Speaker 1: What's going on, y'all? Welcome into another episode of Prophet Picks.
If you're new, we do always start the show by
being transparent. And yesterday I had one play and it
was a loser. It was the Cavaliers plus two and
a half. Never was even close. So man, the past maybe,
I don't know. It's been a little bit of slump
since the weekend. For sure. Got to get back on
track here today. You know, hopefully you did better than me.
Speaker 2: Yesterday I was equal to you. Yesterday. I had one play.
It was the Clippers game over. Did not get there
to eighteen, but I did go up and down the board,
you know, ski just to review it, boy, a lot
of the stuff we talked about. I wish I had
played Orlando Phoenix wound up getting over the totals. Charlotte
was really easy, Detroit down to three and a half,
wound up being easy against Toronto. I was thinking Cleveland
Lakers over it. Just it makes me shake my head
sometimes when you have that much of a good hold
on a board and you pick the one that doesn't
go right. That's what happened yesterday. But at least I
know we handicapped it pretty well. Just a poor decision
on my part which one to play. We'll see if
we can be better today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's been the story for me the past couple
of days. Yesterday and today, I feel like it was
just like that. I'm like, damn, why didn't I just
take all this other stuff.
Speaker 2: Hopefully we're helping the chat. Hopefully you guys are taking
advantage of it. Certainly we know what we're talking about,
we just don't know how to apply it right now.
One of those Let's see if we get it right today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see. We'll start with Philly and Washington opened
up fifteen down to fourteen and a half. I see
a thirteen and a half out there too. Total right
around the opener, Billy and beat us out, Broom is
out Washington. We have Shawn George, A D. D. Lo
Sar and Trey Young all out. This is it's a lot.
It's something dirty games on this slate, you know, But man,
this is how we gotta start. Huh. You got the
Sixers coming off for loss of the favorite, so maybe
they get a chance to bounce back here. They lost
to the heat of one o nine till one nineteen.
That was a nice second half by the heat the Wizards.
It's their first game home after a what is that
five game road trip, so could be a little bit
of a flash spot. But I mean it's like they're
they're always flat. It's also fourth and six. Yeah, I
just it's hard to look towards the Wizards. I don't
view the Sixers as the I mean, I guess if
I'm trying to make a case for the Wizards, it's
that I don't view the Sixers as a team. I'm
willing to go like double digits with especially you know
you're missing in B two, you definitely would won him
in So for that reason, it will be more of
a fate of Philly at the current number, with the
lean on Washington.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Yeah, maybe, well, I think the
motivational end of this goes to Philly one game out
of the playoffs. Right now, they're the number seven seeds
sitting in the play in but they're only by in
Toronto by one, with a chance to catch them and
make it easy on themselves and just be automatically in
a series. Neither of the centers play tonight. No SAR
for Washington, no MBD for Philadelphia. Philly's got a little
more in the backup department. They can always lean on Andre,
Drummond and Bona to play centers. So I think it's
advantage Philadelphia from that perspective. They're three to oh against
these guys this season, Philly one thirty one to one ten,
Philly one thirty nine, one thirty four, Philly won twenty one,
one oh two. They've been able to score at will
against Washington, and we know Philly has been banged up
for at most of the time this year, either George's
been on suspension or Embiid's been hurt, so they've played
these games with different lineups. I feel like if I
had to isolate something because Philadelphia has the motivation legend,
because Washington flew all the way back from the West Coast,
I feel like Philly will score here. Only one o
nine against Miami, then that was just a bad shooting
that really you should score more than one o nine
against Miami. They're pushing pace the entire game. So maybe
a look toward the Sixers team total here ski I
believe when I looked it was one twenty six and
a half. As I look now, it's still one twenty
six and a half. Interesting here that the line went
straight down as you mentioned to thirteen and a half
over the EMBID news and now has come back Philly's
way a little bit because SAR was announced maybe forty
five minutes ago as not being a go here. COOLi
balio play Washington could score too. Maybe I shouldn't exclude
Washington from the mix here at two thirty eight and
a half, but I feel a little more oppident in
Philadelphia playing a what should be a quicker pace game
and the Wizards having not much in the way of
rim protection for this one.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll go over to Hawks and Magic open
up minus fours down to three or two and a
half depending where you shop. And the total also came
down from thinking opener two thirty six, and I think
consensus will call it two thirty three and a half.
