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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome into another episode of Profit Picks. If you are new,

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we do always start this show by being transparent.

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Speaker 1: See if I can fix that alert. I got right there.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday I went one and two. It's not let me

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fix it, so she got to leave that off. I

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went one and two. I did a little bit too much.

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I like the Clippers. I wanted to think about it

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a little bit longer. As soon as I ended the show,

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like I said, James Harden gets pulled up on the

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injury report, I think about it some more. I still

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ended up taking them at plus three, so that was

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the one winner. I bet the over and the OKC game,

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and they looked terrible on their side. I thought Charlotte

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would be able to put up some points and I think, okay,

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see would look that bad.

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Speaker 1: And let's see. What was the other game?

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Speaker 2: I had Houston. I bet Houston in that one and

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it did not get there. So I feel a little

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bit better here today.

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Speaker 1: You know how you doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing good. Yesterday wasn't great. The Knicks obviously Detroit

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wire to wire, so the Knicks was a dead wrong call.

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And the College Football FCS playoffs at Montana State, which

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looked like a celebration dance at halftime and turned into

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a loss by the end of the game, did not

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cover the number. A great game over time one point win,

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but didn't cover the number so oh and two yesterday.

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I have to get back up on track here tonight.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're good, my bad? You ready to go?

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Very still?

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Speaker 3: I can't, I can't. The production crew is just trying

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to get some stuff straight here.

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Speaker 1: It's not a cooperator here. But let's do these games

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for today. All right?

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Speaker 2: We got Cleveland and Indiana opened up minus eight and

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a half for Cleveland. Looks like it's six total open

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two thirty six and it's down to two thirty five

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and I actually no.

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Speaker 1: It's all over the place. We'll call it still two

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thirty six.

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Speaker 2: We have Donothan, Mitchell, Darry Nance, Max Strus all out,

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Tyson Wade questionable, Alan probable. For this Pacers team, Jackson

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Matherin and Obi Topping look like they're all out. You know,

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you know, I took the Pacers the other day versus

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the Magic and I you know, I thought that, you know,

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they're getting healthier, they start to be a little bit

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more competitive. Been Mathuron back out. I don't know this

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Pacers team can't catch a break. I guess it's tough.

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You know how I feel about Cleveland. I don't trust him,

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especially without Donovan Mitchell. So this is one where have

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a hard time picking. Did you like anything in Cleveland, Indiana?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this one's tough because you have to lay points

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with the road favorite and the one thing in their

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favor The one thing I looked at this morning is

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when these teams get beat, especially as favorites in a

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playoff series, there's a looming revenge factor, and Cleveland's taking

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it to Indiana twice already this season. As inconsistent as

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Cleveland has been, the one thing they've been consistent about

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is taking out some revenge on the Pacers. So that

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pointed me in the Cleveland direction at first. I did

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notice Cleveland this morning when going over some numbers. The

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defensive side of the basketball, or defensive side of the

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court has picked up a little bit for the Cavs

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last five games, not giving up as many points, not

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near as many points. And the Pacers, like you say,

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just seem to be this group that looks at different

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faces in the starting different rotations, different lineups, every single night.

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Hard to get behind Indiana at this point in time.

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So twelve straight losses for the Pacers. I know it's

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straight up and not against the spread. Against the spread

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has been a little bit better. I think that's three

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and nine or four and eight. Excuse me, but I

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don't know. I'd have a hard time playing Indiana. If

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I had to, I'd probably look Cleveland's way, just noting

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the fact that they've kind of been in revenge mode

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against this team. They're not happy with what happened last year.

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this season, seems to be the Pacers.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: Next game I like a lot better Magic and Wizards

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opened up minus nine for the Magic looks like seven

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and a half, but open two thirty four, hanging around

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two thirty four and a half. Jalyn Suggs has been

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listed out, Franz Bogner and Mo Wagner both out, Shawn

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George Kisburgh and Whitmore are out for this Wizards team.

