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Speaker 1: What's up everybody? Welcome back to 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. We didn't have any show yesterday, didn't have

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any show over the weekend. There wasn't even any WNBA

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on the slate for yesterday. That's why we did not

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have a show. But so I guess there's not really

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anything to talk about. It is good to be back

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here today. We have a nice five game slate to

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look at, and good to have you back. You know

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how you doing today?

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Speaker 2: We're good today, Ski, like you said yesday, a little

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day off from the WNBA. Last time I played with

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Sunday had a two and two Sunday no thanks to Phoenix.

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It was good without Phoenix. That was a bad play

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on Sunday. But yeah, ready to get back to it today.

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Five games slate and we got a full week games

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ahead of us, so it should be good to go now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this comment or not,

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Jeffrey B says, got one hundred dollars on a show

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starting layer than one thirty pm. That's minus fifteen hundred, buddy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's hasn't been around long enough.

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Speaker 1: I guess yeah, all right, let's get to it. Five games.

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Won't wasting any more time going rotation order like we

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always do. I mean sixh one, six two is first up.

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Dallas and New York opened up minus seven and a

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half for New York up as high as eleven is

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what I'm looking at now. Total open one sixty nine

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and a half. I'm seeing it as high as one

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seventy seven. Big move on that total injury report. Masha

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Heines Allen still question to vote for tonight for the Liberty.

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They continue to be without Stewie Savely and Kennedy Burke.

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For the Liberty, they did get a win in that

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last one, but they haven't been playing the best basketball here.

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Roberto pust All Star Break. They did also lose to

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Dallas after the All Star Break ninety two to eighty two.

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So it's a chance for them to get it's a

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chance for them to get a little bit of revenge here.

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They are at a slight rest disadvantage. I'm curious if

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you think you know what we saw on that that

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second half of that Connecticut game wasn't enough to convince

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you that Liberty should be laying double digits now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard with them. Skip. We've been talking about

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the same injuries with this team for about a week now.

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No Breonna Stewart, I've said enough that I you know,

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for me, the most important thing about her is her

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defense and the fact that they had three frontline players

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all sidelined at the same time, which they still do

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Kennedy Burke along with Saboly. It's it's hard, but they did,

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you know, incorporate me some into the lineup. First game,

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I think she only took five shots. I'd have to

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look back. I think she was like one for five

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from the floor, but you would think that in the second,

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second game with one under her belt, now, maybe that

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would help them a little bit, gives them a little

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extra height, even though she can play from the perimeter

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as well. I just don't you know, it's hard to

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lay points with a team that's going this bad at

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this point in time. That was a huge revenge factor

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game on Sunday against Connecticut and they couldn't get the

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job done. They're a little bit overvalued in the market,

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so I think the way you have to look all

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the time is directly at these big dogs against New

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York At this point in time, it's hard to trust

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the Dallas defense. They've allowed eighty six plus in nine

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of their last eleven games. I looked at the New

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York team total. I think it's somewhere around ninety three

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and a half, which is it's a lot of points

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to score, not that Dallas can't give it up. So

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as I kept looking into this game, the odds maker

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just keeps taking things away from me. I don't even

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know ski how to zero win and maybe single out

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something in this game. First quarter, first half. I thought

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about first quarter with New York back home, but it's

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you know, it's the first home after some road games.

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I'm not so sure as to which way I'd like

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to play this one. I'll say this. Rique did not

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participate in practice on Sunday, and the total was already

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fairly high, and then when she was announced in it

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got even higher. Dallas game totals are getting to be

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extremely high at this point in time. I know they're

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both fast paced teams, and I know I'm a proponent

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of playing Dallas over, but at this price tag, I'm

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not so sure I can get there, so I let

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this one go. I don't know that there's a result here.

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Quite honestly, that would surprise me. So that's probably why

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to actually just double check this here,

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team Eagles, Wings and season equals twenty five and total

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higher or equal to one seventy five. If only had

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one game that's high it did stay under. It was

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versus the Fever on August first, just a few days ago,

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seventy eight to eighty six, So one sixty six was scored.

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So yeah, I mean, but go to what you're saying,

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we do think of Dallas as a team that's not

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the best defensively. You know, one seventy five you start

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to get up there one seventy six and a half.

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I can understand how you might think it's going too far.

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I did see was it Algina and the chat say

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Dallas team total over eighty one and a half. That

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liberty defense hasn't been great. I mean a lot of

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that losing streak was then just giving it up. I

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think they've given up just below ninety points per game

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the last five. But hearing them talk, you know it

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is going to be a focus moving forward. So it's

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one of the tougher games. One little tougher games for sure,

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but that's no way that I can lay the eleven

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with the Liberty whether they played. I agree with what

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you said. They're just overvalued in the market right now.

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Gundamaticus appreciate you. Reminding everybody to hit the light button.

