Austin Reeves. Yeah, this is starting to feel

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like Lakers smash spot. That's kind of how I'm starting

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to feel here. You know, surprisingly is showing me that

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the Lakers are number seven defensive rated team last five games,

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you know, so maybe they're playing a little bit better

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defense now. Maybe we can trust them to to get

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a little something done here. I know, all back to

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back losses. I haven't seen any interviews or anything, but

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I know JJ REDI gets pissed. I know how he gets.

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So I do think he usually. I do think he'll

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have the team ready to go tonight. I think it's

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the Lakers spot here, all right, Lakers or Kings team

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total wonder one of the two alright, last, but not

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least Hornets and Clippers. You know, open five and a

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half down to four and a half total. Open two

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twenty eight looks like two twenty three and a half here.

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As far as injuries, Miles Bridges is probable, Conorton is questionable,

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So it's Sexton Plumbly will be out for the Clippers. No,

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Eric Jones, Junior Bogdanovich workers, Paul, you have Kawhi questionable

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and that's a humongous question mark right there. I mean,

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I feel like Kawhi has been playing solid lately, definitely

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with one of the men there, especially whereas a Hornets

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team who and again I would double trip, but I

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feel like they've been playing competitive at least, you know,

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point spread wise, so I wouldn't. There's no way that

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I could bet the Clippers without knowing Kawhi's status and

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how good the Hornets have been playing. Like I'm looking

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at these numbers now, I just pulled them up top

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five offense and defensive ready team last five games, you know,

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and they've been a top ten offense, top ten rebounding

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team in the same spin, I mean, why do why

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do we not back the Hornets here, it seems like

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this is this is a Hornets play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's way easier if LA doesn't have Kawhi.

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For sure. Clippers, for what it's worth, nine and two

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against the spread their last eleven, so certainly just as

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hot Clippers, six of those eleven games held the opponent

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to one oh five or less. That's really really good

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defense out of them. I don't know what their last

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ten stats are, but they have to be good the

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way they've allowed kept teams from scoring points. In fact,

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if I go back, it's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, Yeah,

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seven of eleven one to oh five or less for

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the opponent, So it's not like they've been scoring against

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the Clippers. I guess it's one of those games where

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if I mean, if Kawhi were involved, obviously you'd like

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to bet on both of these teams, but they happen

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to be playing each other. I don't know which one

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I would choose to fade in this spot, so I

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won't fade either. And obviously the offensive numbers that Kawhi's

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brought to the table here as of late are huge

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Clippers just they've gotten away from those and Tennis plus

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so to speak, and picked it up a little bit here,

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and I think I remember reading the quote last week

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where they just said they looked up in the standings

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and saw the sense of urgency, and they really have

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played well since then. So wouldn't like either side here.

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I think if Kauhi doesn't play, there's a reason to

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like Charlotte plus. It's not a lot of plus, but

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it is some plus. And you mentioned how good they've

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been playing lately.

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Speaker 1: That's making some sense to me here. Maybe even maybe

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even a Clippers team total under. And I'm right now

474
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down on my list Kawai could be missing. Hornets have

475
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been playing defense lately. I mean Hornets last five opponents

476
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four zero to one to the team total under. Let

477
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me see what the average is points per game? Last

478
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five games allowed one hundred point four for the Hornets. Here, well,

479
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if they played let me just deal with this. They

480
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:04,599
played the Jazz, the Pacers, the Raptors, the Thunder, and

481
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the Bulls. Not a whole lot of great teams, but

482
00:27:09,079 --> 00:27:11,960
the Thunder are in there. Not that the Thunder have

483
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,880
been playing the best basketball, but they did blow out

484
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:14,720
the Thunder as well.

485
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Speaker 2: Oh they did. I remember that night that wasn't close. No,

486
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,160
I tried to come back with okay, c second half

487
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,920
in that game in Charlotte extended.

488
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking what is what is the Clippers team total?

489
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 2: One fourteen and a half?

490
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Speaker 1: One fourteen and a half? Wow, I'm looking here, Clippers.

