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- 0:00Speaker 1: Yep. Inside, I want to kill myself. We're on OWN
- 0:05Speaker 1: seven run over the last two days after tonight it
- 0:08Speaker 1: was just complete bullshit. So that's that's I'm gonna start
- 0:11Speaker 1: off this show horrible Sunday one and five. I don't
- 0:14Speaker 1: even know what to tell you about that. I just
- 0:17Speaker 1: don't want to do this anymore. I have never seen
- 0:20Speaker 1: anything like this. Man with the slump continuing. Two straight losses,
- 0:25Speaker 1: not a good day at all. Own four, I have
- 0:29Speaker 1: not had a good season. Man with wookends the slump
- 0:34Speaker 1: that I'm on, and the slump continues, I've reached a
- 0:37Speaker 1: new pink. Actually, I'm going to.
- 0:40Speaker 2: Burn my browins hack Man, I don't know what is
- 0:42Speaker 2: going on with the Bruins arch hape.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Is that what it is? I don't even know it's
- 0:47Speaker 1: It's March ninth, I think who even knows? Man, I
- 0:51Speaker 1: don't know what data is anymore. But I don't even
- 0:53Speaker 1: know what data is anymore. Man, back with you after
- 0:57Speaker 1: the worst day that I could.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Possibly have, Back with you, and I always am.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Until I die at least oh and two. Yesterday and
- 1:05Speaker 1: yesterday did not go well for me. Own five the
- 1:09Speaker 1: worst month that I've ever had in my eighteen years
- 1:12Speaker 1: doing this. I don't know what to even tell you
- 1:14Speaker 1: about this anymore. To the slump yesterday, the slump discontinuous,
- 1:18Speaker 1: the slump continues. Somebody fucking kill me, please. I don't
- 1:23Speaker 1: even know what I should do at this point other
- 1:25Speaker 1: than potentially end it all. What's up, everybody, It's towed
- 1:33Speaker 1: back with you with Toadstool Sports. It is Monday, January nineteenth.
- 1:39Speaker 1: It is MLK Day, so there's going to be a
- 1:42Speaker 1: lot of afternoon action basketball. They make a big deal
- 1:47Speaker 1: lot of it. There's afternoon NBA afternoon college basketball. I
- 1:52Speaker 1: don't have a voice, so I apologize mostly from yelling
- 1:57Speaker 1: yesterday as we lost right to the gate with army,
- 2:01Speaker 1: they could not come through. We went one and one
- 2:06Speaker 1: in the basketball play as New Orleans Pelicans got there
- 2:08Speaker 1: with the cover kind of close. They were hanging right
- 2:12Speaker 1: within that number basically all game. They wound up losing
- 2:15Speaker 1: by I believe ten, so they did get there. Oh yeah,
- 2:18Speaker 1: I was gonna wear my Zion jersey. I forgot whatever.
- 2:22Speaker 1: I'm just too pissed. I'm too pissed about it. Man.
- 2:24Speaker 1: The Kings did not get there. The money actually disagreed
- 2:28Speaker 1: with me on that one pretty strongly. I don't know
- 2:31Speaker 1: what to tell you. I thought it was the right
- 2:32Speaker 1: spot to play. The Kings. They went off one and
- 2:35Speaker 1: a half, so you might have gotten a better number
- 2:37Speaker 1: on It didn't matter or they didn't win the game.
- 2:40Speaker 1: They made it closer towards the end and still didn't
- 2:42Speaker 1: get there. And then obviously I'm really pissed about the Rams.
- 2:46Speaker 1: The Rams, you can never find a three out there.
- 2:49Speaker 1: I should have mentioned that you should probably just wait,
- 2:51Speaker 1: because I the public was probably gonna start coming in
- 2:55Speaker 1: on the Bears to some extent, and the number was
- 2:57Speaker 1: gonna drop a little bit, probably, but it was like
- 3:00Speaker 1: three and a half abundantly. It never hit threes, So
- 3:04Speaker 1: it wound up being a loser, and im somewhat the
- 3:08Speaker 1: worst possible way, because the Rams had the bigger lead
- 3:12Speaker 1: in the game. They I mean, they started right out
- 3:15Speaker 1: with seven to nothing leads, so I'm like, all right,
- 3:17Speaker 1: it's looking pretty good for the Rams. They could never
- 3:19Speaker 1: get marged, and they actually fell behind once in the game.
- 3:23Speaker 1: The game was ten to ten in the second half,
- 3:25Speaker 1: and the Rams got a crucial touchdown with not much
- 3:28Speaker 1: time left in the game, with maybe three or four
- 3:31Speaker 1: minutes left the Rams went back up seventeen to ten
- 3:34Speaker 1: in a low scoring game like that, you're thinking that
- 3:36Speaker 1: might do it. That might be enough. Then the Bears
- 3:40Speaker 1: have a fourth down play from I don't know where
- 3:42Speaker 1: they were, like the Rams twenty something with under two
- 3:46Speaker 1: minutes to go, and the Bears. I don't know if
- 3:50Speaker 1: you saw this play. I quote tweeted it out, but
- 3:52Speaker 1: kill Williams ran backwards like twenty yards probably and then
- 3:57Speaker 1: just chucked it like a complete prayer. Like people are
- 4:00Speaker 1: like saying this is a good play. It was not
- 4:02Speaker 1: a good play. And the Rams defender in the end
- 4:05Speaker 1: zone ran like five yards back, like back towards the
- 4:10Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. I don't know what that guy was
- 4:12Speaker 1: doing leaving I think Loveland wide open in the end zone.
- 4:15Speaker 1: Who caught it for a touchdown? It made no sense
- 4:19Speaker 1: to it. It was one of the worst touchdowns I've
- 4:21Speaker 1: ever seen. It was not a skillful touchdown. Okay, like
- 4:24Speaker 1: with the game on the line of fourth down, you
- 4:26Speaker 1: run backwards twenty yards, that's just stupidity. And then he
- 4:30Speaker 1: just got asked lucky that the Rams defender ran away
- 4:34Speaker 1: from the guy he was supposed to be defending. It
- 4:36Speaker 1: made no sense, absolutely no sense at all. I can't
- 4:39Speaker 1: believe they score a touchdown on that, and that's what
- 4:42Speaker 1: did it cause they don't score like they don't convert
- 4:45Speaker 1: the fourth down play there, the game's pretty much over
- 4:49Speaker 1: and you're gonna get the win and the cover there.
- 4:51Speaker 1: And then it goes into overtime, of course, and then hilariously,
- 4:55Speaker 1: Killer Williams throws an interception. Well, the Rams actually got
- 4:57Speaker 1: the ball first in overtime, so that was actually good.
- 5:01Speaker 1: So you're thinking you might actually still be able to
- 5:03Speaker 1: get away with a Ram cover here because they have
- 5:05Speaker 1: to get a touchdown. Well, they don't have to, but
- 5:08Speaker 1: if they get a touchdown, I believe if they get
- 5:10Speaker 1: a touchdown, then I guess the Bears still have a
- 5:13Speaker 1: chance to match it. But the Rams are incentivized to
- 5:16Speaker 1: get a touchdown on the first drive. They didn't they punted,
- 5:20Speaker 1: so then I think it's just next score wins. And
- 5:23Speaker 1: then Caleb Williams throws an interception from like midfield. They
- 5:27Speaker 1: probably needed like fifteen more yards and they're gonna be
- 5:30Speaker 1: kicking a field goal even though it was in snow
- 5:33Speaker 1: and whatever. Williams throwing another crucial interception. The guy is
- 5:38Speaker 1: not good. Dude, I'm telling you. And then at that
- 5:40Speaker 1: point you pretty much know the Rams are gonna win.
- 5:42Speaker 1: They're probably gonna drive on the Bear's defense, but they're
- 5:45Speaker 1: probably gonna do it with a field goal. And then
- 5:47Speaker 1: they did almost get a touchdown on a couple of
- 5:50Speaker 1: the plays on that drive because I'm thinking, well, maybe
- 5:53Speaker 1: they will actually like try to get it touchdown here
- 5:55Speaker 1: because the field goal is not automatic and snow and
- 5:58Speaker 1: whatever like this, especially with a rookie kicker. The thicker
- 6:02Speaker 1: kicker mevs. But they got him enough, they got him
- 6:07Speaker 1: to a range that was like a pretty makeable field goal.
- 6:10Speaker 1: I think it was about forty and he kicked thatf
- 6:13Speaker 1: for the game winner. So Rams money line hit. But
- 6:17Speaker 1: that's about it. I'm not happy about it. I think
- 6:20Speaker 1: the other game was pretty bullshit the way the Patriots won.
- 6:25Speaker 1: The Texans had not lost by more than eight points
- 6:27Speaker 1: all season, and it was all because CJ. Stroud is absolute,
- 6:33Speaker 1: Like he's an absolute disaster, dude. Between those two games,
- 6:37Speaker 1: I think Stroud himself had like ten turnovers in two
- 6:42Speaker 1: games in the playoffs. It's unbelievable. It's got to be
- 6:45Speaker 1: some sort of record. He throws a pick six in
- 6:47Speaker 1: the game right after they take the lead and let's
- 6:49Speaker 1: say Houston's about to maybe seize control of the game. No,
- 6:53Speaker 1: I mean, Houston's defense did well in the game, and
- 6:57Speaker 1: there's nothing that they could do about it. When Stroud
- 6:59Speaker 1: is turning the all over on every single possession, it's ridiculous,
- 7:03Speaker 1: absolutely ridiculous. Yeah, and that was the name of that game.
- 7:06Speaker 1: It wasn't really anything that the Patriots did. It was
- 7:09Speaker 1: really which team threw the game away more, and that
- 7:12Speaker 1: was Houston. It's crazy, man, and we're gonna see what
- 7:15Speaker 1: happens coming into the championship. Games are just ridiculous. Man.
- 7:21Speaker 1: It's like the Rams are really the only team of
- 7:24Speaker 1: the legit quarterback left really well, I mean, may I
- 7:28Speaker 1: guess it's a legit quarterback, but he's a rookie, you know,
- 7:31Speaker 1: you know what I mean, or a second year quarterback
- 7:32Speaker 1: hasn't been in the playoffs before, I should say, so,
- 7:34Speaker 1: you know, like there's only one like legit and experienced
- 7:37Speaker 1: quarterback left pretty much, and that is Stafford. So if
- 7:42Speaker 1: the Rams don't win the Super Bowl at this point,
- 7:45Speaker 1: I'll be pretty surprised to me honest. But we'll see
- 7:49Speaker 1: what happens when we get there, Jeffrey, what's up? Man? Tyson?
- 7:53Speaker 1: What's up? I kind of do the hail Mary? Like
- 7:57Speaker 1: it looked like it was a rigged play, Like why
- 7:59Speaker 1: would the defender just run away from the guy he's
- 8:01Speaker 1: supposed to be defending when you pretty much know the
- 8:05Speaker 1: ball is coming in your direction, Like you could see
- 8:08Speaker 1: where Williams is chucking the ball, Like it made no sense,
- 8:12Speaker 1: Like I'm pretty sure he started running in that direction
- 8:15Speaker 1: after the ball was in the air. It made absolutely
- 8:17Speaker 1: zero sense. Definitely could be rigged, because I think it
- 8:22Speaker 1: helped out the books quite a bit, having having the
- 8:26Speaker 1: Bears cover the spread and having the Rams hit on
- 8:29Speaker 1: the money line. I think that actually really helped the
- 8:32Speaker 1: books because probably more of the public money was playing
- 8:35Speaker 1: the Bears on the money line because the public likes
- 8:39Speaker 1: that plus money man on these small dogs, that's what
- 8:41Speaker 1: they like in these big games. Who are assholes? What
- 8:48Speaker 1: what are we talking about? I don't know. Like the
- 8:52Speaker 1: rigged aspect of it is. Yeah, it's just bad, all right,
- 8:56Speaker 1: let me get into it. I'm gonna have a bunch
- 8:57Speaker 1: of players today. I'm gonna have two college basketball hockey
- 9:00Speaker 1: to NBA. You might not be able to guess what
- 9:03Speaker 1: my NBA plays are, and the market is disagreeing with
- 9:06Speaker 1: both of them, and I'm just like, I don't care.
- 9:09Speaker 1: I'm dude. This is my handicapping that I've done for
- 9:13Speaker 1: a while. This is my situational handicapping. This is where
- 9:16Speaker 1: it leads me. And I am going to have a
- 9:19Speaker 1: play on the college football Championship game tonight. Please help me. Yeah,
- 9:27Speaker 1: it's gonna be one that nobody wants. You already know
- 9:29Speaker 1: what it's gonna be. All right, college basketball starts out
- 9:33Speaker 1: eleven am. There's college basketball on CBS Sports, and it
- 9:36Speaker 1: is not a good one. I'm sorry. In the Colonial
- 9:41Speaker 1: I'm always gonna call it the Colonial Conference. Northeastern and Monmouth,
- 9:46Speaker 1: I mean they get an isolated eleven am start time
- 9:49Speaker 1: on one of the big networks. I mean, good for them,
- 9:53Speaker 1: I guess, good for these teams. Good for my Boston
- 9:56Speaker 1: guys from Northeastern. I don't even know what to think
- 9:59Speaker 1: about this game North the Eastern to just break a
- 10:01Speaker 1: losing streak. They beat Elon, decent win. Elon's been decent
- 10:05Speaker 1: in the conference, so possible, maybe letdown spotier for Northeastern
- 10:10Speaker 1: going on the road to face Monmouth. I think Mommouth
- 10:13Speaker 1: is definitely gonna be the favorite in this game. They're
- 10:15Speaker 1: actually probably the they're the better of the two teams.
- 10:17Speaker 1: Not actually, I mean it's pretty obvious that they are.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Monmouth is staying at home. Just took a fairly ugly
- 10:24Speaker 1: loss at home to Drexel, although Drexel is of course
- 10:27Speaker 1: ahead of them in the standings, whatever, slightly into Monmouth
- 10:31Speaker 1: For me in this game, I don't really have much
- 10:34Speaker 1: much to lean on in that when the market is
- 10:36Speaker 1: agreeing with that. For what it's worth, fifty nine percent
- 10:39Speaker 1: of the tickets are on Northeastern, sixty four percent of
- 10:42Speaker 1: the cash on Monmouth. The public doesn't really like to
- 10:44Speaker 1: lay points with bad teams, and both of these teams
- 10:48Speaker 1: are bad, but they also they don't like laying points
- 10:50Speaker 1: with below five hundred teams and whatever you know. But
- 10:53Speaker 1: those are my thoughts on that game. Espn U has
- 10:57Speaker 1: an American East matchup as we have what do we
- 11:00Speaker 1: have today? We have Colonial American East IVY. A lot
- 11:04Speaker 1: of matt Ac action going on today, matt Action Northeastern Conference,
- 11:10Speaker 1: there's a little bit of a ten going on. I've
- 11:12Speaker 1: kind of scrolled through that, I mean, I did I
- 11:14Speaker 1: handicapped all the games in my head. There's SWACK, there's
- 11:17Speaker 1: one Big East game for some reason, there's some MEAC,
- 11:21Speaker 1: there's Southland. There are a lot of conferences in play today,
- 11:24Speaker 1: man and Big Sky later as well. I think that's
- 11:27Speaker 1: all of them. But yeah, all right, but yes, espn
- 11:31Speaker 1: U at one pm, I'm gonna cover the TV games
- 11:35Speaker 1: at least because people like to bet on what they're watching. Again,
- 11:38Speaker 1: I recommend only putting a little bit of money on
- 11:40Speaker 1: these games, just for fun, if that's what you're doing.
- 11:42Speaker 1: Vermont at Albany, I mean Vermont. They're pretty much always
- 11:47Speaker 1: one of the best teams in this conference, and they
- 11:48Speaker 1: are again right now. Last year was the first time
- 11:51Speaker 1: in recent memory that I really can remember them not
- 11:53Speaker 1: winning the conference. They're coming off a not so good
- 11:57Speaker 1: win over Maine. Didn't win by that much. Maine was
- 12:00Speaker 1: decent in the conference last year, but not this year.
- 12:02Speaker 1: I'm assuming Vermont was a big favorite here, so Vermont
- 12:06Speaker 1: probably should have won this more easily. Yeah, they were
- 12:08Speaker 1: fourteen and a half point favorites and they almost lost
- 12:12Speaker 1: the game almost like Mayne was winning the game in
- 12:14Speaker 1: the second half. So bad game for Vermont. So they
- 12:18Speaker 1: might bounce back here, but they do have UMass Lowell
- 12:20Speaker 1: on deck, and as bad as they are, they're one
- 12:23Speaker 1: of the teams that's right behind Vermont and the standings,
- 12:26Speaker 1: so there is still the chance that maybe Vermont overlooks Albany.
- 12:29Speaker 1: Although Vermont might show up again coming off that really
- 12:33Speaker 1: bad performance, Albany likely expect them to show up as
- 12:37Speaker 1: well because it is Vermont. Usually you're gonna step up
- 12:40Speaker 1: for a game against the team that pretty much dominates
- 12:42Speaker 1: your conference every year. So Albany beat Binghamton in their
- 12:46Speaker 1: last game, which is kind of a local rivalry type
- 12:50Speaker 1: of thing, but Albany is the better of those two teams.