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Definitely helps us out over here. All right, let's keep

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going down the list Mystics and Sky. And for this one,

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we had the Mystics open at minus five and a half.

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Now I'm seeing mostly seven and a halfs total open

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one fifty eight and a half. Not a whole lot

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of movement there. As far as an injury report, I

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don't see anybody on there for the Mystics. For the Sky,

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Angel Reese out once again. Looks like Aero Atkins is

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back only and where he is probable. Haley van Lett

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is truly questionable, so fairly healthy, but you are missing

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the big dog and Angel Reese definitely a difference maker

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for that team. A couple of things that pop out

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first to me in this game here. You know Number one,

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I don't I don't view the Mystics as a team

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like that. I don't want to be laying multiple possessions

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with I don't think the offense is good enough for that,

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and they've just been so inconsistent so far this season,

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like thirteen and fifteen team expected to win by you know,

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closer to double digits. I'm just not loving that. As

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far as Chicago, a couple of things are the main thing. Really.

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We see it across multiple different sports when teams fired

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a head coach, everybody steps up and plays hard and says, hey,

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it was his part. It wasn't us looking that bad.

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We can be better what we've showed out there. And

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that's how I would be looking in this game. So

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at the house as well, I would only look at

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the plus seven and a half here. How are you

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feeling about it?

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Speaker 2: I'd agree with every bit of that. Washington, I think

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we've talked about it before. Probably not the most trustworthy

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team when laying a huge amount of points, especially when

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they're on the road. You don't want to lay this

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type of number, and you don't want to lay that

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type of number in this situation, like you say, against

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a team that could be you know, first game under

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a new coach usually is a good way to bet.

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General rule of thumb any sport, first game new coach

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team puts their best foot forward. Of course, they won't

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have Angel Reese, which does hinder them obviously offensively. The

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last time these two played, which was pretty recent, was

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the last game Angel Rees played and it was very

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high scoring. I remember having the over in that game.

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quarters of my reasoning for playing any Chicago over as

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of late, has been their defense is just so bad

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that everybody scores on them. They've given up eighty three

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plus in their last seven games. However, and again I

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did this with the last week on one of the shows.

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And if I just do the mathematics of it all,

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Chicago without Angel Reese is about a you know, a

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sixty six, sixty eight point scoring team. Now granted, her

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absences correlate to Ariel Atkins being out as well. So

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now Ariel Atkins is back, So I have to ask myself,

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you know, with Atkins back in the lineup, can they

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jack that up from sixty eight to seventy five? If

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they get to seventy five, that means Washington has to

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get to eighty four in this game? Can they do

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it in order to send it over? Can they do that?

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so sure they're gonna get to eighty four. I don't

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know that they'll cover. So again, there's a ton of

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question marks. I can go back and forth with this one.

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I think in the end, Chicago's biggest problem of all

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ever since Courtney Vanderslot went down as ball handling just

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turned it over way too much. And maybe having Atkins

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back in the lineup helps the ball handling a little

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bit and they can stay close here, closer than the

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seven would indicate. So I would probably try sh I

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go plus seven if I was going to play, but again,

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did not play this one. Let it go. I would

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love to get to the over here ski. I just

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can't convince myself that they can get enough points in

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this game.

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I want to say that these

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teams did play last A lot more people besides Angel

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Reese were out. I think Atkins only where it was out,

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maybe even another player too. But the Mystics did win

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and cover at a seven and a half point favorite

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July twenty nine, So I just wanted to throw that

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out there. But like you kind of mentioned, I mean

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a lot of those games where they're struggling to score.

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ball handler and a playmaker and Atkins definitely helps out.

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Like that's the kind of things that they need for

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their offense. So I don't want to talk to you

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often been over. This is probably the toughest toughest game

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on the slate for me today.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, we wondered Sky real quick. Does she slot

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right back? And we talk about it all the time

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when it's starter comes back, she missed seven games? Does

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it disrupt things? Does it help things? We really don't know.

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we have the answer, but until the game is played,

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we really don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this one has a it's a little bit too

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many question marks in my mind. So we'll keep it

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going here and the next game up will be sun

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At the Mercury opened up minus fourteen and a half,

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it looks like fifteen now total open one sixty four

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and a half, and it looks like as high as

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one sixty nine. So this one continues to go up.

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As far as who's available, I don't see anybody on

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the injury report for either team, So that is something

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that's rare and professional basketball nowadays love to see that.

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Though first game off a long road trip for the Mercury,

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I believe a five game road trip for them came

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to an end, so like that. I kind of mentioned

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this earlier on or No no, no, maybe I was just

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thinking it. But the Mercury, Yeah I did, I mentioned

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in a Wedge talk today. But the Mercury, their schedule

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has just been it hasn't been good. It's been a

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really tough schedule for them as of late, I think,

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and now in the near future their schedule starts to

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get a lot easier. Now with that said, Connecticut, they

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have been playing really good. What I see here, they've

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been competitive one two, three, four, five, six. They've covered

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six of their last eight. Could extend beyond that, but

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that's what I'm looking at here in front of me.

