Terrell Furman Jr. is back on Fast Break Bets, presented by BettingPros, delivering sharp insights and official betting picks for both NBA and WNBA action. After a rough night on the books, he’s locked in with a focused slate and detailed breakdowns for tonight’s games and Saturday’s marquee WNBA matchups.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:14 Karl Anthony Towns Prop
6:37 Atlanta Dream vs Washington Mystics
9:32 Los Angeles Sparks vs Golden State Valkyries
12:50 Las Vegas Aces vs New York Liberty
16:00 Kamilla Cardoso prop
17:18 Chelsea Gray Prop and Recap
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Yeah, sir, we're back with another edition of Fast Break Betts.
Was anybody betting girls? You know me not? Voice on
the guys me fillin rocksrel Firman Junior? Here at your sers?
(00:42):
How about if you sweep it out? What's the port?
What kid? Do anything? Right? You'll do fine? Hey, pal,
you're just blowing from stupid down. I just wow? Is
he give if he taketh away a three to zero
sweep the day before and I just give it all back?
(01:05):
I mean, okay, Aaron Gorton, you did do anything, and
that's perfectly fine. I you know what, I I bit
off more than I could chew there, you know, and
I took another stab at Aaron Gorton, and I get
that I deserved that. Fine, cool, all right? Isaiah Hartenstein
(01:27):
battling foul trouble that was annoying. The points and rebounds.
He didn't have any assists, so the points and rebounds
was the look. He just didn't get as much as
he probably could because he was battling foul trouble for
that game and started going towards the end of the game,
but it was too little, too late. By that point.
I think he had like six points and rebounds at
(01:48):
that half, and then the game went over and the
force in the first quarter, I knew the game was
going over and it was just a slow death at
that point watching the game go over, but I was like, yeah,
this is going over. So I while the game was
going on, I immediately was like, yep, let's just go ahead
and make sure that everything is ready in the WNBA
(02:09):
and get ready for tomorrow. Because that was a crazy
way just you know, bad read on one game and
I had three bets in the game, so all three
bets end up missing. It's cool. I have a lot
to go through this episode and not a lot of time.
First thing I want to remind you all about is
the player prop contest for the NBA Playoffs. Second round
prize is a Tony Parker signed jersey. The first round
(02:31):
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very important that you get over there to that betting
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You go and you can make free picks of player
(02:52):
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(03:13):
should be able to follow me there. Bettingpros dot Com
slash Torell you can give me a follow all right. Wow,
I have a lot of information. I don't even know
how to cover it all. Okay, so we're gonna let's
go ahead. I have one NBA play because I was
gonna just skip the NBA overall. But I really have
a pulse on the Knixt series in player props. As
(03:33):
you know, I am not betting the side for Wow,
the Knicks are a favorite. Holy crap, Uh, I have
not been a side in that series. So I'm gonna
continue with the player props and continue backing the players
that have been working out for us in the playoffs,
and that's Karla Anthony Towns. I'm gonna go points in
rebounds this time. Give me Cat over thirty two and
a half points in rebounds over there in the propbit
(03:56):
cheat sheet, projected for thirty six point eight points in rebounds,
sixty nine percent cover probability, five star rating. He's been really,
really good. He's been over this in his two games
at New York. He's been over this three times. This series.
Had a little bit of a dud here in that
last game, but everybody did. That's kind of what I expected.
That Knicks always lay an egg in the first close
(04:19):
out game, and so I expect here back in New York,
all the celebrities are trying to see the Knicks close
out the Celtics. Everybody's gonna be there, Ben Still, Tracy Morgan,
Cardi b everybody's gonna be there. It's gonna be electric.
I think Cat is gonna go in there. He's gonna
get it done. We bet Cat in game what was
(04:41):
that Game four? We bet Cat in Game four. I'm
gonna bet him back again here in game six. Give
me Cat. I'm gonna take the points in rebounds here
without Jason Tatum it should be able to grab some
more rebounds. Cat points in rebounds over thirty two and
a half. That is the loan NBA play for the
loan NBA game that I have going on there. Let's
(05:01):
get into the w man because in case you were
under a rock, where's the the WNBA is back tip off?
