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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into another episode of Profit Picks.

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Speaker 2: If you are new, we always start this show by

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being transparent, and we haven't had a show for a

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little while now coming out of the WNBA All Star Break.

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Speaker 1: It's good to be back here with you.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I guess it's nothing to be transparent about because I

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haven't made a bet in a long time. So it's

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just good to be back with you. Good to be

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back with everybody.

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Speaker 1: In the chat. And we do have a big slate today.

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So how you doing.

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Speaker 2: Ve know, did they pull you into baseball over the

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All Star break?

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Speaker 3: Now, they didn't pull me into baseball, so it's been

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kind of Yesterday was an empty day, no plays whatsoever. So,

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like you say, we get back to it here with

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the WNBA today, and it's not that far away. Ski.

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This football season is coming fast. So I had to

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put in some work time for football over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: You know, I did the same. I didn't get to

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finish just because I had some stuff going on. But

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I started doing my football work and I'm probably about

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halfway done. So I try to get the rest of

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it done and then I'll put my futures up and

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I'm looking forward to it. Last year, I had a

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good football season. I think just a little bit under

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twenty units that I was up, but still was up.

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Speaker 1: So looking forward to football.

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Speaker 2: And quick question for you, you know, I plan I

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plan on focusing on my favorite college football team, if

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you know, you know, every single week and just talking

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out a couple of others.

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Speaker 1: But you're gonna go hard in college football this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, That's where I was focused all weekend long. I

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actually have three futures coming out in college football win

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totals for you know, you're always you're probably the same,

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I'm not positive, but you're always looking for teams that

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people aren't looking at and see if those totals are

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too low and if they have an opportunity, if they

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don't have an opportunity. I think I found three here.

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So yeah, I'll be all in in college It's my

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favorite sport of all, so obviously it's the one I

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try to do. Yeah, you do extensive research on all

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of them, but college football kind of excites me to

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do the research.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So we'll talk some college football, We'll talk some NFL

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on this show pretty soon, and might even have some

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some other guests popping in here, Johnny says.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to PZ too as well.

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Speaker 2: Johnny says, before I ever met you know, I used

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to buy his picks back in the day for his

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college football totals. So there you go. He's been doing

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it for quite a while. Shout out to JD in

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the chat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's shout out JD. Thank you, Johnny.

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Speaker 2: All Right, the people rolling in they ready to go

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big slate today, So let's get to it.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to it. First game up, we'll go.

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Speaker 2: Six fifteen six sixteen, LA Sparks heading into Washington to

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face the mystics. Opened up minus one and a half.

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It's moved. I'm pretty much seeing three everywhere. I mean, actually,

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you line shop depending what you like. I see it

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two and a half. I see plenty threes and I

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see a three and a half, So make sure you

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line shop. As far as the total open one sixty

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seven and I am seeing get as high as one

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sixty eight, mostly one sixty seven and a half.

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Speaker 1: Though.

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Speaker 2: As far as who's available for the Sparks, still know

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Cameron Brink not quite sure when she's expected to come

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back for her from her big injury, but Outside of that,

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everybody on both sides are healthy. These teams did play

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before the break. Ravino and Sparks gave the Mystics a

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spanking like that.

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Speaker 1: That was pretty bad.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, That's the game we talked about Britney Sykes, and

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she looked like she didn't even care. But there's the

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last four games for the Mystics at home. I know

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they won, and in the interviews they were talking about

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how they take the home games really serious after a

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poor start to the season. So in a quick revenge

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spot here at home this time for the Mystics, do

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you think they're worth the line move or would you

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be looking a different direction?

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Speaker 3: Well, I tried them early in this one's ski I

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played them first quarter. You need them to win by

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one first quarter, I think, let me just go check

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that one more time. I forget that that number was

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a half or if it was a full one, it

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was yeah, minus one. So you need them to win

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this game by a bucket. But a lot of the

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quotes that I saw and I guess that the loss

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that they had to the Sparks is somewhat explainable because

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it was their third West Coast road game. I think

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out West and it was the last game before the break.