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They have been playing good, and I mean they figured

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out how to play without Mabury. Now you get maybe

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back in the lineup. That's a lot of offense. She

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looks good like. It's hard to run to the window

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and lay I mean, you know, lay fifteen against them.

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As hard as they've been playing, as good as they've

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been playing, they went through that stretch. They looked absolutely

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pathetic earlier in the season, but they look like a

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clearly different team since you know, around All Star Break.

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the opposite like, they've looked terrible. They've been so inconsistent,

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they've been what do I have here? They won one, two,

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two of their last six seven, two of their last

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seven games, like, and they're laying fifteen. So you know,

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I'm gonna be real. That's what stands out to me

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in this game. For some reason, the market expects them

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to blow them out even though they haven't been playing

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the best, and you know, Connecticut has been playing better.

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I'm curious if you think that big number is warrant it.

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Speaker 2: I don't see how you could think it's warranted skin.

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I mean, you just in that analysis brought up about

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three or four reasons, whether you mentioned them as reasons

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or not to fade Phoenix, but they come across certainly

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as reasons to fade Phoenix, most notably first game back

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after a long road trip, double digit favorite of this price.

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I mean, Connecticut just covered two numbers against the Liberty.

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Granted the Liberty are injured, but still it's a better team,

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and it's a team that in the second game had revenge.

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Connecticut talked a little bit. This is why sometimes you

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can't take overall seasonal statistics at this point in time.

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You know we're deep into the season now. Overall statistics

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will show one thing. Your favorite last five games can

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show another. But Connecticut's talked a lot about being better defensively.

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Marina Maybry I think set it that before last game

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that their offense. She knows their offense isn't the best,

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but they know that if they play defense, they can

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create offense and stay in every end. They certainly did.

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I mean they held in New York to thirty three

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percent shooting from the field in that first matchup, and

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then the other day someday they held them to like

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twenty three or twenty four percent from three. And we

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know the Liberty are a good three point shooting team.

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Marina Maybury, by the way, and those two games from

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three point range only went three for seventeen and Connecticut

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was still competitive. So it just goes to show you

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that they're getting better and better things are coming together.

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The coach has mentioned it a couple of times now

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that they seem to be playing better, So plus fifteen

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would seem to me like that would be your initial

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look if you're playing side. For me, I looked at

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the Connecticut team total tell you the truth. Ski the

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beginning or earlier when we talked about Chicago, I mentioned,

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I'm not so sure Chicago can they get the seventy five.

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Connecticut's proven they can get upper seventies almost every night now,

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and Phoenix has not been the best defensive team as

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of late. Their defense has gone south. They'd rather outscore

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you than defend you. I don't know if that changes

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here just because they're home, but I know Connecticut is

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playing with a different desire right now, and if I'm

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going to get forty minutes out of them, and just

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to enhance that, if they can get the seventy eight

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in back to back games with Maybury going three for

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seventeen a little bit above twelve percent or thirteen percent

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three for seventeen from three point ranging those two games

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and still get the seventy eight, I'd expect her to

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have a better game than what those numbers indicate, a

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little bit of a bounce back game, and I'd expect

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Connecticut to get the seventy seven points and go over

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their team total.

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Speaker 1: Here this is, this is I have some thoughts, you know,

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to what you said, first of all, to what you

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said about you know what mayby mentioned The Sun are

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the number one defensive rated team last five games. I

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don't think we've been able to see that say that

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all season long. But they have been playing a little

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bit better defense. Now when I hear that, you know,

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and I'm talking about how much better the Sun have

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been playing lately, now, I'm just looking a little bit

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closer at who they've been playing. Struggling Liberty team, injured

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Liberty team twice. I mean, they did lose bout sixteen

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to Seattle. They played a Golden State team, who I believe.

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I mean, they might have been on the back to back,

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but they're on They've played on the road pretty much

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every game since All Star breaking. They were playing a

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lot of games in a short time frame. And they're

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injured too. So another banged up, injured, not playing well team.

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They lost by fifteen to the Sparks, I mean, Phoenix.

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I know they haven't been playing well, but I think

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I'm just gonna be honest. This line is kind of

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telling to me like, I want to find any and

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every reason I can to back Phoenix. I just haven't

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been able to figure out what the exact reasons are,

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you know, the latest fifteen. But this is screaming to me.