We have three games going on again. This is why
you follow me in the app. I told you give
me a follow in the app. I had some plays.
(05:24):
I said, hey, you can go ahead and follow me
in a betting pros app. I've already made some bets.
We've had line movement in a couple of those bets,
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get into it. Play number one. Let's go to the
first game. Well, it's two games tipping off at the
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same time in the w but the one that is
first on my list, the Atlanta Dream going up against
the Washington Mystics. If you caught me in the Betting
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(06:49):
have gotten this early when I bet the Atlanta Dream
minus three and a half is currently at seven right now,
still okay with it because the Washington Mystics are already
starting off the season. How they left it off completely
injured on their side the ball they're not gonna be without.
(07:11):
They're too big and Shakira Austin Aliah Edwards. The front
court depth is really really lacking for them here, and
I think that's gonna be an issue, especially going up
against Britney Grinder and Breonna Jones, who I both think
both of them can have a really good day, cash
their points props and be able to score. You. Look
at what Kyles Schmesko wants to do with this Atlanta
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Dreams offense here, and it's threes. Put up a lot
of threes and get easy looks at the basket. Well,
they're not gonna have a lot of resistance over there
in Washington without Shakira Austin, without Alia Edwards and so
what I mean, Steph Doson not really rim protector, and
so we'll see. I think that they're gonna get a
lot of easy looks at the rim. And I think
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when they and those easy looks at the rim could
open them up even more than what they already are
gonna take the number of threes like this, Atlanta's Dream
Team is going to shoot a bunch of threes. Oh
my gosh, they're gonna shoot Let me see wait, hold on,
I have a shot shart, Yes I do. Let me
upload this shot shart. Look at what they did against
the Mystics in the preseason game. Look at that this
(08:19):
is the preseason game that they just played. Look at
the shot. There's two mid range shots here, yo, Like Okay,
maybe you count the ones by the free throw line,
but like this is shots at the rim and three
point offense. That is what they're doing, shots at the
rim and three point offense. So yeah, I think that
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the Atlanta Jam are gonna be able to score in
the Mystics here. I'm very interested to see if the
Mystics are any different defensively, but I don't think they are.
I think and I think that those injuries are really
really gonna hurt them. And then offensively, I don't know
if they're gonna have enough. Is Britney Sykes's gonna have
a game? Maybe? I think that you know, sikes Is
is a dog swimmers dog, and she'd be able to
score on anybody, So I think she can have a game.
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But where else where else is the other scoring coming from.
That's gonna make me think Atlanta's not gonna cover this game.
So I think that Atlanta Dream win this one on
the road. I think they went in convincing fashion. So
I already laid three and a half with the Atlanta Dream.
If you want to lay seven, I think seven is
fine too, but it is a significant difference. But I
really don't think that the Washington Mystics are gonna be
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competitive enough in this game. I think this one is
gonna be a double Edgy win by the Atlanta Dream.
All right, play a number two I have here on
the list, and let's talk about the Los Angeles Sparks
in the Golden State Valkyries Sparks open up Lang seven
currently lane six and a half. One sixty two and
(09:45):
a half is the total. I got that total at
win sixty and a half. It is trending towards the over.
I did bet the over. I love the over in
this game, Lynn Roberts. What is Lynn Roberts offense is
up tempo, pushing, pushing, pushing, getting a bunch of shots
up at the rim, taking a bunch of threes. That's
exactly what this offense is, up and down the court,
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up and down the court. And not only Nakassei and
the gold to State Valkyries aren't afraid of that. They're
actually perfectly fine pushing the pace. It looks like, especially
in the preseason, they were going up and down the court,
up and down the court, scoring in their own right
in the preseason, putting up a bunch of threes as well.
