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Speaker 2: Without further ado, that's what the game's all about.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you feel like you can't miss.

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Speaker 5: Welcome to the Action Network Podcast NBA Wednesday Buffet Edition.

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Speaker 5: I'm senior NBA writer for the Action Network, Matt Moore.

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Speaker 3: Today.

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Speaker 5: On today's show, we will talk the Brooklyn Nets. We

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Speaker 5: will talk the big trade that we only got to

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Speaker 5: touch on last week because it happened after we record

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Speaker 5: our podcast. We will go through the Wednesday Buffet and

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Speaker 5: go through all our bets for Wednesday, and we will

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Speaker 5: get to back to the future on bets that we

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Speaker 5: wish that we had made.

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Speaker 3: Joining me this week Raheem, Palmer, raheem, how are you?

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Speaker 6: I'm good? Life is good? The NBA season at MKDA yesterday.

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Speaker 6: Life is good. Man.

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Speaker 5: Yep, things seem a little sweeter here on Wednesday. I

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Speaker 5: don't know why, just randomly said things.

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Speaker 3: Life seems better. It's like I can breathe easier. It's strange.

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Speaker 3: Brandon Anderson, Brandon, how are you?

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Speaker 6: I'm doing great?

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Speaker 7: It is January twentieth, twenty twenty one. We are here,

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Speaker 7: there's basketball, there's other things.

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Speaker 6: Let's do it.

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Speaker 5: And you mean that, of course, because the Mavericks and

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Speaker 5: Pacers play tonight. All right, let's start off with the

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Speaker 5: NBA marquee.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's do this all.

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Speaker 3: Right on our marquee tonight is just two words.

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Speaker 5: Brooklyn nets Nets traded for James Harden last week.

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Speaker 3: Pretty big deal.

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Speaker 5: They get Kyrie Irving back likely tonight versus the Cavaliers.

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Speaker 3: A lot of questions about how this is going to work.

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Speaker 5: They get an impressive win right out of the gate

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Speaker 5: versus the Milwaukee Bucks led for the duration of the game,

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Speaker 5: a really impressive win to get going. DeAndre Jordan looked

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Speaker 5: like an actual NBA player for the first time, and

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Speaker 5: I don't know how long. Rahim, let's start with you

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Speaker 5: should we go ahead? And the Nets are obviously the

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Speaker 5: favorite to win the Eastern Conference. Now, are they so

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Speaker 5: much better than everybody else that it's good to go

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Speaker 5: ahead and get that number as it exists.

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Speaker 6: No, I mean, here's the thing. I think. I don't

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Speaker 6: see anybody beating them. But the price here just value.

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Speaker 4: So it's just why would you want to tie your

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Speaker 4: money up on this current price when you can bet.

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Speaker 6: At series by series. Now, for me, what I've.

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Speaker 4: Realized is it's not that I like the Nets so much,

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Speaker 4: is it. I don't like anybody else like this team? Offensively,

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Speaker 4: no one's gonna be able to match. When I look

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Speaker 4: but at the end of the day, they're not gonna

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Speaker 4: the Nets, you're gonna have to put up on two

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Speaker 4: when I look at the Bucks. For me, I think

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Speaker 4: the biggest issue I have with the Bucks is they

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Speaker 4: Why do you want to force James hard and Kevin Durant, Kyrie, Irvin,

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Speaker 4: Joe Harris to shoot threes. Basically, we're gonna repeat of

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Speaker 4: the Toronto Raptors series from twenty.

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Speaker 6: Nineteen where Fred Van Fleet made every three.

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Speaker 1: The nemesis Fred Van Bliet.

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Speaker 6: So I don't see any team beat in the Nets. Now.

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Speaker 4: The Nets are going to have some issues on the

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Speaker 4: the end of the day, I don't see any team

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Speaker 4: out scoring them. I think if you want to play

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Speaker 3: Brandon, you focus so much on props this year.

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Speaker 5: What are the impact is going to be for Irving

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Speaker 5: Harden and Durant trying to share the load here.

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Speaker 7: That is a great question that I have been fading

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Speaker 7: I know that our prorections keep pushing the James Harden

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Speaker 7: that now so far through a couple of games, seeing

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Speaker 7: Harden and Durant really show a lot of synergy. They're

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Speaker 7: with three. It's not that hard. And just jumped in

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Speaker 7: it will affect how I play the props. I think

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Speaker 7: the one huge advantage this team should have, especially in

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Speaker 7: the regular season is their bench play, because you know,

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Speaker 7: Nets are going to have one of I don't know which,

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Speaker 7: have been losing. A second quarter nets play will be

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Speaker 7: a bet that I'll be keeping an eye on once

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Speaker 7: we start to see these three guys together, because that's

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna be watching closely as we start to see

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Speaker 5: I will go back to Raheem's condpoint of talking about

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Speaker 5: not liking anybody else. I will say I'm getting pretty

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Speaker 3: On the sixers.

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Speaker 5: That's rore I'm heading because the offensive ratings with Seth

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Speaker 5: Curry on the floor with Embid are incredible. You put

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Speaker 5: I'm not a Seth Curry guy, Steph Curry guy either.

