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Speaker 1: What's up, y'all? Welcome into another episode of Profit Picks.

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If you are new, we do always start the show

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by being transparent, And yesterday it was a good day

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for myself. Four and two overalls is what I had

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there yesterday. Losers on James Madison, loser on Trey Young

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over six and a half assists that plus money. The

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four winners were Lakers, Nuggets under two forty one and

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a half, Piston Spurs under two twenty nine and a half,

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Warriors plus eight and a half, and Mavericks plus seven

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and a half. So nice day yesterday. See if we

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can do it again here today being no good to

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be back with you. How's everything on your end?

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Speaker 2: Things are good?

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Speaker 3: SKI three and three yesterday combined college hooping NBA small

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loss because my one college play I rated a little

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bit stronger than the others. That was Middle Tennessee State

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team total overs seventy five and a half only got

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to seventy three. Also lost on the Northern Iowa team

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total over seventy and a half got to sixty eight.

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And there was an NBA loser, and there was Phoenix

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team total.

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Speaker 2: Now for the.

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Speaker 3: Wins, Miami turned some more garbage into gold with Miami

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against Brooklyn team total went way over and a couple

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of college winners were the Sacred Heart game full game

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total over and South Florida team total over against Memphis

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last night. The last two they went a Sacred Heart

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one hundred and eleven point second half between those two teams,

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Sacred Heart and Iowa helped out big time, and of

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course South Florida was never in doubt. So we get

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to today, a huge board, huge weekend.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to it. We have I think,

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what is it, six seven games maybe something like that,

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but we'll start at the top heat and Hornets open

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up minus five now see eight eight and a halfs

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even out there. Total came down a little bit from

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two thirty and a half to two twenty nine and

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a half. As far as injuries are concerned, Salowan is

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out for Hornets, Miami, Wiggins doubtful, fantek Yo, Powell, Jovich

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all out. This is a back to back for this

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e team. They just played their next team yesterday. Third

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and four nights for them. For the Hornets, it is

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third game and four nights, but they do have rest

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and it's a chance for them to get some revenge, right,

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They lost to the Heat twice, very very early in

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the season, so you know it is a little bit

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of a different Hornets team in twenty twenty six. You

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think the market is moving this one in the right direction,

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think Hornets can get some revenger.

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Speaker 3: Well, they're kind of showing us that price has been

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no object when they were the better team against lower

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echelon people. Miami probably ranked mid range. And now you're

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going to lay eight a lot of it due to

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what you said the second to back to backs. We

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had a lot of second of back to backs here

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today and a little bit of revenge. Of course, they're

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both inside the same division.

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Speaker 2: Right now.

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Speaker 3: Miami a couple of games ahead of Charlotte in the standings.

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In the play in standings, Miami ate Charlotte nine, so

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certainly big game for both where Miami's concerned. Last night,

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I think I went through this in my notes. I

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didn't see a lot of heavy minutes played by Miami.

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Speaker 2: It was kind of a coach job.

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Speaker 3: So they really shouldn't be fatigued here. To tell you

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the truth, Ski there obviously conditioned to play fast because

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that's their style. So I wouldn't expect in the second

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of back to back for them to be too too

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fatigued here khalil Ware and Heimi Baskiz Junior. That's something

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that I had circled here. Those two guys off the

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bench last two games, and I get they were against

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Brooklyn have been really, really good last night combined thirty

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teen of eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Thirty four points.

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Speaker 3: Charlotte's playing really good defense, though, and that's the one

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thing that scares me a little bit here. Miami doesn't

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play that type of defense. And if I feel like

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they're shooting is a little bit better because Norman Powell

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isn't playing. If Norman Powell was playing for the other side,

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it might feel different about that. But I kind of

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give the shooting edge to Charlotte at this point in time.

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Can nipples made a huge difference. I somewhat agree with

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the line move Ski, but I would have much rather

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had the opener than what we're looking at now. I

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just don't think I want to lay eight points in

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a game that's meaningful to both sides against the Miami

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team that I don't really think is fatigued off of

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last night. The Nets didn't press them. None of those

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minutes were taxing, and they weren't heavy minutes anyway.