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I like the Wizards probably, you know, plus seven and

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a half.

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Speaker 1: I think that.

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Speaker 2: Well. I'll start with the Orlando side. Orlando just hasn't

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been good laying points on the road. I think they're

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we four and seven so far the season. They haven't

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covered their last three ye Is World favorites minus the

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France and you know, Sugs. It's just I don't know,

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it's starting to become a little too much for me

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as far as laying points with this team. They've also

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had a really tough schedule, Like when I look at it,

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you can go all the way back to.

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Speaker 1: Christmas. Let me see here so or actually, I mean, okay, let's.

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Speaker 2: Go back to since Christmas, they play back to back,

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both at home. Then he had to go from Florida

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all the way to uh Canada, then to Indiana, then

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Chicago now back are then back down to Florida, now

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to Washington. The Wizards, they've been playing a lot of

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games at home. They haven't have to do a whole

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lot of at all. I think six of their last nine,

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six of their last eight, something like that, or I'll

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say this, I'll kind them up rare. Six of their

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last seven, I'm sorry, five of their last six have

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all been at home. So they've had a pretty favorable

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schedule and they've been playing better. When I look at

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the Magic, I mean they are on the front end

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of the back to back. They're one and five so

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far this season.

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Speaker 3: In that row.

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Speaker 2: The Wizards, they've covered I believe, six of their last

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nine games. They're playing a little bit better basketball right here.

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They're a better defensive rated team. You're not gonna hear

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that very often for the Wizards, but last five games,

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even last ten games, they're a better defensive rated team.

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But last five games, number eight, they are a top

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ten defensive rated team in Magic are bottom ten. How

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am I gonna lay on the road expecting them to

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win by multiple position possessions if they can't get stops

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and if I can't trust me to put the ball

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in the basket, I won't.

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Speaker 1: I'll grab the points with the Wizards. That's what I'll do. Robbie,

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What do you think here?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, quote Desmond Bane, Right, Desmond Bane. Off of their

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last game. We played much better offensively, but we've still

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got to figure out how to string together some stops

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on the defensive end. We got a few when it mattered,

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but we're better than that on that end, for sure.

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And it's been an ongoing theme with Orlando all season long.

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Right they just haven't been good on the defensive end.

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At least not consistently good. It led me to over

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in this game. I know that you just rattled off

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the Washington defense, the fact that they've been better over

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the course of their last half dozen whatever, But I

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think Orlando can only play one way at this point,

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and it's it's somewhat high scoring. I was a little

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surprised that the total for a Washington game we're now

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down in that two thirty four two thirty four and

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a half area. That's probably because of the recent defensive

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performance by the Wizards, But I still think this game

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is going to get over ski. I would think that

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both of these sides, I want to include both like

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Washington here. CJ. McCollum had a lot of accolades for

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the young guys just reading here. It was Keishaw George

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who's been out for now four games be out again tonight,

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and Alex Sar those two he mentioned specifically as guys

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that are going to be potential All Stars a couple

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of years from now. I think this game's high scoring,

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and I think Washington, while Orlando's trying to figure things

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out self, admittedly trying to figure things out. Is a

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good enough offensive team to go ahead and get over

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the total. I think if they cover this number, it

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probably will be because they scored enough here to get

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this thing over the total.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's keep it going down the list here, Robie,

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know we have the Spurs and the Grizzlies opened up

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minus five for san Antonio. Looks like six and a

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half total went up from two thirty six. I'm looking

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at as high as two forty and a half. As

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far as injuries would be, is questionable if a sale

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is out for the Grizzlies, Morant Williams both questionable, Clark Coward, Edie,

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Jerome Contraard, Pippin all out for this Grizzlies team. This

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is when I don't have the strongest opinion on I

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think if Wimby did not play, it'll make me like

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the over a little bit more. But right now I

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just have too many question marks here, Rob, You know,

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so I'll ask you you have an opinion on Spurs

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and Grizzlies, not.