And so I think this is one of those games
where one I definitely do not trust the Los Angeles
Parks defensively. I will have to see it from Lynn
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Roberts to see if she incorporated anything, but from the staff,
I don't trust them defensively. They bring in Kelsey Plumb,
who is not a good defender at all, in fact,
a liability on defense. But the fact that she can
score with the best of them at times is the
reason that a lot of people really really do like
her and back her. But I think that the defensive
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liability that she also brings it just doesn't help the
Sparks team that was already struggling on defense and cam
brinkes and walking through the door right now. So it's
gonna be and so I think this is gonna be
up and down the court, tempo tempo, tempo, tempo tempo,
and a bunch of shots going up. I need them
to go in. I assume that a lot of people
are gonna be open here, so I need shots to
(11:12):
go in. But I think that we're gonna see, we're
gonna get the pace for the game, and I don't
think that they're gonna be as invested defensively on either
side of the ball. Especially with Tip Haays on the Valkyrie,
I think she's gonna push the pace for sure, especially
as that lead guard, lead scorer, lead VET for the Valkyrie.
I could see Tip having a really really good game
Tiffany Hayes there, So over one sixty and a half
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I got. I still like over one sixty two and
a half. I think that we see Aiden eight eight
ninety type of eighty eight ninety four type of game
as well, so I did. Also I also placed a
bet on the Valkyries plus seven. That's not an official
play that I'm giving out for the show right now,
because the Valkyries are gonna be down Stephanie Talbot and
(11:57):
uh Cecilia Xandalasinis. Andalssini's like a four percent free throw
I mean not free throw three point shooter. She's like
a forty percent three point shooter, and at one point,
I don't know if she finished the league the year
leading in three point percentage, but she was leading and
she's been up there. So that's really big for a
Natalie Nicasse offense that really wants to put up a
bunch of threes. Her coming off the bench was going
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to really really help them, and Talbott helps them in
situationally defensively, probably helps us with the over, but I
don't know if it helps the Valkyries on the spread.
But I still do kind of like the Valkyries. I'm
really committed the Voctis, but I'm not gonna make them
an official play here. I did already bet it, so
if you still want to tell me, you can go
over there and check out that back at the betting
pros app as well. But that is a play number
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two for you Golden State Valkyries and the Sparks to
go over one sixty two and a half. Let's go
into Saturday because there's an early game on Saturday Fingers crossed.
I'm in attendance, but the New York Liberty are getting
their rings at one pm on Saturday, so I'm gonna
(13:01):
go ahead and give that bet out as well. They're
going up against the Las Vegas Aces the Lions at
four and a half. I got it at five. I
still like it at four and a half. I think
the wrong team is fake, the wrong team is favored.
I love the Aces, and I think I'm going up
here in New York to see my team get a
ring and then get destroyed on ring night. The Aces
(13:22):
have been sitting with the loss of that second round
series to the or what was it technically a semi
final series, yeah or whatever it was, no, yeah, no
no, no second round because then they played the Connecticut and no, no, no,
no no, yeah it was second round, second round, sem
my final, yes, second round, semi final technically, so yeah,
(13:44):
three to one up out of here got them up
out of here and in them three losses, it really
didn't look good for the Aces like much at all.
Ran them up out of there in game one. It
was very, very embarrassing. The Aces sat on that all
year and they don't like this Liberty team. They do
not like them. This is a legit rivalry in the
(14:04):
W between two of the best teams in the W. However,
when you look at the New York Liberty and the
differences between last year and this year, is won the
expansion draft where they lost Kayler Thornton KT that was
our sixth player of the year type player, and it's
just like, oh, that was a real, real big loss,
and you knew it was coming because you knew they
couldn't save everybody, and they ended up saving Nyro sobly
(14:25):
over kt, which everybody expected and so okay cool. Then
Benigul Lane Hamilton gets hurt and she's out for a while,
and so we're not going to see her at all
this season. They suspended her contract for the season in fact,
and then Leoni Phoebich was playing euro Basketball and she
just got back to the team on Thursday. She's not
playing in this game. So between Foebich and Benijulannie Hamilton,
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you have two of your better defenders on the team out.
You have Brianna Stewart who had off season knee surgery
in March. Now, all indications are she's fine, but again,
she hasn't been working out as much because she had
that offseason surgery, so she may be slow to the
bill and see how that goes. Whereas the Aces, Hayja Wilson,
we know she's the goad, we know she's great. You
(15:10):
bring in my dog Jeweloyd as well, and you upgrade
Chelsea Plum from Jeweloyd Chelsea Gray, not Chelsea Gray. I'm
sorry you uplate Chelsea Plum from to Jeweloyd. Then Chelsea
Gray looks amazing, looked amazing in the three on three
Basketball League, unrival where now she's healthy, fully, fully healthy
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this time around. So I just think the Aces with
Jackie Young as well, who always just somehow has big
games in New York, I think it's too much. I
think it's way too much for the liberty to handle.
