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Welcome everyone to the NBA Podcast

1:13

on RJ Bell's Dream Preview. I'm

1:16

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1:18

the saddle here for NBA playoffs.

1:21

Round two getting started this

1:23

weekend and on Monday. We

1:25

do have a game seven

1:27

as well on Sunday. You

1:30

know, we've been out for about a week

1:32

or so here. Apologies. I know we got a lot

1:34

of tweets. A lot of DMs asking where's the pod? Where's

1:36

the pod? But you

1:38

know, we had some scheduling issues and we wanted to

1:40

see some of these serious wrap-up before we started

1:44

doing the pod. You

1:46

know, I guess more regularly, but back

1:49

here, we'll get you guys get get you

1:51

guys going for the weekend games. We'll preview

1:53

the Wolves in the Denver

1:56

Nuggets series plus game One picks

1:58

also game seven. Mentioned between

2:00

the Orlando Magic and the Cleveland

2:03

Cavaliers on Sunday and and also

2:05

the Indiana Pacers and in New

2:07

York Knicks game. One. On

2:09

Monday will preview that sir is as well

2:11

and give you game one picks for that

2:14

as well. Give Gaza. Promo. Code.

2:16

Give. You our best bet and of

2:18

course our player prob best bet as

2:21

well. And. Joining me here to help

2:23

me break it all down on the A

2:25

hard wood for the N B A playoffs.

2:27

I got my guy here with me. It's

2:29

Li B, J C B What's going on

2:31

my friend? Long time no talk? Yes! Glad

2:33

to be back on the podcast. Your mind

2:35

off Unfortunately I had to me a fortune

2:37

stuff happen with some family members so I'm

2:39

it will. It was tough to waiting and

2:42

link up with you because you were on

2:44

vacation and that was just a little bit

2:46

of a difficult time over the last couple

2:48

days. So glad to go and be back

2:50

on the podcast. A did okay. Over the

2:52

last couple days as far as betting

2:54

was concerned. But you know last podcast

2:56

uncharacteristic of Human Eye. We had a

2:58

losing gas, but sure enough I think

3:00

we're gonna go to bounce back it

3:02

with these games coming up. Yes!

3:05

Ah, I'm. See. Of our

3:07

last pod we did it in a going

3:09

one into overall with our. Best. Bets.

3:13

Player prob Best bet we had Bradley Beal

3:16

over five and a half assist. Wasn't.

3:18

A pretty good but it may be a little nervous wreck

3:20

before game time than a job to four and a half

3:22

when we did you as five and a half and you

3:25

see that's not a. Are typically

3:27

a good sign, but. I.

3:31

Did had a son steam total over one of five

3:33

and a half or that when did get to the

3:36

window. Ah, This one hundred nine point

3:38

to that game. And and you had Michael Porter

3:40

Juniors. Pr. A to go under

3:42

twenty six and a half and they look

3:44

great at half time until he went ballistic

3:46

in the second half and and I've. You.

3:49

Know didn't get us to the windows.

3:51

the world sour on Michael Poor is

3:53

Uni her blog you mentioned we will

3:55

bounce back here for the weekend. Car

3:57

dank it's guys ready for the conference

3:59

Semi. Those in their respective conferences

4:01

in the Eastern and Western Conference,

4:04

but. Yeah. See dunno. it's been

4:06

a while since we did. The

4:09

podcast a lot of. Interesting.

4:13

I. Guess results may be some to

4:15

some surprise to some and maybe

4:17

not some bite. I'm.

4:20

If I told you at the beginning of the

4:22

season sleepy that if we were heading. Into.

4:24

Round two of the and B A

4:26

playoffs and there was gonna be no.

4:29

Steph. Curry there was gonna be

4:31

no Le Bron James Anthony Davis,

4:33

Kevin Durant's. Devin. Booker.

4:36

Ah, Yunus at the combo Damian, Lil

4:39

or jeweller be you probably thought I

4:41

was a little crazy or need to

4:43

get a drug test but. I'm.

4:46

A it it seems like some to be a

4:48

little bit a shift, maybe with some of these

4:50

new. On. Us a new by

4:52

younger players are that are. Starting

4:55

to emerge and maybe take over

4:57

the league. Guys like Anthony Edwards.

5:00

Ah, It's as yea you know the younger

5:02

guys us or know you know blossom and turn

5:04

into superstar players. You're more of your thoughts. Been

5:07

over the last week your as begins around to

5:09

of the N B A playoffs. Exactly

5:11

that. That's exactly what I've been thinking

5:13

is that this is kinda like one

5:15

of those times where we see it

5:17

changing and guard where it's not just

5:19

one player you know it becomes multiple

5:21

players start to go ahead I'm really

5:23

just go hidden in break out and

5:25

they become in our store. M B

5:27

A Players. Had. You said that

5:29

indeed in the on isn't the rack and all those

5:31

guys would ever have not made the second round of

5:33

the playoffs. Le Bron. I. Would

5:35

have said you're probably not speak as.

5:38

Those. Guys Rock Teamed up with Exxon players

5:40

who have aide who have you have little

5:43

or do have Devin Booker. I mean just

5:45

don't. Those were teams that were your go

5:47

ahead and they were picked a be at

5:49

the top there when you were looking at

5:51

me no go ahead and try to crown

5:54

and Mph app in those those things are

5:56

all wrong that list so you're not see

5:58

those guys in the play. I

6:00

don't want to say a it brings the playoffs

6:02

down because now we get to watch. You

6:05

know a single Just Alexander. We get the

6:07

watch in the Anthony Edwards or military caliber

6:09

and we get to see you know that

6:12

that that grind amount nicotine from from the

6:14

old days? It's It's kind of the same

6:16

team so it's interesting. we'll we'll see when

6:18

know what's going to seek out over the

6:20

next couple weeks here. but it it least

6:23

it's it's fun. I mean you gotta a

6:25

Cleveland Cavaliers series right now with the Orlando

6:27

Magic that I honestly didn't see. Oh and

6:29

seven games. but in credit where credit's due,

6:32

the Orlando Magic are going out there. And.

6:35

Are they have a lot of role players

6:37

that are stephen up now and that's become

6:39

serious? Oh that's interesting so we'll see right

6:41

now. Still still some really good basketball going

6:43

on so sue me. Exciting over next couple

6:46

weeks your for sure yeah and ethics I

6:48

to get to the conference semifinals years gonna

6:50

be a lot of fun to watch. You

6:52

know some the younger guys ever mention how

6:54

great June has been playing. Since.

6:57

New York Knicks see more Premier

6:59

Night Series. When I say I

7:01

take on the Indiana Pacers turning

7:03

on Monday for the Conference semifinals

7:05

in the Eastern Conference or similar,

7:07

get into a Man with Dad's

7:10

I'm Lilla. Start with that will

7:12

look I guess chronological or as

7:14

games are going here, we've got

7:16

the game of one of the

7:18

Western Conference semifinals tipping off on

7:20

Saturday evening between the Minnesota Timber

7:22

in the Denver Nuggets. In these

7:25

two teams obviously very familiar with.

7:27

each other being in the same division, In

7:30

the Northwest on North West Conference

7:32

Srs is a division Northwest division

7:34

and these two teams did match

7:36

or four times during the regular

7:38

season did split the season choose

7:40

to games apiece. The Minnesotan was

7:42

were three and one. I'm.

7:45

Against the spread in those games.

7:48

Spreading. there's gonna be a really really

7:50

fun sears the watch ah when we we

7:53

saw anything addresses actually take it to be

7:55

of phoenix suns and there's a lot a

7:57

couple games in there for the minnesota Timberwolves

7:59

where you had other guys that really stepped

8:02

up for this team. Guys like Jaden McDaniels,

8:04

I know Carl Anthony Towns was still ramping

8:06

up a little bit. He only returned before

8:08

the regular season was over. Dealing

8:13

with the injury, he only had two games.

8:15

And then he got thrown into the NBA

8:17

playoffs there in round one against the Phoenix

8:19

Suns, did play a series high 39 minutes

8:21

in game four for the Minnesota Timberwolves. And

8:24

they're really gonna need him in this series against

8:27

the reigning defending

8:30

NBA champions in the Denver Nuggets and

8:32

Nuggets. I think there's a

8:34

little bit a little bit of a chink in the

8:36

armor. We'll talk about the series here. But right now

8:39

let's get into the series price right now currently over

8:41

on Draft Kings. The Denver

8:43

Nuggets are favored in this series

8:46

with a price of minus 205

8:49

plus 170 for the Minnesota Timberwolves to win

8:51

the series. Total games right now

8:53

is set at five and a half at minus 160.

8:56

And if you do like the Denver Nuggets

8:58

to get it done in minus one and

9:01

a half on the series spread that's at plus 115. But

9:04

we can get into all those series prop bets

9:06

as we talk about this series seriously. What are

9:08

your thoughts on this matchup between the Denver Nuggets

9:11

and the Minnesota Timberwolves? I

9:13

think this series price is

9:15

just totally mispriced here. I

9:18

gotta go back to what the

9:20

T-Wolves did against the Suns. You

9:23

swept Kevin Durant, Devin Booker,

9:25

Bradley Beal. You went into

9:27

their house, you beat them up. And I

9:30

had the Phoenix Suns home court advantage. I

9:32

had that as one of the better ones

9:34

out of all the teams in the playoffs.

9:37

And you went in there and you took care of that team, you

9:39

dismantled them. As far as Denver

9:41

was concerned, I get that they won their series.

9:44

But the Lakers had double digit leads in

9:46

I think all games except the last

9:48

game in which they lost. I

9:51

do worry right now that the power ratings

9:54

for both of these teams are completely wrong.

9:57

And to see Denver favored at what

9:59

like minus 210 some books is right now.

