Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into another episode of Profit Picks.
Speaker 2: If you are new, we always start this show by
being transparent, and we haven't had a show for a
little while now coming out of the WNBA All Star Break.
Speaker 1: It's good to be back here with you.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I guess it's nothing to be transparent about because I
haven't made a bet in a long time. So it's
just good to be back with you. Good to be
back with everybody.
Speaker 1: In the chat. And we do have a big slate today.
So how you doing.
Speaker 2: Ve know, did they pull you into baseball over the
All Star break?
Speaker 3: Now, they didn't pull me into baseball, so it's been
kind of Yesterday was an empty day, no plays whatsoever. So,
like you say, we get back to it here with
the WNBA today, and it's not that far away. Ski.
This football season is coming fast. So I had to
put in some work time for football over the weekend.
Speaker 2: You know, I did the same. I didn't get to
finish just because I had some stuff going on. But
I started doing my football work and I'm probably about
halfway done. So I try to get the rest of
it done and then I'll put my futures up and
I'm looking forward to it. Last year, I had a
good football season. I think just a little bit under
twenty units that I was up, but still was up.
Speaker 1: So looking forward to football.
Speaker 2: And quick question for you, you know, I plan I
plan on focusing on my favorite college football team, if
you know, you know, every single week and just talking
out a couple of others.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna go hard in college football this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, That's where I was focused all weekend long. I
actually have three futures coming out in college football win
totals for you know, you're always you're probably the same,
I'm not positive, but you're always looking for teams that
people aren't looking at and see if those totals are
too low and if they have an opportunity, if they
don't have an opportunity. I think I found three here.
So yeah, I'll be all in in college It's my
favorite sport of all, so obviously it's the one I
try to do. Yeah, you do extensive research on all
of them, but college football kind of excites me to
do the research.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So we'll talk some college football, We'll talk some NFL
on this show pretty soon, and might even have some
some other guests popping in here, Johnny says.
Speaker 1: Shout out to PZ too as well.
Speaker 2: Johnny says, before I ever met you know, I used
to buy his picks back in the day for his
college football totals. So there you go. He's been doing
it for quite a while. Shout out to JD in
the chat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's shout out JD. Thank you, Johnny.
Speaker 2: All Right, the people rolling in they ready to go
big slate today, So let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Let's get to it. First game up, we'll go.
Speaker 2: Six fifteen six sixteen, LA Sparks heading into Washington to
face the mystics. Opened up minus one and a half.
It's moved. I'm pretty much seeing three everywhere. I mean, actually,
you line shop depending what you like. I see it
two and a half. I see plenty threes and I
see a three and a half, So make sure you
line shop. As far as the total open one sixty
seven and I am seeing get as high as one
sixty eight, mostly one sixty seven and a half.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 2: As far as who's available for the Sparks, still know
Cameron Brink not quite sure when she's expected to come
back for her from her big injury, but Outside of that,
everybody on both sides are healthy. These teams did play
before the break. Ravino and Sparks gave the Mystics a
spanking like that.
Speaker 1: That was pretty bad.
Speaker 2: Honestly, That's the game we talked about Britney Sykes, and
she looked like she didn't even care. But there's the
last four games for the Mystics at home. I know
they won, and in the interviews they were talking about
how they take the home games really serious after a
poor start to the season. So in a quick revenge
spot here at home this time for the Mystics, do
you think they're worth the line move or would you
be looking a different direction?
Speaker 3: Well, I tried them early in this one's ski I
played them first quarter. You need them to win by
one first quarter, I think, let me just go check
that one more time. I forget that that number was
a half or if it was a full one, it
was yeah, minus one. So you need them to win
this game by a bucket. But a lot of the
quotes that I saw and I guess that the loss
that they had to the Sparks is somewhat explainable because
it was their third West Coast road game. I think
in four or five days they had played a lot
out West and it was the last game before the break.