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Speaker 1: I fail you on a lot of what you said there,

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most notably Powell his offense. You know that's going to

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affect the offense. Oh no, I could see Miami struggling

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to score. He talked about Charlotte's defense. I mean, yeah,

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a big part of why they've been on this streak.

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I mean, if you look at the games, all their games,

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especially at home, just been under, under, under, and they're

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just locking up. So I can see that another under

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game here today. That's what I like. I like lower

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points in this game. All right, next one up, we

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have MAVs in Boston, opened up minus fifteen. Looks like

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fourteen and a half total. Didn't really move. Walsh is

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questionable for Boston. For Dallas, Clay and Brandon Williams are probable.

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Gaff the doubtfull as well as Badley, so really could

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be missing rent protection there for them. Trying to get

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to the situation here. You do have second of it

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back to back for the MAVs, they played that close

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to the game with Orlando. Yeah, yesterday, third and four nights,

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fourth and sixth for them as well. For the Celtics.

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off of a loss as a favorite, so transfer him

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to bounce back, and that's probably the way that I

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would out play this game. Tatum also expected to make

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his return. He's playing today, so we'll see if that

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throws them off. We'll see how he looks, you know,

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his first game back and has it been a year,

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almost a year. I still would only take Boston, I

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think here, you know, what do you think?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I agree with a lot of that.

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Speaker 3: Tatum. Probably on the minutes restriction. Obviously, I saw just

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for prop people. If I saw it's props listed at

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thirteen and a half points, four and a half rebounds.

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Speaker 2: But you don't know how many minutes he's going to get.

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Speaker 3: So I go back to something that you said yesterday

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about Dallas, when we talked about the Dallas Orlando game,

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and you had said they're getting some guys back, they

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may be in this one, and then you just went

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in the recap said that you played them, so good

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play there. Everything that you said yesterday maybe doesn't apply today.

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Right again, you mentioned it already. I'll remntion it. The

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size Daniel Gafford at thirteen boards yesterday. Dallas needs guys

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like that and Bagley Junior, that's why they acquired him.

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If nothing else, he's an active body at the rim.

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Now you're stuck again in that spot where Dallas has

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been stuck in all season long, in all likelihood with

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Dwight Powell at center. Cooper Flagg did return yesterday, played

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about twenty five to almost twenty six minutes, so they

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didn't really push him too too hard. You probably expect

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him to get that same amount of minutes here tonight

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came out firing though twenty two shots, so a flag

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obviously back is a pretty good sign for Dallas. And also,

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Brandon Williams is a bigger deal maybe than many thin

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because he's the only legit point guard that they have

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on that team, and they do seem to play a

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little bit better offensively when he's out there. However, another

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one of the points you made is the one that

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sticks in mind. Boston got absolutely trounced by Charlotte the

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other night. They didn't even make ninety points against Charlotte.

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So at home on a Friday night, we always think

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that the crowd and that atmosphere is good for teams

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Friday night home games and the you know, the batch

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at three point shooters that they have. Yeah, maybe Tatum

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clogs things up a little bit as he shakes off

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some rust, but I don't know that that makes a

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difference here. Boston could probably spurt their way to a

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twelve to nothing run or something like that to get

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some separation. So for me, it would probably be Boston here.

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I just think they're itching to get back out on

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the court after that loss. And Dallas, probably in back

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to back's third road game in four nights, is probably

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a good team to have in here to correct what

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went wrong the other day.

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Speaker 1: Let's keep going. We have Blazers and Rockets. Opened up

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at seven for the Rockets, down to six. I'll call

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it six right now. Total open two twenty one and

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a half seeing it as low as two twenty for

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the injury report, and this shit just hit refresh one time.

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Taito Thompson and Javari Smith are questionable for Portland. You

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have Murray questionable, Denny is doubtful sharp as out. The

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Rockets did play yesterday, right, they went to overtime, but

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they did not have to travel. I'm here today for

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the Placoda Blazers do have the rest advantage the Rockets.

