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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome into another episode of Profit Picks.

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If you are new, always started this show by being transparent.

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Yesterday ended up being another good day for myself. I'm

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pulling it up here. I ended up going seventy three,

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got there with the Texans. That was a top play winner.

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Cougars Houston. Cougar's first half, that was a top play winner.

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It might depend what number you got the late number.

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I don't think cash, but I got in early at

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twenty and a half. Took Princeton that was the winner.

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Zubac overs rebounds, Paul George over rebounds. Both winners. Seventy

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six Ers and Grizzlies were both winners. Losers were Memphis

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and sack Over two thirty six to thirty five and

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a half. Whatever it was. Hawks didn't work out like

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I thought, and I had a hockey loser. I took.

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The Canadians didn't go how I thought. So seventy three

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overall hit sixteen of my last twenty bets. So heating

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up here, Ravino. Good to be back here with you.

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How's everything for you? And how you doing today?

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Speaker 2: Doing good? Today's ski busy day. Obviously a lot going

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on here all for sports overlapping. Yesterday one in two

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NBA two in one college hoop was a three and

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three split made a little bit of money because a

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couple of the bigger plays were winners out of the

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college basketball world. But NBA actually the one that I

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won in the NBA SKI, I gotta admit I got

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a little bit lucky because Philly and Tyrese Maxie forced

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overtime and the overtime got the total there It was

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one twelve I think at together of regulation, but where

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Maxie played a heck of a game and sank a

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couple of clutch free throws to get it too ot

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bad with god? What was that bad with yesterday? I

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have to even go back and look. Oh yeah, bad

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with the Hawks. I thought the Hawks were the right side.

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They were not. And in the Memphis Sacramento game, I

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should actually kick myself. I had Sacramento's team total over

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they didn't even get to one hundred. So was it

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one in two NBA two in one college who didn't

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play the football whatsoever? But I know we talked a

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lot about the Texans, and boy, that defense was great

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last night.

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Speaker 1: Yep, they looked they looked damn good. Yesterday. I could

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have played that one all the ways I thought under

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Texans Bills team total, it didn't really matter what I

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picked on. That one would have been a winner. So

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let's see if we can do it again today. Have

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a lot of NBA games out there, so we'll start

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at the top. That looks like Pacers and Cavaliers opened

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up minus thirteen. Looking at fourteen now, total has gone

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from two thirty six and a half to to forty

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for the Pacers, same usual suspects are out. Man, I'm

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tired of mentioning for Cleveland. Jared Allen, Darius Garland, Tyson

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all questionable. Merrill and Strew are out. Venom keep saying

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this cass team they suck. They are so overrated, They're soft,

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and they're just not good, especially when they don't have,

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you know, Garland in there to help distribute. I don't

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like anything that I've been seeing from the Cavaliers lately.

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Now that said, there's not a whole lot to like

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from the Pacers side either. But one thing you can

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trust from the Pacers my opinion is you know they're back,

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ready to play up tempo. They have their guards in

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the lineup, and we know the style of play they

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want to play. You can trust mather and to be

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a bucket, to trust Pascal to get some buckets. So

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pacing buckets from the Pacers side seems like, you know,

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that's at least something I can trust there. And the

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Cavaliers they have been playing up tempo. If Jared Allen

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is not in obviously less rint protection, I would want

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Garland in, like I said, to help with pace, to

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help with you know, playmaking. And I don't like that

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Merrill is out, but I would agree with the total

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going up here. If I'm playing this one, it's up

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and over for me. How do you see?

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Speaker 2: If you know? Yeah, I think Kenny Atkinson, the coach

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of the Cavs, agrees with you because he was not

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real pleased with his team and kind of let loose.

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He is not a coach that speaks often, but he

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will and he was po'ed after they lost to Houston.

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He said, because the Rockets won the rebounding battle by

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twelve fifty one thirty nine twenty one second chance points

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off of sixteen boards, Kenny Atkinson, we couldn't stand toe

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to toe with them. We've got to rebound the ball better.

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There's more to it here. Oh, We've got to focus

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on it a little more so if Jared Allen was

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in the game. Because Indiana's so small, I would think

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that the Bigs could dominate inside for Cleveland if they

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want to. I mean, the coach certainly wants them to.

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Evan Mobley has help things at all, and he hasn't

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helped from the foul line either. Ski I didn't realize

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until reading this morning that they're twenty fifth and free

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throw percentage and he's shooting the worst free throw percentage

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since before high school. He said, I'm only sixty and

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a half percent for Evan Mobley from the line. So

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there's some things going wrong with Cleveland, certainly. I know

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they have a little bit of revenge from last year's

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playoff loss. Whether or not that comes into play tonight,

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I'm not sure. I think in the end, I would

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just agree with you that the number where the total

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is concerned probably is reachable for both sides. Benedict Matherin,

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for what it's worth, said Indiana can go on a

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ten game win streak now, and you just called him

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a bucket, but he called himself a bucket before you

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told me was because there's a quote in here that

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where he says, I don't want to sound cocky, but

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I know I can score on anybody, and I need

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to help my teammates. So Ben Matherick, ever since the

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days at Arizona has been exactly that. I can see

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a lot of points in this game. I saw the

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mention in there, and I went through these cup standings earlier. Today.

