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Speaker 1: What's up everybody. Welcome into another episode of Prophet Picks.

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If you are new, this show has always started by

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being transparent, and yesterday I gave a best bet winner

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for the show with the Valkyries plus eight. But my

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five dollars Tuesday play was a loser with the Sparks

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and Aces over one seventy two and a half. Man,

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it just never, it never felt like for me, just

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me personally, when I bet a total and the market

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moves with me and it's just going it loses. I

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don't know what it is about the totals in the

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market for me, but that was not good Meino. I

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know you had Valkyries first half with the winner. Was

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the rest of your day just as good?

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Speaker 2: But the rest of my day wasn't just as good

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because I was involved in the Sparks and Aces game two.

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I liked it. Sparks team total over eighty six and

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a half and they really never got untracked in that game.

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Las Vegas got off to a really fast start. Sparks

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did not make a lot of shots. It was the

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return of Cameron Brink who actually, for not playing in

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four hundred plus stays, looked pretty good. So things to

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come on the horizon for Los Angeles. Have to write

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it off. Maybe it's just one of those offensive performances, Ski,

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because they had been really really good during this recent stretch,

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but last night not so good. So one in one

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split will look to do better today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta do a little bit better here, Jeffrey.

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Maybe I can't. I can't make any promises.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I try to be a little

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bit more on time, but he says, Ski gonna be

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late for his own wedding one day if I get married.

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That's a that's another story though. So first came up.

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We're gonna go six oh one, six oh two. Phoenix

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and Indiana opened up minus two and a half for

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the Mercury. I see it as high as four total

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open one sixty two and a half. It just continues

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to climb one sixty seven and a half. As far

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as who is available, nobody on the edge report for

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Phoenix for Indiana still without Kaitlyn Clark.

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Speaker 3: So both of these teams well rested.

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Speaker 1: Both last played on the twenty seven, so two days

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rest for each and the Fever off back to back wins. Meanwhile, well,

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the Mercury did did bounce back with a win, but

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the Mercury before that had not been playing very good basketball.

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Speaker 3: It felt like they were out of rhythm.

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Speaker 1: Maybe in that second half of the game wheresus Washington,

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they found that rhythm because they did explode. But that's

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what I've been waiting for, you know, ever since Sa

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to Kalia. Everybody's back healthy, it's just been kind of

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kind of shakier iffy for them for the fever. They've

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shown they can't compete. They know how to play, whether

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Caitlyn Clark is in the lineup or not. They're in

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my opinion, playing a little bit better than the Mercury

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right now they're at home. My first inclination is fever

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first half. I feel like the Mercury have been very

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slow out the gates, like first quarter, and Fever have

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very strong, you know, the first twenty minutes of games.

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Speaker 3: So that's the way I'll lean in this one. How

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are you doing it? Robie?

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Speaker 1: Know?

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Speaker 2: Well, I would say first off that I come here

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with all these notes and then you go ahead and

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steal like sixty percent of them. So I don't know

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much to back, but I agree with you. I agree

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with you and a lot of this stuff here. First off,

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let let's just start with Phoenix and being back in rhythm, right,

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because it's been since too and Claire Copper got back

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into the lineup. Their offense wasn't really in, as you said,

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a good rhythm, but they played a couple of really

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good offensive halves in that most recent game against Washington,

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forty two in the first half, forty six points in

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the second half. A little bit of consistency. That's a

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good sign for the offense. Which you know, you go

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through a Phoenix box score after watching their game and

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you don't sometimes you don't realize they're running nine to

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ten players in and out of games. Their minutes don't

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really get to the point where you worry about fatigue

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with the Phoenix team. I know they're un rest here,

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but I'm just making a general point about how deep

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this team is and how many players they can run

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in and out. So that'll be good for them here tonight.

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The defense, though, Ski, I'm not so sure that the

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defense is quite there yet. Now. They only gave up

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twenty six in the second half to Washington, which is

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an extremely low total, and Washington is subject to having

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those miserable halves. We talked about that a little bit yesterday.