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You know, it looks so easy to go run and

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take the sun and they get blown out in this game. Like,

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that's that's how I feel about it. Take a look

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at the chat. Jose says team total over, so he's

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agreeing with you. I guess on that. Jeff says, Connecticut

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on the road just worries me. Offense much worse away

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from home in connect I feel like Phoenix is better

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at home too. They've been on that road trip, so

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they should play better in front of their crowd. Nate asking,

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how about the long travel from Connecticut to Phoenix? How

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that impact of science. Let's take a look at when

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they last played Connecticut. Yeah, they played Sunday in Connecticut. Yeah,

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and travel across country to Phoenix. I mean that is

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a good point. Phoenix did have to travel from Chicago

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back on the Phoenix as well, though, I mean, and

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we do talk about first game back home after long

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road trip is usually a flast spot for basketball in general. Right,

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This one is tough, but I don't want the sun

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here just because I feel like, you know what I

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always say, you know, when I feel like they're begging

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me to go and run and take this number, I

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don't want to be on that side. So I'm gonna

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hesitate for now. But like I said, throughout the day,

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we'll try to find any reason I can about the

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Mercury zb Man says Thomas, the sense assistant rebounds over

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go for you.

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Speaker 2: Know, I was gonna say, I think one thing we

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didn't talk about that maybe the biggest factor of Wolski

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is the status of Satu Sabili, right. It seems to

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be a little bit of a saga there. Does she

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come back with a vengeance after what went on over

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the weekend or does she pout a little bit? We're

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not sure And just real quick to show you the

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difference between teams, and you're absolutely right, Phoenix has had

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a tough go of its schedule wise. The schedule maker

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wasn't kind to them. I think five straight road games

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or whatever. But the schedule maker was equally, if not more,

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unkind to the Atlanta Dream and the Atlanta Dream without

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Ryan Howard played through that scheduling difficulty like crazy the

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last couple of weeks. So I don't want to say

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that Phoenix is descending at all as far as results go,

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but I would say that every team hits a lull

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in the season, and perhaps this is it. I just

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don't like when coaches when you hear more out of

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a coach than you have all year long, and I've

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read more out of Nat Tibbet's mouth in the last

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five days than I've heard or read all year long,

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And for some reason, it reminds me always of Michael

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Malone with Denver, and it's usually when the team is

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going south Connecticut to the point of what I like

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the best in this game over seventy six and a half,

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they've gone over that number seven straight games, and the

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point was made that their offense not as productive on

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the road as it is at home, and I would

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say that since they have and I think we could

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all say they've turned it up a notch or they're

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playing better, let's put it that way. Since they've been

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playing better, they haven't been on the road. So it's

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hard for me to am I gonna engauge recent times

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or am I gonna engauge all season long. That's kind

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of what I was talking about when we first started

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this analysis. Sometimes overall can be misleading.

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Speaker 1: Fair enough, fair enough, Uh you know what else is

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worth a little too though. I mean, I don't know

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what the number is. I forgot to look, but morow Man,

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she'd be graving those rebounds. She don't do nothing, She's

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gonna go go up and get a rebound. I would

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be curious what her number is tonight for the Connecticut

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sign all right, Fever and Sparks. This game opened up

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minus one and a half for Seattle, looks like minus

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two pretty much everywhere. Total open one fifty nine and

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a half, and consensus I would say is one fifty

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six and a half as low as one fifty six

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though injury report nobody on there for Seattle. Pista Collier

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got hurt in that last game, had no business really

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being out there of fifty points. But now they'll be

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without her for about two weeks. I believe. I'm sorry,

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I'm reading the I messed that up, didn't not you know.

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Speaker 2: She might be might have gone to the fever and

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I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I messed that up. That's my bad.

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My bad, you guys. It's because something on my screen.

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It threw me off. So let me get back on

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track here. I'm supposed to be on Indiana and Los Angeles, right,

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So this one open minus one for LA and flip

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a favorite minus two for Indiana to to open one

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seventy two and a half and it's up to one

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seventy eight right injury report Kaitlyn Clark out. Nobody else

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out in this game. I'm gonna pass this one to

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you while I get situated because I was on all

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the wrong game can give a big move on the

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total up. I mean, it's hard to argue against it

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in the Sparks game. How are you feeling about this one?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a hard to argue against it in

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any Sparks game. And these totals in La Sparks game games,

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whether it be full game, first half team totals, they've

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just started to climb. Oddsmakers are catching up. Only four

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games ago, five games ago, the Sparks were in the

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like one sixty five to one sixty eight range, and here,

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all of a sudden, we're into the high one seventies.

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Because all they do is score, all they do is

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allow the other team to score. I know the past

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game against Seattle went double overtime, but it was eighty

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six eighty six at the end of regulation, so it

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was over the total during regulation. It didn't really need

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the overtime. We've talked about them Ski. They're playing better.

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Cameron Brink can only help them more. The more she plays,

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she can only get better. The team can only get

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better and more cohesive. But they are. They have certainly

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identified themselves as a team that's just going to try

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and win a high scoring game. Indiana's playing sensational five

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straight covers Caitland Clark. No, Caitland Clark doesn't make a difference.

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They were great on the interior in their last game.