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Cleveland's in pretty good They're not in pretty good shape

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because the Raptors are in real good shape in their group.

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But if they want to stay in it, they would

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have to win. I just don't know how much the

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Cavs care about this cup them. I don't think they

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really do.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they really do either. Yeah, it mixed

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Matherin's points, you know, appealing definitely, so different ways to

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look at this game. We'll keep going down the list.

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We do have a lot to talk about here. Today,

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Washington and the Raptors open thirteen and a half. It's

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like fourteen, fourteen and a half depending where you shop.

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Not a whole lot of movement on the total. As

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far as the injury report, CNB is out for the Raptors.

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You have both. I'm sorry you have sar questionable and

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you have badly doubtful For this Wizards team, the Wizards

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just stink. How much do we have to even really

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talk about this? They suck? Rob You know, it's not

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a whole lot of reasons to look towards the Wizards,

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especially in front of a back to back for them,

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and this is a Cup day where the other teams

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have all the incentives to go and blow you out.

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So the only question is, in my eyes, it's going

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to be more of the Raptors just scoring a million points,

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scoring at will, where it's going to be the Raptors,

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you know, suffocating the Wizards and the Ways are struggling

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to score. I think it can go both ways, but

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I'm picking one. I would say, you know, Raptors defense

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has been pretty elite for about you know, ten games

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maybe something like that, and the Wizards have really been

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struggling to score versus everybody. So I would say Wizards

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team total under that's what I like the most here.

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taking the Raptors. Ravino. How do you feel about it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like the Raptors. I'm not big on laying

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at this type of points, But for all the reasons

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you just mentioned, they're capable of it. Their defense has

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been really good this year. We've talked about it more

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than once on this show for Washington. The two injuries

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are worrisome for them now that they're good defensively anyway.

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the other night, Bagley was his replacement. Orsar got injured

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the other night, Bagley was his replacement, and then Bagley

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went down, and so now you've got the starter in

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his backup. Both probably not going to play tonight, which

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makes them even softer in the middle than they were previously.

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could see a lot of points out of Toronto. They

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are two and zero in their group Group A out

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of the East. As far as Cup is concerned, contrary

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to what I said about Cleveland, I think Toronto does care.

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to win something like this, so I could see a

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lot of enthusiasm out of that side. They played this

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team once earlier this year and only beat them by

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one point. I think that's got to change here. I

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think Toronto probably could win this one by twenty and

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again using the two things you said, isn't they're just

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going to go crazy scoring or are they going to

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strangle Washington from scoring? I just put those two together

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and think they'll win by more than fourteen. I think

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you can get thirteen and a half two as I

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Speaker 1: All right, so we're in agreement on that one. We'll

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keep going down the list. Nets and Celtics fifteen points

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spread for this one for a total of two twenty

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two or Boston only titum is out for Brooklyn, cam Thomas, Heismith,

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Sarah all out. I mean this next team does continue

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to struggle to score without cam Thomas out there. How

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much can we trust this Celtics defense? I guess becomes

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the question here tonight. Celtics definitely not a team that

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I'm looking to lay fifteen Pointsmith, I'll tell you that

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right now. But just looking here, they have been a

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solid defense. Nets have been struggling to score. Could be

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another Nets team total under. What do you think about

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Celtics and Nets?

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Speaker 2: Robbio, Well, we just saw it a couple of days ago,

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and I think you cashed. I think I remember being

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on the show when you said Celtics next full game

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under and it stayed under. But I'm not You know,

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the Celtics were in a far different pointspread position that night.

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It wasn't minus fifteen. And I don't trust their three

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point shooting enough Ski to tell you the truth. They

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like to launch threes. They haven't shot them as well

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this year. We've documented that quite a bit. Pritchard did

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come on a little bit recently, but I'm not going

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to lay fifteen with this Celtics, So for me, it

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was a game I immediately scratched. I guess there's cases

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to be built for some form of under in this game.

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your nose and betting the dog, just because the other

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side probably isn't worthy of laying fifteen points here. But

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Speaker 1: Yeah, these are the slowest placed teams the last five games,

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thirtieth and twenty nine. That was part of the reason why,

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you know, I did roll with that full game under

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last time, But I just, man, I don't trust them.

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You know, he's a liar, He's definitely a liar. But

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I don't trust his nets defense. That's the problem for me.

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That's the kind of just give it up. I know

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they were good that last time they played, but it's

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looking at the nets. I mean they've been all right,

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they've been all right defensively. It's just it's hard for

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me to trust him. So I guess lean under next team.

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at one o three and a half, but it should

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be a slower game. Yeah, I'll say full game under

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again if I'm playing this one. All right.

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Speaker 2: He had a little to say you off topic, didn't.

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Speaker 1: He shout out to dropping dimes in the chat? Yeah,

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MPJ has a lot to say. They telling them to

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shut up. I'm telling him to leave the podcast alone.

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I dam we got another another one. Miami and Chicago.