I love the Aces, love the Aces plus five. You know,
I sprinkled on my dogs. I sprinkle on the money
line as well. I think Aces are going to win
outright in New York and spoil their Room Knight and
(15:53):
get some revenge there. So I love the Aces. On
day two, all right, last play, I want to give
out real quick here. Camilla Cardoso to go over ten
and a half points here against the Indiana Fever. She
went to China and got in her bag in the offseason. China,
there are a lot of taller women, bigger women. They
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are six seven six eights like some taller women that
Camilla had to learn how to finish around. And that's
why she decided to go to China to learn how
to play with her size and finish strong at the rim.
And she looks so good in the preseason, she looked
very good playing alongside Courtney Vanderslout. Now they have a
(16:38):
point guard unlike last year, that can actually get the
ball to their bigs inside the post. I think they're
gonna be playing pick and roll with Camilla. I think
Camilla can grab it off the rim and get offensive
second chance points and off of offensive rebounds. I think
Camilla Cardoso ten and a half points is way too low.
She's one of the players that I think is gonna
be up for Most Improved this year. I think she
(16:58):
can easily walk into a third time fifteen point game
as long as they continue to feed her the ball,
and by all indications of how the Sky are gonna
run their offense this year, I think it's gonna happen.
So there we go, Camilla Cardos over ten and a
half points. And I could give out so many more plays,
like I promise you, I really really could, but I
(17:18):
didn't want to go to to two over on time here,
So we're gonna call it this. This is the Oh.
I didn't even talk about the Chelsea Gray assist play.
Oh man, see look I'm running out. I'm giving out plays.
And then I didn't even get to talk about Chelsea
Gray assists. Yeah, I'm taking point. God? Do I even
have to mention point? God? If you've been following me
with the w you know I love point God, but
point God is dominated assists. She's been really, really good
(17:41):
with assist over to the liberty. That is what she
does in the offense. Yes, she can go and score
with the best of them, but she likes to get
the ball to Asia. She likes to get the ball
to her wings and just set everybody else up for success.
She's an amazing passer. Five and a half assists at
plus money at that was just an insane steal. So
I had to bet that as well. So there's all
the plays that I have for you here, the Atlanta
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Dream Lane three and a half, the Golden State Valkyries
under sixty and a half point I'm not under I'm
sorry I said that wrong. Gol To State Valkyries. Oh,
I put Golden State. That's why I'm reading it wrong,
because I put Golden State Valkyries. That's what it throwing
me off here, Golden State Valkyries. I'm sorry. It is
the Golden State Valkyries, but it's the Golden State Valkyries
and the Los Angeles Sparks. To go over one hundred
(18:27):
and sixty and a half points, then we got the
aces plus five and a half here plus five sprinkle
on the money line. There for the aces, Chelsea Gray
over five and a half assists, Comela Cardosa over ten
and a half points, and Carl Anthony Townsend the lone
NBA played over thirty two and a half points and rebounds. Wow,
that was a lot. I was fumbling over my words.
(18:48):
I'm glad I got on the screen because you guys
probably didn't understand what I was saying. Let me get
in one more time, because that was just Atlanta dream
Lane three and a half, Valkyrie Sparks over one sixteen
and a half aces plus five aces on the money line,
Chelsea Gray over five and a half, sis, Comella Cardosa
over ten and a half points, kar anthone sounds over
thirty two and a half points and rebounds. And that's
(19:09):
It's that's a claim. Take There we go, all right.
I will have social media plays as well. So yeah,
big weekend for me, opening weekend in the w And
this is honestly me trying to take it easy. This
is me not trying to force up a bunch of
random shots. But like some of these plays just feel
(19:31):
really really really good. And I will if you want
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(19:55):
chance to win a Dinnis ropmins sign jersey at the
end of the month, and with that that is it.