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Then they went out and scored one hundred and three

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last night. But since Sobbly and Copper came back into

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the lineup, the team had played a total of six

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halves prior to the twenty six that they gave up

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in the second half. How about these half calf totals

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fifty one, forty six, forty six, forty three, and thirty

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nine was the low. The defense hasn't been great for

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Phoenix right now. Sometimes it doesn't matter because they can

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outscore you. Their last dozen games, they've allowed eighty one

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or more, and seven of those. What's interesting to note

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is that the other five games in that dozen they

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only allowed an average of seventy four point two, which

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would lead the league in defense if that was a

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full season number. But you know what, those four games

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Satu and Copper weren't playing. It's crazy you think when

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Satu comes back, they're a better defensive team. But they

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played great defense inside those four games. However, you dig

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a little deeper into that scheme, you find out those

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four three of them were against Minnesota and Golden State,

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two of the slowest tempos going. I remember watching a

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couple of those Phoenix games without Sobbly and Copper, they

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started to slow down. They didn't play as fast because

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they were shorthanded. So there's reasons why they kept those

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games lower scoring, which leads me to believe that the

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deep defense is just mostly what it's been for the

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majority of the season. It's not a great defense. Indiana

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can score on them. You talked about how they've scored

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without Caitland Clark. Without Caitland Clark, how about this. The

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last ten games, Indiana's averaging over eighty six points a game.

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Six of those ten are without Clark, so it just

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doesn't matter at this point. They're used to it enough.

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I think both offenses are the best units on the

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floor here. It was a great number at the opener.

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I did release this game today at one sixty six.

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It's now one sixty seven and a half. But I

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do think this game's gonna find its way up and over.

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I just think these two offenses are too high powered

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not to find their way to eighty four side.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not mad at that I mentioned a couple.

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Speaker 1: I mean, props Ari, she didn't hit that four and

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a half a sis her last two games. Her minutes

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have been kind of iffy, but we know most of

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the games about Clayton Clark she has and getting a

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five plus assist, just a slight lean theer Kelsey Mitchell.

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I mean, when there's no Kaitlyn Clark, the Fever are

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not going to have a chance unless she's scoring. And

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she's been doing just that. I mean she's had twenty

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plus I want to say, seven of her last eight

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games something like that, So asking her to get twenty

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again tonight, the nineteen and a half number seems very

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very doable, So I lean towards Kelsey Mitchell. I think

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that's what I feel most confident about in this game.

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All right, next up we have I mean it should

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it was supposed to be a good one, but it

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keeps getting more and more watered down by the minute.

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Speaker 3: I guess Links and Liberty opened up eight and a half.

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We see, I mean it's.

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Speaker 1: Been moving the entire like the past thirty minutes. I

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feel like, but I see seven, I see eight, seven

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and a half. So it just all depends where you

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shot for this one. The total steady moving up open

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one sixty one and a half. We now see it

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as high as one sixty seven and a half at

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a shop, So a lot of people thinking we should

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see some points. There are some injury concerns here, a

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lot for well really none for Minnesota. But for the Liberty,

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Natasha Cloud is now questionable with the illness. They will

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be without Kennedy Burke, Naar, Savy and Stewie and of

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course Emma Missiman is not ready to make her debut

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on the Liberty yet. So missing a lot for this

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New York team. And this is kind of throws a

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wrenching in my thought process here, you know, because I

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mean they're potentially missing two starters here. I mean, like

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I said, it waters down the game quite a bit.

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This is supposed to be a spot where the Links

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have been waiting to give them a little bit of

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payback after they stole the WNBA Finals from them. No

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Stewie seeing no Cloud. We see this time and time again,

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you know, where the team just like overlooks him almost

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And in a normal game I would lean that way.

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I still think the Links should be focusing and want

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to win this game.

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Speaker 3: Do they want to win? Or can they win by

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double digits?

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Speaker 1: They can, but it makes me hesitant, And what else

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I don't like is the Liberty or off back to

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back losses. The Liberty had a players meeting after the

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last game, right talking about.

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Speaker 3: Their poor stars to games.

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Speaker 1: That makes me think that no matter who's on the

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court for them, they're going to come out strong early

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in the game. So I wanted, I really wanted to have.