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Not a whole lot of movement. I mean, sitting right

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at the opener of two and a half. Total though,

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dig go up from two forty six and a half

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to two point fifty. I think this is the highest

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total we've seen so far this season. No Wiggins, Roseer,

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Yovick or hero for Miami. For Chicago, you do have

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Trey Jones, questionable, Kobe White, questionable, and you have Jalen

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Smith probable, Zach Collins out. I can't help but think Rob,

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lot of games lately. Could be it could be supposed

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the first of a back to back for them. They

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played the Wizards tomorrow. The Heat do have the rest advantage. Okay,

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So the Heat have played the Warriors without anybody, Steph, Jimmy, Draymond,

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everybody said, the Knicks two times without Brunson, the Cavaliers

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once without Donovan, Mitchell Garland, and I believe Mobley. I mean,

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they just been taking advantage of teams and in unhealthy

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spots or however you want to call it. So I

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don't I can't really trust whatever I've seen from the

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Heat lately. That's kind of how I'm feeling for the Bulls.

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And I got to go through theirs too, to be fair,

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they did have to fight with the Blazers. I don't

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like that too much. They did win that game, though

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they beat the Nuggets. That's a definitely a noteworthy win

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right there. And that was the second game after Giddy

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got it injury or came back from injury. So just

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a loan off of that, you know, I think the

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Bulls are a little more trustworthy than the heat here.

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How are you doing this game?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? And for the Bullski Remember that was the second

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of a back to back in altitude for Denver at

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the air for Chicago. Excuse me, They had played I

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don't know it was a Utah the night before maybe,

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and then played Denver. I remember because I had Denver

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and they didn't even win the game. I don't want

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to play into the first game, first home game, after

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four road games for Chicago. It's actually six of their

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last seven since November seventh. They've been on the road

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a lot and not home, so I don't really want

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to take their side. What I wanted to do, more

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than anything, was played the Miami team total over here,

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but they priced me out. It's one twenty four bam

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out of Baio is back according to most reports for

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Miami tonight, which should help the offense. But I can't

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get there to play them to hit one twenty five

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in this game. They could do it, just don't think

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it's a good enough number for me to get involved.

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So because the odds makers, like you say it's the

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first two fifty we've seen, they kind of priced me

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out of everything here. Don't like what Chicago has done

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defensively recently. I think we've hammered that home. What Billy

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Donovan said earlier in the year has gone south really quickly.

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And that Portland game the other night where they were

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up like nineteen with eight minutes left. Again, I got

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stung by the Bulls twice on the road. Maybe I'm

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just bitter. That could be it, but I'm going to

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stay away here. I would have liked to play, to

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have played Miami's team. Total over just a shade too

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high for.

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Speaker 1: Me, if you know, liking the Miami side a little

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bit more, I'm liking the Bull's side. We'll see how

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this one shakes out. Pelicans and Mavericks. Mavericks went from

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a three and a half point spread to four to

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four and a half. Total also went up from two

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twenty nine and a half to two thirty four. That

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is definitely surprising. There, let's just refresh hered Lo questionable,

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no Ad, no Kyrie, no nim Hart for the Pelicans,

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Paul Murray, Matt Kovich all out Pelicans. I mean, they're

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just so sorry. I mean the MAVs are sorry too,

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but I feel like the MAVs can be better. At

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least they have given up on this Cooper flag point guard.

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I mean, that's one positive for the Mavericks. I don't

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think they've given up yet. I think they still want

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to win. And being at home here seeing the you know,

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Pelicans team everybody's been beating on, I like to think that,

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you know, they play hard and get a win here

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at home, Mavericks or nothing for me, what do you think?

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Speaker 2: You know played hard the other night they got a

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referee whistle against them on a driving layup at the

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end of the game against the Knicks, but the Knicks

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didn't have Bruns and the Knicks didn't have Ananobe. It's

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still Dallas played them really, really tough. They're starting to

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get a little bit healthier at the rim. To Ski

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Gafford Lively, these guys are playing again. I think the

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only one they're missing is Anthony Davis, so it helps,

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and it is funny. I'll say it again, Cooper flag

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point guard experiment ended as soon as Nico Harrison got fired,

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and maybe now they're trying a little bit more to

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what they should have been doing all along. I remember

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this game too. It's funny how you don't remember your

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wins as much as you remember your losses. But remember

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Dallas laid eight and a half to this team a

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while back and got beat at home. New Orleans was

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on a back to back won the game straight up

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one o one to ninety nine. That line is not

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eight and a half anymore. It's only four to four

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and a half. So better price, maybe a better Dallas

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team at this point. That's hard to say because the

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other side has Zion back, and Zion played pretty well.

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His plus minus was up there the other night. So

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difficult game I would like to play Dallas, just don't

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trust them enough to win by five. Another one that

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I had to let go ski. I don't understand the

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total movee either here other day. I think I saw

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yesterday Dallas has moved up to the second quickest tempo

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in the NBA, which is outrageous if true, and.

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Speaker 1: The number one and past the last five games Repelicans

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are number four.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there you go. That would explain to move up,

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and I can buy into that myself. You just gotta

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have enough shot making or little defense. Yeah, I don't know.