I have nothing else, say nothing else, do no other way.
If it's in podcasts, is just gonna do like this.
We are
Yeah, sir, we're back with another edition of Fast Break Betts.
Was anybody betting girls? You know me not? Voice on
the guys me fillin rocksrel Firman Junior? Here at your sers?
(00:42):
How about if you sweep it out? What's the port?
What kid? Do anything? Right? You'll do fine? Hey, pal,
you're just blowing from stupid down. I just wow? Is
he give if he taketh away a three to zero
sweep the day before and I just give it all back?
(01:05):
I mean, okay, Aaron Gorton, you did do anything, and
that's perfectly fine. I you know what, I I bit
off more than I could chew there, you know, and
I took another stab at Aaron Gorton, and I get
that I deserved that. Fine, cool, all right? Isaiah Hartenstein
(01:27):
battling foul trouble that was annoying. The points and rebounds.
He didn't have any assists, so the points and rebounds
was the look. He just didn't get as much as
he probably could because he was battling foul trouble for
that game and started going towards the end of the game,
but it was too little, too late. By that point.
I think he had like six points and rebounds at
(01:48):
that half, and then the game went over and the
force in the first quarter, I knew the game was
going over and it was just a slow death at
that point watching the game go over, but I was like, yeah,
this is going over. So I while the game was
going on, I immediately was like, yep, let's just go ahead
and make sure that everything is ready in the WNBA
(02:09):
and get ready for tomorrow. Because that was a crazy
way just you know, bad read on one game and
I had three bets in the game, so all three
bets end up missing. It's cool. I have a lot
to go through this episode and not a lot of time.
First thing I want to remind you all about is
the player prop contest for the NBA Playoffs. Second round
prize is a Tony Parker signed jersey. The first round
(02:31):
prize was a Sean Kemp jersey. The grand prize is
a Alan Iverson signed jersey. Shout out Alan Iverson for
doing the Bills schedule release video as well. Also very
very important that you get over there to that betting
pros app and when you're in there you join that contest.
You go and you can make free picks of player
(02:52):
props and try to win a jersey in any round
of the playoffs. We're about to start another round the
conference finals, so we'll be giving away an another jersey
for that Bettingpros dot Com slash Playoffs. If you don't
have the app yet, or if you have the app,
just head over there, head over there, go get the app.
If you don't have the app, you need to get that,
and you should really get that. Follow me an app,
give me a follow t Furban Torel Firm and you
(03:13):
should be able to follow me there. Bettingpros dot Com
slash Torell you can give me a follow all right. Wow,
I have a lot of information. I don't even know
how to cover it all. Okay, so we're gonna let's
go ahead. I have one NBA play because I was
gonna just skip the NBA overall. But I really have
a pulse on the Knixt series in player props. As
(03:33):
you know, I am not betting the side for Wow,
the Knicks are a favorite. Holy crap, Uh, I have
not been a side in that series. So I'm gonna
continue with the player props and continue backing the players
that have been working out for us in the playoffs,
and that's Karla Anthony Towns. I'm gonna go points in
rebounds this time. Give me Cat over thirty two and
a half points in rebounds over there in the propbit
(03:56):
cheat sheet, projected for thirty six point eight points in rebounds,
sixty nine percent cover probability, five star rating. He's been really,
really good. He's been over this in his two games
at New York. He's been over this three times. This series.
Had a little bit of a dud here in that
last game, but everybody did. That's kind of what I expected.
That Knicks always lay an egg in the first close
(04:19):
out game, and so I expect here back in New York,
all the celebrities are trying to see the Knicks close
out the Celtics. Everybody's gonna be there, Ben Still, Tracy Morgan,
Cardi b everybody's gonna be there. It's gonna be electric.
I think Cat is gonna go in there. He's gonna
get it done. We bet Cat in game what was
(04:41):
that Game four? We bet Cat in Game four. I'm
gonna bet him back again here in game six. Give
me Cat. I'm gonna take the points in rebounds here
without Jason Tatum it should be able to grab some
more rebounds. Cat points in rebounds over thirty two and
a half. That is the loan NBA play for the
loan NBA game that I have going on there. Let's
(05:01):
get into the w man because in case you were
under a rock, where's the the WNBA is back tip off?
