Speaker 1: What's up, y'all. Welcome into another episode of Profit Picks.
If you are new, we do always start the show
by being transparent, and yesterday, man, I was so so mad.
It's like one of the worst ways to lose for me.
I had one play and I bet the Spurs, and
Spurs go dribble the ball out, you know, shock clock violation,
the Bulls run down and do their best to go
hit a three to cover the game for the other side,
you know. So just really frustrating, And yeah, I gotta
just gotta try to keep it going. And I'm really
frustrated because there were some other plays that I liked
and did not take, such as Atlanta and Minnesota. But anyway,
I am happy to have Robino back. It's been a
little while since we've seen you on here. I didn't
see you in person, but it's notice you have your back, Robbin.
You know, we definitely missed you on the show.
Speaker 2: How I am good, buddy. We were on tour, so
to speak, for a little while. I did get to
see you guys yourself twice, Teddy twice. The Mighty Brian
Leonard showed you, guys my son's drumming ability hopefully everybody
enjoyed that. We followed it to LA. Let me just
personally thank really quick here Ski, because this was really something.
I don't know if now he is watching today or not.
Maybe he is, but I got to thank that guy again. Man,
that guy surprised the hell out of me, asked me
a couple of random questions. Next thing, I know, I
got a real gift, So yeah, appreciate that. And I
know you've been holding down the force since I've been
out of here, so hopefully I can contribute again last night,
really quick, let me just say oh and two for myself,
which was disappointed because it's been a great month. Sixty
two and a half percent winners all month long of
about twenty three units on way smaller sized plays. I
don't think I've had anything bigger than a three all month,
but it's been a really, really good month. So we'll
look to close it on the thirty first first here
with something strong because I know that wager Talk has
new deals going on we'll talk about later and maybe
folks want to hook up with us through the playoffs.
I want to keep the hot streak going.
Speaker 1: Absolutely appreciate you, Glenn says best show in the game
and to what you said about MAUI. I did see him.
I don't remember. Maybe it was a week ago or
the last few days or something. He was like, yeah,
I got rob Veno. He's like he didn't expect that.
Speaker 2: He's right, I mean, but you knew. See, I should
have listened to you, like you can come back with
a jersey. I'm like, what are you talking about? Come
back with that?
Speaker 1: Was?
Speaker 2: That was really nice of him, man. Like I said,
we had a great time. Tried to get one post
up there on Twitter of the four of us so
everybody could see. But yeah, we have fun together out there,
and then we'll get back out there soon to make
it happen again.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, the chat is happy to see Vino back.
Speaker 2: I like that. I like the chat. I'm glad that.
Speaker 1: Let's see if we can make some money here. You know,
we did, you know, I think I kind of well.
I also got sick. Honestly, I got sick, and I
don't know. Maybe I got sick and I was not
able to talk out the games of Roveno, and I
had a little bit of a slump. I'm feeling a
little bit better today. We got Roveno back today, see
if we can break it all right, Sons and Magic.
This one opened up minus two and a half. It
looks like two total right around the opener for Phoenix Coffee,
Heigh Smith and Williams are out. For Orlando Black, Isaac
and Franz Wagner are out and without even looking at
the situations, I mean it is first of a back
to back for the Magic. Don't even care who they
play tomorrow, not really. They play the Hawks, so actually
that is a big game. It is a big game,
but every game that should have been a big game
for the Magic lately. The Sons playing on the second
of a back to back. They blew the Grizzlies out
by t six last night, and I should pull up
the standings. But this Magic team, they've been in free fall.
I mean, they've been needing to win games for a
long time and they have not been able to do it.
It's a team that I really don't want to trust. Now.
I understand the rest advantage, but I don't know if
that's enough to give me to the window with the
Orlando here, you know, and last but not least, I'm
just double checking Orlando's currently in the eighth spot, one
and a half games behind the seventh, three games behind
the six to get out of the plane, and half
a game from being in tenth place, So very very
important game for them and for the Suns. They are
in that last spot in the play in. I mean,
I'm sorry, the first spot in the play in seven,
three and a half games behind six seed, three games
ahead of the eighth, not as big of a spot
for Phoenix that they have to win, so should get
a good effort from the Magic. I just don't trust
them what you think.