- 12:52Speaker 1: Binghamton sucks, so I don't think Albany coming off that
- 12:54Speaker 1: win is really gonna be They're not gonna be overconfident
- 12:57Speaker 1: or anything like that. The money looks like it is
- 13:00Speaker 1: kind of indicating on Vermont, although they did drop from
- 13:02Speaker 1: five and a half to four and a half, sixty
- 13:05Speaker 1: percent of the tickets and eighty seven percent of the
- 13:07Speaker 1: cash on Vermont. It's a lowish total at one for one,
- 13:12Speaker 1: so on a laying the points a little bit more
- 13:14Speaker 1: at dicey with a low total like that'll though maybe
- 13:16Speaker 1: I should stop thinking that way in basketball, because Houston
- 13:19Speaker 1: could have been a winner for me if I just
- 13:21Speaker 1: added them to my card yesterday. They had an easy
- 13:23Speaker 1: blowout win yesterday, and I did lean that way. That
- 13:26Speaker 1: was my second strongest college basketball opinion yesterday. This one,
- 13:33Speaker 1: I would probably lean to Vermont because it's the better
- 13:35Speaker 1: when you get the better team in what should be
- 13:37Speaker 1: a focused spot. That's kind of the way that you
- 13:40Speaker 1: want to lean, I would say more often than not,
- 13:42Speaker 1: and that is what you're getting there. So that's what
- 13:44Speaker 1: I think about that. Drexel is that thousand more Colonial
- 13:48Speaker 1: action at one pm on CBS Sports. Drexel not exactly
- 13:53Speaker 1: a great team. They are coming up winning at Mondmouth
- 13:56Speaker 1: in what I presume was an upset. Oh yeah, they
- 13:58Speaker 1: were five and a half point in that game, so
- 14:00Speaker 1: they are coming off an upset. Going to thousand thousand
- 14:03Speaker 1: has been kind of under the radar. Man. They're not
- 14:06Speaker 1: as bad as they look. But they did just get
- 14:07Speaker 1: a big win at home against College of Charleston or
- 14:10Speaker 1: I guess just Charleston now big win for thousands, so
- 14:15Speaker 1: it almost looks kind of like a sandwich for thousand. Actually,
- 14:18Speaker 1: they get Drexel here is not really that good. And
- 14:20Speaker 1: then on deck they have Elon who's close to the
- 14:23Speaker 1: top of the conference. So you can definitely make the
- 14:25Speaker 1: argument thousand is in a sandwich here. Drexel is coming
- 14:29Speaker 1: off pulling off an upset, though thousand still doesn't really
- 14:33Speaker 1: have the record of a team that is going to
- 14:35Speaker 1: be a team that you really focus on. But they're
- 14:37Speaker 1: better than the record looks. Like I said, thousand's a
- 14:42Speaker 1: six point favorite here. For what it's worth, Drexel has
- 14:46Speaker 1: sixty percent of the tickets, it's seventy four percent of
- 14:48Speaker 1: the cash coming in on them. I mean, it kind
- 14:51Speaker 1: of comes down to whether you think Drexel is going
- 14:53Speaker 1: to like really have a lot of focus on tousand,
- 14:57Speaker 1: or like, do they realize thousand is this good I
- 14:59Speaker 1: don't know, or this good for this conference? I guess
- 15:02Speaker 1: like Toews is definitely the most underperforming team in this conference,
- 15:06Speaker 1: I should say, at the very least. So the money
- 15:10Speaker 1: is coming on a Drexel. That's a tough read for me, though,
- 15:13Speaker 1: Like I don't think either team is in a particularly
- 15:16Speaker 1: good spot. Total's gone up a little bit to a
- 15:18Speaker 1: very low one twenty five and a half. Usually low
- 15:21Speaker 1: totals are gonna go under, but in that game, I
- 15:24Speaker 1: probably would not want to be in an under in
- 15:25Speaker 1: that one, to be honest, I could see both teams
- 15:29Speaker 1: not being in the greatest of spots, and sometimes that
- 15:32Speaker 1: does affect the defense more than anything else. Next game up,
- 15:37Speaker 1: we do have. I'll give you an afternoon play here,
- 15:39Speaker 1: one of my two plays in the afternoon, and it
- 15:42Speaker 1: is in the matt Act. We're gonna go with. I
- 15:46Speaker 1: know it's a team whose record doesn't look bad and
- 15:49Speaker 1: they're an underdog, so it's a little bit more palatable
- 15:53Speaker 1: of an underdog, and I usually like dogs that are
- 15:55Speaker 1: that are disgusting and not palatable because I like to
- 15:58Speaker 1: fade the public. But we're gonna be on IONA plus
- 16:01Speaker 1: three and a half here. I mean, we're still looking
- 16:04Speaker 1: at an IONA team. It's kind of middle of the
- 16:05Speaker 1: pack in this conference, even though I still think they're
- 16:08Speaker 1: one of the more competitive teams in this conference. They've
- 16:12Speaker 1: faced a fairly difficult conference schedule so well, at least
- 16:15Speaker 1: they faced Seanna and Maras already, so I guess it
- 16:18Speaker 1: wasn't the most difficult. But in Mount Saint Mary's on
- 16:21Speaker 1: the road is yeah, they're not a pushover at the
- 16:24Speaker 1: very least. But look at what Iona is coming off of. Man,
- 16:26Speaker 1: they just had their worst game of the season. They
- 16:29Speaker 1: lost at Ryder. Ryder is terrible Riders, like the dorm
- 16:33Speaker 1: out of this conference. I think they really stepped up
- 16:35Speaker 1: their game for Iona. If you dig into the box
- 16:37Speaker 1: score here, the one thing that really jumps out is
- 16:40Speaker 1: that Ryder had twenty eight free throw attempts and Iwona
- 16:43Speaker 1: only had twelve, and they missed more than half of them.
- 16:46Speaker 1: So the free throw disparity was really really huge in
- 16:50Speaker 1: this game. Iona was behind. I guess it just started
- 16:54Speaker 1: chucking up a bunch of threes, although it's kind of
- 16:56Speaker 1: what they do anyway, But the fact that they made
- 16:58Speaker 1: a bunch of more threes couldn't get them over the
- 17:00Speaker 1: hump there. They did get out rebounded horribly, though, which
- 17:04Speaker 1: is That's the one thing that's really alarming about this.
- 17:07Speaker 1: But I'm still gonna go with Iona here, man, I mean,
- 17:12Speaker 1: the free throw disparity to loom large. I think you're
- 17:13Speaker 1: gonna get Iona bouncing back here off a really really
- 17:16Speaker 1: disgusting loss, even though it is a second straight road game.
- 17:19Speaker 1: They're staying in the state of New Jersey for this.
- 17:22Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna have focus on Saint Peter's is
- 17:24Speaker 1: now suddenly at the top of the conference. And Saint
- 17:28Speaker 1: Peter's just beat that same Rider team where I thought
- 17:31Speaker 1: Saint Peter's is gonna be in a major sandwich there
- 17:33Speaker 1: after they played. They beat Merrimack and Quinnipiac, and yes,
- 17:37Speaker 1: Saint Peter's face is a difficult schedule so far, though
- 17:39Speaker 1: I don't think Merrimack is as good as they look
- 17:42Speaker 1: at record wise. Quinnipiac's pretty legit for this conference though,
- 17:46Speaker 1: so is Maris. So Saint Peter's has been those teams.
- 17:50Speaker 1: I thought they were gonna be in a sandwich spot
- 17:52Speaker 1: against Ryder, but they still beat Ryder by double digits.
- 17:55Speaker 1: Rider they're bad Man, and Saint Peter's had Iona and
- 17:58Speaker 1: Merrimack on deck. But now I think this is this
- 18:01Speaker 1: is a spot where you're gonna get really focused Iona
- 18:04Speaker 1: team getting points here in Saint Peter's. There is the
- 18:07Speaker 1: possibility they start looking ahead Man to Merrormack again, because
- 18:10Speaker 1: even though they beat them once, Merrimack is the one
- 18:13Speaker 1: team in the conference that's tied with them right now. Man,
- 18:16Speaker 1: so big game on deck. We have a common opponent.
- 18:18Speaker 1: These teams just face. So it's gonna look pretty easy
- 18:21Speaker 1: to lay a small favorite price with Saint Peter's here.
- 18:24Speaker 1: Oh they just beat Ryder by eleven Rider just beat Iona,
- 18:27Speaker 1: So of course Saint Peter's is gonna beat Iona, right.
- 18:31Speaker 1: I don't think that's the way it works, man. I
- 18:32Speaker 1: think you're gonna get a focused effort out of Iona here.
- 18:36Speaker 1: Iona is not a bad team. You're actually gonna get
- 18:38Speaker 1: four points on this now. But the money looks like
- 18:41Speaker 1: it is on Iona based on the percentage of sixty
- 18:43Speaker 1: percent of the tickets. And again, the ticket percentage not
- 18:47Speaker 1: necessarily indicative of like a public side when you look
- 18:49Speaker 1: at these small conference college basketball games, seventy one percent
- 18:54Speaker 1: of the cash on Iona, and it's now four points
- 18:56Speaker 1: spread totals in one forty one and a half, so
- 18:59Speaker 1: the total is dropped now. Saint Peter's is the team
- 19:02Speaker 1: that likes to play slow. Iona plays fast. But if
- 19:07Speaker 1: it's a slow based game and you're asking a team
- 19:09Speaker 1: to cover like that as well, like I think it's
- 19:12Speaker 1: preferable to be on an underdog with a low total
- 19:14Speaker 1: like this in a game where even if it's the favorite,
- 19:18Speaker 1: is a slow down team. If you think it's gonna
- 19:19Speaker 1: be a slower type of game, points a little bit
- 19:24Speaker 1: more at a premium something like that or though again,
- 19:26Speaker 1: that type of strategy does work better in football where
- 19:29Speaker 1: fewer points are scored, but it is something to consider
- 19:32Speaker 1: in basketball, and I always talk about it. But I
- 19:35Speaker 1: like Iona due to the spot here. Ken Bom has
- 19:39Speaker 1: this being like I think a one or two point
- 19:41Speaker 1: line here, So the fact that it's for is a
- 19:43Speaker 1: little bit crazy. He's got Iona, he does have them
- 19:48Speaker 1: really lucky in the Lucky Index, but he actually has
- 19:50Speaker 1: both teams really lucky here. He's got Saint Peter's. Where
- 19:54Speaker 1: does he have Saint Peter's that? Yeah, I believe he
- 19:58Speaker 1: actually has Iona? Is the does he have that is
- 20:00Speaker 1: the better team? He does? He has Iona at two
- 20:04Speaker 1: point fifteen and Saint Peter's two forty five, So ken
- 20:07Speaker 1: Bum has Iona as the better team and they're getting
- 20:10Speaker 1: more than just home court advantage baked into the line here,
- 20:14Speaker 1: so there's definitely line value here. He has both teams
- 20:17Speaker 1: being very lucky, so that kind of balances itself out,
- 20:21Speaker 1: and both teams are actually more defensive oriented as well,
- 20:27Speaker 1: though Iona is a little bit worse defensively, I guess,
- 20:30Speaker 1: but it's pretty close, and Iona is the better offense,
- 20:33Speaker 1: although they play fast. Saint Peter's is a very weak offense,
- 20:37Speaker 1: so the biggest disparity between the two teams is actually
- 20:40Speaker 1: Iona having the better offense and the defenses are not
- 20:43Speaker 1: that far apart, even though yeah, Saint Peter's is a
- 20:46Speaker 1: little bit better on the defensive end, but it's I
- 20:49Speaker 1: think it's a much closer game than that. So we're
- 20:52Speaker 1: gonna be on Iona plus the points there, and again
- 20:55Speaker 1: I think you can get four on that. A Sacred
- 20:58Speaker 1: Heart is at Rider, and this is an interesting game
- 21:02Speaker 1: even though both teams suck, just because both teams are
- 21:04Speaker 1: coming off of upsets. Sacred Heart won at Siana and Ryder,
- 21:09Speaker 1: Like I just pointed out one against Iona, so I
- 21:13Speaker 1: think that kind of balances itself out. It makes it
- 21:15Speaker 1: difficult to want to be on either side here because
- 21:17Speaker 1: both teams could potentially be in letdown spots. Sacred Heart,
- 21:21Speaker 1: I mean, both these teams are really really bad, so
- 21:24Speaker 1: I don't even know which way I would want to
- 21:25Speaker 1: go here. Sacred Heart broke a long lost streak, so
- 21:28Speaker 1: sometimes when you do that, that will give you a
- 21:30Speaker 1: little bit of momentum moving forward. Ryder is the worst
- 21:33Speaker 1: team in the conference standing wise, and their first conference
- 21:39Speaker 1: win was that Iona went Oh but actually my mistake.
- 21:41Speaker 1: Ryder actually had another game after that. My mistake, Ryder
- 21:45Speaker 1: lost to Saint Peter's after they played Iona, So my
- 21:48Speaker 1: apologies there. So actually I would probably lean to Ryder
- 21:52Speaker 1: in this game. Yeah, I think that's what I was thinking.
- 21:55Speaker 1: I was like, why did I want to talk about
- 21:56Speaker 1: this game again? Yeah, Ryder already had their letdown spot
- 21:59Speaker 1: again Saint Peter's. Although Saint Peter's is at the top
- 22:02Speaker 1: of the conference. Like I said, but Ryder and Riders
- 22:05Speaker 1: a little brother in the state of New Jersey to
- 22:07Speaker 1: them too. But Ryder couldn't get it done. They're back
- 22:10Speaker 1: at home. I would prefer Rider in this spot. I mean,
- 22:14Speaker 1: Sacred Heart is almost as bad as Rider, and yet
- 22:16Speaker 1: they're laying three and a half on the road. I
- 22:19Speaker 1: think that number is maybe a little high. I don't
- 22:23Speaker 1: think a team like Sacred Heart like they're so bad.
- 22:26Speaker 1: I don't know that they should really be laying points
- 22:27Speaker 1: on the road against many teams, although Riders really really
- 22:32Speaker 1: awful for sure. Fifty seven percent of the tickets on
- 22:34Speaker 1: Sacred Heart, sixty one percent of the cash on Rider.
- 22:37Speaker 1: I agree with the cash perceensine that one. I would
- 22:39Speaker 1: take the points with Ryder both bad offenses too. It's
- 22:43Speaker 1: a low total of one forty one, so there's some
- 22:47Speaker 1: information on that one for you. Ken Bump does have
- 22:50Speaker 1: Rider in like the bottom fifteen in all of college basketball,
- 22:53Speaker 1: although he has them also being pretty unlucky, and he
- 22:57Speaker 1: doesn't have Sacred Heart that much better. Really Sacred Hearts
- 23:00Speaker 1: in the bottom well, bottom eighty or so, and he
- 23:03Speaker 1: has them very bad defensively and also unlucky as well,
- 23:08Speaker 1: which is interesting. All right. If you wanted to talk
- 23:14Speaker 1: about some of these other games, I will, but I'm
- 23:16Speaker 1: mostly focused on the TV games and the ones that
- 23:18Speaker 1: I thought had certain interest, maybe just better games in
- 23:22Speaker 1: conferences or ones that have situations that make sense to
- 23:26Speaker 1: talk about. Merrimack at Maris is actually one of the
- 23:29Speaker 1: better games in the matt Ac and Merrimack as we
- 23:32Speaker 1: saw as seven to one in conference and Maris is
- 23:35Speaker 1: six and two. Maris does have the better overall record.
- 23:39Speaker 1: You'll see in a minute. Maris is laying a lot
- 23:41Speaker 1: of points in this game, man, and it might be justified.
- 23:45Speaker 1: Merrimack just beat Quinnipiac that was a big win for them.
- 23:48Speaker 1: Now they're going back out on the road, playing a
- 23:50Speaker 1: third road game in four games. I mean, they're not
- 23:53Speaker 1: gonna overlook Marist, but having to play two huge games
- 23:58Speaker 1: in a row like this might be a little bit difficult.
- 24:00Speaker 1: I think Maris comes in off an easier game. Yeah,
- 24:02Speaker 1: they beat Fairfield at home, they're just staying at home.
- 24:05Speaker 1: So Maris comes into this game in the I think
- 24:08Speaker 1: more advantageous. Spot just kind of rolling on a four
- 24:11Speaker 1: game win streak here. Maris is legit even though they
- 24:15Speaker 1: did lose to Quinnipiac. So people might see this it's, oh,
- 24:19Speaker 1: Maris lost to Quinnipiac and Merrimack beat Quinnipiac, and you're
- 24:23Speaker 1: giving me a bunch of points with Merrimack. It looks
- 24:25Speaker 1: really easy to play Merrimac here, man, But that is
- 24:28Speaker 1: not what I would do in this game. I would
- 24:30Speaker 1: actually lay it with Marist. Maris is up to a
- 24:33Speaker 1: seven point favorite here, and you gotta wonder why that's
- 24:36Speaker 1: the case when they're below Merrimack in the conference or
- 24:39Speaker 1: whatever will the oddsmakers are telling you. As I already
- 24:42Speaker 1: pointed out, I think Merrimack is overrated right now. And
- 24:45Speaker 1: ken Bum is almost certainly gonna have them high in
- 24:47Speaker 1: the luck Index. Yeah, they're his second luckiest team in
- 24:51Speaker 1: the country right now. Merrimac is so even though this
- 24:54Speaker 1: is expected to be a low scoring game with a
- 24:56Speaker 1: total one point thirty three, I would lay it with
- 24:59Speaker 1: Marist if I gonna play it. They're up to that
- 25:01Speaker 1: key number of seven there though, from six eighty six
- 25:04Speaker 1: percent of the tickets ninety eight percent of the cash
- 25:06Speaker 1: on Merrimack for what it's worth. But it's looking like
- 25:09Speaker 1: they might be a public side. I mean, I don't
- 25:13Speaker 1: necessarily want to say that. As much as you can gauge,
- 25:15Speaker 1: you can't really gauge the public that much in these games,
- 25:18Speaker 1: but those are my thoughts on that. On Northeastern Conference
- 25:23Speaker 1: in the afternoon, we have Wagner at Fairley Dickinson. This
- 25:26Speaker 1: just has kind of an interesting spot I think where
- 25:29Speaker 1: Wagner just lost at new Haven, not exactly a great loss,
- 25:33Speaker 1: and new Haven's been playing all right this year though
- 25:35Speaker 1: they're new to Division one this year, so maybe it's
- 25:38Speaker 1: a little bit of an embarrassing loss. For that reason, Wagner,
- 25:41Speaker 1: you got to think they're gonna be looking for a
- 25:42Speaker 1: win as they've lost four games in a row after
- 25:45Speaker 1: winning their first conference game, and maybe Wagner's is not
- 25:48Speaker 1: that good this year, but I think the spot for
- 25:51Speaker 1: Fairly Dickinson is fairly awful, as they just took Long
- 25:56Speaker 1: Island to the limit. Man Long Island is the top
- 25:58Speaker 1: team in the conference right now, and Fairley Dickinson also
- 26:02Speaker 1: faces the team it's in second in the conference, Central
- 26:05Speaker 1: Connecticut at next and Central Connecticut was the best team
- 26:08Speaker 1: in the conference last year, even though they got upset
- 26:10Speaker 1: in the conference final and didn't make the tournament. That's
- 26:14Speaker 1: still a big game on deck, I would say for
- 26:16Speaker 1: Fairley Dickinson. So I think Wagner is the right side
- 26:19Speaker 1: in this game. I think Fairley Dickinson could be a
- 26:23Speaker 1: bit hung over after that game against Long Island. Fairly
- 26:27Speaker 1: Dickinson was a big underdog in that game because they're
- 26:29Speaker 1: not good. So this game, Fairley Dickinson actually did go
- 26:34Speaker 1: from a pick them to one point favorite. But I
- 26:36Speaker 1: would be looking to take that point or point and
- 26:38Speaker 1: a half with Wagner in that game the way that
- 26:41Speaker 1: I look at that situation. And then we do have
- 26:46Speaker 1: the aforementioned Maine playing against New Hampshire. Here a New
- 26:50Speaker 1: Hampshire is in somewhat of a similar spot though, because
- 26:54Speaker 1: they just almost pulled off an upset as well against UNBC.
- 26:59Speaker 1: They were and a half point upset, but decent performance
- 27:02Speaker 1: from New Hampshire fell just short. They could be in
- 27:05Speaker 1: a flat spot coming off of that. They're playing a
- 27:06Speaker 1: third straight road game, which is also not easy to do.
- 27:09Speaker 1: But again, Maine just played pretty close against Vermont and
- 27:14Speaker 1: they're coming back home, which in college does make it
- 27:17Speaker 1: a little bit easier when you're back at home. And
- 27:19Speaker 1: Maine did lose their first conference home game to Bryant,
- 27:23Speaker 1: although Bryant, you know Brian's I don't think they're a
- 27:28Speaker 1: bad team necessarily, though, They're not as good as they
- 27:30Speaker 1: were last year as far as this conference is concerned
- 27:33Speaker 1: at the very least. But when you're a team returning
- 27:35Speaker 1: home and you lost your last home game, you do
- 27:37Speaker 1: tend to have more focus here. So Maine does have
- 27:40Speaker 1: that going for them. But that game against Vermont was
- 27:42Speaker 1: big man, and they almost got that upset. So what
- 27:46Speaker 1: are we doing this game? Well, I don't know. The
- 27:47Speaker 1: market read is indicating on Maine up from one to
- 27:51Speaker 1: two and a half year, fifty six percent of the
- 27:53Speaker 1: cash on them tickets are even at fifty to fifty.
- 27:57Speaker 1: UNH is definitely a really, really bad team, So you know,
- 28:01Speaker 1: I won't really disagree with it because I think UNH
- 28:03Speaker 1: having a third straight road game makes it a bit
- 28:06Speaker 1: difficult for them Maine, at least being back home, there
- 28:09Speaker 1: is some indication that maybe they should be focused there,
- 28:12Speaker 1: but coming off that big game against Vermont does make
- 28:15Speaker 1: it a little bit difficult. So that's a stay away
- 28:18Speaker 1: for me. Obviously, we have an A ten matchup on
- 28:22Speaker 1: CBS Sports. Well, CBS Sports, Yeah, I guess they switch
- 28:25Speaker 1: over from yeah having Colonial to A ten at three pm.
