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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Yeah, you're back with another edition of Fast Break Bets,
presented by betting Burgers. You know me, no voice, GUIs
me fill for Junior here at your ser It's very

(00:49):
very very very very very very very very frustrating, very
frustrating today because you can kind of be right about
stuff and just fall short. Like that's ultimately what it is,
just fall short. This has been a really bad week,

(01:13):
and this is very unfortunate because I was looking forward
to an amazing week, Like I didn't want to jinx myself.
I never said anything out loud, but I was thinking it, like,
M doing pretty good right now. Bank Grow continues to grow, grow, grow,
hit a few futures, gets bigger, couple of setbacks here

(01:36):
or there, but for the most part, doing well. Man.
This week has been rough. Rough Lakers te Wollves under
two of nine and a half went exactly according to plan.
Slight over for the entire duration of the game. Second
half comes around, fourth quarter comes around. Total completely dies

(01:59):
very good. Need that needed that needed that. I'm and
Thompson over seven and a half rebounds. He finished with
six and probably generous for that six because he was
sitting on one for a minute. Luka dontich Over thirty
eight and a half points and assists was the social
media play. Luca finished with thirty seven points and assists

(02:20):
and one smoked layup towards the end of the game
that would have sent us over. I'm over here dropping stuff.
I'm just so discombobulated, like, oh, this has been a
bad week, and I mean three wins right there? Three
a clean sweep. There, we get a clean sweep there,
feel really really good. This is rough, all right. Not

(02:44):
how I wanted to go on WNBA. I wanted to
be on a heater going into WNBA, because again I
feel good about WNBA. But every time the season starts up,
you never know what happened. I could be completely wrong
on how I look at teams for the season. So
I like to be pretty healthy getting around WNBA time

(03:08):
when it starts, just in case I may go on
a heater like a big beginning excuse me, like the
beginning of the season last year. Or I may go
on a cold streak like two years ago where I
was kind of cold coming out of the gates and
I had to warm up to the season. Then I
started catching the fire. So we'll see how that goes,
but we're not finishing. We're not finishing strong in the

(03:29):
NBA right now, and I need whatever dark cloud this
is to leave up imediately. All Right, before we get
to my plays of the day, I have to talk
to you about the drum roll Please? Are you drum rolling?

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Are you drum rolling? Please tell me you're drum rolling?
Are you drum rolling? Please? Drum roll? Please? Come on
play for the bit? Are you drum rolling? There we go.
We are about to announce the winner of the Robert
Dorry Sign Jersey contest. And that's going over to shout
out to Brian. Uh whoa Brian? What's your d d Drick?

(04:15):
Yeah that sounds right, Ddrick, Brian Didrick shout out to Brian.
Brian's a Gators fan or Brian's just giving the Gators
congratulations and the Brian, are you a Gators fan? Like?
I mean, I think you know, congratulations to teams that
win a championship before, but I don't just tell them

(04:35):
congrats unless either I'm a fan or I bet on them.
So either he tailed and he bet on Florida or
he's a legit Florida fan. And if you're a Florida
Florida fan. Then congratulations on the national championship and also
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YouTube channel and your mailing address and they will at
you your jersey. So shot to Brian. Brian, congratulations on
winning that jersey. For the next month, go ahead and
start getting those comments in because that boy, hey, hey,

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Chicago Bulls. It's the red one. By the way, if
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should get over there. To the YouTube channel. Oh yeah,
that's a nice that's nice. That's a nice one right there.

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That's very very nice. All right, let's get into the
two plays that I have here for a Thursday. Play
Number one is going in the New York Knicks game. Whoere,
the Knicks are up three games to two. Pistons are
laying one and a half here too, twelve and a

(06:30):
half is total. I'm taking the Knicks here. Let's just
go ahead and very lee Now. I will admit I'm
not the best track record betting the Knicks. However, I
don't want to get out of I don't want to
get scared to play something because I'm cold right now.

