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Speaker 1: Well, I just asn't l right here. What's going on? Everybody?

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Welcome into another episode of Prophet Picks. If you are new,

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we always start the show by being transparent, and yesterday

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we didn't have a show. We didn't have any games.

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I'll just say the day before I did have a

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lout of action, but my five percent play made it

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a winning day. So I always loved that five percent

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was on the Dream and I'm really proud of that

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that that playing right up that I had in that game.

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So I'll pat myself on the back for a one time.

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You know, it's good to be back with you. How

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you doing here today?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? That Dream Game it worked out, didn't it, Ski?

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I had a little piece of that myself. With the

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Dream Team total over seventy nine and a half just

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seemed like it was too low. Got to eighty five.

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I know you had a number the other day of

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how many times on the road they've gotten to eighty

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five or better? They did it again? Solid win there

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last night. No WNBA, but I was involved in I

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believe it not the CFL, the Canadian Football League, which

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also handicapping. How about this way to win?

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Speaker 1: Ski?

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Speaker 2: I win because a guy returns a missed field goal

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yards for.

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Speaker 1: The plus four right plus four.

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Speaker 2: And there it goes win the game. When the team

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total win the full game, win everything. So I'm yeah,

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So we recommended the team total. It worked out for

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out of us, so we had to want to know

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look forward to today.

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Speaker 1: Was that game already over the full game total before

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that player or no it wasn't. Yeah, that was that.

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I mean that changed a lot of tickets right there,

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and a lot of tickets.

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Speaker 2: Dog winner over winner.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm happy in one of your favorite I

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know one in one of my other good friends. He

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was so happy. He was texting be. I was like,

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why is he so excited? But then I saw the

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play and I was like, Okay, I get it.

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Speaker 2: Now looked like we were dead in the water.

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Speaker 1: That's good stuff there. Shout out to everybody in the

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chat Mark b Man, Titan, CT Kylie Patrick, everybody ready

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to make some money. So we got a big slate

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five games. Let's get right to it like we do.

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We'll go in rotation order. That means six five, six,

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twenty six opened up minus two and a half for

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the Sparks. We've seen a big move already five and

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a half. Now at most shops total open one seventy

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eight and a half and it's holding steady at about Actually, no,

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I see, we'll call it one seventy eight. It's between

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you know, we'll call one seventy eight the consensus. As

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far as who is available, nobody on the injury report

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for the Sparks for the Wings, though I do see

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page game time, looks like she's listed as probable. Asaiah James,

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same thing, and Enrique A. Gumbo Wale is out looking

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at this one here, both teams are well arrested. I mean,

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everybody had yesterday off. It's a chance for the Wings

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to get some double digit and season revenge. They did

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just win their last game versus Fever as an nd

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adult noa Rique, look what happens, ROVI know? Can they

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do it again here versus Sparks, who I know desperately

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he wins in this playoff race.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so for me obviously, And I know you've said

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the same thing generally where Sparks games are concerned, it's

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a one way ticket. At this point in time. We

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know who they are. They're the same team just about

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every game except for one slip up against Golden State

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where they only scored fifty nine. They're going to score

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and they're gonna give up plenty of points. Dallas for

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a long time last year and half of this year

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was the same thing. Defense still questionable, but the scoring

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has gone down. And I said the other day skin

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then I watched the coaches interview, it was they head

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coached a lot of players about forty five minutes worth.

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But what I thought I saw the other day winds

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up being true is that they're kind of in an

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experimentation role or mode at this point in time where

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the starting lineup every time I go through box scores

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seems to change one player or another. Could be due

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to injury, could be due to how he feels that day.

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The lineup should be set, but they're not really sure

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right now who their best starting five even is. So

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for Dallas at this time of year, I'm not going

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to say that they're tanking, because they're not. They're playing hard,

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but they are experimenting with minutes, rotations, et cetera, et cetera.

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Not really good when you're facing a team that absolutely

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knows their rotations, absolutely knows what they're out there to do.

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In Los Angeles and for Los Angeles tonight of victory here.

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If in fact the Storm were to lose to Atlanta,

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LA would move right into that eight spot and the playoffs.

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We've talked an awful lot about jockeying four seeds in

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the playoffs. Every day seems to bring games that where

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playoff implications are involved. This would be one of them.