- 28:31Speaker 1: They got Saint Joe's at VCU. I mean, it's not
- 28:36Speaker 1: It might look like an interesting game based on the
- 28:38Speaker 1: team's records because their records are actually pretty close overall
- 28:42Speaker 1: end in conference, but VCU is a massive favorite in
- 28:45Speaker 1: this game. There's a reason for that. They're way better team.
- 28:49Speaker 1: Saint Joe's did just have a nice win over Saint Bonaventure,
- 28:52Speaker 1: but they are on a three game win streak, so
- 28:54Speaker 1: maybe they come into this with some momentum. They're not
- 28:56Speaker 1: gonna overlook VCU, and VCU won this conference last year.
- 29:00Speaker 1: They're always one of the better teams in the conference,
- 29:03Speaker 1: which they still are. VCU did just end a losing
- 29:06Speaker 1: streak by winning at Rhode Island. They're coming back home.
- 29:10Speaker 1: Maybe they have some new momentum here. I don't see
- 29:12Speaker 1: them overlooking this game either. VCU was a huge favorite.
- 29:17Speaker 1: Like I said, they dropped a little bit from fifteen
- 29:19Speaker 1: and a half to fifteen. But you know, it looks
- 29:21Speaker 1: like such an enormous line based on the team's records.
- 29:24Speaker 1: It's one of those lines that kind of messes with
- 29:27Speaker 1: your heads. So I would probably prefer to lay it
- 29:30Speaker 1: with VCU in that game, but that one's not It's
- 29:33Speaker 1: not anything that I want to jump in and touch
- 29:36Speaker 1: it anyway. In the Northeastern Conference, that Long Island team
- 29:40Speaker 1: that I mentioned, they're coming off that bad performance where
- 29:43Speaker 1: they almost lost to Fairley Dickinson, so they might have
- 29:47Speaker 1: more focus here against Lemoyne. Although it's not like leam
- 29:49Speaker 1: Mooyn is that good. But whenever you almost lose like that,
- 29:53Speaker 1: you do usually show up with focus coming into the
- 29:55Speaker 1: next game. LeMoyne's not gonna overlook Long Island either, though
- 29:59Speaker 1: Lemoyne just beat Chicago State whatever, so I think both
- 30:02Speaker 1: teams show up. But again, if you're getting Long Island
- 30:05Speaker 1: as the better team in a focused spot, that might
- 30:08Speaker 1: be the way to lean, you know. The le Moyne
- 30:09Speaker 1: flipped from a one and a half point dog to
- 30:12Speaker 1: a pick them. Now looks like the money is actually
- 30:14Speaker 1: coming in on the Lemoyne side. But I would somewhat
- 30:18Speaker 1: disagree with that, just because I tend to lean towards
- 30:22Speaker 1: better teams when they're coming off a scare like that,
- 30:24Speaker 1: like Long Island is MacNeice is at Texas A and
- 30:28Speaker 1: M Corpus Christie and MacNeice. They just took a loss
- 30:31Speaker 1: their second conference losses. They've been a dominant team in
- 30:34Speaker 1: this conference man the Saltland, but now they're actually behind
- 30:38Speaker 1: Steven F. Austin, even though I think they beat Steven V.
- 30:40Speaker 1: Austin already once if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, they did
- 30:43Speaker 1: close though at home, but they just lost as a
- 30:46Speaker 1: pretty big road favorite at Texas Rio Grande Valley, pretty
- 30:51Speaker 1: ugly loss. It did end a win streak for them,
- 30:53Speaker 1: but I'm kind of thinking Magnice will bounce back here
- 30:56Speaker 1: and show up with some focus after that against A
- 30:58Speaker 1: and MCC, who's right behind them in the conference. Down
- 31:02Speaker 1: ANMCC has been one of the better teams in the
- 31:04Speaker 1: conference recently. An MCC is staying at home, and of
- 31:07Speaker 1: course they're gonna show up for this as well anm
- 31:10Speaker 1: Corpus Christy. But I would probably prefer to be on
- 31:14Speaker 1: the Macneese side in this one. They're laying seven and
- 31:17Speaker 1: a half again, a good team coming off an ugly
- 31:19Speaker 1: upset loss. But the money looks like it's indicating on
- 31:23Speaker 1: A and MCC. But I don't really agree with this one.
- 31:27Speaker 1: Sixty percent of tickets on MacNeice, sixty percent of the
- 31:30Speaker 1: cash on A and MCC. Might just be maybe some
- 31:34Speaker 1: of the money coming in on A numbers play here,
- 31:36Speaker 1: like oh MacNeice is is favored by too much on
- 31:38Speaker 1: the road or whatever. But I don't know, man, I mean,
- 31:41Speaker 1: the oswigers are telling you MacNeice is still the significantly
- 31:44Speaker 1: better of these two teams. And the number did initially
- 31:47Speaker 1: tick up a little bit with the juice, the juice
- 31:51Speaker 1: being a little bit loose on the on the minus
- 31:53Speaker 1: seven and a half. There you're gonna parlay the the
- 32:04Speaker 1: CBS Sports games with what all the favorites Vermont VC
- 32:07Speaker 1: and George Washington. I don't know. I mean, well, you
- 32:15Speaker 1: know me and I just in my mind. I just
- 32:17Speaker 1: can't bring myself to do any parlays because they don't
- 32:21Speaker 1: give you good enough odds on them ever. But yeah,
- 32:23Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to do it for TV
- 32:26Speaker 1: watching and whatever, I would still recommend straight betting everything,
- 32:30Speaker 1: just so if you win more than you lose, you'll
- 32:31Speaker 1: still win something. But yeah, I mean, obviously the payout
- 32:35Speaker 1: is bigger with the parley, although it's not big enough.
- 32:39Speaker 1: George Mason at Excuse George Washington at George Mason, The
- 32:43Speaker 1: Battle of the Historical George's one Man against One Man,
- 32:48Speaker 1: CBS Sports at five. This game, George Mason, excuse me,
- 32:53Speaker 1: George Washington just lost at home to Davidson. I think
- 32:57Speaker 1: George Washington was a favorite in this game. I would
- 32:59Speaker 1: have made. Yeah, they were nine and a half point
- 33:01Speaker 1: favorite and they lost the game out right. So that
- 33:03Speaker 1: is the type of team that I want to look
- 33:05Speaker 1: to back after they come off a game like that.
- 33:08Speaker 1: George Mason as the better looking record. They're a one
- 33:11Speaker 1: loss team on the season, but they faced a pretty
- 33:14Speaker 1: weak schedule. They did have one big conference win against VCU,
- 33:18Speaker 1: but their schedule generally has been really really weak. So
- 33:21Speaker 1: I don't think George Mason is as good as the
- 33:25Speaker 1: record looks. Yeah, they're at home here. I'm assuming they're
- 33:28Speaker 1: gonna be a favorite in this game. They're coming off
- 33:30Speaker 1: a winner for Loyola Chicago that wasn't that impressive. They
- 33:33Speaker 1: were kind of in a sandwich spot in that game
- 33:36Speaker 1: because they had just beaten VCU. They had Washington on deck,
- 33:39Speaker 1: George Washington. I don't know if George Mason covered this
- 33:43Speaker 1: number or not. They did not. They were eleven and
- 33:46Speaker 1: a half point favorites, So Loyola would have been a
- 33:49Speaker 1: correct play in that game, which I think I gave
- 33:52Speaker 1: that out as a lean on the show. I mean,
- 33:54Speaker 1: I have a lot of leans. George Mason has dropped
- 33:58Speaker 1: from a three point favorite to a two point five
- 34:00Speaker 1: favorite here. The money is coming into George Washington eighty
- 34:02Speaker 1: percent of the tickets, ninety three percent of the cash
- 34:04Speaker 1: on GW here, So yeah, I do agree with it.
- 34:09Speaker 1: So I agree with Jeffrey on I guess all three
- 34:12Speaker 1: of those, you know, I mean that parlay price that
- 34:17Speaker 1: you're doing. What are you doing like VCU money line?
- 34:19Speaker 1: I mean they're a really hefty money line price, or
- 34:23Speaker 1: you're saying you're gonna do a spread Parlay. I don't know,
- 34:26Speaker 1: but I agree with all three of those teams on
- 34:28Speaker 1: the spread. But I mean doing that is it's of
- 34:32Speaker 1: course dangerous, because of course it's it's still when you
- 34:35Speaker 1: have three plays, it's still pretty likely one of the three,
- 34:38Speaker 1: at least one of the three is gonna lose. You know,
- 34:40Speaker 1: it's just the name of the game. Fox Sports one
- 34:45Speaker 1: has a Big East game randomly, the only big Conference
- 34:48Speaker 1: game of the day at six pm, and oh it's
- 34:50Speaker 1: it's a great one between Providence and Marquette. Yeah. When
- 34:55Speaker 1: the schedule makers schedule this, they probably thought this was
- 34:57Speaker 1: gonna be an interesting game. Yeah. No, both these teams
- 35:01Speaker 1: near the bottom of the Big East. They're both not
- 35:03Speaker 1: playing well. Providence to just beat Creighton, nice win for them,
- 35:06Speaker 1: and now they go out on the road to Milwaukee
- 35:09Speaker 1: to play Marquette. Looks like not the greatest situation really
- 35:13Speaker 1: for Providence here. They actually played pretty close against Villanova
- 35:16Speaker 1: the game before Creighton as well, So I don't really
- 35:20Speaker 1: love how it sets up for Providence here. Marquette just
- 35:23Speaker 1: lost at DePaul. Now they're coming back home. They've been
- 35:26Speaker 1: better at home though in conference play, Like if you
- 35:29Speaker 1: look at their home results, they had a fairly bad
- 35:32Speaker 1: loss while by nine at home to Georgetown, but other
- 35:35Speaker 1: than that, they'll only lost by six to Seaton Hall.
- 35:37Speaker 1: They beat Xavier by one all those Xavier's awful, and
- 35:41Speaker 1: they came to within three of Villanova at home, so
- 35:45Speaker 1: Marquette hasn't been that bad at home. I would lean
- 35:48Speaker 1: with Marquette in this one. The money seems to agree.
- 35:52Speaker 1: Marquette did drop from one and a half to pick them,
- 35:55Speaker 1: but yeah, I definitely prefer the Marquette side here. Providence
- 35:58Speaker 1: has fifty five percent of the cat sixty percent of
- 36:01Speaker 1: the fifty percent of the tickets. Excuse me on Providence
- 36:04Speaker 1: sixty one percent of the cash on Marquette. I agree
- 36:06Speaker 1: with Marquette in that game. Now do it? I don't know.
- 36:12Speaker 1: I just almost consider wanting to play it. I don't know.
- 36:14Speaker 1: Providence only is Georgetown next. Was a nice win for
- 36:18Speaker 1: them over Creighton though, although Creighton's kind of middle of
- 36:20Speaker 1: the pack, it was a small upset the Providence pulled.
- 36:23Speaker 1: I'll stay away, but I do I like Marquette in
- 36:26Speaker 1: that one. Okay, uh, we have CBS Sports yet again.
- 36:32Speaker 1: At seven pm. They're moving over to the Patriot League
- 36:34Speaker 1: with Loyola Maryland at Lehigh. Not a very enticing match
- 36:39Speaker 1: up here. Kyle, what's up man? Thanks for hanging out.
- 36:42Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I think I started late to nine thirty
- 36:46Speaker 1: because I was trying to handicap all the games here.
- 36:48Speaker 1: It took me about an hour. Today. Loyola just beat
- 36:52Speaker 1: Boston University at home, not a great win or anything,
- 36:56Speaker 1: so that might give them some new momentum coming into
- 36:58Speaker 1: this game against Leehigh. Lehigh is coming off of playing
- 37:03Speaker 1: Navy pretty close, man, and it ended at a wind
- 37:08Speaker 1: streak for Lehigh. So Lehigh losing a win streak. Sometimes
- 37:11Speaker 1: when you lose a wind streak, you get hung over
- 37:13Speaker 1: a little bit and you essentially lose the same game twice.
- 37:16Speaker 1: And that was a big game for Lee High. They
- 37:18Speaker 1: lost by three to Navy. Navy's at the top of
- 37:20Speaker 1: the conference right now, so I would be leaning to to.
- 37:24Speaker 1: I would be leaning towards Loyola Maryland in this game.
- 37:29Speaker 1: We don't really see any percentages dot on this. Lee
- 37:31Speaker 1: High is a five and a half point favorite, which
- 37:33Speaker 1: seems a little lee High, let's say a LEI not
- 37:37Speaker 1: a great team, although obviously neither of these teams are.
- 37:40Speaker 1: But I would prefer the loyal and Maryland Side in
- 37:43Speaker 1: that one. Next up is the other bet that I
- 37:45Speaker 1: have in college basketball. If you know how I do things,
- 37:52Speaker 1: you know where I'm going with this. It's ugly, but
- 37:54Speaker 1: we're going with Southeastern Louisiana plus five and a half
- 37:57Speaker 1: in the Southland against Texas Grande Valley. Here. Really, the
- 38:02Speaker 1: whole scenario here is that Real Grande Valley just upset
- 38:07Speaker 1: Macnice Man. That was a monster win for them. Macnice
- 38:10Speaker 1: won the conference last two years in dominating fashion. They've
- 38:14Speaker 1: been the best team in this conference for really probably
- 38:16Speaker 1: three years. Will Wade built up the program. Now he's
- 38:19Speaker 1: gone over to NC State, but Magnice is still the
- 38:23Speaker 1: best team in this conference, even though they've fallen behind
- 38:26Speaker 1: Steven F. Austin. But that was a monster win for
- 38:28Speaker 1: Rio Grande Valley. It was almost a double digit upset. Now,
- 38:31Speaker 1: staying at home basking in that win, sometimes when you
- 38:34Speaker 1: have a big win on campus, you become like the
- 38:37Speaker 1: big men on campus, you know what I mean. If
- 38:39Speaker 1: you're staying at home, it kind of just gets to
- 38:40Speaker 1: your head and you feel overconfidence. So I don't like
- 38:43Speaker 1: any of that for Real Grande Valley coming into this,
- 38:47Speaker 1: I wish they had a bigger game up next. It's
- 38:49Speaker 1: not really big, it's against Houston Christian, but still I
- 38:52Speaker 1: think they're gonna be in a letdown spot here. Southeastern
- 38:55Speaker 1: Louisiana comes into this game on a three game losing streak,
- 38:58Speaker 1: so I think they're gonna be a little bit hungry
- 39:01Speaker 1: for a win. I know it's a second straight road game.
- 39:04Speaker 1: They lost to MacNeice not that long ago on the
- 39:06Speaker 1: road at McNeese, so it looks even easier to play
- 39:09Speaker 1: Rio Grande Valley here looking at that common opponent there,
- 39:12Speaker 1: But I don't think that's the way to look at
- 39:14Speaker 1: this one. I know it's a second straight road game,
- 39:16Speaker 1: but at least the travel isn't as bad here. From
- 39:19Speaker 1: A and M Corpus Christi over to Rio Grande Valley.
- 39:22Speaker 1: I don't think that's a huge travel leg there. So
- 39:26Speaker 1: I like Southeastern Louisiana here. Man, they're not the greatest team, obviously,
- 39:30Speaker 1: but that's how leaning here. Rio Grande Valley is a
- 39:33Speaker 1: five point favorite. Now it looks like, hopefully there's not
- 39:36Speaker 1: much of a difference between five to five and a half.
- 39:38Speaker 1: One thirty six is the total, so you're looking at
- 39:41Speaker 1: a low total here in this one. Now for real
- 39:44Speaker 1: Grande Valley, Yes, they're the better team. Ken Bom actually
- 39:47Speaker 1: has them unlucky as well, so he has them as
- 39:51Speaker 1: very unlucky three in forty six in Locke, So that
- 39:54Speaker 1: does indicate the Rio Grande Valley is better than their
- 39:57Speaker 1: record looks. They're actually not horrible defense. They're like middle
- 40:00Speaker 1: of the pack defense wise, barely cracking the top two
- 40:04Speaker 1: hundred rankings wise overall Southeastern Louisiana. They are also better
- 40:10Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. Both teams are.
- 40:13Speaker 1: They're actually middle of the pack defensively too. They're just
- 40:15Speaker 1: horrendous offensively, so they're actually almost as good as Rio
- 40:19Speaker 1: Grande Valley defensively, so their defense can actually match up.
- 40:22Speaker 1: And they're fairly unlucky according to ken Bomb as well.
- 40:26Speaker 1: And they play slow, but I believe Rio Grande Valley
- 40:30Speaker 1: also plays slow. I believe is what I was gonna say. Yeah,
- 40:32Speaker 1: both teams are in the bottom third of tempo, so
- 40:36Speaker 1: it's probably it's likely to be a slow game. As
- 40:38Speaker 1: the total also indicates meaning points more to premium. It's
- 40:41Speaker 1: harder for the favorite to cover like that, especially in
- 40:44Speaker 1: a bad spot like that, So Southeastern Louisiana is the
- 40:47Speaker 1: play for me in that one plus the points there,
- 40:51Speaker 1: although I think ken Bom might have that line actually
- 40:54Speaker 1: being a little bit higher because he has Real Grande
- 40:56Speaker 1: Valley so undervalued, So like that might be one of
- 41:00Speaker 1: the games where the numbers guys actually might prefer Rio
- 41:03Speaker 1: Grande Valley in that game. But me, being a situational guy,
- 41:06Speaker 1: I do not. I think it's a strong situation to
- 41:09Speaker 1: fade them and what I think is a letdown. Probably
- 41:13Speaker 1: the biggest game in the Southland is Steven F. Austin
- 41:16Speaker 1: at Nichols. Nichols still doing well in the conference. They're
- 41:20Speaker 1: a two loss conference team, but Steven F. Austin is
- 41:22Speaker 1: the better of these two teams. They're coming off kind
- 41:25Speaker 1: of a close call at New Orleans, continuing their momentum
- 41:28Speaker 1: here three wins in a row. Steman F. Austin's only
- 41:31Speaker 1: conference loss was a very close loss on the road
- 41:34Speaker 1: at McNeice, So they're a legit team in this conference.
- 41:37Speaker 1: Man Nichols may not be. Although Nichols, as I showed you,
- 41:41Speaker 1: they their overall record is really not indicative of what
- 41:45Speaker 1: they really are because Nichols played a really difficult out
- 41:48Speaker 1: of conference schedule. Now Steveen f Austin is on a
- 41:50Speaker 1: second straight road game, although I think they might be
- 41:53Speaker 1: down for it because Nichols is so close to them
- 41:56Speaker 1: and the conference standings. Nichols is obviously gonna show up too, though,
- 41:59Speaker 1: because they've lost two games in a row. After they
- 42:01Speaker 1: got crushed by MacNeice. They lost at home to Lamar Lama.
- 42:07Speaker 1: That was sandwiched in there between MacNeice and Stephen at
- 42:10Speaker 1: Austin though, so maybe explains the loss a little bit.
- 42:15Speaker 1: Stemen have Austin's up from three and a half to four,
- 42:17Speaker 1: but the money looks like it's coming in towards the
- 42:18Speaker 1: Nichols side. Seventy one percent of the tickets on Steven
- 42:22Speaker 1: at Austin and only fifty six percent of the cash.
- 42:25Speaker 1: I kind of agree with the market and that one
- 42:27Speaker 1: I would probably lean towards taking it with Nichols. They
- 42:30Speaker 1: are still, at the very least, there's still the more
- 42:33Speaker 1: battle tested team in the spot to me looks a
- 42:35Speaker 1: little bit better for Nichols bounce back, but and Semen
- 42:39Speaker 1: of Austin might be feeling pretty high on themselves now
- 42:42Speaker 1: that they're in first place in the Southland by themselves,
- 42:46Speaker 1: So that's those are my thoughts on that. And then
- 42:53Speaker 1: we do have one pretty good game in the Big
- 42:55Speaker 1: Sky here at eight pm Eastern between Montana State and
- 42:59Speaker 1: Northern Colrado. Montana State looking really good in the Big
- 43:02Speaker 1: Sky so far, four and one in Northern Colorado, one
- 43:06Speaker 1: in five to start Big Sky play. But I still
- 43:09Speaker 1: think I think Northern Colorado is way under the radar
- 43:12Speaker 1: right now, Like I still think they're one of the
- 43:14Speaker 1: top like four or so teams in the Big Sky.
