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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, sir, We're back with another edition of Fast Break
Bets SA anybody Betty brows you know me? Nor voice
you guys me by the Rocks Royal Firman enginr here
at your sers. If this wasn't a family friendly show,

(00:54):
I would be yelling exploitives, breaking things. Very very frustrated
by the effort of the Clippers in that game. I mean,
let's just go ahead and get to this, very very
very frustrated from the effort. From the effort of the
Clippers in that game. Oh, a number of things that

(01:22):
really really were annoying. They put themselves behind. They couldn't
buy a shot for any portion of the game, couldn't
buy a shot. James Harten is a masterful disappearing act
in the playoffs yet again. And I can't believe I
allow James Harden to let me do this every time. Man,
he puts himself in a good position every time. Every

(01:44):
time I let him let me down like this.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I mean the record you see the record for the week,
the record in two days is really bad. And granted
it really doesn't look that bad because we got the
Pistons on the money line tonight. Because I sprinkle all
my money line dogs always so like it doesn't look
that bad, and shot out to Og for cashing at

(02:16):
the moment of death, just so that we hit over
on Og points props shot out to him. By the way,
Nick's pistons didn't go over, so Kay didn't go over.
Kay was in foul trouble early in the game that
was annoying. Orlando was tied, No Orlando was up at half,

(02:39):
Orlanto was up at half, and then completely meltdown, extreme
meltdown in the second half. But the Clippers, the Clippers
is the one that hurt. There goes Clippers for two
future probably, I mean they gotta switch something up for

(03:02):
Game six or that's it for the Clippers on the
money line for the series. There's so many that's crazy.
I had a whole list of things I wanted to
say about the Clippers and just ramp that I had
to go on here. But as we go on, I
just get a big headache, a giant James harten ty

(03:24):
Low sized headache right here in my head. And I
don't even feel like anymore. So you know what, just
you saw the Clippers game, I was dead wrong, dead wrong,
completely wrong, very it's cool, but I can't say I
don't be betting this stuff, man, because that Clippers one
really irritated me. It really really really got me, it

(03:46):
really did. All Right, enough of talking about that Los
Angeles team, Let's talk about the other Los Angeles team
because they are the team that we are going to
highlight in this week's Chasing Challenges brought to you by Microsoft.

(04:07):
So I wanted to make sure that I let you
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(04:28):
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In this segment, we spotlight teams or well a team
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(04:49):
with the expertise to say bring it on. This week,
we are discussing a challenge faced by the Los Angeles
Lakers because Lebron James, you and this Lakers team, well
have the Lakers, Yeah, have yet again found yourself in
a three to one deficit. I will admit this for

(05:13):
you. You do have a really good chance of getting out
of this one because at the very least, in this
three to one deficit, you have two home games. Most
teams that find themselves in a three to one deficit
have to try to go win two games on the
road and to crawl out of that hole. You've got
two games at home, protect home court, You protect home court,

(05:37):
win one game on the road, and then guess what
you're back in this series?

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Now?

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Is it that easy? No, because you put yourself in
this predicament because you couldn't close in the fourth quarter.
You had multiple times that you could have closed this
team out in the fourth quarter and you could have
been up to games in this series, Lakers, and you didn't.
And so here's what has to happen. You have to one,

(06:04):
reinvigorate whatever mojo you have defensively, you have to reinvigorate it. Two,
the role players have to come up big in this game.
They have to come up big on the road. That's
really gonna be the one. Scott Foster. Good chance. I

(06:25):
don't have the referport. The referport drops at nine am
in the morning. I believe it's when the NBA drop it.
I don't have the referport. Good chance. Scott Foster is
the ref in this game. I mean, he's the extender,
and you send it in the extender for series like this.
So there's a good chance that the Lakers do move
on past this game. If they do, the role players

(06:47):
gotta play well at home in game five. They have
to play amazing on the road in game six, or
you're going to CanCon Cabo to Loom, whatever it is
you're growing. I I think that where I was wrong

(07:10):
in the handicap is the amount of times that Minnesota
would win the close games. But I did admit that
there would be the close games. These are the close games.
The Lakers have to find a way to win the
close games. Lebron James, you can't go scoreless in the
fourth quarter like you did last time. You have to
be able to put up points in the fourth quarters.
You and Luca Donsons just the offense right now again,
doesn't need to be just Lebron James and Luka Dohnson

(07:32):
is just the option. Everybody else needs to step up
and be able to put the ball in the basket.
But unfortunately they can't, and this Lakers team has struggled
to score for majority of this series. So when you're
at home, try getting over one hundred points this time.
Let's do that. Let's get over one hundred points at home.
Score the basketball gotta figure out ways to score against

(07:52):
this Minnesota defense. So I don't know how they do it.
I think they're going to struggle. Think they just squeak
over one hundred. I don't think that they soar over
one hundred, but I think they just squeak over one
hundred in this game. I think Minnesota defensively on the
road in this series has been really really good in
those two instances that they've had, and I think that

(08:13):
this is a slow paced game as it was in
the first two games on the road in LA. They
took the air out of the ball. It was a
lot of half court offense in Minnesota. In Game one,
hit their shots, the Lakers did it. Game two, the
Lakers were able to respond defensively, still weren't able to
hit a bunch of shots. This time, the Lakers got
to hit their shots. I think they hit a little

