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NCAAB + NHL + NBA Best Bets Friday 11/30/26 · Toadstool Sports

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  Speaker 1: Yep. Inside, I want to kill myself. We're on Own
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  Speaker 1: seven run over the last two days after tonight it
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  Speaker 1: was just complete bullshit. So that's that's I'm gonna start
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  Speaker 1: off this show horrible Sunday one and five. I don't
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: even know what to tell you about that. I just
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  Speaker 1: don't want to do this anymore. I have never seen
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  Speaker 1: anything like this. Man with the slump continuing. Two straight losses,
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  Speaker 1: not a good day at all. Own four, I have
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  Speaker 1: not had a good season. Man with wookends the slump
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  Speaker 1: that I'm on, and the slump continues, I've reached into pink. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to burn my browins hat Man, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what is going on with the bruins arch hape?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what it is? I don't even know it's
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  Speaker 1: March ninth, I think who even knows? Man, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what day it is anymore. But I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know what day it is anymore. Man, back with you
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  Speaker 1: after the worst day that I could possibly have, Back
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  Speaker 1: with you as I always am until I die, at
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  Speaker 1: least oh and two. Yesterday and yesterday it did not
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  Speaker 1: go well for me. Own five. The worst month that
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  Speaker 1: I've ever had in my eighteen years doing this. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what to even tell you about this anymore.
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  Speaker 1: To the slump, the slump discontinuous, the slump continues. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: fucking kill me, please. I don't even know what I
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  Speaker 1: should do at this point other than potentially end it all.
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  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? It's towed back with you with Toadstool Sports.
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  Speaker 1: It is Friday, January thirtieth. I got to represent this
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  Speaker 1: run to the Bruins are on man. I sorry sorry
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  Speaker 1: to SOB. I mean, I am a fan of the Bruins,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know. I told you I kind of
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  Speaker 1: lean into the Bruins in that game last night. One
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  Speaker 1: thing I have been overlooking is that the Bruins have
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  Speaker 1: been excellent at home this year. They have a really
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  Speaker 1: good home record, so not really a team really want
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  Speaker 1: to fade at home unless there's like a really good
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  Speaker 1: spot to do so, so I will point that out.
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  Speaker 1: We went to and zero with the plays that I
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  Speaker 1: gave out on the show yesterday Washington. I think was
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  Speaker 1: a wire to wire cover. They didn't win the game, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but it was a huge spread. They were within three
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  Speaker 1: points pretty late in the first half, and it was
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  Speaker 1: a pretty low scoring game. I'm like, okay, that's good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we want to have this game be a
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  Speaker 1: lower scoring game, be kind of a grind like. It
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  Speaker 1: kind of went the way that I thought it would.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a seven point game at halftime,
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  Speaker 1: but I think final score, I think they lost by nine.
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  Speaker 2: I think they were never not covering.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't watch the whole thing, so I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but it was a cover They lost by nine. So
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  Speaker 1: we got the win with that one by more than
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  Speaker 1: a few points there, so I'm happy about that. It
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  Speaker 1: was kind of a get in, get out type of
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  Speaker 1: game for Illinois, and then we did get the win
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  Speaker 1: with the Vancouver Canucks as well. They weren't necessarily the
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  Speaker 1: better team in the game, but home underdog like that,
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  Speaker 1: you just want them to be out there putting in
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  Speaker 1: an effort have a close game, and that's what it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was a zero zero game until really late in
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  Speaker 1: the game and Vancouver put up a goal I think
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  Speaker 1: midway through the third period, and then they did have
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  Speaker 1: an empty net goal at the end that made a
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  Speaker 1: two to nothing, but it was it was more like
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  Speaker 1: a one to nothing game. But statistically the game was close,
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  Speaker 1: so that that's kind of what you want when you
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  Speaker 1: have a home underdog. So we did get the win
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  Speaker 1: with the Canucks. We're the streak breakers here. Nobody, dude,
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  Speaker 1: nobody would want the Canucks.
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  Speaker 2: That's the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be on these teams and absolutely nobody wants
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  Speaker 1: these putrid plays like depending on the spot and whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But Vancouver, yeah they lost thirteen out of fourteen games
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. Well now they've busted that streak. So there
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  Speaker 1: you go. Today, somewhat small board today, very small hockey board.
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  Speaker 2: I have two plays. They're both NBA.
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  Speaker 1: We're back to the NBA today after skipping the NBA yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I've been pretty selective. Hopefully we're gonna get it done
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  Speaker 1: with the NBA today. You probably are not gonna guess
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  Speaker 1: what my plays are in the NBA, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: This is just the way that it worked out. These
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: are what I think are the strongest dirty sock. What's up?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out? All right, Let's get into it, man.
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  Speaker 1: We have college basketball. There is one huge college basketball
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  Speaker 1: game today and there are some other interesting games on.
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  Speaker 1: We do have a game at three pm Eastern between
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Southern and Juell Monroe and the Sun Belt that
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  Speaker 1: I think this game got rescheduled because of weather. Go
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  Speaker 1: figure weather being bad in Louisiana. I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: I think that is the case. This game was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be played. I don't know two days ago or yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how the schedule worked. I actually this
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. I think actually the game at
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  Speaker 1: UOLL Monroe got postponed. Now I think this is that
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  Speaker 1: game being replayed, but I think it's at a neutral site. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this game is in Grambling, Louisiana. Now, so this is
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  Speaker 1: the home game for Louisiana Monroe basically, but it got
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  Speaker 1: moved to a new arena. I don't know what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: but that's what's happening. I think this is the only
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  Speaker 1: time these two teams play this year. The only handicapping
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  Speaker 1: thing that I have here, the only handicapping angle that
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  Speaker 1: I really have here, is that Georgia Southern is coming
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  Speaker 1: off a big game against Troy. Now, Georgia Southern, they
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  Speaker 1: were hot to start the season, to start conference play,
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  Speaker 1: they were atop the conference stands standings. I was telling
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  Speaker 1: you this team is not that good. I think we
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  Speaker 1: may have faded them once in this mix too, I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember, but once they started facing some of the
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  Speaker 1: better teams in the Sun Belt. Yeah, Georgia Southern, they've
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  Speaker 1: fallen off. They're not that good now. They're better than
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  Speaker 1: Juan Monroe. Don't get me wrong about that. Monroe is terrible.
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  Speaker 1: But Georgia Southern is coming off that game against Troy
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  Speaker 1: that was a big game, fairly close result, they only
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  Speaker 1: lost by five. Now they're playing in this weird venue.
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  Speaker 1: I know this is probably worse than a home venue
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  Speaker 1: for U ALL Monroe, but it's still near their home.
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  Speaker 1: And do you really think they get a huge crowd
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  Speaker 1: at EUWA Monroe anyway? Probably not, But I think you're
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  Speaker 1: at least gonna get an f out of this team
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  Speaker 1: because they don't have a conference win yet. They're the
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  Speaker 1: only team that doesn't have at least four conference wins
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  Speaker 1: and they don't have any. They're bad, no question about it,
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  Speaker 1: But I think in a game like this I would
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  Speaker 1: lean towards taking the points with Jol Monroe. Here, Georgia
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  Speaker 1: Southern's up to an eleven and a half point favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Does look like some of the money is coming in
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  Speaker 1: that way, but I don't really agree with it. Eighty
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  Speaker 1: six percent of the tickets, ninety seven percent of the
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  Speaker 1: cash on Georgia Southern. This is not a game that
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  Speaker 1: I'd be interested in betting or anything like that. But
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  Speaker 1: those are my thoughts on it. Kyle, what's up man,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out everybody. Oh, yes, the frog emoji. Yes,
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: you could say frog whatever. Some people call me that.
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  Speaker 1: It's derogatory. It's defrogatory, Tyson, what's up. Thanks for hanging
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  Speaker 1: out everybody.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: CBS Sports at six pm has what is kind of
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  Speaker 1: a good MAC game between teams that really don't like
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  Speaker 1: each other, Kent State and Akron, both in the state
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio. Here, I don't know how close they are geographical, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I kind of have an idea. I think Kent State
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  Speaker 1: is up like kind of close ish to Cleveland, I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty sure. So that kind of gives you an idea
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  Speaker 1: of where these two teams are located.
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  Speaker 2: This is on CBS Sports.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like a good matchup on the surface, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these two teams are both close to the top of
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  Speaker 1: the MAC They're only separated by like one game record wise.
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  Speaker 2: But then people are gonna look at the spread and.
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  Speaker 1: If people want to bet this TV game before the
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  Speaker 1: other games start, they're gonna probably think this spread is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: It's eleven and a half Akron huge favor here, even
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  Speaker 1: though Kent State's record looks pretty good. So I think
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  Speaker 1: the public might be looking at this it might have
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  Speaker 1: a tendency to want to play Kent State here, and
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  Speaker 1: I would maybe push back on that a little bit
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  Speaker 1: because Akron is the best team in this conference. There's
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  Speaker 1: a reason why they're inn eleven and a half point
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  Speaker 1: favor right now. The money is not agreeing with Akron here.
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  Speaker 1: They're an eleven and a half my favorite. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: seventy five percent of the tickets and only fifty four
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  Speaker 1: percent of the cash, So maybe my read on this
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  Speaker 1: is wrong. Like I expected the public to be sort
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  Speaker 1: of leaning towards the Kent State side here, especially if
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  Speaker 1: they saw what Kent State did the other night, like
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  Speaker 1: Kent State took Miami Ohio into overtime and Akron lost
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  Speaker 1: to Miami Ohio, although that was at Miami Ohio, but
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  Speaker 1: Kent State almost beat them, So I don't know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: people just didn't watch that game or something I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: or people were not in tune to the MAC. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there is some reasoning behind maybe leaning towards Kent State here,
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  Speaker 1: which is basically that it should be a competitive game
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  Speaker 1: because both teams are gonna show up. But I think
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  Speaker 1: if that's the case, I think Akron might be able
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  Speaker 1: to win this thing by margin. Kent State did just
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  Speaker 1: beat another Ohio team, Ohio. Nice win for them there.
