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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody? Welcome into another episode of Profit Picks.

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If you are new, we always start this show by

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being transparent. It is Tuesday. There were no games on Monday.

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We didn't do any shows over the weekend, so not

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really anything to talk about here today. But it's nice

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to have a big five game slate and nice to

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be back here with you, Robino. So I'll just ask

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you how you doing today? How everything been okay with you?

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Speaker 2: Everything's good, Ski Ruff a little preseason winner last night

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with Bengals and Commanders over the forty three and a half.

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So the football game got there easy for us and

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ready to focus back in on the WNBA.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to it. We got a loadus slate,

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so no need to waste any time. We'll go in

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rotation order like we always do. That means six thirteen

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six fourteen. Minnesota and New York are first open, with

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Minnesota as the one point favorite. We've seen a flip

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of favors now, we've see New York minus three even

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three and a half popping up, so to open up

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six and a half, not a whole lot of movement

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there as far as injuries are concerned. Still no fee

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for the Liberty. Still no Stewie, no Sobbily, no Izy Harrison.

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These teams will be playing for the fourth time so

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far this season, and I believe the Links have won

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two out of three from they won all three. Maybe

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actually let me double check here the Links. Yes, they

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won all three meetings so far this season one hundred

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and ninety three eighty three seventy one, eighty six to

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eighty no fee, no problem in that last one. Granted

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there's no study for the other side. But now the

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Liberty are back at home this time around. They did

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just play about what three or four days ago. The

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Liberty had a pretty poor start in that game, Rob

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you know, and you know they have to do some

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catching up. It's tough when you put yourself in that

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big of a hole right out the gate. But they

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showed some fight. They show some ability to play aggressive defense,

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and they were having success with that for a while.

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Do you think they can put it together for a

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full forty minutes here in this one at home and

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finally get a win in the column in this series

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this season?

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Speaker 2: I feel like they need to ski. Who wants to

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go zero to four against the Links when the general

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thought is that these two would meet up for the championship.

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You don't want to head into a huge series like

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that if it comes to be having lost four straight

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to Minnesota. It's crazy too. The schedule maker, I don't

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know who makes this schedule, but this will be the

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fourth game in twenty one days between these two. I mean,

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all of these Minnesota wins have been recent, so you're right,

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a lot of no Stewart, a lot of no, a

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lot of known to Fishakli or four Minnesota. But that

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loss the other day I thought was agonizing. It was

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agonizing for me because I hit the Liberty team total

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over eighty two and a half and sitting at seventy

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eight with three seventeen left in the game, and you're

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watching stuff like Natasha Cloud wide open to the rim

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blowing a layup. They just the last three seventeen of

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that game. Not good for the Liberty. They outshot the

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Links from the field forty five to forty three percent.

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They made more three pointers eleven to seven, but they

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got crushed on the free throw line. Minnesota shot thirty

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three free throws, side shot eight twenty five, and they

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turned it into a plus eighteen point advantage Minnesota. Even

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though Minnesota down the stretch blew a bunch of free throws,

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dik Kale McBride just kept missing from the free throw line.

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Minnesota couldn't excuse me. New York couldn't capitalize. But I'd

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expect them to be focused to your ski tonight to

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get this one win. Sabrina had a tough game offensively

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five of sixteen from the field. I think two of

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seven from three. New York crowds should be ready to go.

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I played this game. I played it earlier this morning.

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I played first half New York first half minus one,

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thinking that you know, if you're gonna correct. I always

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think that coaches like to correct what went wrong, and

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you mentioned it. What went wrong was the first quarter.

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I think they only scored twelve points. They were getting

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buried by fifteen in the first half and made their

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way back. But I think they'll start quicker here tonight.

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I don't know what Minnesota has left to play for,

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to tell you the truth, they're twenty eight and five.

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So I guess they're gonna come to play. I would

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imagine that, but I just think New York has more

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motivation here. I think they've got the personnel to at

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least win this first half by a bucket. So that's

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the way I played it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not mad at that. I think that's a

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good play. Minnesota has been really strong in the third

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quarter in particular, so maybe avoiding the second half could

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be a good look there. Man, what do the Links

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have to play for? I just think every time they

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see the Liberty like it's up, it's they're ready, you know,

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after last season and Courtney Williams especially, she's done a

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lot of talking, you know about this matchup. She's shown

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up in all the games. I have a hard time

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thinking she gonna show up again in this one. Chris

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is asking what I think about Kayler McBride over fourteen

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and a half points. She's hitting all three games versus Liberty,

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but nine of her points last game came from free throws?