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I have seen them come off of an overtime game

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on the back to back on the road. I think

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it was versus Detroit, and they win that game outright

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as a dog. So they are capable. But I just

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don't feel like they're playing the best basketball right now.

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And also I think they could be looking ahead to

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the Spurs game. So, uh, it's one thousand. A Blazer spot.

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Obviously you hate to not have Denny and Sharp, but

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clearly a Blazer spot. What do you think?

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Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, we think along the same lines. You

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say a lot of what I would have said.

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Speaker 3: The only thing I'll add to this why I wouldn't

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want Houston is Thompson got hurt in that game last

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night and played through a bad angle. I wouldn't expect

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against Portland that they've run him out there tonight. Houston

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played heavy, heavy minutes. It's almost as if they went

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Udoka went to just a six man rotation. You get

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as deep as reed Shepherd, the sixth man into the bench,

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and everybody played thirty seven minutes or better except for

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Tarry Easton, who played thirty three. But the rest of

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the bench Cappella and Okoge the only other two guys

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to see the floor eleven and seventeen minutes. So for Durant,

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it was a heavy night's work. For Jabari Smith, who's

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questionable tonight, heavy night's work. Like I say, Thompson forty

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three and a half minutes.

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Speaker 2: And a bad angle. Not sure he'll even play. I

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Speaker 3: I can't look Houston's way. But and my only concern

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in this one with Portland was exactly what you said

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at the end. It was more Thanny Abdia not having him.

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we weren't going to have sharp for Abdia. I think

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it's like six games in a row now where he'll

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probably miss. Still, we talked the other day. I think

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Houston played Washington right Monday when you took Washington plus

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all those points and thought that maybe Houston was looking ahead.

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And this just has the same feel as that game,

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Like we just won last night against Golden State, bigger

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game to Houston.

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Speaker 2: Come back tonight.

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Speaker 3: Rest a couple of bodies, right, and you know, just

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try and win and not really worry about covering. So

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from that angle, I would look at Portland.

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Speaker 1: All right, Uh keep here, Nets, this is wrong. That

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was wrong, Nets, and he is not correct. Yeah, Pelicans

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and Sons. So while I get that squared away, Actually

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there we go right there. Pelicans and Sons open minus seven,

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down to five and a half total open two twenty

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seven looks like two twenty six. Injuries. Murray is probable

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for Repelicans. Dylan Brooks just got a dui. He's not

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playing good one and Williams are also out for the Sons.

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You know, I just at one point the Sons were

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playing well enough to lay some points, but they're just

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back to the point where I don't want to be

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laying anything with Phoenix. So I guess that makes me

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think of Pelicans plus the points here. If not, it

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have to be over. How do you see this game?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, see what the ruling is on Zion.

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Speaker 3: As the day goes on, I'd like to have him

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in there, but back to back he's in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not on the report.

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Speaker 3: With him in, And if they don't change that injury

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report later on it's a late game, then you know,

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for four rest purposes, then I would like the other side,

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the New Orleans side, de Jente.

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Speaker 2: Murray will play.

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Speaker 3: They rested him yesterday in order to let him play today.

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It is second of back to backs. We travel third

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and four nights on New Orleans side. But it's the

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same thing for Phoenix and ISAs you know. I had

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Phoenix last night team total over. They shot miserably against

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a bad defense. That doesn't mean they can't bounce back

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here at home tonight and shoot better. But for the

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Phoenix side, it was only thirty eight percent from the field.

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I think it was like twenty eight percent from three

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against Chicago. Of all teams, it just wasn't good and

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their backcourt really got shredded defensively. Trey Jones and Colin

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Sexton fifty one points in that game on really good

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shooting twenty thirty four. So something different about Phoenix right now.