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Speaker 1: As it turns out, Matt Moore hate Steph Curry.

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Speaker 5: But like I'm was not a guy that was like

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Speaker 5: but the numbers have just borne out that when you

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Speaker 5: And meanwhile, if you've got if I were gonna build

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Speaker 5: Ben Simmons is who I come up with, Like, that's

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Speaker 5: the guy that I actually outside of Tony Allen, Ben

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Speaker 5: Simmons is the guy that I want guarding Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 5: That's one of the few matchups I think where look,

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Speaker 5: I will be like, I think Ben Simmons won that matchup.

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Speaker 5: That's how good Ben Simmons is defensively, I'm not worre

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Speaker 5: the Sixers can control tempo and like DeAndre Jordan versus Joelle.

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Speaker 3: And Bid give me, give me, give me, give me,

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Speaker 5: Depending on the matchups, Like I really genuinely like that Sixer.

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Speaker 5: Like I'm liking the Sixers more and more as a

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Speaker 5: potential upset in the Eastern Conference. It's when a reason

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Speaker 5: like I'm glad this trade happened and that all the

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Speaker 3: And bad active, it's pretty good. It's it's it's pretty good.

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Speaker 5: One last thing for both of you, what is your

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Speaker 6: Rahim, I think it's the defense.

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Speaker 4: You look at a team like the Sixers. I think this,

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Speaker 6: But right now, defensively, I don't see how.

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Speaker 4: They're going to stop any But at the same time,

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Speaker 6: So that's my concern.

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Speaker 3: Brandon, what's your concern?

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Speaker 7: So I'm not so worried about the big man thing.

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Speaker 7: I definitely am worried. But to me, you know, just

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Speaker 7: processing the whole few modern basketball. If I'm the nets

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Speaker 7: There's no one here that can stop me. That's a

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Speaker 7: can have all the post possessions you want. I trust

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Speaker 7: my offense with my three superstar players. This is the

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Speaker 6: To me, the bigger.

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Speaker 7: Concern with the big men even then defense, and I

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Speaker 7: guess it is tied to defense, but I'm worried about

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Speaker 7: the rebounding. I think back to the Warriors teams and

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Speaker 7: kept so many possessions. And to me, the rebounding is

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Speaker 3: Chew and swallow no savory, all right, So yeah, one

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Speaker 5: You get to distribute any way you want, because Brandon

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Speaker 3: Just little tiny absentee is what he wants.

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Speaker 5: He wants those absent teezers to fill up his plate

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Speaker 5: eight hundred dollars on Wednesday nights games. Let's start with

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Speaker 5: Raem Balmer. Raheem, what's your first bet on the board?

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Speaker 4: My first bet on the board, We're going with the

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Speaker 4: And coming off a big win against the Suns, I'm

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Speaker 4: same thing. Thirty three dollars to win thirty. I love

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Speaker 3: Raheem Palmer is falling in love. All right, good start

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Speaker 5: the Blazers are eleven and six straight up six nine

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Speaker 5: I've got twenty bucks on Grizzlies Blazers first half under

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Speaker 5: Here's one this season in Grizzlies games, the first half

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Speaker 5: On Grizzlies first half unders, no CJ McCollum, no use

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Speaker 5: of Nurkic. The Grizzlies have played excellent defense under Taylor Jenkins,

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Speaker 5: Cancer will get some of it, especially with you with

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Speaker 5: think Memphis is going to grind this game out. Dame

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Speaker 5: points for Dame. So I've also got one oh nine

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm alright, I'm alright here. So I'm gonna take

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna stab your ask with this, fool. Do you

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Speaker 7: So I'm gonna go with the magic that is the

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Speaker 7: I'm taking the Los Angeles Clippers team over won twenty

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Speaker 7: lot of points. That's at least one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 7: both have gone over in fourth straight. There's not a

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Speaker 6: We know the.

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Speaker 7: Los Angeles is averaging just a touch under one fifteen

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Speaker 7: So if you're averaging one to eighteen most games out

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Speaker 7: and then you get to play the Kings defense. You know,

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Speaker 7: we know the Clippers are going to score. So as

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Speaker 7: long as they feel like trying tonight, I like them

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Speaker 1: Brandon Anderson is a hater.

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Speaker 7: How much twenty dollars?

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Speaker 4: Sorry?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I am tailing that tail alert. I am tailing

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Speaker 5: that one. I will be on that tonight with you.

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Speaker 4: Well, if you guys telling that, I actually I wrote

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Speaker 4: about this in my projections column. I like the over

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Speaker 4: You know, these guys play the other day and they

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Speaker 4: lit it up the Sacramento Kings. They're giving up one

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Speaker 4: hundred and twenty points per one hundred possessions. That's five

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Speaker 4: points worse than the best offense in NBA history. The

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with the over. I mean, Brandon like

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Speaker 4: The Clippers are nine and four.

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Speaker 6: I like this over.

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Speaker 4: It goes over relatively easy. I make this line two

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Speaker 4: thirty three. It's actually dropped down, which I'm surprised. So

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that as well.

