Speaker 1: What's up everybody? Welcome into another episode of Prophet Picks.
If you are new, we always start this show by
being transparent, and yesterday the liberty did not get there.
For myself, I had the minus twelve, got the best
of the number, didn't matter at all, So I think, yeah,
thinks have still been doing okay above sixty percent of
the last two or three weeks, but have lost back
to back days. So need to pick it up there, Rob.
You know, hopefully yesterday was better for you. How are
you doing today?
Speaker 2: I'm good Ski. Yesterday wasn't really much better. I had
a small play on the Aces team total over eighty
seven and a half really didn't come close. I don't
think I had a chance in that game, especially second
half slowed down considerably offensively. So, like you, things have
still been going good. I'm not going to complain. It's
been a winning month in August. We've had like five
of the last six winning months. So but got to
be better here today. I thought, really, I really thought
the Eases would have a good chance against that defense
last night of the Sky and didn't work out that way.
Speaker 1: Well, let's see if we can do better here today.
We have two games. I think today's show will be
a little bit quicker, so let's get straight to it.
Six twenty three, six twenty four, Seattle and Indiana opened
up minus two for Seattle looks like four right now,
and the total has skyrocketed from one to sixty two
and a half all the way. It's high as one
sixty nine. If we're looking at who is available, nobody
on the injury report for the Storm. For the Fever,
I mean, we know all the players they've lost for
the year, but also going to be without Chloe Bibbie,
Caitlin Clark still not ready to come back yet, and
both of these teams i mean still in that playoff race.
I'm pretty sure Seattle is like a game above the Fever,
so it is an important game for both. That increase
in the total, I mean stands out to me right away, Rob,
you know, and I have Fever minus four on the screen.
It should be plus four. That's my mistake. But yeah,
that total moving up by about six seven points. I
can understand because the Fever haven't been playing much defense,
and if you look at the Storm lately, they've been
number one in pace last five games. So I'm curious
if you're in agreement with that move up on the
total or how are you looking at this game?
Speaker 2: Yeah? When I first saw it, Ski, I immediately checked.
I assumed that it meant Caitlin Clark would be back.
She's been back to some activities, but obviously listed as out,
So then I had to dig a little further and
absolutely right. I mean, Indiana's been playing good offensively too,
despite all the subtractions from that offense eighty eight plus
allowed in four straight games. Like you said, Seattle's been
picking up the pace a little bit. Seattle's got offensive
weapon Arym. Seattle's been playing pretty good offense without Gabby
Williams contributing on most nights, her shooting has been down considerably,
but Necka's been awesome. She was awesome last game, had
a game winner. We know the players on that team
that can score, so to me, I think my biggest
worry for Indiana ever since the Sophie Cunningham injury has
been defense. Sophie's probably the best remaining perimeter defender on
that team. Without her, they really do lack perimeter defense,
so Seattle should be able to take advantage and inside
Indiana's vulnerable as well, so I do agree with the
total move. When I looked at it again, I thought
to myself, you know what they're asking for eighty five
a side, and four straight Indiana games have hit one
seventy two or better. That includes Connecticut two against Minnesota.
The second one, of course, was with Collier back in
the lineup, but one was also against Washington, and Connecticut
and Washington aren't teams that we generally consider high octane
offensive teams, yet they were able to get, you know,
play Indiana and get over this particular total. So to me,
I think the last piece of handicap here would be
can Seattle's defense good enough? And on occasions it's really not.
It's Seattle's kind of a team that I'll just use
the word inconsistency for their defense. Some nights I look
at them and I say, that's the defense that you expect,
And there's other nights where that defense just doesn't show.
So I think this total is probably correct. Indiana must
see one way that they can win ball games right now,
and it's with points, and Seattle's capable of scoring them.
Speaker 1: Good point. Shout out to our guy. U Kapper says,
it's one forty am in the Philippines and he's watching
the show. Appreciate you tapping in, and he says his
only worry on the Storm side is travel fatigue. Yeah,
it is the fourth straight road game, but man, they
need every single one of these games. I can understand,
you know. For some reason, my gut in his game
was telling me that the Fever actually come out and
throw the first punch. But I don't believe in them
for the full game. So I guess Fever first half,
Storm full games kind of how I'm looking at this one,
or you know, I am in agreement with the total
going up. Yeah, unless you have anything else, you know,
we can move right over to the next game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, real quick, Ski, just on Fever first half. I'm
just looking right now for you. Forty five forty they win,
fifty two fifty they win, forty five fifty two they lose,
But that's a bunch of first half points. Wow, So yeah,
I could. I can understand that. And just real quick
back to your playoff mentioning here for the Storm side,
they're only a half a game ahead of Golden State.
They're obviously hanging on. They're only half a game ahead
of Indiana. Those three teams are within half a game
for the six, seven, eight slots so important to both sides.
You're extremely important to both sides.
Speaker 1: And this next game we're going and talk about here
also has big playoff implications Mercury. As Sparks opened up
minus three and a half, it did go up to
think about five, but since come back down to the
three and a half total though went from one seventy
two and a half and I'm looking at it as
high as one seventy seven and a half. Yeah, the
Sparks are outside looking in right now in that ninth spot.
They I want to say, if they just win their
next two games, then they will be even what I
think both the Valkyries and the Fever. And they do
play the Fever coming up I think next game. So
you know, it's nine game season for the Sparks. Try
to make it into the playoffs. They need every single one.
For the Mercury, they're in the kind of in the
think of things in the standings, but they could definitely
use some wins too. They beat the Sparks twice this year.
It was earlier in the season. Once was it might
have been the first game, and the other one was
June first, So Sparks look a lot different right now
than they did back then, and Mercury have been pretty
inconsistent I think in general. So if you thought about
these teams all season, you would think the Mercury are
the better team. But lately, I don't know. I like
what I've been seeing from the Sparks a little bit better.
