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Speaker 2: Better than Most, Better than Most, Better than Most.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Action Network podcast, presented by Bett MGM.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host, Mike Calbarys, and today we have a

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Speaker 3: very special episode. In its time, The Action Network has

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Speaker 3: released more than five thousand total podcasts, but we've never

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Speaker 3: had an opportunity to do an episode quite like this

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Speaker 3: one until now. So grab your berets, toast your bagatts,

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Speaker 3: and say bonjour to our betting preview of the twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty four Summer Olympics in Paris. And for anyone listening

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Speaker 3: who hasn't got themselves into a patriotic gambling frenzy yet,

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Speaker 3: there's still time. The Olympics opening ceremony is live on Friday,

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Speaker 3: July twenty sixth on NBC. Now here's how today's Olympics

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Speaker 3: betting preview is going to work. I'll be joined by

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Speaker 3: just a ton of Action Network contributors, each chosen for

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Speaker 3: their acumen around specific sports. We're gonna have this conveyor

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Speaker 3: to be a lot of fun to dig into. We're

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Speaker 3: going to cover as many sports as we can, as

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Speaker 3: quickly as we can We're going to go sport by sport,

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Speaker 3: one at a time. We're going to bring experts onto

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Speaker 3: the show, sometimes solo, sometimes in pairs, and they're going

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Speaker 3: to do their best to give us the absolute best

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Speaker 3: bets from every specific event, and when they're done, we'll

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Speaker 3: say goodbye to them and move on to the next

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Speaker 3: one in the line. So if you want to hear

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Speaker 3: in order of events that we're covering today, just check

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Speaker 3: out the episode description below. We'll have the list of

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Speaker 3: sports in order in podcast episode description, along with the

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Speaker 3: time markers and the experts who spoke in each section,

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Speaker 3: and every time we change events, it's going to be

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Speaker 3: we're moving on to the next thing. Final note before

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Speaker 3: we dive in. We will cover picks for men's and

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Speaker 3: women's basketball at the end of the episode. But if

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Speaker 3: you want our complete Olympic basketball coverage, please check out

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Speaker 3: Action Networks two basketball podcasts, that's Buckets and Buckets WNBA.

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Speaker 3: They're going to do a super deep dive into the

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Speaker 3: Olympic coops all going to be there for you on Buckets.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's get started. First, we're going to welcome

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Speaker 3: Evan Abrams, Action Network Director of Research and Media, say hello.

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Speaker 4: Evan, what's going on? Mike?

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Speaker 3: And we're also joined by Calvin Wetzel, very well respected

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Speaker 3: sports gambler specializing in niche sports, a darling of the

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Speaker 3: Action Network Discord Channel and the host of the popular

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Speaker 3: betting podcast bet She Wins. How you doing, Calvin?

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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm good.

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Speaker 3: Good to be on with you guys. All right, let's

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Speaker 3: get right into it. We have you two guys here.

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Speaker 3: I know we're going to get into a lot of sports,

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Speaker 3: so we're going to start the episode right here with

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Speaker 3: Evan giving out his first pick. We're going to cover

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Speaker 3: total medals across the entire Olympic Games. Evan, please take

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Speaker 3: it away.

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Speaker 4: Thank you. Mike.

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Speaker 5: I'll start off by saying this, These props are available,

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Speaker 5: and not just metals.

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Speaker 4: We're talking about each of the.

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Speaker 5: Events, from basketball to field hockey to water polo, across

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Speaker 5: all different books, so please shop. And I say this

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Speaker 5: even more so than like an NFL Sunday, where you

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Speaker 5: know you might find six and a half and seven.

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Speaker 4: These are very different crossbooks. So if I say a

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Speaker 5: Gone, or anyone does in this pod, we apologize but

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Speaker 5: check it out and please shop. And I will go

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Speaker 5: through these relatively quickly with a little bit of information.

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Speaker 5: But I'll start with the three medal counts I like

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Speaker 5: but I like Netherlands under sixteen and a half golds.

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Speaker 5: So they're an up and coming country in terms of

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Speaker 5: the Olympics, and they're probably gonna do much better than

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Speaker 5: they have in their past. Twelve is their most in

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Speaker 5: their history. Happened in two thousand. They had ten in Tokyo,

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Speaker 5: in twenty twenty eight in Brazil, six in London, seven

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Speaker 5: Next one, Germany. This one's a really funny one. For

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Speaker 4: Basically ten or more in everyone.

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Speaker 5: But if you go recent ten in Tokyo eleven in London,

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Speaker 4: Last one I'm gonna like on the under is Japan.

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Speaker 5: So this is a real shopping situation because I took

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Speaker 5: So they broke their record in Tokyo, they did really

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Speaker 5: So in my basically they had about twenty seven last

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Speaker 5: I really did want to go over twenty four and

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Speaker 5: to me, I think an over there at twenty four

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Speaker 5: this for at least ten seconds. Great Britain, everyone taking

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Speaker 5: It's moved way to way too far from me, so

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Speaker 5: I'm going to pass, but it's worth noting the movement

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Speaker 3: Right, Calvin, I think it's time to get you involved

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Speaker 3: women's three on three tournament. Before we get into your picks,

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Speaker 3: can you tell me a little bit about the structure.

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Speaker 3: How do you go about trying to meddle in this event?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so there are eight teams and it's basically just

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Speaker 3: And who do you like in this particular event?

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Speaker 6: So Timiose is correctly favored on the women's side here,

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Speaker 6: but I do like Team Canada to actually take this

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Speaker 6: plus three fifty of most books. So, like Evan said,

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Speaker 6: shop around. The thing about three on three is that

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Speaker 6: it is just so vastly different than five on five.

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Speaker 6: Anyone who's played three on three or watched three on

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Speaker 6: three knows how fast paced it is. They don't really

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Speaker 6: don't have WNBA talent on the roster like Team USA does,

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Speaker 6: but most players who play in these events, Like when

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Speaker 6: five on five. The Canada roster pretty much exclusively plays

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Speaker 6: three on three all year every year. That's what they've

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Speaker 3: They're really the Splash.

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Speaker 6: Twins, which I feel like means you have to bet

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Speaker 6: on them. But they beat Team USA in a preliminary

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Speaker 6: three on three. But I still think the Team Canada,

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Speaker 3: I do know that this is a new events. Is

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Speaker 6: And it's interesting because in order to qualify you have

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Speaker 6: if you haven't played enough three on three and some

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Speaker 6: of the other smaller international events. So a lot of

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Speaker 6: people were saying, like when Camber Brink tore her Aco, oh,

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Speaker 6: why don't they add Kaylen Clark. You know she didn't

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Speaker 6: make the five on five Olympic roster. Why don't they

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Speaker 6: go at her to three on three? Well, she hasn't

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Speaker 6: like you said, some of them are going to have

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Speaker 6: some less experienced players, but they're all going to be

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Speaker 6: at least a little bit experienced in three on three

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Speaker 6: of the lesser known players. But again, that's why I

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Speaker 6: think Canada is the favorite. They just have so much

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Speaker 3: We'll stick with you here, Calvin for another events. If

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Speaker 3: you look at your sports book account and you're just

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Speaker 3: treading water, you want to finally make some money, why

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Speaker 3: not dive into women's water polo. Who do you like

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Speaker 3: in that event? I'm going with Team USA in this one.

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Speaker 6: It's kind of the casual pick, and they're they're the

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Speaker 6: favorite obviously, But while they're not nearly as dominated as

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Speaker 6: say like five on five basketball, who's like minus two

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Speaker 6: thousand right now, it's just unbettable. They are still the

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Speaker 6: dominant team in this sport. I'm seeing minus one sixty

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Speaker 6: of room to play that. Even at that juice, they've

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Speaker 3: Evan will welcome you in to another sport that has,

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Speaker 4: Two and then beating us in the gold medal game

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Speaker 3: You're gonna have to hold my hand on the next one.