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Speaker 5: I am going to take this is gonna here's a

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Speaker 5: nineteen what my good friend Kim Barklay's calling duplex games,

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Speaker 3: Right, they're back the sets of games. Essentially, those nineteen

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Speaker 5: The team that lost the first matchup has won the

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Speaker 3: They just beat you. You make adjustments. You're not gonna

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Speaker 5: You have a motivational edge, which I always believe is

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Speaker 5: more important than injuries is a motivational edge. You win

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Speaker 5: the first quarter. Now, do I think the Kings are

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Speaker 3: I do not. Do I think they're gonna cover the spread?

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Speaker 3: No I don't.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to lay the points, but I want

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Speaker 5: to grab them either. I I don't want to grab

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Speaker 3: With the Clippers either. But in a first quarter.

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Speaker 5: I'm getting three and a half. I get three and

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Speaker 3: I'm going small.

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Speaker 5: I'm going small, but I am putting ten bucks on

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Speaker 3: Get away from. I'm not beholding to trends.

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Speaker 5: I will say though, the Clippers also play a lot

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Speaker 5: They play mostly drop. Darreon Fox should be able to

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Speaker 5: I expect Fox to come out and play well in

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Speaker 6: I actually covered the first.

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Speaker 3: All right, Brandon, what's your second bet?

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Speaker 6: All right?

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Speaker 7: So I'm gonna go to the Pistons Hawks, and I'm

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Speaker 7: So the line is dropping. You want to grab it

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Speaker 7: that's probably just going to regress in time. But also

439
00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,679
Speaker 7: a lot of that is Clint Cappella can actually defend.

440
00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,000
Speaker 7: They have someone that actually can defend and protect the

441
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,120
Speaker 7: rim now and Deander Henter is playing a lot better

442
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,960
Speaker 7: on both ends this season. That's helped them a lot.

443
00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 7: I'm starting to come around on the Hawks a little bit.

444
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,440
Speaker 7: John Collins is looking really good, Trey Young is still

445
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,400
Speaker 7: Trey Young, but the team is actually defending not great.

446
00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:27,840
Speaker 7: I'm not saying they're a great defensive team now, but

447
00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 7: they look like they can at least be averaged. They've

448
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,600
Speaker 7: been above average with Capella out there. The Pistons are

449
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,280
Speaker 7: not good. The Pistons can't score, they don't have a

450
00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 7: lot of weapons, try they are hanging around in games.

451
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Speaker 7: I thought about parlaying this with the Hawks win. The

452
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Speaker 7: Hawks are only four and four straight up as favorites

453
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Speaker 7: this year, so I'm not going to do that. I'm

454
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Speaker 7: going to stay away from that, but I'm just going

455
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Speaker 7: to take the under here. As of two twenty one

456
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Speaker 7: and a half when it was last night, every Hawks

457
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,879
Speaker 7: game in January was under that number, and the Pistons

458
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Speaker 7: under that number in their last five. The Hawks are

459
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Speaker 7: under nine and oh straight in January and eleven and

460
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Speaker 7: two on the season. So I'm gonna take the under

461
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Speaker 7: at two twenty and falling.

462
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Speaker 3: Okay, I am going the other way.

463
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Speaker 5: I'm going ten dollars on Pistons plus five. I'm tailing

464
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Speaker 5: Justin fan here, who that has That's one of his

465
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Speaker 5: picks in his Insiders tool, which you can get with

466
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 5: a Action Network Pro subscription. On that labs, he puts

467
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Speaker 5: his specific picks in base off of what's going on.

468
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 5: Most of the Pistons' losses have come within six points.

469
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Speaker 5: The other problem is that Trey Young is broken right now.

470
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Speaker 5: Ever since Steve Nash basically said that he doesn't play bad, like,

471
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Speaker 5: there's two things going on with the Hawks. So you

472
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Speaker 5: mentioned like, I'm not worried like you know Trey Young. Still,

473
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Speaker 5: Trey Young has not been the case. Trey Young has

474
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Speaker 5: not been himself at all. He's not getting to the

475
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Speaker 5: line and that has basically taken off about a third

476
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Speaker 5: of his production. John Collins called him out for being selfish,

477
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Speaker 5: and there's still a lot of consternation whenever Trey pulls

478
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Speaker 5: up from thirty feet.

479
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Speaker 3: I look this up.

480
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,120
Speaker 5: He is the second most polls from thirty feet behind

481
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Speaker 5: Dame Lillard. Dame has an effective field goal percentage of

482
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Speaker 5: forty five percent on those shots.

483
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Speaker 3: Young has an effective.

484
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Speaker 5: Field goal percentage, not field goal percentage, effective field goal

485
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Speaker 5: percentage of thirty percent. He's five of twenty five and

486
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Speaker 5: that was before the last game where he was I saw.

487
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Speaker 5: I specifically checked after I saw him chuck up three

488
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Speaker 5: of those in a half on MLKDA. So I don't

489
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Speaker 5: like where the Hawks are at. I am exactly opposite

490
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Speaker 5: of you on this The defense is maybe playing better.

