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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome on into the Betting Pros Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Thomas Viola, and we have a very

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Speaker 1: special guest today joining us to break down the NBA

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Speaker 1: Finals and Stanley Cup Conference Finals. It is none other

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Speaker 1: than Scott's Spritzer of Doc Sports.

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Speaker 2: Scott, how are you doing today?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Thomas. Thanks for having me on the

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Speaker 3: show Man.

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Speaker 2: It is an absolute pleasure to have you. It's been great.

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Speaker 1: I know it's been a while since I've seen you personally,

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Speaker 1: even though we're both out here in Vegas. We got

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Speaker 1: to catch up sometime soon. But right now, it's one

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Speaker 1: of the best times in sports.

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Speaker 2: We've got.

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Speaker 1: We've got the playoffs in full swing. We're at the end. Now,

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Speaker 1: we're at the end of the line. It's the NBA

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Speaker 1: Finals Game one this Thursday, the Warriors versus the Celtics.

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Speaker 1: I had the Warriors peck from the preseason as my

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Speaker 1: Finals winners. Unfortunately for me, I didn't take out on

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Speaker 1: a ticket on it when I could get a decent price,

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Speaker 1: and well, now here we are. Should have stuck to

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Speaker 1: my guns. But Celtics a little bit of a surprise

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Speaker 1: to make it to this point almost I feel like,

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Speaker 1: I think they match up fairly well here.

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Speaker 2: What are you seeing in the series?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the Celtics. You know, they were basically

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Speaker 3: a five hundred team for a good chunk of the

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Speaker 3: first half of the season, and then really caught fire

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Speaker 3: and everybody started believing in this coaching staff, started picking

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Speaker 3: their roles and sticking to them, and here they are.

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Speaker 3: And in fact, if you look, because of that great

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Speaker 3: run since the break, they became one of two NBA

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Speaker 3: teams Thomas to finish in the top five in both

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Speaker 3: offensive and defensive efficiency this season. The other was the

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Speaker 3: Phoenix Suns, who obviously flamed out in their playoff series.

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Speaker 3: But when I look at the Celtics and I see

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Speaker 3: that the price is around plus a buck forty plus

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Speaker 3: a buck fifty in that neighborhood. As far as the series,

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Speaker 3: I think they are the value here. I think there's

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Speaker 3: a good shot that they can steal a game here

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Speaker 3: at Golden State. I don't think they're going to win

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Speaker 3: game one, by the way, and we can talk about

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Speaker 3: the individual game in just a minute, but I think

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Speaker 3: stealing game two is a distinct possibility for this team,

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Speaker 3: and of course I would not be shocked if they

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Speaker 3: win Game one. But when I look at the full series,

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Speaker 3: I mean everything Golden State wants to do when they

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Speaker 3: have to go a little bit bigger to counter what

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Speaker 3: Boston can do with their bigs, Boston just can do better.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you're talking about guys who normally play a

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Speaker 3: big game as opposed to what Golden State's doing. So

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Speaker 3: you're talking like, for instance, when you look at Looney,

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Speaker 3: for example, for Golden State, you know they've got Robert Williams,

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Speaker 3: the third, They've got Al Horford. These guys, you know,

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Speaker 3: can each take their turns slowing down Looney. In fact,

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Speaker 3: they can go probably three or four deep. When you

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Speaker 3: throw in like Grant Williams in a thing into the mix,

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Speaker 3: they can actually go deeper to help slow down Looney.

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Speaker 3: If anybody gets in foul trouble, the Boston biggs, and

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Speaker 3: I think a guy like Looney and of course a

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Speaker 3: to take their game to that next level. Thomas, I

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Speaker 3: really believe that if they're going to win this series,

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Speaker 3: and then you got Marcus Smart And I'm not the

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Speaker 3: first one to say this, It's been reported a few times,

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Speaker 3: but when you're talking about a defender who plays on

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Speaker 3: Steph Curry struggles against Marcus Smart, hitting twenty nine percent

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Speaker 3: of his field goal attempts. That's the lowest he shoots

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Speaker 3: look at Marcus Smart, if he stays healthy throughout this series,

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Speaker 3: he's going to spend a lot of time chasing out

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Speaker 3: So from a series standpoint, Man Tatum Brown that combo

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Speaker 3: I saw stat today, Thomas that those two, at the

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Speaker 3: age of twenty five or younger, have more playoff wins

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Speaker 3: as an all star combined combo than anybody in the

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Speaker 3: that's some pretty serious stuff. So they get over the

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Speaker 3: the series. For me, I'm actually waiting. I want to

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Speaker 3: Game one and then come back and play Boston in

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Speaker 1: I completely agree with your analysis here. I'm personally still

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Speaker 1: on Golden State to win the series. But when I

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Speaker 1: And we get to this matchup and I'm like, Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: Warriors are going to sweep them. And then I started

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Speaker 1: looking at the stats just like you said, and you

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Speaker 1: have to go, hang on a second. This team matches

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Speaker 1: up really, really well with Golden State in a way

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna be able to do that against this

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Speaker 1: Boston team. And the matchup to me looks a lot

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Speaker 1: more like their matchup with the Memphis Grizzlies round prior.