You can understand a little bit why they got blown
out and that one in. The Sparks are actually a
team that I remember being on the show with you
maybe about a month and a half ago, maybe more,
where Kelsey Plumb had had the quote where it's only
ten games, don't worry, We're going to figure this out out,
and then I'm reading the quotes from their head coaches said,
I think we figured it out. It takes a minute,
but I think we figured it out. They've been scoring
like crazy. We know that they've been moving way up
the tempo ladder as far as rankings are concerned at WNBA,
So they've kind of put together their style, high scoring
and why not be a fast tempo team with the
front line that they have. Their front line is not
just a slow footed paint type front line, really athletic upfront.
So for the Sparks it's been pretty good as of late.
They've exceeded their games, have exceeded this total one sixty
seven and a half seven up the last dight, and
I don't think there's any letup with La as far
as scoring is concerned, if you're going to beat them,
you have to outscore. I feel like the Mystics have
that ability, especially at home. Their home record is way
better than their road record. The reason why I didn't
play first half is because they haven't been a great
first half team. But I am playing the revenge jangle here.
Like I said, I've read a couple of quotes where
they were upset with that performance. I think first quarter
Mystics minus one is probably a good way to go,
especially the way they got blown out first half of
that game. Second half was a little bit of a
different story in the prior meeting right before break, but
the first half was all la. I think Washington wants
to turn that around. So first quarter minus one with
the Mystics seems right. To make.
Speaker 2: Minus one on the first quarter, I mean, I can't
talk you off. I think they should come up, come out,
fired up, looking to throw that first punch this time around.
And to Kylie Reynolds, he did ask me earlier about
Sonya citron over was it one and a half three pointers?
I mean she's been taking a lot or not a lot,
but she's been taking like four or five seems like
every single game, and we know how bad the Sparks
defense is, so I can't talk you off of that
play to what you said, you know about Kelsey Plumb,
you know, saying they're going to figure it out. I mean,
we did expect, we didn't expect the Sparks team to
be amazing in but we expect them to be better
than what they've shown us. And that offense has looked
pretty good, So.
Speaker 1: This is tough.
Speaker 2: I think the Mystics have been playing word tempo lately,
and if it's a game like that versus Sparks, you know,
I would expect a lot of points. Sparks games in general,
I always say, you know, I'm only looking to bet
them one way, it's over or nothing. So I would
say this is a higher scoring game, and as far
as the side, I would think that the Mystics can
get the job done here back at the house. Next
game up, we'll go Sky and Links. This is six seventeen,
six eighteen opened up minus eleven for Minnesota. They're now
minus fifteen or fifteen and a half. I mean you
have to line shot. Actually, I see fifteen, I see sixteen,
I see fifteen and a half, so always important to
get the best of the number open one sixty three
for the sixty three and a half for the total.
It's down as low as one fifty nine here.
Speaker 1: Injury report.
Speaker 2: Chicago will be without Aero Atkins and on you and Warry.
For Minnesota, Griffin is out. I mean, missing the guard,
you know, is tough, but it's not like Atkins.
Speaker 1: Was playing great or anything.
Speaker 2: As long as you have everybody else, you know, I
think they'll be okay. These teams have played a lot lately,
I feel like, or a lot this season. Sky did
show they were able to beat them. Minnesota responded and
I did see something on social media too where they
said if we don't beat Chicago on Tuesday, then that
stuff Bud Show is canceled. That was coach Reeves saying it.
So I know they're joking around, but I do think
Minnesota takes this game serious. I mean, they're the cleared
a better team, but I think Chicago knows they can
be competitive, and they also want to build on what
they've been doing. It's hard for me to lay this
at the end of the number, you know, opening eleven
and getting all the way bet up as high as sixteen,
I could only look towards back in the sky at
the sixteen. At this point, would you be looking towards
the side or total?
Speaker 3: It tried to My first reaction was to look toward
a isolated Minnesota total in some way, shape or form,
whether it be first half, whether it be full game.
And then of course it occurs to me after every
all start break that you know it's seven games or
seven days without a game, and will they be sharp
to me? Minnesota, boy, I don't want to say this
to offend others teams, but you'll get what I'm saying here.