Speaker 2: It's good to be back on the show with you,
because that was my exact handicap here. I want to
be on Orlando because everything screams situationally you need to
be on Orlando. But I hate the way they're playing
getting They got blown out last game by a zillion
when they should have been playing hard. I guess it's
you know, we talked a little bit, or maybe you
talked a little bit way back when it happened that
the Magic without Fronds, obviously they're going to be a
different team, but they've played without him for so long
now you would think they'd be beyond this. There was
a stretch there where Ben Caro and Baine were doing
the job carrying the team. But I guess it's hard
for two guys to just consistently night in and night
out because the rest just isn't helping out very much. Here. Defensively,
they're bad. Offensively, They've shown us a couple of times
now that they can go bad Phoenix. I think the
win by Phoenix the other night basically secured what they needed.
Right they're on top of the play in list. Everything's
gonna run through Phoenix, and they can't really move up
with six games to go, so they're in a great spot.
They can't fall backward, they can't move forward. I don't
know that they will relax on this situation, but I
would think, you know, it's just not as meaningful to
them as it is to Orlando. If I saw a
little more spark out of Orlando, I would have already
bet the game Ski, But I haven't seen the spark.
I'd still like to get there. Maybe the best thing here,
because I'll put it this way, as good as Orlando
has had to play, they've had the stack wins. Defensively,
they've gotten no better. So two twenty four and a
half is kind of a reasonable number for a total here.
If they're gonna win games, Orlando, I'm speaking about. If
they're gonna win games, they're gonna have to do it
by outscoring people at this point in time, and to
twenty four and a half is makeable. Here the number
is one and a half two. So they're asking us
for what about one thirteen one, fourteen, one twelve something
in that vicinity which Phoenix has been playing good offense
against bad defensive teams. I don't know why it shouldn't
be that simple, but maybe it is. Maybe it's just
go play over and don't trust Orlando because without Franz Voguler,
they're just not a very good basketball team.
Speaker 1: Man. A couple of things that were saying in the
chat really quick, man, I just screwed up my screen there.
A couple of mentions Brooks is back, so maybe that
could throw off the rhythm for this center team just
a little bit and do the magic play with some
pride after getting blown off the earth. Or is it
just too much going on in the locker room? We
need some changes. I mean, usually when teams taking ass
with them like that, you know they respond the next game.
Any last thoughts you.
Speaker 2: Know, Yeah, I bet these guys to win the division
and they've blown that future be on me right now,
So it's hard for me with the magic. Like I say,
it's probably if I was betting, it's the only side
I could bet would be Orlando. It's just a matter
of whether or not I have the guts at this
point in time to walk up there with money and
you know, unload the account and say I want Orlando.
I don't know if I have those that kind of
guts it. That's why I kind of I kind of
straight off to the total Ski to try and find
some way to ease out of having to depend on
Orlando tonight. But you should, I mean, it's so meaningful.
They should play hard at home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I keep thinking about that one Hornets
and Nets. I don't want to spend too much time
on this game. Not a whole lot of movement on
side or a total nobody on the injury report for
Charlotte Brooklyn no NPJA, no Man, no Wolf. Third game
and four for the Hornets, they are coming off of
a loss, off back to back losses, should be the
right team to take their frustrations out on Nets. You know,
I can't remember the last time they won two games
in a row, so I guess mean Hornets. I don't
know why it said it's two here. It's my mistake,
but I'll fix that. Hornets and Nets, you know anything
from you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Charlotte looks at the schedule and says, heck,
if Orlando loses the Phoenix and we pound the Nets,
we move up from ten to eight in one night
in the playoff standings. I mean, that's how close they are.
They're half a game behind Orlando, and Orlando lost to Charlotte,
win and boom, they're staring at maybe a home game
in the playing So I'm sure that for them, they're
going to go out there and you know, attempt to
I don't know destroy Brooklyn is the right word, but
they're going to try to win the game. And Brooklyn's
trying to lose games one in nine I think in
their last ten and I looked this morning, Brooklyn right now,
you know, the two teams below them have seventeen wins.
Brooklyn has eighteen wins. Everybody wants more ping boond balls
than the other guy. You know, eighteen and seventeen is
pretty close. And Indie Hit is actually trying to win
games right now at seventeen wins, So Brooklyn could, you know,
sink the themselves a little further by tanking in this one.