As far as the injury report for Orlando, Franz Bogner's questionable.
Interesting to see if they can get him out there.
Black and Isaac are out for the Hawks. Landale is
questionable once again. Yeah you know this. I mean this
Hawks team has been playing really good basketball for a
while now. This Magic team has not. This Magic team
is coming off of a win they played yesterday, this
Hawks team has some rest advantage. I look at the standings.
You have the Hawks and with that fit seed. Let
me pull it back up here. Fifth seed, yeah, Hawks,
fifth seed in the Magic eight seed two and a
half games behind the Hawks, I mean, very very important
game here. I'd like to think that well, I don't know.
The number, just seems like numbers. Seems like I should
be taking the Magic like it seems cheap to have
the rest advantage. And if you've been playing so well
to only lay two and a half for three, I
think the Magic maybe I found a little something can't compete.
I know they're gonna play hard, at least at the
very least.
Speaker 2: What do you think you know, Yeah, they played hard
last night. That was not an easy game to win
against Phoenix when fifteen to win eleven, all of those
minutes were taxing minutes. Ben Carrol put in thirty seven,
I think Baine put in thirty seven, point guard sugs
thirty seven, thirty eight. All those guys are around the
same amount of time yesterday, so they needed it. They
got it yesterday. I kind of doubted whether or not
they could get it because they haven't been playing good.
They haven't played good against the Hawks all season long.
Atlanta's three and zero against these guys, and in two
of those three Franz did play. They're back towards the
beginning of the season. But I don't feel like Atlanta
was in form back in the beginning of the season,
especially since what they have fired in the trade down.
Now now they're better, right, And so to me, man,
don't this is hard. They both need it. Orlando needs
it more and you look at their spot in the
standing ski and they could again slide right down to
the eighth spot by losing year, so they have to
I'm sure that oh and three against this team means
something to them. It's a divisional rival. You want to
beat them for a multitude of reasons. Here tonight, So
a situation I think almost in the same spot we
were last night, right Phoenix was the rested team. Gee,
just go ahead and play the rest advantage, or do
you play the we need it more advantage, which seems
to be Orlando, even though Atlanta could use it. I
don't know. It's a difficult game. I do agree with
the total coming down a little bit, even though they're
fast paced teams. Honestly, I think this one will take
on kind of a playoff type atmosphere with people playing
defense against one another here tonight for at least some
periods of time. So maybe a look at Under. Maybe
I don't know that I could trust. I don't know.
I don't know that I could bet Orlando here, but
I don't know that I could bet Atlanta either, even
though they've owned this series this season.
Speaker 1: I agree with what you said about the Under. That
was another look for me. It did come down to
two thirty two and a half and now going back up,
so I'm not sure why that's happening. Don't like to
see that, but Under definitely on my radar, just because of,
you know, the importance of the game. I think you're
going to get really good effort on defense. Also, I
didn't pull the trigger because I'm unsure how that back
to back will affect the Magic, whether defense suffer could
And yeah, it made me hesitate a little bit, but
I agree with that thought.
Speaker 2: What do we think if Franz plays, does to throw
a wrench into their offense. He hasn't played in twenty
two games.
Speaker 1: I would think so first game back after that long,
high ustage player. I think it was the other their
rhythm off a little bit. Not like they had much anyway,
but I agree.
Speaker 2: Could get us to the under all right.
Speaker 1: Celtics and Heat opened up five now four and a half.
Total open two twenty eight and a half, and I
see it as high as two thirty and a half.
For the injuries, I see Norman Powell out. World's there
still on the injury report for some reason. Lucevich is
out for the Celtics team other than that pretty team.