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Speaker 1: That recency bias makes us kind of forget now. The

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Speaker 1: matchup is very bad for the Warriors. I still kind

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Speaker 1: of like them to win in six. They're still going

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Speaker 1: But this isn't going to be a walkaway series like

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been a six game series for Golden State.

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Speaker 3: You're probably talking at least probably four of those games

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Speaker 3: six games. So if they do win, I do think,

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Speaker 3: just like a Boston wins, there's going to be some

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Speaker 3: close games involved. And you know, one thing you mentioned

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Speaker 3: Golden State and that's something they have not faced in

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Speaker 3: this postseason is a lob two guy on the offensive

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Speaker 3: to see how that works out, because Robert Williams, the

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Speaker 3: it was the Dallas mavericks. I'm not one of those

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Speaker 3: defensive player. Obviously, he's all world. When it comes to

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Speaker 3: is going to be the toughest test, yes, yet, obviously

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Speaker 3: for the Warriors and for the Celtics too. But you know,

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Speaker 3: I thought that the fact that they have such a

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Speaker 3: Not a single player on this team has stuffed on

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Speaker 3: the court in an NBA Finals, and because of that,

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Speaker 3: I decided to make it a seven game series of

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Speaker 3: you know, maybe I'm getting a little bit too excited

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Speaker 3: here on watching these matchups. Thomas. Golden State eventually does

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Speaker 3: happens in Game one. If I can get Boston at

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Speaker 3: a even a bigger price. If they lose Game one,

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Speaker 1: And I'm looking here at some of these at some

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Speaker 1: of these potential predictions. DraftKings has the Warriors in seven

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Speaker 1: at plus three ten. That's actually their favorite outcome for

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Speaker 1: this series. Here, they have Boston winning in Boston winning

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Speaker 1: in seven is plus six point fifty.

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Speaker 2: Right now. You can get the.

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Speaker 1: Warriors in six at plus five point fifty in Boston

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Speaker 1: and six at plus three seventy. So they're definitely expecting

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Speaker 1: a long series here, just like you are.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that's the way it's gonna go.

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Speaker 3: I think if Golden State wins the series, they're just

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Speaker 3: those adjustments to the matchups. I just mentioned on the

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Speaker 3: flip side. If you're Boston, you can't lose Marcus Smarter

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Speaker 3: You're gonna lose the series if those guys are not

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Speaker 3: you're gonna have to make adjustments for being at a

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Speaker 3: level you've never been to before. Saw this great interview

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Speaker 3: never done before. He goes, you're thinking about tickets for

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Speaker 3: So listen, Golden State knows how to handle all that.

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Speaker 3: That's why one of the reasons besides having home court

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Speaker 3: to start this thing while they're favored.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, you know what Steph Curry is thinking about right now?

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Speaker 3: What's the heck?

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Speaker 1: There's a video that came out today of him walking

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Speaker 1: out of a golf galaxy. He just got his club's regrift.

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Speaker 3: Oh nice, I hadn't seen that. Yeah, the man's cool

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Speaker 3: as a cucumber man. He knows what to do when

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Speaker 3: it comes to getting ready for a series, clearing his mind.

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Speaker 3: I would guess yep.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm fully admitted a Golden State Warriors bandwagon fan.

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Speaker 1: I can't pretend that I have a deep connection to

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Speaker 1: the team, but back when I lived in the Bay

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Speaker 1: Area sometimes I got handed tickets to games, and what

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Speaker 1: are you gonna do not go and not support them.

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Speaker 1: I love to see how fun their style is and

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Speaker 1: how much fun it is watching them play in a

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Speaker 1: with all of the injuries.

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Speaker 2: It's excited to have.

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Speaker 1: It's exciting to have them back and being kind of

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Speaker 1: you just go into a series like this assuming that

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Speaker 1: they're gonna walk all over their opponent. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be very interesting and as we

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Speaker 1: get into Game one, specifically, here the line right now,

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Speaker 1: bettingpros dot Com has the consensus line at Warriors minus

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Speaker 1: three and a half in Game one. Sixty seven percent

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Speaker 1: of our betters at bettingpros dot Com that have put

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Speaker 1: in tickets have the Warriors in that spot the totals

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Speaker 1: at two eleven and a half, eighty three percent of

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Speaker 1: the bets on our website are on the over, and

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Speaker 3: In game one, it's Boston's first time in the finals.