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Is that a reason to stay away?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I'm betting on somebody. It's Courtney Williams. I mean, I

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don't want to necessarily talk you off, Kayler McBride, but yeah,

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just the person I see going off if anybody is

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Courtney Williams. That would be my pick. Mark says Links

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still making a point. Han't let go of last year's chip.

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I agree with that. You know, in that last game, Rob,

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you know, it was was it? It was one one.

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I think the first half was lower scoring and in

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the second half they just started to go crazy and

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make everything right. Yeah, the total is right around where

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it was last time. I mean, we know both of

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these teams are great offensively. They're also two really good

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defensive teams. Liberty haven't been shown it as much lately,

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but they did show it, like I mentioned, and I

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believe it was that second quarter. It was a really

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good defensive second quarter. You know, Sabrina talked about that

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and how they got to, you know, build on that.

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That needs to be part of their how do I say?

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It needs to be part of what they're doing on

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a daily you know. And then for Minnesota we keep

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hearing players coaches say defense is their identity. Do you

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think this one has played more like that first half

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or do you think it's more like that second half?

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I would think it's a little bit more like the

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first half.

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Speaker 2: I've been of the opinion since she went out Ski

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that New York would be worse defensively without Brianna Stewart.

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I just again, I know I'm repetitive with this, but

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when I watched that team play, her offense is whatever

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her offense is, it's there on some nights, it's not

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on others other Knights it's three for eleven. But defensively

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she stood out to me all season long. Since she

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hasn't been in the lineup, New York's given up a

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bunch of points. It's nice to say it. I just

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don't know that they can do it against the team

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of this caliber. All that being said, you know, if

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you erase that twelve point first quarter, they had sixty

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eight in the last three quarters New York did and

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sixty five on the other side for the links, that's

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like one thirty three. But to your point earlier, they

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had a ninety five point second half combined. It was

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a big second half. So I don't know. I thought

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the odds maker put the total in a good place,

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and you know me, I'm always quick to look at totals,

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but I couldn't find an advantage to this one. So

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you know, maybe they can. Maybe the talk turns into

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results defensively for New York. I just don't like them

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on defense without Brianna Stewart. When she comes back, I

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think we'll see improvement on that side.

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Speaker 1: Fair enough, Mark reminding everybody to go pick up the

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five dollars play today says less than a cup of car. Yeah,

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we'll talk about a little bit more at the end

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of the show, but appreciate you. Mark. It is five

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dollars Tuesday today, and we have best best up and available.

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We'll keep moving down the list. That means next game

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is six fifteen six to sixteen Connecticut Son Washington. Mystics

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opened up minus six and I still see six is

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pretty much out there. Total open one fifty eight and

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a half. We'll call consensus one fifty eight. As far

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as injuries are concerned. Nobody on the report for Connecticut.

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For Washington, I do see Steph Dowson and Ja C.

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Sheldon listed this out. Mystics a little bit surprising here lately. Rob,

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they trade away. I mean they trade away Cites a

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little bit ago, and then Austin sat out a game.

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I think they still won that game. Yeah, Mystic's off

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two wins as underdogs. I don't necessarily see them or

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view them as the team to be laying points with.

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I think, you know, once I start to get in

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the favorite of above minus minus two or three, that's

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kind of where I draw the line here. Connecticut. They

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played well for most of their last game. They did

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end up losing. They cover the spread barely. They won

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the game before that. I think they're a little bit

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more competitive, so I'd be leaning towards, you know, getting

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the six points. I just I don't think Washington is

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worth laying with. I know they have technically something to

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play for in the standings, but I just don't trust it,

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do you.

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Speaker 2: Well, I know what I'm done with skin and I'm

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done saying maybe Washington is tanking because the last three

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games they took that and you know, totally proved otherwise.

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I thought maybe that trade of Britney sites was an

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indicator that we're not going to get there this year,

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so we'll just make the trade. But they've been so good, offensively,

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surprisingly good, let's put it that way. I'm going to

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ring you some numbers for Washington in their last four

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second halfs without the benefit of overtime. No overtime here,

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sixty one points in the second half against Dallas, fifty

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five points in the second half against Golden State, forty

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eight points against Indiana, forty two the other day after

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a fifty three point first half against the Sparks. We

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know everybody scores against the Sparks, but still you get

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my point. Washington with this lineup, and Shakira Austin did

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come back last game ninety five points against LA the

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other day. So if I'm looking at anything here, knowing

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that Connecticut doesn't play a lot of defense, I'm probably

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gonna look at Washington team total, which is eighty one