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  Speaker 1: Going on the road to Akron is not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: that easy. Acron did just beat to Leedo, another Ohio team.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's less of a big deal than beating Ohio, though,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest, a little was kind of dropped off
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Ohio just has kind of more name
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  Speaker 1: recognition in basketball, I believe. So I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: to me, it looks like both teams might show up,
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  Speaker 1: Acrods staying at home. I would probably lean towards laying
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  Speaker 1: the points with the Akron because I know that they're
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  Speaker 1: the best team in the MAC, power ratings wise, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: To me, I think the line looks enormous and it
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  Speaker 1: caught my eyes like, WHOA, that's a big line. But
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  Speaker 1: it might be warranted in this case, and it's probably
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a high scoring game as well, Kent State
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  Speaker 1: is not good defensively, so oh sorry, ken Bum, I'm
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  Speaker 1: on some of his paid pages. Man, go buy ken Bum.
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: It's worth it. It's like thirty bucks a year. Yeah, Kent
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  Speaker 1: State is third in ken Bump's luck Index. You know
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  Speaker 1: some things to not like about Kent State here. They're
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  Speaker 1: outside of the top two hundred on defense. They're pretty
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  Speaker 1: good offensively, but Akron actually, Accrod is not that great
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  Speaker 1: defensively either, but they're a machine offensively. They're in the
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  Speaker 1: top twenty five on offense according to ken Bum, and
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  Speaker 1: they're much less lucky. So yes, I lean to Akron.
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  Speaker 1: I also would lean over in this game. The total
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  Speaker 1: did drop to one sixty seven and a half, but
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  Speaker 1: it looks like the real money is actually on the over,
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  Speaker 1: with fifty to fifty on the over and under here,
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  Speaker 1: and then nine percent of the cash on the over
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  Speaker 1: fifty to fifty on the tickets on the total. I mean, so,
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  Speaker 1: I think an over does make sense in a game
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  Speaker 1: like that. An Akron is the faster paced team and
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  Speaker 1: they're at home, so they might be able to speed
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  Speaker 1: it up, even though Kent State will try to slow
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  Speaker 1: it down a bit, probably especially as an underdog. They're
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  Speaker 1: probably gonna want to do that, but they also want
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  Speaker 1: to play a little bit slower. But yeah, you basically
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  Speaker 1: you have two pretty capable offenses, one really good offense
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  Speaker 1: with Akron, and then you have two not so good
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  Speaker 1: defense as Kent State's very pretty much very deficient.
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  Speaker 2: So again it does look like an over type of
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  Speaker 2: game to me.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: All Right, we have Siana at Niagara, so we have
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: some matt act action matt action going on here.
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  Speaker 2: We got a lot of conferences in play here today.
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  Speaker 1: Man, we got Sunbelt, Ivy League, Mac Horizon, matt Ack American.
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  Speaker 1: There's a big ten going on here, a ten. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot going on Mountain West later at night. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of interesting games, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: For a Friday.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little bit of a bigger schedule on a
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  Speaker 1: Friday than some I would say, So yeah. Interesting. Oh
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: and there's big East as well. There's one big East
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  Speaker 1: game Sianna here. The reason I looked at this is
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  Speaker 1: because they're coming to have a win over Maris where
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  Speaker 1: they beat Maris by almost twenty points. That's just a
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: big win, dude. Now they're going on the road to
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  Speaker 1: play Niagara. They already beat Niagara and beat them by
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  Speaker 1: almost thirty points at home at Sianna, so they might
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  Speaker 1: just overlook this Niagara team, and I might actually be
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  Speaker 1: on Niagara if Sianna had a bigger opponent up next one. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: they have Canesius, who is a team that they already beat,
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  Speaker 1: also by twenty plus, so they're not really gonna be
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: looking ahead to that, but could still be a letdown
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  Speaker 1: spot coming off the Maris game. They might not take
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  Speaker 1: Niagara seriously after totally blowing them out in the prior matchup.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Niagara's not.
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  Speaker 1: Good obviously, but in this game I would have to
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  Speaker 1: lean that way. Problem is Niagara themselves. They're coming off
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  Speaker 1: that game and gets Sacred Heart where we lost on
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: Sacred Heart minus the points on Saturday. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a good setup for them, but now that means
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  Speaker 1: Niagara's coming off two straight games where they were a
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  Speaker 1: big underdog on the road and they played to within
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  Speaker 1: one point in both games. So yes, they're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: back home, and yes, the last time they were at
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: home they lost by double digits. So I do like
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  Speaker 1: that set up, like when a team comes back home
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  Speaker 1: in college basketball and the last time they were at home,
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  Speaker 1: they had a loss. They do usually do better, so
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  Speaker 1: I do think they will show up for this game.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a matter of how tired will they be,
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  Speaker 1: because they did have those two huge games as underdogs
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  Speaker 1: and almost pull off those wins. So I lean to Niagara,
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  Speaker 1: but there are some negatives about their spot as well.
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  Speaker 1: Here Ciana down for ten to nine. Here on the line.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's difficult to want to play Niagara because
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  Speaker 1: they're just an awful team, but that is factor into
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  Speaker 1: the line. Okay, Fox Sports one, we have Providence in Villanova,
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  Speaker 1: the one big East game of the day. It's a
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  Speaker 1: really weird setup in this game because both teams just
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  Speaker 1: played the same opponent in their prior game. Providence has
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: more time off, so that's something to consider here. Providence
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  Speaker 1: hasn't played for six days, I believe, or five days
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, and Villanova played like three days ago, and
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  Speaker 1: they both played Yukon in their last game and they
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  Speaker 1: both played close. So that's kind of the struggle here,
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  Speaker 1: is that that both teams are coming up of a
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  Speaker 1: big game where they played pretty close, so they're both
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  Speaker 1: kind of in negative spots. Now. For Providence, yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: just played Yukon close again. They played them close both times,
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  Speaker 1: so either Yukon just doesn't take Providence seriously or Providence
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  Speaker 1: matches up decently against Yukon. I don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: deal is, but that was a big game for Providence.
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  Speaker 1: So when I first looked at this, I'm thinking this
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be bad, like they're gonna be in a
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  Speaker 1: hangover spot. Third road game in four games, they gotta
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: play Villanova. But then I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, well,
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  Speaker 1: they did already lose to Villanova at home, so this
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  Speaker 1: is actually one of these avenging road underdog angles here
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  Speaker 1: where Providence lost to Villanov at home, Villanova.
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  Speaker 2: Might not take them totally seriously.
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  Speaker 1: This time, Providence probably has reason to show up because
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  Speaker 1: this team beat them on their own floor by six points.
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  Speaker 1: So then I'm starting to think, actually, maybe Providence might
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  Speaker 1: be the actual might be the way you should actually
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  Speaker 1: lean in this game, Villanova, they're also coming off a
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  Speaker 1: game against Yukon and it was more recent and this
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: game went into overtime, so this game was actually even
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  Speaker 1: closer than the Providence Yukon game most recently. Providence took
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  Speaker 1: them into overtime the first time. But Villanova's coming out
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  Speaker 1: of an overtime game here, so even though they lost
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  Speaker 1: by eight, So I got to dig into these box scores, man,
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  Speaker 1: because you can see, Oh, this game actually went into overtime.
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  Speaker 1: Huge game for Villanova. They almost caught Yukon. They fell short. Now, yes,
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  Speaker 1: they're playing a lot of home games, so that's okay
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  Speaker 1: for them. So the travel spot is worse for Providence.
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  Speaker 1: But but for Villanova, they did have to travel to Yukon,
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  Speaker 1: they did play more recently, and they do have Seaton
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  Speaker 1: haul up next to Seaton Hall is still one of
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  Speaker 1: the teams that's a team that you don't overlook. I
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  Speaker 1: would say, at the very least in the Big East.
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  Speaker 1: They're not that far behind Villanova in the standings.
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  Speaker 2: So I throw all.
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  Speaker 1: Those things together and I I like the road revenge
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  Speaker 1: angle and the extra rest for Providence here, and that's
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  Speaker 1: the way I'm gonna lean here in Providence not having
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  Speaker 1: maybe a potential look ahead there as well like Villanova does.
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  Speaker 1: So I do actually lean Providence in this game. After
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: I fully analyze the situation here, money seems like it's
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: not agreeing with me. We got Villanova's definitely the better
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: team there's no doubt about that. They're up from eight
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  Speaker 1: to eight and a half here, seventy percent of the
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  Speaker 1: tickets eight to nine percent of the cash on Villanova,
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  Speaker 1: so the money is coming in on Villanova. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like I just don't really agree with it, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not a game that I would want to play. The
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  Speaker 1: side on and side of total might actually be correlated
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: in this game too, because Villanova likes to play slow,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: although I think they are pretty efficient on the offensive side,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: but they play slow. Providence plays fast, So there is
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: definitely a pacing contrast here. And if Villanova's gonna slow
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: the game down, probably they likely will be able to
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: do that because they're the better team, they're at home,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: they'll probably have an easier time doing that. It's easier
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: to slow the game down as well. But the total
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: being in the one fifties is kind of indicating that
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: maybe Providence might be able to throw this game up
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: tempo to some extent here, So we'll see. But even
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: if Villanova slows it down, that means the points might
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: be a little bit more of a premium, and taking
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: the points might kind of make sense in that regard
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: to So, yeah, I would kind of lean towards Providence
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: in that game. But I don't have a strong opinion
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: on it. All right, if you want them to talk
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: about any of these other games, I will, But you know,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I'm hitting the games that I think have more interesting
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: situations to look at. Here, Cleveland State at Green Bay.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Cleveland State's coming off their biggest upset win of the year.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: They just upset Right State on the road. Right State
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: is still I think the best team in the Horizon.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: It might be Oakland, but that was a huge upset
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: for Cleveland State. They won by I think fifteen excuse
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: they're fifteen point underdogs, excuse me. And they won by
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: six something like that. And I think a lot of
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: this came down to the turnover margin. I thought, no,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: it wasn't the turnover margin. What was I thinking?