They just they're the most professional type team. You know
what I mean? You know what you're going to get
from Minnesota when all five around the Floyd. They they
don't necessarily let things, let little details go. They're very
very professional that way. Now, if we go back to
you said that they had played a lot recently, and
they have, right. They played two of the last three
games before break, they played each other, and I remember
when we did the show last week in the rematch
after Chicago had beat them, you had said to me,
this is a one way ticket Minnesota or nothing. They
were laying a big price they did cover that big price,
but at halftime. I remember texting with you when it
wasn't looking so good at halftime. But the second half
was a Minnesota blowout, and the Guards did the damage.
Because one more thing from that conversation that day was
you weren't high on Chicago guards, and the guard did
make a difference that day for Minnesota. Thirty five out
of their starters mcbrian and Williams as opposed only seventeen
Area Atkins like you say wasn't playing well, she only
played fifteen minutes in that game, score two points. I
can't lay this price, though, because Minnesota, while they're so
efficient offensively, look at them across the board. In any
WNBA statistical category where offenses concerned, you find the Minnesota Lynx.
You also find them at the bottom in pace, but
you'll find Chicago way up there in pace. So Chicago
wants to push the tempo. Minnesota is very efficient. This
game caused a lot of let's call them inner conflicts
for myself, how to play it. Minnesota's been They got
up and over this forty three and a half number
in both meetings against Chicago for the first half, but
they only got to forty four. You're playing around with
a half a point here, which is razor thin. I
let the game go, Ski, I could understand playing the
underdog side here. Minnesota's full game total is eighty seven
and a half. I thought that's just a little bit
too high for me, so I had to let this
one go.
Speaker 2: I mean, if that's too high, then I think the
Sky definitely covers sixteen. Like also, I mean I could
look at it. Sky team total. I mean I'm trying
to pull that up here, Sky team total, seventy two,
seventy two and a half. I mean, they scored what
seventy seven? They scored eighty something versus them? Why can't
they do that? Why can't they get to seventy two
here tonight? Unless the Lanks are extremely locked in? I
think seventy two and a half is doable. Actually, any
thoughts on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely doable because of their pace. And if
you just go through field goal attempts that the Sky
get per game, they get plenty of chances, there's no question.
I think Dallas probably gets more, but Chicago gets their
share of opportunities. So when you're playing totals, you're always
looking for an abundance of opportunities in Chicago may get
them Minnesota. I'm just looking here, Ski while they've been good.
Seventy four were allowed seventy five, seventy one, seventy five,
seventy nine, eighty two, eighty seven, seventy eight, and then
sixty six to Phoenix the last game before break. Those
mid seventies numbers are really good defensive numbers to allow,
but it also cashes tickets tonight because you're only looking
at seventy two. So we always use that phrase we're
betting against numbers, and in this instance, maybe seventy two
is too late. I just sworn I saw seventy one
and a half earlier. I think you can get a
better number on that game. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe
that's a number that's coming gone.
Speaker 1: No, I actually I do see it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I gotta just check a couple books, but
I do see a seventy one and a half. It's
minus one twenty, but I do see one. So check
around definitely. But it's appealing. I mean, Minnesota has been
getting their last twitter last three games where versus Chicago. Yeah,
they can absolutely get that up tonight. That's really actually
very appealing. So second, looking the chat real quick before
we move over MMA locker room, what's going on with you?
He says, it's rees playing. Absolutely appreciate Mark reminding everybody to.
Speaker 1: Hit the like button. I'm not short checks.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how to say this name, but says
I trust Minnesota more off the break than.
Speaker 1: I do Chicago.
Speaker 2: I mean, I get that Minnesota was doing a lot
of partying though, I mean, I mean, if you were
paying attention to social media over the weekend, doesn't mean
they can't perform. I mean, but I'm just saying, Ron
Crawford in the.
Speaker 1: Building, what's going on with you?
Speaker 2: Good to see you here. He says seven and eighteen
ahs home favor first half, So I think that says
the fade Minnesota in the first half from his spreadsheet.
There there goes Mark saying Sky first half plus eight
and a half. He says, we know the link's not
covering first half.
Speaker 1: That's what they've shown us.