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out and that one in. The Sparks are actually a

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team that I remember being on the show with you

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maybe about a month and a half ago, maybe more,

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where Kelsey Plumb had had the quote where it's only

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ten games, don't worry, We're going to figure this out out,

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and then I'm reading the quotes from their head coaches said,

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I think we figured it out. It takes a minute,

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but I think we figured it out. They've been scoring

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like crazy. We know that they've been moving way up

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the tempo ladder as far as rankings are concerned at WNBA,

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and why not be a fast tempo team with the

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front line that they have. Their front line is not

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just a slow footed paint type front line, really athletic upfront.

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So for the Sparks it's been pretty good as of late.

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They've exceeded their games, have exceeded this total one sixty

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seven and a half seven up the last dight, and

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I don't think there's any letup with La as far

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as scoring is concerned, if you're going to beat them,

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you have to outscore. I feel like the Mystics have

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that ability, especially at home. Their home record is way

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better than their road record. The reason why I didn't

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play first half is because they haven't been a great

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first half team. But I am playing the revenge jangle here.

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Like I said, I've read a couple of quotes where

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they were upset with that performance. I think first quarter

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especially the way they got blown out first half of

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that game. Second half was a little bit of a

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different story in the prior meeting right before break, but

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the first half was all la. I think Washington wants

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to turn that around. So first quarter minus one with

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the Mystics seems right. To make.

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Speaker 2: Minus one on the first quarter, I mean, I can't

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talk you off. I think they should come up, come out,

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fired up, looking to throw that first punch this time around.

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And to Kylie Reynolds, he did ask me earlier about

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Sonya citron over was it one and a half three pointers?

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but she's been taking like four or five seems like

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every single game, and we know how bad the Sparks

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defense is, so I can't talk you off of that

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play to what you said, you know about Kelsey Plumb,

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you know, saying they're going to figure it out. I mean,

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be amazing in but we expect them to be better

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than what they've shown us. And that offense has looked

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Speaker 1: This is tough.

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Speaker 2: I think the Mystics have been playing word tempo lately,

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I always say, you know, I'm only looking to bet

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them one way, it's over or nothing. So I would

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say this is a higher scoring game, and as far

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as the side, I would think that the Mystics can

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get the job done here back at the house. Next

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game up, we'll go Sky and Links. This is six seventeen,

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six eighteen opened up minus eleven for Minnesota. They're now

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minus fifteen or fifteen and a half. I mean you

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have to line shot. Actually, I see fifteen, I see sixteen,

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get the best of the number open one sixty three

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for the sixty three and a half for the total.

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Speaker 1: Injury report.

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Speaker 2: Chicago will be without Aero Atkins and on you and Warry.

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you know, is tough, but it's not like Atkins.

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Speaker 2: As long as you have everybody else, you know, I

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think they'll be okay. These teams have played a lot lately,

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I feel like, or a lot this season. Sky did

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show they were able to beat them. Minnesota responded and

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said if we don't beat Chicago on Tuesday, then that

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stuff Bud Show is canceled. That was coach Reeves saying it.

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Minnesota takes this game serious. I mean, they're the cleared

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a better team, but I think Chicago knows they can

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be competitive, and they also want to build on what

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they've been doing. It's hard for me to lay this

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at the end of the number, you know, opening eleven

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and getting all the way bet up as high as sixteen,

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I could only look towards back in the sky at

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the sixteen. At this point, would you be looking towards

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the side or total?

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Speaker 3: It tried to My first reaction was to look toward

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a isolated Minnesota total in some way, shape or form,

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whether it be first half, whether it be full game.

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all start break that you know it's seven games or

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seven days without a game, and will they be sharp

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to me? Minnesota, boy, I don't want to say this

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to offend others teams, but you'll get what I'm saying here.

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They just they're the most professional type team. You know

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what I mean? You know what you're going to get

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from Minnesota when all five around the Floyd. They they

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don't necessarily let things, let little details go. They're very

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very professional that way. Now, if we go back to

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they have, right. They played two of the last three

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games before break, they played each other, and I remember

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when we did the show last week in the rematch

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after Chicago had beat them, you had said to me,

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this is a one way ticket Minnesota or nothing. They

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were laying a big price they did cover that big price,

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but at halftime. I remember texting with you when it

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wasn't looking so good at halftime. But the second half

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was a Minnesota blowout, and the Guards did the damage.