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I have to look at it a little further. I

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might maybe I can get to a MAVs team total here,

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but we'll see.

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Speaker 1: If the MAVs were going to break out, it will

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be in an uptempo setting versus Pelicans defense. So I

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can understand that. For those reasons, I'll laim maz. I'll

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land with the market going over next game up here,

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you know, t Wolves and Sons open three and a

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half up to four and a half total coming down

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though from two thirty three and a half to to

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thirty one and a half or as low as two

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thirty one and a half. Who is on the injury report?

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Grayson Allen out flaming out, Jayalen greenout for the Wolves. No,

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Terrence Shannon Jr. You do have both Ingles and Jaden

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McDaniels questionable. I do know that the Wolves care about

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the Cup. I've heard McDaniels talk about it. They've been

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talking about they've never been to Vegas. They want to

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make it to Vegas. They are number one in their

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group and they have okay see beating the differential by

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a good amount. You know, this game will be a

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bit tougher than the game Okay sees today or expected

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to be. But you know, I want to get there

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with the I want to get there with the the Wolves.

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But my problem is Sons do have a lot of

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rest for this game. And the Sons have been playing

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pretty competitive, pretty good too. And I worry that, like

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the Wolves have just been looking good because of who

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they played. There's just so many bottom chair teams in

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their recent schedule. Play the Kings twice, play the Wizards,

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play the Mavericks, like the Jazz twice. Like I don't.

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I can't put too much stock into that. When you're

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coming here and you're playing the Phoenix team that's you know,

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they've been playing pretty solid. And not saying they're the greatest,

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but they've been playing solid. And I'm looking at the

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Sun's recent schedule. They beat the Blazers, It beat the

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Hawks team that have been playing well. I mean, they

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beat up on some bottom beaters too. So I guess

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we'll learn who's the better of the two to night.

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Who should be more respected. If I had to put

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my money on this one, I think that the Timberwolves.

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Timberwolves defense is more trustworthy in my opinion, offense might

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be more trustworthy. But all lean Timberwolves here. How do

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you see this one be? Now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I agree. I mean I made a small play

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on Minnesota earlier this morning, just from a fundamental matchup perspective.

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Ski I just when I think of minutes, I always

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think about how much reach they have on the defensive end,

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and you kind of need three point shooters that can

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get over the top of them. And without Grease and Allen,

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that's one less for Phoenix, which to me is a

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bit of a concern. I think maybe Minnesota defensively can

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stop Phoenix from scoring all the points that they've been scored,

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or contain them a little better than the bottom feeding

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defenses that they played lately have done. Again, you mentioned

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the Cup. I agree. I think Minnesota wants to get

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there with the Cups. It's a big game for them

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in that instance as well. Again for the fundamental reason,

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and Phoenix, for what it's worth, defensively, I don't think

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can handle Minnesota. So I just put two and two

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together came up with a small play on Minnesota minus

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the four to four and a half.

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Speaker 1: You no like in that side. I'm somebody in the chat.

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I forget who I just put up. I can't see

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the screen right now. Just mentioned that the wool I

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think it was b man. The Wolves haven't beat a

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team over five hundred and yeah, Olden four straight up,

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Olden four ats. They played the Spurs, the Celtics of

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Thunder and the I'm sorry, that's not correct. That's who's upcoming.

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They played the Nuggets, the Lakers and Knicks and the Nuggets,

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so Nuggets twice, Lakers and Knicks and uh Olden four there.

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I'm just curious what the Sons look like for some

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of the better competition. So Sons two and four straight

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up three and three ats, so a little bit better?

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You know. The one thing too, I do have to

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think about it mentioned here, you know, is the Sons

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have played better at home than on the road. You know,

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more I think about this, the Sons could compete in

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this game. I mean, Minnesota is only beating up on

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the bottom feeders. Were just planning toa one more thing here. Yeah,

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Sons seven and one ahs at home so far this

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season Wolves three and four. This is a tough, tough game,

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you know, any last thoughts here.

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Speaker 2: No, I you know, I stated the case to where

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I think Minnesota probably gets to win. The only thing

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I'd say real quick here is that oh and four

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that you listed four Minnesota against better teams. I think

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those four are different class than Phoenix. Two. Denver's a

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Lakers and a Knicks. That's that's better class than Phoenix.

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Speaker 1: Fair, very very very fair. All right, let's talk about uh,

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let's talk about those Nuggets. Nuggets versus the Rockets should

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be a good one open up minus two looks like

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two and a half. Total's gone up slightly from two

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thirty four and a half. That's how it's two thirty

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six and a half. For Denver, you have Aaron Gordon

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probable they'll be without Brown and Strauther. For the Rockets,

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you still have Jabari Smith, junior, Steven Adams questionable, Tarry

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Easton DFS and Van Fleet will be out first game

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up a back to back for the Nuggets. We'll call

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that out right away. I mean, you know, just very

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very simple to me, the Nuggets have been full of

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shit lately to me, honestly, like when I'm watching the game,

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they're not even trying. Bro Like, they're not even attempting

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to put a hand up in nobody's face. It's looked

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like a team that they didn't really care too much,

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you know, until maybe they get down and they feel like, Okay,

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now we have to care and try to win the game.