491
00:27:39,279 --> 00:27:45,880
I mean they hit that one of their last four games. Yeah,

492
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that's that's worth a luck at least. So I probably

493
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will be on one or the other Ornets or Clippers

494
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,920
Hornets plus or Clippers team total under. And yeah, just

495
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,799
got to make some decisions later there, you know, anything

496
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else before we move on here.

497
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Speaker 2: Now you're starting to make sense to me. So I

498
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,759
just wrote down Clippers team, don't wonder so I can

499
00:28:09,799 --> 00:28:12,240
look at it a little more. It's why we do

500
00:28:12,279 --> 00:28:14,839
the show. It's why we talk about because I came

501
00:28:14,839 --> 00:28:17,000
in with really nothing on that game. But the more

502
00:28:18,079 --> 00:28:19,880
we break it down here and I stare at the

503
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,279
numbers with you, it makes a lot of sense. I

504
00:28:22,279 --> 00:28:27,000
think you said, Charlotte allowing one hundred and two or something.

505
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,039
Speaker 1: One hundred part two.

506
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fourteen and a half points below what they're

507
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,400
telling you the Clippers need to get tonight. That's a

508
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,599
lot of points, no matter who those five games were against.

509
00:28:37,799 --> 00:28:39,160
That's a lot of points.

510
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: Yeah it is, Yeah, it is. All right, let's talk

511
00:28:44,559 --> 00:28:48,799
a little bit at least about this Monday nighter. We

512
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:54,599
have Texans and Stealers, right, we do. Right around the

513
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,079
opener for the spread, the total came down a little

514
00:28:57,119 --> 00:29:02,039
bit from thirty nine and a half to thirty eight. Man,

515
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:07,119
you know, my initial thought when we talked, oh we didn't.

516
00:29:07,119 --> 00:29:08,480
I don't think we talked about this game last week.

517
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:09,680
I think we skipped it because we know we'd be

518
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,759
here on Monday. But my initial thought last week was

519
00:29:15,079 --> 00:29:21,000
Texans defense. They've been, they've been the elite they've been.

520
00:29:21,519 --> 00:29:25,279
I can absolutely trust the Texans defense. I don't trust

521
00:29:25,279 --> 00:29:29,839
the Steelers defense really at all. That's that's just really

522
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:34,279
what how I view it offensively, And it kills me

523
00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:38,079
to say this strap as much. You know, I like

524
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,599
DJ Stroud. I've been a CJ. Stroud fan since he

525
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,519
came into the league. But he's not been like that

526
00:29:43,559 --> 00:29:46,240
first year, you know what I'm saying. And he's not

527
00:29:46,799 --> 00:29:49,680
the most trustworthy right now, I guess, is what I'm

528
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,039
trying to say. So can you take advantage of the

529
00:29:53,079 --> 00:29:59,279
Steelers defense? We shall see I know Texans don't have

530
00:29:59,319 --> 00:30:03,799
a good track on these. I think is what road

531
00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:06,319
Monday games or something like that, no road playoff games.

532
00:30:06,359 --> 00:30:10,160
They haven't won one. And the Steelers, Mike Tomlin a

533
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:15,279
good record on Monday night at home here. I don't

534
00:30:15,319 --> 00:30:20,119
know if you know, was any doughts from U Texans

535
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,200
and Steelers.

536
00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:26,279
Speaker 2: Yeah. I took a pretty deep look into its ski

537
00:30:26,319 --> 00:30:30,000
and I came up with Houston minus three. I'll just

538
00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:33,240
point out these few things. Second half of the season,

539
00:30:35,519 --> 00:30:40,559
eight nine games, Pittsburgh only played to top five defenses,

540
00:30:40,559 --> 00:30:43,480
by the way, Houston's number one overall ranked on defense,

541
00:30:43,559 --> 00:30:46,279
Denver number one in sacks, Houston number one overall because

542
00:30:46,279 --> 00:30:49,359
of their run defense. But the two times Pittsburgh played

543
00:30:50,559 --> 00:30:54,319
a top five defense, they scored ten and six points.

544
00:30:54,799 --> 00:30:58,680
The six points was against Cleveland. People would come back

545
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,599
at me with, well, you know they didn't have dk Metcalf,

546
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:08,119
et cetera, et cetera. Still at six it's not enough. Yeah,

547
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,799
Metcalf was up, But in certain statistical areas in that game,

548
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:16,440
like third down conversions, the Steelers three of fifteen in

549
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,000
one game, two of eleven, and the other just miserable.

