Best Bets for Game 5 Between Celtics-Heat, Early Thoughts on Stanley Cup Final

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Wr KO presents Boston's only nightly sportsbetting show, The Gambler, with Adam
Kaufman covering spreads, props, parlaysand more. The Gambler starts, now
here's Adam Kaufman. Well, justas we come on the air, the
Red Sox fall behind one nothing inLA So that's unfortunate. That's not really

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how you're looking to start off thenight. But bottom of the second inning
against the Angels, long long wayto go and honously the thing that I
well, I do have the RedSox. I have some money on the
Red Sox money line tonight. Soobviously, aside from my personal fandom,
I am from a betting perspective,my bank roll, I am rooting for
Boston. But also one of thelarger things that I am invested in and

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very interested in tonight is a boostedparley which involves both Raphael Devers and Masatake
Yoshida each getting at least one hittonight, and I maxed it out.
So Dev's first patty did his jobdown So now all eyes on Yoshi the
rest of the way. That issomething I will be keeping an eye on.

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Of course, Unfortunately, the people'sparlay. Normally we are able to
sweat that and track it over thecourse of the night. There was afternoon
baseball, though, and uh,well that wrecked it. My bad,
all right, My bad bad.I wasn't gonna name names, Dan Watkins,
I was not. I was notgonna name names. It's not your
fault. Look, you you wentwith uh you know, level headed research

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and gut and intuition that you didn'tjust all willy nilly pick something. And
you are. You tend to bebrave. You tend to look for those,
you know, plus money opportunities whenit comes to baseball, and I
respect it, and a lot ofthe time, most of the time it
has worked out. Today, unfortunatelyit did not, and the Pittsburgh Pirates
it was a narrow loss. Theylost three to two. So sadly that

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uh, you know, the TexasRangers are responsible for killing the People's parlay
very early in the day. Ourguy Shane Trail was on with us last
night. His pick, actually bothof his picks that he was really high
on. Only one was part ofthe People's Parlay, and that was Minnesota
romped the Giants seven to one.But he was really big on a bounce
back from Tampa today, and theyalso took care of business seven to three.

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So I guess we just should havedone the Shane Trail parlay and that
that would have gotten the job done. I think even some of his props
that he was talking about wound uphitting as well, so so good on
him. Again. Tell what ourexperts tell you, even if you don't
believe in me, or you don'tbelieve in Dan, tell the experts that
we have on this show, becausethey're out there making you a bunch of
money. The only other part ofthat parlay, if you round robin it

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like I did because I like todo that just for funzies, is probably
going to backfire on me as well. But we'll see. That was the
under which had hit consistently in thePanthers Hurricanes series Game four, Florida,
trying to avoid a sweep, orrather trying to complete the sweet pardon me.
Up three nothing in the series andup three two in this game.

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The under five and a half goal, so we need no more goals the
rest of the way in order tohit that one, or if you just
took the under separate straight as I'msure a lot of people did, it's
where the vast majority of the moneywas because again three games into the series,
it hit all three times by adecreasing margin as well, So the
goaltending is not quite as sharp inthis one early third period. We'll keep

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an eye on it going forward.Some evening baseball and addition of the Red
Sox to track fair amount invested inthe Seattle not just money line but run
line once again against Oakland, soobviously we'll be paying close attention to that.
But that game in all likelihood won'tend until we sign off the air,
but hopefully Seattle at some point canget a big lead. So those
are just some of the cliffs notesof stuff that we're paying attention to,

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obviously, but the major talking pointsof this program will center around, of
course, looking ahead to a pivotala must win Game five at the Garden
tomorrow night between the Celtics and Heat. Boston has to win again to extend
its season. We will be onduring that game, the second half of
it anyway, and live sweating it. But tonight a great opportunity on an

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off night because of course there's noNuggets Lakers tonight off night in the NBA.
We will be sitting and offering bestbets and getting a set for how
to best bet that game, individualprops or whatever it may be. Maybe
build out some parlays as well,not the people's parlay. Will do that
a little bit later, and thatmight not be all NBA. Nick Whalan

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is going to join us coming upin about ten minutes. His return to
the program. A Rota Wire senioranalyst does a great job, and I
guess, as Dan coined it earlier, maybe it's a Rhoda Wire Wednesday,
because we will have A. J. Schulz join us in the second hour
talking NHL both series. You know, Florida may very well have advanced to
the Stanley Cup Final at that point, and to make Bruins fans I rate

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on all sorts of different levels,we may have a Stanley Cup Final that
is just big time anti Bruins inthe East, the team that will limit
NATed Boston around one. In theWest, if the Vegas Golden Nights do
prevail and they're up three nothing intheir series against the Dallas Stars. Bruce
Cassidy, the man that the Bruinscast aside as head coach about this time

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last year, he will be uh, you know, potentially in the Stanley
Cup final looking for his first nothis first ring he did get one as
member of the organization years ago,but his first ring as a head coach,
which I can guarantee you would feela whole heck of a lot different.
So AJ will talk NHL with usin the second hour, Nick,
Like I said later on this hour, Red Sox, No, it's just

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getting worse. It is getting worsein LA that. I think that was
a home run, home run.I think it was. Look they went
off the wall. I mean,is Duran hurt? He might even be
hurt. He slammed off that wallpretty good too. Yeah, that's a
home run, all right? Sothree nothing? Yeah, it's a quick
three nothing, four four nothing fornothing now and they haven't scored a run

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in thirty four innings too. Gotthat If you took the over in this
game, though, if you dida bounce back over bet, because I
know the under had been tracking inthese Red Sox games as of late.
But if you felt like going withthe over tonight, which I'm fairly certain
I did, I make a lotof bets. I'd have to go back
and verify, but I'm pretty sureI took the over in this game.

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We're we're on our way again.Four second run innings for LA and we'll
see how long our guy James Paxtonwinds up lasting in this one. Not
that it's totally his fault, butagain, you know, I'm I'm going
around. There are a lot ofdifferent things happening. We want you guys
to be part of the show.Six one seven two, six, six,
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six eight sixty eight. I'm AdamKaufman. This is the Gambler with Adam
Kaufman. Dan Watkins, so youheard from he is here and e J.
Pacheco our producer as well. Butwe will be in this first hour
very heavy NBA and Dan I decidedoff of our conversation last night because we
just we kept sort of by ourown laziness, my laziness really, but

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but I'm gonna lump you in becauseyou didn't do it either. We kept
kind of going round and round withthe whole man. The Best of seven
series NBA History teams to fall downthree games. What's you know? It's
O and run fifty. People keeptalking about this, but what does it
really mean. What does the Oand one fifty really mean in the sense

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of, like, have any teamslike the Celtics, you know, really
good teams like the Celtics, highseeded teams certainly higher seeded teams in the
case of Miami. On the otherside, have teams like Boston been in
this situation before? See? Youknow what, I got my head out
of my button. I did someresearch today. Very good, Yeah,

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I know. Here's what I learned, and it's interesting. So the NBA
expanded to sixteen teams in nineteen eightyfour, which to me that is more
relevant data than going back all time. Oh, definitely. So the league
expanded sixteen teams in nineteen eighty four, and there are also don't forget there
used to be a two three twoseries format. That's not the case anymore.

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It is now two two, oneone one, So that in one
fifty very quickly dwindles down to Oand one eleven. Still crappy, still
really bad, but a smaller samplesize. Now if you factor in seeding,
meaning higher seed starts at home first, like Boston, We're dropped two

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games at the Garden this year.So in the formats that are home home
away away, home, away home. So again two two one one one
h a h ah. Formats,the higher seed fell behind thirteen times,
so the one eleven drops to thirteen. So now we are talking about teams
similar to Boston in thirteen. That'snot on one fifty, it's o in

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thirteen. Only one of those teamsthat are in the situation like these Celtics,
only one of those teams even managedto reach a game six. In
fact, four times, including Bostonthis year, four times the higher seeded

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team even managed to win game four. So already what the Celtics are doing
in the grand scheme of history ison the verge of unprecedented. So only
one team reached the game six.That was Orlando against Boston in twenty ten.