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Los Angeles a little bit of rest here. They're the

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better team, you know, they say the right things. Dallas

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listening to the coach, Yes, we played good defense against Indiana,

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they held the fever to eighty points, but he still

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wants to see forty minutes of consistent defense and I'm

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just not so sure that Dallas can play that type

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of defense. So I would lean Los Angeles. The line

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may have gotten away here at five and a half,

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I don't know that they're five and a half better

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than Dallas, to tell you the truth on the road

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at this point in time. Not that it can't be done,

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but I'm just not willing to lay it. And I

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wasn't willing to play LA team total over ninety one

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and a half, although I probably should be. It's not

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something I'm totally adverse to. I could still get there.

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Maybe that's the way I lean in the end is

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LA team total, but I could eat just as easily

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see myself playing Dallas team total over the way that

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the Sparks give up points. I did it the other

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night when I played the Liberty against the Sparks. Liberty

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team total over games going to be played at fast pace,

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There's there's options and there's ways to go. I just

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haven't found the one I like the best yet.

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Speaker 1: Well, I would ask you, as far as the team

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total is concerned for the Sparks, are they going to

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win the game, Because the only time they're staying under

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is if they if they lose. And I mean it's

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been ninety plus time and time again. These are two

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of the worst defenses post All Star. But I don't

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know something about this game. Like, here's how I feel

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about it the Sparks, Like, as much as I love

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the Sparks offense, you can't be laying with them because

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they can't play defense. That's just how I feel. That's

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my philosophy. If I can't trust you to get stops,

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why would I want you to win by multiple possessions?

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And the wings Like I think you have to pay

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that premium for the Sparks because a Rique's out and

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we joked a little bit before I started the show out.

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Dallas is just fine. They're just won without her in

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the last game. So it looks like Paige and as

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I are both gonna play at home. Maybe a little

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bit of confidence after that win, maybe they keep it

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competitive in this game. I'm leaning a little bit more

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towards Wings at the five and a half number. And

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if I think the Wings are in this game, I

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mean it's tough, you know, because you mentioned the Wings

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haven't been scoring like they have been. But I mean

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Sparks can give it up to anybody. Wings can give

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it up to anybody. It's very hard to look any

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other way than over in this game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the odds makers are kind of making you know,

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they make me sick. I can think about things twice.

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A ninety two to eighty seven finals score would be

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a really high scoring game, but you're getting there by

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the narrowest of margins, and ninety two to eighty seven

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very possible with these two teams. So, like I say,

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they're making me where Sparks totals used to be one

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sixty six about two weeks ago. Now we're looking at

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having to get to one eighty every time to get

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there with them, And there's just some nights like against

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Golden State where it didn't happen. Albeit Golden State in

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Dallas aren't in the same defensive category, they're not in

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the same style category, but you get my point. They're

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just making it a little bit more difficult for me

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to jump. As soon as I see the number.

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Speaker 1: One more thing, I'll mention and you can tell me

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if you agree. I mean, once Page and as I

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are both actually rode In upgraded from probable to end.

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The line is only going to go more towards the wings,

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right you agree this this line is going to be

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going down instead of up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, unquestionably if Pitt once Page is announced as in

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that's the recognizable name to us as Ayah James certainly

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is a big deal to the people who chase injuries.

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I'm not so sure, but yeah, Page, definitely it would

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move back down maybe the four, and Dallas does have

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a chance to win the game. I mean the Sparks,

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like you said, they'll give it up to anybody, and

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they can be outscored. They're just they have the motivation

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angle tonight's ski, which leads me to believe that they'll

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win the game.

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Speaker 1: Hmm, I'll just say, uh, I'll just leave it as

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a lean for right now. You know, I have I

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have my wallet open right now this show. I'm ready

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to fire on some stuff, but I wait, I'll wait

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on this one, all right. Valkyrie's and Chicago opened up

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minus four for Golden State, now up to as high

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as seven and a half, mostly sevens though on the road.

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Total open one point fifty one, and we've seen it

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continue to go down. I'm seeing even one forty seven

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and a half popping up at a shot injury report

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for Chicago. We know Inel Reese is out, Ariel Atkins

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and Hayley van Litt look like they're both probable. No

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money billings, no moriacy for Golden State. Man, you know,

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I got screwed, like I said at a winning day,

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that last day we were on, but I got screwed

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on that best bet. Atkins, Rebecca Allen, and Bria Hartley

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all got thrown out. And those are all the scores.

