Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody, Welcome into another episode of
Prophet Picks. If you are new, we do always start
the show by being transparent. Didn't do any shows over
the weekend. Last show we did was Friday, Friday and Saturday.
I know I did go five and one, and then
Sunday I went zero and one, So five and two
since we last spoke. I am disappointed in myself for
not getting to the window on two of the football
games we talked about, and only getting to the winner
on the loser window on the loser. Did not bet
the Bears. I did not bet the Bills. I bet
the Sorry yeahs Chargers. So that was pretty annoying. But
otherwise five and two. You know, you can't complain too much.
You know, good to be back with you. Have you been.
Speaker 2: I've been better, But I'm okay, ski. I mean, we
survived days. I guess they were. As I said to
you off air, the NFL was a total disaster for me,
but basketball was fine. I think yesterday it was a
two and two split, nothing major. Saturday was a good
basketball day. Friday, I believe Friday was the day we
had Phoenix as our only plaid have to go back.
These days fly by so quick. But I do think
we left Phoenix as the play. I'm trying to look
here for the chat on they played the Knicks. Now,
that couldn't have been where I'm going. Whatever it was,
it was okay on Friday. I do remember yesterday though
it was pretty rough. Yeah, real quick here. There were
probably a couple of points where you were saying to yourself, Damn,
I'm glad I didn't bet the Bears. Damn, I'm glad
I the Bills. But they both worked out for.
Speaker 1: I'll say the Bills game went a little more how
I expect it, Like, I know, as long as you
get joshot in the chance, he's gonna win the game
at the end, and I don't trust Trevor Lawrence and
we saw what happened there. But the Bears game, I
guess I didn't. I don't know they got down. I mean,
they had been a good second half team, but twenty
one to three, I did kind of feel like it
was it was over.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: That's that's one of the games though, where you know,
you see a lot of teams going forward nowadays. The
Bears kicked a few field goals and that's the reason
they were even able to come back and win the game.
So coaches should be taking some notes there, you know,
one more thing before Razor says, Hey, this is NBA.
Don't need to talk about the Bears as a package fan,
right there, Rob, You know, Razor, Yeah, let's have a
day to day. But before I move on to basketball,
I do have to mention one more thing because it's
just on my mind. And Geo says he wasn't expecting
from Herbert even though he took a beating out there.
I wasn't expecting it from Herbert either. I did a
lot of taking up for Herbert on multiple different shows
and the Chargers and et cetera, et cetera, and I
just looked like a I look like an idiot. We know,
here's what I have to say, Robie. Know, the offensive
line has been hurt since about week six, Like later
it was hurt before the season. Joe Walt went down
in Week six, So they've been the same bad offensive
line for eleven weeks. Right. I don't understand why everybody
all of a sudden is saying, oh, well, he has
a bad offensive line, like he's had the same line
when he was winning those games to still make the playoffs.
Any thoughts on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a couple of thoughts. First of all,
you and I did talk about the game last week
at some point, and the Chargers wanted that matchup. Right.
New England wasn't really good as a pressure type team,
so they thought that even with the injuries on their
offensive line, hey week and defend Herbert. I come out
of last night's game thinking, I mean, you you wanted that,
you knew that, but the game plan looked like they
didn't even understand anything. I mean, I don't know where
that get. And I could say that for a couple
of teams yesterday Philadelphia included. Philadelphia faces a defense in
San Francisco that's been bad for ten weeks that had
three guys across the middle linebackers that were five, six
and seven on their depth chart. Now one two, three
or four, five, six and seven, and your game plan
is we'll just come out and run Barkley right into
the teeth of the defense that is set up to
stop part I just say some of these coaches skied,
Jim Harbaugh and Nick Sirianni in particular, who had seven
days to get ready for matchups where they had huge
advantages in the game plans look terrible. I do somewhat
feel for Justin Herbert, who's for his life for the
last seventy eight weeks. I mean, he could he dropped.
I think he's skittish at this point in time. He
missed some throws where he did get out of the
pocket and had guys and just missed them. And I
think that's a product of just being extremely nervous about
your protection. But like you say, it didn't go well
for them. Credit to New England they gain planned better.