- 43:18Speaker 1: So I would not overlook Northern Colorado and Montana State
- 43:21Speaker 1: might because they already beat Northern Colorado at home by fourteen.
- 43:24Speaker 1: That was a win for us on the show if
- 43:26Speaker 1: you remember, because there was a revenge aspect to that
- 43:29Speaker 1: from Montana State. Northern Colorado I believe had well. Northern
- 43:33Speaker 1: Colorado is the team that I believe they knocked Montana
- 43:35Speaker 1: State out of the tournament last year, the Big Sky Tournament,
- 43:39Speaker 1: I mean Northern Colorado also I believe had Montana on
- 43:45Speaker 1: deck in Montana was the team that won the conference
- 43:47Speaker 1: last year and had beaten Northern Colorado in the Big
- 43:50Speaker 1: Sky Tournament. In Northern Colorado I think was coming off
- 43:52Speaker 1: some big out of conference game too, so it was
- 43:54Speaker 1: a great spot to fade them, So Northern Colorado got
- 43:57Speaker 1: caught in a bad spot in that one. Tanna State
- 44:00Speaker 1: facing them for the second time, might actually look past them,
- 44:03Speaker 1: especially because Montana State just beat Montana big win. I mean,
- 44:07Speaker 1: it's a rivalry. Those teams don't like each other in
- 44:10Speaker 1: Montana of course, had the upper hand last year and
- 44:12Speaker 1: won the conference, so that was a big win for
- 44:15Speaker 1: Montana State. Northern Colorado again, they're playing so poorly that
- 44:19Speaker 1: you might actually overlook them, and Montana State doesn't. They
- 44:23Speaker 1: have Idaho State next. They're kind of in the middle
- 44:25Speaker 1: of the pack team in the conference. But still I
- 44:28Speaker 1: could see on Northern Colorado being the team that gets
- 44:31Speaker 1: up for this game more. They need to win badly, man.
- 44:34Speaker 1: They faced a difficult conference schedule though, Yeah, and Colorado
- 44:37Speaker 1: was the game before that Montana State game. By the way,
- 44:40Speaker 1: Northern Colorado actually beat Colorado in that game on the road,
- 44:45Speaker 1: so they were in a major sandwich spot in that game,
- 44:48Speaker 1: I thought, and that's why we got the win on
- 44:50Speaker 1: that with Montana State. On Northern Colorado, they've actually they're
- 44:55Speaker 1: not a horrible team, man. I mean, they have a
- 44:56Speaker 1: loss by one to Saint Thomas and they're in the
- 44:59Speaker 1: out of conference than they played Texas Tech on the
- 45:02Speaker 1: Roads within eleven. That's not bad, man. So yeah, Northern Colorado,
- 45:08Speaker 1: I think they're way under the raidar and now they're
- 45:09Speaker 1: coming off a disgustingly bad loss to Sacramento State. I
- 45:14Speaker 1: mean that is awful. Sacramento State near the bottom of
- 45:16Speaker 1: the conference. Horrible loss there. Northern Colorado was definitely a
- 45:20Speaker 1: favorite in that game, losing an overtime to a bad
- 45:23Speaker 1: team like that, and Northern Colorado had the lead most
- 45:26Speaker 1: of the game, I think, and somehow lost. They were
- 45:30Speaker 1: six and a half point favorites. Yeah, look at how
- 45:33Speaker 1: they lost, man. Sacramento State had thirty four free throw
- 45:37Speaker 1: attempts in the game, so Northern Colorado's thirteen. You have
- 45:41Speaker 1: to be kidding me. They had twenty one more free
- 45:44Speaker 1: throw attempts in the game. That's absolutely ridiculous. And Northern
- 45:49Speaker 1: Colorado shot somewhat poorly from three point range in the
- 45:51Speaker 1: game too, But they also had the bigger lead in
- 45:53Speaker 1: the game Northern Colorado did with an eighteen point lead
- 45:57Speaker 1: and couldn't finish the game off. I think maybe they
- 46:00Speaker 1: started looking ahead to this game or something. I don't know, man,
- 46:03Speaker 1: But if you look at their other conference losses, they
- 46:05Speaker 1: played all the best teams in the conference. Man. They
- 46:08Speaker 1: played Montana State on the road, Montana on the road,
- 46:11Speaker 1: gotta win against Idaho State at home. They played Weber
- 46:14Speaker 1: State is not really that bad, and lost to Portland State,
- 46:17Speaker 1: who still hasn't lost in the conference, lost to them
- 46:20Speaker 1: on the road. All the Portland States faced a weak
- 46:22Speaker 1: conference schedule. But still, I think Northern Colorado is way
- 46:25Speaker 1: undervalued here, Man, did I talk myself into a play here?
- 46:29Speaker 1: I might have Northern Colorado dropped from three to one
- 46:34Speaker 1: and a half. It's like, dude, I don't even know
- 46:36Speaker 1: how that's how could the line be like that? Hold
- 46:39Speaker 1: on ken Bumstill is Northern Colorado at one hundred and
- 46:44Speaker 1: seventy ah in the country. They're not very good defensively,
- 46:47Speaker 1: they play on the faster side. Let me see, they're
- 46:49Speaker 1: pretty low in his luck index, meaning that they're probably
- 46:53Speaker 1: a little bit of an undervalued commodity. Montana. Where does
- 46:58Speaker 1: he have Montana's He has them better than Monte He
- 47:01Speaker 1: does not have them better than Montana State, though, but
- 47:05Speaker 1: he doesn't have a wide disparity between the two. He's
- 47:08Speaker 1: got Montana State being a slow ten boot team. Montana
- 47:11Speaker 1: State is a very unlucky team. Montana State is a
- 47:14Speaker 1: much more balanced team. Let me see, Northern Colorado's better
- 47:20Speaker 1: offensively and worse defensively, and they play fast, so maybe
- 47:23Speaker 1: they'll be able to speed this up and throw Montana
- 47:27Speaker 1: State out of the relevant here and then by ken
- 47:30Speaker 1: Bumman he has Northern Colorado winning by two. But I
- 47:33Speaker 1: would say, by Ken bump so you get these numbers man,
- 47:36Speaker 1: thirty bucks a year or whatever, it's not bad. You know,
- 47:42Speaker 1: Northern Colorado is just so under the radar right now.
- 47:45Speaker 1: Montana State's coming up such a big win against Montana
- 47:50Speaker 1: and Northern Colorado just hasn't gotten anything right yet. I
- 47:55Speaker 1: think we should do it. I think it's gonna be
- 47:57Speaker 1: a money line play. Let me see, we're gonna have
- 47:59Speaker 1: a third play here. You can lay the one and
- 48:10Speaker 1: a half here or money line minus one twenty five. Yeah,
- 48:14Speaker 1: let's do it. Hopefully you can find a decent money
- 48:18Speaker 1: line that's its Caesars. It looks like DraftKings as minus
- 48:20Speaker 1: one thirty for what it's worth. Although I recommend having
- 48:24Speaker 1: as many books as possible man at your disposal, so
- 48:30Speaker 1: that'll be a money line play. We're adding it on
- 48:32Speaker 1: Northern Colorado. Lots of basketball plays today. Man, there you go,
- 48:36Speaker 1: three basketball plays. This is the later one for you,
- 48:41Speaker 1: Northern Colorado money line. All right, now, let's see and
- 48:48Speaker 1: what are these themes overall records look like? Let me see. Yeah,
- 48:52Speaker 1: Northern Colorado still actually has the better overall record, but yeah,
- 48:56Speaker 1: I look Northern Colorado there. And then we do have
- 48:59Speaker 1: a CBS Sports game at nine pm some for some
- 49:04Speaker 1: reason between nca and T and Hampton, which I was
- 49:08Speaker 1: saying that was a MEAC game. There are some other
- 49:10Speaker 1: MEAC games today, I think, but I think this one
- 49:12Speaker 1: is a Actually Norfolk State is playing, but they're playing
- 49:15Speaker 1: an out of conference game and out of division one game. Actually,
- 49:19Speaker 1: I forgot Hampton and NCAAT. I'm used to them being
- 49:23Speaker 1: MEAC because they think they both used to be MEAC,
- 49:25Speaker 1: but they're both in the Colonial now on NCI and
- 49:29Speaker 1: T coming off losing to William and Mary fairly close
- 49:33Speaker 1: on the road, only losing by eight, so they played competitively.
- 49:37Speaker 1: NCAAT has actually had some competitive results in this conference,
- 49:41Speaker 1: even though they've lost every game. They've actually faced a
- 49:43Speaker 1: difficult conference schedule so far. Hampton just had a close
- 49:48Speaker 1: call at College of Charleston, so I would probably fade
- 49:52Speaker 1: Hampton here. Man, it looks like the spot is worse
- 49:54Speaker 1: for them coming off that pretty big game against Charleston.
- 49:57Speaker 1: NCAA T to me, looks like they're a little bit
- 49:59Speaker 1: under the race. Hampton is a five and a half
- 50:01Speaker 1: point favorite, so the oddsbeaker is still telling you they're
- 50:04Speaker 1: the better team, but the line has dropped a little bit.
- 50:07Speaker 1: I would probably take the points with NCA and T
- 50:10Speaker 1: in that one in that late game. But uh, that's that's,
- 50:15Speaker 1: you know, a bit out of my wheelhouse. Let's say, wait,
- 50:18Speaker 1: they're probat of the Jeff, what's up man? They're part
- 50:19Speaker 1: of a scandal. What were we talking about? Is there
- 50:21Speaker 1: a gambling scandal? Oh? Yeah, I think you're right. They've
- 50:24Speaker 1: been involved in like a gambling scandal. I don't know
- 50:28Speaker 1: if that's the case. I don't really want to touch them.
- 50:30Speaker 1: I'd have to read into what's going on with them.
- 50:33Speaker 1: Sometimes when you get over that scandal, you like start
- 50:36Speaker 1: playing better because then you can just forget about it.
- 50:38Speaker 1: You can focus on the game. You don't have players
- 50:40Speaker 1: that are point shaving and whatever. But yeah, I don't know. Man,
- 50:44Speaker 1: we'll have to We'll have to see there. All right,
- 50:47Speaker 1: let's go to well, we'll go to hockey. I need
- 50:51Speaker 1: to get more water here. I'm gonna have two hockey
- 50:53Speaker 1: plays here, and if you know how a handicapped, you
- 50:55Speaker 1: might know what the plays are. I'm gonna do that
- 50:59Speaker 1: in a second. Let me get more water real quick. Here.
- 51:02Speaker 1: It's the intermission time. Yep. Inside, I want to kill myself.
- 51:20Speaker 1: We are on OWN seven run over the last two
- 51:23Speaker 1: days after tonight it was just complete bullshit. So that's
- 51:26Speaker 1: that's I'm going to start off this show horrible Sunday
- 51:29Speaker 1: one and five. I don't even know what to tell
- 51:32Speaker 1: you about that. I just don't want to do this anymore.
- 51:35Speaker 1: I have never seen anything like this. Man with the
- 51:38Speaker 1: slump continuing, two straight losses, not a good day at all.
- 51:42Speaker 1: OWN four that have not had a good season. Man
- 51:47Speaker 1: with wickends slump that I'm on and the slump continues,
- 51:52Speaker 1: I've reached a new pink. Actually, I'm going to burn
- 51:56Speaker 1: my brow in tack man. I don't know what is
- 51:59Speaker 1: going on with the brow and arch epe is that
- 52:02Speaker 1: what it is? I don't even know it's It's March ninth.
- 52:04Speaker 1: I think who even knows, Man, I don't know what
- 52:07Speaker 1: day it is anymore. But I don't even know what
- 52:09Speaker 1: day it is.
- 52:10Speaker 2: Anymore, Man, back with you after the worst day that
- 52:14Speaker 2: I could possibly have, Back with you as I always
- 52:16Speaker 2: am until I die, at least oh and two yesterday
- 52:21Speaker 2: and yesterday it did not go well for me. Own
- 52:24Speaker 2: five the worst month that I've ever had in my
- 52:27Speaker 2: eighteen years doing this.
- 52:29Speaker 1: I don't know what to even tell you about this anymore.
- 52:31Speaker 2: To the slumps, the slump discontinuous, the slump continues.
- 52:36Speaker 1: Somebody fucking kill me, please. I don't even know what
- 52:40Speaker 1: I should do at this point other than potentially end
- 52:43Speaker 1: it all. Good to know. Uh So they covered the
- 52:52Speaker 1: first game after the news what other teams are involved?
- 52:55Speaker 1: And I don't even know. But yeah, sometimes when you
- 52:59Speaker 1: you get rid of the players that were doing it
- 53:00Speaker 1: or whatever, the team starts playing better. Actually, so kind
- 53:04Speaker 1: of an interesting phenomenon. I mean, I don't know how
- 53:08Speaker 1: often it's really happened. I mean, I know the last
- 53:10Speaker 1: team I remember was New Orleans was doing it last
- 53:12Speaker 1: year and their season was a lot worse than it
- 53:15Speaker 1: probably should have been because of it. And now this
- 53:18Speaker 1: season they're at least away from that, and they're having
- 53:20Speaker 1: like an okay season at the very least all right hockey.
- 53:26Speaker 1: Change of gears here, we have some afternoon hockey on TNT.
- 53:29Speaker 1: There's a doubleheader on TNT, both games in the afternoon
- 53:32Speaker 1: one thirty pm. We have Buffalo at Carolina. Pretty interesting game,
- 53:37Speaker 1: I guess. I mean, Buffalo's been playing better than expected recently.
- 53:40Speaker 1: They are coming out of an overtime loss in Minnesota,
- 53:43Speaker 1: so kind of a difficult loss there. But they are
- 53:45Speaker 1: starting a road trip. They're probably not gonna overlook Carolina.
- 53:49Speaker 1: Starting a road trip usually your focus. You want to
- 53:51Speaker 1: get the road trip off on the right foot. But
- 53:53Speaker 1: they are gonna have to play a few really pretty
- 53:57Speaker 1: big games in a row because they played well a
- 53:59Speaker 1: bunch of big games. They played Florida, Philadelphia, Montreal, then Minnesota,
- 54:06Speaker 1: and they played well in the Minnesota game. But I
- 54:08Speaker 1: think I remember I liked Minnesota in that game, and
- 54:10Speaker 1: they did get it done, but barely so. But now
- 54:13Speaker 1: carrying well, not momentum really, but now going out on
- 54:16Speaker 1: the road. Usually first game of the road trip is
- 54:18Speaker 1: usually a positive spot. Though Carolina, they did just beat
- 54:23Speaker 1: New Jersey on the road, in what I thought was
- 54:25Speaker 1: a bad spot for them. I don't know how they
- 54:27Speaker 1: did that in the back to back with travel off
- 54:30Speaker 1: of smashing Florida nine to one, so we had to
- 54:33Speaker 1: win on the game against Florida and a loss on
- 54:37Speaker 1: the game going against Carolina. With New Jersey. Now Carolina's
- 54:42Speaker 1: back home off of that, They're probably not going to
- 54:44Speaker 1: overlook Buffalo. I mean, they only play Chicago next, so
- 54:48Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a tough game to handicap for me.
- 54:50Speaker 1: The money is coming in on Carolina. They're up for
- 54:52Speaker 1: minus one ninety five to minus two hundred sixty five
- 54:55Speaker 1: percent of the tickets and eighty six percent of the
- 54:57Speaker 1: cash on Carolina. I mean, it's interesting because the Oswegers
- 55:01Speaker 1: are telling you Carolina is the way better team and
- 55:03Speaker 1: to maybe not totally buy into Buffalo's record here. I'm
- 55:07Speaker 1: not gonna really disagree with Caroline here. I mean, you
- 55:09Speaker 1: probably have to play like a puck line if you
- 55:11Speaker 1: wanted to actually do it, though, or judging based on
- 55:15Speaker 1: the fact that the total is pretty high and it
- 55:18Speaker 1: looks like there is some money actually coming in in
- 55:20Speaker 1: the over in the game, maybe Carolina over their team
- 55:23Speaker 1: total could be a way to look at that game
- 55:25Speaker 1: as well. Buffalo not very impressive from a goaltending perspective,
- 55:29Speaker 1: and again the spot doesn't look as good for Buffalo.
- 55:31Speaker 1: Looks like they might be tired, even though it is
- 55:33Speaker 1: the first game of a road trip. Second game of
- 55:37Speaker 1: the TNT doubleheader is also pretty decent. Washington at Colorado. Washington,
- 55:45Speaker 1: they're starting a road trip as well, I believe, yeah,
- 55:47Speaker 1: they are, so again starting a road trip, usually you
- 55:49Speaker 1: are focused for Washington. I kind of like how it
- 55:52Speaker 1: sets up a little bit better because they lost the
- 55:54Speaker 1: last two games at home to San Jose and then
- 55:57Speaker 1: losing by three goals to Florida, So I think it'll
- 56:00Speaker 1: be good for them to just leave, get out of home,
- 56:03Speaker 1: focus on hockey. So it's not a bad spot for Washington,
- 56:05Speaker 1: but they're running into a Colorado team is also not
- 56:09Speaker 1: in a bad spot. They're probably gonna be really angry.
- 56:12Speaker 1: Colorado's just staying at home. They've lost two straight games
- 56:15Speaker 1: and they've been off its Friday, so they had the
- 56:17Speaker 1: whole weekend to just stew After losing at home in
- 56:21Speaker 1: overtime to Toronto and then losing again horribly to Nashville
- 56:25Speaker 1: seven to three. I don't know if Wedgewood is coming
- 56:28Speaker 1: back aroun out of the Blackwood was in net in
- 56:30Speaker 1: the last game, whoever it is. I think Colorado is
- 56:34Speaker 1: pretty much in a bounce back spot here, and I
- 56:36Speaker 1: probably prefer them in this game, although both teams are
- 56:38Speaker 1: in decent spots, but getting the better team and what
- 56:42Speaker 1: should be a very focused spot again probably is the
- 56:46Speaker 1: way that I would want to go Colorado from minus
- 56:49Speaker 1: two hundred to minus two ten on the money line,
- 56:51Speaker 1: though eighty eight percent of tickets ninety four percent of
- 56:54Speaker 1: the cash coming into Colorado could look to a could
- 56:59Speaker 1: look to a Colorado puck line scenario in this game,
- 57:04Speaker 1: maybe to try to get that price down to some extent.
- 57:09Speaker 1: All right, next game up is one of my plays,
- 57:12Speaker 1: the weird five PM game. The rest of these games
- 57:15Speaker 1: are not televised. They're all on ESPN Plus, So again
- 57:19Speaker 1: I think it's worth it to have ESPN Plus. You
- 57:21Speaker 1: get so many games, dude, a lot of hockey games,
- 57:25Speaker 1: a lot of everything. Really. You get a ton of
- 57:27Speaker 1: college basketball, which I really like. So I know I'm
- 57:31Speaker 1: grandfathered in basically, and I have it through the Disney
- 57:33Speaker 1: Bundle unfortunately, but I mostly use it for having ESPN
- 57:37Speaker 1: plus when I when I can stomach watching games, but
- 57:40Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and Seattle, let's go time for the best bet.