491
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Speaker 5: This is still a bad defensive team. They're just they

492
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Speaker 5: do not have they do not have the horses.

493
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Speaker 3: To play good defense. They have too many liabilities on

494
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Speaker 3: the floor. They don't look connected. The Pistons are competitive,

495
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Speaker 3: they play hard. I think Del Fay.

496
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Speaker 5: As time goes on, Jeremy Grant's putting up good numbers.

497
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Speaker 5: So I'll go ahead and take Pistons plus five. Hello, Detroit.

498
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Speaker 6: One.

499
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Speaker 4: I actually wrote about this game or my projection's talent today.

500
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 4: My model actually makes this game to nineteen. I like

501
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Speaker 4: the under as well. I mean, you look at you

502
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Speaker 4: said Trey Young's broken. We I don't know if you

503
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 4: saw the Blazers game the other day. They were down

504
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 4: two with thirty seconds to go, and he chucks the

505
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Speaker 4: forty footer. It's nowhere close. I mean, Trey Young is

506
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Speaker 4: shooting twenty seven point four percent from three. Right now,

507
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 4: He's shooting thirty eight percent from the field. This offense

508
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 4: is completely broken. I mean, over the last two weeks

509
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Speaker 4: they're twenty six of the NBA team with the offensive

510
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Speaker 4: rating of one oh four.

511
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Speaker 6: I mean this this.

512
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Speaker 4: Team can't score, but I mean surprisingly, the defense is

513
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Speaker 4: just I don't know if it's gonna regress at some point,

514
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 4: but right now they're eighth and defensive rating this season,

515
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Speaker 4: and you look at the Pistons. The Pistons are twenty

516
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Speaker 4: for the offensive ring I think, and the Pistons also

517
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 4: played the eighth slowest pace in the league. I like

518
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,360
Speaker 4: this game to go under. My model makes it to nineteen.

519
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 4: I grab some at two twenty one and a half.

520
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 4: I think I've played this down in two twenty, but

521
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Speaker 4: I think it's it gets their relative.

522
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Speaker 6: I like the under all.

523
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Speaker 5: Right, So that wraps up Raheem's bets because Raheem keeps

524
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Speaker 5: things tight. Thirty three on the on the Grizzlies, thirty

525
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 5: three on King's clips over two man, I can't helpe it,

526
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 5: and thirty three under on two twenty one and a

527
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Speaker 5: half Hawks.

528
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Speaker 3: Did you get two twenty one and a half? Did

529
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 3: you get the number? Yeah?

530
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Speaker 4: I got to twenty one and a half. It's in

531
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Speaker 4: the app and it's in my projections columns to face,

532
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Speaker 4: So check it out, all.

533
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Speaker 5: Right, Brandon, so far you've got Clippers team total over

534
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 5: one twenty and a half under on Hawks Pistons two

535
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Speaker 5: twenty one and a half.

536
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Speaker 7: What else you got so before that, Just to be clear,

537
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 7: when I say Trey Young is still Trey Young, I'm

538
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 7: talking about on defense. We know that he's not a

539
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 7: good on defense. I agree the offense has not been

540
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,160
Speaker 7: the same. I was saying that more is the defensive caveat.

541
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Speaker 7: I agree that I definitely still have concerns there. So

542
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Speaker 7: I'm gonna go to the props here for these, So

543
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 7: you really should be following. Our props are props over

544
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Speaker 7: at the get the the labs tool, get the whole

545
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Speaker 7: package right now my props column using Justin Pan's projections

546
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Speaker 7: and exclusively picking a one hund hundred percent off of

547
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Speaker 7: our tool this season fifty eight wins, thirty four losses,

548
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,159
Speaker 7: and two pushes fifty eight and thirty four. That's plus

549
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 7: twenty three units, three and oh yesterday, twenty four percent

550
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 7: return on investment. Those picks are straight out of the

551
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Speaker 7: app and you can get those for free our top

552
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Speaker 7: three picks each day. So I'm going to play a

553
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 7: couple of these. We've been calling these the Brandon Special

554
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 7: because I'm loving some of these big men assist props

555
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,880
Speaker 7: where the line is super low and you just need

556
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 7: to grab one or two. So I'm grabbing two of

557
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 7: these today, twenty bucks each. So first one going back

558
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 7: to the nets. Here, DeAndre Jordan over one and a

559
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 7: half assists. Now, back in the day, DeAndre Jordan, at

560
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 7: least in my head, used to be like Hassan white Side.

561
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,919
Speaker 7: You would never have even dreamed of betting him to

562
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:53,159
Speaker 7: get one assists, let alone too. So Jordan, obviously we

563
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 7: know he's going to play. They don't have any other center,

564
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 7: and he's got to be out there. He is over

565
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,400
Speaker 7: one and a half assists in eight of the last

566
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 7: or eight of his fourteen games. But if you look

567
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 7: by minutes, if he's playing at least eighteen minutes, he's

568
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 7: over in seven of those eight games. Over the last

569
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 7: three seasons, Jordan is at two point nine assists per

570
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 7: thirty six minutes. So that's not huge. I'm not saying

571
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 7: it's a passing savant, but he's passing a little bit.