10:03

It feels like it should probably be like

10:05

minus 140. Just the fact that

10:07

they have home court advantage, I'll

10:09

say okay cool you know let's

10:12

adjust some 20-30 cents but it's

10:14

it feels like you're being taxed

10:16

for this Nuggets team and

10:18

I don't agree with it. I think if

10:20

the T-wools are healthy you

10:22

know with Kat that they

10:24

are the better team right now that's just the way

10:27

that I feel because I don't know how you could

10:29

do that against Phoenix and

10:31

at least not be

10:33

like kind of heads up against a team like Denver like

10:36

what would let's just say it was

10:38

Denver against Phoenix what

10:41

would the line be? You're assuming this

10:43

line would be like minus like 300 minus 400 you know

10:47

just based off the result from what we saw in

10:49

that series so I'm just thinking

10:51

of what these two series looked like and

10:54

the Lakers were a playing team it's not like

10:56

they were number two seed or number three seed

10:58

they were playing team they were lucky to even

11:00

be in the playoffs you know with an old

11:02

player like LeBron and I get it like 80s

11:04

out there but you know who really did the

11:06

Lakers really have to throw at the Nuggets we

11:08

know the Nuggets are you know four

11:11

or five players deep across the board I mean

11:13

they pretty much cover every position but the Lakers

11:15

just didn't have that to offer here but the

11:17

T-wools do I think the T-wools certainly have you know

11:20

four or five guys they could throw at this team

11:22

so I would price this at

11:24

maybe like Denver minus 130 Denver

11:27

minus 140 and the only reason I'm

11:29

going as low as I possibly can

11:31

is because of the results

11:33

from what the Wolves did on

11:36

the road so if mile-high is like this big

11:38

daunting place and I get it it's not easy

11:40

to go in there but not like you already

11:42

said these teams kind of know each other they

11:44

played there before and I think

11:46

that Minnesota is gonna have confidence to be able

11:48

to go on the road perform well and

11:51

pull out a victory so I'm gonna say

11:53

it should be like minus 130 minus 140

11:55

at most this just feels really

11:58

really wrong to me and And I

12:00

haven't spoke to you at all, you know,

12:02

over the last couple of days, really, about

12:04

anything with, you know, in regards to basketball.

12:08

It sounds to me like you're kind of maybe

12:10

leaning in there with me that this just doesn't

12:12

feel right. Yeah, I think there's definitely

12:14

value here on the Minnesota Timberwolves. And like

12:16

you mentioned, right, they, they

12:18

swept a team that consisted of Kevin

12:20

Durant, Devin Booker, Bradley

12:23

Beal, and I think the one downfall for

12:25

the Phoenix Suns was not having Grayson

12:28

Allen out there for

12:30

this Phoenix Suns team. But

12:33

when you take a look at this Denver Nuggets

12:35

team as well, like I mentioned, there were

12:37

some chinks in the armor. And

12:39

I, I, I say what you

12:42

just mentioned is that the Lakers had

12:45

multiple double

12:47

digit leads in this series. In fact, what three

12:49

out of the four games that they did have

12:51

it, sorry, three out of the five games, I

12:53

should say, and they went on to win what

12:55

game four on their home floor. And

12:58

I think that for this Minnesota Timberwolves team,

13:00

and you and I were talking offline about

13:02

this is that they, in

13:04

this series, it's going to have to be

13:06

someone else outside of Anthony Edwards to step

13:09

up and take some

13:12

of that scoring pressure off of a guy like

13:14

Anthony Edwards. And I think that's the guy that

13:16

we talked about in Carl Anthony Towns, who

13:19

again, can knock down that three point shot. He can finish

13:21

around the basket, he can get to the free throw line.

13:23

And they're going to need that because I

13:26

keep saying this, I feel like the Denver Nuggets do

13:28

have the best starting five in

13:30

the entire NBA

13:33

playoff teams that qualified for

13:35

the playoffs. And

13:37

when you have a guy like Nicole Jokic,

13:40

a finals MVP, a regular season MVP, an

13:42

elite point guard, and all star

13:44

like Jamal Murray, you mentioned KCP, Aaron

13:47

Gordy, Michael Porter Jr. I think the one

13:49

disadvantage that the Denver Nuggets may have in

13:51

the series is the bench, right? I

13:53

don't trust Reggie Jackson. He's not going to get a whole

13:55

heck of a lot of minutes. Christian

13:59

Brown. coming off of the bench for them. He's gonna

14:01

be able to contribute for this

14:04

Denver Nuggets team versus. There's

14:07

a whole heck of a lot of

14:09

great role players for this Minnesota

14:11

Timberwolves team like the Nikhil Alexander Walkers

14:13

of the world. The

14:16

Jayden McDaniel's of the world who I think is gonna

14:18

be matched up on a guy like Jamal Murray. I

14:22

think this is a series where they're really gonna need Carl Anthony

14:25

Townsend. It was really good to see him play 39 minutes

14:28

in that game four against the Phoenix Suns.

14:30

So that's one guy I'm gonna keep my eye

14:32

on in this series. I know Anthony Edwards is

14:34

going to get his. We know he talks

14:37

a lot, but he also backs it up. And I think

14:39

that's the confidence and the player that you want on your

14:41

team with a guy like Anthony

14:43

Edwards. So I'm with you. I think there's

14:45

some value here on the Minnesota

14:47

Timberwolves. I think that the over five

14:50

and a half total games, it

14:52

is priced at minus 160. But I do

14:55

think this gets to at least six games. If

14:57

not, I would not be surprised, leave you that

14:59

if it's because does actually go seven games between

15:02

these two teams. Yeah, wouldn't surprise

15:04

me either just because Denver, they're

15:07

a tough team to go ahead and take out on any given

15:09

night. So they're gonna be able to put

15:11

together at least a couple games here and go ahead and

15:13

push the series out probably

15:15

as far as I could possibly go. There

15:17

is one thing that you mentioned though that I

15:20

think is something that I spotted

15:22

with this T-Wolves team and I

15:24

had this team grossly underrated. Like if

15:26

there was one team that I was wrong

15:28

on probably all year

15:30

long and especially in the playoffs, it was the

15:33

Wolf's team. But I

15:35

just get the sense of hunger

15:37

from them. And a lot

15:39

of that comes from their bench. And

15:42

it's not like the other teams don't have this,

15:44

but it was just something that I noticed that

15:46

every single guy that stepped on the floor. It

15:51

was like they were trying to win the

15:53

NBA championship. And I think that that's the

15:55

recipe for you to go ahead

15:57

and achieve that. And that's kind of what I

15:59

saw from Denver. last year I had

16:01

Denver grossly underrated going into last year and I'm

16:03

like I don't think you're gonna even make the

16:05

playoffs I didn't think they were gonna be all

16:08

that good because they're worried about guys like KCP

16:10

who you know has been shuffled around

16:12

the league a little bit Michael Porter Jr.

16:14

who is just so streaking and he's up

16:16

and down and one game he

16:18

shows up one game he's not even on

16:20

the floor it's just it's very weird but

16:24

come playoff time you saw the

16:26

entire starting five and the bench for

16:28

the Denver Nuggets go out there and they were just playing

16:31

like this hunger type of basketball and that's kind of

16:33

what I see here you know with the

16:35

T-wolves and I know that the Nuggets

16:37

you know won the championship last year and I don't

16:39

want to go ahead and question their hunger but that

16:41

is something that you do have to consider is

16:45

are all players that are on the floor and

16:48

on the bench are they all hungry for the same

16:50

exact thing and you just have to wonder you

16:52

know what uh you know what happens with

16:54

that you know just as far as you know psyches

16:56

concerned because I think that that's kind

16:58

of what pushes you over the edge sometimes is that it

17:02

takes every single player on that team even the

17:04

guys on the bench who might not even play

17:06

you know to go ahead and have their participation

17:08

and go ahead and you know try to will

17:10

their team through so that's just something that I

17:12

noticed with this T-wolf team that I was completely

17:14

wrong on and I think that you know

17:17

right now for me I think they are the best team

17:19

in the West right now yeah and

17:21

I think for the this Minnesota Timberwolves

17:23

team it's gonna be interesting to see

17:27

guys coming off of the bench and who's gonna

17:29

step up and like you mentioned I think it's

17:31

gonna be a very a collective effort because there

17:33

were multiple games in that series against the Phoenix

17:35

Suns where you saw all five starters in double

17:37

figures and that you know that's only a tons

17:39

of help to a guy like Anthony Edwards so

17:41

I'm really curious to see how

17:43

well the bench does play I do think that the

17:46

Wolves also have the advantage on the bench in the

17:49

series against the Denver Nuggets let's

17:51

get into game one here sleepy on Saturday

17:53

night between these two teams game one tips

17:56

off in Denver it is going to be

17:58

right now the line is minus Four

18:00

and a half in favor of the Denver

18:02

Nuggets at home with a total of two

18:06

2007 and a half as it stands Game

18:09

one what are your thoughts between these

18:11

two teams? I think Denver is

18:13

probably the team that I would look at believe

18:15

it or not Just based

18:17

off the fact that they went they played

18:19

the Lakers and they didn't play their best

18:22

series I think that they would agree that

18:24

like yeah, they snuck a couple games out,

18:26

but you would think here at home Starting

18:29

over a new series against a team that

18:31

looked really impressive that Denver is going

18:34

to be on high alert And

18:36

then you have to worry about the T Wolves

18:38

as far as that like, you know They did

18:40

what they did which I don't think

18:42

anybody saw a sweep coming for sure I'm not even sure

18:44

how many people would have even advanced them, you know past

18:46

the Suns And you have to worry

18:48

about a letdown, you know, did they put Every

18:51

ounce of effort that they had into that series

18:53

and now they kind of come down and you're

18:55

playing the champs The team that's not going to

18:57

be easy to mess with and they're playing them

18:59

on the road, you know full disclosure

19:01

I went ahead I took the T Wolves at

19:03

plus five because I thought that that number was

19:05

wrong and that numbers come down slightly but

19:09

I Don't want to say that I

19:11

would take Denver because I actually think

19:13

that the T Wolves are the better

19:15

team But I

19:17

don't want to lay four and a half points. I like the five.