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Now you know what, I don't even know what happened.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, it was three point percentage AI, because I was
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: I know there was some outlier when I looked at
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: the box score here.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Cleveland State hit almost fifty percent of.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Their three pointers in the game, and that was pretty
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: much the difference in the game. Hot shooting from Cleveland State,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: which is not really like Cleveland State.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Now they're going on.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: They have a second straight road game. They got to
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: play green Bay. Now I guess one caveat here because
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: of course Cleveland State. To me, I'm like, well, they're
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: gonna letdown Spot because that was just a monster upset
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: win over the best team in the conference in Cleveland
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: State is one of the worst teams in the conference.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: But the problem is now they're playing Green Bay. They
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: just lost to green Bay three games to go by double.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Digits at home.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: So Cleveland State is not gonna overlook green Bay and
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: green Bay is somewhat close to the top of the
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: conference standings. Here. The question is is Cleveland State gonna
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: run out of steam here? And that's part of the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: reason why you might want to play them, play against them.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, coming off a huge win like that. Looking
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: at Green Bay, they did just break a two game
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: losing street. They beat Robert Morris on the road. Decent
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: win for green Bay there. The problem with Green Bay's
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: scheduling is they might overlook Cleveland State, man because not
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: only did they beat them on the road by double digits.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Like I just mentioned, that might be enough to make
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: them overlook them. But they play right State next and
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: then Northern Kentucky after that, and those are two much
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: much bigger games than this game. So I don't love
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: how the setup is for green Bay here either. And
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: they beat Robert Morris. I mean, Robert Morris is still
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the winner of the conference last year at their very least,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: and that was actually revenge because green Bay had actually
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: lost at home to Robert Morris, so that was a
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: bit of road revenge. So that was a pretty big
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: win for green Bay. And they got embarrassed when they
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: played at Right State before, so they're definitely going to
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: be focused on that Right State game. So I can't
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: play green Bay in this one. Man. As bad as
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the spot is for Cleveland State, the money looks like
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: it is agreeing with green Bay, and I guess I
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: can't really disagree because I think the the letdown spot
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: for Cleveland State does loom large. In this situational setup,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: green Bay is a seven and a half point favored.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: It looks like fifty to fifty on the tickets, eighty
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: seven percent of the cash on green Bay. But I
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: just have to pass on the game, man. Both teams
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I think have negative scheduling setups there. Zach what's up man,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out all right, What else do we
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: have here? Well, of course we're gonna talk about the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: big game on Fox, The Battle of Michigan Number three, Michigan,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: number seven, Michigan State. I was considering having this on
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: my card since these teams last played. Both these teams
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: played on the same night a couple of nights ago,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and they had very disparate results in a way, but
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: they were also similar in a way, which I'll explain,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: which is why I kind of don't want to do this. Michigan,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: of course, we know they just got a huge win
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: over Nebraska. That was a huge game. Everybody was talking
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: about that game. We know, like, is Nebraska legit whatever,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Michigan did handle them their first loss, big win for
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: big win for Michigan, big game. And at the same time,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Michigan State and their last game was struggling to even
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: get by Rutgers. So I'm thinking about it, and I'm thinking, well,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Michigan's gonna get all the credit for beating Nebraska. That's
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: a huge win. Meanwhile, Michigan State didn't look good at all.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: They won by eight, but they had to go to
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: overtime or by nine. Excuse me, but they had to
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: go to overtime to beat Rutgers, so that was a
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: little bit crazy. Rutgers did still cover, by the way,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: so at least it was a fourteen and a half spread.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: We didn't have Rutgers. But I'm saying I think I
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: leaned to Rutgers in the game. But I am saying
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that if you had the if you had the points,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: that it was getting a little bit crazy like that
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: in overtime. You at least had those extra points in
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: your pocket there. But Michigan almost lost this game, dude,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Rutgers was winning the game outright late. Some Michigan State
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: excuse me. Michigan State had a bad game in that game.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: So I'm thinking about it back then, I'm thinking I'm
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: gonna be on Michigan State against Michigan man, because Michigan's
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: coming up that monster win. Michigan State looked awful against Rutgers.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I think it's because they were looking ahead. And yes,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I still agree with that sentiment. So I do like
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Michigan State in this game because they definitely looked worse
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: in the previous game. But the problem is, first of all,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: both teams will show up it's a huge game for
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: both teams, So there is that aspect of this. It's like,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: it's not like either team's gonna lapse and focus here.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I don't think. I think it'll be a tough game,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: but Michigan State might be the team that just comes
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: in always as the little brothers. They have maybe a
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: little bit more of a chip on their shoulder because
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: they're Michigan State. But then again, maybe not because Michigan
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: State actually beat Michigan twice last year. Michigan State was
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: if people remember, Michigan State was really really good in
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: conference last year and they actually swept the season series
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: with Michigan last year, and they did not meet up
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: in the conference tournament, although Michigan won the conference tournament.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: But maybe in that respect, maybe Michigan will show up
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: with a little extra effort because they know that Michigan
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: State swept them in the regular season last year. But well,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: and actually the other thing is that Michigan was a
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: huge favorite against Nebraska. So that's the other thing I
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: was gonna mention, like, would they actually be in a
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: letdown off of a big win like that? I think yes,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: because I think the players don't really consider like the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: spreads that much. I think the general idea was like,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: this is a huge game against the ranked team, is
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: a huge win. So I don't think mentally Michigan's of
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the mindset that, oh, we were a huge favorite in
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: this game and we didn't play well. I don't think
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: that's really the case. So I do think they will
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: consider themselves to be off a big game there. So
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I do like Michigan State in the game. It's not
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: gonna make my card or anything. The money seems like
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: it agrees. Michigan already dropped from one and a half
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: to a pick them here, so I would try to
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: get Michigan State at the underdog price, man, And it
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: looks like if Michigan State's gonna be like a tiny
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: favorite here, it would be Michigan State. Money line would
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: be my recommendation if that's the case. If you're getting
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: at least one point, I would take the point and
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: then put some amount of the bet on the money line,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: sixty one percent of the tickets ninety five percent of
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the cash on Michigan State. So the money is agreeing
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: with me on Michigan State. Cloud Native Tom, what's up, man? Oh, yes,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: you're the Pittsburgh Nation Terrible Towl. Yeah, what's up? Mans?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: The Penguins on pace to take the Stanley Cup. I'll
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: bet you that they don't win the Stanley Cup. I
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: think I would. I don't know if I would take
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: that bet, because they're probably a.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Huge underdog to win it. What are the odds on
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: them on them to win it?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Right now? I can look real quick, I can tell
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: you what the odds are. I can look at the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: NHL futures market, because the show's not going to be
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: that long today, so let's see here. What do we
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: have NHL futures. I'm looking right now at a site
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: that I don't think I'm allowed to say on YouTube
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: because YouTube doesn't let us have any fun here, although
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I actually, I mean I show it, so I don't know.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I mean sometimes I show that site on my show,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: so I don't know. The Penguins are currently seventy five
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: to one to win the whole thing. They have eighteenth
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: best odds to win, so that's that's where they're at
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: right now. The Penguins are minus two thirty to make
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, though, so there are yes to make the playoffs.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: The yes is a is a favorite to make the playoffs,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: which is better than my boss and Bruins. The are
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: minus one sixty no to even make the playoffs, which
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: is ridiculous playoffs. I think it has to do with
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know, remaining scheduled divisions that they're in, how
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: good the team actually is. So yes, I would say, yeah,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the Penguins are probably gonna be in the playoffs, and
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I would say they are not going to They're not
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: gonna win the Cup, is what I will say.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: That would be how it would predict that.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: By the way, I like the under in the Michigan
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Michigan State game as well. I see it being more
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: of a physical battle you have. Both teams are really
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: good defensively. Actually, I think Michigan State, according to Ken Bombs,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the number one defensive, number one defensive efficiency team right
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: now in Michigan is number two. So you're looking at
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: two teams that are very, very good on the defensive
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: side of the ball. Michigan State is not as good offensively.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Michigan's more balanced as far as that's concerned, but both
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: teams are outside of the top ten on offense. Michigan State,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: being at home, is going to try to slow the
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: game way down, so it is a pacing contrast too,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: So I think if you if you do like the under,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I think that does help Michigan State because they want
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: to play slow.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: So I do like both of those.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I like the under and Michigan State in that game
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: total it up to one forty seven and a half,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: So you might actually be getting a little bit more
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: value on the under with seventy eight percent of the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: tickets and ninety four percent of the couch on the over.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: But I'm not really a totals guy, but the under
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: kind of makes sense to me in that game, with
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Michigan State probably being able to slow the game down
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: at home and it becoming a defensive battle there, especially
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: because people might think that that line is low. Seeing oh,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: both teams scored whatever seventy five plus in their previous game,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: as Michigan State scored into the eighties. So I don't
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: really see the public wanting to play an under in
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a game like that. Usually they do not. Dayton at
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: number twenty one, Saint Louis in the A ten gets
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the CBS Sports slot here. This is going to be
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: a pretty addressing game, I think, all though Saint Louis
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: is going to be a big favorite here. It's a
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: battle in the A ten. Dayton is one of the
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: better teams in the A ten at the very least,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I think probably their fourth best, behind Saint Louis VCU
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: and George Mason in that order. Dayton did just take
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: a really ugly loss, actually multiple three ugly losses in
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: a row. Actually, they lost at LaSalle, they lost at
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Saint Joe's and we took a loss on that one, unfortunately,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: because I thought they would bounce back. Saint Jose is
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: not They're really not that good. And then Dayton lost
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: again back at home to Rhode Island. I think they
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: might have been looking ahead to Saint Louis potentially here,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: but Dayton's goming to have three losses in a row
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: in games where they were favored. So Daydon is definitely
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: underperforming in those last three games, like they should have
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: won all three based on the odds there. They were
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: favorites in all three, and I think there were at
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: least six point favorites in all three of them, or
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: maybe five and a half whatever. The Saint Jose is
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the one where they were the smallest favorite. Now you know,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: they're gonna show up for a game against Saint Louis.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Saint Louis is just on a complete roll man. Saint
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Louis is one of the best offensive efficiency teams in
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the country. They hit like all of their shots, it's insane.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: They have one of the highest field goal percentages in
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: all of college basketball. Though first granted, they played in
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the A Ten, so they're playing some somewhat weak defenses
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: in this conference. But I think they're gonna show up
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: for this game as well, because it's a home game,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: it's on TV, and they're coming off a game where
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: they were a pretty big favorite against George Washington and
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: they barely got by. But if you remember, I leaned
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to George Washington in that game. I just thought that
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: we'd probably reached that kind of peak value with going
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: against Saint Louis, Like I thought, they were kind of
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: at the top of their market with Saint Louis. And
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: then they did win again, although they didn't cover, but
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: they won on a of course, they won on a
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Robbie of vil A buzzer beater three because of course,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: of course, the big man, the big white guy with
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the goggles. Of course, he can hit threes to why not,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: he can do whatever. So he did hit the winning shot.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: It was a dramatic win. So the fact that it
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: was a dramatic win against a George Washington team that
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: was that is decent at least in the conference. I
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: could maybe see Saint Louis being the slightly worst spot
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: here for that reason. So yeah, I'll lean against Saint Louis.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I will lean towards Dayton plus the points in the game.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: But I don't love it. Saint Louis has sixty seven
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: percent of the tickets seventy five percent of the cash
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: on Dayton, so the money is agreeing with me on Dayton.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Here Saint Louis is down from eleven and a half
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: to ten and a half. Here. I agree with that move.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I agree with the Dayton side on that one, but
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: it's again, it's not a strong opinion for me at all.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: All Right, And I will point out right State.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Actually already played a game after their loss to Cleveland State,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: so they're playing tonight. But I was thinking, oh, they're
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: gonna be in a bounced back spot, but they already
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: did that. So they beat Northern Kentucky. They had a
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: nice bounce back there. Now they are going to Milwaukee,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: who they did already beat by six at home, and
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: they do have Green Bay on the horizon. Green Bay
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: is up near the top of the standings, So I
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: actually think this is kind of a negative spot for
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Right State because that was a decent win over Northern Kentucky,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: who's close to the top of the conference. Green Bay
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: up next, and they might look right past the Milwaukee
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: team they already beat and who has a below five
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: hundred record. Milwaukee did just break a three game losing streak,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: so that's not bad. They're coming back home and they
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: lost the last time they were on this floor to Oakland,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: although they also haven't really been that good at home.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I think they're two and two at home in conference
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: so far, but I mean, losing to Oakland, you can't
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: really knock them for that, or even to Northern Kentucky
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: at home. Those are two pretty good teams in the conference.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: But now they're coming off to win on the road
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: against Youngstown, which I think certainly was an upset. Let
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: me see, it was a six and a half point upset.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: So that's kind of the drawback with Milwaukee here is
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: they are coming off an upset, So I don't usually
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: love playing on teams that are coming off a big
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: upset like that, but they did break a losing streak.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: They are back home where they lost their prior game.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: They're not going to overlook Right State, who already beat
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: them once. So yes, in that game, I would lean
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: to Milwaukee. Right State is up from one and a
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: half to three here, but that line almost looks too
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: easy to play Right State, dude. I don't know why.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Some money looks like it came in on Wright State initially.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Could be professionals dummying the line up because they actually
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: want to come in on Milwaukee. I don't know, but
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I lean to Milwaukee in that game. I think it
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: looks too easy to play Right State too, given what
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the team's records look like. Mister Pinsey, what's up man?