I disagree with the total going up here. You know,
I'm curious before I even get into it, how do
you feel do you agree with the total going up?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll say what we say all the time. No,
Norman Powell, no doubts. Don't really want a piece, especially
if it's a good defensive team like Boston. Now, Eric
Spolstra has had a lot to say. It's kind of
funny that he's talking about how they should be. They
haven't predicated themselves on defense all season long, but yet
he's saying their problems are because they don't play defense.
That's kind of obvious to all of us. If in
fact what he's saying, if I put it into context.
Monday night, they did hold Philly to one o nine,
and if that's the start of something maybe coaches words
sinking in, then perhaps you know under is in play here.
We know Boston can play defense, we know Boston can
lock down. These guys played on February sixth. It was
ninety eight to ninety six, only one hundred and ninety
four points. So that's a good testament to the for
the under here, I could possibly look that way. Ski
I viewed Boston as maybe one of the top three
defensive teams in the league. I think Boston is able
to Some teams aren't able to control pace, tempo against
a team that's like Miami that wants to go fast,
and then Boston, you always have the thought process they're
gonna shoot forty five threes, are they gonna make a
bunch tonight or are they gonna miss a bunch? So
I think for me, a lot depends on whether or
not Monday's Monday Nights one o nine allowed to Philly
was a sign of things to come for Miami, and
they're gonna start to lock down a little bit. They
don't have to so much as they can score if
that's the case, then maybe we want under.
Speaker 1: I think, so I'll listen to all these guys talk
on the east side. They said how many Hawks was
talking about like it was one of the best half
times ever, pretty much saying, you know, Tyler Hero and Bam,
you know we're leading and you know everybody's just following them,
and it was one of their best performances. That's what
he said. And then uh, they asked Hero, they're talking
to Tyl the Hero. He was just talking about you know,
they were just stressing playing harder. Everybody knows the situation
they're in right now towards the end of the season. Bam,
same thing, you say, we know it's at stake. So
a combination of that, and you look at that second.
I mean you look at the game. Yes, their last game,
sixty percent of the time they were playing his own.
You know you want to you want you want to
teams playing his own if you wanted to over.
Speaker 2: No, but let me ask you this, is it smart
to zone Boston the way they shoot threes?
Speaker 1: Well they could out of the zone. That can be
a debate. Regardless, I think that you know Boston plays
at the slowest pace in the League this season, I
think Miami will be willing to slow their pace, especially
after Bam and Hero played what forty something men this
last game. I think we get less pace, more defense
from both sides. I mean the Celtics are off for
lost too. Celtics off for lost this year on this team,
totals are what eighteen and six to the under? That
tells you what they're gonna come out there and do.
They're strapping up after the loss. You're not getting any
easy buckets, so I like under in this game. You know?
How about how about this heat? Last five totals were
two forty plus. We were looking at what eight and
a half today excep to two thirty now, But looks
so easy to go take that over? What do you think?
Speaker 2: You know? But I think I laugh every time you
say Boston plays at the slowest tempo because I go
all the way pack to November for Jaylen Brown lying
to you. This is no track of me. He's lying
to you. You know, the numbers tell the story. He
was lying to me. I fell for it in the
beginning of the year, but now we know, and with
Jason Tatum back, they're just that much better. Defensively. So yeah, again,
it's funny too. The one thought that ran through my
head while you were talking is we kind of wait,
guys like you and I that bet these games. We
kind of wait all season long for teams to play
with this type of focus, like play play the game,
don't screwball around bench guys don't care. Everybody seems to
care now when it matters. So maybe it makes the
handicaps a little more. I don't want to say easier
because we want to win bets here or I don't
want to jinx myself, but maybe what we're handicapping is
more true to the core than it has been all
season long.
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I definitely agree with that. Yeah,
I like that, unduring this when I disagree with the
move up. I got a worst number. I got two
twenty eight and a half, but I don't think they
make it two twenty Bucks and Rockets. Oh man, Rob,
this is a stinker. I feel like I should just
not waste anybody's time. I'm done. I've nothing smart to
say about this game. Is there anything you would like
to talk about with the Bucks and the Rockets?
Speaker 2: Real quick? I was only joking yesterday when I said
it might be Glenn Rivers appreciation that he made the
Hall of Fame and Milwaukee came out and smoked Dallas
for their head coach. That probably doesn't happen again tonight.