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I had a whole write up before the line even

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came out, wanting to take the links. I saw the

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line of the day and a half after everything that

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I just explained with the Liberty, and I could not

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press the button. Have you been able to press the

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button in this game? VE know?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: I didn't because I couldn't understand the movement in the

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line ski. I couldn't understand why there was Liberty money

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under the assumption that Breonna Stewart wasn't going to play?

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What are you betting the Liberty for? And then recently,

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within the last couple hours, you get in the Natasha

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Cloud game time decision, and I still wonder, what are

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you betting the Liberty for if you're not going to

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be one of those two. When the Liberty last played,

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it was against Dallas, and I had made a case

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for Dallas team total over based on not Brianna Stewart's

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ability to score, but she means so much defensively to

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that team on the boards. Rim protection Natasha Cloud means

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just as much to the perimeter defense of that team.

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Escu's not a great perimeter defender. They really don't have

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a great perimeter defender outside of Cloud. So now you

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got the best interior defender, the best perimeter defender, SODA

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team total should be doable here, Ski, the New York

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defense has not been good as of late. They like

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I say, they give them ninety two to Dallas the

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other night, and Dallas only scored seven in the fourth quarter,

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so they gave up eighty five and three quarters. I

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think it was sixty three at halftime. Over the course

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of their last ten games or so, I think they're

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giving up eighty plus. A lot of those are with Stewart.

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So now, like I say, MINUS heard the other night,

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they didn't look good. Dallas is a team that crashes

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the boards. I get it. They get a lot of

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second chance points. I get it. Minnesota has that capability too,

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although I will say that Elina Smith got hurt at

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the end of last game and ankle I think, but

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I think she came back on the floor, so their

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front line is intact. I don't know. To me, I

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may end up playing this. I may end up playing

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Minnesota over that team total of eighty seven, just because

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I don't see New York as being a defensive threat

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in this game. I know Minnesota goes slow. We talk

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about how methodical they are all the time, but in

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that same sentence, you have to speak about how effective

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they are every possession. You can go slow, but if

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you're scoring, and if you're shooting the way this team shoots,

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best two point shooting team in the league, second best

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three point shooting team in the league, then I don't

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worry too much about pay So I may get to

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Minnesota team total here.

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Speaker 3: What's the number there? Eighty seven?

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Speaker 2: You said eighty seven.

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Speaker 1: I mean that does make sense to me. We know

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how good, we know how good Minnesota's offense is. I

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mean two of their last three games they did have

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ninety plus. Minnesota so far this year off a loss.

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I mean they've covered every game they've gone over all

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five games they scored ninety plus, and all of those

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games off of a loss. Even if they start slow here,

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it up. What you said about Breonna Stewarts defense, Like,

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here's my first start in the game I was watching,

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or the recent games I was watching, it feels like

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when teams drag JJ out the paint, like having a

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big on the perimeter that can shoot her with the

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ball or whatever, there's nobody back there to help protect

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the rim. And I mean, but the same and the

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same like when JJ was out, it was the same, right,

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it was just Stewie, but they were able to play defense.

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So I still almost have a belief like if they

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if they give better effort, they can play defense. But

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still just seeing them give up that ninety two to

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Dallas game before that, they gave up what ninety or

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one hundred and two to the Sparks, I think it was.

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Speaker 3: I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: I think Minnesota should be able to score, if anything,

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in this one. So either Minnesota or Minnesota team total over.

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I guess there directions that I'm looking at in this game.

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Speaker 2: I think what makes it worse Ski real quick as

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far as room protection, this concern is that you don't

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even have cig. I mean, your backup big isn't even there,

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So they've just lacked presence. We're rebounding and defense is

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concerned in.

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Speaker 1: My mind, and what I mentioned about bringing the big

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out right, Minnesota is gonna do that. They're gonna have

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a bunch of shooters on the court. John cole Jones

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is at some point is gonna have to come out

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to paint. And their team that swings the ball and

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moves the ball and screens like there should be a

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lot of back huts and easy buckets for them tonight.

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So that's how I see it. Let's easyb Miami things.