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Speaker 3: And there's a really good angle that goes back almost

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Speaker 1: And if you're looking to get a price on the

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Speaker 3: Now. Perfect setup for me is if Boston loses this

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Speaker 3: I look at it again. They're down fifty five. They

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I completely agree. It's been a wild postseason. When

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Speaker 1: It's just the team that got blown out the night

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Speaker 3: But it's kind of nice to get that to beat

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Speaker 3: that closing line. And I've said this before, Thomas, I

436
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Speaker 3: might have said it, you know on shows I've done

437
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Speaker 3: with you in the past, that it's a situation where

438
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Speaker 3: when you're looking at six and a half or seven

439
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Speaker 3: and getting that price, getting ahead of the closing line.

440
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Speaker 3: It's so important and the reason I do things at night,

441
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Speaker 3: and I tell people whore kind of new to betting,

442
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Speaker 3: and it's becoming, you know, new for a lot of

443
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Speaker 3: people out there, a lot of younger generations, younger than me.

444
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Speaker 3: But you want to get ahead of the closing line.

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Speaker 3: And I've been doing this for thirty years basically, and

446
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Speaker 3: I can get ahead of the closing line or line

447
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Speaker 3: moves eighty five percent of the time, so can anybody

448
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Speaker 3: who's been doing this as long as I have. And

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying we win eighty five percent of the time.

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Speaker 3: We're really happy with fifty five percent and eleven to

451
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Speaker 3: win ten kind of sports bets. But if you can

452
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Speaker 3: get ahead of that closing line, eighty eighty five percent

453
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Speaker 3: of the time. Then it's going to help in your

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Speaker 3: overall winning record and your bank role. And you know

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Speaker 3: that's why I do these things overnight. That's why I got,

456
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Speaker 3: you know, busy at one o'clock in the morning Pacific time,

457
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Speaker 3: and jumped on this play. So having said that, as

458
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Speaker 3: far as the series is concerned, I'll tell you right now, Thomas,

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Speaker 3: I think the difference maker are Darcy Kemper over you know,

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Speaker 3: Mike Smith over Coskanen. You know for the Oilers. You've

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Speaker 3: got Darcy Kemper going for the Apps. I think that's

462
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Speaker 3: going to be a huge advantage. If you look at

463
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Speaker 3: what Edmonton has done in this postseason, they average almost

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Speaker 3: thirty eight shots on goal per game so far this postseason.

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Speaker 3: Talking about Edmonton, they allow I should say, I'm sorry,

466
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Speaker 3: they allow about thirty eight shots on goal per game

467
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Speaker 3: in the postseason. Colorado allows about twenty seven shots on

468
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Speaker 3: goal per game during this postseason. Look at the shots

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Speaker 3: on goal differential Colorado plus one hundred and twenty eight,

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Speaker 3: Edmonton minus thirty one in this postseason. You can get

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Speaker 3: away with that if you're Edmonton. When you're playing a

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Speaker 3: team like Calgary, I don't think you could do the

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Speaker 3: same when you're playing a team like the Colorado Avalanche,

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Speaker 3: and if it's going to be Costcan in a net.

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Speaker 3: I haven't seen a confirmation on goalies looks like I mean,

476
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Speaker 3: I've seen right ups on Mike Smith and it looks

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Speaker 3: like he's possibly gonna go tonight, but we don't have

478
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Speaker 3: any confirmation at the time, and doing this podcast, I

479
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Speaker 3: don't care either goalie. Of those two players that are

480
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Speaker 3: in net, Edmonton is going to have a tough go

481
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Speaker 3: of it. I love Edmonton, by the way, who doesn't

482
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Speaker 3: you know dryseidl McDavid best one to combol on the ice,

483
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Speaker 3: But they're more than that. You've got Duncan Keith, You've

484
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Speaker 3: got Hymen, You've got Bushard and Evander Kaine was a

485
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Speaker 3: terrific addition. Thomas he's a knucklehead off the ice, but

486
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Speaker 3: he's outstanding in the right spot in the NHL, he's

487
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Speaker 3: in the right spot. So having settle of that, I

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Speaker 3: do think the players I just mentioned are going to

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Speaker 3: help this Game one battle get to at least seven,

490
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Speaker 3: if not more between the two teams tonight. As far

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Speaker 3: as the series, though, it's got to be Colorado, and

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Speaker 3: I've even been looking around a little bit before this

493
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Speaker 3: game faces off. I might do something at minus a

494
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Speaker 3: game and a half, so they have to win four

495
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Speaker 3: games to two or better. I've been kind of doint

496
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Speaker 3: get around a little bit, if you will, try to

497
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Speaker 3: find a good price on that.