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Speaker 3: Evan, let's get you in the pool. Who do you

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Speaker 5: So I only have one event here, and honestly, because

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Speaker 4: It's about one twenty.

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Speaker 5: That's what I would look for in the market, between

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Speaker 3: Now, one of the highest profile events in all the

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Speaker 5: So mcgloughlin Levern at the four hundred meter hurdles, Grant

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Speaker 4: I give you those four names and saying.

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Speaker 4: Have some fun.

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Speaker 3: As Evan mentioned at the top, make sure you shop around.

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Speaker 5: So I'm going to give definitely less analysis than I

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Speaker 4: So those are my bets.

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Speaker 3: Calvin. Two questions on women's surfing. I want you to

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Speaker 3: walk me through which movie that features surfing should I

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Speaker 3: Surfing movies.

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Speaker 6: You're putting me on the spot, the one with the

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Speaker 3: That's it. I had point break chamber just in case

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Speaker 6: That's why she was able to win that one. They

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Speaker 6: have now figured that out, so they have made her

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Speaker 6: the favorite. I think the value is gone at this

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Speaker 6: point at plus three forty. I was hoping we'd get

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Speaker 6: longer odds on her again because she's not the best

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Speaker 6: surfer in the world, but she knows this wave. Fortunately

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Speaker 6: they figured that out, so there's a couple other places

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Speaker 6: I'm actually looking now for value. Katie Simmers is the

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Speaker 6: best surfer in the world at most places. Obviously here

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Speaker 6: it's a little bit different, but she's third in odds

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Speaker 6: right now at plus six point fifty. She was the

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Speaker 6: runner up at this location in her rookie year twenty

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Speaker 6: twenty three. She's young, she's still only eighteen, and in

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Speaker 6: this past event a couple months ago, she put up

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Speaker 6: some really good scores but got knocked out by fierro

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Speaker 6: who ended up winning. So she still has had a

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Speaker 6: lot of success at this venue and she's obviously been

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Speaker 6: the best in the world basically everywhere else, so I

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Speaker 6: think plus six fifty is too long for her. And

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Speaker 6: then Tatiana Weston Webb at plus nine hundred has also

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Speaker 6: been really good at this specific wave the last couple

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Speaker 6: of years. She also lost a couple months ago in

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Speaker 6: that same event to Veheena fierro In in absolutely epic

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Speaker 6: semi finals where she had a perfect score of ten

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Speaker 6: which is very rare to see and still wasn't quite

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Speaker 6: able to get the win. But she has shown that

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Speaker 6: she can handle this crazy beast of a wave as well.

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Speaker 6: So plus nine hundred for her I think is also

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Speaker 6: really good value.

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Speaker 3: We promised in depth analysis, We promised we'd bring you

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Speaker 3: experts to know these sports inside and out. I still

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Speaker 3: wasn't ready for a hashtag home wave advantage. That is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Take that one to the bank.

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Speaker 3: At the very least, you're going to sound like the

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Speaker 3: smartest guy at the sports bar when you're watching this

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Speaker 3: one down in Tahiti. A special thanks to Calvin and

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Speaker 3: Evan for getting us kickstarted here on our full Olympic coverage.

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Speaker 3: We're onto our next specialist and more events to bet

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Speaker 3: All right, we're keeping it at a rapid pace here now,

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Speaker 3: welcoming in David Gertler, a special Action Network contributor on

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Speaker 3: the sport of tennis. David, how are you doing good?

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Speaker 3: How are you doing great? Let's get right into it.

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Speaker 3: Let's start with the men's side, and then I have

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Speaker 3: some you know, forty thousand foot questions when it comes

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Speaker 3: to the Olympic tennis events. But let's start with men's

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Speaker 3: Who are you targeting and who do you think potentially

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Speaker 3: is mispriced before the draw.

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Speaker 9: It's hard to go against Carlos Alcarez, so you can

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Speaker 9: find him in the market at plus one eighty five,

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Speaker 9: which does not necessarily indicate how great he's been this summers,

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Speaker 9: both the men's in the women's tennis tournament for the Olympics.

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Speaker 9: Has played at roll on Garros, which is the French

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Speaker 9: Open site. It's clay courts, it's slow, and Alcarez this

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Speaker 9: season alone has won the friend Open, which is a

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Speaker 9: tennis major. He's twelve and three this season alone on clay,

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Speaker 9: thirty three and six overall. He's also on klay for

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Speaker 9: his career one hundred and thirty eight and thirty four.

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Speaker 9: That's an eighty percent win rate. That is insane. Now

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Speaker 9: you might be like, well, he might be tired. Plus

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Speaker 9: one eighty five. That doesn't get the Jesus blowing. If

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Speaker 9: you're looking for someone a little but maybe less known

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Speaker 9: outside of the tennis universe. Alcarez's opponent in the French

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Speaker 9: Open final Alexander Zverev. He's plus six fifty for the title.

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Speaker 9: Super solid from the baseline. He's gonna make your work

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Speaker 9: for everything, and this season alone he is sixteen and

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Speaker 9: four on clay, and he is one hundred eighty nine

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Speaker 9: and eighty four for his career for sixty nine percent

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Speaker 9: winning percentage. He is a hardened clay quarter who took

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Speaker 9: it to Alcarez to five at the French Open, And

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Speaker 9: if Alcaz goes out early, he's someone that I think

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Speaker 9: I can trust to, especially plus six fifty get the

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Speaker 9: job done.

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Speaker 3: How much weight do you put into motivation.

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Speaker 9: I think that if it didn't mean much, they were

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Speaker 9: you're going to pull out before the Olympics. But it's

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Speaker 9: impossible to say.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 9: Djokovic has mentioned how important the Olympics are to him,

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Speaker 9: But anyone who watched Djokovic against Alcarez, finally a worthy

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Speaker 9: opponent in his cake walk Wimbledon draw, would say that

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Speaker 9: I don't think I trust him against the top of

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Speaker 9: the men's game right now. Maybe in a few months

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Speaker 9: when he's gotten more time to heal from his knee injury,

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Speaker 9: but the motivation to win the Olympics might be high

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Speaker 9: for him. But Alcaaz and probably Zverev on clay at

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Speaker 9: this point are probably better tennis players.

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Speaker 3: Now, you just mentioned Sabolenka, that's a natural transition to

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Speaker 3: you know, the women in this events free draw. Does

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Speaker 3: it matter nearly as much as the drawl will make

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Speaker 3: a difference in the men's side, or is this something

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Speaker 3: where you're betting regardless of how it shakes out, and

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Speaker 3: there's better value to hop in right now?

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Speaker 9: Honestly, I think anyone who falls tennis who is not

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Speaker 9: trying to bullshit will agree with me here. Egos Riata,

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Speaker 9: you can find her in the market at minus one

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Speaker 9: ninety five to win the title, by the way, not

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Speaker 9: for the first match, not to make the semis. To

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Speaker 9: win the title, you can find her a minus one

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Speaker 9: ninety five. And you might be like, that's a steep

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Speaker 9: number for someone to win the title. Let me promise

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Speaker 9: you I think it should probably be even a little

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Speaker 9: bigger than that. Swyat Tech has won the French Open

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Speaker 9: same site play fourhead of the last five years, including

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Speaker 9: three straight years. This season. At the French Open, she

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Speaker 9: lost one set to Naomi Osaka, which I honestly was

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Speaker 9: a bit of a fluky match.

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Speaker 3: That's a different story.

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Speaker 9: And she after that Oscca match wasn't even challenged in

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Speaker 9: the final. What did she lose like one.

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Speaker 1: Or two games?

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Speaker 3: I think it's three games.