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Celtics were the higher seeded team,or pardon me, Orlando the higher
seeded team. The Celtics won thefirst three games, dropped the next two,
the Magic took him, and thenthe Celtics won the series in game
six. So that is where we'reat. All of a sudden, history

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at this point has gotten much muchsmaller, much more minute Owen thirteen,
not Owen one fifty, and aCeltics team that as we have talked about,
is absolutely the more talented team,the deeper, more well rounded team,
the team that is absolutely capable ofgetting hot from three, just like

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the Heat did. What is yourconfidence level right now? I'm not talking
about coming back and winning the wholething? What is your confidence level in
Boston getting the job done in Gamefive tomorrow night? So I'm feeling pretty
good that they're gonna win tomorrow night. Do I feel good that they're gonna
cover tomorrow night? That's a differentquestion because right now I would still take

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Miami at plus eight right now,and we've talked about how the Celtics,
the Celtics money line just has novalue whatsoever in this series. But I
do feel good about them to atleast get the win and force this thing
back to Miami on Saturday night.Like if this spread was like around five,
I'd feel much better taking the Celticswith the points. But I do

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think they're going to win tomorrow.Looks like we got Josh on the line.
Let's bring Josh up, EJ andfind out what Josh? What's on
your mind? John? Are youconfident the Celtics are gonna win this thing?
Actually? I think I am.I just think that, you know,
it's just all about the effort.I mean, that's been the key
for the Celtics to be successless effort. We're being out the effort. If

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we're hitting our shots and we're playingdefense, I feel confident we're gonna win
the Mall. Not only the Mall, but I think we'll come back and
win the series. It's just wehave to bring that effort. That's the
one. Thank you effort, SoI and Josh thank you for the call.
I agree, effort's important, it'sabsolutely important. I don't want to

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get so kind of caught up inin cliches that do exist in the NBA,
for instance, the whole make missLeague thing, but I can't help
but acknowledge that the Celtics had somany open looks, so many open lookstand
in Games one through three, thatJaylen Brown, Al Horford, Marcus Smart,

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Malcolm Brogden, these guys in particularjust missing, like crazy, missing,
missing, missing, missing, missing, Whereas the Heat were hitting everything,
you know, whether it was DuncanRobinson, Max Drew's, Gabe,
Vincent Caleb Martin's an assassin, theywere hitting everything, and I think there
was an element of water finding,its level, regression to the mean,

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whatever you want to call it,that occurred in that third quarter of Game
four. And I'm not look,I watched the Celtics enough to know that
that doesn't automatically carry over to Gamefive or beyond. So I'm not saying
anything is locked in, but thisis something we know they're creating the opportunities.
Dan, Yeah, and this issomething that I want to talk get

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into more in depth with Nick whenhe joins us in a little bit here.
Is especially these Celtics three point props. They had five guys in Game
four hit at least three three pointersand their props only the only guy that
has a prop over three point threethree pointers tomorrow night is Tatum so and
everybody else is like below three.Like Derek White is a two and a

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half and he's hit three three pointersin every single game in this series and
in five of his last six,and he's getting involved more than I thought.
That was a big part we talkedabout this last night, that Derek
White and their offensive rebounding is reallywhat kept them alive in the first half
of that game, especially in thefirst quarter. So that and then al
Horford Al's opened up each of thepast two games hitting a wide open three
pointer. Does he do that again, which would already put him halfway to

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his propits only one and a half. So a lot of interesting shooting shooting
numbers for the Celtics that I wantto really get into here, and from
a betting standpoint, see which waywe're gonna go? All right? Well,
without further ado, let's dive intoit. With Nick Whyland coming up
on the other side. You arelistening to The Gambler with Adam Kaufman on
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us now with six one seven twosix six six eight six eight. That's
six one seven two six six sixeight six eight. The Gambler with Adam
Kaufman will be right back after thisis on w r KO. I was
looking at some NBA numbers and Ijust look up on the corner of my

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eye, So did Mike Trout justmiss a homer in foul territory by like
less than a foot? And thenshow Hee Otani goes deep. The next
battery, no doubt. Come on, Paxton, help us out a little
bit tonight. Huh. Yeah,Paxton had been too good. Act like
you've been there before, Buddy,You've been too good in his first two

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starts to start the season. Butyeah, and all that time in the
Al West, the Angels, Angelswere ready for him. What the hell?
I mean, long way to goit? You know what, I'm
not even mad because love show heythat much. Just I love the man.
I dream. I dream of aworld that he signs with the Boston
Red Sox. Not gonna happen,but oh it's a fantasy. Got to
get him off the Angels. Yeah, put him at a place that's relevant.

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Please, for God's sakes, allright, let's move to uh talk
basketballs. As promised, we arebringing in good friend of this program from
Rhoda Wire, good friend of theboth of ours. We've worked with him
at other stops. Nick Whalen,Rhoda Wire Senior Analyst, is an awesome
job on the NBA covers other sportsas well. Nick, how are you,
buddy, I'm good, guys,I'm good, Guys that I heard

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the show. Hey, Otani talk. You know, we got to get
the bad wagon started. Let's gethim to Milwaukee this summer. Yeah,
that's I mean, as much asI would like to see, uh,
you know, a giant show,hey mascot going going down the slide,
that that would be fun. Butlook, Nick, you're getting the NFL
Draft in a couple of years.Don't get greedy, all right? I'm

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sorry? Is that a big deal? Cities fight for This is arguably the
biggest event to ever come to thestate of Wisconsin, certainly the city of
Green Bay. And in terms ofpeople that will be there, there's the
case for it so real. Who'swho you'll have? You know, Alice
Cooper will be there in Milliwauke.It'll be unbelievable. All right. Celtics,

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Nick, I don't know about toyour surprise or if you expected this
or what your expectations are going forward, but they have managed to force a
Game five back at the Garden againstMiami, and the oddsmakers are all of
a sudden back on the seas eightpoint favorites at the Garden tomorrow night.
I am not shocked to see thatnearly eighty percent. This is on the

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Draftking Sports book, So I'm lookingat the numbers on visa. Nearly eighty
percent of the handle and the betsare on Miami on the money line at
plus two fifty and more than eightypercent of the bets almost eighty five percent
are on Miami to cover the pluseight as well. And about the only
thing that everybody can really agree uponnorth of eighty both handling bets is the

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over two fifteen and a half inthis game. What are your expectations for
this game? Well, first ofall, I don't know if it's the
Boston kind of influence on the DraftKing sports book or what, but the
Celtics continue to get just an immenseamount of respect throughout these playoffs. That
was the case, you know,when they struggled a little bit against Atlanta
in Round one. That was certainlythe case against Philly, and now we're

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seeing it as well here heading intoround or into game Vibe, I should
say, you know, finally thebooks installed the Miami Heat as a favorite
in Game four, but even thatwas only what point and a half maybe
two and a half depending on whereyou're looking, And all it took was
one Boston victory and everything is reversed. And here we are now with the
Celtics at eight point favorite. I'lltell you what I'm with the public on
the total. I like the overon two fifteen and a half. Certainly,

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we can't expect Boston to shoot quiteas well as it did, especially
from three in Game four, butI thought Boston did a much much better
job at generating open looks. Itkind of reminded me of a lot of
the looks that Miami has been gettingthroughout this series, where you look and
you say, okay, can weexpect them to shoot eighteen threes or make
eighteen threes in Game five? Probablynot, But for the most part,

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you're watching that game and you're you'renot thinking, like, Okay, you
know, Boston's hitting these shots thatthey shouldn't be making. I thought they
did a much better job passing outof the double teams. When they bring
two guys at Tatum at the topof the key, he passes out all
of a sudden That creates advantage situations. And you know, having Grant Williams
suddenly being back to being a keypart of this rotation has been huge for
Boston. So long way of saying, would I take the Celtics at minus

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eight, No, I won't.I'll take the heat plus eight at this
point, that's just far too bigof a number for me, given what
we've seen from Miami throughout this seriesand throughout these playoffs. But look,
guys, I would not be surprisedwhatsoever if Boston wins this game at home.
Uh. You know, It's beena strange series for sure. I'm
sure you guys know the numbers.What is it ohee fifty one started?

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I look, I saw your breakdownon Twitter earlier today at it it was.
It was a great breakdown. Thatwas That was That was as well
as anybody has sussed it out.And um, you know, I know
Zach on his pot today kind ofdid a like team by team analysis of
all these situations. And you guysknow as well as I do, like
this, this is not your typicalthree zo deficit, right like that?
That to me is what I keepcoming back to, where you know,
normally when a team is down threezero in a series, it's like a

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Philly Brooklyn situation in round one,you know, where it's like it was
inconceivable that the Brooklyn Nets, ledby McCaul bridges, could come back from
three zo against the six Ers It'snot typical that the team that's down three
zero has much more talent. HasJason Tatum and Jalen Brown, two all
NBA players, goes eight, nine, ten deep with really really talented players.
So if there was ever a timethat we were going to see,

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you know, that trend finally reversedand we see a team come back down
from three zero, it kind offeels like now would be the time.
Now the question is that the Celticsmentally have this in them, right,
We saw Marcus Smart and Jalen Brownbefore Game four saying, look, don't
let us get one. Don't letus get one. You know, you
guys have watched the team more closelythan I have all season, Like,
do you think they have that mentality? Like? Do you trust this team

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now that they got their one winand they need to keep winning? Do
you think they have that in them? So I'll answer that two ways.
Do I trust them, Absolutely not, and you'd be crazy if you did.
But do I think I do?I think they have it in them?
Of course. I mean they cameback from down three two against Philly.
You know, they're in elimination gamesover the last couple of years,
they're unbelievable. So and it's obviouslylargely the same core. So do they

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have it in them? And interms of mental fortitude they do. One
thing that you said early on inyour answer there that I want to quibble.
I want to push back just alittle bit on this. So you
said that, you know, theyou credited the Celtics for getting the open
looks generating shots, and they absolutelydid that in Game four. Honestly,
I think they did that quite wellin the first three games. The differences
they were missing those looks were asin Game four they were hitting them.