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Speaker 3: Just anti Memphis at this point in time, Ski, I

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think that even without when Minyama, san Antonio has enough firepower,

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has enough scoring ability to you know, get to the

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one twenty plus mark against a Memphis defense that really

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hasn't been any good. We'll see if job goes or not.

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They haven't really found a formula yet Memphis, and I

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don't know that they're actually searching for one at this

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point in time. That team game to game variance is

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pretty significant with them. I don't like the way they

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play defense. I would think that San Antonio and maybe

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even a look at the San Antonio team total. I'm

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gonna look it up while while I keep talking here,

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real fast team total currently sits at one twenty three

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and a half would surprise me. All that said, yeah,

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until I knew about JAHI would probably leave Memphis out.

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probably a San Antonio team total over one twenty three

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and a half, very capable. The pace of the game

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is gonna be extremely fast. Money money's gone to the

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over here full game two thirty six to two forty

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and a half. In some spots, a little bit of

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action on San Antonio, I could understand it. Not something

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I played ski, but something I might look at san

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Speaker 2: Over all, right, heat and Wolves. It opened my six

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down to five or even four and a half's out there.

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Even a four keeps going down. With the news of

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Anthony Edwards downgraded to questionable, they will be without Terrence

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Shannon Junior as well. For the heat side, Haimy Hakaz

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is out. Other than that, looks like they'll be okay.

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These teams did play the other day Timberwolves one by ten.

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the other day, but I still don't think the Timberwolves

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have been playing good enough basketball to be expected, you know,

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to win and cover point spreads. But we see time

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and time again star player gets rolled out and you

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know what happens, Robno.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we just saw it last night.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not running to the window to go go

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take those Miami Heat like everybody else. Minnesota is four

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and three ats without Anthony Edwards this season, Robno, You

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think they can do it here tonight?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? And the counter to that is Miami's playing good again,

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five and one against the spread. Their last six to

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one loss was Minnesota. Do we count that as a

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game that they want to atone for here? Maybe Miami's

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got more motivation than Minnesota. Does I think that you

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put it best with Minnesota. It's so hard to play

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Minnesota as a favorite anymore. They just they're not very

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good defensively. We say that at about a lot of teams.

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They're one of them. Just not good defensively. And the

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one thing the constant we know is Miami's gonna push

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the pace, Miami's gonna score. Could see an over here.

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I want to get back to what you said real

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quick here, and it's the NBA to me last night,

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I stopped to think about it. We've kind of alluded

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to it over the past few years, how difficult it

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is with the injury report being the way it is.

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But this might be the craziest league I've ever handicapped.

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I mean, this is this is a league where you

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could march out there with zero starters and win a

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game is a fifteen point underdog. It's just crazy. That

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goes to what you said about not being willing to

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just run to the window with Miami because of a

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potential Anthony Edwards injury. I mean, these things backfire all

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the time. I'd prefer to look at the total here.

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would probably be something in a Miami team total or

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maybe full game total here for me.

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Speaker 2: Fair, very fair, all right, Lakers and Pelicans one from five,

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and I actually know still sitting at five and a

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half total moves slightly from two forty two. I'm looking

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at some two forty four's out there actually now. Or

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the Lakers gave Vincent his doubtful No Ruy Breeves or

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Thiero for the Pelicans. Herb Jones is questionable. No Sadiq Bay,

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no Dejonte Murray. The Pelicans, I feel like they were

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playing really good until Zion came back and started trying

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to play more. Isoball like when they were sharing the

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ball more. I feel like that's when they were playing

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veteran and covering points bridge with.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 2: I still want to lean towards the Pelicans. The Lakers,

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I just don't really trust them defensively. That's what it

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boils down to for me. So on the road here,

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you know, it's not like it's not as easy to

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just outscore everybody when you're without Ruy Reeves and you

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know you're gonna need some defense and they're not playing

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it or not enough for my liking. So I'll lean

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Pelicans here or over any thoughts from you, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Pelican's side seven straight losses, six of

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them by seven or more. So it hasn't been good

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ever since they put together that hot stretch that you know,

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we were able to ride a little bit while they

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were playing well. So for New Orleans, it just hasn't

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been good. Six of their last seven games that grouping.