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Speaker 9: Maybe it was a joke. She is that good on

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Speaker 9: play with her heavy forehand, her ability to move on

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Speaker 9: the surface, her pinpoint serve, her rally tolerance, the placement

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Speaker 9: around the court, it's all spectacular. For Spiatech's career, she's

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Speaker 9: one hundred and thirty two and seventeen for on the surface,

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Speaker 9: and then just this season alone she is twenty one

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Speaker 9: in one, having one Madrid Rome and Roland Garris, which

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Speaker 9: are the three biggest tournaments on the women's calendar. Now,

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Speaker 9: let's say she sprains her ankle or something, because that's

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Speaker 9: the only way I see that she loses, honestly, and

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Speaker 9: you're like, well, who can I grab? That isn't egos

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Speaker 9: Yata Because I don't want to bet on minus one

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Speaker 9: ninety five to win a tournament, which I do understand

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Speaker 9: you might be tempted to bet on Verbakna. I don't,

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Speaker 9: even though her record on clay is fairly good. Verbakena,

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Speaker 9: by the way, does have a winning head to head

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Speaker 9: against viat Tech, but no, I honestly can't see it. Honestly,

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Speaker 9: she's plus eleven hundred. She's just not consistent enough to

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Speaker 9: back her. The one name I would say is Coco

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Speaker 9: Goth I'm sure a lot of y'all American people are

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Speaker 9: gonna just you know, American flag next to the name.

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Speaker 9: She has a shot, let's go better. Honestly, I probably

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Speaker 9: wouldn't unless you're making something small. She has a very

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Speaker 9: good backhand, but her forehand is fairly poor, which honestly,

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Speaker 9: the fact that she made it to world number two

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Speaker 9: given her really terrible forehand relative to her ranking is

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Speaker 9: pretty shocking. But at plus six point fifty she would

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Speaker 9: be the clear favorite in my mind if spot Tech

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Speaker 9: broker lag or something. So I guess you can throw

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Speaker 9: that in there for a small bed if you want to,

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Speaker 9: if you want to. Ultimately, this is this is the

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Speaker 9: you guysotech's tournament to lose and.

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Speaker 3: We'll finish there. Which basically there's a huge differential between books.

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Speaker 3: There's going to be, you know, massive differences in terms

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Speaker 3: of how things are priced, particularly as the tournament moves forward.

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Speaker 3: At what point is she truly prohibitively priced minus one

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Speaker 3: ninety five you wouldn't blink you throw money down on that.

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Speaker 3: At what point do you move off of her as

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Speaker 3: the major favorite on the women's side.

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Speaker 9: I just don't see her losing unless she gets injured.

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Speaker 9: I think if it gets any bigger than minus two depty,

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Speaker 9: I would say just stay away.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, well, there we have it. That's your play on

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Speaker 3: the women's side, you know, keep it simple, stupid as

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Speaker 3: they say, why go against the best player in the

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Speaker 3: world who I think you've talked me into it at

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Speaker 3: minus two hundred. It's a play for me as well.

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Speaker 3: And then also walking us through the men's side, David,

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Speaker 3: We appreciate it so much. Thanks for joining the podcast.

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Speaker 9: Of course, thank y'all so much for having.

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Speaker 4: Me all right.

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Speaker 3: Time to lace it up and step into the ring

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Speaker 3: for our boxing preview here at the Olympics. We're joined

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Speaker 3: by Brian fonseca Action How contributor and boxing expert, and

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Speaker 3: Brian you can correct me if I'm wrong, but I

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Speaker 3: feel like the Olympics are often this launching pad for superstardom,

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Speaker 3: particularly for some of the boxers who go on to

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Speaker 3: win gold. You look at previous winners Cassius Clay, Joe Frazier,

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Speaker 3: George Foreman, Sugary, Leonard Lennox, Lewis, Oscar de la Hoya.

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Speaker 3: Do you feel for starters that there's an opportunity to

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Speaker 3: be that for the gold medalist. And second of all,

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Speaker 3: could you just walk us through a bit of the

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Speaker 3: format of how these tournaments take.

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Speaker 10: Place, so briefly on the first point, yes, it could

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Speaker 10: still be a launching pad even if you don't win

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Speaker 10: a gold medal. We saw this specifically with Team USA

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Speaker 10: in the last Olympics, where they did not win a

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Speaker 10: gold medal, and the men haven't since two thousand and four. However,

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Speaker 10: they did have multiple silvers and a couple of the

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Speaker 10: guys that won silver, and Kishan Davis and Richid Taurus

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Speaker 10: Junior have since become two of the best prospects in

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Speaker 10: the sport. Kishon Davis is probably more of a contender

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Speaker 10: now at this point and looks like he's going to

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Speaker 10: be a fixture in the lightweight division for a long time.

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Speaker 10: Richard Turius Junior is undefeated and has knocked out all

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Speaker 10: of his opponents as a pro. In terms of the format,

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Speaker 10: there's sort of a gift and a curse here. The

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Speaker 10: great thing is that there are more weight classes for women,

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Speaker 10: and we're going to see more women competing in the

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Speaker 10: Olympics than we have before. The bad news is for

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Speaker 10: the men, we're seeing a lot less so the weight

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Speaker 10: classes have been cut to seven for the men, there's

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Speaker 10: going to be about one hundred and twenty four men

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Speaker 10: competing in the Olympics. In Brazil there was two hundred

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Speaker 10: and fifty men competing, and this was in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 10: We're not entirely sure if boxing is going to be

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Speaker 10: in the Olympics in twenty twenty eight, which is going

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Speaker 10: to be here in America, but in terms of the

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Speaker 10: weight classes, it's made it difficult because there are no

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Speaker 10: men's weight classes between one hundred and fifty six and

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Speaker 10: one hundred and seventy six pounds, despite the fact that

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Speaker 10: the middleweight pro boxing limit is that one sixty super

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Speaker 10: midweight is one sixty eight at the pro level, So

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Speaker 10: you have guys that are going to have to move

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Speaker 10: up and down weeight classes that they're not truly comfortable,

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Speaker 10: and that could sort of distort things. A couple things

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Speaker 10: worth knowing. Amateur boxing is a different game than pro boxing.

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Speaker 10: Pro boxing four rounds if you're starting out, then you

655
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Speaker 10: go to six, to eight, to ten, and to twelve

656
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Speaker 10: when you're fighting for a championship Olympic boxing. Amateur boxing

657
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Speaker 10: you get three rounds and you have three minute rounds here,

658
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Speaker 10: and a lot of amateur competitions you'll get two minute rounds.

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Speaker 10: You need volume punching to win. You don't have really

660
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Speaker 10: time to fill out your opponent. You have to just

661
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Speaker 10: go right away. Like there will be counter punching, there

662
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Speaker 10: will be head movement defense and all those things, but

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Speaker 10: you only have three rounds to work. If you get

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Speaker 10: knocked down, you have to make up a lot there.

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Speaker 10: And robberies do happen, even in the Olympics originals. Junior

666
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Speaker 10: famously was a victim of one in nineteen eighty eight

667
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Speaker 10: in so South Korea. That's famously maybe the worst robbery

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Speaker 10: in boxing history, where he should have won the gold medal.

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Speaker 1: He lost.

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Speaker 10: Michael Conlin twenty sixteen, he lost to a dude from Russia,

671
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Speaker 10: to the point where he actually tweeted at Vladimir Putin.

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Speaker 10: Anthony Joshua, who's been a heavyweight champion, got a gift

673
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Speaker 10: against Arizonanti Savone in the finals of the twenty twelve Olympics,

674
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Speaker 10: Floyd Mayweather in nineteen ninety six, so on and so forth.

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Speaker 10: Like the judging historically has not been amazing here, which

676
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Speaker 10: is the same in the pros.

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Speaker 1: In a lot of cases.