I really think it. Because they're Houston, I'm able to
get this price. But their team total is one seventeen,
and I've made a pretty good amount of or cash,
a pretty good amount of bats. As I've said off
in here, playing Milwaukee games over in some capacity, whether
I just fade their defense, which I'll do tonight, or
whether or not I play the full game over their lineup.
Now with Gary Trent back in there, they've got some
scoring ability, but I don't want to include them against
the Houston defense. The one thing you worry about is
Houston's off the back to back. They played the Knicks
last night. That was a big game, but they didn't
you know, they didn't play really hard minutes. Nobody played
a lot, Nobody had to really go out of their
way the last six minutes to preserve that win. So
to me, the way Milwaukee's been giving up points, I
just see Houston getting to win eighteen here tonight. So
that's the way I did play this one. By the way,
for those watching, I did play Houston up and over
their team total. Just I'd like to focus in and
just continue what I've been doing. Fade Milwaukee's defense.
Speaker 1: I get it. I mean they played a better defensive
game yesterday, but before that, I mean giving it up
like clockwork. So definitely can understand. You do have both
of these teams on a back to back, so maybe
let's defense from both. All right, Kings and Raptors opened
up minus twelve, still twelve total, open two twenty six
and is down to as low as two twenty four
and a half. Scottie Barnes is questionable, ingram is out
quickly is out, battles out for Sacramento, no Westbrook, and
no Murray. I mean, damn you know, these are some
bad games. You have the Kings playing what is this
their fourth straight road game? Yes, no, fifth straight road
game the end of a road trip. They have lost
every single game. It is second of it back to
back for the Raptors, third and four nights as well.
They come off of that l versus the Pistons last
night and have to travel back to Canada. I mean,
Detroit from Canada is not far, they're right next to
each other. So the Raptors, I mean absolutely a team
that needs the game more than the Kings. Gonna double
check where they are in the standings. I know twelve
point spread is not you know, what they need, but
they're in that sixth spot, half a game behind Atlanta
in one game from being in the playing Probably for
that reason, I would look towards I would look towards
the Rappers, whether it's the first half or I feel
like the and I'm gonna check it before I pass
it to you or while I pass it to you.
But I feel like the Raptors have been better in
the first half than the second half. Maybe Raptors first half.
How many thoughts from you here?
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, I was going to play Toronto team
total for a lot of the reasons you described. Feel
like Sacramento is just playing out the string on the road.
They're no good on deepense anyway. And you know, for Toronto,
you face Detroit last night, who brought all their bigs
back into the lineup. That's this is a severe step
down in class defensively what they're gonna face tonight. But
then you know they go ahead and scratch Ingram and
maybe they're gonna scratch Barns, And I start thinking, I
don't know that I want the over anymore. Without these guys,
they could get there quickly. He's already out, But I
don't know. I don't think I want to take the chance.
Toronto does need to win, doesn't mean they have to
win by thirteen. Also doesn't mean that the Kings can't
lose by nineteen, because they're more than capable of that too.
So too many questions for me, Ski, I let it go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel you. On that Raptors as a home favorite, Well,
let's actually expand this. See they've been doing lately more
than just five games three and oh is a home
favorite one and on a back to back. Let me
just look at the season Raptors. Actually, yeah, see, here
we go. This is what I was thinking. The Raptors
as a home favorite are twelve and fourteen ats, but
seventeen and nine ats in the first half. They they
have played some stink, some bad second halves, and I
think this is a game where they should be focused.
You should get a really good effort, at least for
twenty four minutes. Raptor's first half is a Pilly anything
else getting to get out. Yeah, any reason to talk
me off of the first half.
Speaker 2: What's the number six and a half?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pulling that up now. I'm assuming it gets
six and a half with the twelve point spread and
it's seven.
Speaker 2: They bumped it even higher on you. But still to
your point, I mean, even without ingram if in fact
Barnes does play and Sacramento I mentioned this yesterday really quick.