19:19

I still like four and a half But

19:22

if I were just if I

19:24

were you I would probably be

19:26

looking at Denver as far as the

19:28

Motivational side and if I were you

19:30

I would probably be looking at the T Wolves as

19:33

far as getting points because I don't think these Teams

19:35

are four or five points apart. So it's really tough

19:37

for me to go ahead and give you guys like

19:39

a real wager for this one I

19:41

think maybe I disclose maybe you know

19:44

My hand here with this

19:46

series is that the bet I would give would

19:48

probably be Go ahead and take

19:50

the Timberwolves like plus the 180 or 170 for the series So

19:54

that's where I'm at right now And another

19:56

thing to man off is that I don't

19:58

necessarily know what the series is going to

20:00

look like because you know if cats out

20:02

there and he's playing really well and you

20:04

have Anthony Edwards doing what he did that

20:06

they could easily win this series and let's

20:08

say cats not you know going out there

20:10

and looking like he's 100% and maybe go

20:12

bear turns into you know ancient relic or

20:15

something like that and yokich just

20:17

becomes unstoppable well then you know the nuggets

20:19

win so i kind of want to just

20:21

see what game one looks like in in

20:23

this particular environment because during a regular season

20:25

it's hard to really get a grip on

20:27

you know what what two teams are going

20:29

to look like when they step on the

20:31

floor in a moment like this so

20:34

i want to see it kind of first and

20:36

then i think it's going to be a little bit

20:38

easier for me to to decide you know it would

20:40

am i being fooled you know did the lake

20:42

fool me by you know just being the Lakers and

20:44

you know i don't want to throw shade on the

20:47

brown but i mean the dude's like 40 years

20:49

old so i just don't want to be fooled

20:51

but that's kind of what i see right now so

20:53

yeah it's it's it's a little

20:55

cloudy but i do feel confident that the wolves

20:57

are the better team right now yeah

20:59

i think this is going to be a and i mentioned

21:01

this i think when we talked about game one between the Lakers

21:04

and the Denver Nuggets

21:06

that you want to come out and

21:08

and punch you know the defending champions

21:11

in the mouth and

21:13

i think the Lakers have that

21:15

opportunity they like you mentioned they

21:17

have that double digital lead they just weren't able to

21:20

close out the game and that was you know multiple

21:22

times during the series this

21:25

Minnesota Timberwolves team is completely different like you

21:27

mentioned they're hungry they're a team that plays

21:29

a full 48 minutes and i

21:31

think this is an opportunity that they i

21:33

they could steal game one here um i

21:36

even at the four and a half i do like the

21:39

Minnesota Timberwolves in this game um

21:42

again i'm gonna be curious to see like

21:44

we talked about with

21:47

Carl Anthony Townsend how many minutes he's actually gonna be

21:49

out there because and

21:51

we and i keep mentioning him for a

21:53

reason but you take a look at the

21:55

first four games of i'm sorry

21:58

the first three

22:00

games of the series against the Phoenix Suns, 27

22:02

minutes, 24 minutes, 24 minutes, and

22:05

then he jumped up to 39 minutes. Not

22:08

saying he's gonna have to be out there for the 39

22:10

minutes of game if he's still, I

22:12

don't wanna say recovering from the injury, but still trying to get

22:15

up to game speed because if the amount of games that he

22:17

did miss during the

22:19

regular season, it may take him a little bit to get up

22:21

to game speed and get that rust off, but he had a

22:23

great game for the

22:25

Minnesota Timberwolves, 11 of 17 from the floor, 28

22:28

points. And again, that takes

22:30

a lot of pressure off of a guy like Anthony Edwards,

22:32

but we do know that those two guys are gonna get

22:34

the shot volume consistently, I

22:36

should say, for that Minnesota Timberwolves

22:38

team at whatever contributions you can get from the other

22:41

guys, shooting the three ball, I think

22:43

is gonna be very, very important for this Minnesota

22:45

Timberwolves team. So as far as game one

22:47

goes, I'm on the Minnesota Timberwolves here plus four and a half.

22:49

I do think they come out and punch the

22:51

Denver Nuggets in the mouth here. I think they can even

22:53

win this game out, right? But I do think that it

22:56

comes down to the wire between these

22:58

two teams. Like you mentioned, I wanna

23:00

back a team that's hungry and this

23:02

Minnesota Timberwolves team is hungry, led

23:04

by their guy, Anthony Edwards, who

23:07

does a lot of talking on the floor, but he

23:09

also does back it up. So give me the Minnesota

23:11

Timberwolves here in game one plus four and

23:13

a half. So maybe anything else for game

23:15

one or anything else for the series before

23:18

we get to the next game on

23:20

the schedule here? Yeah, I actually had

23:22

a couple of questions and something

23:24

I was thinking about a couple of days ago

23:26

when Edwards had like those crazy dumbs. And

23:29

I was thinking about the team in general. So

23:32

you have Rudy Goldwehr, right? He was with Donna

23:34

Mitchell for a long time and

23:36

those guys split up. The relationship

23:38

obviously soured. We see Donna and

23:41

Mitchell right now struggling in the East to go ahead

23:43

and dismantle and get rid of the Orlando Magic. Not

23:45

sure if that's gonna happen. We'll talk about that here

23:47

in a little bit. But I feel like

23:49

a guy like Rudy Goldwehr kind of has a chip on

23:51

his shoulder. And I feel like

23:53

Carl Anthony Towns is a guy who has

23:55

a chip on his shoulder as well because

23:57

he's really never won anything. in

24:00

this league and then you look at a

24:02

guy like Antony Edwards and you have

24:04

to ask yourself because we saw

24:06

the comparisons over the last couple of days. Jordan

24:09

type of dunks and Jordan type of

24:11

play and I get it. Like you

24:13

probably shouldn't put him even in that

24:15

conversation right now, but you can

24:18

draw comparisons and say, you know, it

24:20

looks like that guy. If

24:23

just saying if. If

24:26

you have a Rudy Goldberg was really chippy,

24:28

you have a Carl Anthony towns is really

24:30

chippy and you have an Anthony

24:32

Edwards who was hearing that and

24:34

realizes I'm now playing the MVP of

24:36

the league, the best player bar none,

24:39

who has won the MVP

24:41

award multiple years. If I can

24:43

take this guy out, where

24:45

do I go? So you have to

24:47

assume that this is just a really

24:49

chippy bunch. And that's what I mean. Like when

24:52

I was talking about, you know, this team in

24:54

general, that they're just playing with this very weird

24:56

type of hunger. And if Anthony

24:58

Edwards, you know, plays with this hunger again

25:00

in this series, it's going to

25:02

be interesting where people are going to rank him

25:05

going into next year. If they could just, even if they

25:07

just get past this series and I understand maybe they lose

25:09

in the Western Conference, probably maybe they even make the finals

25:11

and lose whatever the case might be. But

25:13

I'm just looking at it from. From

25:16

that. And, uh, I don't know if anybody really

25:18

brought that up or has thought about that, but

25:20

those are just some of the things that I

25:22

like to think about when I'm thinking about handicapping,

25:24

because I believe that that does, you know, boost

25:26

particular motivations and that's something that you have to

25:29

factor in your handicap. So I don't know if

25:31

you're seeing the same thing or thinking the same

25:33

thing, but, uh, I think that these guys

25:35

are all playing with chips on their shoulders. They all have

25:37

something to prove. And I don't know

25:39

if you agree with me, but I think if

25:41

Anthony Edwards beats Yokich, they're going to

25:43

start saying that Anthony Edwards is the best player in

25:46

the league, especially if they make like

25:48

the NBA finals. I think that's, it's

25:50

going to be what we're talking about going in the next year.

25:53

I, there's been conversations out there. I

25:55

think this is something that also

25:57

goes in hand to what you're talking about. with

26:00

Anthony Edwards is, and I want to ask you this,

26:03

is do you think that Anthony Edwards has

26:05

reached his full potential yet? I don't want

26:07

to say he's reached his potential, but

26:09

he's reached the potential to be potentially the

26:11

best player in the NBA. Like, I think

26:14

there were a lot of little experiences that

26:16

he needed to have happen that I

26:19

think he realized, like, I'm

26:21

here now, I've arrived. I now have

26:23

this window to really improve

26:25

and really get good and I can potentially be,

26:28

I'm betting him for the MVP mixture, I'm telling you that

26:30

right now, like, that's gonna be my guy. Yeah,

26:34

so the potential's there. And I think the

26:36

potential for the particular motivations and

26:39

just the way that everything sets up right

26:41

now for his career, as long as this

26:43

dude stays healthy, we

26:45

could end up talking about him over the next 5, 10

26:47

years as

26:49

being the best player in the NBA. So yeah,

26:51

the potential is, I mean, it's there. I mean,

26:53

it's certainly there. Yeah, I mean, I agree with

26:55

you 100%. I think this guy's gonna win an

26:59

MVP, maybe even two in

27:01

his career. Now

27:03

I would love to see a guy like this

27:05

be an NBA champion because like I mentioned, he

27:08

has that hunger. He's a guy also

27:10

that doesn't take nights off. And if you notice

27:12

that even, you know, whatever injury that he may

27:14

be dealing with that he's gonna

27:16

be, he's gonna try to go out there and

27:18

play and more times than not, he's

27:20

been a guy that's been out there going out

27:22

and playing and not taking nights off.