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Speaker 10: And one more thing I did want to know because

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Speaker 10: this is very important in amateur boxing. Typically, like those

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Speaker 10: are the guys that compete in the Olympics. But since

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Speaker 10: twenty sixteen, professional boxers have been allowed to compete in

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Speaker 10: the Olympics. Now they haven't done amazingly. Hassan and Dom

683
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Speaker 10: he competed in the Olympics in twenty sixteen. He's a

684
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Speaker 10: former interim middleweight champion. Ok, think that he would whoop

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Speaker 10: everybody because he's so much older. He's already had thirty

686
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Speaker 10: something profits or whatever, and he lost in the first

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Speaker 10: round in pretty embarrassing fashion.

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Speaker 1: Like, it doesn't mean if you're.

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Speaker 10: A pro, you're absolutely going to winness, although there's one

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Speaker 10: pro in particular who I think could destroy his competition,

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Speaker 10: which we'll talk about a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Two questions for you. One, if you're better but you're

693
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Speaker 3: also quite patriotic and you want to build a US

694
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Speaker 3: play a card, who are you backing in this tournament?

695
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Speaker 3: And then secondly, just you know, free form, anyone, any country,

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Speaker 3: Who are the best bets on the board in your opinion?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, So Jamal Harvey of Team USA is probably the

698
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Speaker 10: one I would look at. Now he may have the

699
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Speaker 10: best pro pedigree of the guys here. He competes basically

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Speaker 10: at featherweight. In the featherweight division, he's won world championship,

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Speaker 10: he's won the Pan American Games already, and he's just

702
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Speaker 10: twenty one years old. You can sort of see the speed,

703
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 10: the reflexes, the power there at the featherweight division, he's

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Speaker 10: beaten other top amateurs already, and again he's in his

705
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Speaker 10: early twenties. Like, he's probably the guy I would look at,

706
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Speaker 10: and he's actually I think in the men's featherweight plus

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Speaker 10: four hundred ish depending on where you look, to win

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Speaker 10: his tournament. Like, he's not the favorite, but he's somebody

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Speaker 10: who's probably worth a shot. Maybe he ends up getting

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Speaker 10: the bronze or silver if he gets far enough, Like

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Speaker 10: I mean, that justifies it as a good bet. But

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Speaker 10: of the eight boxers from Team USA, of which there

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Speaker 10: are four men and four women, Jamal Harvey is probably

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Speaker 10: the one I would most identify. And then in terms

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Speaker 10: of the rest of the Olympics, it starts and ends

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Speaker 10: with Bako diir Jalalov, who is from Uzbekistan, who is

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Speaker 10: a heavyweight who is minus three twenty to win his tournament,

718
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Speaker 10: but he won gold in the last Olympics. He's one

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Speaker 10: of these pro boxers who is actually really good in

720
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Speaker 10: the Olympics. I frankly don't know why he's still fighting

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Speaker 10: in amateur boxing because he's already ranked by multiple sanctioning

722
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Speaker 10: bodies as a top ten or fifteen heavyweight in the

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Speaker 10: world in pro boxing, because he is fourteen to zero

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Speaker 10: with fourteen knockouts, and he's already fought on the ESPN.

725
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Speaker 10: So I don't know why he's doing this other than

726
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 10: like country pride and things of that nature. But he

727
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 10: has a ridiculous amateur resume. He's the one who actually

728
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Speaker 10: beat Richard Torres Junior, who I mentioned earlier in the

729
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 10: Olympics last time out for the gold medal matchups. So

730
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Speaker 10: I mean it's minus three hundred three to twenty depending

731
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Speaker 10: on where you look. But like I'd be stunned if

732
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Speaker 10: he doesn't win this tournament. I don't know who's going

733
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Speaker 10: to beat him in that weight class because he's so

734
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 10: much better than everybody else.

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Speaker 1: A couple other bets.

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Speaker 10: That I really like for this tournament going to try

737
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Speaker 10: to pick someone else who's not a favorite in a

738
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Speaker 10: little bit, but there are a couple other favorites that

739
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Speaker 10: I do like Tomorrow's Bolt from Canada, just north of

740
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Speaker 10: the border. At women's middleweight. She is plus one fifty

741
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Speaker 10: to win her tournament. She won gold at the World

742
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Speaker 10: Championships in twenty twenty two. She won gold at the

743
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Speaker 10: Commonwealth Games in twenty twenty two, at the Pan American

744
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Speaker 10: Games in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: She is a six foot south Paul. She's big.

746
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 10: She has all the south Paul combinations you want that

747
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 10: one one two from range, straight left to the body,

748
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 10: that right hook to the head, straight left after the fact. Like,

749
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Speaker 10: she's really skilled and I think that she should win

750
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Speaker 10: this tournament. We also have Busino Sermonelli from Turkey, who

751
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 10: is a women's welterweight who is really really good and

752
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 10: kind of a show voter, a lot of fun to

753
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 10: watch as well when she's in rhythm.

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Speaker 1: She won gold at the last Olympics.

755
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Speaker 10: She wont gold at the twenty nineteen and twenty twenty

756
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Speaker 10: two World Championships.

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Speaker 1: So this is going to be at sixty six kilos.

758
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Speaker 10: And she has very good footwork, can fight inside and out,

759
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 10: very comfortable there. And here's somebody who's not a favorite

760
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Speaker 10: in his competition, though he's sort of up.

761
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Speaker 1: There is Arlen Lopez.

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Speaker 10: He's going to be fighting out of Cuba one hundred

763
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Speaker 10: and seventy six pounds, and I should mention that sirmont

764
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Speaker 10: Ellie's from Turkey, Arta. Lopez one hundred and seventy six

765
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Speaker 10: pounds plus two hundred and seventy five is plus three

766
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Speaker 10: hundred ish, so not the favorite to win his competition,

767
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Speaker 10: and at one hundred and seventy six pounds he did

768
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Speaker 10: win the gold medal twenty twenty one.

769
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Speaker 1: He also has.

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Speaker 10: A gold medal at middleweight because he has a resume

771
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Speaker 10: that sort of dates back to middleway. He's one of

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Speaker 10: these Cuban dudes who's been the amateur boxer forever, which

773
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Speaker 10: is a thing in Cuba. Like guys in Cuba are

774
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Speaker 10: from Cuba famously stay in the amateurs forever before turning

775
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Speaker 10: pro if they ever do.

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Speaker 1: Some of them never do.

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Speaker 10: He's looking to become one of the only three time

778
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Speaker 10: Olympic gold medalists in boxing history.

779
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Speaker 1: There's only been a few.

780
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Speaker 10: Felix Ivone Tail, Philo Stevenson and Laslo Pap and then

781
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Speaker 10: Julio Sister Lacruz, also from Cuba. He's plus one pint

782
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Speaker 10: thirty to win his competition. That's at ninety two kilos.

783
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Speaker 10: Both of them, I would back.

784
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Speaker 1: Shit.

785
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Speaker 10: If you want to do a Cuban parlay, you could

786
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,240
Speaker 10: probably do that. You know, with Arde Lopez and Julio

787
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Speaker 10: sister Lacruz. They're both very good, and they have the

788
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Speaker 10: Cuban style where it's low hands, it's show body, amazing reflexes,

789
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 10: piston like jab hooks from angles that you don't expect. Yeah,

790
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 10: I think they can both win the tournament. So those

791
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Speaker 10: are those are the guys I would identify in terms

792
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Speaker 10: of I know most of them are favorites, but I

793
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Speaker 10: would say that their favorites for a reason.

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Speaker 1: You know, you try to look for underdogs.

795
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Speaker 10: Maybe a Cano Machado from Brazil at ninety two kilos

796
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 10: who's plus twelve hundred to win his tournament. The problem

797
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,320
Speaker 10: is he can't seem to get past Julio, says so Lacruz.

798
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 10: But if he's able to avoid him, and then Julio

799
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 10: says so Lacruz gets upset, maybe he can sort of

800
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 10: navigate that.