572
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 7: He's you know, on this team, it's not gonna be

573
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 7: hard to get assists. That's an offensive rebound and a

574
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,120
Speaker 7: pass out to an immediate jump shot. That's a handoff

575
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 7: to a cutter diving to the rim, kyrie or Harden.

576
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 7: All I need is to and at fan duel plus

577
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 7: one sixty right now, that's plus one sixty for a

578
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 7: guy that has hit this in seven out of eight

579
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 7: games when he's played enough minutes, which you will tonight.

580
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 7: So twenty dollars on that one. And then I'm also

581
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 7: gonna stick with the big men and go with a

582
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 7: rookie that I loved coming into the draft, Xavier Tillman

583
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 7: out Memphis, same thing, over one and a half assists.

584
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 7: So Tilman is starting at center with Jonas Balancunis out.

585
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 7: He's played twenty eight and it's a game the last

586
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 7: two games, and Tillman his elite pass coming in as

587
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 7: a rookie, or his lead skill is passing. He's a

588
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 7: great interior passer, he's great on the roll, and we're

589
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 7: projecting him at two and a half. He's had thirteen

590
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 7: assists in his last six games, and for those games

591
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 7: he's playing under twenty minutes off the bench. He's his

592
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 7: minister up now. I loved watching Memphis on Martin Luther

593
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 7: King Day. Him, Tillman and Clark are great inside. They're

594
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 7: great playing off of each other. Memphis just keeps stealing

595
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 7: these big men. Late in the draft, they're out there.

596
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 7: So I'm twenty dollars, I'm Tillman, twenty dollars on Jordan,

597
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 7: both of them. All I need is to assists, and

598
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 7: that's my two props for the day.

599
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 5: Okay, So you've got twenty on clibber seam total over

600
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 5: one twenty and a half, twenty on the under on

601
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 5: Hawks pistons, twenty on Jordan over one and a half assists,

602
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 5: and twenty on Tilman over one and a half assists.

603
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 3: Where's the rest of your money going?

604
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 6: All right?

605
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 7: So the last couple of bets, I mentioned this earlier

606
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Speaker 7: in the nets section. I'm putting ten dollars on the

607
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 7: nets second quarter. It's two and a half. We talked

608
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 7: about it earlier. I don't know who's going to play

609
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 7: in that bench, you know, for the cows we got

610
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 7: like Lamar Stevens, JaVale McGee, and Dean Wade out there.

611
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 7: Some of those guys are gonna be on the court,

612
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 7: and then James Harden or Kyrie Irving's going to be

613
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 7: leaning the bench on the other side. So I'm just

614
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 7: playing the bench unit there and then just to really

615
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 7: diversify my portfolio and drive you guys, crazy, my last

616
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 7: ten dollars, I'm splitting, and I'm just taking a shot

617
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,959
Speaker 7: five bucks on the King's money line against the Clippers,

618
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 7: five bucks on the Calves money line against the Nets.

619
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Speaker 7: The Nets and Clippers, I just don't trust them. I

620
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 7: don't trust them to show up on a cold night

621
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 7: in January, and I just feel like Rachel Nichols is

622
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 7: going to be dying to lead off the jump tomorrow

623
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 7: with oh my gosh, one of these favorite teams lost.

624
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 7: Two of the Kings are lost to the Caves. Both

625
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 7: of them are plus four hundred or better. I'm taking

626
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 7: a shot five bucks each.

627
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 6: That's it, all right.

628
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 5: Raheem's got thirty three on the Grizzlies, thirty three on

629
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 5: King's clips over, and thirty three on the under on

630
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 5: Hawk's pistons. I've got twenty bucks on Grizzlies, Blazers first

631
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 5: half under, one on nine.

632
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 3: I've got ten bucks on Vucevic.

633
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 5: Over, twenty three and a half points on FanDuel, So

634
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 5: two things one. In four of his last five games,

635
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 5: buch has gone over this mark. He has to go

636
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 5: on a huge scoring low. With Markel Foltz and Evin

637
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 5: Fournier out the Magic are terrible without Fournier, so I

638
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 5: can't bet them.

639
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 3: The Wolves are terrible without Karl Anthony Town, so I

640
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 3: can't bet them.

641
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 5: But boy can bet is Nasri cannot stop big men.

642
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 5: They absolutely just dominated him and put up huge numbers.

643
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 5: I like Vucovich, who's been great this season over twenty

644
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 5: three and a half. I think he's gonna have well

645
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 5: over that in this game. My biggest bet, I've talked

646
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 5: about Pistons plus five.

647
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 3: I've talked about the Kings first quarter.

648
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Speaker 5: My biggest bet of this week thirty bucks on six

649
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 5: Ers minus four and a half. This is insane to me.

650
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 5: They do not have Al Horford to stop Joel Embiid.

651
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 5: They do not have Aaron Baines to stop Joel Embiid.

652
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 5: I do not trust Tristan Thompson. Here's the big one.