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Because one more thing from that conversation that day was

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you weren't high on Chicago guards, and the guard did

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make a difference that day for Minnesota. Thirty five out

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of their starters mcbrian and Williams as opposed only seventeen

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Area Atkins like you say wasn't playing well, she only

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played fifteen minutes in that game, score two points. I

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can't lay this price, though, because Minnesota, while they're so

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efficient offensively, look at them across the board. In any

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WNBA statistical category where offenses concerned, you find the Minnesota Lynx.

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you'll find Chicago way up there in pace. So Chicago

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wants to push the tempo. Minnesota is very efficient. This

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game caused a lot of let's call them inner conflicts

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for myself, how to play it. Minnesota's been They got

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up and over this forty three and a half number

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in both meetings against Chicago for the first half, but

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they only got to forty four. You're playing around with

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a half a point here, which is razor thin. I

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let the game go, Ski, I could understand playing the

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underdog side here. Minnesota's full game total is eighty seven

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look at it. Sky team total. I mean I'm trying

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to pull that up here, Sky team total, seventy two,

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seventy two and a half. I mean, they scored what

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seventy seven? They scored eighty something versus them? Why can't

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they do that? Why can't they get to seventy two

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here tonight? Unless the Lanks are extremely locked in? I

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think seventy two and a half is doable. Actually, any

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thoughts on that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely doable because of their pace. And if

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you just go through field goal attempts that the Sky

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get per game, they get plenty of chances, there's no question.

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I think Dallas probably gets more, but Chicago gets their

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share of opportunities. So when you're playing totals, you're always

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looking for an abundance of opportunities in Chicago may get

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them Minnesota. I'm just looking here, Ski while they've been good.

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Seventy four were allowed seventy five, seventy one, seventy five,

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seventy nine, eighty two, eighty seven, seventy eight, and then

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sixty six to Phoenix the last game before break. Those

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mid seventies numbers are really good defensive numbers to allow,

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but it also cashes tickets tonight because you're only looking

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at seventy two. So we always use that phrase we're

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betting against numbers, and in this instance, maybe seventy two

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is too late. I just sworn I saw seventy one

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and a half earlier. I think you can get a

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better number on that game. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe

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that's a number that's coming gone.

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Speaker 1: No, I actually I do see it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I gotta just check a couple books, but

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I do see a seventy one and a half. It's

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minus one twenty, but I do see one. So check

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around definitely. But it's appealing. I mean, Minnesota has been

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getting their last twitter last three games where versus Chicago. Yeah,

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they can absolutely get that up tonight. That's really actually

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very appealing. So second, looking the chat real quick before

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we move over MMA locker room, what's going on with you?

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He says, it's rees playing. Absolutely appreciate Mark reminding everybody to.

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Speaker 1: Hit the like button. I'm not short checks.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure how to say this name, but says

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I trust Minnesota more off the break than.

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Speaker 1: I do Chicago.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I get that Minnesota was doing a lot

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of partying though, I mean, I mean, if you were

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paying attention to social media over the weekend, doesn't mean

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they can't perform. I mean, but I'm just saying, Ron

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Crawford in the.

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Speaker 1: Building, what's going on with you?

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Speaker 2: Good to see you here. He says seven and eighteen

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ahs home favor first half, So I think that says

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the fade Minnesota in the first half from his spreadsheet.

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There there goes Mark saying Sky first half plus eight

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and a half. He says, we know the link's not

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covering first half.

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Speaker 1: That's what they've shown us.

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Speaker 2: They've been very poor early in games, and then they

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turn it on in that second half. And honestly, now

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I'm thinking about it should have had that one of

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these previous games they had before the break or the

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Phoenix game. If you would have been Phoenix first half

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instead of a full game, that would have been a cover.

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We know how good of a coach coach Reeve is,

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and they can make adjustments and absolutely wake up and

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take off in the second half of a game. So

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Sky first half is appealing for sure. Any anything else

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there you want to add here?