(08:33):
slightly more, but not enough to get over this total.
So but that's how I'm betting this one under two
oh nine and a half Summer Wolves and Lakers. I
think the Lakers do get the win. How do they
get the win is on the back of the defense,
which was so good after trading Anthony Davis that I
have to give JJ Reddick his credit for that that
the defense has gotten better. They found ways to hide

(08:56):
Luca Jerry Vanderbilt has played really well, Dorian Phinney Smith
has played really well. Lebron James has reinvigorated himself defensive, defensively,
and when it comes to the fourth quarter, at least,
what I can say is I may not know if
the Lakers are going to close out this time or
if it's going to be Minnesota winning a fourth quarter
yet again. But what I do know is that the

(09:18):
Lakers are tired. Lebron James is older. The Lakers look
gassed in the fourth quarter multiple times, and so that
should impact the scoring. So even if this is going
with an overpace in the fourth quarter, we may be
able to get a dead quarter that brings us back
under here. So I like under two nine and a half.
That is how I'm betting this here on fast break bets.

(09:43):
So with that being said, that's it for this week's
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(10:05):
and reaching new possibilities. Visit Microsoft dot com Slash challengers
to learn more. All right, let's get in play number two.
This one's going over more one. There we go. This
one's going over to the prop bet cheat sheet. We're
gonna go with amentops and i'men Thompson to go over

(10:27):
seven and a half rebounds here. I will admit there
are some six and a half rebounds that you can
dabble in still here if you would like to. However,
me I'm gonna take my stab at the seven and
a half a plus money because I don't want to
lay all that juice on the six and a half rebounds.
I think both of these are still gonna be really

(10:49):
good plays because they're gonna need amen Toopson on the boards.
I think one thing that gets lost in a lot
of teams after a loss is what you did well
in that loss that probably didn't contribute contribute to you losing.
The Rockets won the rebounding battle again in that last game,

(11:11):
and so that put them in a really good position
to be in the game at all. You don't want
to lose that going into the last game when you're
down three games to one. You gotta put all the
pieces together have a complete game, especially if this is
that game where, hey, it's the extended game where the
team that's down three games to one throws the kitchen

(11:32):
sink they're at home, they extend a series one more game,
give themselves a chance on the road. Okay, if you're
telling me Houston is going to be able to do that,
they have to win the rebounding battle. They have to
win the rebounding battle. So the Warriors have done a
better job of trying to keep Shangun off of the glass.
They have now found out that they are going to

(11:54):
hack Steven Adams late in game, get him out of
the game and not let him affect the glass late.
Somebody who's gonna be rebounding, especially cleaning up after the
battle and the paint between Draymond Green, Alpraa Shangon, Steven Adams,
Quentin Poe's Kevon Looney is Amin Thompson Am and Thompson

(12:14):
is always on the floor because of his defense. Amen
Thompson is always around the room grabbing rebounds. He's gone
over this rebound prop in two games and I'm sorry,
three games in this series already, and he has an
opportunity to be able to do well. He went over
six and a half rebounds, I'm sorry, six and a
half rebounds in three games this season. So that's where

(12:37):
you see that six and a half number coming up,
because he's three for four in this season in this series,
then you have seven and a half rebounds. He's been
over that twice this series, so we're getting plus money here.
He's been over it twice. I think there's an opportunity
here for him to get over the third time, just
because they need to stay active around the glass. I
think that he has a good chance for his rebounding.

(12:59):
I like Tarry east as well, and I think the
probably CHIEI actually has Tardy Easton up here is a
good play, but probably chi chief she has. I'm in
scheduled here for eight point six rebounds seventy five percent
cover probability. I like this look. I think that he's
been good on He's been good on it over course
of the season forty seven and twenty five, so he's

(13:19):
been really really good rebounding all year. We need him
to come up big for us here in this game
against the Warriors. And I don't know if the Rockets
win or the Rockets end up getting an early trip
to Camcom, but I do think that regardless, I'm and
Thompson is going to have say so around the rim.
He's gonna grab a bunch of those rebounds. I like

(13:40):
him for eight. I'll take him over seven and a
half here. I got the plus money and I took
the worst of the line. I didn't even go for
the six and a half and lay all the juice. No,
I went straight for the plus money. I still think
this is a good play. So those are the two
players that I have here for EU Boom Lakers TEA
Wolves under two oh nine and a half. I'm and

(14:00):
Thompson over seven and a half rebounds plus money there,
let's get both of those. Let's climb out of this
hole that I put myself in because we were doing
good for some weeks there and we had very very
consistent winning days. These are back to back losing days
that felt pretty rough. So let's go ahead, get back

(14:22):
in the slide and get back into the rhythm of
the NBA playoffs.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
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Speaker 1 (14:26):
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(15:08):
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
All right.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Well, if that being said, that is it. I'm not
saying nothing else. Do no other way of been in
the podcasts. Just goin to like this man I'm really
really tight about the Clippers. Like, if you think anybody
is more tight about the Clippers than me, they're probably not.
I'm really really like watering down how I feel about
the Clippers for the show. And shouts out to the

(15:33):
people that actually get to this part of the show
and hear this rat but I'm really really toning down
my feelings on the Clippers for this show, but very
very strong feelings negatively towards the Clippers right now.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
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