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I've mentioned before their first in the league and second

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chance points. They go to the glass very, very hard,

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and it could You know, Los Angeles has that nice

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front line, but I generally against a more powerful frontline,

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would lean toward Indiana getting a lot of second chance points.

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Here La will push. It's a It's a difficult game

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actually to call as far as side is concerned. The

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only thing that separates it from me is I do

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think as bad as they are, well, I'm not gonna say,

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as bad as they are, but not being a great

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defensive team. I think Indiana's better defense of lead in

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La is if it comes down to needing a stopp

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or too. I'm taking Indiana before I take Los Angeles,

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So it's an interesting game from that perspective. I would

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love to play over here, but you need in eighty nine.

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When you need eighty nine to eighty nine to get there,

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it's not that it's impossible. It's very possible in a

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Sparks game, but everything has to go right to get

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to that type of total. So again, I think the

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odds maker priced me out of this game, and I

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think if I had to, as well as both of

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these teams are playing, you really have to love the

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way Indiana's playing right now. So I think I would

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be on their side if I had to play it.

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But it's another one where, like I say, the prices

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were just out of my range on both sides, side

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and total, so I let it go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're getting as the line on the

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total for sure. A sidewise, I mean I'm looking at

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it a little bit here. I know the Sparks are

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off of overtime, but they've had three days to rest here,

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they should be just fine, you know, or double overtime. Rather,

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here's how I think Indiana. Yes, they've been playing well.

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They played the Storm after you know that that was

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a terrible situation for the Storm. After the double overtime game,

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they played Dallas. I mean that's a bottom feeder. They

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played Phoenix, who's been looking really bad on this their

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road trip. They're able to win that game. Both teams

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surpassed one hundred points. They played Chicago, no Angelies, no Actings,

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no anybody. They played the Aces, who have been struggling

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versus everybody. Like, how impressed am I with these wins

475
00:26:40,079 --> 00:26:41,720
is kind of how I'm looking at it. I mean,

476
00:26:42,079 --> 00:26:45,200
Sparks have been playing good too post All Star, and

477
00:26:45,279 --> 00:26:47,759
I get that they haven't been playing the best competition either,

478
00:26:47,799 --> 00:26:51,319
So this does feel like, you know, a step up

479
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:55,359
for both teams. But and this is a transfer to

480
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,880
people to get double revenge. But that might just show

481
00:26:57,920 --> 00:26:59,880
you that the Sparks could be a little bit more.

482
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,440
I don't take it in the fever at least when

483
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,359
I think about these two teams, like I would prefer

484
00:27:05,079 --> 00:27:09,880
to have Plumb as a Ray Stevens handy Rikia out there,

485
00:27:10,039 --> 00:27:12,400
you know, versus the Fever. I know Fever been good

486
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,160
without Clark, but when I just look at talent like that,

487
00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:18,039
I like the Sparks side better. I know they haven't

488
00:27:18,039 --> 00:27:21,160
been good at home all season, but like you mentioned,

489
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,079
all season long, stats might not show how well they've

490
00:27:25,079 --> 00:27:28,640
been playing lately. Sparks, I know they want to make

491
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,839
the playoffs. They're out of it as the stands right now.

492
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:32,920
This is one of those games that they need to win.

493
00:27:33,559 --> 00:27:36,240
I would be looking more towards the Sparks. I think that,

494
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,400
you know, they've already beat them twice. Why can't they

495
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,039
beat them again here at the house bresta vanas three

496
00:27:42,039 --> 00:27:44,799
to one. I'm looking a little bit more towards the

497
00:27:44,839 --> 00:27:51,519
Sparks side here, Robber, you know the chat check, I

498
00:27:51,559 --> 00:27:53,519
think I think they're liking the Sparks as well. Let

499
00:27:53,559 --> 00:27:58,440
me scroll back up a little bit here. So ninety

500
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,799
one and a half. I said, that's a huge first

501
00:28:00,799 --> 00:28:02,960
half total to be Daddy says he still likes it

502
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,480
over Jeff says, the Lion screams Sparks, but they're off

503
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,480
at home. Yeah, I mean the Lion is kind of

504
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:14,319
it's kind of pulling me towards the Sparks too. Also

505
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,480
on Plumb over two and a half May threes, I

506
00:28:16,519 --> 00:28:19,799
don't have that strong of an opinion, honestly. I mean,

507
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:21,119
I don't want to talk to you off Plumb. If

508
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:25,160
I'm liking the Sparks, I'll tell you that. Yes, Gooner

509
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,480
says body clock might be off for the Sun if

510
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,599
that was the last game there. You know, I do

511
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,759
think Alyssa Thomas is gonna make a push or try

512
00:28:33,799 --> 00:28:36,000
to make a push for MVP. You gotta be out.