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Where I agree with you that youcannot depend upon al Horford to make three
three pointers, or Grant Williams tomake four three pointers, or you know,
even Smart or White to hit threeapiece, even though you know,
almost like it breaks my brain,but Derek White has at three plus three
pointers, in fact, exactly threethree pointers in each of the four first
four games of this series. WhatI'm pushing back against is the Celtics shot

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forty percent. Yes, they madeeighteen threes, but eighteen to forty five.
They shot forty percent from three pointrange. And I think that absolutely
is something they could do again,I think you're right about that. I
think you are if you're winning thebattle in terms of just pure three point
attempts, that that's half of itat this point. Right. It feels
like we went through this conversation withthe Phoenix Suns in Round two right against

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Denver. That was that was somethingthat everybody brought up in that series,
is, you know, can youwin a series even if you have Kevin
Durant and Devin Booker if you're takingyou know, sixty percent or even half
as many threes as the other team, it doesn't matter necessarily how officially you're
shooting them. And that was,you know, kind of something that we
saw in Game four, Right.Obviously Miami didn't shoot the three well,
but they also took thirteen fewer threesdan the Boston Celtics did. So,

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yeah, it certainly there were times, especially in that third and fourth quarter,
where you're like, okay, youknow they they hit three or four
a row, that they can't necessarilykeep this up. That's what the Heat
are telling themselves. But I thinkthe looks were there, and I think
more importantly, you know, whatI think you're getting is the volume was
there, right, If you're takingforty five and you have, you know,
seven eight guys who you trust inthis rotation to hit three pointers.

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I think that is relatively sustainable,right, And I think the one the
one thing I do question is KenGrant Williams continue to be this guy.
You know, obviously he's not gonnahe's not gonna go four or six from
three in Game five, but youknow, can he go two or four?
You can he continue to give youtwenty five to thirty really productive minutes
because to me, that that ina lot of ways has been the catalyst,
and was the catalyst in Game four, like you was basically out of

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the rotation at times in these playoffs. This is a guy that's been so
important for them over the last coupleof years. And having him back as
a competent player, not only onoffense but on defense as well, I
feel like it's something that could swingthings in Boston's favor. And you know,
you mentioned that the three point shootingand the quality of their looks that
I looked at MBA dot com splashstats earlier today. You know, it

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was kind of operating under this assumptionof is it as simple as kind of
Celtics just hit their shots. Isthat really all they need to do.
They're shooting twenty nine percent on whatMBA dot Com calls open threes in this
series and thirty seven percent on wideopen threes. Thirty seven percent sounds okay,
that's not very good in those situationswhen you consider the heat are shooting

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forty three percent on open threes andfifty nine percent on wide open threes.
They're twenty nine or excuse me,twenty three of thirty nine in this series
on wide open threes. Only fiveof their fifty two makes through these four
game, guys have come on shotsthat are not defined as open or wide
open. Our guy, EJ's inmy ear. He's saying, I love

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Nick, He's the best. Iwant to hear more from him. But
if we don't take a break,we are going to upset the sponsors.
So that's exactly what we're gonna do. Right now. Nick Whalan, senior
analysts from Rhoda Wire, is goingto rejoin us. We'll get into some
props, some bets specifically that wereally like for Game five between the Seas
and Heat Tomorrow Night of the Garden, you are listening to the Gambler with
Adam Kaufmann defend of a bad bets. You've come to the right place.

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Kaufman will be right back after thison WRKO. Red Sox got one back,

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so it's five one. They aretrailing and long long way to go
in this game. Still obviously fourthinning. Thank you to Masataka Yoshita.
Yoshi got the big hit score torun and he cashed that bet that boosted
hit parlay between Devers and Yoshi,so many thanks to him. Hey,
look the Red Sox have now scoredtwo runs in the last thirty Alright,

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al ridings, let's have a littleoptimism here. They're threatening, threatening for
more with a couple down. What'sgonna happen? What's gonna happen? It's
probably gonna be a ground out,we'll seeyeh. Yeah, Well, it's
unfortunate. All right, I gotexcited for a second. Okay, Dan
Watkins, you heard him. Iam Adam Kaffman. We are rejoined by
Ronald Wier, senior analyst Nick Whyland, who whether he knows it or not,

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I'll tell him now. He's goingto be part of the people's part
late tonight and we will do thatin the next segment, So before the
hours up that means next break,Nick, you can put the research in.
Dan here. We were just talkingabout obviously three pointers and you gave
a kind of stad but at thesame time really telling and just a tremendous

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stat on open and wide open threepointers in this series as it relates to
the Celtics and heating at being oneof the great differences and outliers obviously leading
us to this three one deficit theBoston has right now. I know Dan
wanted to ask you about the AlmightyTray. Yeah, So, Nick,
we were talking in our first segmentbefore you joined us too, about the
three point props for this game tomorrownight. The Celtics had five guys hit

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at least three pointers in Game fourand the only guy that has a prop
total of over three and this oneis Jason Tatum. So any of the
other Celtics you're kind of targeting herefor hits and three pointers tomorrow night.
Well, first of all, I'mglad you asked about Tatum. You know,
I was looking into him three anda half. Like anytime you see
a player at three and a halfthat's not Stephan Curry or maybe Clay Thompson,

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that's always a little bit alarming.And it's a plus one twenty five
at Draft King, so that makessense. You know, I would rather
bet Jason Tatum to have the mostmade threes in this game at plus one
ninety than betting the over on threeand a half at plus one twenty five.
I think you're getting better juice there, and you know Jason's are if
he if he hits four, five, certainly six three pointers, that's gonna
be probably the highest in the game. You know, you do worry about

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guys like Struce and Duncan Robinson onthe other side, but maybe a little
bit less so at home. Soyeah, if you're looking at Jason Tatum,
I'd rather just bet most threes outat plus one ninety instead of the
over at three and a half.You know, I'm staring down Jalen Brown
at plus one fifty. You know, over two and a half. Jaylen
Brown, man, he's seven ofthirty seven on jump shots in this series,

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he's five of nineteen in catch andshoot situations. I don't know if
I could quite buy in. Iwould love to given the benefit of the
doubt and say that that hand iscausing some of these issues. But you
know, then you you also seehim, like throw down a dunk on
a fast break when his hand isslamming against the rim and everything looks fine.
So I just I don't know whatto do with Jill and Brown guys.
You know, maybe we'll talk abouthis points prop in a little bit.

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I think you have to go wonderon the two and a half,
But you're not really looking at thatgreat money there, you know. Grant
Williams is the interesting one, right, I mean he's at one and a
half for the Celtics. You're gettingthat a plus money plus one thirty five.
I think you're kind of the booksare indicating that maybe there's a bit
of regression here after he hit thosefour threes in game four. I don't
necessarily have a problem with it atone and a half. Now, look
if the number one at two anda half, no, that that would

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be kind of a kind of arat line to me, but at one
and a half, I think he'skind of locked back into like twenty five
to thirty minutes until further notice.You know, certainly he has plenty of
competence as a shooter, a goodchance he might take four or five of
them again in Game five, SoI don't have a problem with that one.
And then on the Miami side,I don't know about you, guys.
I've been hammering Caleb Barton over oneand a half threes every single game

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and the line never moves, youknow, the the juice that you're paying
has moved. He's down down tominus one fifty, but he's gone over
in four straight six to the lastseven. He's averaging one point nine made
threes in these playoffs, and he'sessentially locked into like thirty five minutes per
game at this point with no TylerHero and you know, Gabe Inston style
banged up for the Miami Heat.So Calob Barton is a player that,

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got to be honest, didn't reallythink a whole lot about during the regular
season, and now all of asudden, it's starting to look like one
of the best value contracts in theleague going forward. I like that play
a lot. Another one I likeis Derek White over two and a half.
It's at plus one twenty. I'mshocked this is still at plus money.
White's hit three three pointers in everysingle game this series. How do
you feel about him? Does hekeep it going? He seems like he

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has his competence back, right,I mean he's got three straight games now
with exactly three made threes. Youknow, he can go back to the
Phillies series. He had three makesin game six and that one and just
nineteen minutes, and you know,it's kind of felt like almost on the
fringes of the rotation. All ofa sudden, in Game seven he only
plays twelve minutes. He's coming offthe bench, and now you know it
was back in that starting role.I do like that quite a bit.