I think Vrabel did. They showed some pass rush. Credit
to San Francisco, certainly they game planned better. But I'm
kind of glad this town is rid of the Eagles.
And I won't say that about your Chargers because it's
your team. But you know, some of these guys have
to learn. You can't just come in with caveman mentality
and think, oh, we're going to run over these these guys.
It doesn't work. And to your point, real quick, I'll
get on my soapbox, and this is an NBA show.
I shouldn't even do this, but you brought it up earlier,
and I swear to God, Liam Cohen is the guy
walking around looking for the three points that he chow
to just give up and take a zero for it
in the second quarter. What are we doing going for
fourth and two in the second quarter with eleven minutes
left when you're winning the game? I'm you know, swear
to God. I sat on Mike couch here in southeastern
Pennsylvania with a buddy of my sons next to me,
and I said, you know what, Josh Allen's going to
go ninety six yards now for a touchdown. You can't
give these guys opportunities. And I just wonder what these
coaches are thinking. Get it. Changing three for nothing and
then losing by three in the end makes no sense.
It comes from analytics, I know, But I'm with you.
Some of these coaches need to get that no pad
out and take some lessons from guys who do it
the right way. Sean McDermott did it the right way,
you say, and that's why Buffalo won.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to it. You know, we got
about five or six of those games today in association.
There is a Monday night football game too, kind of
forget all about it. But we'll start off how we
always do. Looks like five thirty three, five thirty four
Jazz and Calves opened up minus thirteen and a half.
Looks like thirteen total open two forty six and a half,
two fifty and a half.
Speaker 2: Robab you know.
Speaker 1: Getting I mean, I mean, at some point you have
to start raising these Calves and Jazz totals. I understand
Niang is out for Utah Strews and Dean Wade out
for the Cavs. Calves pretty healthy right now, as healthy
as they've been in a while. So yeah, I understand
why this total is so high. The one thing I'll
say is Jazz have been a little bit more of
an under team on the road over team at home.
But they still, you know, a team that wants to
get out and run doesn't play good defense. And the
Cavaliers the same boat. They haven't been a really good
defensive team. So I can understand why this total is
really high. It would make me nervous to play it
under but I mean, it is two really bad defenses here,
But the same applies, right, I mean, can we still
trust the Cavaliers to win by fourteen if they're not
getting stops either? I think it could be a chance
for Utah to be competitive and correct me if I'm wrong.
Utah is off of a beat down. I mean, i'd
like to think that, you know, they show some pride
and try to compete tonight thinking about Utah plus here, Rob,
you know, can't talk me off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the last two things you said were my angle,
and I'll add one more to that angle. But when
you lose one fifty to ninety five, there's got to
be some sort of pride to come back and play
hard the next game, and Utah has done it on occasion.
Yeah they're a bad defense. Yeah they're a bad team,
but we've seen them play better teams relatively close during
the season. Second thing you said, what you always say,
I mean came into my handicap here is how do
we trust you laying thirteen when you can't stop anybody.
It's just the way the caves are. And the third
thing was that they rested Marketing in that beat down,
knowing that they were prepping for this road trip, which
is extended. Marketing will play today and Yerkic or Nurkic
excuse me, didn't play. Use if Nurkic didn't play in
that game either, And he's probable to go. So you
get two bigs back for Utah, which I think is
important here. I thought the points were a little extensive.
Haven't had the courage yet to go ahead and take
the points. But I think if I'm going to play,
that's the way I'm going to go. Cleveland, certainly I
would think wins the game. But do they win by fourteen?
I'm not so sure that could be. You know, in
a high scoring game, sometimes these numbers look a little
bit smaller. But you know, I don't know. One thirty
to one eighteen sounds reasonable to me, and that would
be a Utah cover. So I think I would look
Utah's way.
Speaker 1: It will go over to the next game. It looks
like Celtics the Pacers had I show an opener of nine.