Speaker 2: They've been very poor early in games, and then they
turn it on in that second half. And honestly, now
I'm thinking about it should have had that one of
these previous games they had before the break or the
Phoenix game. If you would have been Phoenix first half
instead of a full game, that would have been a cover.
We know how good of a coach coach Reeve is,
and they can make adjustments and absolutely wake up and
take off in the second half of a game. So
Sky first half is appealing for sure. Any anything else
there you want to add here?
Speaker 3: Well, they covered the two games Ski before the break
where they played each other. Chicago was an easy cover
in both of those. One they won by thirteen the
first half, and the other they only lost by two
in Minnesota. And to your point about point production out
of the Chicago Sky, they scored forty six and fifty seven.
In fact, Chicago won both first halves outright, fifty seven
forty four, forty six, forty four, so plus eight and
a half. And like you say, add onto that the
Phoenix game where they had a big first quarter. I
remember that day pretty well too. I had Minnesota first quarter.
They won the first quarter twenty one to ten, and
then came back and lost the second quarter, and Phoenix
wound up covering first half. They were like plus six
they and lost by four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it. I like it.
Speaker 2: I like this guy some way shape or for him today.
I think that will be something for me to add
on there. Open up that wallet, Rob, you.
Speaker 3: Know, yeah, that's what this show is about opening. Get
those outlets ready.
Speaker 1: Check yeah, all right?
Speaker 2: Six nineteen six twenty fever Liberty open minus nine for
New York up to ten and a half total open
one sixty five and a half down as low as
won sixty three. As far as the injuries for New York,
John Quo Jones returned to the lineup. She will be
on a minute limit. I did see that, and they
did sign Emma Mesman. And if you're not familiar with her,
I mean, I know she's gotten a little bit older now,
but she's an amazing player. She's been playing I think
overseas for a little while now, but she's a NBA
our WNBA Finals MVP from I believe twenty nineteen, so
that's a great addition for them. She will not be
out there tonight though. For Indiana, they will miss Caitlyn
Clark in this matchup.
Speaker 1: These two teams also just.
Speaker 2: Recently played here right before the break and that it
was the fever on the on the second of it
back to back, and it looked like they kind of
died in that second. Have this time around, plenty of
rest for everybody. They'll just be without their star Kaitlyn
Clark in this one. So they've played plenty of games
without her. I do think they can. You know they're
they're comfortable playing without her. You have McDonald's step into
the starting lineup, and you know she's she's very comfortable
and willing passed her and can do everything you need
her to do. But the Liberty have also turned it
on lately. They've since really since Febich came back into
the lineup, they've started to look really good. And they've
looked especially good defensively. I'll say they've held their last
five opponents below eighty points. And that's without John quil Jones,
without a center there. Now you add a center, their
defense should be a little better here. This is a
tough matchup. The total has gone down two points. I'm
curious if you agree with that this time. I know
a lot of that's probably Kaitlyn Clark, But do you
agree with that or are you looking at the side
in this game?
Speaker 3: No, I wound up disagreeing with that Ski and I
disagreed with it last week too, and it paid off
for me. I had the Liberty team total over and
I had that game over and again. I'll just go
back to the stuff where we're betting against numbers Liberty.
If you choose it depends how you choose to group
these things. If you choose to group them by their
last ten games, their defense is not that good. It's
nineteen points allowed out of a thirteen team league. If
you go to five last five games, it gets better,
but even at better seventy nine, seventy nine, seventy eight,
seventy seven in four of those. And if indianaking that
last game, if they reached that total, which is again
it's still a good defensive number two allow, but if
they get that high between seventy seventy seventy nine, this
game probably goes over. This total is no different than
the last game they played. It was again one sixty
three bet down because of Caitlin Clark's absence. Here you
get John Cuall Jones back. These two teams have played
twice this year, and there were a lot of significant
absences in both of those games. When the Liberty had
to go to Indiana, they played without Jones, they played
without Phoebeish. It was one O two to eighty eight,
one hundred and ninety points. Go to last week, Indiana
plays without Caitlin Clark. The other side plays without Jones again.