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You know, he's somebody I thinkwho should play better at home. That's
typically the case with the role players. And look at plus one twenty.
I got no issue with that.And the question I guess is do you
just think you know, it almostfelt like the Celtics were feeding off of
each other in Game four. Youknow it's like all right, you know,
once two or three guys start hittingtheir shots, once Al Horford and
Marcus Spart Grant Williams start seeing themgo down, it almost feels like there's

(29:22):
kind of a team aspect to that, and you know, it's somewhat of
an intangible thing to measure. It'shard to apply it to sports betting,
but you know, it does feellike the Celtics finally, for the first
time in this series found some moticumof like team confidence from three in game
four. I'm wondering what some ofyour Obviously maybe it's one of the three
point props we were just talking about, but as you look around and some

(29:44):
of the prop opportunities surrounding the RedSox in this game, or sin the
Red Sox, I'm watching the RedSox, the Celtics in this game are
there, you know, because peoplelook for either you know, parlay pieces,
you know, something they can addto boost their legs, or just
you know, straight bets. LikeI'm I'm trying to find some some straits
within this game in terms of propsthat I really like. Obviously, various
books offer you some some boosted opportunitiesfor this single game to try and get

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you to play them. What aresome of your favorite props? That you're
seeing here in this one. Yeah, so really all of the three point
bets that we talked about, youknow, I'm fine with those, you
know, I do like the overin this game. I think it's probably
a shooting progression game for the MiamiHeat, who won eight of thirty two
from three in Game four. Andyou know, even if you think,
okay, Boston, maybe they're notgoing to hit eighteen threes, I think

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there's a pretty good chance that Bostonwill get a better whistle at home,
and I think they make up someof the difference for that at the free
throw line. Right. We sawtheir free throw attempts and makes go down
in games three and four being onthe road. Games one and two of
the series twenty four and twenty ninefree throws attempted for the Boston Celtics.
So you know, maybe maybe ifthey hit fourteen or fifteen threes instead of

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eighteen, the difference is made upat the free throw line there, so
I would lean over. I've alsolooked at Marcus smart over nine and a
half assists plus rebounds in this game. You know, when when it comes
down to we were talking about thison our show on Serious XM last night,
Like you know, my my cohost Alex and I were discussing like
how many Celtics do you trust inthese do or die situations? And you

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know, I trust Station Tatum,And you know, the way we phrase
it is like we trust Marcus Smartto at least put forth a good effort.
It might be a one of fifteennights from the field, but you
at least so he's gonna go downswinging. And you know, all these
games are now do or die atthis point for the Boston Celtics, and
Marcus Smart's gonna show up. Youknow, again, it might be an
inefficient night from the field. That'swhy I'm avoiding the points the field goals

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altogether. But he's been a fantasticpasser distributor in this series. He got
eleven assists in Game one. He'sgot fourteen assists total over the last two
games. And you know, therebounds have been a little bit more spotty,
but nine rebounds in Game three.You know, he's an above average
rebounder for his size and position.So I like be over on nine and
a half assist plus rebounds there forMarcus Smart. Even along those lines,

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you know, I'm just looking atthat canagory, like Al Horford plus money
at over eight and a half,like he could get eight rebounds one hundred
percent. I mean, one thingI say on our show all the time
is like any of these combined props, when you look at it and say
I think he could go over thisin one category alone, that means you
should probably bet it, right ifyou feel that good about it. I

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mean, he had seven rebounds ingame in game four alone, he had
two double digit rebounds at the endof that Philly series. You know,
it is a little jarring to watchthese games and see just how much time
Al Horford is now spending on theperimeter at this point in his career.
That's just kind of who he isat this point. But that physicality,
you know, that ability to rebound, get your body into somebody that's still

(32:37):
there for him when he needs itto be one that does really jump out
at me too. You know,as much as I would love to take
Tatum over thirty and a half points, so I do think he'll get there.
I don't know if that I'll betit. I do think he'll get
there. But the one that feelsfairly obvious is I'm a little surprised,
given, like you said, theminutes appear to be locked in based on

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what we've seen these last few games, and the shot volume I think is
going to be there as well.We were already talking about him Grant Williams
over seven and a half points.Look, I'm seeing that at six and
a half right now, sakings,which is shockingly low, right, and
you know it's it's that minus oneforty, So there is an implication there.
But yeah, that's one of thoselines that you look at and you're

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like, what am I missing here? Right? I mean obviously you don't
necessarily expect him to shoot it likehe did in game four, But you
know he's also not the type ofplayer who's just a three point shooter,
right, I mean, he cando a little bit more than that.
He can generate contact. He gotto the line a couple of times in
game four. So yeah, that'sthat's a really really low line, but
one that I look at and say, okay, we need to figure out
why this is still low. Anyothers you want to ask before break?

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Yeah, let me bring up onemore Celtic here, and that's Malcolm Brogden.
The Curious Case of Malcolm Brogden.That is, in this series,
we've seen his minutes just dwindle inevery single game so far. His point
prop is at nine and a half. It's from under nine and a half
at minus one twenty five. Ifany faith, Broden gets it going here
in game five. I'm shocked inhow ineffective he spanned over these last couple

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of games. I know, fromthe beginning when when they made that trade,
I thought they stole Malcolm Brogden fromthe from the Indiana Pacers. I
was shocked that no other team reallykind of came in and you know,
tried to to create a bidding warthere because I just did not think that
it makes sense that they basically gothim for free. And you know,
for most of the season he's beena totally fine addition. But if you
had told me, okay, youknow, here we are, We're in

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the Eastern Conference Finals. Malcolm Brodenhas two combined points over the course of
two games, one of eleven fromthe field. I mean, I know,
he's won like one of ten fromthree I think over the last three
games. And you know, someof those minutes now starting to be redistributed
to guys like Derek White, andyou know, he even kind of shuffled
up to these bigger lineups as theygo with Grant Williams a little bit more.
I mean nine and a half fora guy who has two combined points

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over the last two games. Thatat the tough pill to swallow. But
you know, if it hadn't beenfor these last two games, he was
riding a streak where he scored indouble digits and one I think it was
thirteen or fourteen games. The onlyoutlier was Game five against Philly. So
it kind of depends like can herecover his confidence at home? You know,
these two games where he's played eighteenand seventeen minutes have both come on

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the road. And you know,in some ways credit to Joe Missoula for
you know, going away from himif he doesn't have it. You know,
if it re forced me to givean answer here, I would go
over. You know what, He'sthe type of guy I think at home
he'll be engaged, she'll be backin it. They're not going to just
out him for the rotation. Ithink as long as he comes out and
has a decent first half, youknow, if he's not over four,
over five from the field. Thoseare the situations in which they're going away

(35:35):
from him. As long as hecan come out and get off to a
decent start out, I'd like theover on nine of the half. Yeah.
Something this is a longer conversation thatwe don't have time for. But
something to consider too is like,whereas Jaylen Brown or even Smart to some
degree, look banged up, lookhurt, look off, looks like there's
something wrong. Malcolm Brogden just lookstired, man. I mean he's played
in more games. I looked itup. He's played more games this year
than any other season in his careerand deeper playoff run in any other season

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in his career. So he justlooks, you know, worn. But
anyway, we gotta take a break. The looks like the Panthers have emerged
four three winners. Sorry for theover you know or the under not hitting,
but congrats to the Panthers. Yeah, it looks like they are off
to the Stanley Cup Final, probablyto play the Vegas Golden Nights. But
more on that in the second hour. Nick Whalen's here. We're gonna build

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Final segment of the first hour ofthe program. It's time to build out
the People's parlay. That's that's exactlywhere we need, like a sounder or
something. So we gotta find something. We gotta we need someone to sponsor.
We need to hit on one ofthese first before we get anything like

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no, no, you're talking aboutit like we've never done it before.
Now we're in a rut. Weare. We're six and eight overall after
a six and two starts, sowe are in a rut, no doubt
about it. But hopefully our guyNick Whaland from Rhoda Wire can help us
snap out of it. So,uh, you know the rules. If
you're a listener to this program,we will each offer a leg and use
whichever book you want. You youknow, put whatever money you're comfortable with

(37:29):
it on, and the guest inthis case, Nick is required to play
it and hopefully we all make moneyin the end. So Nick, you
start us off. What are weplaying tomorrow? All right? We got
Wisconsin Badger's win total for the collegefootball and all right, that's a future
that doesn't work. It has tosettle tomorrow. All right. I've been

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saving this one. Guys. Wetalked about all these props that I like,
all the you know, kind ofgame leads. We're going back to
the well on Al Horford. Lasttime I was on your show a couple
of weeks ago with an Al Horfordrebounds prop we hit. I believe the
people's parlay hit that night. Wegot to go right back to the well.
I'm going Al Horford over seven anda half points. Talk about a
low point prop. Al Horford hasshot eight percentage points better at home this

(38:15):
season from three seven percent better fromthe field. Overall, He's averaging two
more points per game at home.His offensive rating is thirteen points better at
home this season. Guys, Iknow he's become kind of a three point
specialist. It's always ticy betting pointsprops. On a guy who you kind
of need to hit one or twothree pointers. But Al Horford coming back
home, must win game for theCeltics. Give me the over on seven

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and a half points and even moneytoo, Dan, All right, So
I have a couple of different waysI could go with this, but we
I really need to bounce back aftermy Pirates pick today. But I'm gonna
stick with baseball. I'm gonna goright back to the National League Central.
We're gonna take the Saint Louis Cardinalsmoney line tomorrow. A lot of juice
on this one of minus one seventy, but need to win here and the

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Cars have not lost back to backgames in almost a month since the very
beginning of May. So I'm goingwith the Cards and after they got slaughtered
tonight by Cincinnati, bounce back tomorrow. All right, Now, I'm gonna
go back to the Celtic game becauseI want to, and it's a fun
thing to track while we're on theair. I mentioned it already. Well,
there are a couple of things.One, I'm tempted to go under