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Speaker 3: Well, they covered the two games Ski before the break

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where they played each other. Chicago was an easy cover

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in both of those. One they won by thirteen the

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first half, and the other they only lost by two

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in Minnesota. And to your point about point production out

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of the Chicago Sky, they scored forty six and fifty seven.

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In fact, Chicago won both first halves outright, fifty seven

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forty four, forty six, forty four, so plus eight and

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a half. And like you say, add onto that the

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Phoenix game where they had a big first quarter. I

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remember that day pretty well too. I had Minnesota first quarter.

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They won the first quarter twenty one to ten, and

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then came back and lost the second quarter, and Phoenix

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wound up covering first half. They were like plus six

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they and lost by four.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it. I like it.

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Speaker 2: I like this guy some way shape or for him today.

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I think that will be something for me to add

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on there. Open up that wallet, Rob, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, yeah, that's what this show is about opening. Get

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those outlets ready.

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Speaker 1: Check yeah, all right?

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Speaker 2: Six nineteen six twenty fever Liberty open minus nine for

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New York up to ten and a half total open

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one sixty five and a half down as low as

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won sixty three. As far as the injuries for New York,

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John Quo Jones returned to the lineup. She will be

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on a minute limit. I did see that, and they

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did sign Emma Mesman. And if you're not familiar with her,

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I mean, I know she's gotten a little bit older now,

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but she's an amazing player. She's been playing I think

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overseas for a little while now, but she's a NBA

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our WNBA Finals MVP from I believe twenty nineteen, so

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that's a great addition for them. She will not be

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out there tonight though. For Indiana, they will miss Caitlyn

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Clark in this matchup.

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Speaker 1: These two teams also just.

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Speaker 2: Recently played here right before the break and that it

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was the fever on the on the second of it

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back to back, and it looked like they kind of

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died in that second. Have this time around, plenty of

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rest for everybody. They'll just be without their star Kaitlyn

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Clark in this one. So they've played plenty of games

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without her. I do think they can. You know they're

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they're comfortable playing without her. You have McDonald's step into

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the starting lineup, and you know she's she's very comfortable

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and willing passed her and can do everything you need

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her to do. But the Liberty have also turned it

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on lately. They've since really since Febich came back into

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the lineup, they've started to look really good. And they've

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looked especially good defensively. I'll say they've held their last

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five opponents below eighty points. And that's without John quil Jones,

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without a center there. Now you add a center, their

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defense should be a little better here. This is a

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tough matchup. The total has gone down two points. I'm

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curious if you agree with that this time. I know

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a lot of that's probably Kaitlyn Clark, But do you

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agree with that or are you looking at the side

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in this game?

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Speaker 3: No, I wound up disagreeing with that Ski and I

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disagreed with it last week too, and it paid off

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for me. I had the Liberty team total over and

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I had that game over and again. I'll just go

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back to the stuff where we're betting against numbers Liberty.

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If you choose it depends how you choose to group

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these things. If you choose to group them by their

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last ten games, their defense is not that good. It's

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nineteen points allowed out of a thirteen team league. If

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you go to five last five games, it gets better,

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but even at better seventy nine, seventy nine, seventy eight,

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seventy seven in four of those. And if indianaking that

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last game, if they reached that total, which is again

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it's still a good defensive number two allow, but if

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they get that high between seventy seventy seventy nine, this

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game probably goes over. This total is no different than

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the last game they played. It was again one sixty

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three bet down because of Caitlin Clark's absence. Here you

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get John Cuall Jones back. These two teams have played

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twice this year, and there were a lot of significant

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absences in both of those games. When the Liberty had

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to go to Indiana, they played without Jones, they played

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without Phoebeish. It was one O two to eighty eight,

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one hundred and ninety points. Go to last week, Indiana

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plays without Caitlin Clark. The other side plays without Jones again.

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Game totals one seventy five. It doesn't seem to matter.

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I'm of the opinion that the Liberty score whenever they

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want to score, and I think they want to score now.

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I got a quote from Sabrina and n Escu here

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real quick, if we can dig into quotes, make Teddy

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proud for half a second. Here, Sabrina said, I think

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we were losing some of those games by ourselves. We

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were just not coming out with the right energy, not

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playing Liberty basketball. Kind of a realization of it as

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a team. We needed to just kind of settle in

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and start doing the right things. We're really gonna go

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spot now. Obviously, Coach Sandy continued to keep us together,

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which in a time like that can make or break teams.