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Celeberty come out, throw the first punch, then the Links

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win the game. Definitely could happen, all right, one more

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game left here, you know, Dream and Wings opened up

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minus five for Atlanta on the road. They are down

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as low as three total to open one sixty five,

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and it looks like it's up as how as one

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sixty seven. Injury report here, I mean, we all know,

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I mean the same two usual, So respects for both

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team here, right. Ryan Howard going to be out for

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a while for Atlanta. Maddy Segers out for the Wings.

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This is the Dream on the back to back. They

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lost to the Valkyries last night. They were making a

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comeback effort just couldn't get it all the way done.

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And this is also a chance for them to get

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some double digit in season revenge. Right last time they

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played this Wings team, it was probably their worst game

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of the season.

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Speaker 3: They lost fifty five to sixty eight.

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Speaker 1: They let the Wings defense hold them to fifty five points.

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So I think I think they do remember that game,

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and I think they really put in a good effort

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to bounce back in this game. The Wings are coming

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off a game where they played well. They won as

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an underdog, like we just talked about against the Liberty,

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but I think that was just more on the Liberty

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playing bad. The Dream have been playing really good lately.

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They've been really naming their number offensively too. I have

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to think, especially you know them, being where they are understandings,

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they really want to come in and win this game.

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You're really just asking them to win at the current number,

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and I think they can. I don't necessarily care that

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the Wings have rest advantage. I would prefer to have

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my money on the better team, and I do think

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the Dream can name their number. So Dream Team Total

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or Dream are the ways I'm looking in this matchup.

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How do you feel about it.

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Speaker 2: Man, I love what you said at the end their

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ski because I was going to say, this line's been

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pushed down, and it's pushed down with Dallas money probably

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just based on the situation, right as you laid out,

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back to back with travel, third and four days. But

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you could bet Dallas in this situational spot at your

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own risk, with your own money, because it's not They're

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not a team that you want to just find a

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situation and play them. They had a great game last game,

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but we know how sporadic they are, we know how

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bad their defense is. So despite the fact that the

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schedule makers made it tough on Atlanta and we could

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see for one second, I'll just pat ourselves on the

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back here because we saw that Golden State Atlanta game

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coming last night. First half on my side, full game

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on your side. Both worked out. It was kind of

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just a textbook type effort out of Atlanta as a

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big favorite in that game. But before that game, back

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to back ninety point performances on the road. One was

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against the number one defense in the league, Minnesota. And

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just like we said about Indiana learning how to score

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without Caitlin Clark, I feel like Atlanta's learned how to

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score without Ryan Howard. They're not the fastest up and

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down team in the league, but if you want to

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run with them, they will run. They're not adverse to running.

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So Dallas is going to push pace the number two

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paced team over the last ten games, number three, I

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think overall in the league, maybe number two. But their

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defense has been abysmal the last ten, you know, I mean,

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we could use a lot of groupings to say Dallas's

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defense is bad, but they're giving up eighty eighty game

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over their last ten. So Atlanta should find their way offensively.

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And one last thing I'll add to it is Dallas

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fouls like crazy. They're the worst free throw rate allowed

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in the league, and Atlanta gets to the line. I

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think they're fifth in the league and free throw rates

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so should be good. You're gonna get tempo, You're going

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to get Atlanta in a bounce back offensive situation. I

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think the step down in class between playing excuse me,

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between playing Golden State's defense, which was a little bit

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angry after the Connecticut game, and now playing Dallas's defense,

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that's a severe step down in class for Atlanta. All

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that being said, I always feel like Dallas can score

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and Atlanta hasn't been the stingiest of defenses either. Another

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thing to add here is Dallas generally gets themselves into

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trouble with turnover, but Atlanta, to my surprise when I

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look this morning, is the worst in the league get

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forcing turnovers. So maybe that doesn't come into play, and

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Dallas gets all their possessions. We know they crash the boards,

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we know they get a lot of chances at the rim.

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They'll probably get those tonight. I think this one gets

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over as well. If I were to single out a team,

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I would single out Atlanta's team total over the way

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you did. But I think the full game gets over here.