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out all right. Then we have ESPNU,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: for some reason, has Mount Saint Mary's at Saint Peter's
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: in the matt Act. Now, these teams already played, and
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Mount Saint Mary's beat them at home, and I believe
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: that was a winner. Here on the show, I think
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: that I gave out on Mount Saint Mary's. I think
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Saint Peter's was kind of in a sandwich spot in
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: that game, if I remember correctly. But now Saint Peter's
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: might not overlook Mount Saint Mary's because they did beat
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: them at the Mount at Mount Saint Mary's, Mount Saint
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Mary's is coming to have a win of a rideer
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: though that was an easy win, so they're not gonna
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: overlook this game either. It'll be a big game for
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: them playing one of the teams that's the top of
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the matt Act, even though they did already beat them.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: And I actually think the spot is maybe worse for
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Saint Peter's here because they just lost a four game
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: win streak, and I talk about when you lose a
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: win streak sometimes it'll hang you over to the next game.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: They lost to Merrimac. Merrimack got a little bit of
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: revenge on them. That was a big game because Merrimack
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: moved back up into the top spot in this conference.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Even though I don't think Merrimack is actually the best
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: team in the conference, but I did like them to
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: win that game. It was a revenge game from Merrimack
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: for losing earlier in the season to Saint Peter's. But
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: now because they're off that big game. It ended a
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: win streak for them. It might hang them over a
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: little bit. I think Saint Peter's is actually in the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: worst spot here, So I would lean to Mount Saint
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Mary's again in this one, and they will be getting
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: points in this one because they're on the road. Yeah,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Saint Peter's is all the way up to seven and
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: a half point favorite, and the total is low at
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: one thirty five and a half. Now, I think when
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: we played Mount Saint Mary's at home, I think they
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: were a small favorite against Saint Peter's. So seven and
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: a half does seem too high. Like the opener at
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: six seemed close to correct. Seven and a half seems crazy.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know why that line moved up a little bit,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: and with a low total given the situation, given the
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: fact that you might not have a lot of points
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: in this game, I would be leaning towards taking the
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: points with Mount Saint Mary's. All The rest of these
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: games are TV games. Loyola Chicago at vcu Man. When
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the schedule makers scheduled this one, they probably thought Loyol
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Chicago was gonna be an al right team this year,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: and they were supposed to be but I think the
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: death of Sister Jean, I think spiraled them. Man, Like,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: this team has had the biggest drop off in power
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: ratings since the beginning of the season in all of
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Division One. I mean, they were expected to be a
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: competitive team in this conference, and now they're probably like,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know, like outside of Ken Bump's top two fifty.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Probably at this point, this team has been real bad.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: They only have one conference win, they're on a huge
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: losing streak. But I think at least that means you'll
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: probably get effort out of them. They're playing VCU, who's
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: obviously way better than they are. But VCU is one
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: of the best teams in the conference. You know, Loyole
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: is not gonna It's not like they're gonna just no
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: show this game. I wouldn't imagine, even though they haven't
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: been playing well this season. Excuse me, Although I thought
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: that the Sister Gene death I thought would like actually
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: be a positive as far as like given the like
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: inspiring them to have a really good season. So it's
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: crazy that it's gone the complete opposite direction. I don't
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: know why that's the case. But VCU, coming into this game,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: they just beat Richmond decent win for them, Ford them
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: on deck, not a big game whatever, So the spot's
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: not horrible for VCU, but probably there's not gonna be
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: any line value in laying the points with VCU.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: They're an eighteen point favorite.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: It's actually dropped from nineteen and a half, so some
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: initial money has come in against VCU, although I think
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the professional betters have been playing loyal Chicago in their
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: last few games and losing on them every single time.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: So do with that information what you want to do.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I would probably agree with it, but taking the points
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: in this one, but it's not something I would come
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: close to wanting to actually touch. So no real strong
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: situation going on in that game either. Fox Sports one
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: has what I think is the better of the two
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Mountain West games here with Boise at Grand Canyon.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Now, if you remember, these teams.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Already played earlier in conference play, and I got I
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: gave you guys a winner on Grand Canyon plus the
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: points in that game at Boise State. Grand Canyon won
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the game outright, and I think there were probably like
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: seven to seven and a half point, maybe eight and
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: a half point dogs in that game. Boise was coming
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: up a huge game against San Diego State, and they
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: had Utah State on deck, so I was like, this
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: is a major sandwich spot here, man. Grand Canyon got
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: the win outright. Even though a lot of times these
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: home teams will do better in these Grand Canyon matchups
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: here because as I keep saying, Grand Canyon's new to
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: the Mountain West, so their venue isn't that familiar to
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: these teams, whereas they're also not as familiar with the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: other teams venues. So you kind of want to lead
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: towards the home team generally, I think in their games,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: but in this game and in that other Boise State game,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I do not, because, of course now because Boise State
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: lost that game badly as favorites at home. This is
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: this is a road revenge angle, man, So I think
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Boise of course remembers that game. They're still the better
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: team over Grand Canyon. They're on a nice little run
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: here of four wins in a row, though they've they
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: haven't really beaten anybody of significance in the conference. But
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: at least this is gonna give them some confidence back
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: because Boise dude, power ratings wise, they're still I think
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: maybe the third or fourth best team in the Mountain West,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: so they're still not a bad team. Now they have
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: some momentum, so they got some confidence back.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: It is a third road game in four games, which
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: is a little.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Bit difficult, and they're not familiar with this venue really
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Grand Canyon. But I think it's Boiser pass for me
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: in this game, and because of the road revenge angle,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have adjustments to make from that
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: first game.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: We know why they lost that game.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Generally because it was a horrible situation, so that's why
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: they lost the game. I think you're getting extra line
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: value on Boise now too, because they're eight and a
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: half pointy favorites at home, but now Grand Canyon is
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: the favorite, you know. I mean you probably had to
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: up Grand Canyon a little bit in their power since
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: then because they're playing better than we thought. Boise has
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: been a bit worse than we thought, so yeah, you
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: do have to move those power ratings a little bit.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: But even if you.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Do that, I don't really see Grand Canyon, you know,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I just don't see them being a favorite in this game.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I still think it should probably be Boise, like a
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: one point favorite here. So eighty three percent of the
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: tickets and only seventy five percent of the cash on
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Grand Canyon. So Grand Canyon looks like they're a public
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: side here too. Because people are looking at this and
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: they're not gonna want to play Boise because they have
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: the worst record. It looks pretty easy to lay a
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: very small basically just to pick the winner price at
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: home with the team that's pulled off the more impressive
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: wins in conference of our Grand Canyon. So it looks
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: like the public is on Grand Canyon, less of the
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: money on them. So I agree with that market read
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: as well. I like Boise in this one, like I
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: already said, But the situation I think sets up fine
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: for them too. Even though it's a lot of road games,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: they have momentum coming into this. They're not gonna be
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: overlooking Grand Canyon. They're coming off easy wins, so they're
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: not in a letdown spot anything for Grand Canyon. They
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: just played pretty tough at Nevada in their last game, man,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: and now they're coming back home.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: They played some pretty difficult games, man.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Three of their last four games were wins against Utah State,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: win against a win against Utah State, I should say
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: win against San Diego State and then a close loss
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: at Nevada and somehow they covered against Fresno State and
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: that was a loss for us here on the show.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: And by the way, Fresno was winning that game in
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: the second half, I forgot to mention that Fresno could
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: have covered that. They looked like they were in position
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: to cover that, and then Fresno basically just stopped scoring.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Really kind of angers me because we had them as
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: an underdog at home in that one. But whatever it was,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a sandwich spot for Grand Canyon
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: there they beat us, but Grand Canyon, you know, if
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: they did lose a win streak in that game against Nevada,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: so that might hang them over a little bit as well.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Now I don't think they're gonna overlook Boisey they do.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: They only play air Force next, which is not a
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: big game at all. But again, boise can at least
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: make adjustments, and there was an explanation for why they
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: lost that first game, So boise is still the better
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: team in a road revenge spout here getting I think
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: some extra line value.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: I like boise in that one.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Probably one of my stronger opinions of the day, to
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: be honest, I like Michigan State Boise. Those are probably
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: the two strongest of this whole card. So I will
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: say that, and then UNLV at Nevada on CBS Sports
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: had to finish it off. Another Mountain West game here,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: the Battle of Nevada. These teams are rivals, they do
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: not like each other. UNLV considers themselves to be the
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: little brother I think in this rivalry here. I don't
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: think they've played yet this season. I know they play
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: again later in the season. UNLV has lost a couple
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: of games in a row by double digits. After they
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: did pull off a huge win over Utah State. They
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: do have a win against Boise as well, so UNLV
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: has been okay in conference play here going up to Nevada,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I mean they're familiar with this venue obviously, because these
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: teams play each other in both venues every year. Nevada's
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: coming up a more difficult game. I would say against
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Grand Canyon, I was a close battle there and they
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: got Boise on deck, so it's possible the kind of
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: overlook UNLV man, I think the rivalry means more to UNLV.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Nevada with Boise on deck could be a bigger game
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: there because Boise is still in that mix there in
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: the Mountain West is one of the better teams there,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: and that was a big win for Nevada over Grand
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Canyon played close at New Mexico the game before that too,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: so the game looks a little bit SANDWICHI to me,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: so I would lean towards taking the points with UNLV.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Nevada is an eight and a half point favorite there,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: but staying away, so I am staying off of the
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: college basketball today. I think probably Boise is probably the