These teams that are clustered at the bottom of the
win totals Sacramento nineteen, Wizards and Pacers with seventeen each,
Brooklyn with eighteen while fighting each other to lose the
most games right now, Sacramento's totally not trying. Some of
these teams do love to go out and get themselves
buried in the first half and then play a better
second half and make it look like they're trying, you
know what I mean, They just kind of disguise the
way they lose games. Right, it's so the first half.
If Toronto's really good at first half numbers wise, it's
probably worth the book.
Speaker 1: And also, I just checked the Kings have covered one
of their last five first halfs, so definitely gonna put
that on my short list. I like that one.
Speaker 2: Let's just get buried early and that will make pretend
we care.
Speaker 1: Great out. I like that one. Pacers and Bulls opener
was four and a half. Looks like four photo went
up from two forty three. That's as two forty seven
and a half. Let's see who is and wow, you
have Jakobe Walker, aaron Ne Smith, Andrew nimhar TJ McConnell
all out ob topping Pascal Siakam, both probable for the Bulls.
You have Josh Giddy questionable, Nick Richard's questionable, Yabouselli questionable,
and Simon's out. A lot can be missing in this one.
You know, I've been wanting to, you know, expect the
Patris to score in recent games. But a lot of
those guys I trust because like they're not gonna play
McConnell's the pace if Pong guard played from nim Hars
scoring from him shooting from the Smith. I don't like
missing all those guys, as well as the possibility of
Giddy missing. So uh, with all those question marks are
guys out. I could not agree with the total going up,
and I don't view the Bulls as a team. I
want to lay with. I mean, the thing with the
Pacers is when they had the guys in the lineup,
they play hard, they play good. When the guys are
now in the lineup, it's like they don't care no more.
So this is a tough game for me. You know,
what do you think?
Speaker 2: I think they've won too many games recently. And then
coach has to start paying Yeah, they have to say,
oh no, we're tied with Washington at seventeen. Everybody sits tonight.
And it's a shame because it's almost one of those
where if guys were playing, I would be in that
kind of why even fight it attitude because the totals
and Bulls games have been outrageously high, and this one
was bet up to this point. Ski. This didn't start
to forty seven and a half. This thing started around
the two forty three range, and people just piled on
because in bulls games, why not Like I look at
these totals and I'm like, man, that's too high for me,
too richer, And then the Bulls, you know, go out
in total two sixty and I'm like, well, why why
even fight it? Just played bulls games over But to
your point, when you start seeing all these absences from
the lineups, I get the defenses of liability on both sides,
and you know, the guys that are on the floor
are still NBA players and want to put up some numbers.
But you want to get the two fifty with a
bunch of reserves. It's not easy. It's just not that easy.
I know they're playing. Both of these teams actually are
playing kind of like an All Star game mentality, especially
the Bulls Now the Pacers I think are nine to
one team total over last ten, nine and one over
last ten. They've covered like seven or eight straight. Been
too good. Tonight's a good night to take off if
you're Indienna, So I'll stay off that game, all right.
Speaker 1: Nixon Grizzlies. This one came down, keeps going down from
sixteen and a half now it's thirteen and a half.
Total's going up though to twenty two as was the opener,
and now it's as high as two twenty six and
a half out there. Looking at the injury report, Shaman
is questionable, Mitchell Robinson is doubtful, Todd Gibson is questionable,
Hendrick is doubtful, Ti Jerome is out, and you know,
If you know me, you know what that means. Tie
Jerome out, I'm out. There's no way I'm betting the Grizzlies.
And I probably won't bet the Necks either. I mean,
it's not a good spot for them. It's there, what
fourth straight road game, and it's back to back and
all these points. I mean, Knicks have lost three straight.
They should be hungry and want to come out there
and win. But that's also means they're not playing good basketball.
So this is probably one I will not bet. What
do you think about this game?
Speaker 2: I think I would love to play the Knicks offense
in a bounce back situation. Ninety four last night against
Houston just not a good offensive effort, But that's a
really good defense when they want to be and Memphis.
