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WNBA Playoff BRACKET PICKS | Filling out the WNBA Playoff Bracket · Toadstool Sports

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  Speaker 1: You got a slip in your palm and a hole
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  Speaker 1: in your chest Black coffee on the felt, man, you
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  Speaker 1: look like a mess Three-team parlay turned to dust in
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  Speaker 1: your head Now you stare at the chips like they
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  Speaker 1: made you this mad But don't you go quiet, don't
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  Speaker 1: you fade from the floor Your name still means something
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  Speaker 1: to somebody for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Put the glass.
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  Speaker 3: Down, baby.
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  Speaker 4: Look at me now. Hold on. Hold on. Not tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Not now.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on.
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  Speaker 4: Hold on. Let me pull you out. That fella fights hard.
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  Speaker 4: But it don't get the crown.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, stay with me now.
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  Speaker 4: Hold on, hold on, stay with me now.
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  Speaker 2: I know something, maybe.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's only eight teams in. It's going to be quick.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to fill out the bracket. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be extremely uninteresting. It's the WNBA, so for the most part,
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  Speaker 2: favorites win, but maybe I'll throw a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a wrench into this bracket. I don't really know. Let's
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  Speaker 2: get into it, man. Who cares? Why not? Just I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing this on second season, which I think is the
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  Speaker 2: only place it has. Because you know how popular the
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  Speaker 2: WNBA is. It's so popular that there's no bracket game
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  Speaker 2: anywhere besides whatever the hell this website is. There isn't
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  Speaker 2: one on ESPN. There isn't anyone on any of the
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  Speaker 2: main sites. But we get to fill it out here.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that awesome? Isn't that fun? This is the bracket game.
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  Speaker 2: As of yesterday, as of the end of the regular
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  Speaker 2: season yesterday, Minnesota had already wrapped up the one seed.
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  Speaker 2: They drew New York as the number eight seed. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I do feel like this is probably the strongest grouping
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  Speaker 2: that we've ever seen in the playoff, but Minnesota also
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  Speaker 2: might be the strongest one seed that we've seen in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs since I've been following this at all just
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  Speaker 2: for betting purposes. Atlanta and Washington drew the 4-5 matchup here.
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  Speaker 2: Golden State and Dallas in the 2-7. And then Vegas
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  Speaker 2: and Indiana in the 3-6. Yeah, that one is interesting.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, you know how we do this. We fill
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  Speaker 2: out the bracket backwards. We build it backwards. I'm built backwards.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we do. It's game theory. I don't even
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  Speaker 2: know how many people I'm up against on this website.
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  Speaker 2: But you want to go against the grain when appropriate.
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  Speaker 2: I would say.
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  Speaker 2: I use my own judgment, but like you want to
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  Speaker 2: try to use leverage. I have no idea how many
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  Speaker 2: people are picking what team here, but you got to
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  Speaker 2: think Minnesota is a very popular champion pick. However, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if I'm going to pick against them because
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  Speaker 2: I'm just not sure that I see much else going
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  Speaker 2: on here as far as like what this path looks
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  Speaker 2: like and other like the potential that another team wins this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure it's even really that good, but you
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  Speaker 2: got to look at the odds. That's what I always do.
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  Speaker 2: So we will look at the championship odds here the
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  Speaker 2: Lynx are technically an underdog against the field they're plus
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  Speaker 2: 115 I guess we have to know if they're actually
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  Speaker 2: healthy because Miles has been hurt and whatever but she's
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  Speaker 2: the rookie of the year I'm pretty sure or whatever
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  Speaker 2: and they have a stacked lineup and if you remember
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  Speaker 2: last year the last couple years they probably should have
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  Speaker 2: been the champion really and I believe they fell short
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  Speaker 2: both times Once against New York two years ago because
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  Speaker 2: of some BS calls. And last year they got knocked
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  Speaker 2: out by Phoenix because Collier got hurt for the Lynx.
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  Speaker 2: So she was out. She's not hurt right now, though
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe. I believe she is back. Let me
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  Speaker 2: make sure of that, but I'm almost positive that's the case.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they have significant injuries here, but let
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  Speaker 2: me make sure. I know they rested a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: people against Indiana the other night or whatever, but let
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  Speaker 2: me look. Yeah, Collier's there. McBride yeah Howard like all
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  Speaker 2: these players are there Miles don't know what her status
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  Speaker 2: is but you know here's the thing like the Lynx
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  Speaker 2: probably have about a 50-50 chance to win this whole
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  Speaker 2: thing essentially I mean that's what the odds makers are
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  Speaker 2: kind of telling you although they always give you worse
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  Speaker 2: odds on on these they give you worse odds you
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  Speaker 2: know because they have to make you pay the juice, right?
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  Speaker 2: So they're actually saying that the Lynx are probably 40-something
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  Speaker 2: percent to win this whole thing. They're probably being picked
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  Speaker 2: by more than 40% of pickers, I would imagine. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm just not so sure that I really want to
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  Speaker 2: take any of the other teams here, man. Like, I
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  Speaker 2: was thinking that all year. I think I just have
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  Speaker 2: to do it. It's, you know, it's not interesting at all,
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  Speaker 2: but I think I do have to take Minnesota to
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  Speaker 2: finally break through and win this whole thing. I just
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  Speaker 2: don't really see it not happening. I could be wrong,
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  Speaker 2: and of course, I'm not really game-theoring this by picking
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  Speaker 2: them to win the whole thing, but it's such a
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  Speaker 2: small bracket. Maybe you have to try to game-theory it elsewhere,
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  Speaker 2: although your bracket's going to be, whatever you do, it's
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  Speaker 2: probably going to be not really differentiated from that many people.