We have three games going on again. This is why
you follow me in the app. I told you give
me a follow in the app. I had some plays.
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I said, hey, you can go ahead and follow me
in a betting pros app. I've already made some bets.
We've had line movement in a couple of those bets,
and I will go through that for you all in
just the second. But first got to talk to you
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get into it. Play number one. Let's go to the
first game. Well, it's two games tipping off at the
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same time in the w but the one that is
first on my list, the Atlanta Dream going up against
the Washington Mystics. If you caught me in the Betting
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have gotten this early when I bet the Atlanta Dream
minus three and a half is currently at seven right now,
still okay with it because the Washington Mystics are already
starting off the season. How they left it off completely
injured on their side the ball they're not gonna be without.
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They're too big and Shakira Austin Aliah Edwards. The front
court depth is really really lacking for them here, and
I think that's gonna be an issue, especially going up
against Britney Grinder and Breonna Jones, who I both think
both of them can have a really good day, cash
their points props and be able to score. You. Look
at what Kyles Schmesko wants to do with this Atlanta
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Dreams offense here, and it's threes. Put up a lot
of threes and get easy looks at the basket. Well,
they're not gonna have a lot of resistance over there
in Washington without Shakira Austin, without Alia Edwards and so
what I mean, Steph Doson not really rim protector, and
so we'll see. I think that they're gonna get a
lot of easy looks at the rim. And I think
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when they and those easy looks at the rim could
open them up even more than what they already are
gonna take the number of threes like this, Atlanta's Dream
Team is going to shoot a bunch of threes. Oh
my gosh, they're gonna shoot Let me see wait, hold on,
I have a shot shart, Yes I do. Let me
upload this shot shart. Look at what they did against
the Mystics in the preseason game. Look at that this
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is the preseason game that they just played. Look at
the shot. There's two mid range shots here, yo, Like Okay,
maybe you count the ones by the free throw line,
but like this is shots at the rim and three
point offense. That is what they're doing, shots at the
rim and three point offense. So yeah, I think that
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the Atlanta Jam are gonna be able to score in
the Mystics here. I'm very interested to see if the
Mystics are any different defensively, but I don't think they are.
I think and I think that those injuries are really
really gonna hurt them. And then offensively, I don't know
if they're gonna have enough. Is Britney Sykes's gonna have
a game? Maybe? I think that you know, sikes Is
is a dog swimmers dog, and she'd be able to
score on anybody, So I think she can have a game.
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But where else where else is the other scoring coming from.
That's gonna make me think Atlanta's not gonna cover this game.
So I think that Atlanta Dream win this one on
the road. I think they went in convincing fashion. So
I already laid three and a half with the Atlanta Dream.
If you want to lay seven, I think seven is
fine too, but it is a significant difference. But I
really don't think that the Washington Mystics are gonna be
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competitive enough in this game. I think this one is
gonna be a double Edgy win by the Atlanta Dream.
All right, play a number two I have here on
the list, and let's talk about the Los Angeles Sparks
in the Golden State Valkyries Sparks open up Lang seven
currently lane six and a half. One sixty two and
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a half is the total. I got that total at
win sixty and a half. It is trending towards the over.
I did bet the over. I love the over in
this game, Lynn Roberts. What is Lynn Roberts offense is
up tempo, pushing, pushing, pushing, getting a bunch of shots
up at the rim, taking a bunch of threes. That's
exactly what this offense is, up and down the court,
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up and down the court. And not only Nakassei and
the gold to State Valkyries aren't afraid of that. They're
actually perfectly fine pushing the pace. It looks like, especially
in the preseason, they were going up and down the court,
up and down the court, scoring in their own right
in the preseason, putting up a bunch of threes as well.
