Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody? Welcome into another episode of Profit Picks.
If you are new, we always start this show by
being transparent. And yeah, I didn't do anything right yesterday.
I tried to go for college basketball win number ten
in a row. Half Houston first half minus nine and
a half. It looks pretty good until it doesn't. They
get hooked. Then I just made the wrong decision to
back the Lakers. I backed them at nine, and then
everybody got ruled out, and I talked to myself into thinking,
you know, the Spurs will probably rule some people out too,
and don't even care about this game, and wrong decision,
so those things and really not being able to make
a shot. Just a terrible day for me. Yesterday still
doing well last thirty yesterday not so well. You know,
hopefully hopefully you did something right yesterday. If you did
something right yesterday, you did better than me.
Speaker 2: I did do something right enough right, didn't do enough.
I had a couple.
Speaker 3: It's one of those days to ski where you have
like an early card.
Speaker 2: Like every night early card, late card.
Speaker 3: But my two early games I was two and oh
right away, and I thought, man, we're gonna breeze through this.
And then you know, reality sets in and you end
up two and three, lost a little bit. Every play
was even percent last night, so you know, we lose
the juice on one of the plays going two and three.
Speaker 2: But no NBA last night.
Speaker 3: I didn't play for clients in any of these games.
But the college hoop eh, it was okay, wasn't great,
but it's been great over the course. Like I keep saying,
fifty units substance December one. So we'll look to roll
again today, especially in the NBA fourteen game card.
Speaker 2: We got to find something that we like on a
fourteen game card. I would think, yeah.
Speaker 1: We should have been able to. It is one of
those tricky days though. You know, everybody knows they get
a little mini vacation. You know, well beware, That's all
I'm gonna say. So we'll talk about it. Let's go
through all these games, starting with Hawks and Hornets, and
this one opened up minus five and a half down
to four even three and a half in shops. Total
went up from two thirty one and a half to
two thirty four and a half. Injuries for the Hawks.
You do have Jalen Johnson, Zachary Resache, Dyson Daniels, all questionable.
Kamina looks like he's out. The Hornets though you have Bridges,
Oh yeah, you got guys that suspended, right, Bridges, Diabat
both suspended. I'm assuming mcneilie's out, Kobe White is out. Yeah,
I guess you are missing a big deal without Bridges
and Diabate, those who have been big pieces for this
Hornets team. Not sure how they're gonna do replace. But again,
the other side is just question mark. Everybody knows they
have a vacation. Nobody wants to play tonight. Rob What
are you thinking with Hawks and Hornets?
Speaker 3: And all three of those guys with question marks for
the Hawks, all three played in the game like four
days ago when Charlotte won. It was over the weekend.
I think Charlotte. Charlotte went into Atlanta and beat him
by seven. Jalen Johnson at thirty one, ree Chet had eighteen,
Dyson Daniels had eleven. That's sixty points that we don't
know if it's going to play or not, and that
was in a losing effort. So tough, you know, without
knowing their status. Tough to back the Hawks here.
Speaker 2: Obviously.
Speaker 3: The Miles Bridges suspension carries some importance. It's just difficult
for me right now to play against Charlotte the way
they are going, even with the suspensions. There was a quote,
see if I can get yeah, Quinn Snyder, because the
Hawks made some deals at the dead line. I think
guy had commented that I thought they improved themselves. But
according to Quinn Snyder, we are not used to our
lineups yet. We're still trying to figure out some of
those guys and how they can contribute and what the
combinations will be. So, you know, Atlanta is still in
a little bit of an experimentation mode and with three
guys with question marks that maybe with All Star break
might not play here. If I had to, I would
look Charlotte even without bridges. Just think they're you know, defensively,
they've been so good as of late, and obviously against
the spread they've been real good.
Speaker 2: So didn't play, But I do think Charlotte.
Speaker 3: If I had to, I would play the Charlotte side.
Speaker 1: You gonna play Charlotte side, all right? What about you
know I looked up Let me see if I can
pull this up here. You know I actually should have
already did this. All right, here we go, just erase
this so I was looking at like, you know our
teams are usually doing before All Star break, you know,
like when I know they I'd just bake. When they
don't play again for another six days. It's mostly been
overs sixty a little bit above sixty percent. This line
is going up. Would you agree with the direction is moving?
Speaker 3: I would just on general theory. I said it a
couple of times this week that during this week I
usually do look over in a bunch of these games.
I look over anyway, but this is just one of
those time periods where they seem to come through.
Speaker 2: And you just quoted a number sixty eight percent to
back it up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I couldn't look under in this game. I mean
the game the other day was two forty five against
the major contributors in that game that won't be there. Well,
at least we know bridges Is twenty six points won't
be there, But the other side could be missing some
of that sixty as well.
Speaker 2: But still I don't know.
Speaker 3: Something about the total going Upski indicates to me that
it correlates to the line coming down, that a couple
of these Atlanta guys are gonna play right, Money's on
Atlanta and over would mean, maybe we get Jalen Johnson,
maybe we get Reese's shape, maybe get a combination two
out of four if that's there, two out of three.