Game totals one seventy five. It doesn't seem to matter.
I'm of the opinion that the Liberty score whenever they
want to score, and I think they want to score now.
I got a quote from Sabrina and n Escu here
real quick, if we can dig into quotes, make Teddy
proud for half a second. Here, Sabrina said, I think
we were losing some of those games by ourselves. We
were just not coming out with the right energy, not
playing Liberty basketball. Kind of a realization of it as
a team. We needed to just kind of settle in
and start doing the right things. We're really gonna go
spot now. Obviously, Coach Sandy continued to keep us together,
which in a time like that can make or break teams.
So she's making it sound like they survived a stretch
where they just weren't into it, and now they are
into it and it's showing up. Like you said, recently,
they I think they've won three straight, right, three wins
three covers last three games against Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Indiana,
all three potential playoff teams. So for me, again, I'll
just go back to the stats from last game. Real quick,
New York wins fast break points in that one nineteen
to two, but the Fever wins second chance points seventeen
to nothing. The Liberty didn't get a single second chance
point in that game. It's what Indiana does well the
second chance points. I think they reached second in the league.
And Aliah Boston had a lousy game. She was one
for eight in that when they still got the seventy
seven Jones on a limits minute. I just think the
time that John Paul Jones is in the game, it
goes back to what how you described the Liberty earlier
this year, how we would describe the Liberty earlier this year.
Five three point shooters on the floor at once, and
that's hard to defend. So for me, if the book
maker is going to give me the same exact number
he gave me last week in a with an injury situation,
that's actually better today than it was last week. With
Jones returning for whatever limited minutestry plays and they got
to one seventy five last week. I don't know, like
you said. I like something you said earlier is that
Indiana had to have that back to back with Connecticut.
New York maybe died in the second half and still
got to seventy seven. I gotta believe they find their
way there. It's there are two of the top three
shooting teams in the league. New York I think is
the fastest pace in the league. So give me that
game over one sixty three.
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff from Veno there.
Speaker 2: Maybe I will avoid the total and uh to pick
a side, I'm leaning a little bit more towards the
Fever in this game. I just think they'll play hard,
especially after getting blown out by this team the last
time they saw each other. And I just think Johnquo Jones,
you know, be a little bit rusty, and they're still
She's on a minute limit, so the time she's not
out there, she'll be able to win the rebound battle
and get some points in the paint. Also in this game,
I did mention earlier on Wedger Talk today, I mentioned
it again here. I was looking at Ari over four
and a half assists. It was juice to under actually,
and I'm just like I mean my thought process is
the only game she stayed under five assists without Caitlyn
Clark was the first game that she played with the fever.
She didn't start, they weren't sure what to do, and
then every game after that she's had five plus. So
I think that's worth the look. Granted, the Liberties defense
has been playing well lately, so that's the other side.
But also, if I think the fever can keep it closed,
I think Kelsey Mitchell is going to have to do
a lot of the scoring. And in the games without
Caitlyn Clark, she's been scoring I think twenty one point
five something like that in about I think it was
ten or eleven games, so as she's cleared that number,
I think it was nine of those times. So those
are the two props I'm looking at. Any thoughts from
you or anything else you want to have on this game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Aery McDonald's prop just seems low. Four and
a half assists for a team that's number two or
three in field goal percentage shooting in the league. I mean,
there's a lot of players you can give it to
on Indiana that can make shots. So yes, and I'm
always a fan of Kelsey Mitchell, and she did struggle
the first couple of games way back when when Caitlyn
Clark first went out, but after that she was fine. So,
like you say, you just gave everybody the number on
her performances. Without Caitlyn Clark the lineup, I could see
them both, But I really think McDonald assists four and
a half seems low.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like it. Next game we have Dallas
and Seattle. Open up minus eight and a half for
Seattle looks like nine now total open one sixty five.
Not much movement as far as who's available. I don't
see anybody on the injury report for Seattle, but for
Dallas d Jone Carrington probable, Actually, Heinz Allen is truly questionable,
and Maddy Segres remains out. I'm gonna pass this one
to you first here, Vino. We already know what I
think about that Wings defense. But how you seeing Seattle
in Dallas.
