Speaker 1: What's up everybody? Welcome into another episode of Profit Picks.
If you are new, we do always start the show
by being transparent. Didn't do any shows over the weekend,
but I'm pretty sure it was like ten and seven
over the weekend, So didn't make a little bit of
money there. See if we can keep that going here
to start this week, be no good to be back
with you. How's everything for you?
Speaker 2: Weekend was good overall, really really good day Saturday on
all fronts. NBA, College hoop, NFL gave some back in
the NFL yesterday, but college hoop remained good. One player
was talking to you about it. Off there Houston Cougar's
team total over eighty and a half. Pretty easy, so
made money for the weekend. Look forward to kicking off
a new week and making some more.
Speaker 1: Man CJ sucks. Oh wow, I don't know what happened
to that guy. He just like fell off a cliff
the way he was playing from his rookie year till now.
It's like unrecognizable the player. I don't know. I don't
know what happened to him, but they might be looking
for a new quarterback over there in Houston.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is crazy. Man.
Speaker 2: I mean he runs around back there like he's running
from the cops and just flings the ball anywhere, and
it's like, what the hell you doing?
Speaker 1: Dude, got his got his line in hurt because you
want to jump and try to J Man. No, I
can't keep taking up for CJ anymore. I guys, that's it.
Ro You know he's on his own from here on out.
All right, let's talk some NBA. We have a few games.
Not gonna put any banners up. One game, I really
really want to talk about the rest. I mean, OKAC
in Cleveland opened up six and a half. Looks like
five and a half for Okay, see now they are
on the road. Total did come down about four points
to two twenty nine and a half. Hardenstein out, Jalen
Williams out. It does look like that's J dub out.
J Dub is out for this game. For the Calves,
Dean Wade is probable. No Garland, no Marrow, no Strews.
Calves have been playing better lately, Roveno. They still don't
play a whole lot of defense. This OKAYC team. I
feel like they still ever since, I mean it, for
their standards, they've been inconsistent. I still think they can
score on this Cavs team. Obviously hurts, we know, Jadub.
This is a game I'm having trouble playing here, Rono,
how are you doing okay? See in Cleveland?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: For me, the other side is hard because I don't
really like Cleveland necessarily without Darius Garland, without Sam Merrill,
without guys that can shoot the basketball. They've been without
Max Strews for a while, but kind of puts the
whole load down Downovan Mitchell's shoulders and whatever the front
line can do. But I feel like check can offset
some of the stuff that Mobley does. So I wanted
to get to Oklahoma City because they lost the other
night to Miami straight up. But I'm with you, they
had been pretty good the three before that, but then
to lose that game. Now be on the road for
what I think it's the third and four in a
four game trip. I believe they have one more left.
Just couldn't find enough advantages here either way, Ski to
play this one, so I let it go.
Speaker 3: The next game in the rotation I did play.
Speaker 1: This next game in the rotation is Clippers in Washington,
opened up five and a half, looked like six and
a half or seven, depending where you shot. For the
Clippers total went up as well, from two twenty three
and a half, it's high's two twenty six and a half.
Looking at injuries, Bogdanovic out, Jones out, Leonard out all out.
The Wizards still no Treyon, no Blao, no Vusovich. The
Wizards did cover their last game first the nugget. I mean,
they were absolutely pathetic ever since they make that trade
until then, but they did cover that last game. I
still don't think the Wizards are a team that's trying
to win. Honestly, the Clippers, I don't think they've been
so great ats wise without Kawhi Leonard. That would make
me hesitate. But you know, the Wizards game is almost
like this, almost like just pick who's gonna win and
they'll cover the spread. So if you ask me that
it will be Clippers. But I don't know, if you know,
I didn't get there. Did you get there in this game?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Because I played the schedule advantage here for Washington, first
game off the four game Western road trip, and to
make matters worse for Washington, they played back to backs.
