November 17, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It was good. Everybody. Welcome into another episode of Profit Picks.
If you are new. We always start this show by
being transparent. And there were no shows over the weekend.
Didn't end up doing a Friday show, so I guess
a lot this happened. Is the last time we've talked NBA,
you know, one five of them, my last seven NFL
over the weekend. It was a lot of back and forth,
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and I think the Chiefs game may me be slightly losing.
So NBA has been good lately. NFL back and forth
maybe a little a little down there with the Chiefs game.
How's everything been for you? You know? And good to
be back with you.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Good to be back with you. Ski. Yesterday actually the
first losing day I've had in football, and it was
the Chiefs. Had a five percent play on the Chiefs
yesterday and it did not get home. So we're number one,
was number one at Wade your talk in the NFL.
Not sure that that holds after yesterday. Don't want to look.
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College basketball been good two and one over the weekend.
Houston first half didn't play it, Ski, but it pushed
yesterday against Auburn minus four.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
When you got.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, you could have got four and a half and
lost right in that one I did.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, four was they don't put those numbers out on
the West coast so early. You know, they're scared to
put them out. They want to wait and see which
way the line was.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We can't have that, So yeah, we're looking to get
back at it today with it. It's pretty big NBA slate,
I have to say, for a Monday, So we got
a little bit to talk about.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
All right, let's get to it. Big decent slate, going
rotation order like we always do. Clippers and Sixers opened
up four and a half point favorites. For the Clippers
looks like five and a half totally, one from two
nineteen and a half as high as two twenty one.
When I look at the injury report. Bogdanovich is now
questionable for the Clippers. No Kawhi obviously, Dereck Jones is out,
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Miller out for the Sixers, no oubre Embiid or Bona,
and then Paul George is probable. Looks like he's gonna
be making his debut here tonight. For the Sixers, they
are the more rested team. I think they've had two
days off before this game. Clippers. It is a back
to back for them, third and four, fourth and sixth,
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all that good stuff. And Clippers haven't been looking good
in general. You know, I joke around. I don't know
if it's Tylu haven't gambling dead, or it's just these
old guys with the tennis balls with the Walkers. I
don't know what it is, but the Clippers have not
looked good so far this year. For the Sixers, they've
been really good, especially in the first twenty four minutes.
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For like those third quarters they're struggling. So my first
thought here, even though they have rest advantage, will be
six Ers early. And I'm curious how you see this game.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, I'll go from from the Sixers standpoint. They had
a little discussion, team discussion after the loss to Detroit
the other night. You know, Detroit didn't have Kid, Detroit
didn't have Jalen Durham. Detroit basically threw the B team
at them and Philly couldn't hang on. And Tyree Smaxi
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and DJ Edgecombe probably the two most vocal, not that
it got into any kind of a screaming match or anything,
but the two guys who really are focused on forty
eight minutes for the Sixers. It's been that way all
season long.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Ski.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Either they fall behind early and come back late, or
they get ahead early and fade late. In that game
against Detroit it was a fade late. They lost a
fourth quarter by eleven. So they're looking to put everything
together here. I don't put it past them to do
so against a Clippers team on back to backs. Like
you mentioned, short bodies to begin with. The Kelly u
(04:01):
Bray loss, I think is somewhat of a deal here.
We'll see what Paul George can even bring to the
table in his first game of the season. But to me,
I think, you know, just watching the Sixers all season long,
I've said it before, their legs never really look tired.
I think what happens to them, and according to Maxi
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and Edgecombe is they just lose focus more than get fatigued.
So if they maintain focus, tonight should be a Philadelphia game.
I could be apt to play their team total over
just because I don't think that the Clippers can keep
up for forty eight minutes. The Clippers did give up
a bunch yesterday, especially from three point range, to the Celtics,
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so I'm going to look at the Sixers in some
capacity haven't played it yet, but they've been bet up
to five and a half. Like you're saying, totals now
sitting too twenty and a half.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I like Maxie rebound in that one numbers too low
in my opinion, three and a half. He's been clearing
that game, damn there, especially since e beat has been out,
So I do like that in that game. Next we
have Pacers and Pistons and opened up eight and a
half all the way up to eleven total open two
twenty eight and a half. That's gone up too. I'm
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seeing this how as two thirty one and a half.
These Pacers, Hey, look they just season looks like over
probably you know, that's what looks like for this Pacers team.
For the Pistons, they're sitting at eleven and two. They've
had a couple of days off before this game. It
is the first of a back to back. But man,
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I mean you mentioned it the Pistons. I mean, it
hasn't even mattered who's been playing. They've still been able
to get the job done. Tonight we do have Cage
still questionable, sorry Thompson questionable, No Tobias, no Ivy no Sasser,
no Clintman during its probable for the Pacers, though a
lot of guys too, Mattherin's questionable, no Furfee, Jackson Jones,
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n Smith or Topping just missing a whole lot for
his Pacers team, and it seems like it's been too
much to overcome. I would like to think, you know,
they played more up tempo and and TJ, but the
offense is just so bad. I don't think it's translating
the points. Detroit has been playing good defense. I mean this,
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when is Detroit a passed for me? I even considered
a Pacers team total under? How are you doing Pacers
at Pistons?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Well, I think you have to like Detroit in this
game ski for the Pacers, it is it's two steps forward,
two steps back, right. You get your point guards back
them hard and McConnell just recently and now no will
be topping nowhere in Nie Smith and I think they are.