513
00:28:36,599 --> 00:28:40,039
C sees out. I'm not mad at that that part

514
00:28:40,119 --> 00:28:46,960
right there. Anything else we have on this game, I

515
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,400
don't think we do. Jeff says he likes the Sparks too,

516
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,640
because they've been impressive since rugglefore All Star Break. We're

517
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,759
in agreement there. Dirty Rix says the Sparks got a

518
00:28:56,759 --> 00:28:58,440
better roster than most of any team in the league.

519
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,799
They got a big five. Now that brinks, But I

520
00:29:00,799 --> 00:29:03,319
think they just weren't playing up to potential earlier in

521
00:29:03,359 --> 00:29:05,119
the year. And you know, a lot of it has

522
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,400
to do with them not being great defensively. But I

523
00:29:08,519 --> 00:29:10,720
like what I've seen. It's a one way ticket. I'll

524
00:29:10,759 --> 00:29:14,039
be looking at the Sparks here. Anything else before we

525
00:29:14,079 --> 00:29:15,440
move on, you know, a.

526
00:29:15,599 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 2: Couple of quick things. A Again, they're only going to

527
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,359
get better with Cameron Brinkski. I think they are going

528
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,599
to make the playoffs. They're probably, They're definitely one of

529
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,359
the eight most talented teams in this league. And the

530
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,240
other thing when we left off on the Phoenix game,

531
00:29:29,279 --> 00:29:32,400
you just reminded me. Now if we're looking for reasons

532
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,559
to play Phoenix, it is Alyssa Thomas and Dewana Bonner

533
00:29:36,799 --> 00:29:39,200
against their home old team for the very first time.

534
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:44,160
So perhaps those two for folks who play props, could

535
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,160
be interesting there tonight with Thomas and Bonner.

536
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,599
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep going over to the last game,

537
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,759
the game that I was trying to skip ahead to before,

538
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:59,240
in the Storm open minus one and a half is

539
00:29:59,279 --> 00:30:01,440
minus two total came down for one fifty nine and

540
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,119
a half as low as one fifty six, and like

541
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,279
I said before, nobody on the Andrew Port for Seattle,

542
00:30:07,559 --> 00:30:10,319
he is out for the Links. Got hurt at the

543
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,680
end of that last game when they're blowing the Aces

544
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,119
out by fifty something. Had no business really even being

545
00:30:17,119 --> 00:30:21,519
in the game. But as a result, she is hurt. Now,

546
00:30:21,559 --> 00:30:25,160
the Links do have the rest advantage here, slight rest advantage,

547
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:26,759
and it's a chance for them to get some double

548
00:30:26,759 --> 00:30:31,839
digit nd season or revenge. But I mean, this is

549
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,839
what a twenty five and four team here, you know,

550
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,799
and we now see them as underdogs. I mean that's

551
00:30:37,799 --> 00:30:41,079
pretty telling in itself. Another storm round, back to back losses.

552
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,880
I know they desperately need a win, and I think

553
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:46,920
the Links might be more of a little bit of

554
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,559
a letdown spot after shooting sixty percent from three and

555
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,960
winning by fifty points. Do you see it that way?

556
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,119
Are you in agreement with the move down on the total?

557
00:30:57,319 --> 00:31:00,640
Which way are you looking at this game? Well?

558
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 2: I totally agree, and it's more the situational stuff that

559
00:31:03,559 --> 00:31:06,799
you just mentioned to me. Minnesota has now built a

560
00:31:06,839 --> 00:31:08,920
five and a half game lead for the number one

561
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,160
seed with eleven to go. There could be a little

562
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:17,839
low here. I don't like anything that we've seen out

563
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:24,039
of out of Minnesota when they've been without Callier, When

564
00:31:24,039 --> 00:31:25,960
they played a couple of games without Callyer, they were

565
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:31,680
not good. Now they do get Carrington into the folded,

566
00:31:31,759 --> 00:31:36,519
which I think you know Djone. Carrington's strength is the

567
00:31:36,559 --> 00:31:39,680
defensive side. So Minnesota probably becomes a better defensive team.

568
00:31:39,759 --> 00:31:41,359
She can add a little offense, but she's not the

569
00:31:41,359 --> 00:31:45,119
most consistent shooter, scorer, etc. But very good defensively. So

570
00:31:45,319 --> 00:31:49,000
maybe Minnesota becomes a little bit better defensively. But they

571
00:31:49,119 --> 00:31:51,240
have built a huge lead, and I just think it's

572
00:31:51,279 --> 00:31:54,119
a sigh of relief game, or you know, a little

573
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,000
breather type game where Seattle, as you mentioned, they can't

574
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,880
afford it. The log jam to get into the playoffs

575
00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:02,640
is getting tighter and tighter and closing in on Seattle.

576
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,480
And they played Minnesota fairly tough so far this season.