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I'd rather just go ahead and lean into what I know.
And what I know is I handicap this series. And
I said, is a good chance the Knicks will go
up three games to one in this series. They will
play a home game in New York, they will drop
that game for no reason at all, and then they'll

(07:12):
go on the road, they'll close out, they'll win for two.
Been right thus far? Why not continue to hot streak?
I understand the Knicks have not looked the best in
this series. If you sat here and said the Knicks
should probably be the ones that are down three to
two or beat you down, you know, or already be
over in the series four to one or whatever. I
would agree with you. As a Knicks fan, I'm not

(07:34):
happy with what I've seen for the Knicks. But unfortunately,
as a Knicks fan, I know how this story goes.
The Knicks win a playoff series. They constantly win a
playoff series. They probably win a playoff series when they
probably don't deserve it, but they somehow win a playoff
series because these teams just aren't built for the moment.
And I think that the moment here in Detroit coming back,
everybody thinks that Detroit is gonna walk away with this one.

(07:56):
I don't think so. The Knicks are dogs here, and
I think that that's I don't I don't think that's
the spot here. I think this is probably a little
bit still probably Knicks favored. I think the Knicks are
the better team. I think the Knicks have the top
heavy talent that is enough to carry and handle this
business team, especially when everybody is not on, when Beasley

(08:18):
is not shooting lights out, when you know Schroeder is
not giving them something off of the bench. Like, if
Detroit doesn't play perfect basketball, and we've seen it over
the three games that the Knicks won, Detroit has played
good basketball in every single one of those games. But
if Detroit does not play perfect one today, they do

(08:39):
not win the game. I don't think that they're gonna
play perfect here. I think this is gonna be a
spot where they're gonna come in here laser focused and
they're gonna think that, hey, we can go ahead and
handle this team and force it to game seven back
in Madison Square Garden. But this next team, once they
drop that one at home that they should have won,
and they go back on the road, just like they

(08:59):
did Philly last year, they handle business. They ended in six,
probably a game longer than they should have, and then
they move on to the next series to lose. So
this is this is what the Knicks do. I'm taking
the Knicks on the money line. You can get them
at plus money plus one or five. I'm seeing it
shops right now the line. We'll see what the line
does in the morning. Maybe there's some buyback in for

(09:23):
Detroit and we can get a little bit more plus
money if you want to wait. But I'm taking the
next I think the Knicks closed things out here and
it was fun. It was fun with the Detroit Pistons.
But unfortunately, this is what the Knicks do and it's
gonna be very uninspiring. Probably not gonna like it, but
more than likely they're gonna win this game. I've seen
this story a million times before. Well not a million

(09:44):
times before, but at least through the recent playoff struggles
with the Knicks. I've seen this story before. All Right, Nicks,
by the way, have not closed out a game and
home since the nineties. It's ridiculous. Have a been of
many playoffs in that span either honest, very bad next
teams since then? All right, we have what is this

(10:09):
play number two heading over there, and that's gonna be
Norman Powell. Shout out to my guy, Norman Powell, who
has found a way in this series to go under
his prop in every single road game and go over
in the two home games. It makes me feel so
much better about it, and it makes so much sense

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because despite Norman Powell being really, really good in the
beginning of the season, when Kawhi Leonard came back, he
delegated back down to a role player. What do the
role players do they play up at home and right
now Norman Powell feels confident at home, not as much
on the road here. Like I said, he's gone over
in the two rope in the two home games this series.

(10:49):
Probably Chi. She hasn't projected for twenty two points here.
He's at seventeen and a half. As the prop for
Norman Powell here, Probably Chi she hasn't projected for twenty
two seventy three cover probability. I think that this is
the same spot that I bet Norman Powell and last
time that we were able to cash. He's at home.
I think this is gonna be a good up spot.

(11:10):
The Clippers back against the wall. They're gonna go out there,
They're gonna they're gonna put for well. I would hope
they put forth an effort. Am I gonna bet it?
And Nope, I'm not on the side of that one
at all. Just give me Norman Powell to go out
there and have a day. I still do think that
Denver can have lapses where they struggle all defensively, and
I think that Norman Powell definitely attacking Michael Porter Junior.

(11:32):
If they're going to continue to put Michael Porter Junior
out there with one shoulder, then you need to make
sure you will go at him defensively. So I think
Norman Powell will take that opportunity and do enough of that.
And he's been really, really good on the season. I
think this is a good moment for him here to
try to get over on this prop again. He's been
good at home here, just not good on the road
in the playoffs, but he's been good at home in

(11:53):
the playoffs as far. So I like Norman Powell go
over seventeen and a half points and two plays Nicks
on the money line they close out the Pistons here
at Norman Powell to go over seventeen and a half.
Let's get too well right there. Let's get some of
those unit back this week, and let's go to Oh

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