- 57:50Speaker 1: We're going to be on Pittsburgh in this one. So yeah, Jeffrey,
- 57:54Speaker 1: I guess we'll be happy about this. I mean, it's
- 57:59Speaker 1: all out the spot, man'. I don't think Pittsburgh is
- 58:02Speaker 1: as good as the record looks anything like that. They
- 58:04Speaker 1: have a ton of ot losses and whatever. But this
- 58:06Speaker 1: is a spot where I think playing Pittsburgh does make sense.
- 58:10Speaker 1: They're coming off a shootout loss at home to Columbus,
- 58:13Speaker 1: not a very good loss there. They were coming off
- 58:14Speaker 1: a big win over Philly the game before that, so
- 58:17Speaker 1: maybe kind of a letdown spot. And they played Tampa
- 58:20Speaker 1: into a shootout the game prior to that, so I
- 58:22Speaker 1: think could have been a bit of a letdown spot.
- 58:25Speaker 1: Silovs was in net in that one, so it should
- 58:27Speaker 1: be Skinner back in net here, which is probably a
- 58:31Speaker 1: better thing, even though I'm not a huge fan of
- 58:32Speaker 1: him either, but should be an alright thing for Pittsburgh.
- 58:36Speaker 1: But the better thing is they're going out on the
- 58:37Speaker 1: road to start a road trip, and as I always say,
- 58:41Speaker 1: a lot of times, that can help, like start you
- 58:43Speaker 1: some new momentum coming off a pretty ugly home loss.
- 58:47Speaker 1: One of the best things you can do is just
- 58:48Speaker 1: forget about it. Just go out on the road. And
- 58:50Speaker 1: this is not gonna be a late night game starting
- 58:52Speaker 1: a Pacific Coast trip. Sometimes if it's a really late game,
- 58:55Speaker 1: it can mess with your biological clock. But this game
- 58:58Speaker 1: is gonna be over seven eight pm Eastern times, so
- 59:02Speaker 1: it doesn't matter that much. It's not gonna really be
- 59:04Speaker 1: that bad on their biological clock. And for Seattle, the
- 59:07Speaker 1: spot is way worse. I mean, this is a Seattle
- 59:09Speaker 1: team that is really not that good, not even as
- 59:12Speaker 1: good as their record looks. They're not good. And they're
- 59:15Speaker 1: returning home from a road trip that they've been on
- 59:17Speaker 1: since Saturday the tenth. So you know what I always
- 59:21Speaker 1: talk about when teams were turned on from road trips,
- 59:23Speaker 1: and this one went to the East Coast, then into
- 59:25Speaker 1: Utah to elevation, and the public tendency is like, well,
- 59:29Speaker 1: the team's gonna bounce back now they're at home if
- 59:32Speaker 1: they had like a bad road trip. But I don't
- 59:33Speaker 1: think it matters if the road trip was bad, if
- 59:35Speaker 1: it was good, doesn't matter. Man. The factor remains the
- 59:38Speaker 1: same when a team returns home, stuff is piled up
- 59:41Speaker 1: to do at home, and sometimes it just distracts you
- 59:44Speaker 1: too much. Man, You got to get to it. And yeah,
- 59:47Speaker 1: I mean those women, man, women and children, there's such
- 59:51Speaker 1: a distraction, especially the women. But it is true. I mean,
- 59:56Speaker 1: it's a phenomenon that is it plays out historically, So
- 59:59Speaker 1: that's why I do it. One of the strongest phenomena
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: in NHL, NBA, major League Baseball as well. So that's
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: what we're doing here. It's possible they overlook Pittsburgh with
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: Pittsburgh not playing as well recently, and the Islanders are
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: the next opponent for Seattle and they've been playing well
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: this season, so there is a possible I look ahead
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: and that's a TV game on TNT on Wednesday, so
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: they might look ahead to that game. Man. So I
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: think there's a horrible spot. And when a team is
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: in a horrible spot like this, in a return home spot,
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: I think it's even worse when it's a bad team
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: like Seattle. So we're gonna go with the Penguins in
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: this one. And the money seems to concur They're out
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: from minus one eleven to minus won twenty six on
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: the money line. Sixty seven percent of the tickets and
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: eighty two percent of the cash on Pittsburgh. I agree
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: with the market in that one, and that is play
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: number one in hockey, No. Nither of the Seven Kingdoms.
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: What is that? I don't even know what that is.
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: I don't think I'm I'm out of the loop in
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: the fantasy whatever. I don't know what we're talking about.
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: Next game up is my next play? All right? Best
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: bets are back to back. We're taking the San Jose
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: Sharks again. Man, there are right to us. Last time
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: they were actually really good to us. I think the
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: last time, right, they gotta win for us. Let's do
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: it again, baby, We're gonna fade the Panthers. So another
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: uh yeah, jeff reapproved game. Probably San Jose is starting
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: a road trip or no excuse than they're not starting
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: a road trip, my mistake. They're in the middle of
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: a road trip. They've had the entire weekend off, my mistake.
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: So they lost to Detroit, but they were, you know,
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: in somewhat of a weird spot. There was a back
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: to back. They've beaten Washington the prior day, so you
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: can kind of see why they lost that game. At Detroit,
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: Askarov was in net. You'll probably get into Delkovich back
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: in net here, and he is I believe the better
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: of the two goalies, although they've kind of just alternated
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: between the two and it doesn't matter that much between
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: the two for San Jose. But I think they're gonna
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: be focused on Florida. Man. It's a big game against
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: the back to back returning champs, and now San Jose's
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: had two days off to recuperate after a loss, which
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: usually is good. It's good to have rest when you're losing, man,
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: So that's what San Jose is doing here. I think
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: they're gonna show up refreshed and kind of like this
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: is starting a new road trip almost out. They're down
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: in Florida for the Florida Panthers. I think this is
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: a bad spot. They just had a nice win over
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: Washington to bounce back from that awful game against Carolina.
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: I kind of did like Florida, even though it was
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: a back to back, they had a lot of days
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: off prior to the Carolina game. Florida got the job
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: done even though Tarasov was in net for that one.
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: Now it will be Bobrovski back in Net. They're better goalie,
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: but they've lost three of his last five games, so
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: actually four of his last six, so it's not like
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: they've been that great with Bebrovski and Net. And Florida
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: is returning over from a road trip now. So not
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: only are they coming up that big win over Washington,
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: nice win, they're turning over from a road trip. They've
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: been on since January sixth, so they've been on the
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: road for almost two weeks. They went up to Canada
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: and then they stayed pretty they stayed Eastern time zone,
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: but they went up to Canada. It was a long
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: road trip, man. And it still remains that when you
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: return home from a road trip, you can be a
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: bit distracted. Got to get back to home life. Maybe
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: they overlook the Sharks because there's still kind of a
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: middling team out there from the other conference up next.
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: I wish Florida had a bigger game up next to
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: make this even stronger. They played Winnipeg next, but even so,
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: it's still a bad spot. I think the return home spot,
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: I think it might be a letdown spot of a
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: beating Washington as well. So we're gonna be on San
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: Jose and it's gonna be a split bet, partially on
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: the plus one and a half puck line, partially on
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: the money line. And you can see the way I
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: calculated it here. If you do it based on one
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: hundred fifty eight or so, basically percent of the bet
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: goes on the minus one fifty portion of it on
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: the puck line. So then basically the go is so
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: if they cover the puck line, you're gonna push the
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: bet essentially if you do it this way, so the
- 1:04:05Speaker 1: amount that you win on that is the same that
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: you risk on the money line, which you're putting on
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: the money line to win more if they win that
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: as the underdog. So it's, you know, it's a bit
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: more risk averse way of doing it, but I like it.
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: Florida's dropped for minus one eighty five to minus one
- 1:04:21Speaker 1: eighty three, fifty eight percent of tickets a fifty nine
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: percent of the cash on Florida. So it's hard to
- 1:04:26Speaker 1: read these percentages right now. But I like San Jose
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: in the spot or I like I mean, I think
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: they're in a positive spot, but I also think Florida
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: is in a bad spot, So that is what we're
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: doing there. I don't know dude, I don't. I don't
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: look ahead like that, Like this is not chess. Will
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: the Flyers win a game this week? I don't fucking know.
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: It depends on what they do every game, depends on
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: what the team did in the previous game. Are they
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: gonna win at Vegas tonight? Probably not Minnesota at Toronto.
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: Let me see, Minnesota just beat Buffalo, that's right. We
- 1:05:04Speaker 1: already talked about that. They won an overtime. They broke
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: a losing streak deson win over Buffalo. But maybe it'll
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: give them some new momentum coming into this however, they
- 1:05:12Speaker 1: do with Montreal next and then Detroit Florida. All those
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: teams are probably bigger teams than Toronto is. Like Toronto
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: just hasn't been that good recently. But Toronto's in a
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: bad spot, dude. Toronto's are turning over from a road trip.
- 1:05:25Speaker 1: They've been on the road since last Monday. They went
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: on into elevation, they went out to the Pacific time zone,
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: and they went up to Canada. And on that road trip,
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: they won at Colorado, you know, overtime. They lost at
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: Vegas in a game that they blew in the final
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: three seconds. I want to say, of regulation, and then
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: lost in overtime at Vegas, and then they won an
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: overtime against Winnipeg, so the spot is not good. I
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: would say for Toronto here, even though my concern is that, well,
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: Minnesota is still a team you might show up for
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: because they're good. That's the only concern. They do play
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: Detroit next on TV, so that's a big game as well. Overall. Yeah,
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: I would lean to Minnesota on this game overall, obviously,
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: and Minnesota is only going from what was it, from
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: Buffalo to Toronto, so it's a much easier travel spot
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: for Minnesota to do that. So I definitely prefer in
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: Minnesota here. And of course Toronto returning over from a
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: road trip bad spot that can get distracted. You wind
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: up getting distracted by home life and whatever. Again, my
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: hesitation is that they still might show up from Minnesota,
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: and Minnesota is coming off a big win ish over Buffalo,
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: and they do play Montreal tomorrow and might consider that
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: to be a bigger game, So that is my one
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: concern there really or a couple of concerns, but I
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: like Minnesota in the game. The money seems to agree.
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: They're an underdog as well. Toronto down for minus one
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: twenty one to minus one sixteen, fifty four percent of
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: the tickets, ninety two percent of the cash on Minnesota.
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: Money is on Minnesota. I agree with it, and yeah,
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: you're getting them in a decent underdive price. Although it
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: is it's weird to see Toronto as a favorite. I mean,
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: the oddsbegagers are telling you Minnesota is a slightly better team,
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: but based on the records, you would think that the
- 1:07:09Speaker 1: Minnesota would be a significantly better team, and they're not so.
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: As far as like the numbers are concerned, it looks
- 1:07:15Speaker 1: like almost kind of one of those lines where it
- 1:07:17Speaker 1: looks too easy to play Minnesota. But I agree with Minnesota.
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: The money seems to agree with it as well. I'm
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: never relaxed, man, I'm always on edge. Everything is anxiety.
- 1:07:29Speaker 1: That's that's that's how I am. I can't do anything
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: about it. That's it. I'm not gonna take drugs for it.
- 1:07:37Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get all pharmaceuticaled up. Philadelphia is at
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: Vegas here. Philadelphia coming of a loss to the Rangers.
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: They've lost six games in a row. I think Vegas
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: is on a huge win stream. If I'm not mistaken
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, Vegas has won six games in a row,
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: so we have opposing six games streaks here. The one
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: good thing for Philadelphia is they're going out on the
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: road to start a road trip, and that's a good thing.
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: When things aren't going well at home, forget about it,
- 1:08:08Speaker 1: go out on the road. They are playing a fourth
- 1:08:10Speaker 1: game in six days, though, all in different cities, so
- 1:08:13Speaker 1: that's not easy because I guess they only had one
- 1:08:15Speaker 1: game at home and now they go back out on
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: the road. I did lean to the Rangers in that game,
- 1:08:19Speaker 1: and I was correct about that. If you look at
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: these losses for Philadelphia, it's two losses to Tampa Bay,
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: then at Buffalo, at Pittsburgh at home, and kind of
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: a bad spot against the Rangers. I mean, some of
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: those losses you can kind of excuse, but you can't
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: really excuse the way that they've lost most of these games,
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: losing by five four three, three three, giving up five
- 1:08:41Speaker 1: plus goals in all five for the most recent five games.
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: That's bad. That's all bad. But maybe going out on
- 1:08:49Speaker 1: the road again, maybe they'll focus a little bit on
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: defense something like that, maybe have a better game. It
- 1:08:54Speaker 1: is not a horrible spot for them, really, though you
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: do have to worry about the rest a little bit.
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: By the way, I forgot to mention, Florida is playing
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: a third game in four day's, all in different cities,
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: so we're fading them in a spot where they're not
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: exactly rested. For Vegas, they're staying at home, although they
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: just obliterated Nashville at home in their last game. They're
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: also playing a fourth game in six days, but most
- 1:09:16Speaker 1: of them are at home, so that alleviates the situation
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: a little bit. They just crushed Nashville. They do start
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: a road trip and play Boston next. Is that really
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: gonna be a look ahead though? I mean, does Boston
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: really command your attention to this point? I don't know,
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: But maybe it's possible they overlook Philadelphia just because philadelphi'sn't
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: playing poorly. I don't know, man, I mean the money
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: is saying Philadelphia in this one. I don't know. I
- 1:09:41Speaker 1: don't really see them winning the game, but I mean
- 1:09:44Speaker 1: the spot is slightly better for them. I guess Vegas
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: down for minus two ten to minus two hundred ninety
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: one percent of tickets, only eighty eight percent of the
- 1:09:52Speaker 1: cash on Vegas. You know, the money is saying Philadelphia
- 1:09:57Speaker 1: Vegas is very public. If you want to do it,
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: I guess Philadelphia puck line is the way to play
- 1:10:02Speaker 1: that game. The total has gone down a little bit.
- 1:10:06Speaker 1: I mean, I could see maybe an argument that, well,
- 1:10:08Speaker 1: Philly's got to focus on defense for once and go
- 1:10:11Speaker 1: under Vegas team total or something, but that seems dangerous
- 1:10:15Speaker 1: to me, just because Philadelphia is giving up a shit
- 1:10:18Speaker 1: ton of goals so many that it seems really really
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: dangerous to do it. So yeah, breakdowns on the weak side. Yeah,
- 1:10:29Speaker 1: this Philadelphia team, I don't think they're good defensively, and
- 1:10:32Speaker 1: I don't think they're good goaltending wise either, So I
- 1:10:36Speaker 1: don't know, man, But yeah, probably if I was gonna
- 1:10:40Speaker 1: play that game, it would be a puck line Philadelphia play.
- 1:10:43Speaker 1: But I really don't want to play that game. The
- 1:10:47Speaker 1: one that I the strongest one that I've left off
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: my card is the is Minnesota. So far, I like Minnesota,
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: Winnipeg at Chicago. Winnipeg just lost a four game win
- 1:11:00Speaker 1: streak overtime lost at home to Toronto. Sometimes when you
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: lose a win streak, it will hang you over into
- 1:11:05Speaker 1: the next game. So that is a little bit of
- 1:11:07Speaker 1: a concern. They only play Saint Louis next, so I
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: don't know, but it is fairly easy to overlook Chicago.
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: The Winnipeg you know, they're just not exactly They're still
- 1:11:18Speaker 1: not really playing that well right now. They have a
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: bad record, so they can't really afford to overlook anybody.
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: Chicago is staying at home. They just lost pretty ugly
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: to my Bruins. They've had a horrible home stand, so
- 1:11:29Speaker 1: I think they're gonna want to at least try to
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: salvage the last game of this home stand, even though
- 1:11:33Speaker 1: they do have Caroline up next. I don't see Chicago
- 1:11:35Speaker 1: overlooking this game. I would probably leanto Chicago. The money
- 1:11:40Speaker 1: is saying that as well. It's not a strong market read,
- 1:11:44Speaker 1: but it is tickets and cash on opposing sides. At
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: least Winnipeg up for minus one thirty five to minus
- 1:11:50Speaker 1: one thirty six, So the oddsmakers are telling you Winnipeg
- 1:11:53Speaker 1: is the better team here. But fifty five percent of
- 1:11:55Speaker 1: the tickets on them, fifty three percent of the cash
- 1:11:58Speaker 1: coming back on the Blackhawks side. So I'll agree with
- 1:12:02Speaker 1: the Chicago side, but not a strong opinion. Devils at
- 1:12:06Speaker 1: Flames New Jersey at Calgary here, let me see, Devil's
- 1:12:14Speaker 1: just had that bad home loss to color to Carol
- 1:12:17Speaker 1: Lyon excuser, I thought they're in a good spot in
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: that one man. Maybe those extra days off hurt their momentum.
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: I don't know what it was, But now they might
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: be able to get some new momentum because they're starting
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: a road trip and I always talking about how when
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: you start a road trip, usually you start with focus
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: because you want to get the road trip off on
- 1:12:33Speaker 1: the right foot. Problem is, New Jersey does play Edmonton tomorrow,
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: so it's possible they overlook this game because that's a
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: TV game, bigger game against Edmonton. So that's a little
- 1:12:44Speaker 1: bit of a concern there. As far as New Jersey
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: maybe lacking and focus a little bit, Calgary return home
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: in their last game, they returned home from a road
- 1:12:52Speaker 1: trip and they still won against the Islanders. So they
- 1:12:55Speaker 1: did not lapse and focus. They did not fall into
- 1:12:58Speaker 1: that distraction spot. They won nice win against the Islanders.
- 1:13:03Speaker 1: Now do they show up for a struggling New Jersey team,
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: Do they look ahead to Pittsburgh. I don't know. It's possible.
- 1:13:10Speaker 1: I could see Calgary being in a little bit of
- 1:13:12Speaker 1: a letdown spot here at the very least. But the
- 1:13:14Speaker 1: money is coming into the Calgary side after New Jersey
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: went up for minus one sixteen to minus one twenty one,
- 1:13:19Speaker 1: fifty five percent of the tickets and seventy two percent
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: of the cash on Calgary. You know, it might get
- 1:13:26Speaker 1: to the point where is Calgary really going to be
- 1:13:27Speaker 1: a public side or anything like that. I mean, it
- 1:13:30Speaker 1: doesn't really totally look like it now, but it looks
- 1:13:33Speaker 1: like maybe there's the makings of maybe the market winding
- 1:13:36Speaker 1: up looking that way. I don't know. I probably slightly
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: lean to the Devils in that game because they are
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: still the better team. I still think the spot might
- 1:13:45Speaker 1: be a little bit better than them, but I have
- 1:13:47Speaker 1: my concerns about it. Obviously, Islanders are at Vancouver. The
- 1:13:54Speaker 1: Islanders just took that loss at Calgary. Like I said,
- 1:13:57Speaker 1: now they're going to Vancouver. There have been alternating wins
- 1:14:01Speaker 1: and losses on the road trip here, so if that continues,
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: they should win at Vancouver. Here. The Islanders are the
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: better team. Vancouver is not good. Vancouver has lost a
- 1:14:11Speaker 1: ton of games in a row, though, so they might
- 1:14:13Speaker 1: be in desperation mode trying to get a win. They've
- 1:14:16Speaker 1: lost ten games in a row. They did just most
- 1:14:19Speaker 1: of them are on the road, though, so it was
- 1:14:21Speaker 1: a road trip that went totally wrong. They returned home
- 1:14:24Speaker 1: and they got destroyed by Edmonton's six to nothing. So
- 1:14:27Speaker 1: now they're in a spot where second game back home
- 1:14:30Speaker 1: sometimes it is a better spot, especially when you don't
- 1:14:32Speaker 1: do well in that first game back home. Now you're settled.