If that's the case, then Atlanta's got plenty of firepower
for this game, whether they figured out their combinations or not.
Speaker 2: So I'd look over if I had to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, next game, Wizards and Calves, huge bread.
It's up to seventeen, seventeen and a half pretty much
everywhere total up to two thirty nine and a half,
two forty even out of shop. I mean we even
have to go mobiley out, Strus out, Dean wide out.
No Treyon, D'Angelo Russell or I'm sorry, yeah, they're both
out in Bootsovic questionable. I have zero interest in betting
this game. Really. I don't think either team is good defensively.
I don't think either team is interested defensively. I would
agree with the line move going up deal.
Speaker 3: You know, if there's a that's my dog segment, I
could hold my nose and take Washington with seventeen. The
Caves are in their first home game back off of
that road swing where they just concluded in Denver the
other night. I had him over one nineteen and a
half only got to one nineteen, but they won the
game dramatic fashion. One nineteen one seventeen. It was five
games out west. Now you fly back home the game
before All Star Break to play the Wizards. I don't
know how much Cleveland cares to tell you the truth.
To win by this much, to win by this many points,
and Washington, even if they have no interest in winning games. Heck,
you could lose this thing by fifteen and still covers.
So I think Washington would be the way I'd look. Here,
Ski's first home game back after five on the West coast,
and you know, All Star break in two days.
Speaker 2: What does Cleveland really care about winning by twenty? Here?
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. Let's talk a little bit
about Bucks and Magic right around the opener both side
and total Castleton and Howard out for the for the
other side, no Jannis Prince, and then you have Rawlins
and Nance questionable again. Here we are, you know, the
Magic covered as a double digit favorite again right, and
here they are back as one once more. I keep saying,
these are lines are telling, and I'm not taking them.
I feel like I'm doing a disservice. Why do I
not take the magic tonight, Rob, you know, can you
talk me off the magic?
Speaker 3: I mean, they just beat them Monday night. By nineteen,
it's become a pretty bad matchup for Milwaukee. So if
I had all of that to I know, you gave
the number the other day too, about the magic in
this big number bully type point spread range, So there's
no reason to not think they couldn't do it again
here the other night. Just to give you some numbers
on what happened.
Speaker 2: Here, they.
Speaker 3: Out rebounded, out, shot out, three pointed out, free throwed.
I mean, they did everything, and they got twenty seven
points off of turnovers.
Speaker 2: In that game by Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: So for me, Orlando would have to be the look here,
we just talked about Cleveland potentially not caring all that
much about winning big here tonight, But I would say
the opposite.
Speaker 2: For Orlando.
Speaker 3: They're still in a dog fight for the division. They're
still in kind of a dog fight. Receiving is concerned,
So you can't let these games just pass.
Speaker 2: By without playing hard.
Speaker 3: And I don't know, Ski, honestly, what does Milwaukee have
to play for anymore aside from nothing. So I take
that result the other night Normally I would counter punch
and come back the other way a little bit, but
I can't find enough reasons to be on Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: What do you think about this comment about Cam Thomas?
I do see I don't see him on the Andrew report,
so I'm assuming he's playing. Any thoughts on what he
would bring to this one.
Speaker 3: Well, if his history is any indication, we would look
for more points, right and Orlando's gonna run.
Speaker 2: We know that they've reiterated that all season long, as
you're gonna get paid.
Speaker 3: Now that I look at it, Ski, honestly, this total
has come. It's either stayed the same or come down
half or one point, which doesn't make a lot of sense.
I do have Cam Thomas here listed as in myself,
so if nothing else, he's a bucket getter that won't
play a lot of defense. The game two nights ago
got to two seventeen asking for two twenty one doesn't
seem like a heck of a lot more four points
with an offensive weapon like that in the game, and the.
Speaker 2: Guy that doesn't play defense I could see over there.
Speaker 3: It wasn't on my list, but I'm gonna mark it
down here maybe as a potential play.
Speaker 1: All right, what about this we talked about we talked
about we talked about the before All Star break and
the lack of wanting to play defence. I'm just trying
to remember what did these teams do? Did they were
able to score last matchup? I guess I need to
pull it up. Do you remember, do you? Orlando game one?
Eighteen to ninety nine?
Speaker 2: Maybe seventeen?
Speaker 1: Okay? And that would that would not get us there tonight. Yeah,
maybe I need to look at this one a little more.
But I do have a query that supports it. It's
pretty much the same one I mentioned as far as
before All Star break, but we're looking at teams that
are arrested. Oh no, I'm sorry. This one is a
little different. So one team, the favorite, it's playing their
last game before the All Star Break and they're arrested.
The other team has another game, had another game for
All Star break, And I'll just double check to verify,
you know, I like to use the system, the computer,
you know, I just I still double check it. You know,
AI mess up every now and then. You got to
double check these computers, rob you know, but it does
it is correct. Milwaukee plays the Thunder tomorrow. So it's
just pretty much saying getting a whole lot of defense
in these games. They're nine and fourteen ats, which will
say faith the magic, but they're nineteen and four to
the over Rob. You know, the average total was two
fourteen went over about about ten points per game. I
would say that over here. And we do have Cam
Thomas in the lineup for the other side to help
out with some scoring and you know, make the defense worse.