653
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Speaker 5: I was teasing earlier fellas with Seth Curry and Joel

654
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 5: Embiid in the lineup seven and oh straight up five

655
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 5: and two against the spread, the Sixers have been dominant.

656
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 5: The Celtics may not have Tatum. Find out what's going

657
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 5: on with Tatum before you put in your bed, like

658
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 5: find out and bet based off of that. Make sure

659
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Speaker 5: that you accommodate that because I'm in this in early

660
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 5: so we'll have it in the pod. But I want

661
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 5: to make sure where Tatum is at even if Tatum plays,

662
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 5: I'm going If Tatum plays and then in the line shortens,

663
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna play it again. If Tatum doesn't play and

664
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Speaker 5: it gets longer, I won't play it.

665
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Speaker 3: But I do like the Sixers a lot.

666
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 5: Here at four and a half, I cannot believe that this,

667
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 5: this spread is that low. Rahim, as a resident Philly guy,

668
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 5: backed me up here.

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Speaker 4: These two teams play in the preseason, and this line

670
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 4: was five and a half, so I mean, and both

671
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 4: teams were at full shrimp, so I mean at four

672
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 4: and a half, this this line is pretty short. I'm

673
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 4: personally not touching it, but I'm not. I'm not mad

674
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 4: at the play.

675
00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 5: Cowardly, cowardly, what did you say?

676
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 7: Hell, you're just a goddamn colin.

677
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 4: I won't have songs of bitches we're afraid to fight

678
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 4: sticking up this place of honor.

679
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 3: Good hear me? God damn coward.

680
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 4: I'm a coward.

681
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know why you would be

682
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 3: a coward. It just opened five and a half and

683
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 3: it moved to four and a half overnight.

684
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 5: Oh and and on top of that, uh, seventy percent

685
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 5: of the tickets and sixty seven percent of the money

686
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 5: you're coming in on Boston. What's to be worried about? Really,

687
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 5: it's gonna be fine. It's gonna be fine. I'm trusting

688
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 5: my Sixers.

689
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 3: Oh God, I'm backing Embeid.

690
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 7: The Seth Curry numbers are great. I love the Seth

691
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 7: Curry splits. It's a small sample, and the Seth Curry

692
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 7: splits only work that great if he continues to shoot

693
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 7: sixty percent behind the arc, which is the real number

694
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 7: he's at right now, and eighty percent I'm true shooting. Yeah,

695
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 7: if if you have a guy putting up those numbers,

696
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 7: the rest of the numbers are gonna look really good too.

697
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 7: I understand that's not not correlated. He's getting easy open

698
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 7: shots there. He's still not gonna hit seek on the season,

699
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 7: So I'm a little skeptical, and those numbers make them down.

700
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 7: I still like the Sixers here, so I like the play.

701
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 5: Finally, by the way, I've got twenty bucks on Mavericks Pacers.

702
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 5: Over all right, they'll wrap it up for the NBA buffet.

703
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 3: Don't fill up on Brad.

704
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 5: No crazy bills this week. I don't have to feel

705
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 5: like I'm taking crazy bills. There's been nothing that's irritated me.

706
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 5: So that's a nice break for us this week. However,

707
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 5: it is time to go back to the futures.

708
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 7: Back to the future, don't it's been a ton of

709
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 7: meet me in.

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Speaker 6: All right?

711
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 5: The segment we go back and we talk about what

712
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 5: futures we wish we grabbed earlier, either before the season

713
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 5: or earlier in the season. Brandon, do you have a

714
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Speaker 5: future that you wish that you had grabbed before the

715
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 5: season or earlier.

716
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 7: I am sticking with the theme today. We talked about

717
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 7: the Nets second quarter, we talked about the Nuts, a

718
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 7: bench unit. I played the Dondrache over and I'm sticking

719
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 7: with Steve Nash here. Steve Nash Coach of the Year

720
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 7: was two thousand before the season. Do I think Steve

721
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,399
Speaker 7: Nash is God's gift to coaching? No, I don't really

722
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 7: care about Steve Nash's coaching. He's got a hundred coaches.

723
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 7: Kyrie Irving's the coach. Everybody's the coach. Listen, this is

724
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 7: a narrative award. Half of the time. You gotta win

725
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 7: a lot of games. The Nets are gonna win a

726
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 7: lot of games. We all agree that they look like

727
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 7: the team to be in the East, the Nets with

728
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 7: all that talent, barring some sort of disaster or guys

729
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 7: missing time, they're gonna win a lot of games. They're

730
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 7: gonna be up near the top of the standings. I

731
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,399
Speaker 7: haven't seen yet any particular coach that looks like he's

732
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 7: running away.

733
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Speaker 6: With this award.

734
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 7: Coach of the Year typically either is going to the

735
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 7: overachiever of the year or just to the story that

736
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Speaker 7: we like a lot. Everybody likes Steve Nash, Everyone in

737
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 7: the media likes Steve Nash. He opened the year at

738
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 7: plus two thousand Coach of the Year. I wish I

739
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,399
Speaker 7: had thought to bet it then, because we already knew

740
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 7: then that this James Harden thing was a possibility, and

741
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 7: just a bet on. Oh look he made it work

742
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 7: with these three stars. Oh they bounced them all together.