- 1:14:35Speaker 1: Now you get some of the stuff you have to
- 1:14:36Speaker 1: do at home out of the way, you get focus
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: on hockey. So I probably actually lean to Vancouver in
- 1:14:43Speaker 1: this game. The money seems like it agrees. The Islanders
- 1:14:46Speaker 1: are down for minus one forty to minus one thirty six,
- 1:14:49Speaker 1: eighty four percent of ticket sixty percent of the cash
- 1:14:52Speaker 1: on the Islanders, so the ticket percentage and less of
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: the money on the Islanders, so the money is indicating
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: on the Vancouver side. I don't disagree with it, really.
- 1:15:03Speaker 1: I think Vancouver is in the greater bounce back spot.
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: After you lose six nothing at home, I mean, I
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: think you're gonna show up with intensity in the next game.
- 1:15:12Speaker 1: And then we have Rangers at Anaheim. The Rangers are
- 1:15:14Speaker 1: of course a better road team than a home team,
- 1:15:18Speaker 1: and they did win to start the road trip, but
- 1:15:20Speaker 1: it was in Philadelphia. Now they have to go out
- 1:15:22Speaker 1: to the Pacific Coast. Sometimes that first Pacific Coast game
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: is a little bit tricky. Even though I usually like
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: starts of road trips and things like that, this isn't
- 1:15:30Speaker 1: one of those. But that first game out west for
- 1:15:33Speaker 1: an East Coast team sometimes it is bad biologically because
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: it's late night biological clock. Maybe not the greatest spot.
- 1:15:40Speaker 1: Although the Rangers, again, they're good on the road. They
- 1:15:43Speaker 1: just ended a five game losing streak. It was a
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: pretty nice win over Philadelphia, though, so does that put
- 1:15:48Speaker 1: them in a letdown spot? I don't know. It might
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: be good because it might break their momentum though, so
- 1:15:54Speaker 1: they might have some new winning momentum now after that.
- 1:15:57Speaker 1: Anaheim does have winning momentum. They did just beat LA
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: twice after beating Dallas. But maybe they overlook the Rangers,
- 1:16:04Speaker 1: man because beating LA. I mean LA and Anaheim they're
- 1:16:08Speaker 1: close by geographically kind of rivals, ish they don't really
- 1:16:11Speaker 1: like each other. Rangers might be a team that you
- 1:16:13Speaker 1: might overlook at this point. And Anaheim plays Colorado next.
- 1:16:17Speaker 1: So based on how this sets up here, I probably
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: have to lean to the Rangers, though the money is
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: not agreeing with that. Anaheim dropped for minus one thirty
- 1:16:26Speaker 1: eight to minus one thirty. But the Rangers have sixty
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: two percent of the tickets sixty percent of the cash
- 1:16:31Speaker 1: on Anaheim. But I would slightly lean towards the Rangers
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: in that one as the road dog. Rangers much better
- 1:16:38Speaker 1: on the road man like I said, although Anaheim's been
- 1:16:41Speaker 1: good at home though anaheims fourteen eight and one at home,
- 1:16:44Speaker 1: Rangers sixteen to nine to two on the road though,
- 1:16:47Speaker 1: so we have both teams on the better side of
- 1:16:49Speaker 1: their home roads split in that game. All right, we
- 1:16:53Speaker 1: got NBA. I will have two plays in the NBA
- 1:16:56Speaker 1: here the NBA. The first game up is at one
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: pm on Peacock, and then there's an NBC triple ahead
- 1:17:03Speaker 1: of where all those games are also on Peacock Peacock.
- 1:17:06Speaker 1: Because it's a streaming service, they can have multiple games
- 1:17:09Speaker 1: on simultaneously. Milwaukee Atlanta at one PM gets the bastard
- 1:17:13Speaker 1: treatment even though Atlanta is the MLK team on MLK Day,
- 1:17:18Speaker 1: but they don't get the NBC billing because it's not
- 1:17:21Speaker 1: a good game. Although one of the games on NBC,
- 1:17:26Speaker 1: the middle one is kind of. It's pretty questionable how
- 1:17:29Speaker 1: good that game really is Milwaukee and Atlanta. I mean,
- 1:17:35Speaker 1: but the one thing about this game is neither of
- 1:17:37Speaker 1: these teams are doing very well. Milwaukee's lost three more
- 1:17:39Speaker 1: games in a row, although two of them are on
- 1:17:41Speaker 1: the road, and those losses were Denver, Minnesota, San Antonio.
- 1:17:45Speaker 1: Those are good teams. Now they've had three days off,
- 1:17:48Speaker 1: so that might help Milwaukee because when you're losing sometimes
- 1:17:52Speaker 1: it's good to just break that momentum, have some rest,
- 1:17:55Speaker 1: focus back on your next game. They do have vokalahom
- 1:18:00Speaker 1: I was sitting next though on ESPN on Wednesday, So
- 1:18:02Speaker 1: that's a big game. Is it gonna be a look
- 1:18:05Speaker 1: ahead I don't know, man, because you can't really afford
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: to overlook anybody when you're losing like this. I don't
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: think now for Atlanta, they just got blasted by the Celtics,
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: but that was in a return home spot, so it
- 1:18:18Speaker 1: wasn't a good spot for Atlanta. Celtics not a team
- 1:18:21Speaker 1: you're gonna overlook. But I think maybe the distractions got
- 1:18:24Speaker 1: to them. Whatever. The Celtics ran away with that game,
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: Atlanta staying at home playing Milwaukee here. By the way,
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: Sam Houser in this game had the most ridiculous stat
- 1:18:35Speaker 1: line that you'll ever see. He's the first player in
- 1:18:38Speaker 1: NBA history to score at least thirty points without attempting
- 1:18:42Speaker 1: a two point shot. Sam Houser never took a two
- 1:18:47Speaker 1: point shot in the game, and he scored thirty points.
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: Literally all of his points came on three pointers, ten
- 1:18:53Speaker 1: for twenty one for three point range, and he never
- 1:18:55Speaker 1: took a two point shot. I've never seen anything like that.
- 1:18:59Speaker 1: That's I quote tweeted. I tweeted it out. I said,
- 1:19:02Speaker 1: that's the whitest stat line that you'll ever see. Man,
- 1:19:06Speaker 1: it's insane. It's so ridiculous. But anyway, Celtics hit a
- 1:19:12Speaker 1: lot of three point winters in that game, which is
- 1:19:14Speaker 1: not out of the ordinary for the Celtics. Now, Atlanta's
- 1:19:18Speaker 1: staying at home. Off of that, they are in a
- 1:19:19Speaker 1: second game back at home, which I think SOB might
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: have pointed this out the other day. So yeah, it
- 1:19:24Speaker 1: should be a positive spot for them, because when you
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: have a bad game that first game back home, you
- 1:19:29Speaker 1: will bounce back more often than not. In the next game.
- 1:19:31Speaker 1: You'll be more focused, you'll have gotten the stuff done
- 1:19:34Speaker 1: you need to get done. At home, But I don't
- 1:19:37Speaker 1: know about this, man. The money's coming in towards the Bucks.
- 1:19:39Speaker 1: Hawks are down from three to two and a half here,
- 1:19:43Speaker 1: ticket sixty six percent of the cash coming in on
- 1:19:44Speaker 1: the Bucks. Some of that might be because the Bucks
- 1:19:47Speaker 1: are the more rested team here. Both teams are in
- 1:19:51Speaker 1: positive spots here, man, So I would probably prefer an
- 1:19:55Speaker 1: under in this game, to be honest. We have eighty
- 1:19:57Speaker 1: two percent of the cash on the over percent of
- 1:20:00Speaker 1: the cash on the under. Having rests sometimes makes sense
- 1:20:03Speaker 1: for an under because your offense can come out a
- 1:20:05Speaker 1: little bit slow. To me, it seems like both teams
- 1:20:07Speaker 1: are going to be more focused on the defensive end
- 1:20:10Speaker 1: of things, so I yeah, the under. I would probably
- 1:20:13Speaker 1: actually prefer in this game to a side, but the
- 1:20:15Speaker 1: money is coming in on the Bucks plus the points.
- 1:20:19Speaker 1: I see both teams being focused though, so I kind
- 1:20:22Speaker 1: of struggle with picking a side in that game. I
- 1:20:24Speaker 1: kind of slightly leaned to Atlanta based on the situation,
- 1:20:27Speaker 1: but not a strong opinion, and the market does not
- 1:20:30Speaker 1: agree with me on that. I does agree with the
- 1:20:34Speaker 1: under though. The first NBC game, which is also on
- 1:20:37Speaker 1: Peacock at two thirty, is OKC at Cleveland. Oklahoma City
- 1:20:42Speaker 1: and Cleveland. This is a pretty interesting game. Man. It's
- 1:20:46Speaker 1: a good game Oklahoma City to just lose a five game, yeah,
- 1:20:49Speaker 1: five game win streak. So sometimes when a team loses
- 1:20:52Speaker 1: a win streak, it will hang them over into the
- 1:20:54Speaker 1: next game. It could also be a bounceback spot though,
- 1:20:57Speaker 1: because Oklahoma City they're the type of team that you
- 1:21:00Speaker 1: would think that the type of team that does bounce back.
- 1:21:02Speaker 1: But let's look at what they've done otherwise when they've lost.
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: First time they lost against Portland, they did bounce back
- 1:21:08Speaker 1: with a blowout win. The next times they've lost, they
- 1:21:12Speaker 1: lost that game to San Antonio in the NBA Cup
- 1:21:14Speaker 1: and they had a lot of time off after that though.
- 1:21:16Speaker 1: They did have a blowout win after that after a
- 1:21:18Speaker 1: loss to Minnesota, they I think covered the next game
- 1:21:22Speaker 1: against Memphis, but it might have been close. They won
- 1:21:24Speaker 1: by double digits though. But then the last two times
- 1:21:28Speaker 1: they lost, they actually lost the next game as well.
- 1:21:32Speaker 1: So the last two times they lost, they did actually
- 1:21:35Speaker 1: lose the game twice literally kind of, so we'll see
- 1:21:39Speaker 1: in One of those is a horrible blowout loss to Charlotte,
- 1:21:42Speaker 1: which was unbelievable. The other one was a double loss
- 1:21:46Speaker 1: to San Antonio, and we know San Antonio is good,
- 1:21:48Speaker 1: so it's interesting to see how Oklahoma City responds. I
- 1:21:51Speaker 1: could see it going both ways here. I think they
- 1:21:54Speaker 1: will show up though it's a big game, TV game,
- 1:21:58Speaker 1: you know, on a holiday. Cleveland is coming off winning
- 1:22:03Speaker 1: back to back, well not back to back, but winning
- 1:22:05Speaker 1: two straight games on the road against Philadelphia in a
- 1:22:08Speaker 1: span of three days, and now they have a couple
- 1:22:09Speaker 1: of days off, and maybe those days off won't help
- 1:22:11Speaker 1: them because when things are working well, you don't want
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: to have days off. Man, you don't want to have
- 1:22:16Speaker 1: your momentum disrupted. So Cleveland coming up those games against Philly,
- 1:22:21Speaker 1: those were better performances from Cleveland. So I don't know, man,
- 1:22:25Speaker 1: if you're gonna get a focused Thunder team here, I
- 1:22:28Speaker 1: think I would probably have to lean to the Thunder. Here.
- 1:22:31Speaker 1: There's six and a half point favorites, sixty nine per tickets,
- 1:22:34Speaker 1: ninety four percent of the cash coming in on the Thunder.
- 1:22:38Speaker 1: I'll probably lean that way. The market is agreeing with
- 1:22:40Speaker 1: it as well. Looking at the injuries here, we got
- 1:22:43Speaker 1: Garland still out for Cleveland. Strus has been out for
- 1:22:47Speaker 1: a long time, and so is Merril. So really the
- 1:22:49Speaker 1: one that's been the more recent injuries Garland and then
- 1:22:53Speaker 1: Hartenstein is still out for Oklahoma City. It looks like
- 1:22:55Speaker 1: they're actually gonna lose Jalen Williams as well, although yeah,
- 1:23:00Speaker 1: he's actually the more he's the bigger, the bigger of
- 1:23:05Speaker 1: the two, Jalen Williams, the one who's a bigger factor.
- 1:23:07Speaker 1: So they're actually injuries on both sides coming into play.
- 1:23:10Speaker 1: But the Thunder or also the deeper team. So it's
- 1:23:13Speaker 1: crazy that the Thunder could just overcome injuries like that,
- 1:23:16Speaker 1: but that's the situation there. Three pm. Not televised anywhere,
- 1:23:21Speaker 1: You're probably not gonna like this. So we're gonna lay
- 1:23:23Speaker 1: a road favorite here with the LA Clippers minus seven
- 1:23:26Speaker 1: at this Washington team that I just can't get right recently,
- 1:23:30Speaker 1: So fuck them. We're gonna fade them here. But they're
- 1:23:33Speaker 1: a bad team and I think they're in a bad
- 1:23:34Speaker 1: spot in this one. Man, we're gonna play the Clippers here.
- 1:23:38Speaker 1: I know the Clippers have an awful record, Like why
- 1:23:40Speaker 1: would anybody wanna lay seven on the road with an
- 1:23:44Speaker 1: eighteen and twenty three team? Right, Well, the Clippers have
- 1:23:46Speaker 1: been playing better recently since they've figured some stuff out.
- 1:23:49Speaker 1: They've started to kind of coalesce into that team that
- 1:23:54Speaker 1: they were kind of supposed to be. I know, they
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: did just beat Washington in LA by double digits, but
- 1:24:00Speaker 1: I don't know if this is gonna be a spot
- 1:24:01Speaker 1: where they're necessarily gonna overlook Washington here and I'm gonna
- 1:24:04Speaker 1: show you in a minute. The spot for Washington is horrible,
- 1:24:07Speaker 1: which is why we're doing this LA. It is a
- 1:24:10Speaker 1: little bit of a concern that they did have the
- 1:24:12Speaker 1: weekend off, which might disrupt their momentum. They do just
- 1:24:15Speaker 1: win in Toronto in overtime, decent win. Their next game
- 1:24:20Speaker 1: tomorrow is only against Chicago, though, so I don't really
- 1:24:23Speaker 1: know that they're gonna be necessarily looking ahead to that game.
- 1:24:29Speaker 1: Washington coming into this game in a terrible spot though,
- 1:24:31Speaker 1: in my opinion. Washington's coming into this with six straight losses,
- 1:24:39Speaker 1: and they're playing a third game in four days, a
- 1:24:43Speaker 1: fourth game in six days, own different cities, so a
- 1:24:47Speaker 1: lot of travel, and they're coming home from a road
- 1:24:50Speaker 1: trip as well. So that's why I'm doing this, man,
- 1:24:52Speaker 1: I think this is a horrible spot for them. We're
- 1:24:54Speaker 1: turning over from a road trip and it's usually even
- 1:24:57Speaker 1: stronger to fade bad teams when they're in a bad spot,
- 1:24:59Speaker 1: like the Like I said, Washington went out to Phoenix, La,
- 1:25:04Speaker 1: like I said, and then Sacramento and then they went
- 1:25:05Speaker 1: into Elevation on Saturday. And what do they do against Denver?
- 1:25:09Speaker 1: They almost won at Denver, and I know it's Denver
- 1:25:13Speaker 1: without Jokic, but Washington was winning this game throughout the
- 1:25:17Speaker 1: second half and then they wound up falling just short
- 1:25:19Speaker 1: against Denver. That's a brutal loss. They were double digit
- 1:25:22Speaker 1: underdogs in that game, and that was their last game.
- 1:25:25Speaker 1: On top of this being a return home spot where
- 1:25:27Speaker 1: you have to get back to home life, you got
- 1:25:29Speaker 1: stuff to do, so it's a hangover spot and a
- 1:25:32Speaker 1: return home spot. I don't like it at all, man.
- 1:25:34Speaker 1: And they played Denver again next although it's not until Thursday.
- 1:25:38Speaker 1: But to me, it looks like a bad spot. Man,
- 1:25:40Speaker 1: even though they did lose to the Clippers on that
- 1:25:42Speaker 1: road trip. I don't like this at all. What was
- 1:25:47Speaker 1: the line in this game? Yeah, it was about right
- 1:25:49Speaker 1: eleven and a half. So the fact that the line
- 1:25:51Speaker 1: is seven here is not way off from that line
- 1:25:54Speaker 1: or anything like that. Again, horrible spot for the Clippers.
- 1:25:58Speaker 1: We will go with or a horrible spot for the Wizards.
- 1:26:02Speaker 1: Excuse me. We will go with the Clippers and hope
- 1:26:04Speaker 1: they can continue their momentum here. They're up from five
- 1:26:06Speaker 1: and a half to seven, seventy percent of the tickets
- 1:26:09Speaker 1: on them, though sixty seven percent of the cash coming
- 1:26:11Speaker 1: back on the Wizard side. You know, I a lot
- 1:26:15Speaker 1: of times that a market read like that will keep
- 1:26:18Speaker 1: me off the game, man, But I'm gonna go with
- 1:26:20Speaker 1: my situational read on this one. I have to kind
- 1:26:23Speaker 1: of figure out because sometimes I'll be like, I can't
- 1:26:25Speaker 1: do it just because of the market read, but the
- 1:26:27Speaker 1: spot is just so bad for the Wizards, I'm like,
- 1:26:30Speaker 1: I think I have to do this. So that's the
- 1:26:33Speaker 1: play Clippers minus the points. Can't be afraid to lay
- 1:26:37Speaker 1: points on the road of the NBA. Man, It's the
- 1:26:39Speaker 1: one the sport where that is the case, especially against
- 1:26:43Speaker 1: a bad team and a horrible spot. So that is
- 1:26:46Speaker 1: what we're doing there, dirty sock. What's up man? Thanks
- 1:26:49Speaker 1: for hanging out all right, NBC peacock. The next game
- 1:26:58Speaker 1: up is the one that I don't know why this
- 1:26:59Speaker 1: is even one of the NBC games. Dallas at the
- 1:27:02Speaker 1: New York Knicks By the way, that eleven am game
- 1:27:06Speaker 1: is about to start, so enjoy that piece of crap
- 1:27:09Speaker 1: game with Northeastern and whatever I talked about that at
- 1:27:12Speaker 1: the top of the show did not have a play
- 1:27:15Speaker 1: in it. Dallas. They're coming up back to back wins
- 1:27:20Speaker 1: over Utah, easy wins. Now, it's kind of a weird
- 1:27:24Speaker 1: spot for them having a single game travel spot to
- 1:27:27Speaker 1: go to New York. Kind of weird, but they're doing
- 1:27:30Speaker 1: it with momentum, and I don't think they're gonna overlook
- 1:27:32Speaker 1: the Knicks. For the Knicks, we got to see what's
- 1:27:34Speaker 1: going on with Jalen Brunson, though I don't know if
- 1:27:37Speaker 1: he came back yet or not. The Knicks have lost
- 1:27:40Speaker 1: three games in a row. One of them was a
- 1:27:41Speaker 1: return home spot though, so the Knicks are now in
- 1:27:43Speaker 1: one of those second games back home. So they had
- 1:27:47Speaker 1: a bad game in the return home spot. They lost
- 1:27:49Speaker 1: to the Suns again. Now I think second game back
- 1:27:53Speaker 1: home they might be in a better spot. Here man
- 1:27:55Speaker 1: to show up and do something, because when you lose
- 1:27:57Speaker 1: that game back at home, first game back, as I
- 1:28:00Speaker 1: always say, you get distracted whatever by being back home.
- 1:28:05Speaker 1: You tend to do better at the next game. So
- 1:28:07Speaker 1: I think that might happen here for the Knicks. But
- 1:28:09Speaker 1: the problem is, if Brunson is returning in this game,
- 1:28:15Speaker 1: you know, I don't really want any part of the
- 1:28:16Speaker 1: Knicks if that's gonna be the case. He's questionable right now.