In Nie Smith thing is extended. Yeah, so maybe a
month or over a month on that injury to him.
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So those are two guys that are offensive igniers mostly
off the bench, that helped this team score. Without them,
you're depth shy for sure. We're scoring his concern o
Johnny Furfield a little lecture. He hasn't played in six games.
It's just it's hard for Indiana to overcome all of this.
And back to the point about the sixers. After their
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game against Detroit, they made mention of how physical Detroit
is and how physical Detroit tries to be with their opponents,
and I really don't know that Indiana matches up from
a physical standpoint against this team, especially if Jalen Duran's
back in the lineup. Underneath this, you know, Indiana is
kind of a finesse team and Detroit seems to be
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one that's on the mission. When you start winning games
like they did in the fourth quarter with your backups predominantly,
that's a pretty good indication here. So I would probably
played Detroit. I could see your point about Indiana team
total under game has pushed a little bit toward the
over as far as full game total is concerned. But
I don't think I have a lot of fear of
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laying points here with Detroit. Indiana's shown the ability to
be blown out this year. So if Kate is back, especially,
you gotta play Detroit.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
We'll keep going down the list here. Bucks and Cavaliers
open seven and a half still looks like seven or
seven and a half. Total went down from two thirty
eight and a half as low as two thirty four
and a half. Garland, Strus Entyson are out, Giannas is probable.
No Porter or Prince for the Bucks like they have
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been playing a lot of games lately. Actually, both teams
playing a lot of games lately. Third and fourth for
the Bucks, fourth and six for both teams. The Bucks
did lose to these Cavaliers already the season, so it
could be a chance for some revenge. Also coming off
with loss a spanking. I think it was versus the Lakers.
So this is one where I faded the Cavaliers over
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the weekend with the Grizzlies, and the main thing was
the Cavaliers haven't been playing good enough defense to be
laying in so many points. So I do think the
Bucks we'll be able to score. It's just, uh, I
don't really trust a bunch of defense at the same time,
so I don't know. And not at the same time
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as that, I mean no Garland, no Strews. That is
some offense missing. It's tough. I want to say, maybe
an over but don't feel too strong about this one.
Anything appealing for you, Yeah, real quick.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I think the last time we talked, it was Cleveland
Toronto that night. Right and Toronto have been playing pretty
good defense, and Donovan Mitchell was on his own at
point guard because Lonzo didn't play that game. But Lonzo
did come back and play in the Memphis game and
they still didn't cover it. Just seems like they too
get They definitely get too offensively focused the Cavalies. Both
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teams do, which really makes it surprising that this number
would come down from two thirty eight and a half
to to thirty four and a half. Money must have
thought that it was just too high to begin with,
but it's hard to feel that way with these two teams.
To your point about the earlier meeting, Cavs win one
eighteen one thirteen, little Bucks revenge and Bucks off a loss,
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I've kind of leaned that way towards Milwaukee here. Not
to steal your phrase, but again we're talking about bad defense.
If you can't get stops, can you win by eight?
Not sure that can happen here barely one by eight
against Memphis the other day. So for me, it'll probably
be Milwaukee as the dog here plus seven and a
half or nothing. But I am a little bit surprised
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that the totalists come down as far as it has.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
All Right, I'm getting some injury news here on one
of these later games, so I'll keep that in mind
and we can keep going down the list. Here, Robin
Nicks and Heat opened up minus one for Miami seeing
one and a half or two, the total goes up
from two forty one and a half to two forty
four and a half, regardless of brunts and being out
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and Og being out for this next team on the
other side, no Bam, no Hero, and of course no
Terry Rose here. You know, when I think about the
Knicks minus Brunson, I like to think the offense struggles.
So now without Og, you are losing a defender for
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those Knicks over there as well. So I don't know, Bam,
I like to think you're losing some defense and rebounding.
This is a tough game. I think I would trust
the Heat being a little bit more healthy. I mean,
the Knicks minus two starters, I only have some some
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other guys you know, they picked up this year. They're
little bit more of a deeper team. But that's just
gonna affect the bench. And when you're playing a heat
team that just wants to run, run, run, run, run,
you don't really want to be short guys. So look
towards the heat in this one. I can also understand why,
because of the pace, why the total continues to go up.
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How are you viewing this one?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You know, well, can I break out for the first
time this year? I'm going to break out potential points
for you Ski. How about that game that these two
teams played Friday night up in New York. Two hundred
and seventy two points. No Brunson, no og, no bam.
None of the guys that are out tonight played in
that one. They took one hundred and ninety nine shots
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from the field one hundred and ninety nine field goal attempts.