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I just don't like the idea of the back of

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the team that's been playing like that versus a Rockets

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team who I feel like they've been playing hard and

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playing from the tip every single game and they're playing well.

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It's Rockets are nothing in this game. I feel like

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there's no way to eat on the Nuggets. How do

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you feel about it?

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Speaker 2: Well, I agree to the eye the ies Ski Houston

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definitely looks like like the better team at this point

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in time. Again, you know, I think you and I

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pointed out a bit, and the chat even points it

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out a bit that Denver just doesn't seem like a

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good defensive team. He just said it again. But then

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when you look at their statistics and their overall stuff,

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it kind of shows that they're better than what we're seeing.

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I don't know what's lying here. The stats are my eyes,

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but I'm gonna trust what I see and say that

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Denver is a team that's absolutely just trying to outscore

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people right now. It almost seems like they feel like

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they can. That being said, Christian Braun is probably their

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best perimeter defender on the team. He hasn't played in

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the last three games and are only one in two

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ats without him. I think he's a big difference in

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this game. You need all the defenders you can get

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against Houston, we'll see Durant. I guess Aaron Gordon coming

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back is a big deal too, because if anybody's gonna

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at least give Kevin Durant some trouble offensively, Aaron Gordon's

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as good at defensive three as there is in the

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00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:02,920
league or four, whatever you want to call it. So

471
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,359
kind of a wash there this particular group in the

472
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,880
Cup are all one in one, So it's probably a

473
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,759
big deal, But I think it might be a bigger

474
00:26:13,799 --> 00:26:15,759
deal to Houston at this point in time. To me,

475
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,680
Houston's the team that is playing with a little more

476
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,000
sense of urgency to be in that elite group, where

477
00:26:23,039 --> 00:26:26,119
Denver kind of walks around like we know we're elite

478
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,519
and we'll be there in the end. So we'll see

479
00:26:28,519 --> 00:26:32,200
you then. So for two and a half point price

480
00:26:32,279 --> 00:26:34,359
caught my eye because I just think there's value with

481
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,960
the home team at only two and a half. So

482
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,680
I did play Houston, played them small when I played

483
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,720
Minnesota this morning. Hopefully they get there by three points.

484
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: I like them. I agree with Marc. It's a statement game.

485
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,519
Let them know, you know we're here over here in

486
00:26:49,519 --> 00:26:52,519
the West. You better wake up Denver. And to that

487
00:26:52,599 --> 00:26:55,640
point too, dropping dimes looking at the Rockets early. I

488
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,119
like that as well. Nuggets, like I mentioned, they didn't

489
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,440
sleepwalking and start these games they have not covered in

490
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:07,160
their last five first half. Yeah, I think that's could

491
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,759
be worthy of a double up Rockets first half, full game,

492
00:27:09,799 --> 00:27:12,200
absolutely all right, real.

493
00:27:12,079 --> 00:27:14,880
Speaker 2: Quick, her Ski Just to add to that real fast.

494
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,680
What Houston did to Cleveland the other night, I think

495
00:27:17,799 --> 00:27:19,480
is kind of what we're saying here. You know, I

496
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,680
read you the quote from Kenny Atkinson. Houston made them

497
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,400
look soft, made them look like they're not caring too much.

498
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,319
And maybe that same thing happens here tonight with Denver.

499
00:27:31,079 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 1: You know, I'm an agreement, I am, I do have.

500
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:43,319
I mean, it's an opinion. You know, what they thought

501
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,119
about Luca and how they were saying Luca is so

502
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,400
fat and out of shape and this, and I don't know.

503
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,480
I know Drunker's been putting up some points, but he

504
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,839
just been looking like he's I don't know, he's too

505
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,480
much loafing around from Joker. For me, he looking just

506
00:27:56,519 --> 00:27:59,400
too slop. I don't that's my opinion. He's still going

507
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:03,000
out there and getting these triple doubles. But maybe that's

508
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,599
why the defense looks so so weak. He's not even moving,

509
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,839
Like if one person is not moving, the defense is

510
00:28:08,839 --> 00:28:11,400
gonna be sorry. You can't everybody else can't just rotate

511
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:11,799
for you.

512
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:19,599
Speaker 2: So true, that's the horses instead, he wants to go

513
00:28:19,839 --> 00:28:20,519
with the horses.

514
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,279
Speaker 1: They better go build a horse horse track close to

515
00:28:23,319 --> 00:28:25,640
the Nuggets arena and get him excited.

516
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 2: You could go for that, all right.

517
00:28:30,799 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: Uh. Blazers and Warriors opened up six and a half up.

518
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,680
Aside his eight told on not a whole lot of movement.

519
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:48,880
Drew Holliday is questionable, sharpest questionable, granted is probable. Robert

520
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,720
Williams questionable. No Scoop, no teach table, no Wesley. For

521
00:28:52,839 --> 00:28:56,839
the Warriors, you have Jimmy Dre, Buddy Hill all probable

522
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:01,200
Kamena and melting her out. Now, this Blazers team has

523
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:06,039
looked terrible, like they're lost without Drew Holiday out there

524
00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:11,039
in my opinion, so seeing him no longer doubtful more questionable.