That seems like seems like a wallet opener online, you know, Rob,
you know what? So what are we doing here?
Speaker 2: You know what? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I'm going to add one to you that I
overlooked that I shouldn't have overlooked.
Speaker 2: As Franz Wagler came back last game, that was.
Speaker 3: His first game back, and he scored fourteen right away
off the bench. Only sixteen minutes day of rest, go
again tonight, minutes probably increase a little bit. That fourteen
could become twenty. So not only do you have Cam
Thomas in his second game with the team a little
more comfortable, you have Wagler back as well. To me,
you're only asking for four more points than what they
got the other night.
Speaker 2: Seems like I have to play that game over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, I'm just it's one last thing
I want to double check. Tyler Hoast came they played.
Here we go the Magic shot thirty three percent from three,
Buck shot thirty six percent from three, and neither team
really shot it. Well, we got to seventeen. You're adding in,
you're adding in, Cam Thomas. This is a play for me.
Speaker 2: You know, I opened my wile.
Speaker 1: Man, I gotta get to the window with this because
I'm all regretted if it doesn't hit. You know, I
could be wrong, but we're going to logic school here.
I'm checking a lot of boxing. Yeah, maybe I'll do
that as we continue down the list.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3: Where I'm concerned. Shame on me for missing such a
blatant overplay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't miss that one.
Speaker 2: There must be too many college and too many pro games.
Speaker 3: Because as I look at this now, this is in
my wheelhouse as a play, the stuff that I like
to play on.
Speaker 1: So we stopped the show here. It's all right, you know.
You guys know, and I saw the comments. They don't
mind when we stopped the show for making better. They
wanted us to make better. They like when we make back.
Let's be a good number. I see it two nineteen
that a half about there.
Speaker 2: So ask everybody to be patient.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get it here.
Speaker 2: Well we hop in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me get a piece of that. Man, it's
moving and so as I see. That's why you got
to stop. They starting on the show, you know, and
you'll never get it all right, All right, now I'll fight.
I'll fight with the system in the second here. I actually,
I guess I could do it while you're there's still
doing what you do here. Yeah, I'm almost I gotta
get involved, man, we open up bottles, we make best.
We're not waiting til the end of the show when
the number is gone and we can't bet it anymore.
We're not here just talking just to talk, Sorr. We
like to help you guys out. We'd like to try
to make money for you guys, you know, as far
as the breakdowns, but we also want to make bets
to make money for ourselves too. So let me just
I'm just gonna use that right we're outlet here.
Speaker 3: Before I go on to twenty and half, I just
want to see if I can still get that to night.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you got it boil has it though?
Speaker 2: Okay, let's give it a look.
Speaker 1: All right, we are good to go just about boom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we can get it right here right at uh
at draft.
Speaker 1: Kings actually bet MGM as it too. Minus one fifteen yeah,
Draft Kings. Yeah, and it's a couple.
Speaker 2: Of hop in here.
Speaker 1: All right, we're good on my side. Let me take
a look at some comments. Appreciate you shouting that out.
That's why we do it. Be man. God is thinking
and reminded me actually of the angle that I looked
up and forgot to mention. So that is that is
good stuff there.
Speaker 2: Okay, we can.
Speaker 1: Resume Jay said if we started, I don't think they're
that focus defensively today. The last day before the break,
that's what we talked about. The only under I'm really
running to the window with this and the number moved
against me. It was that next game off the overtime,
But this one, you know, I just they just beat
them the other day, right, Are they gonna be that
locked in defensively? They know they can smoke them. They
just smoked them by twenty. They're going on vacation after this.
I don't want to be betting on too many defenses today,
rather bet on just points. You're good, you know, Yeah,
yeah we could be we could.
Speaker 3: I hope we get to stop it two more times.
Speaker 1: The NMR says, hell, I'll be pulling over to grab
my wallet while watching. Yeah, man, we gotta get it
while this while it's good? All right? Oh, here's the
game I was talking about, right, they just moved against me.
Two twenty three and a half is the opener. It
went down earlier, it's come back up. It's two twenty
five now side New York minus one. We see Philly
minus two and a half. As far as injuries. As
far as injuries, Okay, so Ananobi's been ruled out. That's
not good for the under I was expecting him to
play after he missed yesterday. Mitchell Robinson rolled in though,
so that might be a little bit of it there. Philly.
You still having b questionable barlow, questionable grimes, questionable Paul George,
we know you suspended next did play yesterday? You know,
overtime game. Right now they have to hit the road,
travel to Philly. Definitely advantageous spot for the Sixers. I'm
pretty sure home favorites with the rest advantage went above
seventy two percent of the time. What do you think
here about? You know, your neckadive woods over there, your
your sixers person next tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not so sure how advantageous it is for
Philly because, just like Cleveland, they're off of the five
game road trip, flying back home, first home game off
of that. If MB doesn't go, they did. I think
they sat embiid in that final game on.