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two and a half assist for DerekWhite. I do think it's a good
play. It generally hits, soby all means, if anyone wants to
pop it onto your parlay, oruse it as a leg somewhere else,
or played straight whatever. I justthink it's a good ad. But I
am I'm just gonna, you know, go with the guy that I've been
talking up while we've had Nick on, and that's Grant Williams. I'm taking
over on his point prop as Nickmentioned, six and a half in some

(39:43):
places, seven and a half.In some places where I am looking it
happens to be seven and a half. I wish I had that extra point.
But nevertheless, I'm gonna go withit. He's at the last I
was looking back, and the lastI don't know several games that he has
played at least twenty six minutes,which I believe he will tomorrow. He
has cruised past this number. Sothis puts me at roughly a plus five

(40:05):
hundred on this three legger, andI'm excited about it. So let's let's
hope it hits. Guys, weneed it. I like it. That
was my backup, so love itperfect. Nick, Thanks so much for
hopping on with us again, buddy. We appreciate it. We'll bug you
again for sure, Hey, anytime, guys, let's hope the People's Parley
hits. We need it, weneed it, we do. We'll celebrate
over tech. Nick Whalan from RhodaWire. And it's like we said to

(40:27):
Rhoda Wire Wednesday, because aj Shulis going to join us Shock Hockey coming
up in the next hour. Wewill come back in just a matter of
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Org. Red Sox now down sevento one against the Angels, top of
the sixth inning Boo. They werefavorites tonight too, Dan Watkins, Yeah,

(41:19):
yeah, they were. I know. I took them. I told
people to take them again for thesecond straight night. I gotta stop doing
that all my other I literally,after my Pirates debacle this afternoon, everything
else tonight was going great, andthen of course the Red Sox just ruin
it. Maybe the little up fora beginning, I mean, saw the
Yankees screw me by allowing what wasthe Orioles scored eight runs in the top

(41:43):
of their inning. Yeah, ontheir way to take in that game.
Maybe the Red Sox have that inthem. Maybe, let us hope.
I don't know. With this lineuptonight, I don't know's I mean,
this lineup looks a lot like theirtypical life. Yeah, well, I
mean overdu go tonight. McGuire's hittingthree hundred. He's not in the lineup
tonight. No, Valdez says alot about your team when you're lamenting Reese

(42:06):
McGuire exactly. Yeah, that's that'sa whole other thing. Can avoid the
sweep? Can you please? Ohmy goodness, gracious? All right,
Well, we are going doing aboutten twelve minutes or so, be joined
by our guy, aj Scholz,a colleague of Nick Whyland's over rode a
wire breakdown. What's happening in theNHL? A eventful night. Obviously in

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Florida. Congrants to all those Panthersfans. You know, there's I don't
know, some some solace you take. I guess as a Bruins fan knowing
at least the team that knocked offthe historic win and point record setting team
in NHL history is at least youknow, didn't get didn't flame out in
the next round of the you know, Toronto Maple Leafs. At least it's

(42:50):
going to the next you know,the Stanley Cup Final. After really walloping
the Hurricanes, I realized most ofthese games were close on oviously, but
nevertheless, I mean, the theunder didn't hit tonight. Obviously it was
a four three game, it wasfive and a half was what we were
looking for, but Florida did notrelent. Matt Kachuck, Wow, yeah,

(43:15):
there are so few words. Hewas, Well, we'll talk about
this more with with AJ and lookat con smythe betting odds, and obviously
an early look at what we presumewill be the Stanley Cup Final against the
Vegas Golden Nights. Perce Cassidy's clubhasn't closed the door on Dallas quite yet.
Hopefully that happens tomorrow. For theirsake. I guess they would get
a I haven't looked at the StanleyCup dates, but with a couple of

(43:36):
sweeps, potentially could be a longlayoff, and like, yeah, so
it could be. I mean thoseare fixed dates, so not unlike the
NBA Finals that people were complaining about. Hey, you could have a ten
day gap before the finals start hadthe Celtics lost to the Heat in Game
four. So yeah, we mayhave ourselves a long wait. We'll have
to remind ourselves that there is evenhockey to discuss by the time the Stanley

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Cup Final rolls around, if infact, the gold Knights do close that
thing out and four as the Panthersdid. But Kachuck, Wow, just
a goal scoring machine against the Bruins, an assists machine against the Maple Leafs,
finds his goal scoring touch in themost dramatic times possible against Carolina,
multiple overtime winners, and then tonightin the close out of powerplay goal with

(44:23):
four points something seconds left to winthis thing. Ninth goal of the postseason
for him to go along with,like I said, a whole bunch of
assists. He has been otherworldly andthis Panthers team is I set it going
into the first round against the Bruins, and I'm not saying I predicted them
to win. I thought the Bruinswould win, but I said, this

(44:43):
is going to be a very difficultmatchup. This team is the real deal.
Kachuck is great, they won thewithout him, They won the President's
Cup Trophy last year. You know, this is not one of those like
your typical eight seed kind of matchups, and Panthers are obviously reminding us all
of that on a daily basis atthis point. Yeah. I mean,

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I've been saying it kind of likehalf jokingly now for the past couple of
weeks. Team of Destiny, Teamof destiny. But it's really feeling like
they are a team of destiny,as they just won the Prince of Wales
Trophy and they touched it tonight.By the way, for those people do
that, Oh they touched it.They like paraded around with it. They
are not afraid of that thing atall. They I think Barkoff skated a
lap around with it around around therink. But yeah, the Florida Panthers

(45:27):
are moving on. Matthew could chucknineteen points in sixteen playoff games so far
this season. He is just amonster and it's going down right now as
one of the best moves, besttrades in a NHL history, Absolutely incredible.
He has just been otherworldly. Asyou mentioned it, it's either Hammer
Bobrowski right now for the con smythethose are the two. They're the two
favorites. And obviously we'll talk toAJ a little bit more about the Western

(45:51):
side if somebody has a crazy comebackhere for Dallas or who from Vegas that
he likes, maybe in that conversation. But it sure feels like the Dallas
Stars are done tomorrow night. Imean, Jamie Ben what a clown?
What a clown? And then thatthat excuse he had this morning after his
public safety meeting. But yeah,so's he's out for the next two games,
which could be the opening night nextyear with how things are going for

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the Dallas Stars right now. Butthe one thing at him about this Panthers
team that I just can't get overis that I don't hate them like I
actually I like them. I enjoywatching them play like they're really likable.
They got the superstar that's just awesome. He's American too, by the way,
which I think helps add to that. It's just they're a fun group.
And I mean if it's Florida Vegas, I mean what a fun like

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if you're going to multiple games ofthat Cup Final, oh man, going
back and forth between South Florida andVegas. I mean, you can't.
You can't ask for anything better.You can't be that extended two week bachelor
party. Yeah. Or if you'recovering, if you're a reporter covering the
Cup Final, Wow, I wasoff single report those off days. Man,
have a have a time, havea time. It's funny too,

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because I do remember remember going intothat we weren't a show yet, or
at least not on the air yet. We were still in the planning stages.
But I remember when that series againstthe Bruins began and everyone going into
it saying, you know, Florida'sgonna tick you off. Your your Kachuck
is that he's your Marshon in thesense that he's the kind of guy on
the other team that you love tohate. He's you know, he's awful,

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And I it's funny, I don'tfeel that way. I actually like
him quite a bit. Yeah.I think he's a ton of fun to
watch, obviously, and like yousaid, this is not and I don't
know how much I like them quoteunquote, but they're certainly not an unlikable
team by any means, right,right, No, The only guy on
that team that I really like couldn'tstand in the Bruins series. In the

(47:42):
Bruins series was was Goudas. Yeah, Goo Goodis was the only guy that
was just bugging me every single night. Yeah, with the big beard and
all that kind of stuff. Butuh no, they're they're fun to watch,
and Vegas is fun to watch too, So that's gonna be a fun
Cup final, assuming that Vegas closestthings out tomorrow night. So we'll do
much more on this with AJ ina little bit. But in the few
minutes that we have, I feel, you know, we always sort of

(48:06):
will do the people's parley and webrush off our guests when we got to
hit the break to close the firsthour. Yea, we don't really have
time to necessarily debrief the conversation anda lot of great stuff, a lot
of great nuggets and props and everythingas expected from Nick. Is there anything
that he turned you onto that youweren't already thinking about? Do you feel
like you need to do a deeperdive into whichever book that you're using,

(48:30):
and you know, look for someof these lower achievement like an Al Horford,
you know, over seven and ahalf points at even money, some
of these even money or plus moneyopportunities out there that maybe you're not even
thinking about yet. Yeah, Sothe Grant Williams one was one that you
brought that up. It is yourpeople's parlay pick. I liked that one
too. I wasn't even really lookingat that until tonight when we started talking
to Nick. The Horford one.Obviously, the last time we had Nick

(48:53):
on he was all over the Horfordrebound prop which he was hitting consistently.
It's dropped to five and a half. For tomorrow night, it's a minus
one forty, so you've got abit of juice there. But still I
think alf if Al has his points, he's gonna get his boards too,
So I like him on that one. I like his three point line as
well, over one and a half. He's had two in each of the
last two games, so I likethose. And then the one thing that