Speaker 3: Well, it's interesting with Seattle, Ski because we've spent the
better part of the last I don't know, four weeks
or so talking about the increase in Seattle offense since
they put Erica Wheeler into the starting lineup. Now the
last two games they couldn't score at all. And now
everything I read out of Seattle is how they're just
focused solely on defense. To quote Erica Wheeler, I think
it was the offense is what it is, but when
we focus on defense, that's how we get where we
want to go. And so it's interesting because Seattle had
risen up the rankings as far as points per game,
Seattle had risen up the rankings in tempo, and they
were nine and three in the twelve games before their
last four, which they've split. Their defense has been magnificent,
and I think if you were to ask either one
of us before the season started what would Seattle strength be,
we probably would have said defense. But now it seems
like that's their focus. So to me, my first look
was full game under one sixty five, which Seattle has
now been under three straight games. I mean, their games
have been low scoring one forty four, one forty three,
one twenty five. That's you know, twenty points under what
we have tonight. But then you have to consider Dallas, right,
they want to run and they don't play any defense whatsoever,
So maybe Seattle can score a little bit here. They
played Dallas earlier, the game got to one sixty, and
I believe in that game. I'd have to go back
and look this up, but I thought I remembered this right.
Dallas had something like twenty offensive rebounds against Seattle earlier
this year, and they've got size inside. My second thought was,
let's play Dallas team total under the seventy seven if
Seattle's going to focus on defense and play more methodical,
which they have. I had the field goal attempt numbers
up earlier for myself. I don't have them up right now.
I can find them in a minute, but their potential
points in their game ski the last three has gone
way down. There's like zero opportunity to get to a
number like one sixty five in Seattle games unless each
side is going to shoot about fifty five percent, which
likely doesn't happen here off they layoffs. So to me,
if you're gonna play this, and I'm really close right
now to playing Dallas team total under seventy seven, I'm
too scared to play under a full game total because
of Dallas's defense, which you mentioned being an absolute sieve.
But I can there's games where Dallas just goes ice
cold shooting. I mean, they've had those games, quite a
few of those games this year, So to me, I
think that's probably the best way to go Seattle at
home to start the second half, talking about team defense,
probably holding Dallas to under seventy seven and a half.
Speaker 2: Yere yeah, I like that play.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the last few times they've played Dallas
score seventy seven there, seventy one eighty one. You know,
all of the games have gone under this one sixty
five number. And that's that's interesting because we know Dallas
defense has been consistently bad, but when they play the Storm,
those games have been lower scoring.
Speaker 1: Very interesting.
Speaker 2: I mean that makes me think a couple of things here.
Oh boy, yeah, I might have to deal with that.
It makes me think a couple of things here. One
the Storm, Like this is a battle of styles, right.
The Wings want to play fast and play no defense.
The Storm want to play slow and play a lot
of defense. And I'm just thinking, who's going to control
the pace? You know, I usually say the question is
usually the home team or the better team, but the
home team is the better team. I think it's going
to be played at the Storm's pace. And RC I
know he usually says it anyway, but you can go
check out his page on Twitter too.
Speaker 1: I think you put a video out, but he always
says the.
Speaker 2: Storm play down to their opponents as well as far
as you know, don't trust them as big favorites.
Speaker 1: So maybe I will include both. Maybe it would just
be that slow of a pace game.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think the Storm's offense is the greatest,
even though the Wings defense is not good too, so
under is appealing to me. I won sixty five. I
think that's the best way to play this one, all right.
Last game before my computer dies, Dream and Aces opened
up minus two for Las Vegas, sitting at one and
a half total open one sixty two and a half
and it looks like one sixty and a half. As
far as injuries, Jackie Young is game time decision there
for the Aces. She had a hip injury and I'm
pretty sure she didn't play an All Star game, like
she only went out there for one minute just to
say she's an All Star. And Atlanta's missing Ryan Howard
here Robno, so two of the better offensive players for
both teams.
Speaker 1: Could be out.