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So one thing I'll say is Atkins and Rebecca Allen

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should be fresh for this game and you know, ready

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to put up some shots. They do have to play

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at Golden State defense. And just like you mentioned, I

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mean getting towards the end of the season here, you

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got to pay that premium on the sparks total. Right now,

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Golden State totals are starting to get low. How low

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can you go? Type of deal. They're more than capable

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of playing defense. I'm curious which direction you're going in

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Speaker 2: You know, normally when we talk about games like this,

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you would say do you trust the favorite to win

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by seven and a half? And I would say, do

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you trust the underdog to lose by eight? And maybe

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I trust the underdog to lose by eight more than

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I trust the favorite because Chicago, chic just doesn't come close,

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right They just don't come close. The other night, the

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ejections were there, like you say, a little bit of

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a scuffle in the second quarter took the scores out.

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They still lost by nine to Connecticut. It's just not

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good for Chicago right now. I don't think Angel Rees

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really wants to come back and play. You know, I

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saw a quote from her the other day, reporter asked her,

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because the coach keeps hinting that maybe she's on the

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verge of coming back. And Angel Reeves's quote was in

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due time. So in due time could be you know,

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that could be twenty twenty six for all I know.

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So we know they don't score without or we know

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they can't defend anybody, so they are potentially in that

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category of you know more. It's probably more favorable to

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ask yourself the question, can Chicago lose by eight, lost

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by nine, lost by twenty two, lost by twenty one,

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lost by sixteen? Last time they lost by less than

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this was seventy three sixty six against Golden State. As

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a matter of fact, as I look right now, they

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were at home, just as they are here. I don't

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think the ramifications were as big for Golden State sixty

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seven games ago as they are now. They've gotten themselves

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into that seven spot, and I tell you, if they

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keep picking up these wins, they're going to firmly plant

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themselves in the playoff picture. They shot the ball really

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well in the first quarter the other night, and we

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talked often about they love to shoot threes. When they

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make a decent percentage. They're very hard to beat and

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this Chicago offense against a really good defense. I don't know,

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should have got to the window real early because this

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game was as low as four when it opened, and

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I should have known Angel Rees wasn't gonna play. I mean,

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I don't know why I hesitated to jump at four,

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but now you're staring at seven and a half. Could

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still be done, but you're getting the bad end of

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the number here in this case. But Golden State has

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been on a real string of good basketball lately, other

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than the one game where Las Vegas lit them up

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right in the revenge mode.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is probably the toughest game of the day.

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I think, I just I think I have to pass

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this one. I'm trying to g give you guys something here,

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but I know Valkyrie's first half has been good, but

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I just I don't feel great about anything here. So

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we'll move it along, Rob, you know, we'll go to

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let's see, we'll move it to Mystics and Fever. That

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is six twenty nine, six point thirty opened up minus

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eight and a half for Indiana hasn't removed total open

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note one sixty one and a half. And I see it.

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We'll call it one sixty two and a half as

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a consensus. Number one Shop is holding the one sixty three,

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though injury report for Washington there will be no Shakira Austin,

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there will be no J. C. Sheldon. For Indiana, they

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continue to play without Caitlyn Clark and just off the

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back there for this one, Ravin, Shakira and J. C. Sheldon.

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I mean that sounds like a whole lot less defense

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to me, So it makes sense to me that the

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total is moving up in this one. The problem for me,

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Robo is the fever in this point guard situation. I

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didn't like anything I saw about their you know, offense

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against Dallas last game. Obviously, Sims in her first game

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was just looking like she was trying to fill out

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how things are going, or you know, trying to trying

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to fit in and trying to, you know, figure it out.

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In the second game, maybe she'll play better. But man,

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I really want to bet this Mystics. I want to

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bet Mystics over without those two defenders. It's just can

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we trust Indiana offense? How do you feel about it?

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Speaker 2: I trusted at Ski. It was the first bet I

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made their team total in this game. When I bet

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it let me just go back. I think it was

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eighty two and a half. I think they needed to

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get to eighty three to cover This game might have

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been eighty three and a half, but regardless, I think

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they'll find their way to eighty four. You asked the

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question the other day. Are the Mystics tanking and they

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keep holding Boston out? Dacy showed and they trade for

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they don't player. They get whacked in their last game,

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although let's to be fair to Washington, it's been two

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really good second half comebacks the last two games. Dallas

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had them by eleven at the half and Washington won

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that game going away, and then Washington played a bad

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first half their last game. I think it was against

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Golden State. But to your point about minus the two defenders,

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they give a baty eight to Golden State, and Golden

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State shot threes like nobody was guarding them. So the

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Britney Sykes trade leaves them void of offensive options, although

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still they've scored points the last two games without her,

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without Shakira, without J. C. Sheldon. I just think Indiana

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at home, and I'll say one thing, the one thing

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that put me over the top here was it doesn't

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always happen, but I feel like we're going to see

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a little bit here. Stephanie White, the head coach for Indiana,

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went absolutely nuts after the last game, and she kind

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of contradicted herself a little bit, but she's all over

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the referees for the way they officiate Indiana, and one

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part of her statement was, I think Aliah Boston is

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the worst officiated player in the game. And then fifteen

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seconds later, I think Kelsey Missile is the worst officiated

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player in the game. So they're both, in her mind,

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the worst officiated players in the game. A lot of

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time times when you do that, you get some calls.