I don't know why they wouldn't. I guess my biggest
problem here was seventeen points. But Charlotte has shown us
ski the ability to win by twenty plus, so I
probably shouldn't be scared because they'd have the defense right
now to create separation. And Brooklyn's the worst offense going
in the NBA, So perhaps Charlotte's the right play here.
Maybe just the number. Every day we look at these
these boards in the NBA, it's now anywhere between fourteen
and twenty one in more than half the games. Here's
another one. I think probably the right thing to do, though,
is lay it.
Speaker 1: With Charlotte and argue, I mean, I really don't want
the net. Horner's team total over Maybe says the chat
can't talk you off. Joey Best says the Leno Special,
the team Total Special.
Speaker 2: I might have been going, but they don't forget me.
Speaker 1: No, while you were going, they were mentioning two. They're
like I did the row Vino Way.
Speaker 2: Gotta be known for something.
Speaker 1: Ski all right, Knicks. Rockets opened up minus one for
the Knicks. It's either that or pick them. Total came
down about a point, from two eighteen and a half
to two seventeen and a half. McBride's questionable Shamman is out,
Van Fleet is out. Looking at this one a little
closer for the Rockets they do play tomorrow. I'm just
trying to double check they'll play the Bucks. So not
really anything to look ahead to. The Rockets, like I
mentioned earlier, are in that sixth seed. The Knicks they're
in the third spot. There are two games behind Boston,
one game in front of the Cavaliers. I mean, pretty
important game for both of these teams. Right when I
think like that, I would think it's an undergame. The
only thing that holds me off is Rockets offense looked
a little better last couple, And I don't know, are
they trying to maybe? I don't know. I don't trust
Rockets offense, but the last couple they look good. Other
than that, the situation to me says, under what do
you think? You know?
Speaker 2: I think when Tari Easton hits five threes, the Rockets
offense looks good. That's what I think I don't know
if that guy's gonna make five threes. I'm kind of
with you on under I think it's kind of a
playoff type game meaningful to both. The Knicks are off
of back to back losses, so I'm sure they want
to get back on the winning, winning side of things.
And again, they're, like you mentioned, only one game ahead
of Cleveland, kind of tough to slip up because Cleveland's
got a spot here with la To and I think
we'll talk about in a minute. The Knicks with a
win maybe could get a little more separation if the
Lakers win. So I don't know. I somewhat lean Knicks,
but I think more than that, you probably should look
at Under here two seventeen and a half because he's
and again, that point guard situation just hasn't been good
all season long, and I don't know that it'll get
any better tonight. So I won't play this game. I'm
for sure. I'm very sure that I won't play that game,
but if I had to, i'd probably look under to
seventeen and a half. Looks like the money sees it
that way as well. We see about a point drop
from the opener to eighteen and a half down to
two seventeen and a half.
Speaker 1: All right, so we we kind of see that one
the same way and probably no lessn under might want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you might want either sleep through that one or hey,
I want it under the other day. I'll have people
know it was real. I'm going off off script now,
but it was the Iowa State Tennessee. Is that who
they played. I think I always stayed Tennessee under one
thirty nine and a half got to one thirty eight.
I was a little scared in the end, thinking why
do I bet on theirs? But it came through, so
I was happy.
Speaker 1: Good stuff on that. We'll see if we'll see if
this one comes through. Next we have Raptors Pistons and
this one open MINDUS six for Detroit is down to
three and a half total from two nineteen to two twenty.
For Detroit you have Duran Harris, Duncan Robinson all probable,
LeVert Sasser questionable, Cad and Isaiah Stewart For the Raptors.
Ingram and Cnber are both questionable. Battle have burn and
quickly are all out. This is a back to back
after an overtime game for this Pistons team, and you know, hey,
it looks so easy to go take those Raptors. I
know that everybody just just saw the Pisteons played last
night and overtime. They don't have Kid. I get that
the Raptors need this game, are need games. They're in
that fifth spot. Really, if they lose this game, they're
gonna be in the sixth spot. They don't really have two.
I mean, they're four and a half games from the
fit spot. I don't think they're gonna catch them. They're
just trying to stay out of the plane, so they
do care. They do have a lot to play for.
But that Detroit side, you know, having three starters that
didn't play yesterday, that's a big deal. I mean, everybody's
playing into the situation right. You got three of their
main guys that are fresh, and Detroit team that still
plays well defensively without Kate. Like, it's Detroit or nothing
for me here, Rob, What do you think?