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You mentioned that earlier Jalen Green twenty shots only five

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mates one of eight from three. I don't know that

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Jalen Green has exactly fit in to this offense quite yet.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: It's just three guys took sixty shots last night, Green,

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Booker and Grayson Allen. New Orleans has, if nothing else,

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they've got a bunch of scores, and like I say,

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with Murray back in, we always talk about Trey Murphy

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and their depth right now is not bad. So I

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agree with you that. In fact, I probably agree more

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with what you said last, which was over. I think

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this game probably does get over. I do think Phoenix

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will shoot better, and I do think New Orleans, if

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nothing else, they'll come with a little bit of offense

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and probably.

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Speaker 2: Not the best of defenses.

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Speaker 3: So too, twenty six and a half kind of looks

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light to me in this game, as long as Zion

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doesn't get ruled out last minute and this game's pushed down.

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I'm just looking here skiz seven down to five and

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a half for Phoenix, so there's some New Orleans money

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coming in, but I would look over to twenty six

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and a half.

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Speaker 1: All right, good stuff on that. Keep going down the

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list here, and that means next is Nicks and Nuggets

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opened up minus one for the Nuggets flipped, we see

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Nicks minus one or one and a half total, not

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far from the opener did up in two thirty one.

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See mostly two twenty nine and a half. Right now,

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Josh mart is questionable, McBride is out, Gordon is questionable,

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and Johnson's questionable, Jones is questionable, Watson is out. So

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the Knicks do have a slight rest advantage here, but

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it is the third game and for a night still

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for them, fourth and six. The Nuggets are playing their

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second of a back to back here and trying to

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think if they had to travel. They did not have

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to travel, right.

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Speaker 2: The Lakers last night, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: They did not have to travel. They played in Denver

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last night. So you know, my thought for this Nuggets

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team has been focus for them is defense lately. But

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the spots where you know it's not the best of

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spots or are unrested mus have been the games where

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defense kind of goes out the window and they just

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end up trying to outscore their opponent. And I get

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it when you're playing in short road chasing, et cetera. Yeah, Nuggets,

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I think are ten and three to the over runner

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back to back here, the Knicks could be without Josh Hart.

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I think that would hurt the defense more than an offense.

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I disagree with this one coming down. I think here,

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you know, I would look more towards over What do

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you think?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you, because as much as David Adaman

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tries to talk about willing his team to play defense again.

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Last night, Ski the Lakers shot fifty two percent for

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the field. The Lakers shot forty two percent from three.

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Those aren't good defensive numbers. I mean, somehow that game

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managed to stay under only got the two thirty three

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with both teams shooting excellent from the floor last night,

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so just a lack of possessions. Denver did basically win

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that game on the free throw line thirty one free

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throw attempts to fifteen, so they're plus sixteen and free

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throw attempts and plus eighteen on the scoreboard in those

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free throw attempts. So Denver, you know, they continue no

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matter what the head coach says, at least in my mind,

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they continue to be the same type of team outscore you.

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We're not really going to play a heck of a

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lot of defense. Made a little bit of a move

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last night, and they're starting lineup. Zeke Nause started for this team,

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maybe to try and instill a little more defense, but

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I don't know. I think the Knicks are playing pretty

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well right now.

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Speaker 2: We'll see Josh Hart.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully he does go, but if he doesn't, that's even

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more defense missing.

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Speaker 2: I think he said that already, So.

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Speaker 3: For me, it would probably be an over here the minutes.

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The game was close last night, but the minutes weren't

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terrible for the Nuggets, other than Christian Brown, who played

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almost forty But he you know, the guy's like a

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human pogo stick, so he's gonna I think he'll be

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just fine. And the bench wasn't really deep to begin with.

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They're generally playing seven guys with all the injuries. I

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did see a couple of possibilities. I got to go

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to my notes here real quick. He hasn't been listed

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in yet, but I did read that Aaron Gordon had

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tonight targeted for his return. Whether or not that gets announced,

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I'm not sure he would be on a limits restriction.

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Hasn't played in sixteen games. I don't know that as

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good of a defensive player as he is, that he'd

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make an immediate effect tonight if he does go, So

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for me, it would probably be a look at the

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over in this one.