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and a half. Connecticut gives up eighty two just by

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showing up most nights, and you're right that lost the

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other day against Indiana. I mean, credit what a performance

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by Kelsey Mitchell second half, because I believe she had

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like nothing in the first half, and then second half

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in overtime she winds up with thirty eight or something

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crazy in that game, Washington, excuse me, in again a

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huge comeback against Connecticut, which again just goes to show

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that defensively they can be exposed. So for me, you know,

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maybe I'm just a you know, a prisoner of the

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moment here with the Washington offense. But they've surprised me

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with that lineup and especially the three games without Shakira Austin,

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that they were able to score the way they've been

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able to score. So eighty one and a half looks

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like a very doable number to me in this game.

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Speaker 1: And that's the team total, right, yeah, Miss sixteen total

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eighty one and a half. H I don't have any

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reason to talk to me about you off the team total.

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A couple guys in the chat looking at Tina Charles

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over her fourteen and a half points today, says just

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give her twenty four plus minutes. I mean, I think

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Tina can score her. I think the Sun will keep

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this one competitive. And if they do and Rob Veno's

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team total hits, that means the full game is going over.

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So if we had the opposite, if we had Shakira

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out and Steph Doson in, I would run to the

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window and go bet the over. Dulson just, you know,

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a better shooter, not really great defender, Shakira not shooting

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it from outside, much better rim protector, I don't know.

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this one. But Son I could very well get to

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the window. With next game up, we have six seventeen

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six eighteen Seattle storm hitting in Chicago. Take on the

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sky opened up minus eleven and a half looks like

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minus eleven is the consensus total open one fifty four,

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looks like one fifty eight. It's pretty much everywhere injury report,

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nobody on there for Seattle. For Chicago, Aero Atkins is probable,

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so it's Hayley van Let and Andrew Reese is listened

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is questionable. I mean, she has been listed to doubt

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for her out all these times. We'll see if she

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makes a reappearance here. The storm finally got off the snide,

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right Rob. You know, they are still desperate for wins.

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They need them, trying to fight for that playoff spot.

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But can they play well enough to win by ten

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and a half. That's that's a tough question that I

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have to ask. I mean, I could look at it

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how you said the other day, right, you know, I

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We're just gonna say it. I expect this guy a little,

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but she doesn't seem so hard anymore. So. I guess

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when we look at it like that, it's storm or pass.

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How are you doing this?

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Speaker 2: Well? You know, well, and again we'll repeat what we

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said the other day about Angel Reese her quote. In

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due time, she has started to practice again with the team.

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But in due time, it's it's on her, it's on

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her schedule. I think when she feels like coming back,

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she's gonna come back. But I did handicap this game

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for the justin case that she does play. Obviously, we'll

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see the number go way down. If she plays, this game,

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probably goes from eleven down to eight and a half.

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She's probably worth that much to the sky. But I

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played the Seattle Storm team total over eighty four and

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a half. It was a bet that I made, and

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I'm just in this constant fade of the Chicago defense

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to give up ninety the other day to Golden State

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and the majority of that ninety if I'm right, I'd

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have to go back and look it up. But I

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just remember Golden State pulling away in the second half

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in a huge way. It was close, close, close, maybe

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like a I don't know if Golden State covered first

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half the other night's ski Chicago may have covered first half,

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stayed close, and then got destroyed by thirty four. In

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the long run, defense is bad. The backcourt defense is

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bad Chicago. Their turnover rate is worse than the league,

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and Seattle is like third best at scoring off of

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turnovers points off of turnovers. That's a bad matchup right

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away for the Sky. And then another bad matchup for

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them is the Sky's paint defense, which gives up the

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highest percentage of highest field goal percentage inside the paint

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in the league. And Seattle's very good inside the paint.

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So a couple of bad matchups here for Chicago. I'll

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add to it their backcourt defense. We've talked about it

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a lot of Chicago's backcourt is you know, you might

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rate that the worst backcourt in the league. And Chicago,

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excuse me, Seattle with Britney Sykes now has a little

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more firepower inside the back court. You talked about them

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needing wins. They're in that eight seed right now. They

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need this win to stay alive. They're game under five hundred,

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even though they won the other night. So it's a

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big game for them, and it's the start of a

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five game road trip. Let's mention that Seattle's got five

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straight on the road. They get this game with Chicago

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where they're double digit favored. The next game is against Dallas,

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where they'll be favored, and you have to win the

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winnable games if you're Seattle. They scored ninety five against

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Chicago the first time around. Angel Reese did not play

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in that game. If she doesn't play again, they probably