Looks like most spots have five and a half. Right now,
we had we show nim Hard questionable, Jackson Mathern topping
all out for the Celtics, minot out, Jaylen Brown doubtful,
Houser questionable. I mean, you could be missing a lot
of scoring for the Celtics team one with Jaylen Brown
missing some shooting with Hauser, but you're also missing some defense.
With not for this Pacers team, You're also missing some
scoring with matherinnim Hard out would definitely hurt the scoring,
hurt some pace. I don't know, this feels like more
of an undergame here, Rob, you know, and I could
only look towards the Pacers at the house here, you know,
missing all those guys for the Celtics. Not that the
Pacers have been playing great basketball, but they have been
playing better defense than the Celtics. So I really hate
the thought of backing them without nim Art and or Matherin.
I know he's questionable, but I really want him out there.
So this is a leane towards the Pacers right now.
Also maybe a leane towards the under and he thoughts
from you on Celtics Pacers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it totally shows the respect that is
given to Jalen Brown being out for the Celtics. And really,
I mean a lot of it's already put into the
Indiana Power rating because they've been so injured all season long,
but really not a ton of respect given for their
injuries as well. And like I said, I do understand
that a lot of that is already built into the
Indiana Power rating. But you know, the nmhard injury is
key to knock it down three and a half points.
That's for Jalen Brown and nothing else. That's the consideration
here from the market. Jalen Brown had a lot to
say about the referee Saturday night and how lousy they
were at their job. So if he sits, maybe the
refs won't take it out on Boston. But if he plays,
I'm not so sure the refs. It would be a
little whistle happy for the home team here to sort
of reply to him. He is listed as doubtful. I'm
kind of with you that and I don't you know,
under doesn't come out of my mouth very often, but
it's hard to see this one getting above two twenties.
Not hard, I shouldn't say it that way, but it's
difficult to see it getting over to twenty six here. Indiana,
for what it's worth, is trying for three straight up
wins in a row for the first time this year,
so I think there'll be motivation there for Indiana, a
little bit of you know, a confidence builders numbers. Almost
rather have Jalen Brown playing and take nine, to tell
you the truth, Ski than have him not playing and
only take five and a half. The one thing about
Boston the guys that they have on the floor can
heat up and shoot it from three. That would be
the only scary part. But if given my choice, I
think I'd look under.
Speaker 1: All right, we have another game that we just saw
last night. Yeah, if you just saw this last night,
it was an overtime game Sixers and Raptors open three
still looks like three or three and a half depending
where you shop. Total came down from two twenty two
and a half to to nineteen or as low as
two nineteen. As far as the injuries, and again, this
is when they both played last night. You could get
some guys roared out throughout the day. You have both
mbat and Paul George questionable, ingram Is questionable, r J. Berry, Hurdle,
Walter all out. This is not really the kind of
situation a game I want to really be involved in. Here.
You know, no rest for both teams, back to back,
both off overtime. I just who knows what we're gonna get.
I would like to think that you know, teams are
hurting on the defensive end, or you know tiger legs
means less defense. But I don't want to put money
on it at this moment, and he throws from you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought for Philly's ski that they intentionally rested
George n Embid last night, and I expected them to
come back and play today. The fact that they're not
announced as in yet kind of makes me wonder if
what's going on with the two of them is a
little more serious than first anticipated. I mean, they're both
on you know, this injury management type of deal in
back to back, So if they don't play the first,
you expect them to play in the second. They've both
been playing regularly the last you know, three weeks or so.
If they play, I probably want Philadelphia here only minus
three and a half. Toronto obviously way more banged up.
If in fact those two go, and if Embiid does go,
I mean the matchup of him against Colin Murray Boyles
at center would thrill me from a Philadelphia standpoint. I'm
gonna have to wait on the injury report here. I
will say this about Toronto somehow, some wai ski they
won that game yesday and they did not shoot at all,
thirty nine point eight percent from the field, only fifteen
point six percent from three. And there's got to be
a little positive regression on a fifteen point six percent
night five of thirty two, so they probably make a
few more threes here. Numbers obviously bet down because of
the injury situation last night, overtime, little fatigue. I don't know.