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more? My first inclination you kind of
laid it out right. My first inclination was let's try
to rock though Trot played their hearts out last night
against o KC took it the overtime. They did it shorthanded.
But then when I checked the injury report this morning
and saw that Jalen During and Tobias Harris were back,
I thought, man, that front line will destroy Toronto's front line,
I think, at least, and they don't stop playing ski.
I mean, they're not in any danger of anything. Four
games ahead of Boston, they're in zero danger. But they
still play hard every night. And so trying to stand
in front of that train is it something I would
want to do. And the fact that the number has
come down because people are playing situation probably helps. In fact,
it does help guys like us who actually start are
thinking a little bit the other way, thinking like maybe
we want Detroit in this contest. Now instead of laying six,
we only have to lay three and a half. We've
got two thirds of the frontline back in action tonight.
You got home floor travel is what it is, and
that's certainly part of the handicap here. So you can't
get too carried away. But I would think at this price,
Toronto doesn't line up defensively with Detroit, and I just
Detroit just plays with so much effort it's hard not
to bet them with, you know, especially with Durham and
Harris back after resting yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the way, absolutely that I would be playing
this game and I might get there. It caught down
to two and a half and now was going back up.
So that's man. Maybe maybe actually I still see it
two and a half out there. I need to hurry up, Rob, you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, I see it with you. I'm just looking now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Joey asked him what I think about double result.
I don't have any reason to take the first half,
and I mean, I guess because they played yesterday. I
guess that's I mean, I can understand that, but I
feel like Toronto has has some really bad fourth quarters.
So I just like the Pistons on the full game
maps and Bucks. Yeah, I don't really want to talk
about this honestly, but it did come down from five
and a half to two total. Didn't move so many
people on the injury report. I mean, are you betting
this one over Veno? Is this automatic? Or do we
have to talk about this one?
Speaker 2: You know what? I got there again the other day
with the LA Clippers team total against Milwaukee. I think
it was on Sunday, and the Clippers put up a
seventy point second half. The Bucks just refused to play
any defense. But before we got on the show, we
did see that Glenn is going to be inducted into
the Hall of Fame. So maybe it's a ceremonial nightment.
Heyay Glenn, Yes, what Dallas has shown a little bit
of life no matter who they throw on the floor,
at least they play. Milwaukee offensively has shown zero life.
They got to one thirteen because the Clippers let them
get to one thirteen the other day. So having a
hard time against a good defense with Milwaukee full game totals,
but Dallas is not a good defense, and I think too,
you know, twenty nine and a half here is pretty
doable with these two. So this is one where you
said you may get there with Detroit. I may get
there with Dallas Milwaukee over full game, simply because Dallas
isn't going to show any resistance and Milwaukee certainly doesn't
show any resistance.
Speaker 1: Uh, financially free focused as total down to two thirty
and a half, that was my mistake. I don't know
why I had that two thirty six, or I think
I might have been looking at the next game. We're
going to talk about when I when I put that
in there, that's my bad on that. But yeah, I
mean the Bucks haven't been playing defense. The MAVs for
the most part haven't been playing defense. They had that
one game where they held Portland to under hundred recently,
and other than that, I mean they've given up routinely
four plus. So I can understand this one. Calves and
Lakers opened as a one point favorite for LA. Now too,
you have I'm sorry, yeah, the total didn't move. You
have Marcus Smart questionable, Theerro questionable for the Cavaliers. You
have Scrus probable, Allen probable, Tyson out dem wide out.
Both of these teams run a back to back right.
The Cavaliers at the travel Lakers did not. Dang, you know,
I think this could. I mean, I'd be surprised if
you didn't bet this over already. I think this is
an over game. The Lakers don't play no defense, Marcus
Smart questionable as well, the Hero questionable. Those two guys
that you want to defense, Cavaliers should be able to
score on them, and I don't think the Caves defense
is that great where the Lakers can't score at all.
So Lean Calves Lean over. What do you think.
Speaker 2: I think lean over absolutely. You just get first of all,
the way the Lakers are play in offense right now,
there's just no way that I think Cleveland will prevent
the Lakers from scoring their share. But the other side
of that coin is Cleveland offense. But you know, six
of the last or seven of the last ten that
Cleveland has played have hit at least two thirty five.