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Six of those their team total went under, so they've

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lost some of their offensive punch. It's only one game

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in that group of seven where they scored more than

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one eighteen, and New Orleans have been scoring real well

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before that, so I think you're probably you probably hit

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on something here. With Zion's return has come the downfall

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of this team as far as points spread covers, as

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far as offensive success goes Lakers, it's not much right

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two games against Memphis, since JJ Reddick supposedly blew his

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stack about how you know team needs to be better.

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Two wins over Memphis. I don't know that it proves

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a lot, but certainly the schedule with New Orleans here,

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tonight's offense up a little bit for them, and maybe

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they can get another one of those victories under their belt.

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The wins against Memphis, weren't decisive, lay five and a half,

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win by six, win by seven, not decisive at all.

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Hard to pick a side, Ski, I would think Lakers

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team total is in play here though certainly they can

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still do one thing and that score No Reeves No

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Ruie might bring it down a little bit, but I

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don't know that it brings it down enough. New Orleans

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just not playing good at this point in time.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Adam Trigger. He's in the chest that's

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just got put over from my windows being too tenant.

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Speaker 1: Guy let me go.

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Speaker 2: Says first W of the day, and that's a good W.

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Right there, save you some money for sure? Is better

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than I mean, yeah, I take that any day.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: That's definitely a big dug.

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Speaker 3: He's trying to speed his way to the Duke Louisville

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game tonight is where he's trying to get to and

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cops pull him over.

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Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, that should be a good one, Aleen.

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I don't know if Louisville still for the plus one

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and a half they were, Yeah, I think I think

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that they can. I think that's the side I would pick.

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But go listen to Robin and Trick talk about it.

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They've done more researching know those teams a little better

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than me. I'm gonna have to study them for another

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hour or two after I finished the shows. All right,

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Mas and Kings opened up minus four and a half

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for the mass looks like four and a half or

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five total open two thirty and it's up to two thirty.

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Two and a half.

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Speaker 1: PJ.

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Speaker 2: Washington is doubt for. Kyrie is out, Keegan Murray is out,

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some bonus is out. I can understand and move up

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in total. I mean, we do have Levigne back in

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the lineup for the Kings. That's definitely gonna help their scoring.

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I feel like when Murray they played a little bit

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more defense. Without them, they don't play any defense at all.

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I can understand the over as far as the side.

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As much as I don't like the Kings, I can't

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lay with this. I can't lay with the MAVs either,

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especially on a road. I think they've covered one game

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as a world favorite so far this year. It's just

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not the team you want to be expecting to win

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by margin. So slidest the liens to the Kings or

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the over anything from you here ving on, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Think I would probably lean over in this one. Ski.

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It hasn't been pretty for Sacramento offensively as of late

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though and last five games here one oh one ninety

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one O six one oh two ninety eight, Levine back

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probably puts more, puts more buckets on their side of

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the scoreboard for sure. Dallas team total fourteen and three

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to the over last seventeen games, scoring an awful lot.

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If Sacramento gets the additional production out of Levine tonight,

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I would think over is the right play here as well.

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I'm with you. You don't want to take a bad

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team and lay points, even though Sacramento the host is

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probably a worst team. Don't want to do it with

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Dallas on the road. But I would think over makes

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a lot of sense here. Dallas in good form as

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far as scoring goes, Sacramento should get extra scoring help tonight.

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So maybe over two thirty two and a half is

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a good look here.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: This comment, Trasha Mento, Yeah, man, it just makes me

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think I have a sister, Robi, you know, who lives

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in Sacramento. She keeps telling me come visit. Let's go

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to a King's game.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, you want to go to a king game?