Speaker 2: The West Coast.
Speaker 3: But again, you're talking about a team that's returning home
off of a pretty solid road trip and this is
their last game SKI before the break. It's like an
I ninety five type of rivalry between these two teams.
The cities are close, it's a bus ride each way,
not that big.
Speaker 2: Of a deal.
Speaker 3: The Knicks, the important Knicks, played a lot of minutes
last night. I mean with kel Bridges is like the
energizer Bunny. I don't really worry about him too much,
but he played almost forty three minutes. Josh Hart played
forty and a half minutes, Brunson played forty two minutes.
Everybody had to play hard. The bench was lousy in
that game. The bench only scored eighteen points to help
the starters out.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think that the starters in a back to back
situation yesterday to go to add to your case about
under in this game, the Nick shot fifty percent last
night from the field, are they going to come back
at you fifty percent again on the road with three
of the best five best guys playing forty minutes. I'm
not sure it would have helped greatly if Anonobe could
have gone tonight fresh with fresh legs, and the other
side Philly. Like I say, I'm just not sure how
advantageous this spot is.
Speaker 2: It was a long road trip.
Speaker 3: We generally don't expect much from the home team in
their first game back home.
Speaker 2: So I don't want to play Nicks.
Speaker 3: I know this game moved heavily just because the Knicks
are in back to backs, but again, I don't know if.
Speaker 2: It should have moved that much. Side I have to
leave alone total.
Speaker 3: If I had to, I would agree with you that
it looks like this could be an under. To tell
you the truth, especially if a B doesn't go, sixers
have to be a little bit fatigued after that road trip.
I'll say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point from you. Maddy Ice and
the chat appreciate you sharing them hockey looks and what
is it Olympic hockey. Appreciate you sharing, but yeah under
game for me? Here Pistons and Raptors flip a favorites
open to trait minus two. All I'm sorry, now we
have a pick them. It looks like mostly Total didn't
really move during looks like he's out. Holland and Stewart
are both out. Yaka Purdle's questionable, Murray Boyles is out.
Uh this total did not move? Huh? I mean missing
a lot of bigs could get Yaka Peardle back. But yeah,
you know where what are we doing?
Speaker 2: This?
Speaker 1: Looks like like I should be betten over. Why you've
already gotten to the window here?
Speaker 3: Huh Yeah yeah, I was trying to reel you in.
Speaker 2: That was a fishing reel.
Speaker 3: Yeah I got and for exactly what you just said.
The top four bigs in the game could all be out.
Speaker 2: Purtle may go. If he goes, it's probably minutes restriction.
Speaker 3: You've held him out this long, You don't have another
game before All Star break. Why would you send him
out there tonight and then have six more days off?
Just keep him rested, No reason to send him back
out there. So with four centers potentially missing your four
best centers, I just thought this would.
Speaker 2: Be a parade to the rim by both sides.
Speaker 3: Faster paced game, lots of you know, ability to get
into the lane and maybe score at the rim that comes.
Speaker 2: With fouling, I think a little bit. So I did.
I was surprised it didn't move.
Speaker 3: I played over twenty three and again we're gonna throw
in the angle of this being All Star break week
and guys not caring too too much to play some
defense here. So yeah, I went that route over to
twenty three.
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff, you know, I like it. I
just am. I'm gonna wait a little bit on this one.
I want to see Yak Purdo status. Yeah, if ya
Copurdo's out too, then I'll probably be running up here.
Pacers and nets open minus three I think it is
three and a half something like that. Up to six
and a half for the nets total up as well
from to twelve and a half to two fifteen pacers line.
I don't even need to read all these injuries. I mean,
who's playing, That's what I'm looking at. The pacers they're done,
they're ready to tank. It looks like they don't care anymore.
You know, I hate the thought of playing this points
with no Michael Porter Jr. But it's crazy to even
think that. That's probably are the ones who cared more
in his game. That's or nothing. What do you think?
Speaker 3: Well, that's what was in my note, And I watched
the game the other night just out of curiosity when
they played the Bulls and the Nets got the one
twenty three and one by eight, and you watch the
guys out on the floor, they actually cared. Then the
next players really cared. Danny Wolf, Claxton Man, Trey or
Azire Williams, all these guys that played, most of them,
you know, either rookies or backups for the most part,
but they all cared. And I think in this situation Indiana,
we talked about the Knicks coming off the overtime game.
It's the same for Indiana off the overtime game. And somehow,
some way Indiana made a mistake and won that game.
So they can't possibly win two in a row here
where drafts is concerned. I just think that for Indiana,
last night's game was such a one off, and especially
I told you the nick shot fifty percent. Indiana in
that game was even better, I believe than fifty.
Speaker 2: I got to get my notes back up here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were fifty one and a half percent, and
they were forty percent from three.
Speaker 2: They made eighteen.
Speaker 3: Threes last night. The Pacers in that game seemed like
whatever they did was right. We had talked yesterday about
them maybe being a little shy because depth shy, because
Johnny Furfy had got hurt, it's going to be out
for an extended period of time.