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So she's making it sound like they survived a stretch

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where they just weren't into it, and now they are

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into it and it's showing up. Like you said, recently,

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they I think they've won three straight, right, three wins

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three covers last three games against Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Indiana,

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all three potential playoff teams. So for me, again, I'll

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just go back to the stats from last game. Real quick,

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New York wins fast break points in that one nineteen

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to two, but the Fever wins second chance points seventeen

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to nothing. The Liberty didn't get a single second chance

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point in that game. It's what Indiana does well the

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second chance points. I think they reached second in the league.

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And Aliah Boston had a lousy game. She was one

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for eight in that when they still got the seventy

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seven Jones on a limits minute. I just think the

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time that John Paul Jones is in the game, it

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goes back to what how you described the Liberty earlier

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this year, how we would describe the Liberty earlier this year.

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Five three point shooters on the floor at once, and

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that's hard to defend. So for me, if the book

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maker is going to give me the same exact number

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he gave me last week in a with an injury situation,

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that's actually better today than it was last week. With

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Jones returning for whatever limited minutestry plays and they got

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to one seventy five last week. I don't know, like

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you said. I like something you said earlier is that

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Indiana had to have that back to back with Connecticut.

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New York maybe died in the second half and still

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got to seventy seven. I gotta believe they find their

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way there. It's there are two of the top three

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shooting teams in the league. New York I think is

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the fastest pace in the league. So give me that

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game over one sixty three.

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Speaker 1: All right, good stuff from Veno there.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I will avoid the total and uh to pick

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a side, I'm leaning a little bit more towards the

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Fever in this game. I just think they'll play hard,

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especially after getting blown out by this team the last

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time they saw each other. And I just think Johnquo Jones,

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you know, be a little bit rusty, and they're still

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She's on a minute limit, so the time she's not

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out there, she'll be able to win the rebound battle

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and get some points in the paint. Also in this game,

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I did mention earlier on Wedger Talk today, I mentioned

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it again here. I was looking at Ari over four

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and a half assists. It was juice to under actually,

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and I'm just like I mean my thought process is

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the only game she stayed under five assists without Caitlyn

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Clark was the first game that she played with the fever.

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She didn't start, they weren't sure what to do, and

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then every game after that she's had five plus. So

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I think that's worth the look. Granted, the Liberties defense

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has been playing well lately, so that's the other side.

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But also, if I think the fever can keep it closed,

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I think Kelsey Mitchell is going to have to do

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a lot of the scoring. And in the games without

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Caitlyn Clark, she's been scoring I think twenty one point

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five something like that in about I think it was

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ten or eleven games, so as she's cleared that number,

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I think it was nine of those times. So those

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are the two props I'm looking at. Any thoughts from

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you or anything else you want to have on this game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Aery McDonald's prop just seems low. Four and

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a half assists for a team that's number two or

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three in field goal percentage shooting in the league. I mean,

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there's a lot of players you can give it to

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on Indiana that can make shots. So yes, and I'm

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always a fan of Kelsey Mitchell, and she did struggle

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the first couple of games way back when when Caitlyn

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Clark first went out, but after that she was fine. So,

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like you say, you just gave everybody the number on

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her performances. Without Caitlyn Clark the lineup, I could see

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them both, But I really think McDonald assists four and

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a half seems low.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like it. Next game we have Dallas

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and Seattle. Open up minus eight and a half for

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Seattle looks like nine now total open one sixty five.