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Speaker 1: We're an agreement on this game. We will continue. Clippers

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and Spurs opened up eight down to seven or six

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and a half, depending where you're looking. Total came down

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to point from two twenty four to two twenty three.

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Looking at the injuries, we see Bogdanovitch questionable, Collins and

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Garland both out for the Spurs. Harrison Barnes is questionable,

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Plumbley's questionable, Ingram is out the Spurs. I don't know

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why I'm blanking out here. I think the Spurs are

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coming off of loss.

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Speaker 2: They beat Detroit last night.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, they beat Detroit. Okay, that's my bad. Yeah,

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they are on the back to back off of a

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win versus Detroit. Yeah, third and Fourtnite's fourth and six.

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Clippers have a little bit of rest advantage here. Yeah.

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I wouldn't want to bet against the Spurs. I hardly

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ever want to bet against the Spurs. It has to

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be a really good spot. And uh, you know, I

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think everybody for the most part, is going to play

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be motivated. They're a better team at home, Spurs or nothing.

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What do you think?

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Speaker 2: Boy?

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Speaker 3: They were motivated last night's ski, especially Victor Wembin Yama.

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And I guess it was the site of Jalen Durham.

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Jalen Duran's been getting a lot of publicity, right. Wemby

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goes out, scores thirty eight and gets sixteen ports. I mean,

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it was crazy twelve of twenty four from the field.

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It's like he knew. I didn't even consider that yesterday.

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I didn't play the game, but that was something that

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slipped my mind that maybe he would take it a

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little bit personal. Seems like he did take that one personal.

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I would have looked to play the Clippers team total

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here tonight, up and over, but no Darius Garland.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to do it.

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Speaker 3: I've been talking about, you know, Tylu wants to transition

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to a faster pace. It did get me paid the

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other night when they scored one hundred and thirty, but

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I don't want that when there's no When there's no

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Darius Garland, they're going to rest him tonight.

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Speaker 2: They call it injury management for that toe injury.

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Speaker 3: So it kind of negate any feeling that I would

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have had for Clippers. I mean, the pro Clippers stuff

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would have been. San Antonio played really hard last night

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against Detroit. Detroit comes with a target on their chest nowadays,

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and it showed up wemby Daron fox Castle. They all

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had great games, but again, they're so deep Ski and

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they're so interchangeable that it is hard to bet against them,

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and without the Clippers being at full strength. John Collins

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isn't even with the team on this road trip. So

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tough for me to get to the Clippers here, even

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though situationally it might point that way, But I don't know,

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it's a little bit difficult.

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Speaker 2: I let this game go, man.

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Speaker 1: I'm just thinking if Garland's out, I mean, that's less

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pace then, right, you know, how got the Spurs are defensively?

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How much are the Spurs don't have on a second

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of them back to back offensively? I don't know. Maybe

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it's it's an under game. We don't want to bet

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the over. We should be looking at thunder. That's kind

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of the feeling that I have. But you need some

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more time. Last game, Pacers and Lakers opened up minus

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ten and a half, seeing mostly nine and a halfs

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out there. Right now you have nim Hart, Nie Smith,

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Siakam all probable, Zuba, but the Lakers Eton is questionable,

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Lebron questionable, Maxi Kleiba questionable. Lebron might not play. I

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mean he did go down. I don't think he came

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back in Ayton. He don't even need to play. He

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just go do whatever you want, Bro, he's not interested anyway.

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I do think both teams can score. I agree with

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the total going up on this game from two thirty

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two to that's how it's what two thirty six out

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there right now. I do think it's moving in the

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right direction. You should. You probably will have lack of

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rep protection for the Lakers in this one, and it

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looks like you're gonna have a lot of people healthy

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and available for that pacer side over or Pacers. What

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do you think?

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: Two things here, One what you said about DeAndre Yight

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and it could be additioned by subtraction ski last night

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off the bench, Jackson Hayes and Ruy they got to

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play pretty decent minutes and they scored thirty five points

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and go fourteen of nineteen. So the interior, I know

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Ruey shoots some threes. He shot him well last night,

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four or five. But still if we only want to

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consider Jackson Hayes, maybe that's better having him than eighton

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in there tonight against the Pacers.