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: best play in my opinion. And then I like, I
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: almost wanted to add Michigan State though to the card,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: and Michigan is moving up to a favorite again. Man,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: so you will probably get Michigan State as an underdog
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: in that one if you want them. I don't mind
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: that either, the Michigan State side and that one. All right.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: We have one hockey game between Columbus and Chicago. My mistake,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Columbus didn't play yesterday, so I think there were two
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: teams that didn't play yesterday, and I don't know who
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: is the other team that didn't play yesterday. Columbus is
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: one of them, Seattle maybe, yeah, Oh no, Seattle did play,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: So I don't know, because I said I thought every
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: team played yesterday, but Columbus did not.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: It's very strange, like we don't have an odd number
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: of teams in the NHL, right that would be crazy.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: I don't think we do. I don't know one of
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: the other teams didn't play yesterday. Then it's bugging me
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: mentally right now because I can't figure out who it is. Saturday,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: We're gonna have a massive hockey slate again. So obviously
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: I have to do my basketball. I have to do
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: my basketball show tonight because I'm like, oh, Friday, I
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: get off easy. Oh yeah, Then I have to do
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: the huge bast bsketball show tonight. I know, I think
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: I've been doing it in the morning. I did it
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: late last dude. I did it late night last week too.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: I'm just so out of it. But all right, let's
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: talk about this game.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: It's NHL Network the only hockey game tonight, Columbus at Chicago.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: It's not a great game.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Columbus is coming up a pretty nice win over Philadelphia,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: but they're starting a road trip.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Usually you start a road trip.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Focus you want to get it off on the right foot.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: They play Saint Louis tomorrow, which is not a huge game,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: so I think Columbus might still show up focus, even
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: though you could make the argument maybe it's a little
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: bit of a letdown spot here, but I do think
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: I'm momentum coming into this game. Chicago played yesterday, of course,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: because pretty much every team did accept Columbus. Chicago got
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: obliterated yesterday by Pittsburgh though, six to two, and Soda
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Bloom was in net, so it will be night back
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: in net for Chicago here on the back to back.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: He is their better goalie, but it is still a
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: back to back with travel. They were just in Minnesota
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: and then Pittsburgh. Now they're coming back home. Of course,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: the final leg of the trip isn't that bad from Pittsburgh,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: but they've been on the road the last couple of games,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: so it is technically a return home spot al though
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: only from Tuesday Thursday, so it's not one of those
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: return home spots. I necessarily think they're gonna overlook their
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: opponent or anything. Chicago on a four game skid. I
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: think they will probably show up at least with focus,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: because they did take that ugly loss yesterday. But they're
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: still playing a third game in four day's all in
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: different cities, fourth game in six days, and it's actually
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: a sixth game in nine days because they had a
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: back to back Thursday Friday last week. So two straight
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Thursday Friday back to backs. That's pretty difficult, man. So
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Chicago has faced a pretty jammed schedule here, so they
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: definitely are at a rest disadvantage in the game. At
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: the very least, it looks like the market read is
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: kind of signaling Chicago's Columbus is down for minus one
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: to sixty to minus one forty seven. That might have
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: had something to do with the goaltender selection, though I
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: think we already knew it was gonna be night though
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: eighty four percent of the tickets and cash on Columbus.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, I assume it's gonna be night. I mean,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: the only way. It's not as if he's injured. But
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: it looks like Columbus is a public side the Republic
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: road favorite, so the market reid would basically be indicating Chicago,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: but I kind of think the spot is actually better
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: for Columbus though, so I kind of disagree. I don't know,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: I would kind of slightly lead towards Columbus, but I
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: want nothing to do with that game. All right, I'm
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: gonna bring up the NBA board here and I'll be
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: right back as usual, and then we'll talk about NBA.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know why this Bulls Heat game was canceled.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know did it actually get moved.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know, because they're playing tomorrow and then they're
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: playing again after that, so they're playing three games in
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: a row. Because the game that they played last night
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: I think was a postponed game from earlier in the season.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what's going on with
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: the schedule makers there. The game is not actually canceled.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: I think it's a move because Bulls Heat are playing
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: the next two days. I think they're playing two games
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: in a row at Miami. But hold on a second,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I'll be right back. Seventy six Stop to be.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: Everybody for Philadelphia.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Seventy six You ain't come.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: Hiladelphia on the road stand the benching number one Philadelphia,
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: you Ain't gone theme of the.
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: One two tream up by six ers ten nine eight
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: seventy sixes one two thream up by six ten ninety
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: eight seventy Sixes.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Why does that song have to be so catchy? Man,
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Sucks I do. I do not even
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: like the Sixers as a Celtic fan. Alright, let's get
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: into the NBA here and then I will get it
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: out of here. I will get out of your hair.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: We have a decent NBA slate today, I think nine games. Maybe.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: First game up is Lakers at Wizards. This is not
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: one of the better games today. Although I think the
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: Lakers are kind of overrated. Man, defensively they're quite awful actually,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: so I don't know. This Lakers team not really that good,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: at least none of the defensive side of things. Lakers
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: are coming off a blowout loss to Cleveland, pretty embarrassing.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: I think that was a national TV game too. In
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Cleveland absolutely wrecked them in Cleveland. Now, the Lakers have
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: been on the road for a long time, so all
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: this travel is probably not helpful to them. But because
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: they're coming up with such a horrendous game, maybe they
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: will actually show up in a game like this, even
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: though it is Washington. Now, if that game against Cleveland
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: was closer, I would be considering this basically a sandwich
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: spot because the Lakers do play the Knicks next on NBC,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: so it's a big TV game on some but after
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: you get blown out like that, I think you do
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: show up in the next game more often than not.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: So I don't really want any part of the Wizards here.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: The Wizards are also coming off two straight upset wins,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: so even though it does look like, yeah, they have
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: momentum now, oh my god, they've won two games in
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: a row. They got momentum here, yeah.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: But they're on a back to back as well.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: They played yesterday and pulled off an upset against Milwaukee,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: although it's Milwaukee without Yannis. Milwaukee's kind of in turmoil.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: I think I mentioned I liked the Wizards to cover
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: in that game, decent upset win against Portland the game
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: before that, but I don't know.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Man off two straight upset wins.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not gonna overlook the Lakers, but I don't
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: think I would want to be the Wizards running into it.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: I'm potentially angry Laker team off a horrible loss, so
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: I probably in Lakers here. The money seems like it's agreeing.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: It looks like public and professional money all on the
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: side of the Lakers. They're off from eight to nine. Here,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: seventy two percent of the tickets is seventy nine excuse me,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: seventy six or seventy six percent of the cash on
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: the Lakers. So it looks like the money is on
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: the side of the Lakers, and that one I'm not
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: playing the I mean, that's not one of my plays,
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: to put it mildly, but yeah, that's what's going on
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: in that game. Would have an ESPN double header, and
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: the first game up is an okay game. I mean,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: I guess, given what the games are today, I guess
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: it is one of the actual better games. I guess
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Toronto at Orlando. Now, with Orlando, you always have to
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: dive in and see, well, who's actually playing here. Okay,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Franz Wagner is still out. That's kind of what we
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: want to know here. Okay, So Orlando's still without him.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: They've been without him since the Germany game, I think
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: was the last game that he played, so okay. So
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: no change from Orlando from one game to the next.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: So that's okay. As far as the handicapping is concerned,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: his absences factored into the line whatever. Toronto is coming
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: off a blowout loss to the Knicks, and I talked
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: about that Toronto was in a really bad spot returning
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: over from a road trip and did upset Oklahoma City
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: to finish the road trip. So I did not like
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Toronto in that spot, even though I think the Knicks
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: were kind of in a bad spot too, So it
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: was a stay away here on the show for me.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: I kind of wish I gave out the Knicks because
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: that return home spot that is brutal, man is it
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: is a winner fading that spot. That's all there is
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: to a plus the let down on top of it.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: But the other thing I didn't even mention in that
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: handicap is the Knicks. I think I have now won
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: eleven games in a row against the Raptors. The Raptors
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: just can't beat the Knicks, so there is that factored
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: in as well. Even though the Raptors are a little
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: bit better this year than they have been in the
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: last couple of years, but still the Knicks have absolutely
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: dominated them recently. But okay, now Toronto's coming up that loss,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: very ugly loss. Now, it did end a four game
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: win streak for them, so that could hurt their momentum.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: But that spot was even worse as a return home
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: spot because they had to go back out on the
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: road again after that and fly down to Orlando for
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: this ESPN game. So I think after a bad loss
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: like that, in my opinion is they'll probably be focused
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: coming into this game against Orlando. So I think Toronto
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: might bounce back. Kind of an embarrassing loss, and it
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: was in a very bad spot against the team that
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: just totally has their number, so you can kind of
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: explain what happened there Orlando.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: Momentum wise, though, Orlando did.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Just end a loss streak for themselves, finally got a win,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: their first win since Wagner went down, first win since
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: the Germany game. But it was a big game for them.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: They won at Miami. That was a win here for
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: us on the show I gave you guys Orlando. It
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: was a back and forth game for a while. Orlando
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: was the better team in the crucial moments of the
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: game for sure, and it was a bad spot for
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Miami because they were returning home from a road trip.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: So we got that one right. But now that doesn't
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: mean Orlando's off a big win though, I would say
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: because Orlando Miami, you know, it's kind of a rival
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: where they don't like each other. Sure, Toronto has the
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: better record, but they just seem like they're kind of
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: just there and they get overlooked a lot. And Orlando
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: does play San Antonio and then Oklahoma City in their
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: next two games.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: So is it possible they overlook a.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Game that they're hosting on ESPN against a winning team.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe the market Reid seems to be
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: strongly indicating that the Raptors are the side here. Magic
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: are one and a half point favorite. Of course they'd