I'm gonna wait and see. But by the time I
wait and see, this number goes up, right by the
time and Being and Georgia, if they are announced in
this game, goes from three to six or three and
a half to six, because if it's two of them,
So I don't know, you almost have to be proactive here.
I really did think, just living in the area from
what I had heard that they were just rested intentionally
last night. So it does kind of surprise me that
no official word has been given yet.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it going here, Nets and MAVs, this
one opened up three and a half. Looks like three
and a half or four total came down on this
one too, from two twenty one and a half, I'm
seeing two nineteen and a half there for the Nets,
Igor Hi Smith, cam Thomas, and Williams all out for Dallas,
no ad, no Brandon Williams. Well, I'm sorry, no a
d Brandon Williams and PJ are both doubtful. Gafford is questionable.
I mean, missing a hell of a lot of rim
protection in this game for this MAVs team. And when
they have Denmar at point guard, I think they played
faster without Cam Thomas, less points for the Nets, you know,
maybe some more defense. So I'm not sure really which
way I want to go with that. The Nets did
play yesterday, right, and the Nets have not been good
on the back to back. If we look at it
from that perspective, it should be Dallas at home. I
guess Lean, Dallas lean, Dallas lean over just because I
think they're gonna play up tempo tonight and if they're
gonna win, they probably just gonna have to outscore the
Neettes because they don't have a whole lot of remprotection.
What do you think you're being on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't even lean anyway. I just fall down
flat on this one. I can't play it like you
say the three. I mean, Lively has already been out right,
so no Ad he's out for a little bit of
time with the finger injury, and then no Gafford is
zero verim protection and when Brandon Williams plays Dallas is
able to keep up the pace. It doesn't all fall
on them hard. You know, you can bring him in
and they still go fast without him tonight, probably get
some of our favorite Cooper flagging bullet. We don't know
what happens, right, but I don't want to play the
Brooklyn side off of the back to back and with
their roster here tonight. So for me, it was just
a complete I couldn't even find an angle for the total.
Tell you the truth, money push Dallas up, total down.
I don't know I could counter both. So for me,
that's just a complete pass. We could speed up the
process here by just me skipping this game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I would. I would have to go
with the Mavericks if I'm playing that one right there.
Lakers and Kings opened up minus eleven and a half,
down as low as nine total, open two thirty down
as low as two twenty eight and a half. As
far as the injuries for this one, the Lakers will
be without Reeves and Theeero. So looks like Rui is
not on the injury report tonight. It doesn't show him
in the start. Expect to start a lineup, but He's
off the injury report for the Kings. Murray Sabonis and
Schroeder will not be playing tonight. Yeah, Schroeder supposedly, you know,
meeting some people in the back happen some words, maybe
some little more than words in the back after Luca
was letting them have it on the court last game,
these teams play again, I just you know, you know
how I feel about the Lakers. It's very hard to
get me to, you know, lay expect them to win
by double digits, just because I don't view them as
the best defensive team.
Speaker 2: But this is the.
Speaker 1: Kings we're talking about here. They have been pretty pathetic.
Lakers did only just oh yeah, Lakers beat them by
twenty four last time they played. I mean, Lakers are
Lakers are past, I guess just because I really more
than more than not one the Lakers laying as many points.
I absolutely do not want the Kings. So just the
fate of the Kings Lakers are nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it at tay the truth Ski. It's the only
game that I played so far and I did. I mean,
I'm partial to the Lakers side here, and I took
a shot play in their team total over here tonight.
Obviously there's a little bit of fireworks. I think that
we're Shrewders concerned that the suspension is because he took
a swing at Luca after the game, and so you know,
Luca fired up against anybody, even if Shrewder's not on
the floor, just kind of screams points. In my mind,
Lakers don't play a heck of a lot of defense,
so they'll probably have to outscore them here. Sacramento came
up with a crazy win yesterday over Houston, crazy in
the fact that they won by double digits against a
team better than them, which they never do, but not
that Houston's on the card tonight. But I just want
to go back to something that you pointed out a
couple of times last week, and it seems to be
ringing true. I mean, without shng Goon, they're not the
same team, even close to being the same team. So
that win yesterday I can somewhat justify. Lakers haven't scored
points as of late, which is why I said to
start this that I'm taking kind of a chance here,
But I do think they'll bounce back with points here tonight.