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we didn't touch on was Gabe Vincent, and we touched on this quite a
bit with Matt last night his injury. Obviously today he didn't really say anything
but that ankle injury. Watching thatagain, my ankle hurts after seeing that
coming. How he came down onthat one. But his lines at twelve
and a half at him, He'shad gone over in this in three or
four games so far this series.I'm wondering, So, if he's not

(49:35):
one hundred percent, who from Miamishould should we be looking at to maybe
pick up some of the scoring paces. Is it all gonna be Jimmy Butler
or do we get more Duncan Robinsonmore kind of lowry? I think you
continue to target the likes of CalebMartin, who's gonna get his you know,
he's gonna get his shots. AndMax Struss is maybe that's an opportunity
to pick up some of the slack, you know what Robinson is just you

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know, kinda I'm not and fastedright now. Yeah, he's he's volatile
for me, and yeah is sometimeslike you can't really find rob props either
or Grant Alts. That's you know, some of these guys that that their
minutes are a little inconsistent. Someof the books don't even give you for
I was looking earlier. I couldn'teven find Kyle Lowry props and I at
least, you know, and Iwas surprised because that's the guy that's gonna

(50:22):
play upwards of thirty minutes. Yeah, Love is just you don't know with
his minute, Like I wouldn't gonear as points or as threes. If
anything, it's rebounds and and hemay not play more than twelve fifteen minutes.
So I feel like Martin and Strusand they're like, this is not
a hot take, like they're gonnaplay thirty five minutes. They just I
think they are the guys. Theycontinue to be the guys. I think

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Butler's just gonna be Butler. He'sgonna get his um. I don't think
he needs to pick up anybody's slack, you know what I mean? Yea,
So Vincent the the the interesting thingto me with Vincent, and Matt
brought this up last night, isif he plays knowing he is not full
strength. I wonder if you targetthe gay Vincent unders, just play you

(51:06):
know, under points, under rebounds, under assists, like you just go
under, you know, make aGabe Vincent under parlay, go under on
Gabe Vincent because you don't know whathis production will be and you don't know
what his minutes are going to be. No, no, you don't.
I'm looking at the Caleb Martin lineis twelve and a half and then Streuss
is ten and a half. Strusten and a half feels like an ev

(51:28):
over easy over to me, tenminus one thirty. So you got a
bit of juice there too. Yeah, but still he's just I know that.
You know, last game he wasjust under that with the nine.
But generally speaking he's a consistent doubledigit score. So some things to think
about. Obviously, we will stepaside. A. J. Schultz from
Rhoda Wire will join us. Muchmore hockey talk coming up over the next

(51:50):
couple of segments. See if wecan find some value looking ahead to not
only tomorrow night in that Vegas gameagainst Dallas could be a closeout game obviously,
but looking ahead knowing that we haveone team that is headed for certain
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app, use the talkback button.The Gambler with Adam Kaufman will be right
back after this on wr KO.Sitting here, Dan Watkins working on a
plus twelve hundred five legger that Ihave been tracking and at this point in

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time, so long as the SeattleMariners do their job, which is win
on the run line, they're upfive nothing and threatening for more in the
bottom of the fifth, it'll cash. So I'm guessing you completely avoided the
Red Sox in that one. No, well, yes and no. So
it was Shane McClanahan over five anda half case, Yes, absolute stud

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It was raised on the money line, yep, the over in the Orioles
Yankees game. So at least youknow it's the one thing the Orioles did
for me, despite spoiling the Yankeeson the money line, which I had
elsewhere fifteen runs in that game thetotal was eight. This one scared me
for a little bit. By theway Red Sox just homered at seven to
two. This one scared me fora little bit. But Tyler Anderson,

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the pitcher for the Angels tonight underfour and a half k's. He wound
up with three. He is outof the game, and the only other
one is Seattle minus one and ahalf. So let's cash that bet.
Hopefully need Seattle to do its job. All right, let's go back to
hockey. We were just talking aboutthe now Eastern Conference champion Florida Panthers getting

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ready to go off to the StanleyCup Final. A crazy stat Dan passed
along to me from Adam Vingen IfI'm saying that correctly from Sportsnett and apologies
Adam if I'm not. But we, Adams, we got to stick together.
Mind boggling stat from the NHL.He writes, the Panthers were in
a playoff spot for only twenty eightpercent of the regular season fifty four of

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one hundred ninety days. They arethe only team in the NHL's expansion era
dating back to nineteen sixty seven toreach the final after spending less than thirty
percent of the season in a playoffspot. My goodness, what a year
for them, obviously, but canthey complete the trick? Who comes up
with this? Like I mean,who comes up with this? It's like

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the Red Sox record on rainy daysthat happened to be Thursdays when they played
day games the day before. Yeah, I mean, you got to really
dig up these stats. But nevertheless, it's a stat and it's a pretty
incredible one. So congrats to thePanthers. Let's go back to the guest
line here on this RODA Wire Wednesday, we had Nick Whalan earlier. Now
Aj Scholz joins US covers the leagueand other sports as well, but we're

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focused on hockey right now. WithAj, how are you, man,
I'm doing good. I can't believethe I can't believe we saw a sweep
in the Eastern Conference. I didnot expect that. Admittedly was on Carolina
in this one, but you know, you could have convinced me that Porter

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would take it. But I wouldhave told you you were crazy if you
had said Porter would take it infour games. Man, I was on
Carolina and this one. I wason the under in this one, So
double whammy there. But I justI continue to be impressed, obviously by
Florida and in particular Matt Kachuck.I was saying to Dan in their last
segment that it will you know,I don't know about haunt me because I

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didn't really belabor it, but Iput some decent thought into whether or not
prior to this round I should takehim for whatever. The odds were long
slightly longer odds for him to winthe con smythe and I didn't. I
just I sat on it, Ideliberated, I didn't do it. And
now what a series. He had, the multiple overtime winners, the power

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play winner in the closing seconds tonightto clinch it. In credible performance by
him this postseason. Oh absolutely,and I certainly you know he's looking like
he's plus three fifty right now.I'm what I'm seeing to win. The
comps might put the favorite is stillSergei Bobrowski. And you look at this
game tonight. He had and I'msaying this with the utmost of sarcasm,

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a mere nine two three to saypercentage tonight. But when you compare it
to the rest of this series,he's just been unbeatable. And that's been
the story of the playoffs for them. You know, you get a goalie
hot at the right time. We'veseen that in the in the West as
well with Aiden Hill. But bobRowski just one loss in his last twelve

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outings here and really has looked justabsolutely phenomenal, especially in this series.
So to be saying that giving upthree goals, I'm thirty nine shots was
his worst performance of a four GAAPseries is certain saying something something I do
find interesting though, AJ and Iguess it speaks to the respect, or
maybe slightly lack thereof, that theoddsmakers have for Florida because the Panthers have

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advanced to the Stanley Cup Final,the Vegas Golden Knights have not, and
yet outright betting on the Cup champion, Vegas is still the favorite right now
despite not getting out of the Westjust yet minus one twenty versus plus one
ten. Should that be the case, I mean, do you think that
inevitably when Vegas gets there? Howevermany games it takes that the Golden Knights

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are the clear favorite in this series. I don't know if i'd use the
word clear, but I do thinkthey are the favorite. They and you
know, I'll say this to hitmy detriment here is I've been pretty much
against Florida every step of the way, but I just think this is a
Vegas team that's they're getting the similarlevel of you know, goaltender performance out

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of Aiden Joe just coming out ofnowhere. I think they've got a slightly
better blue line in terms of offenseand production, not significant, but slightly
better. And they're deeper. Imean they've been sitting Phil Kessel, you
know, since you know, midwaythrough that that Winnipeg series and this is

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a two time Stanley Cup, youknow, champion that they have just waiting
in the wings. Now we havean injury to Brett Howden. Could that
open the door for them to putKessel back in. We'll have to see.
But you know, this is justsuch a deep goal and nice team.
It's it's understandable why they're the favoritehere. I wouldn't say a clear
favorite, but I do it doesmake sense to me that they're getting the

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edge in the odds. As youwhen we'll do more of this in the
next segment, but as you startto look ahead to this game four tomorrow,
I don't know, I should thisbe a foregone conclusion. Should we
just expect Vegas to close the doorand have this long layoff before we get
to the Stanley Cup final? Youknow, if it weren't for maybe Ben

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getting himself tossed in game three andnow suspended for the next two. I
would expect some pushback out of Dallashere, but they just looked completely out
of source. You have been losinghis mind. He'll be suspended now if
getting Dadanoff has picked up an injury, looks like he's gonna be hard pressed
to play on Thursday. So that'stwo, you know, top nine,

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top six forwards depending on where youwant to stick at dat en Off that
are going to be out of thelineup here. And Ottinger did not look
good in game three. He's gonnago again in game four here. But
I just think that the Dallas Starshave not looked good. We you know,
a lot of people myself included,thought oh they're back in Dallas,