550
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,680
And in those two games, they had twenty two possessions.

551
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,680
Twenty two times they got the ball ski and those

552
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,400
two games against elite defenses, and sixteen of those times

553
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,119
the drives went twenty yards or less. They went nowhere.

554
00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:35,759
I don't know where they're going to go against Houston tonight.

555
00:31:36,839 --> 00:31:40,359
The problem, like you say, is that we got to

556
00:31:40,359 --> 00:31:44,680
look at Houston's offensive side. So I did. And for Houston,

557
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,000
they've played five playoff teams their last ten games. They're

558
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,079
four and one straight up against them, and every single

559
00:31:50,079 --> 00:31:53,680
win is by four or more. So yes, I'm red homes,

560
00:31:53,759 --> 00:31:55,960
I'm on the road, etc. The only team that beat

561
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,240
them was Denver. Denver beat them by a field goal

562
00:31:58,279 --> 00:32:03,240
in Mile High. I figured that CJ. Strud they have

563
00:32:03,319 --> 00:32:05,720
been playing a little better on offense. His offensive line

564
00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:08,599
is no good. We know that. That's why his players

565
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,920
declined a little bit. You know, Aaron Rodgers gets rid

566
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,759
of the ball quickly, but he's gonna have to get

567
00:32:14,839 --> 00:32:17,119
rid of it real quickly. And where metcalf is concerned,

568
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:22,000
he plays tonight. But the guy covering him is Derek Stingley,

569
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,319
who's a top five cover corner in the league All

570
00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:27,920
Pro et cetera, et cetera. So they I don't know

571
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:32,480
Houston's got the number four run defense. To me, I

572
00:32:32,559 --> 00:32:36,039
took Demico Ryans into Texans minus three. I think that's

573
00:32:36,039 --> 00:32:37,839
the right way here. Be one of those you know,

574
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,960
ugly watches, maybe, but I just trust Houston's defense a

575
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,759
lot more than any other unit on the field.

576
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:50,079
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I agree with that. Man, you

577
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:54,359
gotta I mean, this Houston team one nine games in

578
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:59,680
a row. That's not a it's not fluky. Won nine

579
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,519
games in a row. It's not gonna be easy. If

580
00:33:03,519 --> 00:33:05,160
the Steller's gonna pull this one out. I need a

581
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,160
little bit more time to think about this. Robbie, No,

582
00:33:07,799 --> 00:33:10,079
not rushing to the window here. I do think this

583
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,400
common common is funny, So I'll put it up on

584
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:18,079
the screen. Mark Martin says I played Steelers plus three

585
00:33:18,119 --> 00:33:20,559
a few days ago, got scared this morning and bet

586
00:33:20,559 --> 00:33:23,960
Houston money line, and then follows up and says, I'm

587
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:24,559
a coward.

588
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,759
Speaker 2: Listen, We've all done it, Mark, don't you. I was

589
00:33:31,799 --> 00:33:37,880
trying to back my way out of bets yesterday. Sometimes

590
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,799
you gotta do what you gotta do to preserve the

591
00:33:39,839 --> 00:33:40,279
bank roll.

592
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: Yep.

593
00:33:41,839 --> 00:33:44,039
Speaker 2: But yeah, and ski when you look at those last

594
00:33:44,119 --> 00:33:47,599
night wins, you'll probably find, like I did, that there's

595
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,200
a there's a handful of them that are against playoff teams,

596
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,759
and they weren't shying away from people. They beat some

597
00:33:52,839 --> 00:33:55,640
lousy teams too, but playoff teams they got.

598
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: Gill says he thinks I'm gonna go sell everybody on

599
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,319
the tape and h nah, not this time. You know,

600
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:08,519
playoffs is a little different, Jill. Playoffs. I mean, the

601
00:34:08,519 --> 00:34:10,559
best team is going to win. It don't really matter

602
00:34:10,599 --> 00:34:16,000
who everybody's on in my opinion. But yeah, you know

603
00:34:16,039 --> 00:34:18,719
how it usually goes. All right, you know, I think

604
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,440
we can wrap it up now. We've been on here

605
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:21,400
for thirty four minutes.