Ruy probably helps a little bit on each end defense
and offense. But I think my main thing here is
just you know, when you have Luca in kind of
those I don't want to call it revenge, but he
wants to get after you type situations. He usually does
the job. So I'm gonna I tried Lakers over one
eighteen and a half here. I think it's probably a
good side.
Speaker 1: Man. I'm looking at this a little bit more, and
I mean this is kind of actually man, it's kind
of screaming to me some I need something in this game, rabo.
I'm going to continue to look into this more. But yeah,
the Lakers off back to back losses. Yeah, the Kings
off of an upset when Lakers laying nine and a
half on the road. That's standing out to me. Lakers
two days rest compared to zero we know about you
know that advantage there.
Speaker 2: I got some numbers with that, if it helps you
along any written in my notes here, the Kings are
one in five ats with no rest and the average
score differential in those games is minus twenty two point eight,
so that certainly would cover for you. And then if
they've played a game this year with any length of
rest disadvantage, which they have tonight, rest disadvantage. There are
only three and ten against the spread, so I know
you like a couple of those technical numbers. Those I
don't know if they push you right to the window
or not, but they're certainly helpful if you're building a
case for the Lakers.
Speaker 1: And the last time these teams played, the Lakers were
also off of back to back losses. They meet the
Kings by twenty four, granted the Lakers were at home.
I think the Lakers did have well, no, they did
not have Austin Reeves. Yeah, this is starting to feel
like Lakers smash spot. That's kind of how I'm starting
to feel here. You know, surprisingly is showing me that
the Lakers are number seven defensive rated team last five games,
you know, so maybe they're playing a little bit better
defense now. Maybe we can trust them to to get
a little something done here. I know, all back to
back losses. I haven't seen any interviews or anything, but
I know JJ REDI gets pissed. I know how he gets.
So I do think he usually. I do think he'll
have the team ready to go tonight. I think it's
the Lakers spot here, all right, Lakers or Kings team
total wonder one of the two alright, last, but not
least Hornets and Clippers. You know, open five and a
half down to four and a half total. Open two
twenty eight looks like two twenty three and a half here.
As far as injuries, Miles Bridges is probable, Conorton is questionable,
So it's Sexton Plumbly will be out for the Clippers. No,
Eric Jones, Junior Bogdanovich workers, Paul, you have Kawhi questionable
and that's a humongous question mark right there. I mean,
I feel like Kawhi has been playing solid lately, definitely
with one of the men there, especially whereas a Hornets
team who and again I would double trip, but I
feel like they've been playing competitive at least, you know,
point spread wise, so I wouldn't. There's no way that
I could bet the Clippers without knowing Kawhi's status and
how good the Hornets have been playing. Like I'm looking
at these numbers now, I just pulled them up top
five offense and defensive ready team last five games, you know,
and they've been a top ten offense, top ten rebounding
team in the same spin, I mean, why do why
do we not back the Hornets here, it seems like
this is this is a Hornets play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's way easier if LA doesn't have Kawhi.
For sure. Clippers, for what it's worth, nine and two
against the spread their last eleven, so certainly just as
hot Clippers, six of those eleven games held the opponent
to one oh five or less. That's really really good
defense out of them. I don't know what their last
ten stats are, but they have to be good the
way they've allowed kept teams from scoring points. In fact,
if I go back, it's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, Yeah,
seven of eleven one to oh five or less for
the opponent, So it's not like they've been scoring against
the Clippers. I guess it's one of those games where
if I mean, if Kawhi were involved, obviously you'd like
to bet on both of these teams, but they happen
to be playing each other. I don't know which one
I would choose to fade in this spot, so I
won't fade either. And obviously the offensive numbers that Kawhi's
brought to the table here as of late are huge
Clippers just they've gotten away from those and Tennis plus
so to speak, and picked it up a little bit here,
and I think I remember reading the quote last week
where they just said they looked up in the standings
and saw the sense of urgency, and they really have
played well since then. So wouldn't like either side here.