577
00:32:08,319 --> 00:32:14,119
Lose ninety four eighty four in Minnesota and lose, I think, yeah,

578
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,640
lose the win the first one in Seattle eighty two

579
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,880
to seventy seven. They beat them out right. I think

580
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,200
they can probably win this game again. I just don't

581
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,240
like the way Minnesota's played, even though it's only been

582
00:32:26,279 --> 00:32:28,680
two or three, any game without Calier hasn't been a

583
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,519
good offensive game to me. I think they probably struggle

584
00:32:31,519 --> 00:32:34,240
a little bit against the Seattle defense. Seattle off two

585
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:39,200
straight losses. It's all situational ski in this particular case,

586
00:32:39,279 --> 00:32:41,559
but I do think Seattle's probably the right side.

587
00:32:43,799 --> 00:32:48,279
Speaker 1: I think so as well. I definitely think so bad.

588
00:32:48,359 --> 00:32:50,519
I'm gonna pull this up on the screen here. Actually

589
00:32:52,119 --> 00:32:54,720
some things I was looking at just share for the

590
00:32:54,799 --> 00:32:58,480
visual people like me. If I can get it correct,

591
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,799
There we go, share a screen ship here. Now I

592
00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:03,480
know that I got to hit it one more time

593
00:33:03,599 --> 00:33:08,359
because they changed. There we go. So let me get

594
00:33:08,359 --> 00:33:15,799
back here. Storm this season off of a loss nine

595
00:33:15,799 --> 00:33:18,680
and three straight up six and six ats seven and

596
00:33:18,759 --> 00:33:21,720
five to the under. But just looking a little bit

597
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:26,720
closer at the team totals, We're gonna do some quick

598
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:34,359
math here one, two, three, only three, I mean, my bad.

599
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,759
Let me say like this. They've held opponents under their

600
00:33:37,799 --> 00:33:41,400
team total nine of twelve games after a loss so

601
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:45,839
far this season. Now, if we look at if we

602
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,880
look at all back to back.

603
00:33:47,759 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 3: Losses, only two games so far this season, both opponents

604
00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,000
were under their team total.

605
00:33:59,119 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: You see this yere to the under. I mean, I

606
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,359
think this is who the Storm are really like when

607
00:34:05,359 --> 00:34:07,880
you lose twice and that's what you get, you get

608
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:12,079
defense six and oh the under. Here you see every

609
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:17,599
opponent went under their team total. Like I think that's

610
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,800
that's that's the identity of the Storm, right and if

611
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:22,000
they're hungry, they're coming.

612
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 2: Out here like.

613
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,159
Speaker 1: I think that's how they're gonna win the game. If anything,

614
00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:28,000
even if they don't win, I think they'll play defense.

615
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:32,119
That makes me think of team total under for the

616
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,239
for the links, and one more thing I want to

617
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:39,239
look at here. Let's go to the links so far

618
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:44,079
this season and let's look at them.

619
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,159
Speaker 4: Let's see if I can do this right off of

620
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:51,199
a win. Maybe I didn't even need to put that

621
00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:56,599
off of a we have they won by thirty plus.

622
00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:59,280
Let's do twenty. Let's do thirty plus. See if they

623
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,719
won by thirty p us good season.

624
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:07,039
Speaker 1: I think they have two games they're owing too straight

625
00:35:07,119 --> 00:35:10,840
up and ats after winning by thirty shows that it

626
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:15,000
could be a little bit of a letdown here. Team

627
00:35:15,039 --> 00:35:17,880
total is kind of one and one, but some interesting

628
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,960
stuff to say the least RAVENO any thoughts on those

629
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,599
things that we put up there.

630
00:35:23,159 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, just while you were talking, I looked up their

631
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,519
team total seventy seven and a half. Three games they

632
00:35:27,559 --> 00:35:30,000
played this year without thefeasial callier in the lineup, they

633
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,760
scored sixty four. That's less than seventy seven and a half.

634
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,079
Seventy four that's less than seventy seven and a half.

635
00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:38,119
And then they got eighty two against the Sparks, which

636
00:35:38,159 --> 00:35:39,800
is more than seventy seven and a half, but it's

637
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,639
the Sparks. So I think that, you know, looking at

638
00:35:43,639 --> 00:35:47,119
the Minnesota team total under and knowing that Seattle is

639
00:35:47,159 --> 00:35:50,960
a pretty proud defensive team, I think is a is

640
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,760
a good look as well as the side here with

641
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:53,639
Seattle at home.

642
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, last thing you remind me it is too the

643
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,320
Links without Callier. They played three games this season, all

644
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,960
three of state under and if you go back to

645
00:36:07,559 --> 00:36:11,480
last season without Collier, they are seven one and one

646
00:36:11,559 --> 00:36:15,320
to the under two and seven hs. So big deal.