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The next time around, they probably get a couple of

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calls here at Boston. I'd say that Indiana frontline should

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have their way against Washington without Shakira. I know that

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the rookie forwards are good, but they're just not Let's

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just say that Shakira Austin does a lot of the

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bulk work in there, and I think Indiana's just too big,

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too much size. I think they lead the league in

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second chance points. I could see a lot of rebound

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scores there. So I trusted one thing in this game.

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It was the Indiana offense. That kind of answers the

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question that you asked me to begin with. I think

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they get over their team total and from there you

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just have to decide what you think Washington's gonna do

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against a you know, not so great Indiana defense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And another thing, Indiana they've been playing some zone

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or they've been playing a lot of zone lately. They'll

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probably do it again. But Washington, we'll have some shooters

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out there especially. I mean, no Shakira Austin. Now you're

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going to start a DULC and she's willing to pop

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the three. You know, Sonya and Citron can shoot. Shug

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Is out there, she can. I mean, it's shooters out there.

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So I do think the total is moving in the

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right direction for this game. As far as the side

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is concerned, I don't feel that strong. Yeah, I think

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the total just rock with a total for this one.

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Anything on the side or ready to move along.

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Speaker 2: We just know that Indiana needs help. Right They're eighteen fifteen.

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They're in that log jam for one of the final

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playoff spots, so at home off the loss, you would

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think they'd be motivated. Winning by eight and a half's

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another story. But we'll see. I didn't bet it. I'm

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just I'm in on their team total over all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Rob going with the team total for the fever.

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Let's keep it going here. We have two more games

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left to talk about. Next up is six thirty one,

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six thirty two Las Vegas Aces heading into Phoenix to

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take on the Mercury. Opened up minus three and a half,

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and it looks like four and a half is the

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current number for the Mercury. Total open one sixty six

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and a half, and I see it as high as

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one sixty nine. Let's take a glance at the injury report.

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I don't think there's too much going on here. Nobody

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on the injury report for Phoenix and pretty much nobody

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on the injury report for Aces. Shyanne Parker Tys hasn't

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hasn't played yet, you know. So this is a chance

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for the Mercury to bounce back after that. I feel

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like that was a terrible, terrible loss to the Dream.

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It's been a little bit since they played. I think

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they've had four four days off, maybe five days off,

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something like that, but it was bad. They didn't even

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reach seventy points. And I just remember, like I don't know,

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when I was looking at them play, I just felt

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disgusted with what Phoenix was putting on the court. I

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get it the dream of been playing good, but it's

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a chance for them to bounce back from that. We

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know they're still up there in the standings. They need

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some wins just like everybody else. But they're facing the

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Aces team who has won five in a row. Here, Rob,

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you know, they're finally putting things together and stringing together

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some wins. So you know, the first thing I'm gonna

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ask is this is playing so good they won five

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in a row, but they're here and they're the underdog.

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Do you think the Mercury are favorites for a reason

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in this one? Or are you more looking at the total,

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you know, and agreeing with it moving up? I know

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you're not betting this game under.

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Speaker 2: You don't bet this one under, although I think the

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first two that they played against one another state under

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this number. The first one Asia Wilson did not play

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was a seventy six to seventy game. It was Kalia

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Copper's first game back from injury. That was back early

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in the season. And then they played again and they

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got to one sixty five eighty four eighty one, Las

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Vegas win. Everybody healthy. I gotta tell you, I bet

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this one. I bet it quickly, but I bet it

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a lot on intuition, just a feel that I had

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that Phoenix is going to come to play here. I

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bet the Phoenix side. I go back, and I could

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be absolutely wrong, and I may be nitpicking the Las

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Vegas wind streak, but again you got the liberty on

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back to backs. And one more time, Natasha Cloud who

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wants to moan about having to play back to back,

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I remember when she thought it was too quick to

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come back from the All Star Game, and then it was, oh,

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here we go, we have to play two within twenty

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four hours. And she goes out and gets like six points.