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get to ninety five again. But I think there's a real,

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real good shot they get to eighty five at least here,

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just because Chicago can't defend much of anything lately.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's solid. I think that's solid. Chicago's

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defense has looked pretty bad. We'll see if a motivated

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Seattle team could take advantage. I think that's a solid

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play there. Let's keep going down the list. People in

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the chat licking Gaby Williams in this game, and I

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didn't look too deep into props. But y'all don't have

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any reason to talk to y'all really, anybody versus that

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Chicago defense. Next, pretty good game here six nineteen six

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twenty Atlanta Dream Las Vegas Aces open up minus two

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and a half for at I'm sorry for Las Vegas

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and hasn't really moved total open one sixty four and

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a half looks like one sixty five and a half

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is a consensus as far as who's available, No Jordan

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Canada for Atlanta should still be out for a little longer.

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And Aces, I mean everybody's healthy who's been playing this

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season will say it like that, ass I mean, ever

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since they who was that, Ever since Minnesota took their

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belt off and gave them a spank spank, the Aces

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looked like the best team in the league, right They

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won I think six games in a row, maybe seven.

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I guess probably just kicks in after a beatdown like that,

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and they start playing and looking like the Aces we've

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been looking for all season. The Dream have also played

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well post All Star the Dream had I mean, the

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Aces have beaten the Dream both times I believe this season,

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or if they didn't play twice, they did beat them

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at least once. Let me just double check that. So

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they did play once. Aces won eighty seven to seventy five,

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so one rather easily. I mean, if we're just going

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off what we've seen lately, Aces playing away, they're playing

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at home, it's hard to look the other way. And

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if I'm looking at the total, I think I trust

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the Dream a little bit more than an Aces defense.

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So yeah, maybe just more than anything. Lean Ace is

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here at the house. How do you feel about it?

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Speaker 2: You know, yeah, Ryan Howard wasn't present in that game

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where Las Vegas won eighty seven to seventy two, their

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only matchup. But now Jordan Canada's not present, right, so

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Atlanta just seems to continue overcoming things. The other night,

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they didn't play very good, you know, that game against

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Golden State. It was like twenty five to twenty three

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or something at halftime, something stupid, and then Atlanta broke

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loose in the second half, which they've been prone to

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do a lot this season. Their first half play has

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picked up, but their second half player. I remember the

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beginning of the year there for second half totals over

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were winning at a high rate, and they came up

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with fifty four in the second half. They still find

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ways to score. They found a way to get the

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seventy nine in that game. I like what you said

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last about which defense you trust more, And it's why

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I played the dream team total the visit to the

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underdog team total here over eighty two Las Vegas. I

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don't know why I shied away from full game Ski,

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and maybe I won't in the end, because Las Vegas

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during this winning streak. I think last five games, they're

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averaging ninety one a game, ninety one and offensively, first

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of all, Asia Wilson looks unstoppable, and second of all,

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she's getting the help now. Twelve who used to dribble

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out the clock, is now making shots, scoring points. Juwel Lloyd,

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we talked about her since she's been coming off the bench,

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Jackie Young, those four have been really, really good offensively lately.

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I know Atlanta's the better defensive team. That's probably why

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I shied away from full game total, but I do

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think that Atlanta's good for eighty three against this defense.

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If you just go back through the Vegas win streak,

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they're still giving up points. They're just scoring at a

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huge rate at this point in time. So to me,

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Las Vegas has picked up the pace, the tempo in

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their games. If it gets to be a quicker game,

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which I think it will, I trust Atlanta. I think

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you had a number. I think you had a number

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last week about points scored by Atlanta on the road

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in like it was at the time their last five

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games or something. It was maybe eighty five plus in

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every game, and then they just scored seventy nine on

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the road at Golden State, but that was with a

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twenty three point first half or something crazy like that.

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I don't think that happens again. So probably a high

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scoring game, probably a really really competitive game. I don't

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want to bet against the Aces right now, that's for sure,

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But I do think Atlanta gets to eighty three, whether

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they win or lose.

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Speaker 1: You know, Dream have been making some making some money

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lately for me. I know, I said Alina Aces, but man,

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I'm just trying to glance at this last time they played,

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just seeing who all was available. Brie Jones did play,

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Brittany Grinder did play, just Ryan didn't play. Really, I mean,

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I when I think about a little bit more, I

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kind of agree with this comment from Mark. I think

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he was here. No no, no, yeah yeah. He says

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Atlanta side is gonna bother Las Vegas. He says aces

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recent wins not that impressive. The thing I'll say is

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the Biggs didn't bother the Aces in their last meeting.