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: be a bigger favorite by a couple points that Wagner
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: was playing. But eighty one percent of the tickets fifty
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: four percent of the cash on the Magic, So the
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Magic look like they're the public side here, believe it
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: or not, which seems weird because the Raptors have the
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: better record. But again, it seems like the public just
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: does not buy this Raptors team, even though they have
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: a decent record.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Whatever.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: But in this case, I think I do prefer the
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Raptors to bounce back from an ugly loss. The Magic
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: might be in a questionable spot coming off a pretty
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: big win for themselves, so even though momentum wise, I
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: could see it going in the opposite direction for both teams.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: So it's not a play for me at all.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: But magic look at the public side right now with
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: a lot less of the money on them, so I'll
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: lean to Toronto. That's where the money's coming in. But
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: we're gonna skip it, Skip it, baby. Next up is
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: the first play that I got. You guys might might
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: not like these plays man, to be honest, I don't know,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: but best bets, we're gonna be on a big favorite here,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: and part of it is because I know this team.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: But there are some situational aspects of this. We're gonna
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: lay the eleven with the Boss and Celtics here. It's
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: either eleven or eleven and a half. Now, the line
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: did drop from fourteen to eleven and a half here
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: or eleven, and I can tell you that is because
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Jalen Brown is not playing in this game. He got
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: injured in the previous game leg contusion or something. Although
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: I think it's not that serious. I think it's more
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: of a rest game. But still I do think this
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: kind of falls into the injured player theory spot. You know,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: I talk about this when you're star player. Brown is
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: definitely their star player with Tatum on the shelf. Here,
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: when your best player goes a lot of times, the
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: team will step up their game. They know they have
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: to play better with that player on the shelf or
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: with that player you know, not playing in that particular game,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: and you get line value on it. I think that's
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: what we're getting here. Man. The Celtics are still playing
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: a pretty pathetic Kings team here, man, So I think
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: that's okay. Here we get the reverse excuse, we get
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: the injured player theory excuseually for the Celtics. Here, star
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: player goes down, line has to give you more value
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: on the team, and I think the team will step
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: it up. The Celtics team, they're well coached, they're a
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: deep team. They seem to play well even with these
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: guys in and out of the lineup. So I'm not
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: too concerned by that, especially against a weak opponent like Sacramento.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: I guess the one concern is the Celtics didg just
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: beat Sacramento by double digits in Sacramento not that long ago,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: so yeah, Sacramento is not gonna overlook them. But look
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: at the situation in this game. Sacramento just almost upset
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia last night, So Sacramento were whatever, like ten point
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: underdogs in that game, probably, and they almost pulled off
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: the upset against Philadelphia. The game went right to the wire.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: And now they're having to fly to Boston finish the
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: road trip here, and yeah, I guess debatably they're gonna
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: be looking for a win to finish the road trip.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: But how much steam do you think they're gonna have
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: left here? Man? They're on a back to back, They're
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: playing a third game in four days, fourth game in
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: six days, fifth game and eight days in a sixth
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: game in ten days, all in different cities. So the
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: scheduling is just kind of brutal for them, man, and
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: they're coming off almost pulling off a big upset. I
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: just don't know what they're gonna have left in the
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: tank here, man. And maybe they take the Celtics just
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: a little bit less seriously because Brown is out, and
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: maybe the Celtics are gonna take the Kings a little
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: bit seriously because of the Celtics not being good in
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: their last game. And when the Celtics beat the Kings
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: back on January first, I believe Sabonis was not there.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: So the Celtics beat kind of a short handed Kings team,
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: so maybe with somebonis I assume playing the Celtics might
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: take the Kings a little bit more seriously because their
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: best player is back and in there. Yeah, it looks
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: like not a whole lot going on with the injury
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: reporter except for Brown. Like I said, Brown is the
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: main part of the handicap here, were the main part
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: of the I mean, he is part of the handicap
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: the injured player there, but he's the main part of
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: the injury report there, I should say. Now for the Celtics.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: The other reason why I like the Celtics here, so
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: we're getting extra live value because Brown's injured and not playing.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: We're getting a Kings team that I think is.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: In a bad spot because they fell just short as
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: a big dog. But for the Celtics, I think you're
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: gonna get focused out of them because they just had
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: a horrible game at home against Atlanta Man two nights ago.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: So the Celtics do have rest too, and they're not
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: having to travel by the way, So extra advantages for
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: the Celtics there too, even though it is factored into
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: the line a little bit. Celtics just had a horrific
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: game against Atlanta. They lost at home by double digits.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: Celtics were a favorite, and you know, I like to
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: look towards teams that loss as a favorite, and I
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: thought that Atlanta was the right side in that one,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: and it was they were. So Celtics took that loss
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: as like six six and a half point favorites in
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: that one bad game for the Celtics. Again, I know
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: how the Celtics operate, man Joe Mizzoula, the Celtic team,
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: They're good at bouncing back from ugly losses as favorites.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: So it is the type of game where they do
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: actually show up and kind of rally. So I think
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get that here. I know they do have
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: an ESPN game up next on Sunday, but it's only
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: against the Bucks without Yannis. I mean, how are they
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: really gonna be looking ahead to that game? I know
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: the next two games or TV games, But for me,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: I think the Celtics coming off such an embarrassing loss,
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: I think they bounce back. Atlanta also had kind of
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: a big revenge motive in that game because the Celtics
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: had embarrassed them on their own floor on January seventeenth,
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: so that was a more recent revenge spot. Yes, they
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: did kind of do the same thing to San Antonio earlier,
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: but I explained why.
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's as much of a factor here.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: I like how this lines up A lot of a
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: lot of things line up on the Celtics for me
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: in this one, man, So that's where we're going. They're
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: an eleven and a half point favorite. Like I said,
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: I think there are elevens out there that I saw,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: but hopefully that's not much of a difference. The money
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: looks like it agrees with the Celtics, by the way,
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: sixty four percent of the tickets eighty eight percent of
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: the cash on them. I too agree. Celtics are one
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: of the plays for me there. So let's get that
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: one done, Garrett. What's up man? Brandon Miller over nineteen
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: and a half? Did he hit it? I don't even
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: know you're gonna be betting golf? Man. I can't do it, man,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: I can't spread myself that thin. I can't get into golf, golf, tennis.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Olympics as a break as well.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna do anything in the Olympics.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: The only Olympics sport that I even think is interesting
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: at all, to be honest, is hockey. So and I
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: don't even know if I'm gonna do anything with that.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: So I don't know, man, I think I'm probably just
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: gonna take it as a nice break where, oh, we
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: just don't have NHL to handicap for a little while
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: and just focus on the other two sports. All right,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: we have a Portland at the Knicks. Portland is coming
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: off that pretty ugly loss to Washington, Man, so they're
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: a favorite in that game. Was an ugly loss, but
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Portland was coming off a pretty big game against the
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Celtics the prior night, so they were at a back
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: to back, so it was a pretty.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: Bad spot for Portland.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: And they had New York and Cleveland up next, so
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: it was kind of a sandwich spot there for Portland.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: So you can kind of explain why they didn't do well.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: But now I think it's gonna be a little bit
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: of a bounce back spot. Now they have a couple
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: of days off to try to break that losing momentum.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: They're coming off a bad game, you know they're gonna
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: be focused against the Knicks. Knicks coming into this game
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: of blowing out Toronto, so they look really good with
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: that blowout wind, although they always own Toronto like I said,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: and they do have an NBC game up next against
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: the LA Lakers.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: That's a pretty big.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Game for the Knicks. So this is basically a sandwich spot.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: Portland is the only way I would play this game.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: This one is close to making my card. I like Portland,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: but the money seems to not agree with me on
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: this one. The Knicks are down from eight to seven
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: and a half, sixty eight percent of the tickets, eighty
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: six percent of the cash on the Knicks, so the
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: cash percentage is on the Knicks. I don't really understand why.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: Looking at who's in and who's out of this game,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot to see here in the
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: in the injury report, really it looks pretty much as expected.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: So I don't really I don't get it because to me,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: this one almost made my card. Man. Like I said,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: I have two plays the next one. If I was
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: gonna add one, it would be this one. Blazers plus
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: the points is the way that I lean in this game.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: I think it's a sandwich spot for the Knicks. I
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: just I have my concerns about, well, how big was
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: that win really against Toronto because the Knicks just owned
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: Toronto all the time, so like maybe that win wasn't
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: as big for them, But it is still pretty satisfying to.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: Beat a team like that. But that one won't make
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: my card.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: I don't understand what the market is doing either, but
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: sometimes that won't totally keep me off a game. But
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: it's just a combination of a couple of those things,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't really want to do it.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: Celtics did just lose a lot of percentage on the
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: cash there by the way, But I still like that
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: play with the Celtics and hopefully they get it done.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: As a Celtics fan, they better do it. They better
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: at least win Memphis at New Orleans. Memphis struggling, which
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: I thought, you know, losing Morant, I thought they would
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: do better. Maybe they haven't exactly been that bad though,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: because they lost to Houston by nine on the road.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: That's not a bad loss. And then they did lose
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: to Charlotte ugly at home in their last game, but
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: they were coming off that Houston game, so they were
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: kind of hung over maybe And Charlotte, Dude, Charlotte is
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: they're actually playing really well right now. And I saw
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: a stat Charlotte. I think I forget exactly what the
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: stat was. I think they have some number of wins
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: by like fifteen or more points or something that is
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: the third most in NBA history or something. I don't know.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: I forget exactly what the number was. Maybe I can
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: find it. It's a crazy stat on Charlotte. Hang on,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: let me see Hornets wins by fifteen plus. Oh yes,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: the Hornets have six road wins by fifteen or more