You combine that with the fact that Memphis has been
an absolutely brutal defense last ten, last five, last ten,
last twenty whatever you want to look up. Give up
one thirty one the other night game, totals two forty
nine against the Bulls, give up one nineteen to the Rockets,
one twenty three to the Spurs, one forty six to
the Hawks. I could go on and on about this defense.
They just haven't been good, so the Knicks should score.
My inclination is to just take that side of it,
because the Knicks also they're in the three spot, not
really in danger of coming out of the top four
where you get a home floor advantage, but they could
slide behind Cleveland. They're only a game ahead of Cleveland
right now for the three spot, so some importance to them.
I just I would like to be able to trust
the Knicks offense against a very very bad defense here tonight,
thinking that the Knicks let me look really quick here
Ski with this team told I saw one nineteen and
a half earlier, but I want to make sure that
that's even correct. Yeah, we're looking at one twenty and
a half right now for the Knicks, which still against Memphis.
One twenty one should be doable for New York. Memphis
allows it, so maybe that's like a maybe play one
that's on the short list, as you'd like to say,
nixt team total over.
Speaker 1: Fair enough Nuggets and Jazz, two forty nine is as
high as two forty nine and a half is what
we're looking at there with a seventeen point spread not
already just makes me uncomfortable, but I mean the Nuggets
do score injuries, Aaron Gordon, probable NAUSEI out, Jones, out,
Collier E Sean, George Arkless and marketing all out. I mean,
you know, Utah is still gonna play fast and they
don't have a whole lot of defense. Nuggets don't play defense.
This number is high, though, But I don't really want
to be better in these two teams under. It's just
how I feel. What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would not play it under. They just played
four days ago and they scored two sixty four. The
Nuggets really didn't care. Utah had the lead almost the
whole way and then realized we can't win a game
in Denver. Realize we need to win a game in Denver.
Wins one thirty five nine with a crazy last seven
minutes of the game, but still to sixty four. It
just goes to show you what Denver thinks of playing Utah. Like,
in my mind, Utah is one of those teams they
like have no shame whatsoever, Like they'll do anything possible.
It just doesn't matter to them, and they've been giving
it up like crazy. It doesn't really matter what group
they put on the floor though. Ski they managed to score,
and like you say, Denver allows it again. I just
said this about Indiana Chicago. I look at these numbers
and I think, oh, that's too high for me too,
forty nine. As much as I like overs, it seems
too high. And then the other side of my head says, well,
why even fight it. All you see is overs out
of these two teams. But I'm probably gonna let this
one go Denver. We set it three and a half
weeks ago. They needed to stack wins. They hit the
gas pedal. They have stacked wins. They're now into that
four spot, and one more probably keeps them in that
top four spot. They'll they'll have a home floor advantage
in some capacity at least first round. So I think
they want it. Whether they want to win it by eighteen,
not sure. No, we are in Gordon also means when
he doesn't play, they stink defensively. Wow, they're not pay
good one. Oh he's probably okay. If he were to
be out, I would really maybe look a little harder,
but I'll take a pass on that.
Speaker 1: Spurs and Warriors, Uh yeah, I could only bet the Spurs.
I mean, they just continue to continue to roll. This
Warriors team feel like, you know, they'ven been embracing the
tank for a while. This injury, this is long, Spurs
are passed.
Speaker 2: But you got you know, yeah, I will say that,
and you know me, I read these quotes all the time.
I'm thoroughly sick of Steve Kerk talking about, oh, the injuries,
Oh the injury. So stop it with the injuries, dude,
because even if you're not injured, you scheduled losses for
this team when you weren't injured. So but I will
apply everything I said about Detroit yesterday and have said
all season long that they just play, that they come
to play every single night. It doesn't matter. That's the Spurs,
ones in the east, ones in the West, and I
still think the Spurs. I was listening to a couple
of quotes and there seems to be a little back
and forth now between Wemby and SGA over this MVP thing.
But from a team perspective, san Antonio seems to want
to just keep trying to chase down. Okay, see for
that number one seed. Now, mathematically it's still possible seventy
five games played there, two and a half out, so
you got seven left, could be done. But they're not.