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they'll make a strong push in gamethree, and then they just lost their
minds early in that game. Sowithout Ben, without Datonoff, I'm not
sure they have the depths here.And I do think I would I would
take Vegas pretty much straight up.On the money line. Looks like it's
minus one oh five right now.I'm seeing it at plus money. Yeah,

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yeah, I would take that.If you're finding it a plus money,
grab it absolutely, yeah, Imean it's it's awfully close, you
know, waivers like plus one ohtwo at some places. I'm saying your
DraftKings has it at plus one ohfive. Even if you wanted to,
obviously, there's no value in this. You could take them at you know,
plus one and a half on thepuck line, but you're basically minus

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three hundred at that point. Soit's either you have the conviction or you
don't, obviously. How what abouttotals? Is this a game that you
feel like you have any read onwhether it's going to go over or under
the five and a half my myina or anything. Is that we'll see
the under I think we'll continue tosee good goal sending out of Aid and
Hill, even if Jare steps itup a little bit. Um. You

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know, we saw seven in thefirst game, but then you're looking at
five four obviously in the last game, so they get kind of regular Hunt
and Jerry, with Aiden Hill playingto level he's been at, I would
expect to see this this under thespot to target. All right, we'll
talk a little bit more about thisgame tomorrow game four of the Western Conference

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Final in Dallas between the Stars andGolden Knights, and maybe a little bit
more as we look ad at theStanley Cup as well. AJ Schultz from
Rhoda Wire is with us. It'sthe Gambler with Adam Kaufman on w RKO.
Sick and tired of bold sports talkand want to get right into the
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seven two six six six eight sixeight. The Gambler with Adam Kaufman will
be right back after this is onWRKO. Back talking hockey, talking pucks
with AJ Schultz from Rhoda Wire,mostly on this Golden Golden Knights Stars game
four tomorrow in the Western Conference Final. Obviously talked a lot about Florida advancing

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to the Stanley Cup Final. We'llkind of circle back on some of that
as well. But Aj, asyou look ahead to this game tomorrow,
possible clincher, obviously, any propsthat are jumping out at you, boy,
I think you have to at leastconsider, you know, Icho to
score March assault as well. Ifyou're looking on the Dallas side. Obviously,

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Jason Robinson, you know plus onetwenty for him to score. I
think we'll see. You know,I'm not expecting another shutout performance here.
So on the Dallas side, Ithink Robertson just take you know, I
know he's the favorite to score,but plus one twenty is still really good
value there a little bit longer odds, I like Icho and March Assault plus

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one forty plus one sixty five respectively. You know, you could get you
could get nuts. I know I'vebeen talking up Phil Kessy hasn't played in
a while. If he gets inthe lineup, he comes in at plus
four hundred, why not, right, He's a power play kind of specialist.
Could get himself in the right spotand snipe one there. A little

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bit more of a lunch shot obviously, and you gotta wait to see if
he plays, but um, Iwould definitely consider that one. What about
shot props for like Sagan you mentionedMax Domi is a guy I'm looking at.
Alex Petrangelo might be another one.Just looking at overs for some of
these guys. Yeah, Domi obviouslymassed a good chunk of that that third

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period after his ten minute bus conducts, still managed to get two shots on
that. So the over seeing ayou know, one and a half,
definitely an option there. He's hitit in each of the last two games.
A little bit more kind of arisky spot there, I think,
Um, you know, I likedthe over on Petrangelo, but you're not

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getting a ton of value at mightas well, right five, Maybe that'll
move. If it moves to twoand a half, you get a little
bit more value out of that one. Um. You know, looking at
the three half guys you're talking Icho, Robertson in March Assault, all sitting
at three and a half. I'dprobably take Icho of those three, but
none of them, you know,I don't look at any of them and

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go, oh, that's way toohigh. There's no chance they're getting four
shouts on nuts and I think anyone of them could. Don't let the
fact that Icho didn't have a goalor shot in his last game kind of
scare you away. I think it'sjust going to help you get more value.
You were talking about the under inthis game, What about the over
one and a half in just thefirst period. I would expect we're going

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to see a little bit more ofa defensive stand in this one. I
would look under in that first period, you know, I think Dallas is
going to come out. They're gonnawant to set the tone. Hills,
like I said, it's been playingphenomenal. I would expect this one to
be a little bit of a slowergame compared to the other ones that we've

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we've seen. Obviously, they gotthe two walls right away in the first
period with three goals in the firstperiod in the last game, but they
were aided by that five minute majorand they got the early one. So
I think we'll see a little bitmore defense than this one. I'd target
the under in the first period there. Aj they're not listed yet, but
the goalie save props have been prettyconsistent throughout the entire series. Aid and

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Hill has been right around twenty seventwenty eight, Ottinger around twenty six twenty
seven. How do you feel aboutthese guys in Game four? I really
like that Hill save prop to goover, especially with Dallas's season on the
line. Oh one, hund thatif it comes out. Honestly, I
would go as high as you know, twenty nine and a half. I
think you'll see, you know,him make at least thirty saves. He's

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done that in all but one ofthe last five games here, So yeah,
I would be willing to go ashigh as twenty nine and a half
on him Ottinger. Obviously he gotsidetracked by the fact that he got pulled
in the last game. We've seenthat more than once, so I'm a
little less confident on that. Imean, you look at his save numbers
only once. You know, sincethe game one against Seattle has his say

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has been over thirty, so nota lot of shots. They're playing a
little bit more defensive in front ofhim. Obviously that hasn't stopped pucks from
going into the net to save percenthas been pretty bad, especially in this
series, So I'm way less confidenton out injer In fact, I would
probably take the under as long asagain, you know, if it creeps

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up to or creeps down leather aroundtwenty five, I might just leave it
alone. But anything higher than twentyfive, definitely take the under. Maybe
go as low as twenty four twentythree, but that's probably about it with
him, assuming that we do seeVegas. However many games it takes,
but Vegas get to the Stanley CupFinal and face Florida, sounds like we're

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gonna have plenty of time to previewit obviously, but just some of your
initial shots on the heels of Floridaadvancing any sense of how you might bet
that final, even if you know, like you said, Vegas should be
the favorite and you think Vegas willwin, whether you're starting to get in
the series spreads or totals, correctscore, whatever it may be, if
you're if you're looking to get alittle fancy, if that's ever your your

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cup to Jore, how do youthink you're going to bet that series?
Well, I definitely think I willprobably take take the simple one, Take
Vegas to win the series. Ithink they'll they'll do that. I don't
expect we'll see even if you know, even if they get to sweep here,
I would expect to see six orseven games as as the total number

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of games, So definitely turn't getthat as well. I'd be shocked if
it, you know, if itwas another suite here by either of these
teams that just played so good,you know, spread, I'm not totally
confident that we won't see a sevengame series with how good these two teams
have looked in the conference finals,So I'm not sure I would take any

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of the series spread options um,you know, and then we'll have to
see what you can find. Isin terms of head to head matchups,
those are some of my favorites.Those player props for the series that I
had to head, you know,did we get you know, to Chuck
against Iichael or something like that.That would be a really intriguing one.
And we'd have to see, uh, you know, we'll have to see
who they pair up. Is therea guy from Vegas, you know,

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assuming that they take care of businesshere and finish off Dallas that you would
jump on now with their cone thoughtcon smite thoughts being a little higher at
this moment, like Ichael's still plusfour hundred, he would be the favorite
for Vegas. But maybe Aidan Hillat plus two thousand. You know,
I've been kind of like worried thatAiden Hill's gonna drop off a little bit
here, So I'm not sure Iwould take him even at plus two thousand.

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Um, maybe you know, ifyou're looking for more of a long
shot, I would look possibly atmarch Assault um for for this uh you
know, for for those non versesgot two goals in an assist in this
series. I think he could bedefinitely a sneaky option here to to take

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that home. So he comes inplus fourteen hundred, probably would be the
player I'd be most likely to target. Like you said, I go obviously
the favorite, but I think youknow, his last game was actually,
you know, despite the fact thatwon for nothing, he had just just
the one assist, didn't have anysort of shots on goal. As I

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mentioned, I don't expect we'll seethat long term, but one bad game
there can kind of sideline you inmarch as Ault thirteen point seven coming from
goals, I think he'd probably bemy pick at plus fourteen hundred. I
think I saw the staff for Chelethat Vegas is like nine and oz in
the playoffs. When he scores,Yeah, yeah, it's they're likely to

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win. That's that's for sure.But um, you know, I just
I just think we're seeing a littlebit better overall performance from March Assault.
But you know, we'll see whathappens that, you know, tomorrow night.
That could be a tone set ofMarch Assault doing a little bit more
five on five. So I alwaystend to lean towards that he's got just

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two power play points whereas Ichel's gotfive, so a little more reliance on
his goal scoring coming from the powerplay, and if they don't get as
many opportunities in the finals, evenif they win, you could see march
assaults numbers surpassing, And like Isaid, you're getting an extra plus thousand
to look at him for the consomI can compare to chel Aj lasting for

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you before we let you go.It has nothing to do with betting.
But I'm just curious, as youknow, as a hockey guy, a
hockey fan, I've seen some peoplecomplain about these conference finals, just in
the sense that we may be lookingat two sweeps. But I think that
kind of ignores a whole bunch ofovertime games. A really tightly contested game
tonight obviously no exception, with thewinner coming in the clothes seconds of regulation.