Six of them have gone beyond two thirty six, which
is tonight's number, but the seven have gone to at
least two thirty five. And the way Lucas playing right now,
Ski and the way they're scoring, it's just hard to
see Cleveland's guards that might be the worst set of
you know, let's see they're in the top four right
so top four on either side east or west. That
might be the worst set of defensive guards out of
those eight teams. There's no way Harden and Mitchell are
stopping anybody, but they're going to score. The one thing
that bothers me a little bit is that. And I
know you pulled up the numbers before I went on
vacation because I asked about this. James Harden has slowed
that offense down they're still really efficient, but I think
when you pulled the numbers at that point they had
gone down like maybe four possessions per game or something
with him at the point guard, which is always a concern.
But there's are efficient and they score from all parts
of the floor, So off back to backs, I would
probably say over is the right way to go.
Speaker 1: All right, we agree on that. Next one we have
and last one we have Blazers and Clippers open five
now five and a half total up slightly from two
twenty six to twenty seven and a half. Jeremy Grant,
Creige and sharp all out for the Blazers. For the Clippers,
Isaiah Jackson looks like he's out. Here's the other side,
right Garland. We know they like to play faster. With Garland.
It's like they're pretty healthy on that side as well.
It's Blazers team. I feel like they'll play however their
appointed wants to play. But I think they're fine playing
up tempo. I would think this is another over game,
but I don't feel extremely confident about it. What do
you think.
Speaker 2: I'll try to push some of my confidence your way
because I did bit it over a couple of things
on Portland interesting since the All Star Break. They are
number ten in tempo in the NBA. They've really pushed
it pretty quickly. And for Portland, I give you these numbers.
They've scored one hundred and fifteen plus in fourteen of
their last seventeen games. Now, granted a lot of those
defenses are garbage, but still one fifteen or more in
fourteen of seventeen, one nineteen or more thirteen of the
last sixteen, one twenty or more in nine of their
last twelve. Like I say, tenth fastest paced since the
since the All Star Break. But I found real interesting
Ski was they played twice this season, these two teams,
but they were both before January.
Speaker 1: First.
Speaker 2: They were like in October and December when neither team
was playing the way they are now. They've kind of
changed over the course of the season to where they're
both quicker. And for the Clippers, we've noted it a
bunch the last three weeks, but they've come through. For me,
they have cashed a lot of over tickets, whether it
be like Sunday on their team total isolated or whether
it be full game total. I just don't want to
leave Portland out of the equation here because I think
Portland can score so pretty rapid pace LA Portland good
scoring teams. Don't see any reason why this. I thought
this number honestly would be around two thirty two to
thirty one and a half two thirty two. It wasn't,
so I bet it Portland Clippers over to twenty seven
and a half.
Speaker 1: A right good stuff there, and uh looks like that.
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Speaker 2: A couple of things real quick. I did inquire with
the home office before we went on here SKI just
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just going to go back to the last game, Ski,
it's the one to add the most most faith in
Portland Clippers up and over that total to twenty seven
and a half. I gave the reasons why Portland's been
a high scoring team lately. They've been a fast paced team.
You had mentioned that you feel that they'll go with
whoever their opponent is. So if LA chooses to go
fast tonight, which we know they will, then Portland chooses
to go right with them, So I think that one
is in a pretty good spot here mathematically and matchup wise.
I'm going to take Portland Clippers up and over to
twenty seven and a half is the best bet.
Speaker 1: Good stuff for Rob, you know, and for myself. Man,
I have a short list here and I have one
bet that I've made, and that one bet is the
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share it. I don't have too many plays. I already
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have there. So that'll wrap up today's show. Quick question
here at the bottom. Let me get there before we
get out of here, Mark says, skiing Vino captain w
NBA again this season. Yeah, absolutely. I mean I'm happy
we're going to have a season. That's what I was
worried about. But if there's basketball playing, we'll be cappening,
So I definitely looking forward to that. Veno is great
to have you back. We all missed you on the show.
The chat, I missed you, so we always appreciate you
taking the taking the time to come break these games
down with this. I always want to let you know
that Chat appreciate you guys tapping in, rocking with us,
sharing the great information, and just bringing positive vibes. So
best of luck everybody on all your actions tonight, and
we'll catch you guys again tomorrow