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  Speaker 2: You're probably going to have the same bracket as some
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  Speaker 2: other people, but if we look at who's going to
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  Speaker 2: be on the other side here, it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: either Vegas or Golden State here. Let me see. To
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  Speaker 2: make the finals, the Lynx are minus 175 to make
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  Speaker 2: the finals. Aces are plus 125, and the Valkyries are
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  Speaker 2: plus 135. So that's really, really close. Even though Vegas
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  Speaker 2: has all the experience here. They've done it before. They
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  Speaker 2: did it last year. They won the whole thing before.
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  Speaker 2: Golden State's this up-and-coming team. They're good, though. And when
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  Speaker 2: you look at this, I'm thinking that the Aces' path
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  Speaker 2: is definitely worse than Because Dallas is an up-and-coming team
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  Speaker 2: more than Golden State is. Golden State is kind of
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  Speaker 2: here now. They've arrived. Dallas is a really young team,
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  Speaker 2: really inexperienced compared to the Valkyries. And really, Indiana kind
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  Speaker 2: of is inexperienced too. So really, it's just Vegas in
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  Speaker 2: this side of the grouping that is the experienced team.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm going to explain why I'm going to do
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  Speaker 2: this because I think that the Aces could actually go
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  Speaker 2: down in the first round this year. So I'm actually
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  Speaker 2: going to take Golden State to get there, even though
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  Speaker 2: it's a one versus two. I believe pretty much everybody,
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  Speaker 2: like all the experts and whatever, are picking Minnesota over
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  Speaker 2: Vegas here. So I'm going to differentiate my bracket by
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  Speaker 2: sending Golden State to the final here and having them
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  Speaker 2: lose to Minnesota here. They are a really good team.
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  Speaker 2: I will take Atlanta over Washington. I can tell you
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta's definitely the better team there, but let me see
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  Speaker 2: what the line looks like here. I want to see
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  Speaker 2: the series lines here. Do we have that here? Let
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  Speaker 2: me see. Playoffs, series, yeah. So the Lynx are minus 350,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, to win their first series. Atlanta's minus 340,
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  Speaker 2: and Golden State's minus 425. So all those teams are
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  Speaker 2: heavy favorites to get through their first round. But look
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  Speaker 2: at the Aces, minus 170. They're not a heavy favorite
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  Speaker 2: to even get out of the first round. And I
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  Speaker 2: can tell you, Indiana, like, basically has Vegas' number. They
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  Speaker 2: played each other three times this year, and Indiana absolutely
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  Speaker 2: blew the doors off of them twice. Like, two out
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  Speaker 2: of the three games, Indiana won the game by, like,
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  Speaker 2: 30 points or something. And then in the other game,
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  Speaker 2: Vegas won in overtime, which I think was at Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: But even so, Indiana seems like they are Vegas' kryptonite.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the deal is with them, but
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  Speaker 2: Indiana just beats that team. And it seems like Indiana
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  Speaker 2: beats the Liberty too, but the Liberty are never going
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  Speaker 2: to get there. I don't think so. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: take Indiana. I'm going to take Caitlin Clark to get
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  Speaker 2: out of the first round and win that, even though,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Do you think the WNBA is going
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  Speaker 2: to rig one of these series against Indiana here because
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  Speaker 2: they don't like Cunningham? I don't know, man. They might
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  Speaker 2: want Cunningham and Clark to still be in it for
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  Speaker 2: a while just to, I don't know, just to have
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  Speaker 2: more notoriety here. That's going to be my bracket. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. The one upset I got is Indiana
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  Speaker 2: pulling off the upset over Vegas there in the 6-3 matchup.
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  Speaker 2: I got Minnesota beating Golden State in the final, and
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  Speaker 2: I got Atlanta winning in the first round over Washington
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  Speaker 2: and then losing to Minnesota, although that would be a
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  Speaker 2: tough series, I think, for Minnesota. Atlanta, I think, can
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  Speaker 2: play them somewhat tough, but I don't think they'd get
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  Speaker 2: through it. tiebreakers oh yeah the combined score that's just
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  Speaker 2: the total in the final playoff game well usually that
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  Speaker 2: final game it's going to tend to be a competitive
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  Speaker 2: matchup so like what do we do as far as
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  Speaker 2: i don't know like maybe 168 is somewhere kind of
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  Speaker 2: mid-range for a total here in this league now and
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  Speaker 2: at halftime i would say it would be a little
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  Speaker 2: bit less than half that so i don't know maybe
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  Speaker 2: 81 let's or uh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Let's uh.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right? Let's go with something like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Something like that makes sense, I guess.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think because I think the second half
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  Speaker 2: is usually a higher scoring. So, yeah, let's go with
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  Speaker 2: something like that. Why not? That's it. We're done. That's
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  Speaker 2: the Brad. Got nothing else to do here, man. I
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  Speaker 2: told you it was going to be a quick video.
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  Speaker 2: A quick hitter, man. 10, 15 minutes. Just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: get it out. There's my bracket. Nobody's live in the
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  Speaker 2: chat right now. That's fine. But you guys will watch
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  Speaker 2: it later and be like, I'll be like, why did
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  Speaker 2: I even do this? But that's it. I do it
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  Speaker 2: every year anyway. All right, man. And maybe that'll give
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  Speaker 2: you some potential options as far as how you want
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  Speaker 2: to bet these playoffs if you really think you want to.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Peace.
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  Speaker 5: If the dark starts talking, hand me the phone. Let
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  Speaker 5: somebody answer. Let somebody know. You do not have.
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  Speaker 4: To lose this round alone.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on, not tonight, not now Hold on, hold on
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  Speaker 3: Let me pull you out That.
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  Speaker 5: Bad luck bites hard But it don't get.
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  Speaker 3: The crown Hold on, hold on Stay with me now
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  Speaker 4: Hold on, hold on You're still here now guitar solo