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: in a single month, which I believe they have done
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: this month in January. The only other teams that did
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: that ever were the twenty eleven twenty twelve Heat and
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: the two thousand and one two thousand and two LA Lakers,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: and both of those teams won the NBA title. So
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: Charlotte's gonna win it all obviously, that's right. Yeah, Yeah, Charlotte's
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: the best team. Yeah, he cashed it hell yeah yeah. Man,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: the Hornets. It's bringing me back to my nineties days.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: But I'm dude, I'm just kind of mad that the
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: Hornets franchise is actually the Pelicans now the old Hornets franchise,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: But dude, the nineties, it was all the all the
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: rage man that Hornets team. I love Muggsy Bogues because
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: I'm short, he's short.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: I liked that team.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: It was Muggsy Bogues. They had, yeah, Alonzo Mourning and
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: who else did they have on that team? Glenn Rice,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: I think, was there Del Curry, maybe Steph Curry's father.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: A lot of guys on that team. But it was
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: all about the look. It was so nineties. It was
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: like the same color scheme as Taco Bell. You had
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: that Hornet purple teal, you know those colors. Everybody was
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: wearing the Hornets starter jackets. I didn't have a Hornet
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: starter jacket, but everybody was wearing the Hornets colors. That
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: was the thing. Let's bring it back, baby, I got
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: my Hornets. You know City connect ball jersey that you
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: see me wear at least once, which is a little
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: bit of a different color scheme on that. It is
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: teal or whatever you want to call it, that aqua color.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: But yeah, whatever, but yes, the Hornets. That's a crazy
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: stat on the Hornets. I always want Taco Bell do
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: they have they have the case of rito on the
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: menu right now. Casrito is an excellent item and they
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: know it, and that's why they put it back on
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: the menu sometimes to tease you, and then they take
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: it off the menu again, kind of like the mic rib.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: Cas rito.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: It's a legit item, man, it's a if you haven't
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: had it, it's a burrito, but they wrap it in
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: a case of dia basically, so the outer tortilla is
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: like a tortilla with melted cheese, and then you got
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: the beef more cheese like a cheese sauce I think
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: on the inside of it, and rice and whatever in
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: sour cream inside it. They also have a volcano version
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: of it now with the volcano sauce on it, which
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: I think was the volcano sauce back from the days
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: of the volcano taco, which I didn't think was that
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: good because the volcano shell just had kind of a
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: weird chemical aspect to it. But the volcano cas rito
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: is pretty legit too. It's a little bit spicy, at
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: least by fast food standards. Yet I don't want to
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: get dude. I don't want to get Taco Bell again
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: today either, man, Like I've had Taco Bell I feel
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: like I get Taco Bell too often because they always
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: have these new menu items. I'm like, I gotta do it, man,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: I gotta do it. They brought back the chicken nuggets too,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: and the nuggets are actually surprisingly not that bad either.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: In some of those the Bell sauce is actually pretty good.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: They're standard Taco Bell sauce. It's almost kind of like
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: a one of those sauces that you get at the
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: various chicken places, but it's smokier.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: It's got a different flavor to it.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: The problem is I got I got the nuggets when
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: they brought them back, and they must have had old
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: oil in the fry or something, because the nuggets were
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: just like they were just like almost blackened. Man. It
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: was I'm like, what did you do to my nuggets? Man?
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: But when they first introduced them on the menu, they
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: were good. And that Taco Bell that I get food
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: from is not a bad Taco Bell. So I don't
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: know what they did that. They didn't change the oil
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: in the fryer apparently, but yeah, that pissed me off
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: because the nuggets were good the first time I had them.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: Is just they didn't cook them in good oil. This time, like,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: come on, man, and I'm gonna Garrett's gonna get taco
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: bell knock because they keep talking about they have the
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: nacho fries on the menu right now too. That's an
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: item that they keep putting on the menu and then
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: pulling back again to like, you know whatever, like money
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: on a string or something. But those are legit too.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: The nacho fries, they got a unique flavor to them.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it's almost like it almost tastes like
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: they coat them in like nacho cheese, doritos or something.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's what they do, but they
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: almost have a cheesy aspect of the flavor profile there.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: And then you dunk them in liquid cheese too. So yeah, yeah,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: the nacho they're legit man. The nacho fries, I don't
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: I don't let anybody have any of them when I'm
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: eating them. Man, If anybody wants any of mine, I
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: just say they're no, they're nacho fries. There you go.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: You knew you knew I was gonna say that, all right.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: Memphis and New Orleans though, So Memphis just got killed
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: by Charlotte. Yeah yeah, uh, Charlotte's been playing well, but
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: still I think when you're a team that gets killed
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: like that, I think you're gonna show up with focus
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: in the next game. Man, Like, nobody wants to lose
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: by that margin. And Memphis had a bad excuse. They
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: were in a bad spot because they played Houston tough
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: the game before then, and now they're playing New Orleans
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: on the road. And Memphis just played New Orleans the
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: first game without Morant and for some reason they did
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: not play well in the injured player theory spot there
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: they lost.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: At home to New Orleans.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: So I think Memphis is a favorite in that game,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: I assumed they were. So now Memphis gets to return
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: the favor on the road. So I think they're in
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: a decent spot here, a bounce back spot. Explainable why
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: they lost badly to Charlotte. Here they get to go
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: on the road. Their last road game was actually the
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: best game they played in the last few games, soo,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: so maybe they'll do a little bit better getting out
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: of their going on the road. And you play the
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: team that just beat you when you should have beaten
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: them at home. So I think Memphis might show up
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: in this one. Although they do they do have Minnesota tomorrow,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: so they do have a big game on deck against Minnesota,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: but I do prefer Memphis in this game on New
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: Orleans is coming up a pretty good perform or it's
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: against OKAC. Man, if you look at what they did,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: since they upset Memphis on the road. There, let me
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: just make sure it was an upset. It was four
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: and a half was the line there from Memphis. So
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: they upset Memphis on the road, then the upset San
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: Antonio on the road, and then they lost to Oklahoma
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: City by the same score. They beat San Antonio by nine,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: so they played pretty well against OKAC. Now they're coming
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: up all that and they're returning home from a road trip.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: Wasn't the longest road trip, but it was for a week.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: It didn't really take them that far from home though.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: But again, still, when you return home from a road trip,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: you can be a bit distracted. You have to get
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: back to home life. Whatever. You might overlook an opponent,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: especially if you just beat them on the road.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: They do a Philly up next.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia a better opponent, so they might be looking ahead
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: a little bit as well. So I definitely like Memphis
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: in this one, man, But the market is completely in disagreement.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: With that, and I don't get it. I don't know
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: what's going on with the market this one, man, because
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: I would only look to the Grizzlies in this one,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: fifty to fifty on the tickets, eighty seven percent of
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: the cash on the Pelicans. They're up from a pick
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: them to a two point favorite. I would take the
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: points with the Grizzlies here. Also, if the Grizzlies were
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: a four and a half point home favorite, I mean,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: depending on what the personnel was. I don't really see
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: how you could justify having the Pelicans as a two
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: point home favorite here. Man, it seems like too much
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: of a line move. A pick them kind of makes sense.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: I just yeah, I don't really see a whole lot
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: going on here as far as look, we already know
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: Moran is out, we already know that Edie is out.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. Man. Yeah, Memphis, you know, is
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: down their two best players, and I think Morent kind
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: of hurts chemistry too. So I like Memphis in the game. Man.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: That one also is close to being on my card,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: to be honest, So I do like Memphis there. Cleveland
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: at Phoenix. Cleveland is coming off a very satisfying blowout
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: win over the Lakers. They did just play Phoenix and
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: beat them back on New Year Eve in Cleveland, so
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: possible they overlook Phoenix. Maybe here they do play Portland tomorrow.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's really that big of a deal,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: but possible letdown maybe for Cleveland just because huge win
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: over the Lakers. But then again, they are starting a
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: road trip, and I talk about how when teams start
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: road trips they usually try to start them off on
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: the right foot. They usually do show up with focus,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: with momentum, but blowing out the Lakers on a national
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: stage man by thirty points, I do think there is
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a letdown component to this. However,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: Phoenix might be in the bigger letdown spot because they
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: just beat Detroit by almost twenty points. That was a
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: big win for them, and that was yesterday, so they're
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: on a back to back, so I think both teams
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: are kind of in letdown spots. Or for Phoenix that's
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: a little bit brutal Man, even though yeah they might.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, they shouldn't overlook Cleveland, especially because they did
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: lose the previous time they played Cleveland. But that's tough
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: to turn around from Man with no days off after
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: getting a huge win over Detroit like that. The money
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: is coming in the Suns though, for what it's worth,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: and I don't disagree with it. Cleveland's down from six
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: and a half to three and a half. There might
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: be some injuries. I mean, what else would be new
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: if the Cavs have injuries of fifty two percent of
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: the tickets eighty eight percent of the cash on the Suns.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: I do agree with that because I think whatever injuries
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: are going on with Cleveland, I don't think it's like
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: an injured player theory spot really or anything. Yeah, Garland
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: and Mobile are both they're just still out. They've been
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: out for a while now. And then for the Suns, Yeah,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Green is a game time decision. He's been I think
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: he played pretty recently for them, so I don't know,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: but I do lean towards the Suns in that game.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: But I can't really play the Suns on a back
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: to back off a huge whin Clippers at Denver. Clippers
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: coming into this on a nice win streak here. The
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: Clippers have actually had one of the best records in January. Man,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: the Clippers, let me see here, They've only lost one
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: of their last whatever that is ten games. I think
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: I think they're nine to one in their last that's
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: pretty wild. So Clippers playing some good basketball right now.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: They just beat Utah, They've had a couple of days off.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: They're not gonna overlook Denver. I wouldn't imagine, even though
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: Denver is still without Jokic. Denver's coming into this game.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: They'll probably focus because they didn't do well against Brooklyn
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: in the last game. They barely got by Brooklyn. They
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: were coming off a tough game against Detroit the game