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Not much movement as far as who's available. I don't

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see anybody on the injury report for Seattle, but for

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Dallas d Jone Carrington probable, Actually, Heinz Allen is truly questionable,

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and Maddy Segres remains out. I'm gonna pass this one

477
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to you first here, Vino. We already know what I

478
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think about that Wings defense. But how you seeing Seattle

479
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in Dallas.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's interesting with Seattle, Ski because we've spent the

481
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better part of the last I don't know, four weeks

482
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or so talking about the increase in Seattle offense since

483
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they put Erica Wheeler into the starting lineup. Now the

484
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last two games they couldn't score at all. And now

485
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everything I read out of Seattle is how they're just

486
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focused solely on defense. To quote Erica Wheeler, I think

487
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it was the offense is what it is, but when

488
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we focus on defense, that's how we get where we

489
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want to go. And so it's interesting because Seattle had

490
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risen up the rankings as far as points per game,

491
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Seattle had risen up the rankings in tempo, and they

492
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were nine and three in the twelve games before their

493
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last four, which they've split. Their defense has been magnificent,

494
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and I think if you were to ask either one

495
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of us before the season started what would Seattle strength be,

496
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we probably would have said defense. But now it seems

497
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like that's their focus. So to me, my first look

498
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was full game under one sixty five, which Seattle has

499
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now been under three straight games. I mean, their games

500
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have been low scoring one forty four, one forty three,

501
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one twenty five. That's you know, twenty points under what

502
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we have tonight. But then you have to consider Dallas, right,

503
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they want to run and they don't play any defense whatsoever,

504
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So maybe Seattle can score a little bit here. They

505
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played Dallas earlier, the game got to one sixty, and

506
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I believe in that game. I'd have to go back

507
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and look this up, but I thought I remembered this right.

508
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Dallas had something like twenty offensive rebounds against Seattle earlier

509
00:27:24,039 --> 00:27:29,079
this year, and they've got size inside. My second thought was,

510
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let's play Dallas team total under the seventy seven if

511
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Seattle's going to focus on defense and play more methodical,

512
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which they have. I had the field goal attempt numbers

513
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up earlier for myself. I don't have them up right now.

514
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I can find them in a minute, but their potential

515
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points in their game ski the last three has gone

516
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way down. There's like zero opportunity to get to a

517
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number like one sixty five in Seattle games unless each

518
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side is going to shoot about fifty five percent, which

519
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,119
likely doesn't happen here off they layoffs. So to me,

520
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if you're gonna play this, and I'm really close right

521
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:08,599
now to playing Dallas team total under seventy seven, I'm

522
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,440
too scared to play under a full game total because

523
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of Dallas's defense, which you mentioned being an absolute sieve.

524
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But I can there's games where Dallas just goes ice

525
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cold shooting. I mean, they've had those games, quite a

526
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few of those games this year, So to me, I

527
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,720
think that's probably the best way to go Seattle at

528
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,640
home to start the second half, talking about team defense,

529
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probably holding Dallas to under seventy seven and a half.

530
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Speaker 2: Yere yeah, I like that play.

531
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Speaker 1: I do.

532
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Speaker 2: I'm looking at the last few times they've played Dallas

533
00:28:46,119 --> 00:28:51,880
score seventy seven there, seventy one eighty one. You know,

534
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,880
all of the games have gone under this one sixty

535
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five number. And that's that's interesting because we know Dallas

536
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,359
defense has been consistently bad, but when they play the Storm,

537
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those games have been lower scoring.

538
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Speaker 1: Very interesting.

539
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,519
Speaker 2: I mean that makes me think a couple of things here.

540
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,039
Oh boy, yeah, I might have to deal with that.

541
00:29:08,319 --> 00:29:10,559
It makes me think a couple of things here. One

542
00:29:12,319 --> 00:29:15,680
the Storm, Like this is a battle of styles, right.

543
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,960
The Wings want to play fast and play no defense.

544
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,440
The Storm want to play slow and play a lot

545
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,559
of defense. And I'm just thinking, who's going to control

546
00:29:23,599 --> 00:29:26,519
the pace? You know, I usually say the question is

547
00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:28,440
usually the home team or the better team, but the

548
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,680
home team is the better team. I think it's going

549
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:35,519
to be played at the Storm's pace. And RC I

550
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know he usually says it anyway, but you can go

551
00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:38,599
check out his page on Twitter too.

552
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Speaker 1: I think you put a video out, but he always

553
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says the.

554
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 2: Storm play down to their opponents as well as far

555
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,880
as you know, don't trust them as big favorites.

556
00:29:48,519 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: So maybe I will include both. Maybe it would just

557
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,000
be that slow of a pace game.