And so I think this is one of those games
where one I definitely do not trust the Los Angeles
Parks defensively. I will have to see it from Lynn
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Roberts to see if she incorporated anything, but from the staff,
I don't trust them defensively. They bring in Kelsey Plumb,
who is not a good defender at all, in fact,
a liability on defense. But the fact that she can
score with the best of them at times is the
reason that a lot of people really really do like
her and back her. But I think that the defensive
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liability that she also brings it just doesn't help the
Sparks team that was already struggling on defense and cam
brinkes and walking through the door right now. So it's
gonna be and so I think this is gonna be
up and down the court, tempo tempo, tempo, tempo tempo,
and a bunch of shots going up. I need them
to go in. I assume that a lot of people
are gonna be open here, so I need shots to
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go in. But I think that we're gonna see, we're
gonna get the pace for the game, and I don't
think that they're gonna be as invested defensively on either
side of the ball. Especially with Tip Haays on the Valkyrie,
I think she's gonna push the pace for sure, especially
as that lead guard, lead scorer, lead VET for the Valkyrie.
I could see Tip having a really really good game
Tiffany Hayes there, So over one sixty and a half
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I got. I still like over one sixty two and
a half. I think that we see Aiden eight eight
ninety type of eighty eight ninety four type of game
as well, so I did. Also I also placed a
bet on the Valkyries plus seven. That's not an official
play that I'm giving out for the show right now,
because the Valkyries are gonna be down Stephanie Talbot and
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uh Cecilia Xandalasinis. Andalssini's like a four percent free throw
I mean not free throw three point shooter. She's like
a forty percent three point shooter, and at one point,
I don't know if she finished the league the year
leading in three point percentage, but she was leading and
she's been up there. So that's really big for a
Natalie Nicasse offense that really wants to put up a
bunch of threes. Her coming off the bench was going
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to really really help them, and Talbott helps them in
situationally defensively, probably helps us with the over, but I
don't know if it helps the Valkyries on the spread.
But I still do kind of like the Valkyries. I'm
really committed the Voctis, but I'm not gonna make them
an official play here. I did already bet it, so
if you still want to tell me, you can go
over there and check out that back at the betting
pros app as well. But that is a play number
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two for you Golden State Valkyries and the Sparks to
go over one sixty two and a half. Let's go
into Saturday because there's an early game on Saturday Fingers crossed.
I'm in attendance, but the New York Liberty are getting
their rings at one pm on Saturday, so I'm gonna
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go ahead and give that bet out as well. They're
going up against the Las Vegas Aces the Lions at
four and a half. I got it at five. I
still like it at four and a half. I think
the wrong team is fake, the wrong team is favored.
I love the Aces, and I think I'm going up
here in New York to see my team get a
ring and then get destroyed on ring night. The Aces
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have been sitting with the loss of that second round
series to the or what was it technically a semi
final series, yeah or whatever it was, no, yeah, no
no, no second round because then they played the Connecticut and no, no, no,
no no, yeah it was second round, second round, sem
my final, yes, second round, semi final technically, so yeah,
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three to one up out of here got them up
out of here and in them three losses, it really
didn't look good for the Aces like much at all.
Ran them up out of there in game one. It
was very, very embarrassing. The Aces sat on that all
year and they don't like this Liberty team. They do
not like them. This is a legit rivalry in the
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W between two of the best teams in the W. However,
when you look at the New York Liberty and the
differences between last year and this year, is won the
expansion draft where they lost Kayler Thornton KT that was
our sixth player of the year type player, and it's
just like, oh, that was a real, real big loss,
and you knew it was coming because you knew they
couldn't save everybody, and they ended up saving Nyro sobly
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over kt, which everybody expected and so okay cool. Then
Benigul Lane Hamilton gets hurt and she's out for a while,
and so we're not going to see her at all
this season. They suspended her contract for the season in fact,
and then Leoni Phoebich was playing euro Basketball and she
just got back to the team on Thursday. She's not
playing in this game. So between Foebich and Benijulannie Hamilton,
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you have two of your better defenders on the team out.
You have Brianna Stewart who had off season knee surgery
in March. Now, all indications are she's fine, but again,
she hasn't been working out as much because she had
that offseason surgery, so she may be slow to the
bill and see how that goes. Whereas the Aces, Hayja Wilson,
we know she's the goad, we know she's great. You
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bring in my dog Jeweloyd as well, and you upgrade
Chelsea Plum from Jeweloyd Chelsea Gray, not Chelsea Gray. I'm
sorry you uplate Chelsea Plum from to Jeweloyd. Then Chelsea
Gray looks amazing, looked amazing in the three on three
Basketball League, unrival where now she's healthy, fully, fully healthy
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this time around. So I just think the Aces with
Jackie Young as well, who always just somehow has big
games in New York, I think it's too much. I
think it's way too much for the liberty to handle.