525
00:29:11,359 --> 00:29:13,279
You know, if they get him out there, it'll be

526
00:29:13,279 --> 00:29:19,359
a big boost for that Blazers team. So it's important

527
00:29:19,559 --> 00:29:21,079
to know who's going to play in this game. This

528
00:29:21,119 --> 00:29:23,079
is a game where I would absolutely wait to know

529
00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:26,359
who's for sure like then, because if he's in, I

530
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,160
honestly I think you can get some value here on

531
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,599
the Blazers just because of how bad they've looked lately

532
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:36,160
and the warriors they've had it. You know, they look

533
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,880
good a game, maybe change the lineup. They've been inconsistent.

534
00:29:40,119 --> 00:29:43,440
I'll say that they haven't proven that you know their

535
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,279
team you could trust night in the Night out yet.

536
00:29:45,759 --> 00:29:49,759
So if Drew Holidays in, I think it would be Blazers.

537
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,720
If he's out, I want nothing to do with the Blazers.

538
00:29:53,039 --> 00:29:55,920
How do you feel about it? You know a couple of.

539
00:29:55,799 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 2: Things here and it was the biggest player I made

540
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,799
this morning. Ski I played Golden State, but I played

541
00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:04,599
Golden State first off of reaction to the quote, from

542
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,960
Thiago Splitter, the head coach of Portland, who said, it's

543
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,319
difficult to play the way that we want to play.

544
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,440
We don't have the energy to play fast. We're getting

545
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,279
slower and slower as a team. We have to play

546
00:30:16,359 --> 00:30:18,319
guys or we're having to play guys that are in

547
00:30:18,359 --> 00:30:22,480
developmental roles right now. Speaking to the injuries that Portland

548
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,039
has suffered, remember how quick they were to start the end.

549
00:30:26,079 --> 00:30:28,519
Their defense is falling apart. It's falling off the face

550
00:30:28,519 --> 00:30:34,599
of the earth for Golden State. I mean, typical Steve

551
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,759
Kerr again, I should kick myself for just not betting

552
00:30:37,799 --> 00:30:41,359
Miami as the largest play of the month. In that

553
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,559
final game of the road trip, where you just know

554
00:30:43,599 --> 00:30:46,640
what Steve Kerr is gonna do. He's gonna tank it.

555
00:30:46,759 --> 00:30:49,200
He's famous for doing that stuff. The starting five that

556
00:30:49,319 --> 00:30:54,200
night was terrible, and you're just saving guys till you

557
00:30:54,279 --> 00:30:56,880
get home to play a game here, which is a

558
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,920
little bit of a revenge. Portland beat this team by

559
00:30:59,039 --> 00:31:01,960
twenty the end of October, so I think that's in

560
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,599
the back of Golden State's mind here. Of course, all

561
00:31:04,599 --> 00:31:06,519
the starters are going to come back and play tonight

562
00:31:06,559 --> 00:31:09,759
against a team that Tiago, Splitters says just doesn't have

563
00:31:09,799 --> 00:31:14,640
the energy to play fast anymore. Pat Spencer, Cam Spencer's

564
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,559
brother of all people, had to open up with a

565
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,599
quote who said, I think we'll be grateful at the

566
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,559
end of the year that this isn't the stretch that

567
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,400
we have to play at the end of the season,

568
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,440
talking about the six game road trip. They got it

569
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,079
over with. They don't have to deal with it at

570
00:31:29,079 --> 00:31:31,079
the end of the year. He had to play thirty

571
00:31:31,079 --> 00:31:33,359
two minutes the other night because you know, Kerr didn't

572
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,359
play anybody. I just think that game the other night

573
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,799
was a setup to come home to win big here.

574
00:31:39,599 --> 00:31:41,839
I don't know that the Cup means anything to the Warriors,

575
00:31:41,839 --> 00:31:43,799
but it is a Cup game. And I don't like

576
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,079
what Splitter said about, you know, team not having energy,

577
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,119
can't play the way they want to play right now,

578
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:53,480
and they're playing guys that should be in the developmental League.

579
00:31:53,759 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I wouldn't like that either, as if

580
00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:01,359
I'm thinking about the Blazers for sure. Yeah, that's I mean.

581
00:32:02,279 --> 00:32:05,880
Quote wise, can't back the Blazers. So move over to

582
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:11,359
the last game in the Association tonight, Thunder and Jazz

583
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,359
this when they go up from fourteen and a half

584
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,960
to sixteen and a half. Total has had a lot

585
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:17,960
of movement. It opened two thirty four and a half,

586
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,799
so I go up besides two thirty six and a half,

587
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,279
come back down as low as two thirty two and

588
00:32:23,279 --> 00:32:29,960
a half, and I'm gonna just start there with that total.

589
00:32:30,039 --> 00:32:32,720
You know, my initial thought earlier in the week when

590
00:32:32,759 --> 00:32:35,599
I'm thinking about this game is I can't wait to

591
00:32:35,599 --> 00:32:37,599
bet the Jazz over who they play on on Friday.