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Both of them played, they didn't bother them. But in general,

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my thought is like when Ages does play the bigger

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like Sinners or Biggs, like she struggles, like when she

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plays secure Austin. I don't think she plays well, but

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like I said, she already did do it once versus

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Dream Team. This is a tough one. It'll be a

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really good game to watch. Let's just see a couple

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more comments here, maybe they'll help us out. James likes

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the Aces, Drew likes to Dream. Mark thinks that Dream

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are the second best team in the league. They've been

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playing like it lately. I guarantee that. James says Ace's

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ball screen will kill those bigs. A lot of different

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opinions here, Dancers Dreaming payback on their mind. Man Chris,

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I think is a green that we should see some

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points here. It says Dream ard over team on the

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road and Aces are going to push the pace. This

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is this is tough. I think I need a little

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bit more time here. Dream have been the more consistent

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team in general to me. I know A has been

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playing better lately, and it's even hard to say that

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because Dream have been really on fire post All Star

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this one. I'm just I'm wrecking my brain here, Raven.

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I think I want to need more time.

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Speaker 2: I want to try and go back here Ski real

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quick and just see how many it was July twenty two.

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I'm just gonna try and see how Asia Wilson did

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in that game. She had twenty four and twelve shot

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nine of eighteen, fifty percent from the field, six of

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seven from the foul line, twenty four points, twelve rebounds me.

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She to me, she looks unstoppable right now. The one

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thing I'll say about Atlanta is you've got ten balls

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to give between Brehanna Jones and Britney Grinder off the bench.

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You can, you know, get up on her if you

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if you want. By the Las Vegas has been pushing

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pay so much, and Asia doesn't need to be at

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the rim to score her jumpers. Just as I don't know,

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I think that I don't want to bet against it

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Las Vegas right now, but I do think the Atlanta

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offense is trustable against this particular defense. I still think

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I'm just looking here Las Vegas. As last five gave

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up eighty six, eighty six, eighty three, eighty seven, and

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seventy seven, So four of the five have gone over.

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What's required tonight out of Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: Man, man, man, man, man, you know this is this

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is a tough one. I'll lean with the over and

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I'll just stay. I'll stay neutral on the side for now.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you could go end games Ski.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be watching for sure, So I'll be.

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Speaker 2: Mark.

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Speaker 1: Mark knows how to get me to the window.

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Speaker 2: That'll be in one hand with a ticket in the other.

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Speaker 1: He knows how to get me to the window for sure.

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It says, need a tequila and I walk around the block, Ski, Ski.

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Speaker 2: That walk around the block will seal the deal.

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Speaker 1: All right. Uh. One last game for today that looks

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like six Phoenix and Golden State. This one opened up

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minus six for Phoenix. Not a whole lot of movement.

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We'll call it six and a half to to open

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one fifty six and and seeing it as low as

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as low as one fifty three and a half. It's

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a lot of different numbers out there, but as low

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as one fifty three and a half. Injury report mccannie,

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I mean, she's on here, but it doesn't say anything

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next to her name. Let's see probable. This is probable

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for Golden State. It's like mobilings Maria C and Iliana

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all out. Valkyrie's all right here, here's her. What I'll

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say about this one first thing that comes to mind, Robino,

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is both of these teams have been really good defensively.

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We know Golden State games have been really lower scoring,

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but Phoenix as well Valkyrie. We've talked about this on

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the show once before. In revenge situations, they've been able

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to lock people down. Whatever Coach Nikosi's doing over there,

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if I said that wrong, I apologize. She has some

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good game plans for a second time around. Seeing these

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teams that they've lost to, they are to do a

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reminder here and let's toss it up on the screen.

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Toss it up on the screen here, let's see boom boom,

473
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:23,720
And I know that I have to go back and

474
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:28,279
push the button. There we go. So you can see

475
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,440
in revenge spots, Valkyries are nine to one to the

476
00:26:31,519 --> 00:26:34,000
under team oppon his team total nine to one to

477
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,480
the under. They lock them down. So my initial thought

478
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,480
is to try to get there with the under anyway,

479
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,680
to you know, find reasons try to back that under.

480
00:26:44,559 --> 00:26:47,240
Maybe even just Phoenix team total it is eighty. I

481
00:26:47,279 --> 00:26:50,200
mean I could very well see that at the house.

482
00:26:50,759 --> 00:26:52,960
How are you viewing this one, robo.