558
00:29:54,559 --> 00:29:56,759
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think the Storm's offense is the greatest,

559
00:29:56,799 --> 00:29:59,319
even though the Wings defense is not good too, so

560
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,720
under is appealing to me. I won sixty five. I

561
00:30:03,759 --> 00:30:08,079
think that's the best way to play this one, all right.

562
00:30:08,839 --> 00:30:13,720
Last game before my computer dies, Dream and Aces opened

563
00:30:13,759 --> 00:30:17,400
up minus two for Las Vegas, sitting at one and

564
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,680
a half total open one sixty two and a half

565
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:24,759
and it looks like one sixty and a half. As

566
00:30:24,799 --> 00:30:29,480
far as injuries, Jackie Young is game time decision there

567
00:30:29,559 --> 00:30:34,240
for the Aces. She had a hip injury and I'm

568
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,079
pretty sure she didn't play an All Star game, like

569
00:30:36,119 --> 00:30:37,720
she only went out there for one minute just to

570
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,359
say she's an All Star. And Atlanta's missing Ryan Howard

571
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,079
here Robno, so two of the better offensive players for

572
00:30:45,119 --> 00:30:46,079
both teams.

573
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Speaker 1: Could be out.

574
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,039
Speaker 2: We don't know about Jackie Young yet, but I would

575
00:30:49,079 --> 00:30:51,559
expect her to be out, and if she's out, it's

576
00:30:51,799 --> 00:30:54,319
very hard for me to trust the Aces. I do

577
00:30:54,359 --> 00:30:57,160
think the Aces already hungrier team. They want to get

578
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,920
above five hundred. They are at home. I don't want

579
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,160
want to go against it, but like I said, if

580
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,279
I can't have Jackie Young, I might just have to

581
00:31:05,279 --> 00:31:06,640
stay away from this one.

582
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Speaker 1: And at the same time, you know, it seems like

583
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,079
you're missing a lot of offense.

584
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,279
Speaker 2: Maybe when she's officially rode out it drops some more

585
00:31:14,319 --> 00:31:17,400
as far as the total, and uh, you know, maybe

586
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,920
then And as I'm saying it, no, I'm thinking, you

587
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,480
know who, I'm thinking about Chelsea Gray's dribble, dribble dribble

588
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,559
if I'm trying to get there with it over. So

589
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,279
this is a tough game, you know, how are you

590
00:31:29,319 --> 00:31:30,680
seeing Aces and dream.

591
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 3: I like Becky Hammond's quote here talking about Asia Wilson.

592
00:31:35,279 --> 00:31:38,960
She said, Asia Wilson cares about winning, and the winning

593
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,519
hasn't come enough for her. She'd pretty much trade any

594
00:31:42,559 --> 00:31:46,279
of her personal numbers for more wins. It takes a

595
00:31:46,359 --> 00:31:49,599
full team, and typically as great as Asia is, our

596
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,799
team goes as our guards go. There's three of them,

597
00:31:53,079 --> 00:31:56,279
there's only one of her. Now we're gonna take Jackie

598
00:31:56,319 --> 00:32:00,640
Young out of the equation. We're gonna take number twelve's

599
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:06,400
dribbling exhibition out of the equation. And our colleague Ronald

600
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,839
Kbang has told us that he thinks, or has set

601
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,680
on social media that he thinks that Juwel Lloyd might

602
00:32:12,759 --> 00:32:15,319
be the whole problem here. There's your three guards, and

603
00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:19,559
I don't know Atlanta is minus Ryan Howard. But there's

604
00:32:19,599 --> 00:32:25,039
something about I do this in the NBA a lot

605
00:32:25,079 --> 00:32:27,640
ski I don't know that it applies to the WNBA,

606
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:31,319
so treat this as just general theory. But there's something

607
00:32:31,359 --> 00:32:34,200
about teams that are going to go on an extended

608
00:32:34,319 --> 00:32:38,119
road trip in their first game. And I always think

609
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,119
that the first game, when you get off the plane,

610
00:32:40,119 --> 00:32:42,039
you're going to play Roads for Atlanta. By the way,

611
00:32:42,079 --> 00:32:44,319
this is the first of three roads. Las Vegas, Phoenix

612
00:32:44,319 --> 00:32:47,759
and Minnesota, three very good teams. I think the first

613
00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:49,720
game is where all the excitement is, where all the

614
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,920
focus and energy is. And if the first game goes well,

615
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,519
the second game usually goes well, third game usually goes well.