Speaker 2: But they played all their guys yesterday.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Ski.
Speaker 3: To me, their back to back situation is a little
more pressing or as pressing as the Knicks is. And
Brooklyn to me, just in just eye test, no real
statistical stuff to back it. Just eye tests showed me
that actually care right now. So I took a little
piece of Brooklyn here earlier this morning.
Speaker 1: All right, I think that is the right side in
this game. Do you have any idea what st okay
means here? I'm just curious. Shout out to Jesse Rodriguez, though,
do appreciate you tapping in first time from Puerto Rico.
I'm not sure what stok is. I've been trying to
figure that out for the past twenty seconds, but I
do appreciate you tapping in. Yeah, I don't know if
you know, but I guess we'll keep it moving. Bulls
and Celtics opened up minus thirteen and a half. Still
around there, total going up two twenty five and a
half with the opener. It looks like we're seeing we'll
call it to twenty seven and a half. Injuries, let's
get there. For Chicago, Akro questionable, Giddy, Jones, Smith all doubtful,
Collins is out, nobody on the report for Boston. You know,
I think I think I would agree that this is
one of those over games. We know what the Celtics
want to do. I don't think the Bulls are that
great defensively. Bulls don't have a whole lot of improtection
either over or nothing. You know, what do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just isolated it. I took Boston team total
over the Nets got one twenty three against these guys
the other night. But just let me reach their last
five defensive effort Chicago, because they're oh and five against
the spread their last five games oh and five straight up.
But they gave up one thirty four to Miami, one
thirty one to Milwaukee, one twenty three to Toronto, one
thirty six to Denver, and one twenty three to the Nets.
All of those are more than the one twenty they're
asking for out of Boston tonight. And the Bulls are
a mess right that trade deadline was like, what are
we doing here at Chicago? And they're just not playing
any defense whatsoever right now? So I took a shot
with the Celtics team total over one twenty.
Speaker 1: Looks like dropping dimes is with you, says Bulls defense
is an absolute fade with all those guards. Simon's revenge game.
Maybe we include that, Yes, maybe we just bet Simon's points.
That's a good call out Simon's put Simon's there as
well on my list things to look at here. Somebody
cares tonight, probably be him.
Speaker 2: Guys. Now the chat is going to force me into
the prop market now.
Speaker 1: And they say Blusavich versus OHOD team. We can't forget
about that is Jucevich?
Speaker 3: Do we.
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, he's just not listed here on my screen,
but yeah it's Boston. They shit. I mean is he
gonna start? Okay? I mean he should start right? Why
isn't I listed as a starter.
Speaker 2: He played the.
Speaker 3: Other night, but I think it was off the bench.
I'll tell you really quick here because I had that
in my notes.
Speaker 1: He played well.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna do well for that team. But
let's just see here. I know I saw it too many,
too much.
Speaker 1: Paperwork here, Yeah, boot and Simon's definitely appealing, I'll tell
you that though, and over in the game appealing as well.
You know, I didn't want to have too many best today.
But it's just starting to become stuff toke. But I
think I need to be patient, just because you know,
injury report. Man, it's the day before, you know. But
I do. I do like a lot now that I'm
going through these games here. You know that short list
is no longer short.
Speaker 2: I tell you that when we would when we would
stay after the show with Ranieri in the Walk with forty.
Speaker 1: Yep extra seven added on to thinging around after the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not going to try and sell you on
stiffs that go two for fifteen from three point range.
Speaker 2: I forget that kid's name. He was trying to sell
us something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all I remember, I don't know his name, but
I know I remember that game and that that player.
I was like, hell no, it was a weak school too.
It was like telling us how great he is ships
a bitch, oh man, good time Blazers. Blazers and Tea
Wolves opened up minus seven down to five and a half.
Photo from two thirty six down to two thirty four
and a half injuries. Anthony Edwards is questionable. Terrence Shannon
Junior remains out for the Blazers. Murray is out sharp
as out title was out. Looks like everybody else is available.
I mean, I see the Timberwolves land points and it's
immediately the other side or nothing. I just not a
believer in the Timberwolves lane. It is what it is.
Also now, when I say that though they have been
good ats without Anthony Edwards, they have shown that they
can win, they can cover games without them. They definitely
have what are you thinking here, you know, Blazers Wolves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when we talked about the Wolves the other day,
I had said that I didn't like their point guard
situation with the Vincenzo, but they had traded Fords soon
MoU and Monday night he got a little bit more
action almost thirty minutes to soon move got off the
bench goes nine of thirteen scores twenty one points. Crazy
In that game, Julius Randall led the team and assists
with ten. But I think the more they get Dsson
MoU accustomed. And it may not be tonight, but I'm
thinking after the All Star break, I think the better
Minnesota's offense will run. But I'm like you, where we
don't trust Minnesota laying points right now with that defense.