27:24

And those are the type of players that you wanna root

27:26

for. And I think that Anthony Edwards at

27:29

some point, we'll be talking

27:31

about being a top three player in this league

27:33

after, you know, guys like LeBron

27:35

James, hanging up Steph

27:37

Curry and those guys. But I think definitely right now, Anthony

27:39

Edwards, I think they sign up in a conversation that he's

27:41

top 10, maybe even top seven right

27:44

now in the entire NBA. All

27:47

right, Sloopy, let's get over to game

27:49

seven happening on Sunday between the Orlando

27:51

Magic and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Orlando Magic

27:54

did win obviously game six on their

27:56

home floor. They cover the number of...

28:00

This three and a half minus four depending on

28:02

where you got it the total Losers

28:05

by the hook at

28:10

199 that game finished with 103 96 but game seven

28:16

Happening on Sunday one o'clock Eastern

28:19

Currently as it stands the Cleveland Cavaliers are a

28:21

three and a half point home favorite with a

28:23

total of 195 and a half You're

28:26

sleepy. What are your thoughts in

28:28

this game for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the

28:30

magic for game seven? It's tough to fade

28:32

the home teams here because they just keep

28:34

winning every game But I worry

28:36

from what I saw about the Cavaliers in

28:38

the fourth quarter It

28:40

was we just got to get the ball

28:42

to Mitchell and everybody else was just standing out there Mike

28:45

Garland Like dude, you got a shoot got

28:47

to get it to Moli. Somebody's got a shoot. It's true.

28:49

So whoever it don't matter Somebody else

28:51

has to contribute on the offensive

28:53

end and not just have your guy out there Donovan

28:56

Mitchell who was visibly banged up

28:58

I mean he went out there and still had a

29:00

monster game had 50 points But when

29:02

you have a game like that and your team loses

29:05

You really have to take a look at everybody

29:07

else that's on the floor and ask, you know,

29:09

what are they doing? Well, they're putting you in

29:11

bad positions because now you've got a guy who's

29:14

basically going not one on one But he's

29:16

going one on three and we saw

29:18

Mitchell at the end there Go ahead and miss

29:20

a couple shots that you know Maybe had there

29:22

not been three guys on him because their offense

29:24

was just so predictable at the end there you

29:26

know, maybe he gets a bucket or two to

29:28

go down and Maybe the Cavaliers

29:30

win and maybe they cover and maybe you go

29:33

ahead and you know You get a couple extra

29:35

buckets and the game goes over so I just

29:37

wonder what Cleveland's going to look like, you know

29:39

when the chips are really down again because These

29:43

two teams aren't that far apart I think we've

29:45

seen that in this entire series that these two

29:47

teams are very very close and If

29:50

the confidence and you know the play

29:52

from Orlando can continue in the Cleveland

29:54

they're gonna beat them out, right? They

29:57

need to come up with some type of

29:59

a hey You need to step up and be

30:01

able to take a big shot there, Darius, you know what

30:03

I mean, or Evan or whatever. You

30:06

guys have to do something. We just can't operate.

30:08

And I think a lot of that falls on

30:10

the coaching too, is that he allowed that to

30:12

kind of happen. They had a nice

30:14

little lead there in the third quarter. And

30:17

they broke out, I think, in the fourth

30:19

quarter a couple times and had a couple

30:21

point lead, but quickly dissolved because they just

30:23

got very one-dimensional, very predictable. So

30:25

if they do that again, they're

30:28

going to lose. And

30:32

I don't know, man, I would probably take Orlando for

30:34

as much as I probably

30:36

thought that they

30:38

weren't really anywhere near as

30:40

good as Cleveland, but they've proven

30:42

over, you know, this series that they

30:44

are. So give

30:47

me Orlando. Not in love with

30:49

it, but I'm not in love with what I

30:51

saw from Cleveland, especially coming down

30:53

the stretch there in the fourth quarter where,

30:55

you know, that's team basketball. And they played

30:58

anything but team basketball tonight. Orlando did, and

31:00

that's why they won. Yeah,

31:03

I think that obviously Donovan Mitchell

31:05

having a 50-point game here, you're

31:07

going to need somebody else to

31:10

step up. But I

31:12

don't expect him to go out there and

31:14

have another 50-point game, but I think that

31:16

he can continue that success that

31:18

he had scoring-wise in game

31:20

seven here because, I mean, you

31:22

saw it in the final minute there that once

31:25

the magic had pretty much sealed the victory that he was still

31:27

out there nodding his head. He's like, all right, it's game seven

31:29

time. I'm going to be ready. So I expect him

31:31

to be out there the full 48 minutes of this

31:33

game. It's do or die, obviously, in game

31:35

seven. Just

31:39

to kind of reference here, game

31:41

sevens, home teams are

31:43

44 and 22 straight up. It's

31:47

about 66.7%, but the ATS numbers 34 and 32 against

31:49

the spread are home teams. And

31:55

if we put that to home favorites,

31:57

43 and 19. straight

32:00

up our home teams in

32:03

game 7 33

32:05

and 29 against spread obviously the

32:07

big factor is the total unders

32:10

are 42 and 24 with an average of 195.8 points

32:12

per game

32:15

and that's really where this total is at right now it's

32:17

sleepy at 195 and a half

32:20

I think this is the game where it's gonna be a

32:22

rock fight I know we saw some of these totals especially

32:26

the first two games flying under

32:28

I think it's not gonna

32:30

be that type of game I think the

32:32

first team to maybe 95 wins this game

32:34

I love

32:40

the under in this game at 195 and a half

32:43

I'm with you I think I would lean with the magic here

32:45

at plus three and a half but I think you know I

32:47

don't want to be a coward and just give out the

32:50

Cleveland Cavaliers money line right now which is

32:52

at minus 166 currently

32:54

over on DraftKings but I do think

32:56

the Cleveland Cavaliers to get this done

32:58

and advance to the second round to

33:01

go up against they will be playing the Boston

33:03

Celtics the number one seed in the Eastern Conference

33:06

so under for me 195 and

33:08

a half and then minus three and a half sorry

33:11

the money line on the Cleveland Cavaliers to get it

33:13

done in game 7 here you have the else you

33:15

want to mention for game 7 it's

33:18

very tough to go ahead and fade that

33:20

game 7 I mean when you have a

33:22

team at home you know the fans show

33:24

up they really go out there

33:26

and give their best effort so it's tough to

33:29

go ahead and probably play Orlando here

33:31

but I don't know I want to be

33:34

looking at a couple other bets in this game too

33:36

because again I feel

33:39

like Orlando's confident that even

33:41

the guys that they bring off the bench that they're gonna

33:43

be able to just go out there and play fluid type

33:46

of basketball that nobody's gonna be out there gonna go we

33:48

got to get the ball to the Bank arrow we got

33:50

to get at the front and that's the only two guys

33:52

that could go ahead and shoot because I don't want to

33:54

do anything wrong to screw this up and maybe they do

33:56

I would think that was

33:59

like a younger team but But, you know, Suggs have been

34:01

around a little bit. You got guys coming off the bench

34:03

of Cole Anthony and Isaac. Guys that have been around, I

34:05

just don't know. I just don't feel like they're, like

34:08

a team that feels like they're easily

34:10

intimidated or worried about, you know, what

34:13

the result might be if they go out there

34:16

and just try to be part of the team. So,

34:18

I don't know, it's just a weird series. I'm

34:21

going to watch the first game. I kind of

34:23

wanted to play Orlando in the first quarter, but

34:26

I don't know necessarily, you know, being on the road here

34:28

in this environment is going to be tough. So, I'll

34:30

just give me the three and a half. I'll take

34:32

that for the game. I'm not in love with it,

34:34

but that's probably about all I'll do. So, we'll see.

34:37

Yeah, as you mentioned, also Jared Allen

34:39

has missed the last, or didn't

34:41

miss game six. He was questionable

34:45

going into game six, but I do expect him to be

34:47

out there. He's dealing with, I believe, what is classified as

34:49

a ribs issue. But, I mean,

34:51

obviously having him in there for

34:54

rim protection, I think is going to be huge for this Cleveland

35:00

Cavaliers team. So, definitely

35:02

excited for game seven here between these

35:04

two teams. So, he was moving along

35:06

here to Monday. We've got game one

35:09

and the series starting off

35:11

between the Eastern Conference Semifinals

35:13

between the Indiana Pacers and

35:16

the New York Knicks. Both teams

35:18

took care of business on Thursday

35:21

night in game six. The

35:24

Pacers beat the Milwaukee Bucks on

35:27

their home floor. Damon

35:29

Lillard did return for

35:31

the Milwaukee Bucks. And,

35:33

Giannis, there was reports that he was out there.

35:35

He was trying to play in

35:38

this game. But, I feel like that,

35:40

I found it funny when that report came out. I mean,

35:42

I think that he was trying to play all

35:45

series long, you know, dealing

35:47

with a calf injury. But, I think that was just funny that

35:49

that report came out. But, nonetheless, the Pacers get it done. They

35:51

advanced to play on the New York Knicks and give a lot

35:53

of credit to the New York Knicks men for

35:56

them to the way they lost game

35:58

five on their home floor. or where

36:00

they have the opportunity to close it out. Terry's

36:02

maxi made some incredible plays down the stretch,

36:05

guided to overtime and the Sixers

36:07

went in there, stole

36:09

the game in game five, but for them

36:11

to go on the road and

36:14

to win that game in that environment,

36:16

I think it speaks to how well

36:19

this New York Knicks team, number

36:21

one, they play and they

36:23

play the full 48 minutes. I think that

36:25

this is the Tom Timbrough team, they always

36:27

envision. So this is gonna be an interesting

36:31

series because it's two contrasting styles here,

36:33

Sleepy, but I'll let you get into

36:35

it here, man. Let me give you the series prices here and

36:37

then we can talk about this series. So right now, as

36:39

it stands, the New York Knicks are favored

36:43

in this series minus 245 for

36:46

them to get it done plus 200 over

36:48

on DraftKings right now for the Indiana Pacers

36:50

to win this series. And the

36:52

total games in the series is set at over under a five

36:54

and a half year. So if you were your thoughts. I

36:59

think this is actually a bad matchup here for

37:01

the Pacers. They're a

37:03

team that wants to run, they like

37:05

to play that high pace type of

37:07

basketball and the Knicks, they wanna go ahead and they

37:09

wanna play slow and they kinda wanna grind you

37:11

down and punch you in the mouth. And

37:13

it's not like either of

37:15

these teams are not motivated to go ahead

37:17

and win this series, obviously both are, but

37:20

I worry about the experience from the last

37:22

series and what it looks like in this

37:24

series. And you look at the

37:26

Pacers and they had to feel

37:28

confident that they were gonna win that fight,

37:30

right? No Dave Bullard or Lillard was

37:33

out there, but he was banged up with any missed

37:35

games. No Giannis, we

37:37

went into this podcast talking about

37:40

going ahead betting the Pacers in the series because I

37:42

didn't think Giannis was gonna play. I don't

37:44

think Giannis is gonna play all playoffs no matter how

37:46

far the Bucks advance. That's just, and like I said,

37:48

I had to see it to believe it in order

37:50

to put any money on the Bucks. And I'm glad

37:52

that I, I'm glad I mentioned it.