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Speaker 1: I'm in complete agreement with you. Obviously, we got the

499
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Speaker 1: battle that the NHL wants to see here. You've got

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Speaker 1: McDavid going up against McKinnon, to the two best in

501
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Speaker 1: the game right now that they have. You could argue,

502
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Speaker 1: but I agree the problem with Edmonton. You said that

503
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Speaker 1: they have so much more, But do they? Though?

504
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Speaker 2: Do they?

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Speaker 1: They have that amazing one two punch, they have a

506
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Speaker 1: Vander Kayne, but the lines start to get weak once

507
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Speaker 1: you get past that. I feel like this team is

508
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Speaker 1: just so top heavy, whereas the Avalanche are just able

509
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Speaker 1: to beat you over and over again. They look absolutely ridiculous.

510
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Speaker 1: I don't know that Edmonton can take a game in

511
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Speaker 1: Colorado in this series. Like you said, looking at a

512
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Speaker 1: minor one and a half game price in the series

513
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Speaker 1: is probably somewhere that I'd be inclined.

514
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Speaker 2: To go as well.

515
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Speaker 1: I'm honestly gonna have a small ticket. I'm gonna go

516
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Speaker 1: place it right after this on an Avalanche sweep. It's

517
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Speaker 1: gonna be a small price, maybe half a unit. I'm

518
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Speaker 1: not looking to take them on a full unit, be

519
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Speaker 1: as hockey has way too much variance. But this team

520
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Speaker 1: is good enough to sweep a team like the Oilers,

521
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Speaker 1: especially when you're going through the Mike Smith experience.

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Speaker 2: If they are, Yeah, and.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I've seen both goalies mentioned, but

524
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Speaker 3: if it's Mike Smith, I mean, come on, he you know,

525
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Speaker 3: they did a great job at beating Mark Strom, no

526
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Speaker 3: doubt about it. But Mark Strum a very good goalie.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he can do the same against the

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Speaker 3: AFS team. I mean they're, you know, another level higher

529
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Speaker 3: than than obviously they played in Calgary. So you get

530
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Speaker 3: Kemper and goal and the guy with that experience, and

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Speaker 3: you're not gonna beat him like they did in that

532
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Speaker 3: last series against Mark Strum. And listen to Mike Smith.

533
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Speaker 3: If he has to stop thirty five to forty goals

534
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Speaker 3: per game, I just think it's forget about it. And

535
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Speaker 3: I happen to agree. I think you're to sweep is

536
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Speaker 3: not a bad way to go. I'm probably gonna be

537
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Speaker 3: a little bit wimpy and do the minus a game

538
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Speaker 3: and a half of the series on Colorado. But I

539
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Speaker 3: do like your sweep bet too.

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Speaker 1: That's definitely a much more aggressive play, and in terms

541
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Speaker 1: of the actual bankroll and putting more units on it,

542
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go more conservative. I'm gonna be the same

543
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Speaker 1: way you are looking at that minus a game and

544
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Speaker 1: a half market, because I could see this very easily

545
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Speaker 1: being a four to one. I might look at that

546
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Speaker 1: exactly as well on a little more of an aggressive play. Guys,

547
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557
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Speaker 1: on to the other series, here the Lightning the Rangers.

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Speaker 1: There's another thing that you mentioned I really want to

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Speaker 1: touch on, and that is watching for overnight lines.

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Speaker 2: Yep, it's important to remember.

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Speaker 1: Book makers they're human too. It's not all done by

562
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Speaker 1: a computer these days still, and one of the things

563
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Speaker 1: is that you can find better numbers on the overnight

564
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Speaker 1: line before everybody else is up and betting it and

565
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Speaker 1: moving the market around. Granted, you can't quite gets get

566
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Speaker 1: down as much money. They put some more limits on you.

