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Speaker 1: the Calling Coward podcast. Very interesting week. Nick Wright Always

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Speaker 1: Money tells us about the massive mistake the Clippers made

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Speaker 1: at the end of the season. Must listen. Ethan Strauss

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Speaker 1: the Athletic. I think the guy is brilliant, joined the show.

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Speaker 1: Has it taken? The NBA sort of blew my mind?

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Speaker 1: Plus Chad Millman Action Network betting advice for the NBA Playoffs.

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Speaker 1: It's changing baby. First, my top takes of the week.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that the NBA is probably conflicted with.

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Speaker 1: other star players if two teams that rarely played together

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Speaker 1: you financially that you almost have to stay. Players just

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Speaker 1: join forces, and you can't blame them. I mean, think

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Speaker 1: about James Harden, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant. What they play

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Speaker 1: a great look for the league when stars can join forces,

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a conflict for the league

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Speaker 1: the Gonzaga of the NBA. The Utah Jazz. We never

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Speaker 1: Anybody else think it's odd The Lakers open as a

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Speaker 1: asking a lot to go from bad to the finals?

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Speaker 1: Why aren't we paying more attention to the Utah Jazz folks?

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Speaker 1: Same coach, rim defender, all star guard, excellent bench, excellent

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Speaker 1: tell people this, Gonzaga is now a top three basketball

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Speaker 1: Think about that best record in any other sport is

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Speaker 1: Let's bring a Nick right, my buddy. First things first

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Speaker 1: most embarrassing and intentional tank we've ever seen. They just lost.

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Speaker 1: so I think Belichick and Popovich similarly. You start believing

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Speaker 1: don't think mac Jones is like superstar upside. I think

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Speaker 1: upside is a poor man's Matt Ryan, yeah, or Kirk

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Speaker 1: bring in the athletics. Ethan Strauss. One of the things

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Speaker 1: He didn't want to come back in December, he didn't

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Speaker 1: all year. He's been very critical of the league. Do

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Speaker 1: I don't care if he gets chances. I don't care

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Speaker 1: if he stinks. If he keeps trying, that's good for

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Speaker 1: play in game Chad six point one six point two

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Speaker 1: of the playing games? Are you seeing action? Are you

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Speaker 1: taking action on him? Oh? My god. It was great,

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Speaker 1: great traffic, great action, great activity, and as a fan,

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Speaker 1: I loved it. As a fan, it's exactly what you want.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I was looking forward all day to Lebron

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Speaker 1: all night because I bet Steph over thirty six and

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Speaker 1: And by the way, there were a lot of people

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Speaker 1: massive activity on Steph's props, because for the second half

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Speaker 1: and more. I think the playing game is genius. I

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Speaker 1: think that it's the NBA got lucky in that it

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Speaker 1: or often is going to be what they got with

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Speaker 1: getting with Lebron and Steph. So here's an interesting one.

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Speaker 1: The Clippers and the Jazz, according to FanDuel, are all

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Speaker 1: plus six hundred third best odds to win the title.

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Speaker 1: And I was saying this today that the Sons are

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Speaker 1: of fans, young fans, they don't understand the NBA is

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Speaker 1: the regular season and the postseason. And we're in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: We know the regular season matters. You are looking at

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Speaker 1: the reality of the league. We know in baseball you

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Speaker 1: team that goes in with a healthy staff, you're going

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Speaker 1: to have some success in the postseason. But in the NBA,

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Speaker 1: I think at this morning, I looked at the best

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Speaker 1: odds to in the title. It was the fourth seed,

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Speaker 1: the sixth seed, in the tenth seed. And I try

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Speaker 1: to explain to people depth. For instance, Utah's got depth,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter in the playoffs because you have

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Speaker 1: a seven man rotation. The other thing is young teams

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Speaker 1: do better in the regular season often because they play

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Speaker 1: harder veteran teams. Guys are older. They get knicked up

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Speaker 1: if you bang your knees. You know, Steve Kerry used

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Speaker 1: is telling guys you're old. Two is telling opponent you

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Speaker 1: you're back two days later. Old guy, you're on the

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Speaker 1: I R. And So I look at the Suns and

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Speaker 1: I think to myself that they're gonna lose first round.

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Speaker 1: I look at the Knicks and I'm like, that's a

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Speaker 1: seven game series with Atlanta. Look at the Jazz, and

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you, number one seed, where do

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Speaker 1: you what do you see from the Jazz? Well coached,

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Speaker 1: they play well together, they shoot a lot of threes.

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Speaker 1: How are they not in the top two to three

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Speaker 1: and a lot of odds there are a fourth best

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Speaker 1: odd team to win the finals. Yeah, it's that's exactly

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Speaker 1: where they are. By the way, at seven to one.

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Speaker 1: Nets Lakers Clippers, Jazz, Sons all the way down at

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Speaker 1: eighteen to one behind those four plus the sixers in

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Speaker 1: the Bucks. The Jazz are one of those teams gets

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Speaker 1: zero attention. If you said to me right now, if

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Speaker 1: I asked a poll of experts, which I did when

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Speaker 1: this week, we did an NBA episode and we talked

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Speaker 1: from to our experts about who do you take in

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Speaker 1: the NBA Finals Lakers, Bot, Clippers, Bucks, Sixers, Lakers. No

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Speaker 1: one was like, I'm taking the Utah Jazz. Not a

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Speaker 1: single person. There might not be a more disrespected number

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Speaker 1: one seed in the history of the NBA playoffs. And

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Speaker 1: I will tell you you mentioned the Lakers being favorites

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Speaker 1: eighty favorites to beat the Suns, and they're open to

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Speaker 1: tell people. If you're not a big hardcore better explain

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Speaker 1: exactly what that number means. JAB. So essentially, it means

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Speaker 1: you have to bet more in order to win. If

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Speaker 1: you want to win one hundred dollars, you have to

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Speaker 1: bet one hundred and eighty dollars. So it just costs

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Speaker 1: you more because there's such big favorites, the payoff is

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Speaker 1: going to be less, whereas if you bet on the Suns,

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Speaker 1: bet one hundred dollars, you're going to make more money.

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Speaker 1: If you bet on underdogs, you make more money. You

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Speaker 1: bet on favorites, you make less money when you're betting

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Speaker 1: sort of just outright winners. That is the first time

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Speaker 1: in third years that in seven seed is a favorite

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Speaker 1: over a two seed, So that tells you everything you

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Speaker 1: need to know about how these two teams, the number

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Speaker 1: one and two seeds in the West, are being pursued.

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Speaker 1: That wraps it up for the week. We're heading into

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