616
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,319
I think Atlanta will be ready to play this game

617
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,480
if Las Vegas his guards and even with what Becky

618
00:33:03,559 --> 00:33:07,119
Hmmon just said. If they don't play above average here

619
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,519
the two that are remaining on the floor, then it

620
00:33:10,559 --> 00:33:13,480
could be very difficult for Las Vegas. But you know,

621
00:33:13,519 --> 00:33:16,440
you're asking Atlanta to basically win the game on Las

622
00:33:16,519 --> 00:33:21,720
Vegas floor. Becomes a really, really tough situation here to

623
00:33:21,839 --> 00:33:24,319
bet it. I don't think Atlanta's defense has been great,

624
00:33:25,279 --> 00:33:27,319
but again to your point, I don't know that I

625
00:33:27,359 --> 00:33:30,880
trust Las Vegas is scoring either, so difficult game did

626
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,480
not play. I could see a lot of cases for

627
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,400
both teams saideing and total. I just I chose not

628
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,880
to play it because I guess if I had to,

629
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,880
I would look Atlanta ski to tell you the honest streets,

630
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,599
if I had to, I'd looked to Atlanta in this game,

631
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,359
thinking that they'll be hungry here, not that Las Vegas won't,

632
00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:51,480
but if the guard play isn't there, las Vegas could

633
00:33:51,519 --> 00:33:52,039
be in trouble.

634
00:33:54,039 --> 00:33:57,039
Speaker 2: And uh, I mean that's That's what I'm worried about too.

635
00:33:57,119 --> 00:34:00,519
So it looks like it could be an know play

636
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:05,079
in this one. All right, that's thirty four minutes. We

637
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:06,880
got through the five games. I think we did a

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pretty solid job. So before we get the best bets

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very quickly. Best betski. Let's go back to where we

660
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started with that La Washington game. I respect what the

661
00:35:26,639 --> 00:35:28,480
Sparks are doing, and I think in the end of

662
00:35:28,519 --> 00:35:31,840
this one maybe the Sparks could even come close. But

663
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:33,679
I don't think they're going to win the first quarter here.

664
00:35:34,079 --> 00:35:36,760
Everything I read points towards Washington coming out of the

665
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,440
tunnel and from the opening tip playing extremely strong. So

666
00:35:40,519 --> 00:35:44,000
I laid one point with Washington first quarter. I'm going

667
00:35:44,079 --> 00:35:45,559
to leave that as the best bet here. I think

668
00:35:45,599 --> 00:35:47,519
they'll be up by a bucket at the end of one.

669
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Speaker 2: All right, good stuff, and for myself I'm going to

670
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,840
do a little bit different today. I'm just going to

671
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,679
say that I like what we talked about in that

672
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,480
Sky game. Whether it's Sky first half for Sky Team

673
00:35:59,519 --> 00:36:02,800
total over, I think both of those can get there.

674
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,760
So I haven't played either yet. I could play one,

675
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,840
I could play both. That's what I'll leave the show

676
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,440
with as far as best bets today. It's been good

677
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,519
to be back with you, Veno. I always enjoy breaking

678
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the games down with you. Helps out the process a

679
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hell of a lot. For the chat, we appreciate you

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all as well. Great cappers and great people. We all

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just trying to help each other cash and for everybody else,

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out there, twitch kick, I'm not even sure what this

683
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other one is.

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Speaker 1: I'll leave that one alone.

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Speaker 2: But also I know Apple, Spotify, Twitter, or ex whatever

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you want to call it. We appreciate everybody watching. We'll

687
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be back again tomorrow. We only have one game, but

688
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we'll still talk it out with you guys, and hopefully

689
00:36:46,519 --> 00:36:48,360
off of a winning day, so we'll see you guys.

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Speaker 1: The best of luck,