I didn't play the game, but I could definitely see
where the Portland money is coming from. Again, that team
plays hard. Who they played the other night that absolutely
destroyed somebody. The other night I was watching, Oh was
the Sixers. I was trying to get that Sixer team
total over the one fifteen and a half in Portland's
third quarter was amazing. They scored in the forties in
that quarter with Abdia back and Drew back and everybody
in that lineup. Klingon looked really good. So I could
understand the little Portland money here, especially if Edwards doesn't go.
But I guess that contradicts what you were saying about
the team being able to cover when Edwards isn't available.
I won't bet it, but I could understand Portland money.
Speaker 1: Do you think this McDaniel's if ant missus is, you know,
seems pretty pretty pretty solid? All right, Heat and Pelicans.
I mean, if I'm playing this game, it's definitely over,
and I could be talking to Miami over the Pelican's over.
I could be talked into not the team I think
is very good defensively, they had bucket yetters and Heat
liked to play fast. I mean, I did talk about
the Heats defense the other day, and you know that
I was gonna be the emphasis and it was versus
Celtics team. Let me just glance, let's refresh my memory
here of what they've done since then. So I could
just pull up the schedule and Heat do play again tomorrow.
The Heat played No, no, I'm sorry, they don't play tomorrow.
That's my mistake. Okay, So they beat the Celtics and
helped them down. They didn't played the Wizards and helped
them to one oh one. The Jazz beat the Heat
with one fifteen. So actually, you know, maybe I pumped
the brakes. The Heat have been playing a little lower scoring,
more defensive games. It looks like here lately, last three
games actually all going under. What do you think heat
and Pelicans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know me, I saw that number two thirty one,
two thirty two, whatever it was this morning and thought, immediately,
let's go ahead and.
Speaker 2: Play over in this game.
Speaker 3: I do hear what you're saying, because that was that
Boston game was one where I thought that the over
would happen Boston Miami, and it didn't. New Orleans offensively
as of late has been really good one thirty seven,
one nineteen, one twenty, so they got the offensive side
of this.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's a tough game, but for me,
it would be over or nothing.
Speaker 3: I don't think I could get myself to playing an
under in a game where maybe there's a little less
emphasis on stopping people and a little more on scoring.
If one side does really well, let's just say the
Miami side goes for one twenty eight or something in
this game, it's not that hard to get over, even
if Miami does play good defense.
Speaker 2: But that's just me.
Speaker 3: I think I would play over or not play at all.
Maybe not play at all is the best thing here.
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the way my list is looking, I
don't think I need to add any any maybes. I'm
gonna go ahead and keep pushing Clippers and Rockets. We
just saw this game. It was yesterday, right. The Clippers
ended up covering and my I screen just I don't
know what he's doing and just refreshing on his own
or doing whatever. I do think the total was two
eight and a half. Oh yeah, my bad is for
here in front of me, Tripp. But I don't know
what the opener was. As far as the injury report,
Batoon is out, Garland is out for Houston, Shangoon is probable. Sorry,
Easton is questionable, DFS out. Uh, I don't know. I'd
probably I know yesterday a lot of people bet and
Thompson's rebounds and they didn't hit. I might go back
to him. I doubled. I'm gonna double check. I'll write
him on my list. I'm gonna double check how he
performs on a back to back. But this is one
of those spots that should be good for him. Yeah,
so I look at him. Other than that, I don't
have the most interest in this game. You know what
you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm hard headed.
Speaker 3: Ski. I look at the number attached to the Clippers.
Ninety nine and a half points is their team total.
And I had to play it just not a principle.
I played over if you can't get to one hundred,
and they didn't get to one hundred last night. And
there's always the chance that they just sit Kawhi tonight
because it's back to backs. They could do that, But
after the win last night by Houston, I don't know that,
and that was a pretty hard fork game one oh
two to ninety five. I don't know that we get
that same intensity here immediately in a back to back.
So for me, it was just I'm taking a shot
with the Clippers getting to one hundred here based merely
on the fact that one hundred's too easy to score
no matter who's on the floor. And for La, the
shooting was so terrible last night, twenty six from three,
only forty one from the floor for the game. So
I just took a shot on that Clippers team total
over ninety nine and a half.
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff from Vino Kings and Jazz oh Man.
Speaker 2: This is uh, we gotta opens come.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, that's a bum fight right here. I
think you know, all the time we spent opening up
the wallet earlier, we could just go ahead and just
get over this game.
Speaker 2: Who wants to lose it the most?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm good on somebody was.
Speaker 3: Somebody was actually blazing Bryce sensible the other day for
not getting the memo that Utah needed to lose that game.
Speaker 2: And they wound up winning when fifteen eleven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd have to probably pay me to bet this one.
If I was, I might look at A's Bailey. I mean,
he plays good at home without George. Pretty sure you
need him to score. But yeah, this is Djen at
his finest time. If you bet in this game, might
need to call that number. With all these games on
the slate, I don't know, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Djen.
Speaker 3: It always reminds me of our good buddy Drew Martin
with his degenerate special of the night.
Speaker 1: I remember that. I definitely remember that. It was a
good old late night college game. Or was it the
late night games or was it just the schools that
nobody's looking at? It was one of the two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for him, it was always the late night game.