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Speaker 2: Teams doesn't have a lot of room protection.

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Speaker 3: I'm just trying to look up because I know I've

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played a pacer game the other night in cash and yeah,

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it was that Clipper game where they gave up one

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hundred and thirty.

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Speaker 2: I did this the other day. I'll do it again.

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Speaker 3: Pacers last six games they allowed one thirty one, one

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thirty four, one thirty five, one thirty three, one thirty

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and one twenty five. That's the lowest NAVE allowed in

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the last six games. So to think that the Lakers

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can't get the one twenty five and the Pacers can't

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pick apart the Laker defense, even if it's in a

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losing effort, I think this number is probably a little

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bit too low. The way Indiana's playing recently, there hasn't

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been a game total that they've been involved in less

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than two thirty one. Here tonight, we're looking at two

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thirty five. Every other game there was one two thirty one.

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All the others for two thirty seven are better. So

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for me, the back to back situation, LA is probably

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good enough scoring. With I fifth Lebron doesn't go Luca

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and reeves on the floor, you're still good enough scoring

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against Indiana.

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Speaker 2: For me, it would probably be over.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. That is uh, that looks like the NBA

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car for today. So we will wrap it up and

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before we get to this best bets. Yeah, remind everybody

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we have that, what is it? You get six days

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or sixty nine bucks, So it's a three day pass.

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You are getting three days on top of that for free.

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It's really what it is, and give you a chance

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to check out some of the stuff we do for

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about a week if you're interested in either Rob or myself.

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So with that said, you know, I'll pass it to

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you and ask you if there's anything else you would

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like to promote, and if you have a best bet

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for the show, we'd love to hear it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so.

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Speaker 3: This is how you know what I'm gonna do here,

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SKI is. I'm just gonna go ahead and yeah, see

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that's not even good. I was gonna say, because I

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don't have an NBA best bet, I would give you

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the college best bet that I played already, But now

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the thing has moved almost three points, so I can't

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even do that. I'm gonna leave you empty. I just

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don't have anything to give you here. I did play

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a college game this morning, for what it's worth, if

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you want to go play it now. Was the Valpariso

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Bradley game over. I got it at one thirty three

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and a half, about eleven am this morning, it's now

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one thirty six.

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Speaker 2: It's in the.

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Speaker 3: Missouri Valley Conference tournament. So I'll leave the chat with

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their best judgment on that. One of the things about

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that game, guys, why I played it was Bradley's played

485
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thirty two games this year. Twenty eight of those games

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have gone over one thirty three and a half, twenty

487
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eight out of thirty two, So I played that number.

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Speaker 2: Valparizo.

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Speaker 3: It's it's a tournament played in Saint Louis, where it's

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the rims are notably tough. Valparizo got to play on

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them last night, second night in the same gym, seeing

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the background and everything. I think they'll shoot better than

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they did last night. And Bradley, like I say, has

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just been an over machine against that type of numbers.

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So you know you've lost value. But I'll leave you

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with that thought. Bradley Valparizo up and over the total.

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Speaker 1: Our good stuff from Vino. For myself, I will go

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with the first game we talked about the heat and

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the Hornets under two twenty nine and a half just

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boils down really to the Hornets playing E League defense,

501
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probably the best defense in the league lately. They are

502
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actually ready number one. That's five games, but just looking

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at them in twenty twenty six at home, they've gone

504
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under eleven out of thirteen games, not playing extremely fast,

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clamping and Miami without Norman Powe probably will struggle to

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score as well. So I see this as another undergame

507
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I'll do. Yeah, I'll leave that as the best bet

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two twenty nine and a half, so Veno, it's been

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a solid week. I appreciate you as always taking the

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time to kept these games with me chat. We appreciate

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you all as well for supporting the show and you know,

512
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bringing you know, all the good edges and just get

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energy that you guys have all the time. So best

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of luck on all your plays. We'll be back again

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next week and we'll catch you guys now