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Speaker 1: Those are the bets I like for the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: All right, we are ready to rumble with these boxing

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Speaker 3: best bets. Brian, thank you so much for stopping in

804
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Speaker 3: and walking us through everything we need to know between

805
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 3: the ropes and how to bet here at the Olympics

806
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 3: when it comes to boxing. If you liked what you

807
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,839
Speaker 3: heard and you want more, he is a contributor here

808
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 3: at the Action Network, so you can see him on video,

809
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 3: on podcasts as well as on the app with rate

810
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 3: ups all through the Olympics, so be sure to check in.

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Speaker 3: Then we make the transition to the pitch here at

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Speaker 3: the Olympics, hoping to get some men's and women's soccer

813
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 3: picks out of Michael Leeboff, an expert here on soccer,

814
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Speaker 3: ice hockey. Is there anything else you cover at the

815
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Speaker 3: Action Network?

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Speaker 11: Just about everything that that I can find that's not

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00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 11: NFL or NBA. A lot of Aussie rules these days, Mike.

818
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 11: It's we're in the top of the stretch down under

819
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Speaker 11: getting on Brisbane before it's too late. I would say

820
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 11: they are getting hot at the right moment. But in

821
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Speaker 11: terms of the twenty twenty four Olympic, let's start with

822
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Speaker 11: the men's soccer. These soccer tournaments are very strange that

823
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 11: nobody really cares about them. From a player's perspective, like

824
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 11: all the stars skip them, so the team's are essentially

825
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 11: like a you twenty three team. I believe the rule

826
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Speaker 11: is you can have two overage players, so it's a

827
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Speaker 11: youth team one or two old hands, but that's really it.

828
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Speaker 11: So that causes a lot of confusion in terms of handicapping.

829
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Speaker 11: But usually the hosts, if it is a soccer playing nation,

830
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Speaker 11: we'll try to gussie up their team as much as

831
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Speaker 11: I can. In the French have done that, that's why

832
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Speaker 11: they're the favorite at plus two twenty five.

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00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: But I'm not going to.

834
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Speaker 11: Go there at all. I think that it's you know,

835
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Speaker 11: it's just there's just way too much volatility when you

836
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Speaker 11: look at these rosters. So there are a couple teams

837
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Speaker 11: that I do find interesting. I think Japan is a

838
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Speaker 11: worthy long shot at thirty three to one, just given

839
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Speaker 11: their group. So top two teams in each group get through.

840
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Speaker 11: There are four groups of four. Japan's group is Paraguay,

841
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Speaker 11: Mali and Israel, so not really any danger there for

842
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 11: the Japanese the Blue Samurai to get through. So if

843
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Speaker 11: they can get through the group stage, obviously you're sitting

844
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 11: with a thirty three to one ticket you'll feel pretty

845
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Speaker 11: good about that. On the other team, I think is

846
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 11: also kind of interesting. And their triple digit long shot

847
00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 11: is Iraq because, like I said, the floors and ceilings

848
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Speaker 11: for these teams are it's anyone's guests, Like nobody really

849
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Speaker 11: understands how these teams will play. You can look at

850
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 11: like you setups whatever. They're in a tough group with Argentina, Morocco,

851
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 11: and Ukraine. Argentina along with Spain is essentially a second favorite.

852
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 11: But the other two teams in that group, with being

853
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Speaker 11: Morocco Ukraine, I'm not too afraid of. And you're gonna

854
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 11: have to take at least one long shot in this

855
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 11: in this field, and I think Iraq is worth it.

856
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 11: Like this, when I said that this tournament won't matter

857
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Speaker 11: to a lot of teams, like for the smaller countries

858
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Speaker 11: like Iraq, Guinea, Mali, Israel, like it will Dominican Republic

859
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 11: is here that does matter a little bit. So one

860
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,959
Speaker 11: hundred to one can't go wrong with the triple digit

861
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Speaker 11: long shot and the men's.

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Speaker 3: Just one quick question you talked about roster composition. Also

863
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Speaker 3: coming off of these you know, huge events like the Euros,

864
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Speaker 3: how often have these guys even played together, and does

865
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Speaker 3: that matter as much as it may in other sports

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Speaker 3: at the Olympics for continuity purposes.

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Speaker 11: Like they'll have trained together, but the bigger country is

868
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 11: the answer is probably very little. Like they'll probably have

869
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 11: play together on youth team setups, you know you're you

870
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 11: nineteens U twenty ones, they'll they'll have some familiarity with

871
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 11: each other, but like if you look at the French

872
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 11: roster and put it next to the roster that we

873
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 11: saw at the Euros, there's almost no kind of crossover

874
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 11: at all. I think Michael Elisa is like the only

875
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 11: player and Argentina at the KOPA. I think Julian Alvarez

876
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 11: and Nicholas Odamni are the only two that are making

877
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 11: the trip to France for the Olympics.

878
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 3: That's part of why it's good to take.

879
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 11: On some long shots in the men's side teams like

880
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 11: maybe Mali and Dominican Republic who are taking it. I

881
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 11: don't want to say more seriously, but more seriously, they

882
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 11: will you care, and be practicing and playing together more

883
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 11: and gearing up for this, like there'll be a ramp

884
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 11: up to it, whereas the other teams it's kind of

885
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 11: not you, they're just thrown together. We're what ten days

886
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 11: out and the Euro's just finished, the Copa America just finished.

887
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 11: So yeah, I think that some of these favors can

888
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 11: be pick picked apart by some of these teams that

889
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 11: maybe have more chemistry building in training camps while the

890
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 11: others are playing in bigger tournaments.

891
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,040
Speaker 3: Now you just teased it. Is there no number that

892
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 3: prohibitive enough to move you off of some of the

893
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 3: favorites on the women's side, or is this a situation

894
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 3: where it's maybe pick and shoes depending on the draws

895
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 3: that there could be a long shot or two that

896
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 3: makes a deep run.

897
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,880
Speaker 11: So yeah, the women's side of it is very different

898
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 11: because this is this is a big tournament for in

899
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 11: the women's game, right like the just because of how

900
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 11: the sports have grown, Like the Olympics were a huge

901
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 11: deal for women's soccer for a long time. I think

902
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 11: a lot of it goes back to ninety six in Atlanta,

903
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 11: and just like how the women's game has grown and

904
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 11: the Olympics has been a big launching pad for women's soccer,

905
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 11: not just in America but other ones. So this is

906
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 11: a much bigger tournament for the women's game than it

907
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 11: is in the men's game. That kind of leads into

908
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,839
Speaker 11: the bedding, which is, yeah, you can take a look

909
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 11: at the favorites on the women's side. I like Australia

910
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 11: though they're sixteen to one. They're a really good program.

911
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 11: They've been around some big trophies for a while. This

912
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:55,799
Speaker 11: is it's a really good program. They just finished third

913
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 11: in their their home World Cup in twenty twenty three.

914
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,240
Speaker 11: The draw is tough, but the thing with the women's

915
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 11: side of the tournament is so there's three groups of

916
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 11: four and some third place teams get through. So the

917
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 11: fact that they are in a tough group with the

918
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 11: USA and Germany isn't like a huge death sentence. They

919
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 11: they could still find their way through. It was like

920
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 11: a third place team, or they can upset one of

921
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 11: the US or Germany. This is they're a really good team.

922
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 11: So I think it's sixteen to one. They'd be my

923
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 11: favorite of the teams outside of the favorite. If you

924
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 11: want to just play the Americans of plus one seventy five,

925
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 11: you'll go for it like it's they are the best

926
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 11: team in the field. It's been a while for them. Look,

927
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 11: I'm not going to talk anybody off of betting on

928
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 11: the US women's They are America's team. I guess outside

929
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 11: of you're Louisiana Tech Bulldogs behind you. Who's a more

930
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 11: popular team on these shore Sea of Shining Sea than

931
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 11: the US women's national team.

932
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Mike for popping in. We have

933
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Speaker 3: more Olympic coverage up next time to tee it up

934
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Speaker 3: for some Olympic golf action, we welcome in Josh Perry,

935
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Speaker 3: Action Network Golf contributor, as well as Spencer Aguiar, co

936
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 3: host of Action Networks Golf Betting podcast links and guys,

937
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 3: how are you feeling ahead of this action on the links?