Speaker 2: We don't know about Jackie Young yet, but I would
expect her to be out, and if she's out, it's
very hard for me to trust the Aces. I do
think the Aces already hungrier team. They want to get
above five hundred. They are at home. I don't want
want to go against it, but like I said, if
I can't have Jackie Young, I might just have to
stay away from this one.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, you know, it seems like
you're missing a lot of offense.
Speaker 2: Maybe when she's officially rode out it drops some more
as far as the total, and uh, you know, maybe
then And as I'm saying it, no, I'm thinking, you
know who, I'm thinking about Chelsea Gray's dribble, dribble dribble
if I'm trying to get there with it over. So
this is a tough game, you know, how are you
seeing Aces and dream.
Speaker 3: I like Becky Hammond's quote here talking about Asia Wilson.
She said, Asia Wilson cares about winning, and the winning
hasn't come enough for her. She'd pretty much trade any
of her personal numbers for more wins. It takes a
full team, and typically as great as Asia is, our
team goes as our guards go. There's three of them,
there's only one of her. Now we're gonna take Jackie
Young out of the equation. We're gonna take number twelve's
dribbling exhibition out of the equation. And our colleague Ronald
Kbang has told us that he thinks, or has set
on social media that he thinks that Juwel Lloyd might
be the whole problem here. There's your three guards, and
I don't know Atlanta is minus Ryan Howard. But there's
something about I do this in the NBA a lot
ski I don't know that it applies to the WNBA,
so treat this as just general theory. But there's something
about teams that are going to go on an extended
road trip in their first game. And I always think
that the first game, when you get off the plane,
you're going to play Roads for Atlanta. By the way,
this is the first of three roads. Las Vegas, Phoenix
and Minnesota, three very good teams. I think the first
game is where all the excitement is, where all the
focus and energy is. And if the first game goes well,
the second game usually goes well, third game usually goes well.
I think Atlanta will be ready to play this game
if Las Vegas his guards and even with what Becky
Hmmon just said. If they don't play above average here
the two that are remaining on the floor, then it
could be very difficult for Las Vegas. But you know,
you're asking Atlanta to basically win the game on Las
Vegas floor. Becomes a really, really tough situation here to
bet it. I don't think Atlanta's defense has been great,
but again to your point, I don't know that I
trust Las Vegas is scoring either, so difficult game did
not play. I could see a lot of cases for
both teams saideing and total. I just I chose not
to play it because I guess if I had to,
I would look Atlanta ski to tell you the honest streets,
if I had to, I'd looked to Atlanta in this game,
thinking that they'll be hungry here, not that Las Vegas won't,
but if the guard play isn't there, las Vegas could
be in trouble.
Speaker 2: And uh, I mean that's That's what I'm worried about too.
So it looks like it could be an know play
in this one. All right, that's thirty four minutes. We
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started with that La Washington game. I respect what the
Sparks are doing, and I think in the end of
this one maybe the Sparks could even come close. But
I don't think they're going to win the first quarter here.
Everything I read points towards Washington coming out of the
tunnel and from the opening tip playing extremely strong. So
I laid one point with Washington first quarter. I'm going
to leave that as the best bet here. I think
they'll be up by a bucket at the end of one.
Speaker 2: All right, good stuff, and for myself I'm going to
do a little bit different today. I'm just going to
say that I like what we talked about in that
Sky game. Whether it's Sky first half for Sky Team
total over, I think both of those can get there.
So I haven't played either yet. I could play one,
I could play both. That's what I'll leave the show
with as far as best bets today. It's been good
to be back with you, Veno. I always enjoy breaking
the games down with you. Helps out the process a
hell of a lot. For the chat, we appreciate you
all as well. Great cappers and great people. We all
just trying to help each other cash and for everybody else,
out there, twitch kick, I'm not even sure what this
other one is.
Speaker 1: I'll leave that one alone.
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you want to call it. We appreciate everybody watching. We'll
be back again tomorrow. We only have one game, but
we'll still talk it out with you guys, and hopefully
off of a winning day, so we'll see you guys.
Speaker 1: The best of luck,