Denver was the second of back to backs on Saturday night,
fly home, only get a day off and didn't have
to play a day game. It usually you get at
least till seven seven thirty at night, but you're just
home play an early start. Clippers had two days worth
the rest, haven't played since Friday, and they've been playing
really well. I took a look at what Washington's done
defensively hasn't been great. In fact, the other night Denver
had I mean, just look at what Charlotte did to
Denver last night when by nineteen is Denver's marching a
backup squad out there. Washington almost beat them, but they
gave up a lot of points. Six of the last
eight they've given up one seventeen or more. Today's Clippers
team total is one sixteen and a half.
Speaker 3: So I tried that.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to lay the full price with the
Clippers as the heaviest play in this game, but I
do think they'll get to one seventeen. Wizard's just not
playing a heck of a lot of defense right now,
and it's always in the back of my mind. You
mentioned it earlier, but what you said about since that
Trey Young trade doesn't seem like They're very interested in
winning contest. Their coach will tell you different, but sometimes
that's just coach talk, right.
Speaker 1: You know what I do worry about for the Clippers here, Yes,
they've been playing a lot, so Washington's been opposite. They've
been pathetic. I mean, Clippers do also play tomorrow. Do
they just overlook this game? You know early they game on,
they just overlooked the lowly Washington Wizards. That's the only
thing I'd worry about here. Other than that, seem straightforward
like a Clippers Clippers, you know, doing whatever they need
to do in that one. Next game is the game out.
Like most today, Dallas and New York opened up ten
looks like ten and a half total went from two
twenty nine and a half. Actually not a whole lot
of movement. We'll still call it two twenty nine and
a half. You have we all know what her name.
Lively has been out, but you have Gafford out, PJ.
Washington out, D Lokrie's been out a d out, and
then you have Cooper Flagg questionable. I mean, that could
be a hell of a lot, hell of a lot
of size missing for this Dallas team. Dwight Powell will
be starting that center for them tonight for the nixt
You do have Brunson and Heart both questionable here, but
they did participate, you know, in their practice yesterday. I
think that bowls well towards their chances of playing today.
And I mean this is the math team off of
back to back wins, right first, I mean back to
back wins for a team who's not winning very many games.
It might take a little bit of an ex hell here,
rob you know, this is also a Maths team that
has not been good on the road all year long.
I think they failed to cover like nine or ten
road games. You look at the Knicks, they should be
the hungry, they will be the hunger your team tonight.
They're off of three straight losses. You're fine. I mean
you could get them fully healthier tonight. And big advantage
I mean, regardless if you have Heart or Brunson or
you know out there, which I think you have both,
but regardless of that huge advantage down low, huge advantage
on the boards. I mean, Karl Anthony Towns, Mitchell Robinson.
It should be second chance point out the second chance
point after you know, basket and the paint. I just
think there's a lot of ways for the next to
have success here. I think the Knicks smash I took
the next minus ten and a half. You know what
he liked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't disagree with any of its ski it's
you know, one thing we should note that home teams
on Martin Luther King Day, you do get a pretty
a pretty frenzied crowd and MSG will likely be one
of the loudest arenas out there tonight for sure. Nicks
off of three losses in a row. We did talk
about this Dallas disadvantage at the rim last week. It's
been you know, Dwight Powell, he wasn't That's why they
went out and got all these other guys because Dwight
Powell couldn't play some That's why they have Lively, That's
why they have even Pj's out, D'Angelo Russell. That we
talk about the point guard situation, Cooper Flagg, d'anngel Russell.
You know, I know Nembhard's been good, Brandon William's been good,
but they're just shy, way too much Dallas in this
instance for a next team that should want to get
a win after three consecutive losses, I'm with you. It
just seems like this line. I honestly, I couldn't figure
out why they didn't bet it up even to twelve
twelve and a half. Maybe they will later, but right
now you still get the opening number basically, so I'm
with you.
Speaker 3: Got to be a Knicks play here all right?
Speaker 1: Next game, I don't have very much interest. Honestly, Utah
and San Antonio sixteen and a half point spread. I'm
willing to just pass on this game, Robi, unless there's
anything you like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very briefly.
Speaker 2: With Utah, it's usually total over or nothing they score.
Speaker 3: They allow you to score.
Speaker 2: Two forty and a half is out of their range anymore,
even away from home, it's not out of their range anymore.