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How would you, just, foryou your opinion, how would you
classify these conference finals if they dowind up being a total of eight games.
I mean, even if we geteight games, they have been exciting
it. I've been loving it.I mean, we get the four overtime
thriller in the first first game ofthe Conference finals with Carolina Florida. You

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know, the first four games,I'll go to overtime this one nearly did
too tonight. Uh. It justthey've been such tight games, you know,
a bouncier and a bobble there,and these maybe aren't sweeps. Other
than obviously the convincing win that Vegashad last night, these have been tight,

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exciting games, and I've enjoyed everyminute of it. To stay up
for that entire four overtime game,I did not. I have two kids
who wake up nice and early,so until until after midnight there when that
would that one wrapped up. Butdefinitely enjoyed it. Catching the highlights in
the morning. Yeah, that thinginto two am Eastern, it was.

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It was pretty wild. I wejust because of this show and our postgame
work and whatnot, happened to beup for it. But it was.
Yeah, that was fun to watch. AJ. I'm certain we'll have you
back to help us preview and talkthroughout the NHL Stanley Cup Finals. Thank
you so much for hopping on.Yeah, anytime, love being on with
you. Guys, Appreciate it.Joels rode a wire and again that I

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guess that completes a road a wireWednesday, Dan, But we're going to
step aside and when we come backbe about time to put this show to
bed. Oh now it's time toput the show to bed with Michaelow.
That's how the Red Sox are feelingright now. Down seven to two to
LA and just cruising through this seriesin the most lazy way imaginable. Not

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great, not great. It's timeto put this show to bed, which
means looking ahead to tomorrow. AndI know, really, throughout this two
hour program, we've done a lotof that, talking about the Celtics game,
trying to extend their season once again. Really hope they do, obviously
not just for content but fandom,and let's hope it makes us some money.
Gave out a lot of picks earlierin the show. If you missed

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anything, make sure you check outthe podcast. It'll be available a short
time after the show completes at midnightEastern, and of course you will have
all overnight and throughout the day tomorrowleading up to the game to get advice
on the NBA and how to betthe Celtics heat. Obviously, in the
wake of AJ joining us, plentyof good suggestions for props and whatnot as

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it relates to the Golden Knights andStars tomorrow evening, so a lot of
bets thrown at you. But whatwe really haven't done just yet is tell
you how to bet in the worldof baseball. So Dan Watkins rejoins us
here and Dan mean, what areyou looking at early on here? Is
you know, we get ready toflip the script to Thursday. So obviously

(01:14:04):
I really like the Saint Louis Cardinalstomorrow to bounce back. The Cardinals haven't
lost back to back games since Maysixth, May fifth and sixth, I
think it is, So that's aboutthree weeks ago, since the start of
the month, part of the People'sparlay, yep, and they got slaughtered
by the Reds tonight. I thinktend to two is the final something like
that. So I like them tobounce back. They're going against Luke Weaver,
who has not been good, asthe lra is well over six.

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So I might even sprinkle a littleCardinals run line on there, which is
getting like seventy two percent of thehandle right now as well. That one
what else we got. I likethe Yankees to bounce back after they imploded
today. The Yanks have been realhot, so this past week and a
half, they'd won I think sixand five or six and row going into
tonight before they blew it. Thenthey're going against Kyle Gibson, who they

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have just owned repeatedly throughout his career. He's like one and six with an
era close to seven and his careerand starts against the Yankees. So I
like the Yanks tomorrow and then it'skind of like, you know, just
beating a dead horse. But SeattleMariners run line tomorrow night, if the
Athletics with Logan Gilbert on the moundninety five percent of the bets and it's
going up, there's the green arrowon Vison right now as it's going up.

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As as bets are pouring in onthe Mariners run line tomorrow night,
I was gonna say, obviously Iwill be betting the Mariners both run line
and money line. Money lines minustwo thirty, it's not even worth it.
Well, it's almost Celtics level.I think it was minus three hundred,
you know for tonight's games. Well, so i'll minus two thirty suddenly
feels like value, you know,I mean, you know, you got

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to put down a fair amount toget anything. Obviously, if if you're
if you've got the conviction, they'regonna do what's so far they're doing tonight
and what they've done or what mostteams have done to the A's throughout the
season, then by all means gorun line. I will probably do both,
but yeah, run line will bepopular. May even go run line
on that Yankees game that you mentioned. But I will definitely go on the

(01:15:55):
money line, Padres, money line, raise money line. Real good let's
see and the Red Sox are offtomorrow. By the way, for anyone
who didn't know that good, BlueJay's rays over is getting a lot of
attention right now. Handle and betspushing up to about eighty percent of the
bet almost on the over eight anda half runs. That's something to pay

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attention to. And as we've acknowledgedon this show too, these are very
early bets, you know, comingout of action this afternoon and obviously this
evening as things are finalizing, Soit's got to change a lot based on
money movement overnight and into the day. Like I don't often I don't know
about you, Dan, I don'tusually props. I may bet earlier in
the day like k props or anytimehomers, which I don't do all that

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often anyway, But when it comesto betting run line money line totals in
these gets, I don't if let'ssay it's a seven o'clock slate, generally
speaking, I may not even makemy bets until about six thirty. Yeah,
I like to get a little closerto the action. It depends like
I'd be more than comfortable throwing thatMariners run run line that right now,

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Yeah, right now. As soonas the book will take the bet,
I'll throw that down, no problem. But yeah, some of these things
are weird. There's a lot oflike undecided pitching matchups tomorrow, Like I
don't think like the Braves just announcedtheir starter. H Dodd it's going tomorrow.
He hasn't been good that he's goingagainst Aaron Nola the Phillies, so
that line might not even be up. We don't. Also, just it
leaves a little bit of time foryou know, guys get scratched, you

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guys get ruled out. You know, if the lineups are announced and you
know, if it's a whoever,a Mookie Bets and Aaron Judge like that
type of player, a Mike Troutlike, you know, might impact how
you're thinking about whether you just wantto go money line or run line.
Yeah, like if if Aaron JudgeJudge is not playing tomorrow night, I
feel way less confident going Yankees runline right than I do money line against

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Baltimore. So yeah, that's it'sa good point. It's definitely how I'm
looking at it. But if wego back to the Celtics game, Um,
I'm really liking that Derek White playover two and a half three pointers
at plus one twenty, especially whilewhile it's at plus one twenty. I
really like that one. And weknow if the Celtics are gonna win,
they have to hit their threes,so they're gonna be taking plenty of them.
Yeah, I did a you know, I've as we were talking with

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Nick Whyland earlier, I was playingbets, playing just a crazy I have
so many bets placed related to thisCeltics game tomorrow night. It's it's ridiculous.
But I was making a and obviouslyvarying amounts, like I may do
a five dollars parlay, or Imay do a fifty dollars straight or whatever
it may be. But I wasto that end, and I a little

(01:18:30):
bit of hesitation. I realized thetrack records there, but part of me
is like, man, is DerekWhite gonna hit three three pointers in the
fifth straight game? But nevertheless,I did do a parlay five bucks five
dollars parlay, but plus better thanseven hundred ons if you feel like joining
in. This just went in linewith what we were talking about. Derek
White over two and a half threes, Grant Williams over one and a half

(01:18:53):
threes, and Caleb Martin over oneand a half threes, and that's five
to pay out north of forty bucks. Like that, like that a lot.
The White Honestly, the White oneis the one that gives me pause.
The other two I feel much morecomfortable with. So yeah, you
know, live a little right right. Yeah, I'm definitely gonna be probably
parlaying Caleb Martin's with something else,maybe Al Horford rebound, as long as

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that's down at five and a half. Sure, So I like both those
plays a lot. And then therewas one other non betting thing tomorrow that
I was looking forward to in sportsthat's now not happening, And it was
supposed to be the first Patriots practiceOTA's in front of in front of the
media, so we were supposed toget some you know good first reports about
how who looks good and all thatkind of the best shape of their lives.
The Pats canceled it this morning,and now we found out why tonight.

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You see this. This happened rightbefore we went on the air.
Yeah, it looks like they've beendocked two days of OTAs. Yeah,
violations. Yeah, Mike Reese reportingtonight. ESPN's Mike Reese of course,
reporting at the Patriots are losing twodays of voluntary organized team activities due to
a violation of off season rules,per league sources. That explains the team's
announcement about Thursday's practice being canceled,and another one next week has been taken

(01:20:01):
away, So we won't see thePatriots or here from Bill Belichick until Wednesday
of next week. I believe itis also just something to think about.
But well, boy, we're gonnahave a lot of time to talk football,
for sure. But I'm excited tomorrownight. It means we will be
fixated on the Celtics, and boy, I hope it means we'll be talking
about previewing a game six. We'llhave some great guests, great plans,
and all sorts of great stuff aswe typically do. But thanks to our

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Peck, our producer Dan Watkins.I Am Adam Kaufman. This is The
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