- 1:28:19Speaker 1: He hasn't played since he got hurt in that game
- 1:28:21Speaker 1: against the Kings during the road trip. So if Brunson
- 1:28:24Speaker 1: comes back, it's gonna be a reverse injured player spot,
- 1:28:27Speaker 1: And to me, it looks like he probably is because
- 1:28:30Speaker 1: the line's ten and a half right now, so that
- 1:28:32Speaker 1: seems to kind of indicate that he is gonna play.
- 1:28:35Speaker 1: And if so, I don't like it as much because
- 1:28:39Speaker 1: again it's the reverse injured player spot, and he has
- 1:28:41Speaker 1: to get used to playing again. Team's got to get
- 1:28:42Speaker 1: used to him being back in there again. You usually
- 1:28:45Speaker 1: get line value going against that team because usually the
- 1:28:48Speaker 1: line just overreacts to him coming back. And the Knicks
- 1:28:52Speaker 1: are public eighty five percent of tickets, only eighty percent
- 1:28:55Speaker 1: of the cash on them. I'll slightly agree with that.
- 1:28:59Speaker 1: I'll somewhat agree with you taking the points with the
- 1:29:00Speaker 1: MAVs in that one. If Brunson's coming back, I think
- 1:29:04Speaker 1: it is, that does make it an actually that makes
- 1:29:07Speaker 1: it a worse spot with less value for the Knicks.
- 1:29:13Speaker 1: Utah and San Antonio is my other play here, and
- 1:29:15Speaker 1: I think this one is also not agreeing with the market,
- 1:29:21Speaker 1: and I don't care. We're gonna play the Utah Jazz.
- 1:29:25Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go Utah man plus sixteen and a
- 1:29:30Speaker 1: half against San Antonio. Utah is coming up those two
- 1:29:33Speaker 1: losses at Dallas. They're staying in Texas. At least they're
- 1:29:36Speaker 1: gonna try to maybe salvage something at the end of
- 1:29:39Speaker 1: this road trip here. They did have one win to
- 1:29:41Speaker 1: start the road trip ack Cleveland, but probably gonna want
- 1:29:44Speaker 1: to try to get this one, although I don't think
- 1:29:46Speaker 1: it's likely they're gonna win, but we only need them
- 1:29:47Speaker 1: to cover here. Yeah, I know they're playing a fourth
- 1:29:50Speaker 1: game in six days. It's not really all in different
- 1:29:52Speaker 1: cities though, because they played two games in Dallas. I
- 1:29:55Speaker 1: know Dallas is San Antonio is not really that close
- 1:29:57Speaker 1: of a trip, but in the grand scheme of things,
- 1:30:01Speaker 1: it's not really that big of a trip either. So
- 1:30:04Speaker 1: I like this. You got to think you're gonna get
- 1:30:06Speaker 1: some effort out of Utah here at the very least.
- 1:30:09Speaker 1: Looking at the injury report In this one, Markanen is
- 1:30:13Speaker 1: gonna be outseer, and you know that is a concern.
- 1:30:15Speaker 1: You're gonna get some extra value there because he is
- 1:30:17Speaker 1: one of their best players. He's gonna be out. He
- 1:30:20Speaker 1: hasn't played since the twelfth, so I mean, yeah, it's
- 1:30:24Speaker 1: a little bit of a concern, but it's factoring into
- 1:30:26Speaker 1: the line and whatever. It's not in one of the games,
- 1:30:28Speaker 1: like it's not his first game out, which would be
- 1:30:30Speaker 1: actually better to play Utah. But it's also not like
- 1:30:34Speaker 1: a reverse injured players, a reverse sixth spot where he's
- 1:30:37Speaker 1: coming back or anything like that. But I think San
- 1:30:39Speaker 1: Antonio is in a bad spot here as they just
- 1:30:43Speaker 1: be Minnesota. That was a nice win for them, and
- 1:30:45Speaker 1: they play tomorrow they have an NBC game, not today,
- 1:30:49Speaker 1: they don't, but tomorrow they play Houston in Houston on
- 1:30:53Speaker 1: NBC and Peacock. So I think the spot is actually
- 1:30:56Speaker 1: worse for San Antonio here. I think it's a sandwich.
- 1:31:00Speaker 1: So we will be on the Jazz. The money actually
- 1:31:02Speaker 1: does kind of seem to agree with it. We're looking
- 1:31:05Speaker 1: at sixteen and a half, maybe even seventeen here, sixty
- 1:31:08Speaker 1: four percent of the tickets and sixty nine percent of
- 1:31:10Speaker 1: the cash on the Jazz. The total is a little
- 1:31:13Speaker 1: bit high, which I would prefer taking the points at
- 1:31:16Speaker 1: a lower total game, obviously, but it is what it is.
- 1:31:20Speaker 1: To forty whatever is the total to forty one and
- 1:31:22Speaker 1: a half. I like the Jazz and that one plus
- 1:31:25Speaker 1: the points. It's a sandwich spot for the Spurs Indiana
- 1:31:30Speaker 1: at Philadelphia. For Indiana here, they just got destroyed by
- 1:31:37Speaker 1: Detroit the other day. They're playing a third game in
- 1:31:39Speaker 1: four and a's now, though all in different cities. They
- 1:31:41Speaker 1: do play Boston next, but after getting annihilated like that,
- 1:31:44Speaker 1: I think you're gonna be embarrassed and you're gonna show
- 1:31:46Speaker 1: up Philadelphia. They're probably not gonna overlook Philadelphia coming in
- 1:31:51Speaker 1: off two losses as well, but they were both against Cleveland,
- 1:31:55Speaker 1: so those are That second one was a tough loss.
- 1:31:57Speaker 1: It was a close loss to Cleveland. They have had
- 1:32:00Speaker 1: two days off, though they were off over the weekends.
- 1:32:02Speaker 1: That might help them break that momentum a little bit.
- 1:32:05Speaker 1: They play Phoenix next, so maybe there is a little
- 1:32:08Speaker 1: bit of a look ahead component there. Overall, I probably
- 1:32:11Speaker 1: lean to the Pacers here. The Sixers are down from
- 1:32:13Speaker 1: ten to seven here, so that might mean the Sixers
- 1:32:16Speaker 1: might be resting some guys today here seventy nine percent
- 1:32:19Speaker 1: of the tickets, only sixty one percent of the cash
- 1:32:21Speaker 1: on the Sixers, So the money is fading the Sixers
- 1:32:25Speaker 1: in this one, and I don't really disagree with it.
- 1:32:28Speaker 1: Let me see what's going on. It looks like well
- 1:32:31Speaker 1: and being in Georgia, just game time decisions like they
- 1:32:33Speaker 1: always are. But based on the fact that the line
- 1:32:35Speaker 1: has dropped, I think probably at least one of them
- 1:32:37Speaker 1: is not going to play in this game. So that
- 1:32:41Speaker 1: is the uh, the situation there. Phoenix at Brooklyn, Phoenix
- 1:32:48Speaker 1: just beat the Knicks, So right away I'm looking at
- 1:32:49Speaker 1: this and thinking it's gonna be a letdown spot. You know,
- 1:32:53Speaker 1: they're hanging around in New York. They actually had a
- 1:32:55Speaker 1: few big games in a row. They played close at Miami,
- 1:32:58Speaker 1: then they played even closer at Detroit. Then they beat
- 1:33:01Speaker 1: the Knicks, although I believe it was the Knicks without bruntson,
- 1:33:04Speaker 1: but still beating the Knicks on the road. Beating the
- 1:33:07Speaker 1: Knicks for the second straight time in January, pretty big
- 1:33:11Speaker 1: man could be a letdown spot. Who they got Philly tomorrow,
- 1:33:13Speaker 1: so it looks like a sandwich spot basically for Phoenix,
- 1:33:16Speaker 1: So why am I not on the Nets here? Well,
- 1:33:21Speaker 1: the Nets have the Knicks next, so that worries me
- 1:33:23Speaker 1: a little bit, and the Celtics after that, and the
- 1:33:26Speaker 1: Nets around a back to back here, so that is
- 1:33:28Speaker 1: what my worry is here. They just went to Chicago
- 1:33:31Speaker 1: yesterday and they did get blown out, but then now
- 1:33:33Speaker 1: playing a third game in four days, a fourth game
- 1:33:36Speaker 1: in six days, fifth game in eight days, and actually
- 1:33:38Speaker 1: it's a sixth game in nine days. So that's really
- 1:33:42Speaker 1: what worries me about this, man. It's the amount of
- 1:33:44Speaker 1: travel they've done most of those games around the road too,
- 1:33:47Speaker 1: and it's just a pack schedule that Brooklyn is facing here.
- 1:33:50Speaker 1: So that's my concern with the Nets here. I just
- 1:33:53Speaker 1: can't get involved with it. Man. You know, the money's
- 1:33:57Speaker 1: coming in on the under interestingly in this game, because
- 1:33:59Speaker 1: I think that it's the type of game that looks
- 1:34:02Speaker 1: like an over type of games. The total is really low,
- 1:34:05Speaker 1: down to two seventeen, so usually you expect these low,
- 1:34:08Speaker 1: low totals to go under. But because there's a reason
- 1:34:11Speaker 1: why it's that low. But when teams are in bad spots,
- 1:34:15Speaker 1: a lot of times the depfense gets affected more. The
- 1:34:17Speaker 1: public is really on the Suns ninety two percent of
- 1:34:20Speaker 1: tickets only seventy two percent of the cash on them.
- 1:34:23Speaker 1: They've gone up through that key ish number seven to
- 1:34:25Speaker 1: eight now, So I mean, I guess based on the
- 1:34:28Speaker 1: market read, the Nets plus the points are the side
- 1:34:32Speaker 1: to look at in the game. But I just showed you.
- 1:34:33Speaker 1: I just can't do it. Man. It is a bad
- 1:34:35Speaker 1: spot for the Suns where they might not show up,
- 1:34:37Speaker 1: but the Nets have played so many games in such
- 1:34:40Speaker 1: a short stretch. I can't do it. I don't like it.
- 1:34:47Speaker 1: Cleveland won on an uncontested dunk. Is that more rigging
- 1:34:51Speaker 1: of games going on there? I don't know, man, Yeah,
- 1:34:56Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean in a case like that,
- 1:34:58Speaker 1: I mean, you obviously have to cont because if they
- 1:35:00Speaker 1: get the dunk, you're gonna lose the game. So it's
- 1:35:02Speaker 1: not like you're, oh, I can't foul him. Well, you know,
- 1:35:06Speaker 1: the worst case scenario is obviously that he just gets
- 1:35:08Speaker 1: the dunk and you lose. At least if you foul him,
- 1:35:12Speaker 1: he might miss the free throws. So I don't know,
- 1:35:15Speaker 1: and there might be a little bit of time left
- 1:35:17Speaker 1: for you to get a shot off, depending on if
- 1:35:19Speaker 1: it was a buzzer beat or anything like that. My
- 1:35:22Speaker 1: Boston Celtics are the late They're the late game on
- 1:35:25Speaker 1: NBC and Peacock, So the afternoon game and the and
- 1:35:29Speaker 1: the late game are both pretty good games. Boston at
- 1:35:32Speaker 1: Detroit here, the Celtics coming into this game off of
- 1:35:36Speaker 1: destroying Atlanta. Like I said, they do a momentum coming
- 1:35:39Speaker 1: into this one, and I don't think they're gonna overlook Detroit.
- 1:35:42Speaker 1: I think these teams are one and one against each
- 1:35:44Speaker 1: other this season so farwards. I think the home team
- 1:35:47Speaker 1: won each game. I believe, but I'm not one hundred
- 1:35:49Speaker 1: percent sure of that. But the Celtics are coming into
- 1:35:51Speaker 1: this with momentum. I don't think they're gonna They're not
- 1:35:54Speaker 1: gonna overlook Detroit or anything like that after crushing the Hawks,
- 1:35:58Speaker 1: like who really cares? Detroit coming into this one off
- 1:36:01Speaker 1: of destroying the Pacers. So both teams are coming off
- 1:36:05Speaker 1: of blowout wins. Detroit staying at home, so the travel
- 1:36:08Speaker 1: spot's a little bit better for them. I probably lean Celtics,
- 1:36:13Speaker 1: though the money is coming in that way. Detroit's already
- 1:36:16Speaker 1: dropped from four and a half to three here, so
- 1:36:18Speaker 1: that four and a half I think was too high.
- 1:36:21Speaker 1: I mean, the odds makers initially telling you the Pistons
- 1:36:24Speaker 1: are the better team, but I think these two teams
- 1:36:27Speaker 1: are pretty close power ratings wise, man, believe it or not.
- 1:36:31Speaker 1: I know, the Pistons have a really good record, but
- 1:36:33Speaker 1: if you look at what the power ratings guys say,
- 1:36:35Speaker 1: and even now the line is down to three, it's
- 1:36:38Speaker 1: the oddsmakers are almost at the point where they're telling
- 1:36:40Speaker 1: you these teams are almost even. Piston is getting home
- 1:36:43Speaker 1: court and maybe an extra point or so there. The
- 1:36:46Speaker 1: Knicks are the top power rated team in the Eastern Conference.
- 1:36:50Speaker 1: And then I think it's really basically between the Pistons
- 1:36:52Speaker 1: and the Celtics. So I don't know, man, a fifty
- 1:36:55Speaker 1: five percent ticket, seventy percent of the cash coming in
- 1:36:58Speaker 1: on the Celtics, I agree with it, although you know,
- 1:37:02Speaker 1: hopefully my bias isn't factory into that. But let's go Celtics,
- 1:37:06Speaker 1: I guess. But yeah, that's the way that I lean.
- 1:37:09Speaker 1: It's not a player or anything. And then Miami is
- 1:37:11Speaker 1: at Golden State. My first look at this was, well,
- 1:37:14Speaker 1: we're gonna want to fade Miami here. I mean, Miami
- 1:37:16Speaker 1: just beat Oklahoma City after playing the Celtics pretty close,
- 1:37:19Speaker 1: and I believe Miami blew a lead in that game
- 1:37:22Speaker 1: too against the Celtics. Celtics bench players came through big
- 1:37:26Speaker 1: in that game. Celtics bench coming through big in a
- 1:37:28Speaker 1: lot of these games. Man, So Miami coming off a
- 1:37:31Speaker 1: couple of big games, they're starting a road trip, and
- 1:37:34Speaker 1: usually I do say when you start a road trip,
- 1:37:36Speaker 1: you're gonna be focused, but maybe not. It could be
- 1:37:39Speaker 1: a letdown. Spider Man beating Oklahoma City was huge, so
- 1:37:42Speaker 1: I don't know. Although it is still Golden State, it
- 1:37:44Speaker 1: is still Curry, it is still the Warriors, so maybe
- 1:37:47Speaker 1: Miami will still show up for it. It is the
- 1:37:49Speaker 1: start of a road trip where you usually do want
- 1:37:51Speaker 1: to get the road trip off on the right foot.
- 1:37:54Speaker 1: A Golden State is just staying at home, and they
- 1:37:56Speaker 1: do have momentum right now. They just beat Charlotte in
- 1:37:58Speaker 1: what I thought might be a bit of a let
- 1:38:00Speaker 1: down off of beating the Knicks, but nope, they won
- 1:38:02Speaker 1: easily against Charlotte, So I think Golden State is still
- 1:38:05Speaker 1: the preferable side here in this game. All the Warriors
- 1:38:09Speaker 1: are down from six and a half to five and
- 1:38:10Speaker 1: a half here, but seventy one percent of tickets and
- 1:38:12Speaker 1: eighty percent of the cash on the Warriors. You know,
- 1:38:16Speaker 1: I'm I'm come. I'm somewhat tempted here, man, I just
- 1:38:20Speaker 1: worried that maybe Miami still will show up in a
- 1:38:23Speaker 1: game against the Warriors. Here. What does the injury report
- 1:38:25Speaker 1: look like?
- 1:38:26Speaker 2: Here?
- 1:38:29Speaker 1: The other Curry is out? But that doesn't really matter
- 1:38:31Speaker 1: Draymond Green game time decision. I mean he's old. I
- 1:38:34Speaker 1: don't think that really matters. Hero is still out from Miami.
- 1:38:38Speaker 1: That's the one big thing with Miami here. I like him.
- 1:38:43Speaker 1: For rose Er, it's he's out with not injury related.
- 1:38:47Speaker 1: Oh you mean he's out with with like being suspended
- 1:38:51Speaker 1: for gambling. You mean, is that what you mean? Oh? Man?
- 1:38:55Speaker 1: Uh man? You know, I'm tempted to add this one.
- 1:38:58Speaker 1: Like we already have a ton of plays today to do.
- 1:39:01Speaker 1: Do I want to add another one on this pack
- 1:39:03Speaker 1: day here. I'll stay off of it. But I do
- 1:39:12Speaker 1: like the Warriors in that one, man. I like the Warriors.
- 1:39:14Speaker 1: And okay, I already added Northern Colorado too. Now we're
- 1:39:19Speaker 1: gonna go to the College Football Championship to finish the
- 1:39:24Speaker 1: show off here, you know, as soon as as soon
- 1:39:30Speaker 1: as that last game finished, as soon as that Indiana
- 1:39:32Speaker 1: game finished, I was like, man, like, nobody's gonna want
- 1:39:38Speaker 1: Miami in this game, and maybe it is a little
- 1:39:42Speaker 1: bit misleading. Man, I think we gotta do it. We're
- 1:39:44Speaker 1: gonna do it. We're gonna take the points of Miami.
- 1:39:47Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna want to do this. But that's the way
- 1:39:49Speaker 1: it's gonna be, actually making Miami Florida just just to
- 1:39:53Speaker 1: it's not Miami Ohio. What they're not in the championship,
- 1:39:56Speaker 1: Miami Florida. There you go, plus the eighth. I saw
- 1:39:59Speaker 1: an eight out there. I think the seven and a
- 1:40:00Speaker 1: half's are abundant, so obviously get at least the seven
- 1:40:03Speaker 1: and a half. You're getting the key number here. Obviously,
- 1:40:06Speaker 1: Indiana is gonna be a public side. I mean, there's
- 1:40:08Speaker 1: no question about that. Although I know I've heard some
- 1:40:11Speaker 1: professionals on the Indiana side. I've heard a lot of
- 1:40:14Speaker 1: them teasing Indiana down to just win the game along,
- 1:40:18Speaker 1: like teasing them and tying them into like one of
- 1:40:21Speaker 1: the NFL games with the teaser. I didn't hate that,
- 1:40:24Speaker 1: even though generally the rule is never tease college football
- 1:40:27Speaker 1: because the points aren't worth as much a college football,
- 1:40:31Speaker 1: but in a championship game where the total is forty
- 1:40:33Speaker 1: seven and a half. It is almost like an NFL game.
- 1:40:36Speaker 1: So I don't hate the idea of teasing Indiana down.
- 1:40:40Speaker 1: You get through the key number seven and seven three
- 1:40:44Speaker 1: and you get down to one and a half. I
- 1:40:46Speaker 1: don't hate that, but I prefer we're gonna grab the
- 1:40:50Speaker 1: points on Miami. Man, We're gonna go with it. We're
- 1:40:52Speaker 1: gonna have some balls. Nobody's gonna want to do it.
- 1:40:55Speaker 1: We're gonna do it. Seventy six percent tickets, seventy eight
- 1:40:58Speaker 1: percent of the cash on Indiana for what it's worth,
- 1:41:01Speaker 1: seventy eight percent of tickets to seventy nine percent of
- 1:41:03Speaker 1: the cash on the over, So the public they're playing
- 1:41:07Speaker 1: Indiana and over here, And I actually prefer the opposite.
- 1:41:10Speaker 1: I don't really want to jump in an under in
- 1:41:12Speaker 1: a college football championship, but a lot of them tend
- 1:41:15Speaker 1: to go over for whatever reason. Although forty seven and
- 1:41:18Speaker 1: a half is so low, nobody is gonna want to
- 1:41:20Speaker 1: go under, man seeing that Indiana just put up fifty
- 1:41:23Speaker 1: five points or whatever in Miami put up thirty something
- 1:41:27Speaker 1: in their game, Like, who the hell is gonna want
- 1:41:29Speaker 1: to go under forty seven and a half in this game.