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But they had to play. They got to play New

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York on back to backs. Okay, scheduling advantage Las Vegas.

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They played Connecticut. Okay, Connecticut stinks game was at home,

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only win by eight points. They'll give up eighty six.

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Played Seattle one by four, but Seattle has also lost

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six in a row, played in their worst basketball of

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the season. Beat Golden State and then excuse me, yeah,

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beat beat Golden State couple times in a row. The

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first one was off of the massive fifty three point

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lost to Minnesota, so they has some revenge. So for

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those five games. I don't know, it could be just me,

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but I kind of justify as well. You know, Las

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Vegas had a built in advantage. I don't know that

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they have a built in advantage here. Phoenix is still

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in this playoff hunt and trying to hang on to

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one of the top four seeds. And Phoenix has had,

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as you mentioned, four or five days off, and I

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just think that that does wonders for them. I think

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that their frontline can hold up against Asia Wilson and

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Las Vegas and probably be better. And you know, off

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of Laska. Again, We've said it a few times now,

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but this Jewel Lloyd coming off the bench deal has

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provided benefits for Las Vegas. Is she going to continue

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to shoot the way she shot the other night? I'm

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not sure. We did see Becky Hammond make a change

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in the starting lineup. I talked about why is Kirsten

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Bell even in the starting lineup? She wasn't last game

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they switched over to Dana Evans. I think Phoenix is

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the better team still, Ski. I think Las Vegas is

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way too dependent upon three players, and I think Phoenix

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has a lot of rest and motivation here. So again,

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there was a lot of intuition built up into this,

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not a lot of statistical technical that type of stuff

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in this analysis. But I do think Phoenix is the

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right side here.

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Speaker 1: It's tough to go against that. It's tough to go

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against that. I just man Phoenix. Every time I met them,

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they let me down.

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Speaker 2: How about the Aces.

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Speaker 1: It's the same thing, same thing, both of these teams.

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So maybe this is when I need to sit on

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the sideline, or maybe just look at the total. I mean,

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this game is important for both teams. I'm trying to

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look really quick. Most All Star we have ACE is

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our tenth defensive rated team. Just like I thought I

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was gonna say, can I trust the ACE of defense? No,

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the answers always know. Mercury though number three defensive raated team.

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It's been the offense that's been slacking for them. If

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I'm liking the Mercury, I mean, I do trust it's

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then't play. Defense has been the most consistent thing there.

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Pace Wise, Mercury's been more up tempo. Their fourth aces

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are ninth. It's a little bit it's a little bit tough.

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I think this is when I just I don't see

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any mediate advantage. Like a lot of times I look

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at the board, especially with five games, and see things

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jumping off the board to me, But today I don't know.

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I'm trying to dodge those bombs together. It's just as important,

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just as important. Yeah, all right, we have one more game,

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one more game here, if you know, that's gonna be

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six thirty three, six thirty four. Seattle and Atlanta opened

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up minus one and a half for the Dream one

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and a half or two depending where. Actually I see

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some two and a half's out there, so it's all

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over the place. We'll call to the consensus total open

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one sixty one and a half, you know, seeing it

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as low as one fifty nine and a half. As

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far as injuries are concerned, nobody on their report for

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Seattle Jordan, Canada. I believe they said she's going to

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be out for like two weeks, so the Dream will

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be without her once again. These teams did just play

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on Wednesday, and like I said earlier, I was really

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really I mean, we had a good cap together too

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on the Dream Team total over, but I was really

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proud of my cap on the Dream in general, and

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it kind of helped with the team total because the

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full game did not go over right. The full game,

475
00:25:48,599 --> 00:25:50,240
I think got hooked or you lost by a point

476
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:54,839
and a half. But I'll just I'll read some of

477
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:59,240
these things again the Dream and this game is being played.

478
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,799
Actually I said it, it's in Atlanta, but I think

479
00:26:01,839 --> 00:26:04,680
this is an overseas game. I'm not mistaken.

480
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 2: It's in Vancouver, in Camp.

481
00:26:08,279 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 1: Vancouver, so not a true home game for ourther team.

482
00:26:13,559 --> 00:26:15,519
My first inclination when I hear stuff like that is

483
00:26:15,559 --> 00:26:18,119
they would like to have, you know, everybody see points

484
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,160
be scored. But that's just how I think. What I'm

485
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,440
gonna say here is the Dream are now seven and

486
00:26:24,519 --> 00:26:28,400
two this season without Jordan Canada. They've beaten this Storm

487
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:34,519
team twice without her this season, and post All Star,

488
00:26:34,759 --> 00:26:37,880
I'm pretty sure this hasn't changed. Shadow is number one

489
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,759
in paint attempts and Atlanta is number one in paint

490
00:26:41,759 --> 00:26:44,920
field goal percentage allowed, So they're good at defending the paint.