37:54

When you have like your, you know, your two

37:56

best weapons and they're banged up and not on

37:58

the floor or your. Even

38:00

to start out there's no yawn. It's like you had to

38:02

think the Pacers were thinking like we can beat these dudes

38:04

We could punch these guys in the mouth. Like what are

38:07

they gonna do to us? You know what I mean? They're

38:10

gonna get decked by their by the by the

38:12

Knicks I mean, that's just what they do and

38:14

I think it's gonna be a big wake-up call

38:16

the Pacers and It's

38:20

unfortunate when you play the Knicks it even

38:23

when the Knicks play on the road They

38:27

Can still get you to play their temple of

38:29

a game and that's gonna be

38:31

a big problem here for the Pacers and generally

38:33

the Home team will dictate the pace and

38:36

the Pacers are gonna try to They're

38:38

gonna try to go quick, especially in New York

38:40

and it's just it's not gonna happen. So I

38:45

Look at this series as in I

38:47

look at this series in two ways that Indiana's

38:50

gonna be satisfied because they

38:52

took a team out like the Bucks and The

38:55

Knicks are going to look to go ahead and they're gonna

38:57

try to get rid of this team as quick as possible

39:00

Because they just beat Philadelphia and I think

39:02

Philly is definitely better than Indiana and give

39:05

credit to Indiana But it just

39:07

feels like it's it's two polar opposites here

39:09

two things going in opposite directions I

39:13

don't like this Knicks team at all to be

39:15

honest with you. I mean and they took out Philadelphia

39:17

so For me to

39:19

go ahead and back the Knicks here It's

39:21

telling me that that the series price

39:23

is probably right even though it

39:25

just it looks a little crazy high but

39:27

I just think there were a lot of fortunate things that

39:29

happened here for the Pacers over the last series and The

39:31

Knicks are not there and they did what they're doing And

39:34

I think the Knicks are gonna be like, you know How

39:36

long do we want to drag this crap out because I

39:38

think they know where they're going after this more than

39:40

likely They're gonna end up having to go play

39:43

in Boston, which that series, you know, it's gonna

39:45

be insane So give me

39:47

the Knicks all lazy I'll

39:50

lay the Series price because I don't see

39:52

them losing game one. I just I don't I don't

39:54

know how the hell that's gonna happen Maybe maybe they

39:56

get caught off-court. I don't know, but I don't think

39:58

so. I'm just wondering if I If

40:00

the Pacers steal on what type of a price that we

40:03

get that might be better But

40:05

something tells me even if the Pacers win game

40:07

one and they steal that that

40:09

they won't really adjust the series price too

40:11

much because There's a really good

40:13

chance that you're end up playing game seven in

40:15

New York, which we know that that's gonna be

40:17

really tough So give me the

40:20

Knicks on the series as far as game one's

40:22

concerned I'll

40:24

go ahead I'll pass game one because I

40:26

don't know what type of motivation, you know

40:28

You're gonna get from from the Knicks coming

40:31

off of a tough series against against Philly

40:34

and Indiana I don't want to say that they had an

40:36

easy time went off but you know that

40:38

teams They're built to run

40:40

so there could be a lot of gas in

40:42

the tank that you know The Knicks just might

40:44

not be ready for just just yet Knicks

40:47

for the series. I'll pass I'll pass game one.

40:49

That's kind of where I'm at right now with

40:51

that Yeah, I think that

40:54

you know that that again the two contrasting styles and

40:56

you just take a look at the pace numbers Number

40:59

one during the regular season right Indiana Pacers

41:01

were the second fastest team in the entire

41:03

NBA Where the New York Knicks were

41:05

the slowest pace team in the entire NBA? and

41:08

that's really translated in the playoffs at least

41:10

for the New York Knicks that they remained

41:12

as one of the slowest pace teams in

41:14

that first round that they Really like to

41:17

grind it out and win games

41:19

that way so I Think

41:21

for this New York Knicks team the biggest advantage I

41:23

think they are gonna have is on

41:25

the rebounding front because you have all five guys are at

41:27

least four of the five guys that Can rebound the basketball

41:30

for you and they're starting lineup Whether

41:32

it is Isaiah Hardin style whether it is Mitchell Robinson

41:34

We know what Josh Hart can do on the rebounding

41:36

front as well We saw them have a lot of

41:38

success on the offensive boards in In

41:42

the first round against the Philadelphia 76ers And

41:45

I think that might be what is going

41:47

to be the huge difference in this series

41:49

that again I Think

41:51

that the Knicks could probably wrap this up in five

41:53

games. I don't I I don't It

41:56

could get to six games. I think that this might

41:58

be easy pickings for this

42:00

Indiana, sorry, for this New York Knicks team.

42:02

And again, when we talk about teams like

42:04

the Minnesota Timberwolves, this New York Knicks team,

42:07

they play the full 48 minutes. And

42:10

we saw what they were able to do against the Philadelphia

42:12

76ers, and they play with a lot of heart. And

42:14

now, like I mentioned, these are all blue

42:16

collar guys, the guys that Tom Simo likes

42:18

to have on his roster that they're

42:20

gonna play extensive minutes, they're gonna play their hearts

42:22

out, they're gonna die for the sleuths balls. And

42:26

make the hustle plays, the stats that don't show up

42:28

in the stat sheet, and I know that Jalen

42:30

Brunson is gonna get most of the shots

42:33

for this New York

42:35

Knicks offense. And he's been absolutely incredible in

42:38

that first round against the

42:40

Philadelphia 76ers. I think that he

42:42

may have an easier time, honestly, in this series, sleeping

42:45

against the Indiana Pacers here. So I'm

42:48

not afraid to lay that big price

42:50

here on the series price here for the New York

42:52

Knicks at minus 245. But

42:55

if you wanna maybe trim that juice down and

42:57

maybe take the Knicks to win game one in

42:59

the series, that's at minus 140 right

43:02

now over on DraftKings. But I do think that

43:05

going into Madison Square Garden

43:08

in game one, I think that might, I

43:11

don't wanna say they'll be nervous

43:13

because they've already played in a playoff

43:15

series, but I think this is gonna be a tougher

43:17

series because like you mentioned against Milwaukee, where

43:19

there was no Giannis, there was no game for a

43:21

few games, and that team was a little bit compromised

43:24

with injuries. But this New York Knicks team, they're

43:26

playing with a lot of heart, I

43:28

think they're gonna be ready to go and punch their ticket to

43:31

the Eastern Conference Finals. So I do like the

43:33

New York Knicks in this series. If you wanna take the

43:35

minus one and a half on the

43:37

series spread for the New York Knicks, I think that's a

43:39

great number there as well at minus 125. So

43:43

they would have to win at minimum four games or

43:45

two in this series. So love

43:47

the Knicks in this series. Game

43:50

one, Sleepy is on Monday night. Right

43:53

now the line is minus six, like I mentioned

43:55

and two 16 and a half on the total.

43:57

I know you said you wanna see this play

43:59

out. I

44:02

think the one bet I may be very

44:04

intrigued with would probably be the Knicks team

44:06

total in this game and I think that

44:11

Defensively, I think there might be some Issues

44:15

for this Indiana Pacers number one, like I mentioned on

44:17

the rebound in front and if

44:19

we go back at the end of the day and

44:21

the in each game and we see that the Knicks

44:23

had a lot of success inside the paint and that's

44:26

where their points came from I would

44:28

not be surprised and I think especially on the rebounding

44:30

front that if Patriots wouldn't have success

44:32

in the series. They're really gonna have to limit the second

44:34

chance opportunities for the New York Knicks I'm not sure they're

44:36

gonna be able to do that because again, they don't really

44:38

have that traditional big man and Rebounding

44:41

sometimes is an issue for this Indiana Pacers

44:43

team where on the next side like I

44:45

mentioned you have Four to

44:47

five different guys that can rebound the basketball for you

44:49

in the starting lineup and guys coming off of the

44:51

bench so Right out the

44:54

number is that 111 and a half for the New York Knicks?