567
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Speaker 1: You can't go in and be making a bet for

568
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Speaker 1: a higher limit than they allow and getting it approved

569
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Speaker 1: because there's no one there to approve it in the

570
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Speaker 1: middle of the night. But with mobile betting, every book

571
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Speaker 1: is a twenty four hour book now and that's something

572
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Speaker 1: that new betters really should be watching out for if

573
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Speaker 1: you want to get the best price on numbers. A

574
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Speaker 1: lot of the times that is going to be those

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Speaker 1: overnight lines before everybody wakes up in the morning and

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Speaker 1: starts moving it.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and you're right, I mean you have to pick

578
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Speaker 3: and choose what books you go to. If you get

579
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Speaker 3: a reputation at a book and anywhere in the country,

580
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Speaker 3: around the world, whatever, there are some books out there

581
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Speaker 3: who if you do a reputation, they do want to

582
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Speaker 3: see where your action is going to be. They want

583
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Speaker 3: to see that before everybody else jumps in, and then

584
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 3: they want to make adjustments accordingly. But for the most part,

585
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Speaker 3: betting overnight means a little bit less as far as

586
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Speaker 3: your you know, limits are concerned. And then you got

587
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Speaker 3: to turn around a lot of times, and you got

588
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Speaker 3: to be up bright and early in the morning if

589
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Speaker 3: you want to bet more and try to get those

590
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Speaker 3: just as they're starting to move, and that's tough to do.

591
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Speaker 3: I get it. This is all I do for a living.

592
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Speaker 3: I've been doing this for thirty years. So you know,

593
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Speaker 3: my circadium rhythm, if you will, is used to having

594
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Speaker 3: weird sleeping hours, getting up after a few hours, looking

595
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Speaker 3: at the lines again, doing a little bit more, and

596
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Speaker 3: then getting back at it late the night before. But

597
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Speaker 3: you do find some you know, you get burned sometimes.

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Speaker 3: I'll give you a perfect example tonight, Thomas. I mean,

599
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Speaker 3: I sit here and you know you talk about, oh,

600
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Speaker 3: I can be ahead eighty eighty five percent of the

601
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Speaker 3: time against the closing line. I jumped on the Las

602
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Speaker 3: Vegas aces and WNBA play for tonight, I laid four

603
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Speaker 3: and a half last night. It's down to as low

604
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Speaker 3: as three and a half right now. So there's one.

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Speaker 3: You know, hats off to the books. They beat me

606
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Speaker 3: on that one when it came to the closing line

607
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Speaker 3: of where it went from the opener. And but again,

608
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Speaker 3: fortunately we've been doing this for so long that ten

609
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Speaker 3: to fifteen percent of the time is all you could

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Speaker 3: beat on those line moves.

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Speaker 2: That's completely right.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, if you're gonna make a bet, you're you're thinking

613
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Speaker 1: that the line is gonna move one way. It can

614
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Speaker 1: move completely against you. Sometimes you miss on that. But

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Speaker 1: eighty five percent closing line value.

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Speaker 2: If I had a.

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Speaker 1: Trophy case for all the closing line value that we've

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Speaker 1: had that didn't hit, I would need a much bigger

619
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Speaker 1: place than my tiny apartment, I will tell you.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 2: Now the other series here, last one.

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Speaker 1: We want to get to the Lightning versus the Rangers,

623
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Speaker 1: the Battle of Floridians versus the people who retire. There

624
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Speaker 1: the Lightning or minus one seventy five to win this

625
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Speaker 1: series the Rangers plus one fifty. Here is this the

626
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Speaker 1: best goalie battle that we are gonna have in these playoffs? Here,

627
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Speaker 1: because you've got Vassilevski, who has been just an absolute animal.

628
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Speaker 1: And Shahsterkin on the other side here for the Rangers,

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Speaker 1: he's been playing out of his mind as well. Are

630
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Speaker 1: these the two best goalies that we're gonna see?

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Speaker 3: I think so best battle, because I don't think you're

632
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Speaker 3: going to find that out West. You can throw Kemper

633
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Speaker 3: into the mix, I guess with the two guys you

634
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Speaker 3: just mentioned. And of course, if you're looking to put

635
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 3: history on your side, jump on Baskolewski. If he loses, right,

636
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 3: he just comes back in the postseason off a loss

637
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 3: and wins. Schesterkin as far as you know, I like

638
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 3: to call him Igor Vesna, but what he did the

639
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 3: last two games was tremendous. I didn't think he'd come

640
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Speaker 3: out and hold Carolina to two goals on Carolina ice,

641
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Speaker 3: and I really thought, if he does, Carolina is probably

642
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 3: going to win that game two to one. So hats

643
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 3: off to the Rangers. Gerard Gallant is really good at

644
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 3: this man. He's really good in his first season or

645
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 3: two of taking a team, a young team, putting a

646
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 3: few veterans in the mix, getting a good goaltender and

647
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 3: going out there and getting them deeper than anybody expected

648
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Speaker 3: them to do before the season began. That's Jorge Gallant