You're at the house, you know they've been the worst
defense here. I've been pretty much all season. Nothing is changing.
They're gonna win games by out scoring you. But seeing
Kelsey Plumb at the end of that last game yelling,
you know, who need to play some defense. To say
it nicely, man, it's one thing to say it, but
I'm just thinking, can they do it? I know the
Mercury can play defense. Saying all that to say, I'm
looking at the Sparks side. If I if I'm betting
this one, and if I'm betting the total as well,
it would be believing and that the Sparks know if
they're gonna make the playoffs, they gotta play some kind
of defense here. So under or Sparks or what I'm
looking at here, how are you viewing this game?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I was gonna mention because when I saw the clip,
I immediately sent it to you. Of Kelsey Plumb, I
mean that was it's she was dead serious. But like
you just said, I had the same thought. We're thirty five,
thirty six games in and they haven't played defense yet,
so what makes her It's nice to say it, but
I don't know that it's gonna happen. The only thing
is they've had a lot of time off ski. They
haven't played since the twentieth the Sparks. They've had the
most time off of anybody. And maybe all that time
to prep and to rest, maybe you could come out
quick on the defensive end for the first let's say
twenty minutes. But I don't know that LA is a
team that can play defense for a full forty or
maybe they could play defense on a last possession type
situation that decides a game. I just don't think they
can play minutes some defense. All that said, I like
your word used with Phoenix in consistency. The offense has
been what's inconsistent?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: I had them over eighty and a half team total
the other day the less game they played, I think,
and they got to eighty one with like three minutes left,
so I won the bet, but they never scored after that,
and Satu has been missing an action offensively here. Alyssa
Thomas has carried this team. There was one game where
I think Kaleia Copper played hurt or didn't play at all.
I forget which it was, so that hurts a little bit.
But if not for Alyssa Thomas, they wouldn't win any
of these games at this point in time. So Ever,
since that blow up on the sidelines with Satu where
then she took the day off or the game off
for personal reasons, whatever, she came back, she had one
good game and since then just hasn't been the same.
So I don't you know. I have trouble with Phoenix
offensively in this one because my immediate reaction was, let's
just go play over one seventy seven and a half.
Generally they play high scoring games, two very high tempo offenses.
Makes a lot of sense, but the Kelsey Plumb quote,
the absence of Sobbily from the offense, it bothers me
enough to keep me off of that total. I do
think Phoenix is still the better team, the deeper team,
but I'm not willing to play them as a side either.
So I have a hard time with this game, and
I have not played anything involving side or.
Speaker 1: Total yet I think that, Uh, I don't know. I
like this game, I really do. We always have the
question of rest versus rest. Right Sparks have had five
days off, Mercury have had three. I mean you talked
about because he's some defense for the first twenty minutes.
He's some rusty offense too. This is a very interesting game,
Brian says rakia over one and a half threes. I'm
not I mean, I don't want to talk anybody off
the props. I haven't been digging deep into the props
and rakia Q has been playing well, so I don't
want to talk to you off of that. I think
we're done quick and easy today here, Rob, you know,
then I can head back home to Las Vegas. So
as zeb Miami says, he took Kelsey Plumb over twenty
and a half points, So good stuff here we will
or before we move it on over the best bets,
let's do a little bit of promo here, Rob, you know,
so first up, first up, or remind everybody of yesterday
and we'll go to today here as well, because the
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Thinks about what a little over thirteen hours left? You
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it is a five dollars Tuesday, So there you go, Rob,
you know, I see you right there. I like everybody
has a top player for five bucks. I have mine
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if you want to check us out, you know, it's
a good day to do so you can see what
the writer looks like, you know, see if you want
to get involved for a longer term. Now, Vino, I
will pass it back to you. I'll ask you if
there's anything else you like to promote, and if you
have a best bet for the show, we love to
hear it. If not so good real quick.
Speaker 2: Just in addition to what we said, you said about
five dollars Tuesday, Ski, I do have a play for
the birthday special that's still up. It was up yesterday
up today. I made it my NFL Week one best
bet because I feel like the price is going to
move on this game. So if you want to get
in early if you're somebody who likes to bed a
little bit early. NFL Week one best bet up and
available for the eleven dollars birthday price. I'm going to
go back to the first game because that's the one
I really like. I think Seattle Indiana are going to
go over everything. I think everything I see out of
Indiana has been just points points, points, And as concerned
as I was about them offensively maybe not having enough,
they seem to have enough to score on any occasion here.
So they're gonna have to win track meet ski because
we mentioned that their defense hasn't been good, and without
Sophie it's even worse. So I'm gonna play over It's
the how should I say it, It's the bad end
of the line at this point in time, one sixty
when you could have gotten one sixty two and a half.
But still it has all the makings of a one
to seventy plus game. So that's gonna be the best
bet for today, Seattle Indiana over the.
Speaker 1: Total All right, good stuff, rov you know I it's
gonna be a rare day where I don't give a
best bet. I've made my one play for five dollars Tuesday.
I haven't made anything else. I did play my first
play for college football, but you know we're not talking
college football right now, so this will be a rare
day where I don't have a best bet. But I
can't go out with acknowledging this rob. You know, let's
put this back on the screen. Hold, let's put this
back on the screen here and look at Look at
you capper in the chat. Oh hell no, what is
this mouth right there?
Speaker 2: If he posed for that, wonder if they just uh
planted that little New Year's Eve thing in his mouth?
That's it's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: You take one picture with no hat man that they
putting that dome on display every chance they get.
Speaker 2: What they were waiting for that one man.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, yeah, we appreciate you guys tapping in
with us. You know, I'll be back with you again tomorrow.
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