491
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,400
And that's all Seattle wants to do is go try

492
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,599
to you know, get inside and shoot libs. And this

493
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,079
is this is why I was part of my cap

494
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,200
because I literally wrote this in my in my in

495
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:57,960
my play, it says, why the Storm force too? Is

496
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,079
the Dream gonna be letting it fly from deep? And

497
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,359
that's all we saw. I mean, especially the corner three.

498
00:27:03,519 --> 00:27:05,839
They allow the highest corner three percentage post all start

499
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,440
and the Dream, especially the end that third quarter, Uh,

500
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:14,480
just lighting it up. Ryan Howard, Ryan, Reggie Miller Howard.

501
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 2: She scored nine points in like ten twenty seconds or something.

502
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,519
Speaker 1: I was loving it. I was, I was going crazy.

503
00:27:22,839 --> 00:27:24,960
And Seattle they haven't been very good getting to the

504
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,519
free throw line. I think they're the second worst and

505
00:27:26,559 --> 00:27:31,319
free throw attempts. That should improve with Britney Sykes, but uh,

506
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,839
you know it hasn't improved enough lately. In Atlanta they're

507
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,279
number one. I get into the line, so I see.

508
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,759
I mean, it was a lot of vantages for Atlanta.

509
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,279
What's gonna change here? Rovino in his second game within

510
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:49,680
one day. It's hard the Storm. They got two bigs

511
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,759
over there for the Dream. You can't just go in

512
00:27:51,799 --> 00:27:53,559
there and pound in the paint or try to force

513
00:27:53,599 --> 00:27:55,559
everything in the paint. And we know the Dream are

514
00:27:55,599 --> 00:27:58,160
gonna splash from three unless they just have a terrible

515
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:02,519
shooting night. So to me sounds like over again or

516
00:28:03,279 --> 00:28:03,960
dream again.

517
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 2: Well, let's say this about the total and the reason

518
00:28:09,039 --> 00:28:12,279
why I'm not on this game total wise, and if

519
00:28:12,319 --> 00:28:14,799
I had to, maybe I would be on under is

520
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,799
the venue is just not common, very unfamiliar venue for

521
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,799
these teams. Nobody has shot at these rims. Who knows.

522
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,599
It is an arena where the background shouldn't be that

523
00:28:25,759 --> 00:28:28,279
much of an effect. But still it's a new gym

524
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,079
or a new floor, new rims, new everything, So that

525
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,599
kind of scares me off of full game total. But

526
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,680
still you could go out there and score one hundred

527
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:46,680
and eighty. The second thing is Vancouver really does support

528
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,559
Seattle teams. But when I asked the question, I was

529
00:28:49,599 --> 00:28:51,559
on a show previous to coming out with You today,

530
00:28:51,599 --> 00:28:54,680
Ski where the host is from Vancouver, and I said,

531
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,279
you guys are probably gonna have a full arena tonight, right,

532
00:28:57,319 --> 00:28:59,640
He said, no, it won't be a full arena Vancouver

533
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:08,160
doesn't They They follow the Seahawks rapidly, They follow the Mariners.

534
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:13,319
They follow the hockey team. I'll throw the I'll throw

535
00:29:13,359 --> 00:29:17,359
the chat boom. They follow the cracking the hockey team

536
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,319
religiously but they don't necessarily get behind the storm. So

537
00:29:22,759 --> 00:29:26,960
if you're in a an arena where it's maybe half packed,

538
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,200
maybe the walk up crowd will be decent. I'm not sure.

539
00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:33,680
And we're just gonna match up personnel on both sides.

540
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,119
Why would you not play Atlanta? It's just no reason

541
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,279
not to play Atlanta. The only thing you could really

542
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,000
have for a reason, and it's half of a reason,

543
00:29:44,039 --> 00:29:46,359
it's not really even a reason. Well, Seattle's lost six

544
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,160
in a row. They need it, well, they didn't. They

545
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,759
needed the other six too, and they couldn't get there.

546
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:55,720
And I saw on Twitter, and we'll mention our friend

547
00:29:55,759 --> 00:29:59,839
and colleague U Kapper right in the Seattle area who said,

548
00:29:59,839 --> 00:30:02,079
if they don't win this game tonight, This was at halftime.