938
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Speaker 2: This is going to be a really exciting tournament. Like

939
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 2: when you look at this course and you know we

940
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 2: can get a little bit deeper into it in a second,

941
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 2: but this is a venue that you see yearly on

942
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 2: the DP World Tour. It holds the open difference. You

943
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 2: might also remember the name when we saw at Front

944
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 2: and Center in the twenty eighteen Ryder Cup when the

945
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 2: USA went down there, they ended up following seventeen and

946
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:27,919
Speaker 2: a half to ten and a half. But you look

947
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 2: at where each home country ends up pushing this in

948
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 2: these spots and you always get the Americans going towards

949
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 2: the driver heavy courses. You have Europe that pushes you

950
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 2: during these venues where you have to be more tactical.

951
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 2: The precision's gonna get accentuated. That's what you're gonna get.

952
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 4: At this course.

953
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 2: So like think Florida Golf that's mixed with your links

954
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 2: plus French connections that come into play. It's an interesting

955
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 2: tournament from a game theory perspective that we can talk

956
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 2: about in a second, Josh.

957
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 3: In terms of the tournament itself, we now have the

958
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 3: four major in the books. How does this format work?

959
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 3: Does it basically play out like a normal tournament for

960
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 3: those trying to bet on Olympic golf for the first time.

961
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's four rounds, no cut, like just basically like

962
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 7: your your elevated type events that we see on tour. Yeah,

963
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 7: it's pretty straightforward as hard as stroke play goes. I

964
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 7: haven't done anything fancy with.

965
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 3: It yet, Bencer, where's your head out in terms of

966
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 3: best bets for this? So that people can start building

967
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 3: their card.

968
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 2: So when you get this sixty man field, like the

969
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 2: way that I built my model here the bottom twenty

970
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 2: percent that I had inside of my math of those

971
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,320
Speaker 2: competing were much weaker than you typically get from a

972
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 2: week in, week out tournament. I think that's always the

973
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 2: first layer of what you're trying to handicap from a

974
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:43,399
Speaker 2: modeling perspective, since understanding where the gaps of skills land

975
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 2: help determine the pricing for the board. I just want

976
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 2: everybody to think of this beyond before we even talk

977
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 2: about bets. Like most golf tournaments present this very straightforward

978
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 2: blueprint of what's being asked. You play your opening two

979
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 2: rounds to make the weekend. You technically get more or

980
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 2: less aggressive from there. That's going to decide the final

981
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 2: few factors of are you trying to get a better

982
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 2: payday are you trying to win the tournament. One of

983
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 2: the things that you have to take into account here

984
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:11,240
Speaker 2: is only three players are going to be working towards gold, silver,

985
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,919
Speaker 2: and bronze. It's such a high end, high upside, high

986
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 2: rewards sort of a return that you're getting here that

987
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 2: you get a really interesting golf course where there's water

988
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 2: all around the facility, there's thick rough, it's a course

989
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 2: where it's a club down nature like I talked about,

990
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 2: but you also get this game plan that when players

991
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 2: find themselves falling back on the pack, they have to

992
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 2: technically be more aggressive to try to work themselves up

993
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 2: the leader board.

994
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 4: So it's a highly.

995
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 2: Volatile course with three names that are trying to compete

996
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 2: for those medals for their country. So when I tried

997
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 2: to build this card and figure out the way that

998
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 2: I wanted to go, I thought there were a couple

999
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 2: options that made sense. I ended up starting with Victor

1000
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 2: Hovlind at twenty two to one. In my opinion, we're

1001
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 2: getting this price because of his recent form. I view

1002
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 2: this very similar though to his third place at the

1003
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 2: PGA Championship a few months ago. Havlan rank first or

1004
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 2: fifth in my model when faced with similar total driving courses.

1005
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 2: He was second for way to strokes gain total for

1006
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 2: this venue. That's kind of the glorified highlight of the

1007
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 2: like golf national fit that he has, and then he

1008
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 2: was fifth on similar putting surfaces. You will note that

1009
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 2: a lot of his struggles have occurred with this sloppy

1010
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 2: around the green production that we've gotten in twenty twenty four.

1011
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 2: But I keep going back to this answer. Thick rough water,

1012
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 2: this Florida esque feel with all the water that comes

1013
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 2: into play that accentuated the need for ball striking, and

1014
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 2: really remove some of those harsh elements that come into

1015
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,439
Speaker 2: play from his short game that keep holding him back.

1016
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 2: So you know, I wouldn't be surprised, And I mean

1017
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 2: this kind of shows when we're recording this, I guess

1018
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 2: you know, Hovelin just missed the cut at the Open Championship,

1019
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 2: So I wouldn't be shocked if this number ends up

1020
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 2: drifting even maybe a couple of points further up from

1021
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,919
Speaker 2: this twenty two to one. I really like that price though,

1022
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 2: and then I bet shoe banker Sharma at four hundred

1023
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 2: to one. I know the forum's gonna leave a lot

1024
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 2: to be desired. It's the same answer as Hovelin, but

1025
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 2: my model had a much closer to that one hundred

1026
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 2: and fifty to one range. In this four hundred to

1027
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 2: one price that we received very similar answers to the

1028
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,439
Speaker 2: Hovelin blueprint, where a lot of the around the green

1029
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 2: stuff is what has been deterring him from higher end

1030
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 2: finishes when he ends up teeing it up. I just

1031
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 2: think that this is a name that when we have

1032
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 2: a weaker field to begin with, and I talked about

1033
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 2: the bottom twenty percent being lower in an average grade

1034
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 2: of what I typically get. Sharma wasn't one of those names,

1035
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 2: much closer to one hundred to one hundred and twenty five

1036
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 2: to one sort of golfer. So it's a volatile event.

1037
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,360
Speaker 2: I keep using the word volatile for a reason. But

1038
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 2: you know, give me a long shot in Sharma, give

1039
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 2: me a name like Hovelin at twenty two to one,

1040
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 2: where I thought that it was a higher price.

1041
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 4: Than it should have been.

1042
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 2: Very likely that the two winner or the winners end

1043
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 2: up being either a Scotti or a Zander like. That's

1044
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 2: where the edges in my model as far as like

1045
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 2: inequity goes. When we're actually looking at the price, I

1046
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 2: think their numbers are reduced to a point where they're

1047
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 2: not bettable according to my map.

1048
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:11,800
Speaker 3: Now, Josh, are you going to go a bit chalkier?

1049
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 3: Are you going to give us a flyer and a

1050
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 3: long shot the way Spencer just did.

1051
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 7: I'm kind of in the middle of him right there.

1052
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 7: I bet two guys on this. I bet Tom Kim

1053
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:21,760
Speaker 7: and I met Alex Moran. This is the first Olympics

1054
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 7: where we actually had like legitimate history at of course Brazil,

1055
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:27,839
Speaker 7: we had never seen the course ever. In Japan, it

1056
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,839
Speaker 7: was fairly limited with the Japanese Tour as far as

1057
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 7: who had actually played on that course, so we had

1058
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 7: not a whole lot of history to go off of

1059
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 7: this place. We've seen twenty five times. We know what

1060
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 7: it is, and what we saw in the Riot Cup

1061
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 7: especially is if you hadn't played this course and you

1062
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 7: hadn't been out there a lot, you ran into a

1063
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:46,320
Speaker 7: lot of trouble because you don't know where to miss,

1064
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 7: and as we've said already, on this there's a there's

1065
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 7: danger everywhere. So Tomkim came over in Europe, played it

1066
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 7: last year, finished fourth on the DP World Tour. It's

1067
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 7: a course that fits him perfectly. You PLoP the driver

1068
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,720
Speaker 7: into play, hit the irons and hopefully the gets hot.

1069
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 7: With Alex Morn, he's one here, he's won the tournament.