649
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Speaker 3: in a nutshell now out here in Vegas. That's what

650
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Speaker 3: he did we saw first year than the Stanley Cup Finals,

651
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 3: kind of a similar type of approach. You had a

652
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 3: really good banger, yet a really good enforcer guys off

653
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 3: of your star players. He's got that with Reeves and

654
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 3: he teamed up with again after having him out here

655
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,959
Speaker 3: in Vegas. You've got a tremendous proven goalie in Shasterkin,

656
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 3: just like you had with Marc Andre Fleury. You've got

657
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 3: guys who score goals. Everybody knows their role on this

658
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 3: Rangers team, and everybody buys in to what they're supposed

659
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 3: to be doing. However, and I'm going to keep with

660
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 3: that little bit of a look back to what he

661
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 3: did with Vegas and the similarities. I think Tampa Bay

662
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 3: is the New York Rangers Washington Capitals to the Las

663
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 3: Vegas Golden Knights from a couple of years ago. And

664
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 3: this team's just too powerful on defense for I think

665
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 3: the Rangers to be able to make up for any

666
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 3: potential mistakes that maybe Shasterkin makes, and there won't be

667
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 3: a lot, but he might make. He might let a

668
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 3: goal slip by or two that he shouldn't. He's done

669
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 3: that a little bit in the postseason, and then all

670
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 3: of a sudden, you're fighting from behind against this team

671
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 3: that knows how to get it done. You know, we

672
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 3: just talked about the Golden State Warriors and everything they

673
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 3: did in the NBA and have done the last several years,

674
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 3: all that experience. I really thought Tampa Bay's potential series

675
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 3: loss was going to be that series against Toronto going

676
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 3: into that and I made a few little bets on

677
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 3: Toronto to win that series in different ways. They didn't

678
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 3: get the job done. Tampa prooved again. They're still as

679
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 3: hungry as they've been the last couple of years, and

680
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 3: I think they're just going to be too tough. And again,

681
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 3: when you look at Vasilevskin what he can do off

682
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 3: a loss, He's just that ultimate slumpbuster between the pipes

683
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,239
Speaker 3: for this team, and I don't think the Rangers are

684
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 3: going to be able to get over the top against him.

685
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 3: The thing about Carolina, they just can't win on the road,

686
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 3: and it finally caught up to them at home in

687
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 3: a Game seven. Tampa Bay's dangerous no matter where they play,

688
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 3: whether it's a frozen pond or Homer Away on ice,

689
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 3: they're going to get the job done. So, you know,

690
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to be as sweet by

691
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 3: any means. I think the Rangers can win two games,

692
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 3: but I like Tampa Bay to win this four games

693
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 3: to two.

694
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: Our own Bettingpros dot Com Tony Sartory broke down the

695
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: series in an article today.

696
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 2: You guys can check it out now.

697
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: He actually likes the Rangers to win the series here,

698
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: he's got the value with them. But I'm still a

699
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: little bit skeptical because and I know it's bad handicapping.

700
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: It's bad handicapping to be going into human emotion and

701
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: trying to guess how the players are going to be feeling.

702
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: But you are dealing with and it is going to

703
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: be a factor that the Lightning swept the Panthers. They've

704
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: had eight days off, whereas the Rangers are coming into

705
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: this one. They just had to battle through a tough series.

706
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: They just had a game seven, they've only had one

707
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: day's rest, and moving into the moving into the opening

708
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: game here, the Lightning are minus one thirty in our

709
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: Betting Pros consensus line. The Rangers plus one ten. Do

710
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: you think that the Rangers might just come out looking

711
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: a little bit sharper and that the Lightning will be

712
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: a little slow in game one as they get going again.

713
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 3: I could definitely see that argument in. You know, I

714
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 3: can't find a lot of fault with it. The only

715
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 3: wrench in that system, I think is the fact that

716
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 3: the Lightning have done it so often. Yeah, I mean,

717
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 3: they know how to do it, you know, they know

718
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 3: how to get the job done, whether they're up at

719
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 3: a series, down in a series, kicking off a series

720
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 3: with a bunch of rest or not. But that's what

721
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 3: keeps me from jumping into Lightning in game one. So,

722
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 3: you know, you got two ways to look at it.

723
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 3: You could say, oh, the Rangers just had to win

724
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 3: a Game six in a Game seven with Game seven

725
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 3: on Roade Ice, and so they've just come off this

726
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 3: hugely intense series where they had to face elimination twice

727
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 3: and came through with wins and obviously both of those games.

728
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 3: And you got Tampa Bay, who you know, for lack

729
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 3: of a better term, skated through their series against Florida.