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: before that, so maybe kind of explainable. But Denver has
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City coming up next man on deck, so there
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: is a potential look ahead. They are on a back
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: to back here against the Clippers as well, so that's
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: not easy to do either. Even though they are staying
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: at home. The money is coming in on the Clippers.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: They're up from five and a half to six, sixty
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: percent of tickets ninety one percent of the casual on
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: the Clippers. You know, I guess I somewhat agree. Because
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: the Nuggets are on the back to back, it's possible
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: they're looking ahead here, but they could debatably be in
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: a bounced back spot. And I don't know if you
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: really should have a team laying this many points on
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: the road at the Nugget. It's although the public's probably
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: not really gonna want to be on the Clippers here,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: even though they know Jokic is out. Why would they
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: want to lay this many points of the below five
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: hundred team against the Denver Nuggets, you know at home
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: of the Nuggets actually haven't been that good at home
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: this year, other only like four games above five hundred
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: at home. So I'll agree with the Clippers, but it's
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: not a strong opinion for me in that one, all right,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: And then we have Brooklyn in Utah. This is oh,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: this is my other play. Actually, here we go, best bets.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: Let's go, baby, we're gonna be on Utah minus the two.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: The money seems like it's agreeing with this right now.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: Eighty one percent of the tickets and ninety one percent
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: of the cash or excuse me, ninety percent of the cash.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: On the Jazz.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: The money's looking like it's disagreeing with me on the
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: Celtics now, So that's that's awesome.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: But yeah, we'll we'll see.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: But yes, I like the Jazz in this one. Speaking
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: of which, yeah, we dude, of course we get to
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: break all this out too. We had to break out
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: all the Celtic Pride clips here. For Utah, they're playing Brooklyn.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: And the reasoning for this is Brooklyn, I think they're
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: in a horrible scheduling spot. I mean, they're on a
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: back to back, like I just mentioned, they were just
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: in Denver last night, so they're playing a back to
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: back elevation spot here. They just almost upset Denver on
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: the road. They almost upset Phoenix on the road the
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: game before that, so kind of similar to Sacramento, Like
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: they're just having these close calls on the road and
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: falling short. And yeah, it doesn't mean maybe they'll show up.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: But I don't know, man, after those two big games
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: where they fell just short, now they play Utah and
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: up next they got the Detroit Pistons and then the
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: Lakers and then Orlando, So I don't know, those games
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: are all bigger than this Utah game I think for Brooklyn.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: So I don't like how the spot sets up at all.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: Travel double elevation here, no rest. They're playing a third
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: game in four days, fourth game in six days, fifth
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: game in eight days, all in different cities in a
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: sixth game in ten days, all in different cities as well,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: and it's actually an eighth game in thirteen days with
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: travel between all of these games. So Brooklyn is really
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: really they're having a lot of They're having to play
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of games a quick succession, man, So I
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: don't like that for them at all. Utah just got
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: embarrassed by the Warriors, and I think that was at home. Yeah,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: so Utah is they only have one win on the
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: home stand, and they lost four games in a row
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: since then. I think got blown out in a couple
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: of them too, including their last game it's Golden State.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: Now they have a day off, so they're rested, they're
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: not traveling. I think they might want to salvage the
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: last game of the home stand here. Yeah, they're playing
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: a third game in four days. They had multiple days
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: off prior to that, so they are the more rested
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: team here as well. Got to see what's going on
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: with the injury situation whatever. Yeah, marketing, I know he's
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: Utah's best player or he's out, but we're talking about
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn here man, and Brooklyn's bad on the road six
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: and seventeen. They're not I mean, I think they have
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: the same home record actually, so their home road dichotomy
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: is no different. But they're just not a good team.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: Utah is better at home than on the road ten
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: and sixteen at home. I know that doesn't sound good,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: but that's better than what they are on the road,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: So Utah. Usually I like to play Utah as a
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: home dog, like they do cover at a decent rate
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: at home as a dog. But in this case, yes,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: they're a small favorite. If you want to go money line,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: you could do that too, But I like Utah this one, man.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: I think it sets up nicely for a Utah play.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: So that's what we're gonna do.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: Utah.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: Who I rode for one way to look for Utah.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: We're gonna root for Utah on that one. And then
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: the final game is the other ESPN game, which might
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: be the best game of the night, Detroit at Golden State.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: Golden State is actually a favorite in this game, so
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: the public might not love that, although the money looks
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: like it is coming in towards Detroit. Here, Golden State's
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: up to a two and a half point favorite from two.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: But you would think that the public would be seeing
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: Oh but the Pistons have the better record. The Warriors
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: are without Jimmy Butler, so you know, it almost seems
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: like the Pistons would be a heavier public side than
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: what we're seeing here. They have fifty eight percent of
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: the tickets and eighty one percent of the cash on them.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: And though as I'm about to show you, I actually
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: do agree with the Pistons side in this game. But
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: I mean to me, it almost kind of looks easy
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: to take the Pistons as a dog here getting points
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: when they have the better record. You know, Pissons have
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: been pretty good on the road fifteen and seven. Warriors
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: are definitely better at home than on the road, though
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: seventeen and seven at home, so Warriors do play better
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: at home if you look at the situational set up.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: Detroit just got blasted by the Suns, like I just said,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: bo blasted by the Sun's rays. So they're coming off
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: a really ugly loss. They might have been looking ahead
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: to this game. One issue I do have those of course,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: they're playing on a back to back, so they're having
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: to travel from Phoenix up to the Bay Area with
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: no time off here, and they were just an elevation
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: beating Denver on Tuesday, so.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: It is a little bit of a difficult spot.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: Still, third game in four days, fifth game in excuse
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  Speaker 1: a fourth game in six days, all in different cities
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  Speaker 1: with a back to back. But again, it was a
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  Speaker 1: horrible game for them in the last game. Now for
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  Speaker 1: Golden State, they are returning home as well. They're returning
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  Speaker 1: home from a road trip. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: you know, I talk about this when teams are returning
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  Speaker 1: home from road trips. They can get distracted. They have
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  Speaker 1: to get back to home life. Now. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they're going to overlook Detroit hosting them on an ESPN
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  Speaker 1: game like this, but the return home is abot is
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  Speaker 1: tough to overcome. Man, it is. Golden State went to Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota and then Utah and they were gone for more
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  Speaker 1: than a week. So again, stuff piles up that you
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  Speaker 1: have to do at home. You can get distracted by
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  Speaker 1: it when you return home. So that could be the
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  Speaker 1: case here. I almost always am gonna be fading the
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  Speaker 1: team that returns home from the from the road trip,
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  Speaker 1: at least leaning towards fading them, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's what I would do, and they
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  Speaker 1: did finish the road trip by destroying Utah. They massacred
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  Speaker 1: my boy Utah. So that's the other component to that.
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  Speaker 1: I do lean to Detroit in that game, even though
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  Speaker 1: they are on the back to back. I think the
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  Speaker 1: spot is more difficult for the Warriors in that one.
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  Speaker 1: And that's gonna do it.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully we can get this done with our two favorites
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  Speaker 1: that I think are in decent spots here. Ope. So
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  Speaker 1: I had the Utah thing up. Two players are Celtics
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  Speaker 1: minus eleven. Oh it goes to eleven actually, and Utah
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  Speaker 1: minus two. Those are the two players today. So we
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: have this is a top to you know, what we
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  Speaker 1: use on stage.
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  Speaker 5: But it's very very special because if you can see,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the numbers will go to eleven, look right
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  Speaker 5: across the board, eleven or eleven, mostly eleven.
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  Speaker 1: And ams go up to ten.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly Does that mean it's louder?
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  Speaker 4: Is it any louder?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten? You see,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 5: most most blokes are gonna be playing at ten. You're
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 5: on ten here all the way up, all the way up,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 5: all the way up. You're on ten on your guitar.
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  Speaker 5: Where can you go from there where I don't know
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  Speaker 5: where exactly. What we do is, if we need that
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  Speaker 5: extra push over the cliff, you know, we do put
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  Speaker 5: it up to a eleven exactly one.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten
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  Speaker 1: be the top number and make that a little louder.
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  Speaker 1: These go to eleven, So Celtics, yeah, hopefully they go
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  Speaker 1: to elevens we are hopefully I don't get copy right
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  Speaker 1: strikes or anything for I don't know how long of
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  Speaker 1: a clip I'm allowed to play from, like sminal tap
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  Speaker 1: and whatever. But then of course we do have the
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: the Utah play as well, which Celtic Pride Celtics versus Utah,
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  Speaker 1: and those are our two plays and i'd Celtics in Utah.
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  Speaker 2: So there we go.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna do it.
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  Speaker 2: Man, root for Utah?
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  Speaker 1: Who do I wrote for?
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  Speaker 2: What do we do.
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  Speaker 1: Look for? Even though that is a spoiler if you
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: haven't if you haven't seen Celtic Pride spoiling a comedy, man,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: it's really hard to spoil a comedy because it's really
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: all about the jokes and the timing of the jokes,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: So the plot is not what you're really watching the
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: the movie for but I recommend that movie. Like I said,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: I'm an extra in it from when I was like
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: eleven years old or something. All right, that's gonna do it, man.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the two plays, Celtics and Jazz minus the points.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back tonight, I guess for college basketball. But man,
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: it is, dude, it takes so long to do it.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: I know I've been doing it for years, for years
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: and years and years, but doing it on top of
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: doing the show. And I know I was doing the
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: show the last couple of years too. I don't know.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: I must have shortened at somehow. I don't know how
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: I was doing it, but it is just because I
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: think I was talking about college of basketball on Saturday
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: Mornings last year. I don't know how I was doing it, man,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it takes about two hours for me to
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: handicap the whole thing. And that's because I use a
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: lot of shortcuts and look for situations or whatever, and
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: then the show was like two two and a half hours.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: It's crazy, but yes, be on the lookout for that.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: I gotta make sure I get my exercise done and
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: stuff before I do it. This time, so I'm not
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: trying to do that later at night as well. That's
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: gonna do it. Peace everybody for now, Thanks for hanging out. Everybody,