44:57

I think they do have success on the offensive side in

45:00

this game. Again, if the Pacers are gonna push the pace You

45:04

know, I think that The

45:07

Knicks may try to match that and I and I think

45:09

that they'll have some easy buckets in transition I think they'll

45:11

be able to knock down their three-point shots So I do

45:13

like that for the Knicks in game one at least over

45:16

111 and a half on their team So are you everything

45:18

else for the series or for game one you want to

45:20

mention? Yeah, we're just curious your

45:22

thoughts with this because I feel like The

45:26

Indiana Pacers are more of a team

45:28

that because they just play so fast

45:30

that they can get all their players

45:32

involved and when you go up and

45:34

get the team like the Knicks and I think we saw this

45:36

in the Sixers series is that The

45:38

Knicks play this just grind it out punch

45:41

you in the mouth type of defense that

45:43

it starts to weed out Your

45:45

weakest links and it becomes like hey, it's either

45:47

got to be in bead or it's got to

45:49

be max It's got to be one of the

45:51

two and I feel like We're

45:53

gonna see that here with the Pacers because they relied on

45:56

so much pace. It was okay You know, we can get

45:58

the ball to this guy, you know, however out

46:00

there to get an assist after assist and it's

46:02

all these guys are performing but this is a

46:04

series where I think that this

46:06

team that generally plays this particular type of

46:08

brand of basketball they're gonna go up against

46:10

this next team and then we're gonna start

46:12

to see the weak links completely

46:14

fall off so I will be looking at

46:17

maybe some of the role players under but

46:19

I'm just curious which

46:21

of the stars whether it be see Occam or

46:23

whether it be Halliburton which of those

46:25

guys are gonna go ahead and take over the reins and just go out

46:27

there and be like you know what this

46:29

is this is my team right now because

46:32

I feel like it's gonna be one or two and

46:34

they're gonna go over their points prop I think probably

46:37

unlike each and every game that they're gonna

46:39

realize these other guys can't be trusted

46:41

I can't even get them the damn basketball

46:44

I need to take this into my own hands

46:47

and I kind of get the feeling

46:49

it's gonna be Halliburton that's just my gut

46:51

feeling he's gonna be like screw it I'm

46:54

just gonna go out there and do everything I can

46:56

get to the rack shoot threes his

46:58

points prop right now was at like 17 and a

47:00

half I'm actually strongly considering going

47:02

ahead and playing that over but I

47:05

think that there's a chance that he can go on

47:07

on a big run here you know and kind of

47:09

and break out and really making the informed self of

47:11

you know bigger name that he already has but that's

47:13

kind of you know something that I was thinking about

47:16

I think those weak links for for the

47:18

Pacers are gonna get they're gonna get sorted

47:20

out quick I mean you're gonna know after after

47:22

the first game I think that you

47:25

know that this is gonna have to be a

47:27

Halliburton Sea Occam series all the way

47:29

but I'm really looking at Halliburton to go and

47:31

just take over completely and probably score a lot

47:33

a lot of points in this one that's kind

47:35

of what I was thinking so curious what your

47:37

thoughts are with that before I really fire anything

47:40

yeah I think he's gonna have to because you have

47:42

different guys that they can throw out Sea Occam right OG

47:44

and an OB Josh

47:47

Hart but you can also throw those

47:49

guys at a guy like Tyrese Halliburton as well but

47:51

I think how he's gonna be a little bit more

47:53

efficient from the floor but

47:56

we saw in game one in game two for Sea Occam that he

47:58

had 37 36 points respectively

48:01

in those first two games and shot volume was there

48:03

for him but as a serious

48:05

progress that Significantly went down because you take

48:07

a look first two games against the Milwaukee

48:09

Bucks 23 shot upset 23 shot attempts and

48:11

23 25

48:14

I'm sorry and 23 in games one in game

48:16

two rest of the way 17

48:20

14 12 and 15 shot attempts, so he didn't sniff

48:22

20 again In

48:25

the rest of the series for the Indiana Patriots

48:27

and again maybe they didn't need them because other

48:29

guys did step up at that point

48:31

for the Indiana Pacers, but I think that It's

48:35

gonna be difficult to tell because again with

48:37

this New York Knicks team You have guys

48:39

on the perimeter that can again a knock

48:41

down or sorry They can defend very well

48:44

and and there's there a

48:46

team that again can throw

48:48

different guys at you and I Think

48:51

it's gonna have to be Halliburton because I think

48:53

that again the offense runs through him Any

48:56

guys he gets his guys in their spots, but I

48:59

think offensively they really are going to need him I

49:01

don't step up and it's not like he didn't he

49:03

had I mean a game where he did have 24

49:05

points But outside of

49:07

that he just had a really bad Shooting

49:10

series especially from beyond the arc He

49:13

averaged three makes per game But he did add

49:15

10.2 attempts per guy game from beyond the arc

49:17

near shown only shot at twenty nine point four

49:19

percent From beyond the arc, so

49:22

I know that you know how he Doesn't

49:24

he has an awkward release? but I think that he's

49:26

gonna have to really be able to

49:28

either number one get to the basket or knock

49:31

down some three-point shots here for the Indiana

49:33

Patriots they're gonna have success in this series So

49:36

I think it would have to be Hallie as well because the

49:38

Jeff's so many different guys that you could throw at see outcome

49:40

as well like I mentioned so Yeah,

49:43

I mean I wouldn't be able to talk to you up because

49:45

if he does have a great game one You're only gonna see

49:47

that number adjusted for How

49:50

the and that's only gonna go up in this series

49:52

for him so yeah, I think

49:54

you know, it's a by-law situation for Tyrese

49:57

aliburton All

50:00

right, Sleepy, so that is

50:02

the three games that

50:04

we are looking at in the two series. We're

50:06

still waiting on to find out, like we mentioned,

50:08

who is going to play the Boston

50:10

Celtics. Well, there it is gonna be the Orlando Magic,

50:13

or is it going to be the Cleveland Cavaliers? Then

50:15

also we'll find out if the Dallas

50:18

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Let's get into our best bets

52:09

here for this weekend card here

52:11

We've got games on Saturday Sunday

52:13

and Monday that we discussed where

52:16

you going with your best bet for this episode

52:19

Alright, so let me give you the Knicks

52:21

on the series. I know that that's you

52:23

know, oh, it's a nice play there sleepy

52:25

It's it's super tricky Anybody could

52:27

do that and I get that

52:29

and you know what that that's that's perfectly

52:32

fine and that's perfectly fair But

52:34

you know when you give out series winners,

52:36

nobody complains, you know, like we do with

52:38

the Pacers I You

52:41

think I have to do that here because these

52:43

teams in my opinion from what I watched and

52:46

from the situation from what I saw That

52:49

these teams are far apart that this is lined

52:51

correctly and I think

52:53

that if the Knicks win game one and

52:56

Indiana looks Really bad and

52:58

I think that there is a chance that they I

53:00

don't see how the Knicks can look bad in this

53:03

game But I think Indiana can I think they can

53:05

get blown out and if that's the case Then

53:07

you're not gonna want to bet it at minus 340

53:09

or something like that because that's probably what it's gonna

53:12

go to So

53:14

give me the Knicks right now best bet for the

53:16

series I think get a hold to that now shop

53:18

around get the best price that you possibly can Because

53:21

I don't think you're gonna see that price ever again

53:23

in this series So I'll go

53:25

ahead. I'll give that out as far as the best bet, you

53:27

know for a series As far

53:29

as the game right now, I don't know enough because like I

53:31

said, like I wanted to see, you know some

53:34

of these Some of

53:36

these games, you know what I'll do. I'll give out

53:38

Hallie. Let me give us points out I'll give that

53:40

out as a best bet if you guys are looking

53:42

for you know one that will be graded on for

53:44

the next podcast Give me Halliburton over to

53:46

17 a half I think that

53:48

the Knicks are gonna put so much pressure on

53:50

everybody else and they're just going to get the

53:52

ball to Halliburton that He's going to be forced

53:55

my gut feeling says we're going to see totals

53:57

for him after game one that are in the

53:59

20 and you're not going to see anything

54:01

less than 20 points per game. So I'll go ahead,

54:03

I'll play. I'm thinking it's going to be a mispricing,

54:06

but I do think that, you know, the way the

54:08

Knicks are going to play this Pacers team, that he's

54:10

going to be the guy that's going to end up

54:12

going out there and just putting up enough shots. I

54:14

think I'm going to get the volume from him. Let's

54:17

assist. So it's one thing about this Knicks team

54:19

is that they play such good

54:21

defense that it's hard to assist

54:23

the basketball in them because they're

54:26

always giving the ball back to, you know, the guy

54:28

at the point guards at the position because, you know,

54:30

he's got to go ahead and he's got to be

54:32

the guy to figure it out. And he's going to

54:34

end up eventually trying to figure out, like, you know

54:36

what? This is too much of a tough task. I'm

54:38

just going to go ahead and shoot stuff myself. So,

54:40

you know, maybe you might want to look at Halley

54:42

threes too, but give me the 17 and a half

54:44

over his points right now. I'll make that my best

54:46

bet. But yeah, let's go ahead and throw in a

54:48

little future best bet on this series too to go

54:50

ahead and play on the Knicks. Yeah,

54:53

really, then I'll give out the series price

54:55

here as well. I like the Knicks here as well. I'll take

54:57

the minus one and a half on the

54:59

series price. That's at minus 125. I

55:02

just don't see a world

55:04

where this does get to seven games because,

55:07

again, I just think that all the

55:09

advantages right now with the New York

55:11

Knicks and from top to bottom, right,

55:13

scoring defense, especially, and I think

55:15

coaching as well. I think Tom Thibodeau is

55:17

not getting enough credit for what he's been

55:19

able to do with this New York Knicks

55:22

roster. So, yeah,

55:24

Knicks minus one and a half in this series. That's at minus

55:26

125. And

55:28

for a game

55:30

best bet, I'm just going to take the under and

55:33

game seven between the Orlando Magic and

55:35

the Cleveland Cavaliers. I think that will

55:37

be a slower pace game. I

55:39

think something similar to what we saw in games one

55:41

and game two in Cleveland where those two teams, it

55:44

was really a rock fight between those two teams in

55:46

games one and game two. We also take

55:48

a look at the fact Sleepy that Orlando

55:50

has had a lot of success at

55:52

home scoring the basketball and being efficient

55:54

offensively. And I'll throw these numbers at you

55:58

quickly before we do get to our player prop best. So

56:01

during the playoffs, and I know this

56:03

is a very small sample here, we

56:06

take a look at the offensive efficiency for

56:10

the Orlando Magic. And

56:12

at home in

56:14

this series, the Orlando Magic

56:17

had an offensive rating of

56:20

119.6. That

56:24

was the fourth best in the entire NBA

56:27

as far as the playoffs went. And

56:30

you take a look at what they were on

56:32

the road in these three

56:35

games that they, oh sorry, yeah, the three games that they have

56:37

played, they were, I want to,

56:39

let me double check this here. I think they

56:41

were dead last, were the, they

56:43

were the second worst team on the road, only

56:46

behind the clean Cavaliers at 94.8. So

56:49

that kind of tells you that they, they had that

56:51

home cooking and they just aren't able to translate that

56:53

on the road. And I think that's what's going to

56:55

be the demise for this team, especially on the road

56:57

here. They also have a net rating of minus 8.4

57:01

in the three road games thus far in the playoffs.