743
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 7: A wow, it's amazing.

744
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving doesn't talk to Ponds.

745
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,439
Speaker 7: D'antoni's offense there and look, Nash is now at nine

746
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 7: hundred at bet MGM to win the awards. His odds

747
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 7: are had, I wouldn't play it at that number anymore.

748
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 7: I wish I grabbed at two thousand. Let's be honest.

749
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 7: Wouldn't be the first time Steve Nash won a trophy

750
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 7: he didn't deserve. Let's give him another one.

751
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 5: Oh man, that last thing in there is just really

752
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 5: not necessary on so many levels because he absolutely deserved

753
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 5: it that year. Instead of never mind, I can't even

754
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 5: I can't get into that. So you know, I love you,

755
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 5: love your work. The props have been killing it, been

756
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 5: telling you wonderful.

757
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 3: Do you mind if I go out? Ye olva?

758
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 2: Here?

759
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 3: Can I do that? Kind of permission to go out? Yelva?

760
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 4: Do it?

761
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 5: Are you out of your mind? Are you out of

762
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 5: your mind? Did Sposter win any during the Big Three era?

763
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 5: Did he win Coach of the Year during the Big

764
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 5: Three era? No he did not.

765
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 3: Did Kerr win after Durant went to Golden State? No

766
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 3: he did not.

767
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 6: Did not.

768
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 5: The other thing is the awards voters are going to

769
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 5: ask coaches who they think should be Coach of the Year. Now,

770
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 5: last year it didn't match up between the coaches vote

771
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 5: and the media vote because it was clearly Nick Nurse

772
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 5: and I guess the coaches just hate Nick Nurse. However,

773
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 5: it has to be somebody like that. It's got to

774
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 5: be somebody who's impact on the team is greater. They

775
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 5: do not reward coaches for handling star talent.

776
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 3: They should.

777
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 5: I've always argued managing multiple stars is harder than actually

778
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 5: getting a team of role players to buy into a

779
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 5: role and play together. Those guys want to play together.

780
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 5: Everybody's happy in those situations because they're sharing the ball.

781
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 5: It's not ball dominant. It's really not about wins like

782
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,959
Speaker 5: Bud won. Because Bud came in and took a Bucks

783
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 5: team that was a first round out and made them

784
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 5: into a juggernaut, right like. It wasn't like, man, they

785
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 5: have all this talent. It was they have Jannis who

786
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 5: became the MVP, and a bunch of dudes, and Middleton's

787
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 5: really good, but he got better in part because of

788
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 5: what Bud unlocked with them.

789
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 3: It has to be a guy like that.

790
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 5: No one is going to watch the nets and be like,

791
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 5: oh man, look at that Steve Nash when you know

792
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 5: that Seth that Kyrie Irving has basically said he's a consultant, Like, no,

793
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 5: under no circumstances, there is this is absolutely setting money

794
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:23,760
Speaker 5: on fire.

795
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 3: There was no way Steve Nash wins Coach of the Year.

796
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 3: Am I wrong?

797
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,399
Speaker 6: Ring, You're not wrong at all.

798
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 3: Thank you, Hi ram H. What's your back in the future.

799
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 4: I'm going with the Portland Trail Blazers to miss the

800
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 4: playoffs and plus twenty eighty four. You were right, man,

801
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 4: You told us right here on this very podcast that

802
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 4: the Blazers were trenched.

803
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Terry Stotts experience.

804
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 6: They don't have a defense. The whole market was over

805
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 6: value in them, and Man Branding were you know, two

806
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 6: of them.

807
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,959
Speaker 4: And now we have an opportunity even still get plus

808
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 4: one eighty four on a team that's gonna be without

809
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 4: c macom. They're gonna be well without use of nrkics

810
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 4: and their Dame injury away from being a lottery team

811
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 4: at this point, this this defense is horrendous.

812
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 6: There's there's Tim, there's Tim teams.

813
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 4: In the West who could potentially make the playoffs, and

814
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 4: there's only eight spots. You're gonna have a player, You're

815
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 4: gonna have a play scenario the Blazers.

816
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:25,720
Speaker 6: The Blazers are.

817
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 4: Playing team and I think at the same time you

818
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 4: could look at the Warriors as being one of those

819
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 4: teams that gonna replace them this year. So I'm gonna

820
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 4: take the Blazers to miss the playoffs. One plus point

821
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 4: eighty four. This team is done.

822
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, I shouldn't celebrate because they lose, you know, two

823
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 5: starters for multiple weeks. I'm not celebrating. It's terrible that

824
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 5: happened to them, especially if you're lad for Narki. You

825
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 5: just can't get the guy, just can't get healthy. I

826
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 5: just my problem is is that this keeps happening where

827
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 5: somebody gets hurt and it covers up the fact that

828
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 5: you're gonna have injuries throughout NBA season. Your roster needs

829
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,720
Speaker 5: to be getting good enough to survive, and their roster

830
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 5: is never good enough to survive these injuries. They weren't

831
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 5: good before they were eight and six. But everyone I

832
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,240
Speaker 5: talked to about that was like, they're eight and six,

833
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 5: Like everyone was surprised, because when you watch the Blazers,

834
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 5: you're just like, oh man, this defense is awful. They

835
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,720
Speaker 5: can't get stops. The second unit is a disaster. With Mellow,

836
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,320
Speaker 5: We'll see if they are able to pull off a trade.