483
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:59,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, just doing quick math. I mean, if Phoenix wins

484
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,200
the game, just seventy eight, seventy four something like that

485
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,920
team total isn't under It doesn't sound that unreasonable. Seventy eight,

486
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,440
seventy five. A little surprised that Golden State was catching

487
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,160
so many points at home. Ski. They're off of a

488
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:16,119
bad second half to Atlanta. Like we said earlier, Atlanta

489
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,160
destroyed them fifty four to thirty six second half, and

490
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,400
all of a sudden that Golden State defense was just

491
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:26,279
caved in by an Atlanta onslaught. But you know, Atlanta

492
00:27:26,319 --> 00:27:28,960
does that to people. I'm not so sure Phoenix will

493
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,039
do that to them on the road. The number keeps climbing,

494
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,079
which I keep looking for. You know what is everybody seeing?

495
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,480
That pushes this game from six, which I thought was

496
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,160
overpriced to start with, to six and a half and

497
00:27:42,279 --> 00:27:46,519
into a couple locations minus seven. Golden State at home

498
00:27:46,559 --> 00:27:49,319
in front of that crowd, very very good, pesky defensively,

499
00:27:49,319 --> 00:27:51,960
if it's a lower scoring game, generally those two correlate,

500
00:27:52,039 --> 00:27:55,640
right underdog and under, and home underdog getting six and

501
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,480
a half and under should correlate. To me, this was

502
00:27:58,519 --> 00:28:00,920
the absolute toughest game on the ball to get to

503
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,319
and I think it's probably mostly because I never trust

504
00:28:06,319 --> 00:28:10,680
Golden State shooting against a good team against the weaker teams,

505
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,599
like what they did to Chicago. Yeah, they love to

506
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:19,279
let it fly from three. Maybe Zandalasini gets hot. They've

507
00:28:19,279 --> 00:28:22,079
they've got players with potential to get hot, and I

508
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,720
think that's what pushes me somewhat to their side. If

509
00:28:25,759 --> 00:28:27,240
I had to play at ski, I would play Golden

510
00:28:27,279 --> 00:28:28,960
State at home plus six and a half. They're still

511
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,240
in the playoff race, just the same as Phoenix is.

512
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,559
They're just vuying for different positions in the standings. For Phoenix,

513
00:28:36,519 --> 00:28:40,319
twenty wins has them as the four seed, but they've

514
00:28:40,319 --> 00:28:42,279
played a couple games less than everybody else, so they've

515
00:28:42,279 --> 00:28:44,319
got time to make up some ground here. If they want,

516
00:28:44,559 --> 00:28:47,400
or if they can, they can win. I just don't

517
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,160
know that they win this game by seven points. It

518
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,240
seems like a lot to me in this venue.

519
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: Falgry's I've been really good at home. I mean, it

520
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,160
does seem like a lot of points. I agree with

521
00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:59,799
you on that. It seems like most of the Chad

522
00:29:00,039 --> 00:29:06,319
Grease too, Mark took the Valkyries. Yeah, a lot of

523
00:29:06,319 --> 00:29:10,559
people mostly. I haven't seen one person say the Mercury, so, uh,

524
00:29:11,759 --> 00:29:15,720
everybody on the Valkyries, Huh.

525
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,559
Speaker 2: I've seen this one before.

526
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,519
Speaker 1: I let everybody be I'm I'm not gonna run to

527
00:29:25,559 --> 00:29:28,079
the window or try to be too make too many

528
00:29:28,119 --> 00:29:31,480
cases for Phoenix. Here makes sense. I mean, both teams

529
00:29:31,519 --> 00:29:35,640
do have something to play for the playoff standings, but

530
00:29:36,359 --> 00:29:38,319
six and a half points at home off of a

531
00:29:38,319 --> 00:29:41,359
really bad loss, I think that they could They could

532
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,160
play a lot better here in this game. So Lean Valkyries,

533
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,079
lean under. You put them together. That means Mercury team

534
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:52,200
total under. And man, I don't know, it didn't seem

535
00:29:52,279 --> 00:29:56,880
like thirty minutes here, Rob, you know, but it's been

536
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,720
thirty minutes. We got through all five games. I think

537
00:29:59,759 --> 00:30:04,079
we do the pretty solid job. So we'll move it on.

538
00:30:04,279 --> 00:30:07,079
Or before we move it to best bets, let's let's

539
00:30:07,079 --> 00:30:16,039
get Raveno on Acre. Raveno makes the therapy five dollars Tuesday.