592
00:32:37,599 --> 00:32:41,000
I'm betting the Jazz over because that's how their home

593
00:32:41,039 --> 00:32:44,599
games are gone. This young team likes to run, run, run, run, run.

594
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,319
They see their opponent coming into the elevation and they

595
00:32:47,359 --> 00:32:49,880
just want to run them into the ground. But this

596
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:54,000
Thunder team, yeah, they don't mind running. I gotta pump

597
00:32:54,039 --> 00:32:58,119
the brakes like this Thunder defense has been elite. They're

598
00:32:58,119 --> 00:33:02,640
barely allowing teams to get a hundred pointints and in

599
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,440
a game where a point differential matters, they could absolutely

600
00:33:06,519 --> 00:33:11,279
just stuffocate this Utah Jazz team. And I don't view

601
00:33:11,319 --> 00:33:12,960
the Thunder as a team that's going to come into

602
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,319
OKAC and be tired and get you know, they have

603
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,119
so much depth, so many guys like their main players

604
00:33:19,119 --> 00:33:23,359
don't even play the fourth quarter most nights. I think

605
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,359
Okac's defense shows up. I think that's the reason that

606
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,920
they'll win by the big margin tonight. So I'd have

607
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,039
to butt the Utah home trend of high scoring games.

608
00:33:33,599 --> 00:33:35,640
If it's high scoring, it's because the Jack the Thunder

609
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,000
is scoring tonight. I think it will be Jazz team

610
00:33:39,039 --> 00:33:44,160
total under for me in this game or nothing. How

611
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:44,839
do you feel, you know?

612
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:51,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, from the Oklahoma City defensive standpoint, Ski, what

613
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,680
they like to do kind of is hand in glove

614
00:33:54,119 --> 00:33:56,400
with Utah because I don't know that Utah has the

615
00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:01,200
best ball protection backcourt. Oklahoma He's gonna come smother you.

616
00:34:01,359 --> 00:34:06,599
And they're getting healthier by the day. Really, remember the

617
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,719
beginning of the season they played with a lot without

618
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,880
a lot of bodies in that rotation and still one games.

619
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,320
To your point about Oklahoma City not walking in, let's

620
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,480
say the way that we compared or compare them to

621
00:34:18,519 --> 00:34:20,280
Denver the way we just talked about Denver kind of

622
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,320
lack a daisical. Okay, see sixteen and one. They have

623
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,760
been lack a daisical at all, and they've covered some

624
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,639
of these numbers. So the fact that they pressure the

625
00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:30,000
ball as much as they do and score in bunches

626
00:34:30,039 --> 00:34:32,440
off steels. I don't know that Utah's ball handling is

627
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:37,000
good enough to prevent that from happening here. I know,

628
00:34:37,119 --> 00:34:39,440
okay See, you'll be rooting for Phoenix tonight because if

629
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,679
Phoenix wins, it would throw Oklahoma City with a wind

630
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:46,480
themselves into a tie for that first place for the Cup.

631
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,960
And they still have a game with Minnesota left in

632
00:34:49,079 --> 00:34:53,239
the Cup, so Oklahoma City could certainly win it out

633
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,159
of their bracket as well. I just you know that

634
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,320
there doesn't seem to be any let up in okay See.

635
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,679
You would think all for the championship last year. They

636
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,320
played deep into the season more than anybody else that

637
00:35:04,599 --> 00:35:08,840
perhaps you know a little. I guess load management is

638
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,679
caused by being ahead by so much at the end

639
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:12,639
of three. I guess you can do it that way too,

640
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:14,400
because that's the way they're doing it right now. I

641
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,480
wouldn't want Utah. I'm with you that you know, the

642
00:35:18,559 --> 00:35:20,920
scoring in their home games has been way different than

643
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:24,119
the road games. But let's let's find an easier defensive

644
00:35:24,119 --> 00:35:25,800
opponent for them where they can get off for the

645
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,039
one twenty plus that they like to score at home.

646
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 1: All right, I yeah, I think I think this one

647
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:39,199
could be a beat down, rob, you know, a beat down.

648
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,679
So that's the NBA car for today. I think we

649
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,360
did enough on NFL yesterday, unless there is anything else

650
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,800
that she wanted to talk about, you know, I think

651
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:49,360
we're okay.

652
00:35:51,119 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're okay with it. The NFL. We did a

653
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,159
good job yesterday. It just kept growing yesterday it went

654
00:35:57,199 --> 00:36:01,079
from one to three.