You know, they're pretty secure in that two spot and
they're not holding back at all. They're actually trying to
get that one spout. So you have to figure san Antonio.
They score every night big. Their team total here really
quick against this broken down Golden State defense. One twenty
and a half is definitely doable for san Antonio. Seems
like they wake up out of bed and score one
twenty So I could see some form of san Antonio there.
Golden State just too small, don't care enough, and seeing
Antonio is the exact opposite.
Speaker 1: I agree. That is the NBA show for today. Man,
there's some stinkers on this card. It's six double digit
spreads and we have what nine games, six out of
nine double digits. That's crazy. But we'll move it on
over to or before we move it to best bets,
let's do the promo and we still have the buy three,
get three free at six days for just sixty nine dollars.
That is a good one to get involved with if
you want to do a little longer all in for
the year. Ultimately all access comes out to just under
four dollars a day, and if you were to go,
you know, purchase Rob Vino. For a year, you receive
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on anything for anybody else. So if you wanna check
me out too, that's a good way to do it
as well. And this is this is the one that
I think is why I don't still have this. That's
my bad. I'm bad for having this up there. This
is the one that I think is I mean, the
best for this show right now. NBA playoffs plus the
rest of the regular season comes out to just under
two hundred dollars nine and we still have what three
May June, I mean April May June. We have about
two and a half months of basketball left. And this
is the good basketball. This is where where we usually
do some good work, Ravino and myself. So Vino, I
know you'll mention you mentioned that, you know, you talked
to the office and if anybody was interested, they could
reach out for a combination of you know, trying to
put you and I together for NBA playoffs. So other
than that, or if you want to expand on that
or whatever, is there anything else you would like to
promote And if you have a best bet for the show,
we'd love to hear it. If you don't, it's okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say real quick that you know, those who
watch the show know that you know Ski and I
have been here covering the end since day one. So
we're waiting for these playoffs where we can actually, as
I said earlier, handicap stuff. That's true basketball. And you
could see by the records. Ski's been on a really
really nice role extended period of time. I had a
terrific march. It actually extends back to February, so we're
both in pretty good form as of now. And the
office did respond. So anybody who's interested in maybe paying
less for both of our plays, I think they were
only going to crank it up by like fifty bucks.
It went from one ninety nine to maybe two forty nine.
But again, that package is available for anybody who would
like to just get both of us. We do. I
had enough sense. Sometimes were handicap similar sometimes we handicap
a little differently. But you'll get a good variety if
you do combo up. Let's go to best bet here, Ski,
I will I got a choice here of what I
really want to do, and I'm pretty sure I'm on
the same wavelength as you in one of them. So
I'll let that one go, and I'm gonna go ahead
and go to the back to the top of the board,
and I'll play the team total that I like here,
which is the seventy six ers. We explained earlier, Washington
off of the extended West Coast road trip, Washington bad defense,
no center, and Philly without mb does play quicker through
off a bad offensive performance, and maybe it was a
good Miami defensive performance. I'm not sure, but I do
think Philadelphia, who has owned Washington all season long and
scored in this range or above every time they've played them.
So give me Philly team total over one twenty six
and a half, best bet for the show.
Speaker 1: Good stuff for myself, I will go with I'll go
with that Boston and Miami game. You can get a
better number than I did. I got two twenty eight
and a half. You can get two thirty and a half.
I like it under I gave you plenty of reasons
why earlier, but yeah, it's a reason why Miami's totals
have been two forty plus the past five games, and
now we're looking at it. You know, two twenty nine
and a half through thirty after it's gone up, So
I'm rocking with the under. I expect strong defense from
the Celtics, strong defense from the heat. That would be
my best bet for the show. Vino. I do always
appreciate you taking the time to break the games down
with me. Like I said on wager Talk today, you
help my process out a lot. I'm sure you help
you know everybody else out there as well, and always
gonna let you know we appreciate you chat. You know
it shows nothing without you guys, yo, make it what
it is. You guys bring the energy, guys bring insight
and just good vibes in general. So always appreciate the
chat too. Best to look to all of you guys
on all of your action. We'll be back again tomorrow
and we will catch you then.