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That's supposed to be.

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Speaker 2: Something, because that's not the way to get me over there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's bad, it's bad.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It makes me think about that one uh, that one

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fan who has season tickets who is so fed up

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he was he was was he telling Levine like this

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shit is terrible, Like you're not even trying. Levine's like,

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well go home. Then you don't even care.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's it to the point I was trying

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to make earlier. It's hard for guys like us that

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are involved in this every single day when we come

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on day after day ski trying to figure out who cares? Yeah,

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pretty bad in a professional league of guys being paid,

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who really cares tonight? It's it's hard to navigate.

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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, well, that is the NBA card

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for today, Ravino, So I will put this up there

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because I know it is five dollars. Tuesday, you can

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go to Ross's page or my page and we'll have

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a best bet up and available for five dollars. Outside

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of that veno, they didn't have a new promo. I

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don't have the graphic for it, but I know it was.

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You can get seven day all access pass for the

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price three so they have that going right now. I

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think that's the best one that they have. So if

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you like to be involved and check out check it

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out both of our profiles. Outside of that, you know,

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I'm going to pass it to you if there's anything

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else you like.

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Speaker 1: Oh, you muted yourself and my mic. I don't know

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what happened to my mic.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, if you have a best bet, we'd love

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to hear.

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Speaker 3: It, boy Ski, I don't. I really can't leave a

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best bet today because I don't have one in the

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NBA and I don't even talking it through with you. Generally,

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I could be convinced of something. I don't know that

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there's anything there at this point in time to twelve

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Eastern time that I haven't gone through the window yet

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with anything, and I don't know that I will within

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the next sixty minutes or so, so I'll leave that open.

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Can't leave a best bet here, I will say, real quick.

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Kind of promotional note. NFL playoffs coming this week. Lucky

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enough to have finished number one in NFL playoffs over

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at wager Talk two years in a Row twenty twenty three,

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twenty twenty four. There is a promo package up and

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available However, I don't think you'll find it on my page,

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believe it or not. I'm the guy that's number one

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two years in a row, and the package is on

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somebody else's page. So I think you have to go

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visit Jesse Schule in order to find this football package

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for my playoff action. But again, if you want to

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get involved with the NFL playoffs this weekend, I'll definitely

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have a play. I think I'm gonna have a play

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on every game to tell you the truth, them one

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could be a five percenter. So NFL playoff action. As

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for NBA tonight, I just can't do it. You know what,

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I'll tell you this, My five dollars play is up,

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and I'll halfway give it away. In college hoop Ski

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will always tell you if you know, you know, for

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those that are frequenters of this show, you could probably

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avoid five bucks. Those who don't go get it for

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five bucks over at wage you talk.

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Speaker 2: Back, Yeah, you know what time it is today. It's

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definitely a definitely in my pocket, all right. Best bet

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for me, I will stay in the association and I

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will go with those Washington Wizards for all the reasons

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I said earlier in the show. Also the Magic on

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the road without France, They've covered one game so far

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this season. He's just very important to what they do

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and they do not deserve to be laying points. So

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a combination of that the Wizards playing a little bit

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better lately, I think they can keep it competitive. So

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Wizards plus seven and a half is the best you

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can get right now. That will be my best bet

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for the show.

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Speaker 1: Bino.

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Speaker 2: Always appreciate you taking the time to break these games

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down with me. I know you'll get there with something.

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A boy the end of the day, just got a

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lot to get through. A lot of college action out there.

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It's probably better college games today than NBA, honestly, But yeah,

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I appreciate you. Everybody in the chat, we appreciate you

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as well. If you enjoyed the show, did the like

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button for us, and yeah, we'll be back tomorrow on

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pretty short the NBA games and we'll catch you all then.

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Be just to luck on all your action tonight.