549
00:30:02,079 --> 00:30:05,799
I saw as his little comment on X which said,

550
00:30:05,799 --> 00:30:08,240
if if Seattle doesn't win this game, coach Noel has

551
00:30:08,279 --> 00:30:11,240
their coach Quinn has to go. And you know, when

552
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,240
you're in that, in that kind of stage, in that funk,

553
00:30:16,559 --> 00:30:18,279
it's not easy to climb out of it, and it's

554
00:30:18,279 --> 00:30:19,880
not easy to climb out of it against a good

555
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:24,319
team like this. Atlanta has faced adversity after adversity after

556
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,880
adversity and they've come through to the point where they're

557
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,359
the number two seed in the league right now, and

558
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,640
they know New York goes to Minnesota tomorrow. They win here,

559
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,759
they'll still be in the two spot even if New

560
00:30:36,839 --> 00:30:39,720
York wins tomorrow. So I just I would look at

561
00:30:39,759 --> 00:30:42,400
Atlanta in this game, Ski, I don't think that the

562
00:30:42,519 --> 00:30:44,599
venue helps Seattle at all. I thought it might, but

563
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,839
when I asked the question, I found out it probably

564
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:52,119
doesn't bring a you know, vocal crowd to Seattle's defense

565
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,279
here to help out it all. Like you said before,

566
00:30:55,440 --> 00:31:00,319
unless Atlanta has a miserable shooting night from distance, they

567
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,920
probably went. And we need to know. They brought Gritney

568
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,319
Grinder off the bench the other night. Brianna Jones has

569
00:31:05,319 --> 00:31:07,400
been playing so well. She was the starting center the

570
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,960
other night. So when you have Grinder coming off the bench.

571
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,400
To your point about Biggs, Atlanta's got a lot of

572
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,599
size at the rims. So I would look that way

573
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:18,160
if I had to.

574
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: All Right, we agree on this one. I think the

575
00:31:24,039 --> 00:31:27,759
chat the chat just wants to bet for Quinn to

576
00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:35,160
be fired tonight.

577
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,119
Speaker 2: Oh real quick, Ski. It forced me that win the

578
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,599
other day, just to add to it, made me go

579
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,960
and look at the dreams odds to win the title.

580
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,200
That found twelve to one with the dream And so

581
00:31:47,279 --> 00:31:49,200
I had to take a little bit of that because

582
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,079
if any know, Minnesota and New York went healthy are

583
00:31:53,079 --> 00:31:56,799
probably the two best teams on paper. But Atlanta doesn't

584
00:31:56,799 --> 00:31:59,279
seem to back down from anything. And if there's one

585
00:31:59,319 --> 00:32:02,119
of these teams, I know you got a little bit

586
00:32:02,119 --> 00:32:05,200
of Phoenix earlier. They're kind of the same thing. I

587
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,319
wouldn't be surprised if Atlantham found their way into a

588
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,440
title match up here. The way they're playing right now,

589
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:12,759
they've got players.

590
00:32:14,359 --> 00:32:16,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like to learning a lot like the way

591
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:21,759
they play, so I'm not mad at that at all.

592
00:32:23,359 --> 00:32:25,400
All Right, we know we made it to the end

593
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,039
of the show. That means it is best bed time.

594
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Before we get to that, I'll just ask you if

595
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596
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do have a best bet for the show, feel free

597
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to share. If you do not, it's all good.

598
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Speaker 2: Quick promotion. I will say that, you know, we do

599
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a basketball show here, so I should obviously talk about basketball.

600
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But football season does begin in earnest next week next Thursday,

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615
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:33,880
I'm going to go back to the middle game we

616
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,799
talked about. I just think Indiana is going to push

617
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,119
ninety points tonight. I think the total was. In fact,

618
00:33:38,119 --> 00:33:39,720
it was eighty two and a half when I bet it.

619
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,920
Let me give an official number right now as we

620
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:47,559
talk Indiana's team total. Well, I seem to have a

621
00:33:47,599 --> 00:33:51,119
delay here for whatever reason, but I do believe it

622
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,799
was eighty. Oh here we go. No, I was wrong

623
00:33:55,079 --> 00:33:57,119
when I was talking about this. That number right now

624
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,200
is eighty five and a half, so you need to

625
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,839
get to eighty six. I bet it at eighty four

626
00:34:01,839 --> 00:34:03,200
and a half. So that was my mistake when I

627
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,480
was quote in eighty two and a half earlier. I

628
00:34:05,519 --> 00:34:08,000
feel like they pushed ninety here. So Indiana team total

629
00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:09,599
up and over eighty five and a half for the

630
00:34:09,599 --> 00:34:10,039
best bet.