655
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:03,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you want to hear somewhere NFL, we

656
00:36:04,159 --> 00:36:07,360
did talk about it yesterday. You know, thoughts han't changed really,

657
00:36:07,599 --> 00:36:12,679
so yeah, I guess on that note we will or

658
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,320
before I go to best bets. So let's do the

659
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:21,039
promo stuff. We'll remind everybody about Weekend Warrior. If you

660
00:36:21,079 --> 00:36:23,320
want to be involved for NFL, you can get Saturday,

661
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,159
Sunday and Monday night football includes five percent place you

662
00:36:27,199 --> 00:36:30,599
get them for only forty nine dollars. You prefer basketball,

663
00:36:31,119 --> 00:36:33,360
we have the full court all that access past three

664
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,199
days of college basketball, and NBA get that for only

665
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,320
forty nine dollars. If you want a little bit of everything,

666
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,559
you can get ten days of picks for less than

667
00:36:40,639 --> 00:36:43,719
ten dollars per day, check out Robino or myself see

668
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,079
if you want to, you know, continue a little longer

669
00:36:46,159 --> 00:36:49,440
term or however that may go. We want that longer term.

670
00:36:50,159 --> 00:36:53,039
Get five hundred dollars off of one year past comes

671
00:36:53,079 --> 00:36:55,400
out to just one twenty five a month. And if

672
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,599
you were to go rock with Robno for a year,

673
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,239
you would get a twenty five percent bonus cube. You

674
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,440
could come check out some of my stuff as well.

675
00:37:03,119 --> 00:37:07,880
So that is it's a promo for today, you know,

676
00:37:08,559 --> 00:37:11,559
best bets. Before you give yours, I'll ask you if

677
00:37:11,559 --> 00:37:14,599
there's anything else you'd like to promote. And if you

678
00:37:14,599 --> 00:37:16,280
don't have a best bet, that's okay too.

679
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 2: Promos You've got him coverage Ski that's good for the

680
00:37:21,039 --> 00:37:24,639
weekend NFL still remains really good for me. So if

681
00:37:24,639 --> 00:37:26,519
you're into the Weekend Warrior, if you're into football, the

682
00:37:26,519 --> 00:37:30,199
Weekend Warrior pass probably a good one to follow me with.

683
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,079
And just you know, Golden State was the player I

684
00:37:34,119 --> 00:37:36,000
played the biggest, so I'm going to leave that here

685
00:37:36,079 --> 00:37:37,840
is the best bet I gave. The reasons why I

686
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,679
don't like what Splitter said, like the fact that Golden

687
00:37:40,679 --> 00:37:44,480
State's got a little bit of revenge, you know, to me,

688
00:37:44,559 --> 00:37:48,239
Steve Kerr set up tonight's game the way he always

689
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,320
does on road trips by not playing anybody in the

690
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,519
Vinyl game. So for me, it's Golden State minus the

691
00:37:52,599 --> 00:37:54,159
seven and a half. I know we see some eights

692
00:37:54,199 --> 00:37:56,440
out there now, so shop around, try to get the

693
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,519
best number you can. But for me, best bet Golden

694
00:37:58,519 --> 00:38:01,480
State minus the seven and a half. I think there's

695
00:38:01,519 --> 00:38:03,119
still a bunch of those still available.

696
00:38:05,119 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 1: I like it for myself. You know, I'm gonna go.

697
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,360
I'm gonna go with like I said, this game could

698
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,960
go either way, but I'm gonna go with what I've

699
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:20,280
been seeing lately, and that's Wizards. Team total under one

700
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,400
thirteen is a number I got. I mean, I bet.

701
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:28,880
I've been betting on Toronto's defense a lot lately. They've

702
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:30,960
held I think nine of their ten opponents under the

703
00:38:31,039 --> 00:38:35,400
team total, so that defense has been locked in. Washington's

704
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,079
been a team that's really struggling to score. If you

705
00:38:38,119 --> 00:38:40,960
look at I mean, I can look at their last

706
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,480
ten games here. Let me just go back there for

707
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,800
Washington the last ten games, they're averaging one hundred and

708
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,920
nine point two points per game, So just really struggling there.

709
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:54,599
And if you look at what the Raptors have been

710
00:38:54,599 --> 00:38:57,679
allowing last ten, it's one O eight point five. And

711
00:38:57,679 --> 00:39:00,599
if you look more at their home game in that

712
00:39:00,679 --> 00:39:04,559
last ten, it's one O four. So I just you know,

713
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,719
if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Let's bet on

714
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,599
that Raptors defense. Let's faith those bum ass Wizards team

715
00:39:10,679 --> 00:39:13,679
total under one thirteen for Washington will be my best

716
00:39:13,679 --> 00:39:18,280
bet for the show. Vino. Oh, and a reminder to

717
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,679
everybody that I do have a five percent play lock

718
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,199
and loaded for tonight, and I've hit sixteen in my

719
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,400
last twenty bets, so if you want that five percent,

720
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,000
we had a five percent winner on the Raptors on Wednesday.

721
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,000
I'm pretty sure we have another one here tonight, so

722
00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:35,079
if you want to be involved, that's also available. Veno

723
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,079
always appreciate you taking the time to capt these games

724
00:39:38,079 --> 00:39:40,559
with me. Helps my process and I'm sure you help

725
00:39:40,599 --> 00:39:44,400
everybody else as well. People in the comments, we appreciate you.

726
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,480
You guys are great people, great cappers, and we all

727
00:39:46,559 --> 00:39:48,559
just you know, we're here trying to help each other cast.

728
00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:51,920
So best of luck on all your action tonight. We'll

729
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:56,280
be back again Monday, so until then, peace,