1070
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 7: That's a big thing to look at there. He knows

1071
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 7: his way around this, he's had success here. It's going

1072
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,399
Speaker 7: to be a happy spot for him. So I think

1073
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 7: that history on a course where we know history matters

1074
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 7: and we know that knowledge is a big asset. We've

1075
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 7: seen it come into play where the stars have shown

1076
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 7: up and had Francesco Molinari or Tommy Fleet would just

1077
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 7: absolutely blast him. So if Scotty comes in and he

1078
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 7: hasn't looked at the course, or if Victor hasn't looked

1079
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 7: at the course like we said, or if it just

1080
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 7: really depends on who's been doing the work there Xander,

1081
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 7: maybe he's been a little busy, hasn't done the research.

1082
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,359
Speaker 7: Cal markwa Those guys are all going to be up there,

1083
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 7: but when's the last time they played it? When the

1084
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 7: last time they look at it these guys have So

1085
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 7: that's kind of where my leen is is, Like it's

1086
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 7: not always a heavy course history thing, but this type

1087
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 7: of tournament in this week, I think it's going to

1088
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:51,479
Speaker 7: be a big edge for the guys who have seen

1089
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 7: this place five ten times, or who have had a

1090
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 7: high result like Tom Kidd has early in his career.

1091
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 3: With so many Olympic events potentially having an opportunity for

1092
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 3: record breaking performances to be set, there's a lot of

1093
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 3: prohibitive favorites. So it's nice to have some long shots

1094
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,359
Speaker 3: that could make my entire Olympics here if one of these,

1095
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,280
Speaker 3: you know, finds a way to win the gold medal.

1096
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Speaker 3: So I really appreciate it from both of you, Spencer Josh,

1097
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 3: be sure to check them out at the Action Network

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Speaker 3: their contributors. Thanks so much, guys. Last, but not least,

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Speaker 3: we talk men's and women's basketball. We're joined again by

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Speaker 3: Brian Fonseca along with Joe Delera, who will break it

1101
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 3: all down for us, and once again, if you want

1102
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 3: their full length breakdowns, check out Brian and Joe on

1103
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 3: the Olympic Hoops episodes of our dedicated basketball podcasts. That's

1104
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 3: Buckets and Buckets WNBA available. Now take it away, boys, All.

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00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 12: Right, let's get into our best bets. Brian, who is

1106
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:44,879
Speaker 12: your best bet or your favorite to win outright for

1107
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 12: the Paris Olympics.

1108
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 10: I will preface this by saying, team USA, I think

1109
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 10: they're going to win the gold medal, but Europe to

1110
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 10: win the gold medal as a continent plus five hundred

1111
00:50:58,800 --> 00:50:59,760
Speaker 10: out there on the market.

1112
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 12: I like it, Honestly, I'm with you there too. I

1113
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:04,840
Speaker 12: like Europe plus five hundred. I think that there's a

1114
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 12: lot of value on that number. You're getting so many

1115
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,479
Speaker 12: different teams, and it look the best that we're seeing

1116
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 12: the US in the market is as low as minus

1117
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 12: four hundred. There's some minus thousands out there. This number,

1118
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 12: this number seems to be a little bit, a little

1119
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 12: bit crazy. Brian, talk to me a little bit about

1120
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:26,280
Speaker 12: this bet. Why do you like Europe as a continent

1121
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 12: to win?

1122
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,720
Speaker 10: So with Europe you're getting almost half the field. Okay,

1123
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 10: you're getting five out of twelve teams. You're getting France.

1124
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 10: Who's the host who after a miserable World Cup performance,

1125
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 10: Like I thought they were good enough to win the

1126
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,879
Speaker 10: entire World Cup and they were like the first team eliminated.

1127
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,800
Speaker 10: They got smacked by Canada immediately and obviously they lost

1128
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 10: to Latvia and it was just bad, bad news. So

1129
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 10: they're looking to rebound from that. They're the host now

1130
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:55,320
Speaker 10: they've since added I don't know, Victor wi Manyama. You

1131
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 10: may have heard of him. He's maybe a top ten

1132
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 10: player in the world already, you know, Like they just

1133
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 10: happen to advoctate Yama. Also below, Kulabali uh to their

1134
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 10: roster and Bela. Kulabali is another one of the best

1135
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 10: rookies from the NBA last season. In what you know

1136
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 10: is a weird situation in Washington, but Kulabali no less

1137
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,359
Speaker 10: and Frank me Lakina is also back.

1138
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: He was not in the World Cup roster.

1139
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 10: He's back that you know, Nick fans may roll their

1140
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 10: eyes at that, but he is a consequential defensive player,

1141
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 10: like he's legitimately good. Still have Nicholas with whom Evan Fortier,

1142
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 10: Nando de Colo, Ride go.

1143
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: Bert, etcetera.

1144
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 10: Yeah, you also have Serbia who has the best player

1145
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 10: in the world, Nikola Jokic, adding him to a team

1146
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 10: that finished second in the World Cup. Michic is also

1147
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 10: going to be on this team as well, it appears,

1148
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,879
Speaker 10: and then Greece is Jiannis. Germany won the World Cup,

1149
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,479
Speaker 10: and then Spain has the best European pedigree out.

1150
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:52,879
Speaker 1: Of all of them.

1151
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 10: We kind of think Spain is a touch overrated, but

1152
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 10: at the same time, like these are the teams you're getting,

1153
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 10: and the question is do you want Europe at plus

1154
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:04,760
Speaker 10: five hundred or do you want the field at plus

1155
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,799
Speaker 10: two ninety, which adds in in terms of real contenders

1156
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 10: Canada and Australia with respect to Japan.

1157
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:12,280
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico, South so down in Brazil etctera.

1158
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 10: But to me, I just take Europe at a much

1159
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:20,399
Speaker 10: like almost double the price, plus five hundred versus plus

1160
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 10: two ninety, and you know, I would short Canada and

1161
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 10: Australia and doing that two teams that I think are

1162
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 10: very good. But in terms of a long shot bet,

1163
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 10: which is mainly what I'm looking at for right now

1164
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:34,919
Speaker 10: because of how heavily favored US is, I'm mainly looking

1165
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:36,840
Speaker 10: at long shot bets. So plus five hundred is a

1166
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 10: little bit of a sprinkle, not a full unit. Obviously,

1167
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 10: this is something that I could definitely live with. Yeah,

1168
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 10: I'm with you there too.

1169
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 12: I think the price for the United States would probably

1170
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 12: be like closer to minus two hundred, maybe minus two fifty,

1171
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,399
Speaker 12: So maybe if there's an opportunity to buy into that,

1172
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 12: I still feel like I could having a ticket at

1173
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 12: like five to one. On Europe, I know that a

1174
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,439
Speaker 12: lot of these European teams they're gonna go, They're gonna

1175
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:02,400
Speaker 12: get through for the most part, whereas you know, adding

1176
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 12: in the field, like I don't. I don't feel like

1177
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 12: I think that Canada should get through. But Canada is

1178
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:08,880
Speaker 12: in the group of death. Australia is also in the

1179
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 12: group of death, so there's a possibility that one of

1180
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 12: those teams doesn't really even make it through.

1181
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 1: So I'm with you.

1182
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 12: I think that the bet on Europe as a as

1183
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 12: a continent is the best bet right now to win

1184
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 12: the gold. There might be a time where we're able

1185
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 12: to back the United States on either an individual game basis,

1186
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:28,959
Speaker 12: or we can bet them maybe they lose a game

1187
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 12: and then we can get a really good number on them.

1188
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 12: So be on the lookout for if we add a

1189
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:37,320
Speaker 12: United States position. But I think overall, while we expect

1190
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 12: the United States to win, it's going to be a

1191
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 12: little bit of a different scenario for what we're betting

1192
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 12: on in terms of betting into the value. Brian, what's

1193
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:49,840
Speaker 12: your favorite outright for the women's bracket overall?