540
00:30:16,599 --> 00:30:19,920
So uh, somebody mentioned this earlier in the show. But yeah,

541
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,680
we have top players on our page and you can

542
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,000
get them today for just five dollars. So it's a

543
00:30:26,079 --> 00:30:28,559
chance for people to check out, you know, maybe how

544
00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:31,160
what a write up looks like for one of us.

545
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,160
You know, see what you think about it, if you

546
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,799
cash out, and if you you like what you see

547
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,480
you can come back and rock with its longer term.

548
00:30:39,799 --> 00:30:44,079
So on that note, Veno, I will pass it back

549
00:30:44,079 --> 00:30:46,519
to you and ask you if there's anything else you

550
00:30:46,519 --> 00:30:49,440
would like to promote, and if you have a best

551
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,559
bet for the show, we would love to hear it.

552
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,079
If you do not, no worries.

553
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:59,559
Speaker 2: Real quick Ski. Besides the five dollars Tuesday, which is

554
00:30:59,599 --> 00:31:01,759
always a great day for anybody who has never been

555
00:31:01,799 --> 00:31:05,480
involved with any of the handicappers, including Ski and myself,

556
00:31:05,519 --> 00:31:09,000
it's a good day to get involved. Wager Talk also

557
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,400
released an offer this morning where you buy the month

558
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,440
of September, get the remainder of August for free. We're

559
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,240
sitting here on August nineteenth. That's a thirty one day month.

560
00:31:19,319 --> 00:31:20,839
You do the math, you're going to get almost two

561
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,079
weeks for free. On top of that, they do the

562
00:31:24,119 --> 00:31:25,839
math for me, so I could just read it to

563
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,799
you less than forty nine dollars per week or less

564
00:31:28,839 --> 00:31:33,680
than seven dollars per day if you join in now

565
00:31:34,119 --> 00:31:37,200
on the all access pass for September. And of course

566
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,720
with football here, this is the time of year, guys

567
00:31:39,759 --> 00:31:41,880
where you start to get all these crossover sports. You're

568
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,920
not just going to get WNBA, you start to get

569
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,799
college football, NFL football, you get everything. So it's quite

570
00:31:46,799 --> 00:31:49,960
a bit probably a very good package price reduced rate

571
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,559
there for by September, get the rest of August free

572
00:31:53,079 --> 00:31:57,000
move on to best bet ski. I've got a choice

573
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,480
here to make, and I don't want to use my

574
00:32:02,519 --> 00:32:04,839
five dollars play as the freeze, So I'm going to

575
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:09,759
go to the one we talked about towards the end there.

576
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,880
Atlanta team total over eighty two, a game that I bet,

577
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,400
a game that I have released to clients here. I

578
00:32:18,559 --> 00:32:20,640
just you know, I gave a lot of reasons why

579
00:32:21,079 --> 00:32:23,400
I trust Atlanta to tell you the truth, and it

580
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,480
really doesn't matter all season longer hasn't mattered all season

581
00:32:27,519 --> 00:32:29,759
long who's in the lineup and who's not in the lineup.

582
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,200
They do what they do. Chris pointed out what I

583
00:32:33,279 --> 00:32:35,680
was saying in my analysis when he chimed in with

584
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,319
Vegas is going to push pace and Atlanta has been

585
00:32:39,319 --> 00:32:43,480
a very good road over team team totals over with Atlanta,

586
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,079
and like I said, I think you had the numbers

587
00:32:46,119 --> 00:32:48,880
last week eighty five plus in maybe six of their

588
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,000
last seven. So give me that one as the best

589
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,240
bet for today going to be Atlanta Dream Team total

590
00:32:54,319 --> 00:32:55,119
over eighty two.

591
00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:02,319
Speaker 1: I like it. Good stuff there for mister Robino. For myself,

592
00:33:03,359 --> 00:33:05,279
I mean, we did the five dollar promo, right, That's

593
00:33:05,279 --> 00:33:08,319
what I have. So what rob said about the where

594
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:13,599
was it by September? Get the rest of August free? Yeah,

595
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:18,400
that will include what college college football, NFL, and I

596
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,039
did win in both of those sports last season. I

597
00:33:21,079 --> 00:33:23,720
am gonna have. I already know what my my top

598
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,839
player is going to be in college football. I just

599
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:31,200
haven't haven't put it out yet because I was just

600
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,680
working on doing a good enough right up. But I

601
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,640
know what my player is going to be for college football.

602
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,079
I will have it out shortly. NFL, like I said,

603
00:33:38,079 --> 00:33:40,880
we had a profitable year and I'm gonna be getting

604
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,640
involved in week one as well, So it could be

605
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,880
a dual to take advantage of WNBA going right now.