Speaker 3: So it's the only way I would look. But I
didn't bet it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm gonna I mean, I'm gonna skip
the next game too, unless you want the Pacers and
six Ers.
Speaker 3: Nothing to say on the Sixers today.
Speaker 1: And the Sun seems interesting. It's definitely a pillion to
take the Suns. They have gone up from six and
a half as high as nine. Out there totals come
down from two nineteen as long as two fifteen and
a half the nets. I'm pretty sure they have not
covered it back.
Speaker 3: To back this year.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be without cam Thomas sharp Igor. I mean,
they're not gonna have a whole lot out there for Phoenix.
Devin Booker and Jalen Green are both questionable. I mean,
it seems very easy to go take the Suns, especially
if they're fully healthy. But the one thing I'll say is,
I mean, you never know how it's going to work
out when you integrate that HOWSS player like Jalen Green
back into the lineup, maybe throw some things off. It's
just combination of that. Phoenix, I feel like they've been
on a road forever. Let me just check here. No,
not forever, but it is their fourth straight road game.
They play another game tomorrow. I think they'll care more
about the Sixers tomorrow than they'll care about tonight. It's
just another one of those situations like that. So I
can't lay with the Suns very comfortably because of that.
But I don't want the nets. So you know, I'm
curious if this is a game you're interesting to getting
involved in.
Speaker 2: Well, the Suns are fourteen and two against the spread
last sixteen, so if I'm not betting the Suns.
Speaker 3: I'm not betting at all.
Speaker 2: Like you say, Brooklyn off back to back here, Phoenix
has been playing terrific, especially on the defensive end. It's
just an attitude with this team now, Ski that's way
different than the one from last year and this fourteen
and two. Like I said, I can't get in the
way of that, they've held the opponent's team total. The
opposing team total is now nine to two to the
under in their last eleven games. So really good defense
here winning ball games. Some of those fourteen and two
ATS covers are as an underdog. I get it, they're
all not in this price range where they're on the
road laying a fairly sizeable number. But Brooklyn just offensively
doesn't have much to offer here. So I'd probably look
Brooklyn team total under if I was gonna look at all.
Speaker 1: Can't playing against the Suns right now, all right, Boston
and Detroit. It should be a good game actually, but
just don't have very strong opinions. I don't want to
waste everybody's time. Like Martin Luther king Day, I you
know a lot of teams on back to backs, et cetera,
et cetera. I just don't want to play too much today,
So Boston and Detroit. It did go down from four
and a half to three. Do you agree with the
line movement towards Boston or you think Detroit at home
should get the job done.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say I agree with it, Ski, but I
would say I could somewhat understand it, just because Boston's
been playing so good, and we started talking about them
a couple of weeks ago as to how they were
all of a sudden on the knicks heels for vision
lead and kind of quietly because they weren't shooting the
ball particularly well early on.
Speaker 3: They're doing it now.
Speaker 2: All that said, I've probably said ten twelve times this
year that Detroit just seems like a team that cares
about every single game.
Speaker 3: And I don't want to really play against them either,
because they do.
Speaker 2: They play hard every night. They're going to give you
full effort here at home tonight. Understand people thinking Boston
because of the way they've played lately, but I can't
get there with that few points. Detroit could easily separate
at the end of this game and win by more
than this, So kind of a tough look here scale
even looked at the total and couldn't come up with
a definitive way because I almost think it might take
on a bit of a playoff atmosphere and maybe get
a little more defense than offense, which is what you
expect out of these two teams, Boston pace and slow.
It's a long winded way of saying hard to bet it.
I have conflicting arguments for both sides.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a tough one, very much a tough one. The
last game is Miami and Golden State. It did come
down from six and a half to five and a half.
Golden State they've been playing well lately where they've won
what three games in a row. The Heat did just
beat the Thunder as a big underdog. Both of these
teams do play tomorrow. The Warriors play the Raptors at home.
The Heat played the Kings on the road. This is
just h I don't know. It's a little tough for me.
Injury report looks like Miami will be pretty healthy minus
Tyler Hero for the Warriors, Melton Santos, Seth Curry all out,
Draymond is probable. Man, I made some some money in
that last Warriors game minus seven versus Hornets. They wanted
to blowout. But I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just.