837
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 5: The only upside for them is Derrek Jones Junior has

838
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 5: played well, but their wing rotation has been really bad,

839
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 5: and part of that's Rodney Hood just isn't coming back

840
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 5: from the Achilles. But you know, look, I did bet

841
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 5: them to miss. I bet them for the playing game.

842
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 5: I bet them for the playing game because I just

843
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 5: did not believe they were a top six team in

844
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 5: the Western Conference. Maybe they'll prove me wrong and rally

845
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 5: behind the being absent of the injuries. Nurgis is supposed

846
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 5: to be back in six weeks ish nowak they'll probably

847
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 5: take longer. But if he gets back, you know, maybe

848
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 5: they can hang. I don't want to count them out

849
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,720
Speaker 5: because Stotts always rattles off a win streak some point

850
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 5: mid season, but I do wind up feeling like there's

851
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,439
Speaker 5: gonna be I just I do not think this team

852
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 5: is that good.

853
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 3: I just I just don't.

854
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 4: I mean, they probably they missed the playoffs last year

855
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 4: if the bubble doesn't happen, Yeah, And I just think

856
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:14,479
Speaker 4: the bubble and Dame's performance it really kind of gass

857
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,399
Speaker 4: us up. And then we were really a little too

858
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 4: hype when Robert Covington just not a good team.

859
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 5: Mine is the Pelicans to miss the playoffs. I don't

860
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,399
Speaker 5: even know this team is gonna make the plan.

861
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 3: Then I like that bad.

862
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 5: SVG is trying to coach this team like it's a

863
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,280
Speaker 5: team that's ready to make I've seen this before where

864
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 5: you have a young cord that's really exciting and you

865
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,959
Speaker 5: think you can skip steps, so you hire the coach

866
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 5: that's gonna get you all the way to like competing

867
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 5: for like a playoff series win.

868
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,359
Speaker 3: They're not there yet. They're just not there yet, and.

869
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 5: SVG has taken all the life out of the offense

870
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 5: that Alvin Gentry had. Their defensive scheme is way too

871
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Speaker 5: aggressive because of what their back line and help.

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Speaker 3: They're not aware enough on their back line. They don't

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Speaker 3: have veterans, so they got nobody to rotate on the back.

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Speaker 5: If you're going to play the scheme they're running, which

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Speaker 5: is two one ball, you have to have weak side

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Speaker 5: defenders that know how to time coming over to help

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Speaker 5: to show against the drive or the role pass and

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Speaker 5: be able to recover to the corner.

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00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 3: They don't have either, so they're constantly off a.

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Speaker 5: Lonzo Ball is back to being what he was in LA,

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Speaker 5: which is a minus player. Overall, he's driving Pelicans fans

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Speaker 5: crazy they want to kill Alexander Walker to play more.

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00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 5: Brandon Ingram has played great. Zion Williams is killing it.

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Speaker 5: Those two guys have been beasts. But overall, I really

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Speaker 5: wish I gotten in on the team missing the playoffs

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Speaker 5: once they had Eric Bledsoe next to Alonzo and we're

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Speaker 5: slowing down the offense. We should have jumped on them

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Speaker 5: to miss the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: You can still get it.

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Speaker 6: They had by no shooting other than JJ.

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Speaker 3: Red no shooting, no shooting other than JJ.

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Speaker 4: They're also giving up like the highest percentage of threes

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Speaker 4: and they're getting destroyed from three.

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Speaker 3: Gonna be a rough one in New Orleans. All right.

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Speaker 5: That's gonna wrap it up with the Action Network podcast

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Speaker 5: Brandon Anderson, Raheem Palmer. Make sure to download our app.

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Speaker 5: Make sure to check out all of our picks in

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Speaker 5: the app. Make sure to check out all of our

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Speaker 5: work on the Action Network and careering Brandon's red hot

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Speaker 5: picks betting all of the big men to get to

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Speaker 5: assist a game. It has been great to tail him.

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Speaker 5: I've been tailing Raheem on all his picks, including NFL

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Speaker 5: great stuff.

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Speaker 3: Although I would say Ravens, yikes, that was rough yis. Yikes.

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Speaker 5: We got packer futures a lab though, all right, well,

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Speaker 5: thank chess fans, so those are dead. But you can

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Speaker 5: check out all of our stuff on the app. We

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Speaker 5: will talk to you guys again now his pie. Yeah,

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00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:48,919
Speaker 5: make sure to check out my Yogi piece.

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Speaker 3: I've got Yoka MVP piece up on the site. Thanks

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Speaker 3: for listening.

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Speaker 5: We'll talk to you guys again next time on the

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Speaker 5: Action Network NBA Wednesday Buffet Podcast.

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Speaker 4: We're finished talking