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It kind of took a jump up and then a

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little step back. I think the current number somewhere in

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the one sixty six one sixty six and a half range.

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I think it gets over all.

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Speaker 1: Right, We're in agreement on this one. Mark, he says

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atl on the road he likes overs for that. So

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a lot of people seeing this one the same way

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here as eb Miami thinks Page will get over seventeen

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and a half points. I never want to talk anybody

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off Page. One of my favorite players.

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Speaker 3: In the league definitely can't talk you off of that. Yeah,

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we're pretty much an agreement. Michael be Here.

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Speaker 1: Says Dallas will get crushed off that upset at the Liberty,

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great spot for Atlanta off a tough loss.

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Speaker 3: We're all pretty much.

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Speaker 1: In agreement on these games. So I think we did

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a pretty good job. It took us a little longer today.

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It took us twenty minutes to get through the three games.

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But like I said, I think we did a solid job.

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Speaker 3: So we'll move it over the best bets.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to throw any graphics up today, but

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I will ask you Rob, you know, if there's anything

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you would like to promote and if you have a

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best bet for the show, we'd love to hear it.

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Speaker 3: If you do not, it is all good.

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Speaker 2: I will say real quick. Ski. I'm not sure on

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the expiration date on this, but there is a special package.

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Speaker 3: Oh my mo.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's a special on NFL preseason football, which actually

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begins tomorrow. I think it's sixty nine bucks for the

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entire preseason. I do handicap preseason. So for those of

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you watching Ski show or those of you who will

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watch it later, if you're interested in preseason. Go ahead

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and hop over the wagestalk dot com pick up that

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access preseason package. So I think it's like I said,

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I think it's just sixty nine dollars. I'm just not

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sure on the expiration date. Could be soon, So go

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over to wagertalk dot com.

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Speaker 3: Best bet.

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Speaker 2: I think I've got a few to choose from tonight's

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g because I played a little today I saw the card.

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Like the card, I think for purposes of the show,

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I'll go let's go to what we just talked about,

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Atlanta and Dallas, because I really think Atlanta's going to

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find their way to ninety or more in this game,

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and Dallas will probably you know, they're never point wise,

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they're never out of it. They probably find their way

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to eighty as well. So I think full game total

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is definitely a good way to go in that one.

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So let's play it that way. Atlanta Dallas, full game over.

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Just staring at the OD screen real quick for you guys,

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one sixty six and a half looks like to be

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the best number you can get right now. So I'll

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use that one sixty six and a half full game over.

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Speaker 3: And I will.

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Speaker 1: I'll stay on that same game. Let' see if we

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can do a little something like yesterday. But I'll go

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team total for the Dream eighty.

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Speaker 3: Four and a half. I think it's very doable.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Dallas defense allows a little bit over eighty

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six per game on a season. Lately has been slightly better,

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but they still allow over eighty five per game in

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those last five games. The defense just isn't good, to

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be nice about it. For Dallas, it hasn't been good

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for a long time, and it's still not good.

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Speaker 3: The Dream.

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Speaker 1: In their last nine wins, they've been scoring. They've had

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eighty five plus in all nine of those games, and

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I think they're very capable of winning this game tonight.

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Speaker 3: So Dream.

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Speaker 1: And also, I mean we've seen I just looked this up.

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Actually we've seen three road favorites. I forgot to mention

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early three unrested road favorites this season. They've all covered

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in won and looks like, oh two out of three

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hit the team total. So just because they're unrested doesn't

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mean they can't play good, they can't score. I like

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the Dream team total over eighty four and a half.

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That's my best bet for the show. We know, another

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good day capping these games with you. I believe tomorrow

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we have only one game to talk about, so we'll

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come back and do it here again. Always appreciate you

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taking the time for everybody in the comments section.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 1: Much love to you guys, ZB Miami reminding everybody to

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hit the like button. That definitely helps us out. And yeah,

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you guys are just great people, great cappers and help

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make the show what it is. So always want to

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Speaker 3: You all are appreciated too.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back here again tomorrow ten thirty am

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Pacific Standard time, and we will catch you then