I think if Kauhi doesn't play, there's a reason to
like Charlotte plus. It's not a lot of plus, but
it is some plus. And you mentioned how good they've
been playing lately.
Speaker 1: That's making some sense to me here. Maybe even maybe
even a Clippers team total under. And I'm right now
down on my list Kawai could be missing. Hornets have
been playing defense lately. I mean Hornets last five opponents
four zero to one to the team total under. Let
me see what the average is points per game? Last
five games allowed one hundred point four for the Hornets. Here, well,
if they played let me just deal with this. They
played the Jazz, the Pacers, the Raptors, the Thunder, and
the Bulls. Not a whole lot of great teams, but
the Thunder are in there. Not that the Thunder have
been playing the best basketball, but they did blow out
the Thunder as well.
Speaker 2: Oh they did. I remember that night that wasn't close. No,
I tried to come back with okay, c second half
in that game in Charlotte extended.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking what is what is the Clippers team total?
Speaker 2: One fourteen and a half?
Speaker 1: One fourteen and a half? Wow, I'm looking here, Clippers.
I mean they hit that one of their last four games. Yeah,
that's that's worth a luck at least. So I probably
will be on one or the other Ornets or Clippers
Hornets plus or Clippers team total under. And yeah, just
got to make some decisions later there, you know, anything
else before we move on here.
Speaker 2: Now you're starting to make sense to me. So I
just wrote down Clippers team, don't wonder so I can
look at it a little more. It's why we do
the show. It's why we talk about because I came
in with really nothing on that game. But the more
we break it down here and I stare at the
numbers with you, it makes a lot of sense. I
think you said, Charlotte allowing one hundred and two or something.
Speaker 1: One hundred part two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fourteen and a half points below what they're
telling you the Clippers need to get tonight. That's a
lot of points, no matter who those five games were against.
That's a lot of points.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is, Yeah, it is. All right, let's talk
a little bit at least about this Monday nighter. We
have Texans and Stealers, right, we do. Right around the
opener for the spread, the total came down a little
bit from thirty nine and a half to thirty eight. Man,
you know, my initial thought when we talked, oh we didn't.
I don't think we talked about this game last week.
I think we skipped it because we know we'd be
here on Monday. But my initial thought last week was
Texans defense. They've been, they've been the elite they've been.
I can absolutely trust the Texans defense. I don't trust
the Steelers defense really at all. That's that's just really
what how I view it offensively, And it kills me
to say this strap as much. You know, I like
DJ Stroud. I've been a CJ. Stroud fan since he
came into the league. But he's not been like that
first year, you know what I'm saying. And he's not
the most trustworthy right now, I guess, is what I'm
trying to say. So can you take advantage of the
Steelers defense? We shall see I know Texans don't have
a good track on these. I think is what road
Monday games or something like that, no road playoff games.
They haven't won one. And the Steelers, Mike Tomlin a
good record on Monday night at home here. I don't
know if you know, was any doughts from U Texans
and Steelers.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I took a pretty deep look into its ski
and I came up with Houston minus three. I'll just
point out these few things. Second half of the season,
eight nine games, Pittsburgh only played to top five defenses,
by the way, Houston's number one overall ranked on defense,
Denver number one in sacks, Houston number one overall because
of their run defense. But the two times Pittsburgh played
a top five defense, they scored ten and six points.
The six points was against Cleveland. People would come back
at me with, well, you know they didn't have dk Metcalf,
et cetera, et cetera. Still at six it's not enough. Yeah,
Metcalf was up, But in certain statistical areas in that game,
like third down conversions, the Steelers three of fifteen in
one game, two of eleven, and the other just miserable.
And in those two games, they had twenty two possessions.
Twenty two times they got the ball ski and those
two games against elite defenses, and sixteen of those times
the drives went twenty yards or less. They went nowhere.
I don't know where they're going to go against Houston tonight.