647
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,559
I know she's good on defense, but they're definite gonna

648
00:36:17,559 --> 00:36:19,800
miss her twenty three points per game. And I'm just

649
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:24,840
double checking here for a team total rather than that,

650
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,840
I just I'll leave it like that. But you get

651
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:32,199
what we're saying here. Yes, Gooner doesn't like it, said,

652
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:36,800
seventy seven and a half is low. Looking at it outline,

653
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,000
I think I think they can still get there though.

654
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,199
All right, I think we did a pretty solid job here.

655
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:46,440
You know, five games took this thirty thirty seven minutes,

656
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,480
but we knocked them out. And before we get the

657
00:36:49,519 --> 00:36:52,119
best bets, let's go ahead and throw this up there

658
00:36:52,159 --> 00:36:57,559
because it is five dollars Tuesday. So Rob, I'm pretty

659
00:36:57,599 --> 00:36:59,239
sure he has a top playoff and available on his

660
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,440
page for five dollars. I do as well. I got

661
00:37:02,519 --> 00:37:04,320
u cap it's been killing it. Maybe go check his

662
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,760
out as well. Yeah, cappers have a top play on

663
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,599
their pace to day for five dollars. You can check

664
00:37:09,639 --> 00:37:12,320
the right out, I mean check out their right up

665
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,760
and just get a feel for, you know, how they

666
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,960
handicap and what their picks might look like. So with

667
00:37:20,119 --> 00:37:22,840
that said, let's see if I can do this correct

668
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:28,079
here boom back to normal getting better as a producer,

669
00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:32,119
I guess a little bit, so we'll move it to

670
00:37:32,199 --> 00:37:36,679
best best you know. I'll ask you if there's anything

671
00:37:36,679 --> 00:37:39,440
else you'd like to promote, and look at the banner

672
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,079
at the bottom now too. I guess I was I

673
00:37:41,119 --> 00:37:43,679
was slacking on that earlier, but yeah, anything else you

674
00:37:43,679 --> 00:37:45,000
would like to promote, and if you have the best

675
00:37:45,039 --> 00:37:47,000
bet for the show, we'd love to hear it. If

676
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,360
you don't, all good.

677
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:52,639
Speaker 2: I'll just say really quickly Ski that the five dollars

678
00:37:52,639 --> 00:37:54,840
play that I have up for today is actually a

679
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,719
college football game from Week one, and it's up there

680
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,960
for one day only to today. I'm going to take

681
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,039
it back down, So if you're interested in college football

682
00:38:04,039 --> 00:38:07,480
Week one, go ahead and purchase a five dollars play

683
00:38:07,519 --> 00:38:10,360
over at wager talk dot com best bets. The more

684
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,239
I think about it, Ski, the more I like it.

685
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:16,519
I'm going to leave the chat with Connecticut team total

686
00:38:16,599 --> 00:38:19,320
over seventy six and a half, even if they get

687
00:38:19,599 --> 00:38:22,400
blown out here by Phoenix. I would assume that if

688
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,679
it's a blowout, Phoenix gets themselves into the nineties and

689
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,360
Connecticut's good enough to chase the seventy seven. In my

690
00:38:28,559 --> 00:38:33,079
estimation here, you do run the risk that Phoenix is

691
00:38:33,119 --> 00:38:36,400
angry off of that road trip. But I tried playing

692
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,719
an angry Phoenix team the last two games and they

693
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:43,119
didn't respond at all. So I'll go with the Connecticut

694
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:46,000
team total over seventy six and a half.

695
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:51,039
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff for Albino. For myself, I just

696
00:38:51,119 --> 00:38:54,159
opened up my wallet and you know, jumped in. I

697
00:38:54,199 --> 00:38:57,119
talked about it earlier, talked about it again, just now.

698
00:38:57,679 --> 00:39:00,960
Gave plenty of reasons why looking at a Minnesota Links

699
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,199
team total under seventy seven and a half. Seems like

700
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,840
you know a solid way to go today, so that

701
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,800
would be my best bet for the show Links team

702
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:16,719
total under seventy seven and a half. Weno, good to

703
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:18,519
be back with you. Appreciate you taking the time to

704
00:39:18,559 --> 00:39:22,599
catch these games with me. Everybody in the chat appreciate

705
00:39:22,679 --> 00:39:26,199
you guys as well. Good people entertaining and you guys

706
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,039
help us, you know, get to the back as well.

707
00:39:28,159 --> 00:39:31,920
Some good insight out there as well, Twitch x Kick,

708
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,440
YouTube Shorts, Spotify, Apple, We love you all as well.

709
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,119
We will be back tomorrow. I'm pretty sure we have

710
00:39:39,199 --> 00:39:42,639
a game. Yeah, we're back tomorrow. We do have one game,

711
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:46,880
Aces and Valkyrise, same time, ten thirty am Pacific Standard time.

712
00:39:47,119 --> 00:39:49,400
So best of luck on all your action today and

713
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:50,880
we'll catch you a game tomorrow