Speaker 3: I would do college football with him and he'd say,
this is the degenerate.
Speaker 2: Game of the day. Get back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, after they've stolen from your wallet, you gotta go
back and get it back.
Speaker 2: At midnight. Good stuff.
Speaker 1: Yep, we got what We still got three more games. Man,
we're gonna be out here all day already. Thunder in
Phoenix opened up minus six and a half. It's seven
and a half now, okay. See total came down in
this one from two seventeen two fifteen and a half.
Sons are on the back to back, right, it's look
at some of these injuries for them, it's actually refreshed.
SGA's out, Mitchell's out for Phoenix, call Anthony's questionable, Green
is questionable, Grayson Allen is outut Yeah, this is okay,
sere or nothing for me. And I think that they're
the kind of defensive team that could really suffocate Phoenix.
Even with Devin Booker back, Phoenix could really struggle to
score here. What do you think? You know?
Speaker 3: I would agree with that, especially on the back to back.
I watched him the other night with Jalen Williams back
in the lineup, and they looked pretty good. Okay, see,
so you know it's always hard if Phoenix has played
so well, and I don't know what they'll do with.
Speaker 2: Booker here on the back to back. Maybe he plays,
maybe he doesn't. Dylan Brooks.
Speaker 3: For what it's worth, guys who want to get to
the prop line, one of eleven or one of ten
last night on three is not the best shooting night
for Dylan Brooks. Maybe he bounces back a little bit here.
I didn't bet that game, Ski, because the next one
we're gonna talk about. I wanted to bet a little
bit more, and so I did.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, that's perfect because the next game I
don't want to say a thing about the following game
we can talk about. I want to talk about Grizzlies
and Nuggets. We'll go ahead and pass this right over
to Rob. Opened up two thirty six, up to two
thirty eight. Something is telling me Rob got a little
piece of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's you know, first of all, with Denver,
it's becoming automatic for me. You look at a Denver
game and you play some over, whether it be their
team total, whether it be the full game over. Normally
I would let this go. But the fact that they
lost at.
Speaker 2: Home to Cleveland the other night, the way that.
Speaker 3: They lost, just and I was trying to get some
exact quotes to see if I could get somebody coach
player to try and back up what was going through
my head. Just feel like they don't want to go
into the All Star Break off of a second loss,
So I feel like they'll play hard in this game.
It's not that difficult to score against Memphis, and it's
not difficult for Denver to score against anybody. So to
thirty six, I got a better number than two thirty eight.
I got the two thirty six and a half this morning.
But I think any way you play, you're probably good here.
Denver might reach one thirty. They could even exceed their
team total here.
Speaker 2: I bet over.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Two of the worst defenses lately, offense has been great.
Grizzlies do like to play fast, Nuggets don't need to
play fast to score. I mean both defenses giving up
north of one twenty the past five games on average.
When we're looking at what was it here to less
than two forty, I mean, seems seems pretty adds up
to me. You know, one plus one equals it too.
Seems like the right side to be on, and I agree,
Ty Jerome once again probably has another good night. I'm
not sure what his numbers are. I didn't get this
prop this morning, but I agree, you know, I played
him a couple times already. I've been playing his points
in assists. I think he's I mean his number might
be jacked up now though that could be the thing,
but should absolutely have success Landel rebounds are asking Landel
got traded Cats? Why can I think of where Lando's at?
It's not the it's not the Grizzlies anymore though, So
I don't know why we're talking about that right now.
I don't know where he went. Yeah, it's gonna throw
me off. He's a hawk. He's a Hawk. Now, I
don't know why we're talking about Landale reacha. All right,
thank you for that last game on this plate Spurs
and Warriors. This one opened up minus five and a half.
Looks like eights are out there now. Total open two seventeen,
as high as two twenty one and a half. Right now,
you do have Melton and will Richard both questionable. No
Seth Steph porzingis or l J. Cryer, good old Houston
Cougar right there, Rob, you know mhm For the Spurs,
define Castle and Waters are both questionable. Furs did play
last night. Can't say it was the most taxing game. Yeah,
I mean the Warriors beat them the past two times.
This season. Maybe Spurs remember that and still want to
flex him on, flex on him here tonight. How do
you view this game?
Speaker 2: You know, I view it as maybe Steve Kerr schedules
a loss here. I don't know. I mean, there's not
a lot. At least.
Speaker 3: What you have going for you is Pods isn't in
the starting lineup here at least. Finally, what I show
is he's coming off the bench here tonight. But san
Antonio is so deep with players, and you're right, they
didn't play a lot last night. I mean, Wemby only
went twenty six minutes. Could come right back here tonight
and play another twenty six. Personnel wise, it's not really
a contest, even if san Antonio is missing Castle, who
got hurt last night in that game. I forget, Oh
he got poked in the eye or something blocking a
dunk by Ruy. Ruy went up and then Castle blocked
it and laid there for a while. The injury didn't
seem as serious. But maybe he gets a night off.