57:03

I know that's a very, very small sample, but I

57:05

think it kind of tells you where this Orlando Magic

57:07

team is at right now. So I'll

57:10

make that my best bet under 195

57:13

and a half for

57:16

the game seven between the

57:18

Cleveland Cavaliers and the Orlando

57:20

Magic. So

57:22

maybe one order of business left here

57:25

that is going to be our player

57:27

pro, player prop best bet, I

57:29

should say. I'm going to

57:31

hand this one off to you here

57:34

because I think we have a very

57:36

interesting and unique take for our player

57:39

prop best bets here. But where are we going

57:41

here with our player prop best bets? All

57:44

right. So let's go

57:46

over to the Minnesota Timberwolves Denver Nuggets game.

57:48

And you and I were sitting here and

57:50

we were discussing that there's

57:52

a chance that we can hit not one, but

57:55

two player prop best bets in this game. And

57:57

a lot of it came down. to

58:01

who's going to be the guy to go

58:03

ahead and really carry the torture for the

58:05

Timberwolves. In game

58:07

one, I think that it could be

58:09

Anthony Edwards or it could be Carl

58:11

Anthony Towns. Carl Anthony Towns'

58:13

point total right now is at 17.5 and Anthony

58:16

Edwards, if you shop around a little bit, you

58:18

can get 26.5. I

58:20

think both of those guys can go over. I don't

58:22

see how we go 0-2. I

58:25

think at worst we split, but I

58:27

think there is a high probability that both

58:30

of these guys go over. A

58:32

lot of it could be due

58:34

to just the matchup situation for

58:36

the Timberwolves team. Do

58:39

they look to go ahead and just have those two

58:41

big guys go ahead and do the

58:43

majority of the scoring for them? I think

58:45

there's a chance of that, but I think the fact that Carl

58:48

Anthony Towns was down a little bit in the last

58:50

series. Like you said, he

58:52

was just getting back into shape, getting back into

58:54

form, but they're going to need somebody to step

58:56

up. They can't just put it all on Anthony

58:58

Edwards to go up against this Nuggets team because

59:01

they can throw a lot of bodies at you too. I

59:03

think that Kat is going to be

59:05

a guy that's going to be out there shooting

59:07

threes and hitting from the free throw line. I

59:10

think that this is just a bet that we have to

59:12

make because I can't pick between one or the other. I

59:15

kind of like Kat more out of

59:17

the two and you were like, yeah, I could see that.

59:20

Do like Edwards more out of the two and I'm like, yeah, I

59:22

could see that too. We decided to

59:24

screw it. Let's just go ahead and give out both because

59:26

we don't feel like we can go 0 and

59:28

2 here. Hopefully we go 2 and

59:30

0 and we make up for our last one here

59:32

that was a little bit of a dud. Yeah,

59:35

I think this makes a lot of sense because number

59:37

one, I do expect Carl Anthony Towns

59:39

to have more minutes in

59:41

this series. I think maybe that 39 minutes in

59:43

game four against the Phoenix Suns was a little

59:46

bit telling that he was trying to get up

59:48

to game speed. And again, if

59:50

he does go out and have another big game, he

59:52

did have 28 points in game four against the Phoenix

59:54

Suns. This number is going to be into

59:56

the 20s For Carl Anthony Towns

59:58

probably going forward. In game

1:00:00

two. I'm. By of the

1:00:02

address as well. right to expect him to be out

1:00:04

there forty plus minutes. In all of

1:00:06

the games you're against Denver Nuggets, the shot while

1:00:08

we know is gonna be there for a guy

1:00:11

like Anthony Edwards are as well. I know you

1:00:13

mention that they do have different guys I can

1:00:15

throw out and buy of the Edwards. I mean

1:00:17

with that mean he can score from any a

1:00:19

level of the floor with it as a three

1:00:21

point line whether that is from the free throw

1:00:23

line our the that's getting to the basket having

1:00:25

those big dogs I just feel like anti I

1:00:28

was is Rhoda Rise of located in the series

1:00:30

and we take a look. He had one off

1:00:32

game in game two against the Phoenix Suns where

1:00:34

he's won three have to or but outside. Of

1:00:36

that, at a minimum of twenty three shots.

1:00:39

In those other three games for the

1:00:41

are for the Minnesota Timberwolves I think

1:00:43

that current he tells us are to

1:00:46

step up as well. Ah for this.

1:00:48

Minnesota to was team. I think what we

1:00:50

look at the end of the day diving

1:00:52

more than fifty percent of the at shot

1:00:55

attempts for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Maybe Mississippi percent

1:00:57

are going to come from those two guys.

1:00:59

So I'm. Yeah. I think

1:01:01

that you're right, that bad worse we would

1:01:03

probably go one in one Here will be

1:01:06

great to get to here for I'm both

1:01:08

guys in game one again the it's also

1:01:10

don't I do like to symbols in game

1:01:13

one ah to come out and and punched

1:01:15

the. Governor. Gets a them

1:01:17

at cover the number of gonna want to

1:01:19

be shocked they want our run. At the

1:01:21

end of the day we saw that both

1:01:23

Anti Edwards and Caliente downtown a big game

1:01:26

here ah for the Minnesota Timberwolves so we'll

1:01:28

go over on the putting the numbers or

1:01:30

eighteen and a half for our Karl Anthony

1:01:32

Towns on his points prop. Currently.

1:01:35

Over at Draft Kings at that.

1:01:37

Plus one of do and I'm.

1:01:39

I think the number we should get out for a

1:01:42

three. I was in between seven and a half because

1:01:44

it's as started a move and most books up to

1:01:46

twenty seven and happen again. If you are able fire

1:01:48

twenty six and have great about that number is going

1:01:50

to close at twenty. So now for and me at

1:01:52

Anthony Edwards in game one here. Sleepy so there we

1:01:54

go. To. player prob best

1:01:57

bets on the same team a cries

1:01:59

in towns over 18.5 points

1:02:01

plus 102 and then Anthony

1:02:03

Edwards over 27.5 right

1:02:06

now currently over on DraftKings.