I love the Aces, love the Aces plus five. You know,
I sprinkled on my dogs. I sprinkle on the money
line as well. I think Aces are going to win
outright in New York and spoil their Room Knight and
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get some revenge there. So I love the Aces. On
day two, all right, last play, I want to give
out real quick here. Camilla Cardoso to go over ten
and a half points here against the Indiana Fever. She
went to China and got in her bag in the offseason. China,
there are a lot of taller women, bigger women. They
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are six seven six eights like some taller women that
Camilla had to learn how to finish around. And that's
why she decided to go to China to learn how
to play with her size and finish strong at the rim.
And she looks so good in the preseason, she looked
very good playing alongside Courtney Vanderslout. Now they have a
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point guard unlike last year, that can actually get the
ball to their bigs inside the post. I think they're
gonna be playing pick and roll with Camilla. I think
Camilla can grab it off the rim and get offensive
second chance points and off of offensive rebounds. I think
Camilla Cardoso ten and a half points is way too low.
She's one of the players that I think is gonna
be up for Most Improved this year. I think she
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can easily walk into a third time fifteen point game
as long as they continue to feed her the ball,
and by all indications of how the Sky are gonna
run their offense this year, I think it's gonna happen.
So there we go, Camilla Cardos over ten and a
half points. And I could give out so many more plays,
like I promise you, I really really could, but I
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didn't want to go to to two over on time here,
So we're gonna call it this. This is the Oh.
I didn't even talk about the Chelsea Gray assist play.
Oh man, see look I'm running out. I'm giving out plays.
And then I didn't even get to talk about Chelsea
Gray assists. Yeah, I'm taking point. God? Do I even
have to mention point? God? If you've been following me
with the w you know I love point God, but
point God is dominated assists. She's been really, really good
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with assist over to the liberty. That is what she
does in the offense. Yes, she can go and score
with the best of them, but she likes to get
the ball to Asia. She likes to get the ball
to her wings and just set everybody else up for success.
She's an amazing passer. Five and a half assists at
plus money at that was just an insane steal. So
I had to bet that as well. So there's all
the plays that I have for you here, the Atlanta
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Dream Lane three and a half, the Golden State Valkyries
under sixty and a half point I'm not under I'm
sorry I said that wrong. Gol To State Valkyries. Oh,
I put Golden State. That's why I'm reading it wrong,
because I put Golden State Valkyries. That's what it throwing
me off here, Golden State Valkyries. I'm sorry. It is
the Golden State Valkyries, but it's the Golden State Valkyries
and the Los Angeles Sparks. To go over one hundred
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and sixty and a half points, then we got the
aces plus five and a half here plus five sprinkle
on the money line. There for the aces, Chelsea Gray
over five and a half assists, Comela Cardosa over ten
and a half points, and Carl Anthony Townsend the lone
NBA played over thirty two and a half points and rebounds. Wow,
that was a lot. I was fumbling over my words.
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I'm glad I got on the screen because you guys
probably didn't understand what I was saying. Let me get
in one more time, because that was just Atlanta dream
Lane three and a half, Valkyrie Sparks over one sixteen
and a half aces plus five aces on the money line,
Chelsea Gray over five and a half, sis, Comella Cardosa
over ten and a half points, kar anthone sounds over
thirty two and a half points and rebounds. And that's
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It's that's a claim. Take There we go, all right.
I will have social media plays as well. So yeah,
big weekend for me, opening weekend in the w And
this is honestly me trying to take it easy. This
is me not trying to force up a bunch of
random shots. But like some of these plays just feel
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really really really good. And I will if you want
anything or anything else, any other questions, just throw me
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chance to win a Dinnis ropmins sign jersey at the
end of the month, and with that that is it.
I have nothing else, say nothing else, do no other way.
If it's in podcasts, is just gonna do like this.
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