606
00:33:45,079 --> 00:33:47,319
I put some tennis. I had a winner on Paulini

607
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,640
uh in the semi finals. I didn't play the finals.

608
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,920
So if you're looking for some tennis some WNBA to

609
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,759
add to what you have going in September, that looks

610
00:33:55,799 --> 00:33:58,319
like a good deal right there. My best bet for

611
00:33:58,359 --> 00:34:02,759
the show, I'm gonna just I'm gonna keep it simple,

612
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,920
keep it simple for me, and my thought process is

613
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:12,960
I'm not a believer in Washington as Washington as a

614
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,800
favorite by multiple possessions. I just one don't think they're

615
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:22,280
that good. They've already outperformed twice in a row, winning

616
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,440
back to back as underdogs. I think they come back

617
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,159
down a little bit to earth here, and so if

618
00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:32,760
Connecticut plays zone that enough will disrub Washington from what

619
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,639
I've seen with them, especially without Steph Dolson there, Like

620
00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:38,920
when the two bigs are together, it's not gonna be spacing,

621
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,559
you know, Shakira and Kiki is not gonna be enough

622
00:34:41,559 --> 00:34:44,719
space if Connecticut runs on. So if they have a brain,

623
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,880
if they're trying to win this game, I think that

624
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,159
they can. They can at least keep it competitive. I'll

625
00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:52,039
go with best never I can get. Right now, it's

626
00:34:52,119 --> 00:34:54,840
minus one fifteen, but it is six and a half

627
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,760
for Connecticut. That will be my best bet for the show.

628
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:02,800
And you know, before we get out of here, let

629
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:07,199
me ask you did you notice anything different today? Anything

630
00:35:07,199 --> 00:35:09,119
different today on the show, And I'll ask the chat

631
00:35:09,159 --> 00:35:11,119
too if you notice anything different. I want to know,

632
00:35:11,639 --> 00:35:13,639
did you notice anything different today?

633
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 2: I noticed how relaxed you are in that chair.

634
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: It is pretty comfortable.

635
00:35:21,559 --> 00:35:27,159
Speaker 2: Definitely different scenery, so you're not home real quick. Let

636
00:35:27,159 --> 00:35:29,239
me just ask the chat when the Lamar fans are

637
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,920
going to start chiming into your ski, because you're due

638
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,840
for a Lamar Jackson battle coming up pretty soon within

639
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,199
the next two or three weeks.

640
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,119
Speaker 1: I'm ready for him too, you know, I think of

641
00:35:38,159 --> 00:35:40,440
that one. Is it a gift or me? And however,

642
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,320
recall it's the guy with one guy with the sword

643
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,239
and it's the whole army coming at him. I'm ready

644
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:52,840
for y'all. But yeah, I am on the road, and man,

645
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,840
you know, I'm just thinking about this now. I might

646
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:57,119
not be able to do a show the rest of

647
00:35:57,119 --> 00:36:02,760
the week. You know, got you know, a couple of

648
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,599
funerals stuff to go through that nature, got some other

649
00:36:05,599 --> 00:36:10,679
family stuff I gotta do, so, uh, this might be

650
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:17,000
my last show for the week, so I guess, uh,

651
00:36:17,039 --> 00:36:23,000
we'll get back with you guys next week. Vino the

652
00:36:23,199 --> 00:36:30,400
chat room here, here it go. You get them, Jeff, glad.

653
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,119
Speaker 2: We could open up that can of worms early.

654
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: Yes, it's always great to talk and break these games

655
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,119
down with you. Veno appreciate you taking the time to

656
00:36:39,199 --> 00:36:42,519
do so. Everybody in the chat, we appreciate you as well.

657
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,320
Great people, great cappers, and just help make the show

658
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:46,599
what it is. So always want to let you know

659
00:36:46,639 --> 00:36:56,280
you appreciate it. Yout YouTube, Shorts, Twitch, x kick, Spotify, Apple,

660
00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:01,719
We appreciate everybody out there watching. And I'll say something

661
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,239
different today. Yes I'm on the road, and two I

662
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,599
didn't have my medicine today, so I just want to

663
00:37:06,639 --> 00:37:10,280
see if it was noticeable. But we'll be back again

664
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:14,400
next week to break down all these games and we'll

665
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,079
be able to talk somewhat some college football next week too.

666
00:37:17,199 --> 00:37:19,719
Rob ain't a little bit. So yeah, it's some good

667
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,480
stuff coming up. Best of luck everybody on all your

668
00:37:22,519 --> 00:37:24,679
action and we will catch you guys later