730
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 3: They cruised, And so you can look at it that

731
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 3: way too. Saying that you know, Tampa not only knows

732
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 3: how to win Cups and they've been through every scenario,

733
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 3: you know, but they should have that factor of being

734
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 3: able to get ready even though they've been off for

735
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 3: eight days. There's a lot of people that are jumping

736
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 3: on first period bets against them, by the way, that

737
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 3: I've talked to, because they think they're going to be

738
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 3: a little bit rusty. I just don't know if the

739
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 3: Ranger is going to hold that little bit of an

740
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 3: advantage through an entire three periods based off the fact

741
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 3: they just played two elimination games and haven't had hardly

742
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 3: any time get over that. So again, because of what

743
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 3: you just said, and I can't disagree with it, that's

744
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 3: what keeps from making a decent sized place on Tampa

745
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 3: Bay in Game one.

746
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: And that's something that we're gonna say again and again

747
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: on this podcast if people have been listening for a while.

748
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: First off, thank you, and second off, you don't have

749
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: to bet every game.

750
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 2: The biggest advantage.

751
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: That we have as betters over the book is that

752
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: the book has to put up a line on every

753
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: single game. You have the luxury of saying, you know what,

754
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bet this one.

755
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 2: For me.

756
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: This is one of those stay away games where there

757
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 1: are a few too many factors in it that I'm like,

758
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: I don't have a clear picture about what's gonna happen.

759
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: I don't have a clear feeling, so I don't have

760
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: to take a position here.

761
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 3: Oh, I agree. That's like, you know, the game we

762
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 3: talked about first, the Western Conference battle between the Oilers

763
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 3: and Abs. I'm not messing with the side there now.

764
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 3: I kind of want to see what happens. I like

765
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 3: the over I do think it's going to be a

766
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 3: you know, seven to nine goal game combined. But I'm

767
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 3: like you, I don't want to jump in on game

768
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 3: one yet. I want to see what happens. And I'm

769
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 3: that way in a lot of NHL postseason series going

770
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 3: back many many years. A lot of times I completely

771
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 3: stay away from Game one. I like to see what

772
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 3: happens and then look at how the matchups are, look

773
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 3: at se if there's any flukiness to it. You know,

774
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 3: if the Rangers come out and totally dominate Tampa Bay

775
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 3: and Tampa Bay's rusty and that's the main reason the

776
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 3: Rangers get it done, well, I'll be coming back the

777
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 3: other way with Tampa Bay in all likelihood no one.

778
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 3: They'll make the adjustments and knowing that they're no longer

779
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 3: rusty in game two. So like you, Thomas, when it

780
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 3: comes to the NHL Man, I set out a lot

781
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 3: of game ones when it comes to the sides.

782
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: Especially, like we said, with variants in hockey, games can

783
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: be really fluky, right that it's important, it's important to

784
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: watch out for that. Now, there are, of course four

785
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: teams left here. The Avalanche is still the betting favorite

786
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: at plus a dollar twenty Lightning right behind them at

787
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,800
Speaker 1: two dollars twenty cents as the second favorites to hoist

788
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 1: the cup. Then you got the Oilers at five point

789
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: fifty and the Rangers at six point fifty. I feel

790
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: like if you want the abs, your your price is

791
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: long sailed. There is no value to be betting here

792
00:34:58,520 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: with the Lightning.

793
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:01,240
Speaker 2: Am I wrong to assume?

794
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: And this might be a stupid question here, you might

795
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: be better off looking at them, taking this series price

796
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: as a favorite and then coming back on them as

797
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: the dog in the series against the Avalanche, assuming that's

798
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: what we get in the final.

799
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 2: If you wanted to bet on the Lightning, yeah.

800
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 3: That's what I would do if I was going to

801
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 3: you know, if I'm on the lightning side here, that's

802
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 3: exactly what I do. I think you're able to right

803
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 3: on the head, you know, as far as you know me,

804
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 3: if you want it, if you absolutely just want to

805
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 3: have some entertainment fun and you're like, I just want

806
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 3: to play some money on a team right now to

807
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 3: win the Cup, you know, my recommendation would be to

808
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 3: back Colorado if you don't mind laying all that juice

809
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 3: or whatever, you know, more than other teams, because I

810
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 3: think Colorado has a much better chance of getting there

811
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 3: than Tampa Bay or the Rangers. Obviously, with that being

812
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 3: what should be a little bit harder of a battle

813
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 3: for those two teams. But what you just said, I

814
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 3: absolutely agree with the way you said it. If you

815
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 3: like the Lightning, that's the way to go, and that's

816
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 3: what I would do. I'm not real big at this

817
00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 3: point of a postseason of jumping on team when it

818
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 3: comes to conference finals, whether it be the NBA or

819
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 3: the NHL as far as making future as I'm more

820
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 3: of a game by game guy, and that's what I'll

821
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 3: be looking to do in these two games. In these

822
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 3: two series.