606
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:22,519
Speaker 2: She happened.

607
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,760
Speaker 1: I think we did a little bit of good stuff

608
00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:32,920
in between the Yeah, all right, So let's see what

609
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,239
can I toss up here? I forgot to check, but

610
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,119
I'm pretty sure this is good. Right. You'd like to

611
00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:41,519
be involved for seven days all access for sixty nine dollars.

612
00:34:41,599 --> 00:34:44,639
That's a little less than ten dollars per day, get

613
00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:48,360
every play that's up in available right now. That is

614
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,440
the way to do it, Vino. I'm going to toss

615
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,079
it to you on that note best bets if you

616
00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:55,199
have one for the show, or yeah, if you have

617
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:56,800
them for the show, we love to hear it. If

618
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:03,960
you have anything else you love to promote, feel free, yeah.

619
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 2: Promo real quick. I will just plug the morning college

620
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,199
basketball shows SKI on wager Talk TV ten am e

621
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:13,280
seven am Pacific Time, sixty minutes with the host of

622
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:17,920
that show, Adam Trigger, sixty minutes of college hoop. Now

623
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,840
that these other sports are winding down, college football almost

624
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,280
done and fl football almost done, people start paying a

625
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,840
little more attention to college basketball. So if you're interested.

626
00:35:26,519 --> 00:35:30,079
Monday through Friday, ten am to eleven am Eastern Time,

627
00:35:30,199 --> 00:35:35,239
Full Court Press on wager Talk TV. I'm gonna leave

628
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,159
the best bet as the Lakers team total over one

629
00:35:37,199 --> 00:35:39,679
eighteen and a half. I really think Luca probably goes

630
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,519
for forty tonight. If the Lakers lucas the kind of

631
00:35:42,519 --> 00:35:45,440
guy that teams generally will rally around if he's got

632
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,920
some kind of beef, they'll follow suit. I don't like

633
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,880
the Kings defense, especially on back. The Backs probably had

634
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,480
a little easy yesterday without shannguon and a lineup in

635
00:35:54,519 --> 00:35:58,760
Houston playing terrible, but Lakers have had two days to

636
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:00,840
get ready for this. So that's the way I'm going

637
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,039
to roll here, Houston, excuse me. Lakers team total over

638
00:36:04,119 --> 00:36:06,880
one eighteen and a half. I like it.

639
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,119
Speaker 1: I like it, I like it. I'm not going to

640
00:36:10,199 --> 00:36:12,119
leave a best bet because I haven't made a bet yet.

641
00:36:12,519 --> 00:36:14,679
I'm starting to like different things more and more and more.

642
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,239
But what I will leave you with is my short list.

643
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:23,280
My long list rather Jazz plus thirteen and a half,

644
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,239
Celtics game under two, twenty six, MAVs minus three and

645
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:32,280
a half, Lakers minus nine, Hornets plus five, Clippers team

646
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:36,000
total under one fourteen and a half, King's team total

647
00:36:36,119 --> 00:36:38,119
under one on nine and a half. I'm going to

648
00:36:38,119 --> 00:36:40,519
continue to cap a little bit throughout the day and

649
00:36:40,679 --> 00:36:43,639
make some decisions. But those are the ways that I'm

650
00:36:43,679 --> 00:36:48,199
looking for this Monday. You know, always appreciate you taking

651
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,039
the time to come cap these games and breaking down

652
00:36:50,079 --> 00:36:52,679
with me definitely helps my process. I mean, I didn't

653
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:54,480
have this many games I was thinking about before we

654
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,000
came on here, and you know, did all that yappen?

655
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,840
So appreciate you. Everybody in the chat. We appreciate you

656
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,159
all as well. Good captors, good people. Everybody here just

657
00:37:05,159 --> 00:37:07,920
trying to help each other win, so best of luck

658
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,480
on this Monday night, and we'll be back tomorrow, I believe,

659
00:37:11,559 --> 00:37:15,280
with a lot more games. So we'll catch you guys

660
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:15,320
the