1194
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:52,880
Speaker 10: This is one that we both we were like, thank

1195
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 10: god this hit right before we started. A Wilson, Yes,

1196
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 10: Asia Wilson to lead Team USA scoring at plus two

1197
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:03,280
Speaker 10: seventy five, juicy number.

1198
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:05,959
Speaker 1: We love this bet.

1199
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 10: And Brianna Stewart second and plus three twenty five for

1200
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 10: good reason, you know, reasonably close. But Ajia Wilson led

1201
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 10: Team USA and scoring in the World Cup a couple

1202
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 10: of years ago and led them in scoring, tied with

1203
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:19,839
Speaker 10: Britney Grinder, but led them in scoring in the last

1204
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 10: Olympics as well.

1205
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: Britney Grinder is more.

1206
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:24,359
Speaker 10: Than likely coming off the bench for this team, as

1207
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 10: we saw syndication by you know, the All Star Game,

1208
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 10: but also at the stage of her career that she's

1209
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,720
Speaker 10: at probably doesn't need to be starting at this point anyway.

1210
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 10: Ajia Wilson is just the best player on the best

1211
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 10: team who is going to be relied on in crunch

1212
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 10: time and from those other international competitions, this is a

1213
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 10: big thing even this year, and she's looking like she's

1214
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 10: gonna win MVP again in the WNBA. She's continuing to

1215
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 10: add to her game. The toolbox is getting a little

1216
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,360
Speaker 10: bit deeper, the range is getting a little bit longer. Like,

1217
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 10: Ajia Wilson is just a monster, and I think that

1218
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 10: she should lead this team in score. So just the

1219
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:01,439
Speaker 10: bet that we bet the most.

1220
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think I'm with this too.

1221
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,240
Speaker 12: I love this bet. And part of why I settled

1222
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 12: on Asia as opposed to Stuart was when we looked

1223
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 12: at back a little bit and obviously things change, so

1224
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,280
Speaker 12: but when you looked at the last time these players

1225
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 12: were playing together on the international stage, right, Asia had

1226
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:23,800
Speaker 12: a significantly higher floor. She scored at least fourteen points

1227
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 12: in every single game of that tournament, of that international tournament,

1228
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 12: Whereas if we looked at Stuart, she had a couple

1229
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:31,560
Speaker 12: of games at two. She had one game of two,

1230
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 12: another game at eight, another game at nine, another game

1231
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 12: at eleven, So there's a little bit more variability even

1232
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 12: though she had a higher ceiling with a twenty two

1233
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 12: point game.

1234
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:40,879
Speaker 3: When additionally, like when.

1235
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:45,240
Speaker 12: We look at Asia, Asia has gotten so much better.

1236
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 12: I feel like it's crazy to even say that, right,

1237
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,400
Speaker 12: but the leap that she's taken, even from even like

1238
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 12: last year is incredible. Last year she averaged twenty two

1239
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 12: point eight points per game. The season before that, she

1240
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:00,280
Speaker 12: was at nineteen point five. This year she's at twenty

1241
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 12: seven point two. That is a monster jump, right, nobody's

1242
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 12: even really close to twenty seven point two right now

1243
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 12: in the W Like, we're not seeing a ton of

1244
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 12: like a ton of scoring efforts like that, especially at

1245
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 12: such a consistent level. It's not like she's being floated

1246
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 12: by seventy point games or anything like that. Like all

1247
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 12: these games are in that twenty seven point ballpark. So obviously,

1248
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 12: maybe she doesn't need to play thirty four minutes a

1249
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 12: game for Team USA in this type of format. But

1250
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 12: at the end of the day, she's gonna be a

1251
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 12: big reason why they do blow teams out, and she's

1252
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 12: gonna have to put up points.

1253
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 1: She's gonna have to score.

1254
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 12: So my only concern with this, Brian was, if Team

1255
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 12: USA is destroying teams, is it possible that maybe somebody

1256
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 12: like in the bench unit kind of comes in and

1257
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 12: takes over a little bit too much of this role

1258
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 12: or like or is it kind of what I said,

1259
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 12: They're not gonna be blowing teams out unless she's putting

1260
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:53,080
Speaker 12: up points.

1261
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 10: One book in particular, I think has it right where Okay,

1262
00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 10: if it's not gonna be Asia Wilson or Breonna Stewart,

1263
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 10: the next three players are all guards that can get hot,

1264
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 10: Sabrino Escu, Jewel Lloyd, Kelsey Plump, And I feel like

1265
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 10: that's exactly where I would look. All of them at

1266
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 10: one particular book, well two of them at one particular book,

1267
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:15,919
Speaker 10: Lloyd and Plump plus one thousand each.

1268
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: Unescu is then that plus five.

1269
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 10: Hundred five fifty plus six hundred range a little bit

1270
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 10: shorter there, So I'd probably look straight to one of

1271
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 10: those three, maybe even Plumb or Lloyd just for more

1272
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 10: value and you know, if you're going by what we

1273
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 10: just saw, all three could play pretty significant roles, is

1274
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:37,959
Speaker 10: what we know. So Sabrino and Escu played twenty something

1275
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 10: minutes in that game. In the All Star Game as well,

1276
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 10: Jewel Lloyd was you know, obviously starting. So if you

1277
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 10: look at particularly like how this is going to going

1278
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 10: to go like and if you want to get just

1279
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 10: more value there, that's where I would look because of

1280
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 10: the shooting in particular and the creativity, especially for like

1281
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,640
Speaker 10: a Jewel Lloyd who can just get hers uh and

1282
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 10: she'll be able to get hers throughout the Olympics, But

1283
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 10: it's probably gonna.

1284
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: Be Agia Wilson.

1285
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 10: All that said, if you want to take a long

1286
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,600
Speaker 10: shot stab though, look at one of the guards who

1287
00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 10: can get hot absolutely even longer odds like Britney Griner

1288
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 10: has done this before as we mentioned, but plus fourteen hundred,

1289
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 10: I don't think at this stage that's something that's going

1290
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:17,840
Speaker 10: to happen.

1291
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 1: And then when you're.

1292
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:21,200
Speaker 10: Going down the line, like it's probably not going to

1293
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 10: be Diana Tarassi at the stage's probably not going to

1294
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Speaker 10: be a list of Thomas who has the longest odds

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Speaker 10: one particular book at plus five thousand. I think even

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Speaker 10: larger than that at another But that's that's sort of

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Speaker 10: what it is to me.

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Speaker 1: It's Agia Wilson, and if you want to look at long.

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Speaker 10: Shots, you have to look at you know, Sabrina and Escu,

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Speaker 10: Kelsey Club, Jewel Lloyd.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 12: I think the only thing you could do is based

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Speaker 12: on the way the odds market kind of is the

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Speaker 12: United States toughest game might be their first one against Japan,

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Speaker 12: at least in the group. That might be the game

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Speaker 12: that we see Asia really go out there, show out.

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Speaker 12: And at that point, if she builds up a little

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Speaker 12: bit of a lead, if they leave these markets up

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Speaker 12: throughout the tournament throughout the Olympics, maybe then it's an

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Speaker 12: opportunity to kind of buy somebody else. But at the

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Speaker 12: same time, as the tournament progresses, the matchup should get

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Speaker 12: progressively more difficult, meaning that we see more minutes from

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Speaker 12: the top players on each team.

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Speaker 10: The only issue is, like with Japan, is because I

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Speaker 10: actually think Belgium could be a tougher matchup just.

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Speaker 1: Because Japan is small fair there's the potential that Asia

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Speaker 1: Wilson just bullies her.

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Speaker 10: So we could look up and she has twenty in

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Speaker 10: the first half. In all likelihood, it could be one

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Speaker 10: of those type of games.

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Speaker 3: One hundred percent and that's a wrap. As a reminder,

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Speaker 3: you can see the list of every event we've covered today,

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