The problem, like you say, is that we got to
look at Houston's offensive side. So I did. And for Houston,
they've played five playoff teams their last ten games. They're
four and one straight up against them, and every single
win is by four or more. So yes, I'm red homes,
I'm on the road, etc. The only team that beat
them was Denver. Denver beat them by a field goal
in Mile High. I figured that CJ. Strud they have
been playing a little better on offense. His offensive line
is no good. We know that. That's why his players
declined a little bit. You know, Aaron Rodgers gets rid
of the ball quickly, but he's gonna have to get
rid of it real quickly. And where metcalf is concerned,
he plays tonight. But the guy covering him is Derek Stingley,
who's a top five cover corner in the league All
Pro et cetera, et cetera. So they I don't know
Houston's got the number four run defense. To me, I
took Demico Ryans into Texans minus three. I think that's
the right way here. Be one of those you know,
ugly watches, maybe, but I just trust Houston's defense a
lot more than any other unit on the field.
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I agree with that. Man, you
gotta I mean, this Houston team one nine games in
a row. That's not a it's not fluky. Won nine
games in a row. It's not gonna be easy. If
the Steller's gonna pull this one out. I need a
little bit more time to think about this. Robbie, No,
not rushing to the window here. I do think this
common common is funny, So I'll put it up on
the screen. Mark Martin says I played Steelers plus three
a few days ago, got scared this morning and bet
Houston money line, and then follows up and says, I'm
a coward.
Speaker 2: Listen, We've all done it, Mark, don't you. I was
trying to back my way out of bets yesterday. Sometimes
you gotta do what you gotta do to preserve the
bank roll.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: But yeah, and ski when you look at those last
night wins, you'll probably find, like I did, that there's
a there's a handful of them that are against playoff teams,
and they weren't shying away from people. They beat some
lousy teams too, but playoff teams they got.
Speaker 1: Gill says he thinks I'm gonna go sell everybody on
the tape and h nah, not this time. You know,
playoffs is a little different, Jill. Playoffs. I mean, the
best team is going to win. It don't really matter
who everybody's on in my opinion. But yeah, you know
how it usually goes. All right, you know, I think
we can wrap it up now. We've been on here
for thirty four minutes.
Speaker 2: She happened.
Speaker 1: I think we did a little bit of good stuff
in between the Yeah, all right, So let's see what
can I toss up here? I forgot to check, but
I'm pretty sure this is good. Right. You'd like to
be involved for seven days all access for sixty nine dollars.
That's a little less than ten dollars per day, get
every play that's up in available right now. That is
the way to do it, Vino. I'm going to toss
it to you on that note best bets if you
have one for the show, or yeah, if you have
them for the show, we love to hear it. If
you have anything else you love to promote, feel free, yeah.
Speaker 2: Promo real quick. I will just plug the morning college
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Full Court Press on wager Talk TV. I'm gonna leave
the best bet as the Lakers team total over one
eighteen and a half. I really think Luca probably goes
for forty tonight. If the Lakers lucas the kind of
guy that teams generally will rally around if he's got
some kind of beef, they'll follow suit. I don't like
the Kings defense, especially on back. The Backs probably had
a little easy yesterday without shannguon and a lineup in
Houston playing terrible, but Lakers have had two days to
get ready for this. So that's the way I'm going
to roll here, Houston, excuse me. Lakers team total over
one eighteen and a half. I like it.
Speaker 1: I like it, I like it. I'm not going to
leave a best bet because I haven't made a bet yet.
I'm starting to like different things more and more and more.
But what I will leave you with is my short list.
My long list rather Jazz plus thirteen and a half,
Celtics game under two, twenty six, MAVs minus three and
a half, Lakers minus nine, Hornets plus five, Clippers team
total under one fourteen and a half, King's team total
under one on nine and a half. I'm going to
continue to cap a little bit throughout the day and
make some decisions. But those are the ways that I'm
looking for this Monday. You know, always appreciate you taking
the time to come cap these games and breaking down
with me definitely helps my process. I mean, I didn't
have this many games I was thinking about before we
came on here, and you know, did all that yappen?
So appreciate you. Everybody in the chat. We appreciate you
all as well. Good captors, good people. Everybody here just
trying to help each other win, so best of luck
on this Monday night, and we'll be back tomorrow, I believe,
with a lot more games. So we'll catch you guys
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