Speaker 1: Something about the Heat, like the Heat always played the
Warriors tough, Like the Heat damn near got the Warrior's number,
I feel like, and let me just plans, let me
try to pull it up here. So he beat them one, two, three.
They've been in the last three times and the worst
one beating the two times before that. They've beat them
five of the last six times. Maybe there's some kind
of matchup here that just bothers doors. I don't know,
if you know, just the thought of how the thought
of Miami playing well, beating the Thunder like that, and
this being a matchup they thrived in makes me not
wan to lay against them. It makes me lay in
Miami or nothing in this game. What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I made a pretty good score on Golden State
total wise over the course of the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: Ski, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I stumbled upon the first one and then saw the
game and it was like, these guys are playing really
good offensively. Came back with it was either team total
or full game over, but their team total just for
it's worth five and one over the number the last
six they've been playing really good offense. Boy, you look
at the final scores, they all if you take opponent
into context, they all come within the number that's given
tonight in this full game. And that being said Miami
two forty two, two thirty three, two forty eight, two
thirty six. They've been up there again as well after
kind of a low in offense, but Tyler Hero had
come back and took a couple of games for him
to get back into the swing of things, and since
then they've kind of taken off. So I think over
is the right play here. I don't think either defense
is gonna be the best unit on the feet on
the court here, and I think both sides can score.
So in modern day, two forty is really not asking
too much anymore. And the way these guys are playing offense,
the two of them, I think it probably gets over.
I my initial lean when I first looked, I was
gonna go ahead and play Golden State team total over.
Then I saw the number, I said, well I won
twenty three. Maybe that's too rich, So turned my attention
to the full game. Want to include everybody here because
they both get to score. It wouldn't surprise me who
the winner ends up being but I think two forty
or more is what they land on in the final score.
Speaker 1: AUR good stuff. You know, think we did a pretty
good job. Cappanese NBA games for Monday. Now we can
move on over to best bets. Actually, let me do
put this up on the screen. We usually put this
up because this is a pretty good one seven day
all access for sixty nine dollars. You're pretty much getting
seven days for the price of three. Comes out to
under ten dollars per day. And this is all sports,
so you know for NFL playoffs. You know, we do
got lot college basketball going right now. NBA, we're doing
a little bit of everything. There robno on that note.
I'm going to pass it back to you. I'll ask
you if there's anything else you would like to promote,
and if you have a best bet for the show,
we love to hear it. You don't all good?
Speaker 2: Yeah, real quick, for anybody interested in the college football
National Championship Game tonight, I do have a play up
and available on that Indiana Miami, Florida contest for best Betski.
Speaker 3: I'll go back to the beginning of the card and
it is a day game.
Speaker 2: You guys still have an hour left to get it
if you want a tail, but I'm on the LA
Clippers team total over one sixteen and a half.
Speaker 3: Discuss the reasons why.
Speaker 2: I just think it's a bad scheduling spot for Washington,
a team that hasn't played a lot of defense over
the course of the last couple of weeks, really all season,
but especially the last two weeks. Six of the eight
opponents they've played of all reached one seventeen are better.
So for best bet and a game that I'm already on,
the Clippers team total over one sixteen and a half.
Speaker 1: Good stuff from Robino, and for myself, i'mnna keep looking
throughout the day for college basketball. We've been doing some
work in college basketball, but I'm gonna leave My NBA
best bet is the New York Knicks minus to ten
and a half. A lot of reasons why they should
care about the spot. They're healthy, a lot healthier than
what we're looking at it. On the other side, a
lot of advantages to be had, especially on the boards tonight.
So my best bet will be the New York Knicks
minus ten and a half. And yeah, hopefully we can
come back with a winner. Tomorrow. You know, I always
appreciate you taking the time to kept these games with us.
Always let you know it helps my process. I'm sure
it helps everybody else as well, people in the chat.
We appreciate you guys tuning in. We should have I
think I didn't check, but we should have some games. Yeah,
we do. We have a good amount of games tomorrow,
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