Even if he does, the first parts are so interchangeable.
They've gotten to this game, Ski right, They've pushed it
up a couple of points, at least five and a
half up to eight. Now, I couldn't bet Golden State,
though not with the lineup they're throwing out there tonight,
that's for sure. I don't know where the scoring is
coming from for Golden State in this one.
Speaker 1: Well. I think this is one of those games where
we're right back to, you know, the last game before
the break, not a whole lot of defense being played.
I feel like the Spurs, the Spurs already know, like
they know they can now score this team right now
without Steph Curry on the court. Like the Spurs, the
way they put at one to thirty three straight games,
offense has been humming, like on a back to back,
They're probably not going to give the best defensive effort.
They're gonna go out there and get baskets. I think
the lack of defensive effort in this spot for a
vacation and then the Warriors really want Melton and Richard
out there. But I think with those two guys, you
know they can still score. So this line did go up,
I think it's I think it's going in the right
direction as far as the total.
Speaker 2: All right, that's that's a crazy center matchup, isn't it.
Draymond Don Wemby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they had a little something going on last time.
But I don't be man, says Wenby hates Dreman. I
don't think he hates him. I just think, you know,
Draymond just you got to challenge the young guys. You
gotta see what they're made of. That's all that was.
He's that testing, you know. So we'll see how that
goes tonight, it says Spurs Trifecta pays plays podcasts like
Spurs Team total over a lot of people. Are not
a lot of people? Yeah, actually a lot of people
liking the Spurs And I get it all right, you know,
damn almost an hour. I mean I think we I
need some food. I need either that needs a couple
of things here before I get to do that, though,
we'll do a little bit of promo. We do have
the ten days of all access for the price of seven, right,
save sixty nine bucks. Good way to take advantage, get
involved for long term if you don't, I don't want
to be there for ten days. I don't have the graphic,
but they do have that Valentine's Day special, right three
days plus three or it's something of that nature. It's
a shorter term Valentine's Day Special. Ross Benjamin talked pretty
good about it this morning. What you talking today, That's
why I know. But different ways to get involved if
you would like to, you know, I'm going to pass
it back to you, ask you if there's anything else
you would like to promote, and if you have a
best bet for the show, we'd like to hear it.
You love to hear it, you don't.
Speaker 3: It's all good, that particular promotion ski I never read
between the lines, but Trig gets a kick out of
it every time he reads it because it's Valentine's Day
with a bunch of hearts around it, and the price
is sixty nine, so he gets all giddy and starts laughing.
Speaker 2: Then, because they charge.
Speaker 3: Sixty nine for a Valentine's Day special, I'm like, I
didn't understand it, And then I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, I see where you're going with this.
Speaker 3: I think that is just the Valentine's Week special you
can hop in for sixty nine dollars. It covers all sports,
which right now is really for guys like me down
to just college in NBA basketball because football is all
gone now and I don't do hockey.
Speaker 2: You can catch some.
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dot com as well wt bus slash RV. Best bet
is why I'm kind of stuttering over my words here
because I'm staring at the board. I like to a
lot of games here today, but I think the one
I'll leave for the show, Ski is the Celtics team.
Speaker 2: Total over one twenty.
Speaker 3: Chicago's defense has just been absolutely miserable, not stopping anybody.
And true that Boston plays a slower Boston makes shots
and the Bolts just don't defend enough to stop them
from making shots here in this game. I don't think
so for me, I thought, when twenty was a little light,
I'll use Boston. Celtics team total over one twenty is
my best bet.
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff, Rob Veno. Now I can't help.
But remember since you brought it up, I've had somebody
say to me before, Like I had one of my
coaches too, like a promo and it was like Ski
sixty nine. Somebody messing me and said, Ski, what kind
of freaking shit you got going on? Man?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand it now.
Speaker 3: I never read that into so Trigg just started laughing
reading it.
Speaker 2: I'm like what he's laughing about.
Speaker 1: For the V Day special though it is hilarious. Definitely
best bet for the show for me. And before I
get my best bet, I just want to remind last
thirty days have been pretty good. I know they've been
good for Rob, even though he didn't mention it. For myself,
one hundred and sixty five plays fifty seven point plus
forty two point eight units. So see if we can
do that for another thirty days. Best bet for the
show I am gonna go with. I mean shit, Rob,
we stopped the show, we opened up our wallet. I'm
going with the magic bucks over to nineteen and a half.
That's what we got on the show. I think we
explained enough while we liked it, talked it out and
if you weren't here for that, and maybe you need
to rewind, if you just came for the best bets
and you wanted some reasoning, you're asked out today For
the people who watch the show, you know exactly why
we're betting the magic and bucks up and over. So
that would be what I'm leaving you guys with here today. Pino,
I always appreciate you taking the time to catch these
games today. An entire fifty one minutes to do this show.
Definitely appreciate it time you take to do it. People
in the chat, we appreciate you as well. Are a
lot of great people, a lot of good capers. All
of us are trying to help each other get to
the window. So best of luck everybody on all your action.
We will catch you guys again tomorrow