631
00:34:11,599 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff from Vino there. I'll just a

632
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,039
quick reminder that they do. We do have seven day

633
00:34:19,079 --> 00:34:21,880
all access for sixty nine dollars, so less than what

634
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,440
ten dollars per day you can get seven days all access.

635
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,440
And to what Robno said, I had a good college

636
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:34,159
football and NFL last year. I think twenty something units

637
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:38,800
for the season combined for both. So I am going

638
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,039
to have a play in that Week one. I'm guaranteed

639
00:34:41,039 --> 00:34:42,440
going to have a play. I already know what it is.

640
00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:45,880
I'm just waiting to put it up. But and that's

641
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,119
college football. I'm talking about best bet for the show.

642
00:34:49,599 --> 00:34:51,320
I'm gonna stick to the same kind of thing we've

643
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,519
been doing here. You know, it's been working. So if

644
00:34:54,519 --> 00:34:57,239
it ain't broke, don't fix it. If you're telling me

645
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,480
Indiana is going to score, I think Washington's going to two.

646
00:35:02,119 --> 00:35:03,960
It is less defense on the court for them, but

647
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,119
you also had a little bit more shooting in spacing

648
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,519
and that's gonna help. Especially if the Fever think they're

649
00:35:08,519 --> 00:35:11,119
gonna play zone in this game, they'll shoot them right

650
00:35:11,119 --> 00:35:13,760
out of it. So one sixty two and a half

651
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,159
looks like the total for this one. That's what I

652
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:21,199
use as my best bet for the show. Veno Man,

653
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:26,440
this is killing me, Mark Man, I like, I like

654
00:35:26,599 --> 00:35:31,079
rebiking today, but if I don't say it right, it's

655
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,320
Rebiken and Ribeckina one of the two. I think it's

656
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:37,280
rebiking that though. But she was serving so good yet

657
00:35:37,519 --> 00:35:39,800
the last time I saw her, and I just thought

658
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,400
she was in a good rhythm. But I very rarely

659
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:47,159
will bet against Sabolenka, but I thought about it today.

660
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:52,039
I'll say that I just I don't go against Sabolenka. Ravino.

661
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 2: Well, I'm so happy to see that because I'm not

662
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,320
an avid tennischoler, but my favorite women's tennis players simply

663
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,719
because of her meet around court is Elene in Rabakna,

664
00:36:02,199 --> 00:36:05,320
and to see her winning today against you know, the

665
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,800
world's number one is good for me to see. I

666
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,280
just add you know she's had some difficulties. She's been

667
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,519
through like three coaches in the last couple of years,

668
00:36:12,559 --> 00:36:15,199
I know, and some of her play has been unsteady.

669
00:36:15,679 --> 00:36:18,320
But to see her back and performing like that against

670
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:19,760
world number one is pretty nice.

671
00:36:20,559 --> 00:36:23,760
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Oh man, let me get back over there and

672
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,280
watch some of these tennis matches. All right, you know

673
00:36:27,519 --> 00:36:30,719
it's been great break down these games with you this week.

674
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,480
We'll be back on Monday. I believe if they're no

675
00:36:35,639 --> 00:36:42,480
there's no game on Monday. I don't think there's a game. Ah,

676
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,840
I'm not sure if there's a If there's a game

677
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,519
on Monday, we'll be here. Yeah.

678
00:36:48,559 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 2: I think it's the even number days they're they're kind

679
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,199
of like taking off here and the odd number of

680
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,199
days are having a lot of games. So I did

681
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,119
look ahead in the schedule. We might not have a

682
00:36:58,159 --> 00:36:58,960
game on Monday.

683
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think we do. So then I'll be Tuesday.

684
00:37:02,599 --> 00:37:06,079
We'll be back here breaking these games down. We appreciate

685
00:37:06,079 --> 00:37:09,239
everybody in the chat, everybody just trying to help each

686
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,840
other win. And yeah, I agree with this too, let's

687
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,559
get it. I think Coco will win. But it's a

688
00:37:14,599 --> 00:37:17,119
healthy price you gotta pay. Shout out to everybody out

689
00:37:17,119 --> 00:37:22,840
there on twitch, x, YouTube, shorts, kick, Apple, Spotify. We

690
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,639
appreciate you all. We'll talk to you guys next week.

691
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,599
Best of look on all your bets until then,