1:02:10

All right, sleepy that is gonna wrap it up

1:02:12

my friend our in the books here we went

1:02:14

through the

1:02:17

conference in my finals that are confirmed for each

1:02:19

of the conferences right now and also game seven

1:02:21

between the magic and the cat so it's gonna

1:02:23

be a lot of fun to

1:02:25

watch hoops all weekend here my friend but anything else you want

1:02:27

to mention before we get out of here? Yeah

1:02:30

I wanted to know your thoughts on

1:02:32

this and maybe your expertise maybe you can help me

1:02:34

out with this. Two questions for you

1:02:36

first one the NBA playing

1:02:38

tournament who won that and did

1:02:40

it benefit them in any way

1:02:42

when the playoffs came? The

1:02:45

in-season tournament did you say? Yes the

1:02:47

in-season tournament that's right. The Lakers won

1:02:49

it right um against

1:02:52

the Pacers I

1:02:54

don't think it really benefited the LA Lakers

1:02:57

um in the playoffs I think

1:03:00

I think for the Lakers and I know this might be I

1:03:03

mean we didn't get to touch on it because we

1:03:05

wanted to get to the playoffs or that they let

1:03:07

go of Darvin Ham and I think that was their

1:03:10

biggest setback I think in the playoffs

1:03:12

because he was significantly getting out coached

1:03:15

and you saw a lot of times that Darvin

1:03:18

Ham would just stand on the sidelines with his hands in his

1:03:20

pocket like he was like in fear in the headlights and didn't

1:03:22

know what to do um so

1:03:25

I don't think it's really correlated that the

1:03:28

in-season tournament had maybe

1:03:30

anything to do with the NBA playoffs I think for

1:03:32

the for the LA

1:03:34

Lakers it was more of a coaching thing

1:03:36

and also them not being able to hold

1:03:39

on to leads. Okay I

1:03:42

guess I thought that there was like this big

1:03:44

reward you know for going ahead

1:03:46

and winning that in-season tournament and then I guess

1:03:48

the other question that that I have

1:03:50

is that because there's really nothing

1:03:52

there like you have to like the NBA

1:03:55

seems like they're trying to make

1:03:57

the regular season more competitive more

1:04:00

but I sit and I look right

1:04:02

now at the Dallas Mavericks, they're going to go ahead

1:04:04

and they're probably going to end up closing out the

1:04:06

Clippers here. And look at guys

1:04:09

like Yannis and Dame and Joel and Bede

1:04:11

and Carl Anthony Towns and

1:04:13

Kawhi Leonard. And

1:04:15

I look at all these star players that you're

1:04:18

not getting them healthy in the playoffs. And

1:04:20

I just wonder if they're trying to do too much

1:04:23

during the regular season where what

1:04:25

they should probably do is just cut some games

1:04:27

off because I can guarantee you

1:04:29

that the minute that this Clippers game ends tonight,

1:04:33

that that's going to be the first thing that they

1:04:35

talk about is that well the only reason that you

1:04:37

guys won is because Kawhi wasn't on the floor and

1:04:40

then it's going to go right back to we play

1:04:42

too many damn games and it's going to

1:04:44

happen not only after this series is over,

1:04:47

but there's going to be another star player that

1:04:49

gets hurt somewhere in the middle of these playoffs

1:04:52

probably in the next round and

1:04:54

there's a potential like I get it like that

1:04:56

it happened then not during the regular season, but

1:04:59

it always goes back to that, that these guys are

1:05:01

just playing way too many games and they're not in

1:05:04

the best game shape when the

1:05:06

toughest games are on the

1:05:08

line. So I don't know how you

1:05:10

feel about that, but I was just curious what you

1:05:12

think because in season tournament I felt like it was

1:05:14

supposed to spice everything up, but they

1:05:17

need to do away, in my

1:05:19

opinion, they do need to chop down some games because

1:05:21

this is a there are way too

1:05:24

many possessions and

1:05:26

I don't think people realize that they're putting a lot

1:05:28

more miles on their leg now than

1:05:31

they ever did in the past and playing 82

1:05:33

games now, it just

1:05:35

feels like it's just becoming tougher

1:05:37

and tougher for any player to stay on

1:05:39

the floor, let alone the star players, but

1:05:42

this is kind of what we're getting now, we're getting

1:05:44

certain teams out there that should be really

1:05:47

good basketball teams that their

1:05:49

star player is not out there and then they're

1:05:51

out of it and because things

1:05:53

didn't work out, now you break everybody up

1:05:55

and let's go find another victory, so just

1:05:57

something that I just wanted to throw at you and see what happens.

1:06:00

kind of what your thoughts were. So I know

1:06:02

they've kicked around the idea that

1:06:05

the winner of the in-season tournament should

1:06:08

get an automatic playoff bid. And

1:06:10

I think that's something they may

1:06:12

be considering if they want to

1:06:14

continue with this in-season tournament, right,

1:06:17

outside of the monetary and the

1:06:19

cash prize that the players do get. I

1:06:22

think there might be even a bigger incentive

1:06:24

for guys to, I guess, play

1:06:27

even harder because...

1:06:29

Well, that team will be the healthiest team

1:06:31

in the playoffs because why the hell would

1:06:33

they play if they already made the playoffs?

1:06:35

Really, you know, why go out there and

1:06:37

risk injury? Let's just go out there and...

1:06:39

Exactly. Then at that point, the ceiling wouldn't

1:06:42

matter because, hey, they know that, all right,

1:06:44

you know, we already clinched a playoff spot

1:06:46

because we won that in-season tournament. So

1:06:48

I think that's something that the front

1:06:51

offices and I guess the competition committee

1:06:53

has kicked around. So we'll see if they implement

1:06:55

that going starting next season.

1:06:58

But I agree with you. Here's what

1:07:00

I'll say, Manoff, though, just

1:07:02

to interrupt you. If you

1:07:04

have these historians, right, that

1:07:06

are out there complaining that, well,

1:07:08

they're gonna score so many more

1:07:10

points. Of course LeBron's gonna break

1:07:12

40,000 points. Look how many

1:07:14

possessions he gets. Jordan didn't get all those

1:07:16

possessions. Then cut games off. And then the

1:07:18

historians at the end of the day, you

1:07:21

know, when they really do the deep, deep

1:07:23

math, they're gonna figure out that,

1:07:25

well, maybe it's really not that far apart.

1:07:27

Maybe the players today are actually going ahead

1:07:29

and playing just as many, let's just say,

1:07:31

possessions or minutes or whatever at the end

1:07:33

of the year. Because I think really it

1:07:35

would just come down to minutes, probably, you

1:07:37

know, minutes both. I think that,

1:07:39

you know, players like LeBron

1:07:42

and stuff like that when you look at the minutes

1:07:44

and possessions, it's going to like

1:07:46

tower something that Jordan did. So maybe that's

1:07:48

a way for at least the historians to

1:07:50

be happy. Just throwing that out

1:07:52

there. Yeah, and I think that if you cut

1:07:55

this season down to like 70 games, if

1:07:58

you want to keep the end-season tournament, I think that... that

1:08:00

that might be more beneficial because again, we take

1:08:02

a look that there was no Yannis. There was

1:08:04

no Kawhi, a healthy Kawhi. I know he's trying

1:08:06

to be out there for

1:08:08

the LA Clippers, but it just didn't work out

1:08:10

for him. And you talk about

1:08:12

LeBron getting up there and age. I mean, if

1:08:15

he continues to play next season, which he looks

1:08:17

like he will be, he's going to be 40

1:08:19

years old. And I think that for

1:08:21

a guy like LeBron, who's,

1:08:23

you know, the, the, the, the trend has started to

1:08:25

come off the tire a little bit, rightfully so, because he's been

1:08:27

in the league since, I

1:08:29

mean, for so long, I think that they, they

1:08:32

need to do something because again, we want to

1:08:34

see the best players out there healthy

1:08:37

in the playoffs when it matters the most

1:08:39

for this for,

1:08:41

for winning the NBA championship. Like I mentioned

1:08:43

with the guys that are, as

1:08:46

we go forward in the playoffs, you're sleepy in

1:08:48

round two, that you don't have

1:08:50

some of the top, top players in the

1:08:53

NBA that are not

1:08:55

playing because of either injury or,

1:08:57

you know, for another circumstance. So I think

1:09:00

that's something that they really need to do.

1:09:02

You know, try to figure out if you're

1:09:04

the, the competition committee or the

1:09:06

front office. I mean, Scott Foster can only do so

1:09:08

much. I mean, at some point they're going to have

1:09:10

to try to,

1:09:13

I mean, at the end of the day, you know, Josh

1:09:16

Hart hit that open three pointer. I mean, you can't, you're

1:09:18

not going to have Scott Foster go out there and try

1:09:20

to block the shot. I mean, you know, there's so many,

1:09:22

so much that he can do to

1:09:24

the X in the series for, you

1:09:27

know, for, for some of these teams, but

1:09:31

yeah, again, we can sit

1:09:33

here in hours for talk, talk about hoops. I know we'll have

1:09:35

some great off season pods as well. Just, you

1:09:38

know, talking about some off season stuff, but we're still

1:09:40

just getting started for the NBA playoffs.

1:09:42

And it looks like the Dallas Mavericks are well

1:09:44

on their way advancing to the conference of my

1:09:46

final. So right now they have a 20 point

1:09:49

lead in the fourth quarter, 96 to

1:09:52

76. It looked like they are punching their

1:09:54

ticket to play the number one seed, the

1:09:56

Oklahoma city thunder in round two. So if

1:09:59

anything else, before we go

1:10:01

our separate ways? No, let's not even

1:10:03

talk about the Dallas OKC. Let's go

1:10:05

ahead and save that. So as

1:10:07

of right now, we got you guys covered for

1:10:09

the next couple of days. So be on the

1:10:12

lookout for maybe a Monday, Tuesday pod. We'll sit

1:10:14

down and we'll try to figure that out. But not

1:10:18

that we have anything to apologize for. It's been a tough

1:10:20

couple of days for Manoff and I. So sorry

1:10:23

that we were a little bit behind schedule and

1:10:25

didn't drop any pods for you guys. But there's

1:10:27

no sense rushing and giving you guys much of

1:10:30

crap that we don't believe in.

1:10:32

So we feel really good about our picks

1:10:34

for the podcast. So hopefully we'll go ahead.

1:10:36

We'll kick off Sunday and Monday, Saturday,

1:10:38

Sunday, and Monday with some nice winners for you guys

1:10:42

and we'll give it hell. Yeah, definitely looking

1:10:44

forward to it. So

1:10:47

maybe before we get out of here,

1:10:49

there was some type of, I wanna

1:10:53

say disagreement or

1:10:55

issue you had with your grandma over the

1:10:57

last night, over the weekend. Do you wanna

1:10:59

expand on that? Yeah, so I

1:11:01

was going to X and I was reading that

1:11:05

you had a little bit of an issue with Pat

1:11:08

Beverly. And I guess, maybe some of you

1:11:10

guys probably saw the interview, but Pat

1:11:13

Beverly was getting interviewed and there

1:11:15

was a female reporter there and she had the

1:11:18

microphone up to him and maybe she was asking a

1:11:20

question or something or another and Pat Beverly said, you

1:11:23

know, are you subscribed to my podcast?

1:11:25

And she said, no, I'm

1:11:27

not Pat. And he said, well then you

1:11:29

know, you're not gonna be able to interview me then. And

1:11:32

then put the microphone in front of his face

1:11:34

and he was like, could you get the microphone

1:11:36

out of my face? And then

1:11:39

she did it again and he was like, if

1:11:42

you ain't subscribed to the podcast, you gotta leave.

1:11:44

So I guess the female reporter

1:11:46

had about enough of Beverly shit and

1:11:48

she was like, screw you and walked

1:11:50

off. But so I went ahead, called

1:11:52

my grandmother up and she's 88 years

1:11:54

old and I asked her, I said,

1:11:57

look, are you subscribed to the podcast?

1:11:59

She said, no. I said

1:12:01

well then don't ever call me again. I've

1:12:06

seen so many jokes about that. Again

1:12:10

we can sit here for 30 minutes

1:12:12

talk about the whole bad situation. I

1:12:15

just think it's actually outrageous for him

1:12:17

to say that. But again if you're

1:12:19

not subscribed to our podcast, shame on

1:12:21

you. But yeah we'll

1:12:24

leave it at that. Hour 13 in

1:12:26

the book. Seriously like we mentioned we

1:12:28

back early next week. We'll preview the

1:12:30

Dallas Mavericks and the Oklahoma Sea Thunder

1:12:32

and hopefully we'll be talking about some

1:12:34

more winners that we did give out

1:12:36

on this podcast. Alright good luck this

1:12:38

weekend with your bets. Enjoy the games

1:12:40

and we'll talk to you guys down the road.