823
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832
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: for joining me today.

833
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 2: I really appreciate it real quick.

834
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: You had your best NBA season ever?

835
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 2: Is that correct? This year?

836
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 3: It was? We had a season like this in the

837
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 3: late nineties, and it's crazy, And I know, you know

838
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 3: this doesn't sound great to the people who are new

839
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 3: to your podcast, are new to sports betting in general.

840
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 3: But we hit sixty two percent since gosh, I'm gonna

841
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,720
Speaker 3: say this week of October we' hit sixty two percent

842
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 3: through the playoffs up until right now, Game one of

843
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 3: the NBA Finals one oh nine and sixty seven. So

844
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 3: you know, those betting just one hundred bucks a unit

845
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 3: are up over a little over fifteen thousand. So listen,

846
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 3: I'm real happy when I hit fifty five percent for

847
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 3: a season on eleven to win ten bets. So this

848
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 3: has been tremendous. All I can say real quickly to

849
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 3: like give people a reason to why, you know, besides luck,

850
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 3: you have to have luck to hit sixty two percent.

851
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,280
Speaker 3: But one of the things I did before this season,

852
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 3: remember when we were tipping off this NBA season, there

853
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 3: were still a lot of COVID issues when it came

854
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:39,280
Speaker 3: to players, coaches, things like that, you know, catching COVID,

855
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 3: And so I didn't want to get caught with a

856
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 3: four play card or a three play card day in

857
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 3: day out, find out at two o'clock in the afternoon,

858
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 3: two hours before tip off West Coast time, find out

859
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 3: that I was going to be missing a couple of

860
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 3: star players. And I thought, you know what, I got

861
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 3: to limit that liability a little bit. And so what

862
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 3: I did. I've basically been almost one play perd. I

863
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 3: bet you I've averaged like one point four plays per

864
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 3: day in the NBA. If I went back and looked

865
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 3: at all the days that I bet, and I didn't

866
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Speaker 3: want to get again caught up in a chance of

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Speaker 3: losing players late afternoon that just tested positive for COVID

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Speaker 3: after shoot rounds. Wasn't going to let that happen. So

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Speaker 3: I went down to one one and a half again

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Speaker 3: on average games per day, and at worked, and of

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Speaker 3: course I did need the luck factor. Now in the postseason,

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Speaker 3: we've done twenty six and thirteen Thomas and again I'm

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Speaker 3: I'm knocking on wood, and I've said to my circle

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Speaker 3: of handicappers and betters, I said, man, I wish I

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Speaker 3: could bottle this for next season, because it starts all

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Speaker 3: over that next season and you got to do it

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Speaker 3: all over again, and you could be scratching your head

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Speaker 3: just as much as you are celebrating a good season.

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Speaker 3: So we'll just keep battling out. I hope it keeps

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Speaker 3: going that way. I appreciate you mentioning that, because boy,

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Speaker 3: it's been a fun ride this twenty twenty one twenty

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Speaker 3: two campaign.

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Speaker 1: Now, people can find you on Twitter at Scott wins.

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Speaker 1: But if they want to follow along with all the action,

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Speaker 1: where's the best place to find all your working.

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Speaker 3: At docsports dot com is Moro Matt exclude sports dot com.

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Speaker 3: We do a lot of podcast, a lot of videos

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Speaker 3: almost daily, all that kind of good stuff. Scott Wins.

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Speaker 3: I want to mention at Twitter, I like to tell

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Speaker 3: people I'm not being cocky. It's because nobody, including myself,

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Speaker 3: basically can spell my last name. So we just been

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Speaker 3: at Scott Wins when the Twitter verse was new. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: Doc sports dot com is where I'm at exclusively.

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Speaker 1: There we go, Scott once again, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: again follow him at Scott Wins. You can follow me

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, at TV at work. Guys, it has been

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Speaker 1: a pleasure. Best of luck on all of your bets

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Speaker 1: for the NBA Finals, the NHL Semifinals, and of course

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Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup beyond, and be sure to tune in

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Speaker 1: later on this week.

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Speaker 2: I am very excited.

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Speaker 1: We were sitting down with David Purdham of ESPN to

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Speaker 1: talk about black Swan events and the future of book making.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a fantastic conversation, so stay tuned

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Speaker 1: for that and we'll see you next episode.