- 1:41:32Speaker 1: Indiana covered that number by themselves in their last game.
- 1:41:35Speaker 1: But here's the difference, man, as far as the total,
- 1:41:37Speaker 1: is that Miami was doing that against a pretty weak
- 1:41:40Speaker 1: Old Miss defense and Indiana was doing it against well,
- 1:41:45Speaker 1: Oregon's not even that bad defensively. But I'll show you
- 1:41:47Speaker 1: what Indiana didn't a minute. Indiana had a lot of
- 1:41:50Speaker 1: short drives, they had a defensive touchdown, so their offense
- 1:41:54Speaker 1: was it was a little bit skewed what happened in
- 1:41:56Speaker 1: that game. And that's actually part of the handicap in
- 1:41:58Speaker 1: this game is that game wasn't what it appeared to
- 1:42:01Speaker 1: be so and both these teams are really good in
- 1:42:05Speaker 1: the trenches, man, so sometimes that does kind of lend
- 1:42:09Speaker 1: itself to more of a tighter game. I think if
- 1:42:11Speaker 1: you do want to go under here, I'd probably do
- 1:42:12Speaker 1: it in the first half instead, because sometimes the floodgates
- 1:42:16Speaker 1: open later in the game, especially if the game happens
- 1:42:19Speaker 1: to be close and then you get kind of back
- 1:42:20Speaker 1: and forth going on whatever. But I think early on
- 1:42:23Speaker 1: the teams might be feeling each other out, you know,
- 1:42:26Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens. And both of these teams
- 1:42:28Speaker 1: are really good defensively, Let's not forget these are two
- 1:42:31Speaker 1: top ten defenses. Indiana's like a top five defense in
- 1:42:35Speaker 1: college football. They're probably top three both defense and offense,
- 1:42:39Speaker 1: and Miami is a top ten defense, and they're probably
- 1:42:44Speaker 1: twenty fifth or so offensively. See, Miami's not as good offensively.
- 1:42:48Speaker 1: I know Indiana is obviously the better team. But if
- 1:42:51Speaker 1: you can get this thing and do a defensive slug
- 1:42:53Speaker 1: fest and a trench war of some kind, man, I
- 1:42:56Speaker 1: think Miami might be able to hang around within the
- 1:43:00Speaker 1: number in this game. Man. That's what I think. No,
- 1:43:02Speaker 1: it seems like nobody thinks that way. Even some of
- 1:43:05Speaker 1: the professionals that I've listened to don't think that, but
- 1:43:07Speaker 1: I do. Miami is a day of extra rest sol
- 1:43:11Speaker 1: though not that that really matters with both teams having
- 1:43:13Speaker 1: like a week and a half off. It doesn't really matter. Now.
- 1:43:17Speaker 1: If you look at Miami's game against oh Miss, it
- 1:43:20Speaker 1: wasn't misleading, dude. Miami outgained them four fifty nine to
- 1:43:26Speaker 1: three ninety eight. So in Miami had they lost a
- 1:43:29Speaker 1: turnover battle, actually minus won and Miami still was able
- 1:43:32Speaker 1: to win that game. They outgained ole Miss won the game.
- 1:43:36Speaker 1: Miami had way more penalty. So that's the one issue
- 1:43:39Speaker 1: I guess is that Mario Chrystoball doesn't have his team
- 1:43:42Speaker 1: disciplined enough, so they gotta worry. Gotta worry about that.
- 1:43:45Speaker 1: They were amazing on third down though, but that was
- 1:43:48Speaker 1: kind of the style of game that they played. They
- 1:43:50Speaker 1: did win the first down battle, and they dominated the
- 1:43:54Speaker 1: time of possession. This is key, dude, Like this was
- 1:43:57Speaker 1: the game plan and it might be the game plan again.
- 1:43:59Speaker 1: Crystal Ball basically saying, even though a lot of it
- 1:44:02Speaker 1: had to do with the fact that they just kept
- 1:44:04Speaker 1: converting third downs and continuing drives, but that's what he
- 1:44:07Speaker 1: was doing, Like he wanted the game plan to be
- 1:44:11Speaker 1: basically the Jim Harbaugh style, where you want to possess
- 1:44:15Speaker 1: the ball as much as possible, which makes your defense
- 1:44:19Speaker 1: be more well rested, even though I know Miami has
- 1:44:21Speaker 1: a better defense than offense, but it keeps your defense rested,
- 1:44:25Speaker 1: it keeps the opposing offense off the field, and that's
- 1:44:27Speaker 1: definitely what you want to do against both Indiana and
- 1:44:31Speaker 1: Ole Miss because they were both really good offenses. But man,
- 1:44:34Speaker 1: did they do that well in this game. They had
- 1:44:36Speaker 1: over forty minutes of possession in the game against Old Miss.
- 1:44:40Speaker 1: I thought it was actually really really good game planning
- 1:44:43Speaker 1: from crystal Ball. I know he gets all these he gets.
- 1:44:46Speaker 1: There are a lot of knocks on crystal Ball for
- 1:44:48Speaker 1: his team making mistakes and key moments, but that, yeah,
- 1:44:52Speaker 1: that wasn't really the case in this game, except for
- 1:44:54Speaker 1: you know, the penalties, one turnover, whatever. But that game
- 1:44:59Speaker 1: plan worked off awesomely. And I know it was against
- 1:45:01Speaker 1: an Ole Miss defense that isn't good, so you can
- 1:45:03Speaker 1: pick up chunks of yards continue your drives against which
- 1:45:06Speaker 1: you won't be able to do as easily against Indiana.
- 1:45:08Speaker 1: But still, I think they're gonna try to do that,
- 1:45:11Speaker 1: and they're gonna try to slow the game down and
- 1:45:12Speaker 1: play a possession game, and that's what you want if
- 1:45:15Speaker 1: you're gonna play the underdog here. So yeah, Miami won
- 1:45:19Speaker 1: that game. Good game planning. The final score was pretty
- 1:45:24Speaker 1: much indicative of what happened in that game. That was
- 1:45:27Speaker 1: not the case with this Indiana game. Man. People have
- 1:45:30Speaker 1: now seen Indiana crush Alabama, but I mean Alabama, I
- 1:45:34Speaker 1: mean they still have a young coach there that hasn't
- 1:45:37Speaker 1: been there that long. They had a freshman quarterback. I mean,
- 1:45:39Speaker 1: you know it was just I'm surprised that Alabama won
- 1:45:43Speaker 1: by that much, but it was what it was. This
- 1:45:45Speaker 1: Alabama team, they're one of the last teams to get
- 1:45:48Speaker 1: into the playoffs. I thought Alabama was still pretty decent,
- 1:45:50Speaker 1: like a top several team, but still they just couldn't hang. Now,
- 1:45:54Speaker 1: Oregon probably a legit like top three or four team
- 1:45:58Speaker 1: in the country, and yeah, Alabama hammered them, or excuse
- 1:46:01Speaker 1: the Indiana hammered them in the Peach Bowl fifty six
- 1:46:04Speaker 1: to twenty two. And by the way, I was surprised
- 1:46:06Speaker 1: Indiana had a ton of fans at that game. Man,
- 1:46:11Speaker 1: I guess it makes sense because Atlanta is a lot
- 1:46:13Speaker 1: closer to Indianapolis than Oregon is. So or it's a
- 1:46:19Speaker 1: lot closer to Indianapolis than it is to Oregon. I
- 1:46:21Speaker 1: mean to say, so Indiana they had like ninety ninety
- 1:46:24Speaker 1: five percent of the crowd there. That's not gonna be
- 1:46:26Speaker 1: the case tonight, by the way, which I'll talk about
- 1:46:29Speaker 1: in the second. But Indiana they'll have their crowd will
- 1:46:33Speaker 1: show up for sure, but I don't think it's gonna
- 1:46:35Speaker 1: be overwhelming like it was in this game. I think
- 1:46:37Speaker 1: it's gonna be probably more on the Miami side than
- 1:46:42Speaker 1: I think it'll be less than fifty percent Indiana fans
- 1:46:45Speaker 1: at the game tonight. But look at the game, man,
- 1:46:47Speaker 1: Indiana one. Yeah, fifty six to twenty two in the game.
- 1:46:50Speaker 1: But what happened in this game? Well, Oregon actually outgained
- 1:46:54Speaker 1: Indiana in this game. Well, how is that even possible?
- 1:46:56Speaker 1: How did Oregon outgain Indiana when they lost by thirty
- 1:47:00Speaker 1: four points? Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. This score
- 1:47:02Speaker 1: was misleading. Oregon outgained them by sixteen yards. They had
- 1:47:07Speaker 1: two more first downs in the game, and they had
- 1:47:11Speaker 1: a pretty close possession battle, time of possession battle against Indiana,
- 1:47:14Speaker 1: So statistically this game should have been really really close.
- 1:47:18Speaker 1: But what happened in this game, Well, the game unraveled
- 1:47:21Speaker 1: basically immediately. Literally the first play from scrimmage was a
- 1:47:24Speaker 1: pick six for Indiana, so that basically sort of set
- 1:47:29Speaker 1: the tone almost right away. Oregon actually did bounce back
- 1:47:32Speaker 1: with a really long, awesome drive to tie the game.
- 1:47:36Speaker 1: But then what happened after that, Well, Indiana scored again
- 1:47:39Speaker 1: with their like good drive themselves. Then after that everything
- 1:47:43Speaker 1: just went haywire. Man. Oregon had another turnover and Indiana
- 1:47:47Speaker 1: had a three yard touchdown drive set up by a turnover.
- 1:47:51Speaker 1: Then Oregon had another turnover a couple of possessions later,
- 1:47:54Speaker 1: and Indiana had a nineteen yard drive that led to
- 1:47:57Speaker 1: a touchdown. So Indiana had multiple spers. And then later
- 1:48:01Speaker 1: in the game, in the fourth quarter, there was another
- 1:48:05Speaker 1: again one that I believe was set up by a turnover.
- 1:48:07Speaker 1: Maybe at this point it might have been a turnover
- 1:48:09Speaker 1: on downs, So that was the other thing. Oregon just
- 1:48:12Speaker 1: was going for it on fourth down because the game
- 1:48:14Speaker 1: was way out of hand at that point, so they
- 1:48:17Speaker 1: just started going for it on fourth down, turning it
- 1:48:19Speaker 1: over again. So Indiana had another drive that was a
- 1:48:22Speaker 1: touchdown drive of that one was four yards. Indian had
- 1:48:26Speaker 1: a pick six plus three touchdown drives that were nineteen
- 1:48:30Speaker 1: yards or fewer. Two of them were single digit yardage drives.
- 1:48:35Speaker 1: That's how they put up twenty eight of their points
- 1:48:37Speaker 1: in this game. So I would say this is a
- 1:48:39Speaker 1: misleading result, man. So yeah, that has me looking towards
- 1:48:44Speaker 1: fading Indiana here. Nobody's gonna want to do it because
- 1:48:48Speaker 1: they just look so good. They looked like they look convincible. Man.
- 1:48:52Speaker 1: But remember going into the playoffs, people didn't really think
- 1:48:54Speaker 1: that going into the playoffs, like more people were picking
- 1:48:57Speaker 1: Ohio State and Georgia to win the championship than in Indiana.
- 1:49:01Speaker 1: I have Indiana winning it in my bracket, as you
- 1:49:03Speaker 1: guys know, over Ohio over Ohio State, I believe. Yeah,
- 1:49:07Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean I'll get my champion right most
- 1:49:11Speaker 1: likely in my bracket because I think Indiana will still
- 1:49:13Speaker 1: win the game probably. I just think Miami might have
- 1:49:18Speaker 1: a chance here. Man, looking at all this in Miami
- 1:49:20Speaker 1: is the one team that I, like I said, in
- 1:49:21Speaker 1: the trenches that can maybe match up against Indiana because
- 1:49:26Speaker 1: the trench battle matters. Man. It gets overlooked a lot,
- 1:49:29Speaker 1: like how good are your lines? Well, Indiana has great
- 1:49:32Speaker 1: offensive defensive lines, but so does Miami. Like these are
- 1:49:35Speaker 1: the two teams with the best offensive and defensive lines
- 1:49:38Speaker 1: in college football and they're going up against each other here.
- 1:49:41Speaker 1: So it's interesting. And finally, the thing that I was
- 1:49:45Speaker 1: alluding to is, yeah, guess where this game is being played.
- 1:49:49Speaker 1: It's being played in Miami. It's not at Miami's home
- 1:49:54Speaker 1: stadium at you know, at the U, but it is
- 1:49:57Speaker 1: in hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. So which is
- 1:50:01Speaker 1: I believe the Dolphin Stadium if I'm not mistaken. So
- 1:50:04Speaker 1: it's in Miami, so I think you gotta think that
- 1:50:08Speaker 1: it's gonna be more than fifty percent Miami fans at
- 1:50:10Speaker 1: this game. At the very least. It's like a de
- 1:50:13Speaker 1: facto home game from Miami here and you're getting points
- 1:50:16Speaker 1: like this. Yeah, there'll be in Indiana crowd. Obviously, they're
- 1:50:20Speaker 1: gonna travel for it. Like Indiana has not been anywhere
- 1:50:23Speaker 1: near this good like in program history. So yeah, it's
- 1:50:26Speaker 1: a historical thing. The crowd's gonna show up. I expect
- 1:50:29Speaker 1: the crowd to be probably about I would say, like
- 1:50:32Speaker 1: fifty five percent Miami, it would be my guess, even
- 1:50:35Speaker 1: though I know it's a home game from Miami, but
- 1:50:38Speaker 1: it is the National Championship or whatever. But yeah, I
- 1:50:40Speaker 1: think you know, our semi home game. But you know,
- 1:50:43Speaker 1: the crowd's gonna be there from Miami for sure. So
- 1:50:46Speaker 1: and we don't have to worry about the weather or
- 1:50:48Speaker 1: anything like that. Of course. I mean it's in fucking Miami,
- 1:50:50Speaker 1: so it's gonna be in the sixties. Looks like it'll
- 1:50:52Speaker 1: be fine weather whatever. But yeah, that's it, man. We're
- 1:50:58Speaker 1: basically we're fading what I think is recency bias and
- 1:51:02Speaker 1: before that Indiana game was played, you could bet this game.
- 1:51:07Speaker 1: Prior to that Indiana Oregon game being played, you could
- 1:51:09Speaker 1: already bet a number on this game, and the number
- 1:51:11Speaker 1: in this game was five and a half and now
- 1:51:13Speaker 1: we're looking at seven and a half eight here. So
- 1:51:16Speaker 1: obviously the oddsmakers have shifted that line just because of
- 1:51:20Speaker 1: what we saw Indiana do in the Peach Bawl. Like, literally,
- 1:51:25Speaker 1: prior to that game being played, this line was gonna
- 1:51:27Speaker 1: be five and a half and now it's above seven
- 1:51:30Speaker 1: and a half. So I think you're definitely getting line
- 1:51:32Speaker 1: value on this. It's recency bias. I just have to
- 1:51:36Speaker 1: do it, man, like almost out of principle alone. So
- 1:51:39Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. Man. That's the final play there.
- 1:51:47Speaker 1: People are sleeping out to go to the bars in Indiana. Yeah,
- 1:51:50Speaker 1: I mean it's gonna be crazy. There's gonna be a
- 1:51:52Speaker 1: lot of people watching it on Indiana's campus for sure.
- 1:51:55Speaker 1: It's gonna be madness there. Yeah, It's it's a huge game. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:52:03Speaker 1: I mean there's middle potential. I don't know, man, I
- 1:52:07Speaker 1: don't think I would want to try to middle it,
- 1:52:09Speaker 1: to be honest. I mean, I don't disagree with the teaser,
- 1:52:12Speaker 1: just because it does kind of fall into a Stanford
- 1:52:15Speaker 1: Long teaser where you kind of know that there's value there.
- 1:52:17Speaker 1: But I'm just going with like how I read these
- 1:52:21Speaker 1: games and how I handicap them and whatever, like you know,
- 1:52:24Speaker 1: so I just pretty much just straight at these things.
- 1:52:27Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, if you if you have
- 1:52:29Speaker 1: a plus eight or whatever on Miami and you have
- 1:52:32Speaker 1: a teaser with Indiana tied into it, I'm not gonna
- 1:52:35Speaker 1: knock you for it. I mean it's possible that you
- 1:52:37Speaker 1: win both for sure, so that's gonna do it. Thank you, sir.
- 1:52:42Speaker 1: I apologize for being a dick as usual. I gotta
- 1:52:45Speaker 1: get these Instagram videos though, too. I think the first
- 1:52:47Speaker 1: game that I have is until two in the afternoon.
- 1:52:49Speaker 1: Though two in the afternoon some panic at the disco there.
- 1:52:55Speaker 1: Nine in the afternoon. We're gonna be on. I own
- 1:52:57Speaker 1: a plus the points at College of Basketball Destern Louisiana
- 1:53:01Speaker 1: plus the points Northern Colorado money line or lay like
- 1:53:05Speaker 1: a small spread, but it's in that range where I
- 1:53:07Speaker 1: think the money line is more advantageous. NHL, we got
- 1:53:10Speaker 1: the Penguins money line. We got a split bet puck
- 1:53:13Speaker 1: line money line on the San Jose Sharks NBA. We're
- 1:53:18Speaker 1: laying the points of the Clippers going against the market read.
- 1:53:21Speaker 1: I just think it's a terrible, terrible spot man and
- 1:53:24Speaker 1: we're fading a bad team, which I mean a lot
- 1:53:27Speaker 1: of times I like to play on bad teams because
- 1:53:29Speaker 1: you get live value that way. But not in that case.
- 1:53:31Speaker 1: We're gonna be on the Utah Jazz. So the Jazz
- 1:53:34Speaker 1: better get it done for us. Man. We need to
- 1:53:36Speaker 1: we need we need to root for Utah. Here who
- 1:53:39Speaker 1: do I rote for? What to root for Utah? There
- 1:53:47Speaker 1: we go. We're gonna root for Utah Celtic Pride there
- 1:53:51Speaker 1: and then college Football Championship. I can't help myself. We're
- 1:53:54Speaker 1: gonna be on Miami plus the points balls. Let's do it, man,
- 1:53:59Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. Let's bounce back. Let's have a
- 1:54:01Speaker 1: winning day. We got a lot of plays today. I
- 1:54:03Speaker 1: think eight plays. Let's get it done. Peace everybody. Oh
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- 1:54:27Speaker 1: learned It Toad for some extra yuke stuff that I
- 1:54:30Speaker 1: never get around to. I apologize and then, dude, this
- 1:54:34Speaker 1: stuff just I don't know this. All the betting and
- 1:54:37Speaker 1: whatever takes a lot out of me. Man, I'm not
- 1:54:39Speaker 1: actually putting money on this right now until I free
- 1:54:42Speaker 1: up my funds so I can start doing it again.
- 1:54:44Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm giving out the place as if
- 1:54:47Speaker 1: I am, though maybe I will put a little bit
- 1:54:49Speaker 1: on the on the football game. I don't know, although
- 1:54:52Speaker 1: I don't think it's my strongest bed of the day.
- 1:54:55Speaker 1: I don't know which one is really though, I don't know.
- 1:54:58Speaker 1: I can't decide. And then Loser Cast will be back
- 1:55:02Speaker 1: tomorrow night with a new episode there too, so you
- 1:55:04Speaker 1: can check that out too. That'll do it. Peace, happy, happy,
- 1:55:09Speaker 1: happy what I consider to be really a fake holiday.
- 1:55:13Speaker 1: Don't nupe me, don't nuop the channel. Peace everybody,