Inside of that, one hundred and two of those were
two pointers. That's two hundred and four possible points. Ninety
seven threes, forty four by Miami, fifty three by the Knicks.
That's possible two hundred and ninety one points, sixty three
free throws. All told, that's five hundred and fifty eight
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points that could have been scored in that game.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
They did manage to score quite a bunch, just under
forty nine percent of those went through the hoops, so
we got what we got. There are two hundred and
seventy two point game. I can understand why people bet
this thing up from two forty one and a half
to two forty four and a half because other than
the venue, what's really going to change. You're probably gonna
get the same pace. You may not get one hundred
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and ninety nine shots, but you probably get one hundred
and ninety and the Knicks were just jacking threes like crazy.
What I don't think will happen here ski is I
don't think you get thirty six points out of Landry
Shammon tonight, which is what they got Friday, and he
played a really big role. Cat had thirty nine. You
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get a lot from the bench. Clerkson had twenty four.
But I don't know if those bench numbers are repeatable
here in this game. So to me, I like Miami
a little bit. The NIXT show that they'll play to
Miami style Friday night. Don't know why they wouldn't play
to Miami style here tonight, So for me, it'd probably
be Miami I think the price is in a pretty
good spot. You can still get one and a half's
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out there too. Some markets are slow to move on
this game. We see a few twos and two and
a half's, but a lot of one and a half
out there still. So I'd probably lay it with Miami.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
What Casey's saying here, Mitch got ten rebounds in like
sixteen minutes and still filed out. I think, you know,
I mean, you have guys calling out where Kaleil where,
and just saying he needs to do a better job of,
you know, not letting Mitchell Robinson dominate the game. I
think he had eight offensive rebounds in that game. I
was thinking, maybe bet Mitchell Robinson rebounds under like that's
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gonna be an emphasis for his team not to let
him kill them on the boards. Tonight could look at
it another way and say, maybe Khalil where rebounds a
little bit better. He has been pretty good without Bam
out there. He only had ten last game. His numbers
ten and a half. Considering both of those, whether it's
Khalil over, whether it's Mitch rob under. Looking at both
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of those props, Jose Perez looking at Miami here, Mark
likes Miami money line, also taking Maxi rebounds and assists.
Good stuff on that. Our next game of Hornets and
Raptors opened up Raps minus seven and a half. Looks
like eight and a half. Total went up from two
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thirty eight and a half, beside as two forty and
a half. Injury report for Charlotte. Josh Green, mcneey, Miller
and Williams are out for Toronto. Abaji's doubtful battle is questionable.
I have to go back to what I was saying,
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you know, I mean Raptors play some defense in that game.
Remember I was saying, maybe it's who they've played, or
I mean they played defense against the Cats in that game.
Look damn good. Now you get a Hornets team that
has been struggling to score, but a lot of those
games has been without LaMelo. LaMelo obviously is going to
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increase the pace and help the offense for them. Man.
I think the Hornets hit this one of their last
five or six games as far as their team total tonight,
the Raptors only giving it up I believe one of
their last seven or something like that. Really, considering Hornet's
team total under here, just wanting to continue to trust
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the Raptors defense. Obviously, you know LaMelo is going to
change how the Hornets have been looking lately. Anyway, any
reason you know to talk me off of Hornet's team
total under here, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Ski. I'm just at first I'll give you a quote,
and then I want to get this something else here.
This is the Raptors head coach Darko Rodjakovich. He says,
I'm really satisfied with than four out of five on
this road trip. I think we played some really really
good basketball, and it's still part of the process. I
still believe there are areas for us to continue improving
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and get better. So coach likes what he sees, thinks
they're going to get even better. And we've noticed obviously
the defensive side of the Lord where they've been really
really good. One thing real quick here on scheduling. If
I'm right, this would be the Raptors first game back
off of that five game road trip. It is generally
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we don't like to play aside the home side in
that particular situation. Doesn't mean they won't bring the defense,
just makes it a little leery of playing the Raptors.
Makes me a little leary of playing the Raptors here,
some of those games that you mentioned with Charlotte hadn't scored,
not only no LaMelo ball, but no Colin Sexton for
maybe one or two of those as well. He had
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been hurt a little bit. So I don't know. With Charlotte.
They're always going to push pace when LaMelo's in the game.
That's what scares me off of anything involving Under. But
the defensive prowess of Toronto so far has been really good.
So can't talk you off it. I don't think I'll
be on it. Probably let this one go. I would
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like if it wasn't the first game back after a
five game trip, I probably would have found some way
to play Toronto.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I like that Horners team total under that's calling my
name right there. I think that pretty sure I'll play that.
Next will be Oklahoma City and New Orleans not gonna.
I mean seventeen and a half were looking at Zion
is questionable. Total came down from two twenty six to
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two twenty four. Murray nopool then for okay, see Caruso's
questionable topic. Wigainst Kenrick Williams, Jay dub also out Man.
You know Okay seek and win by forty and thirty
until I bet on him. I mean I went to
and won that day, but I bet Okay. See, all
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of a sudden, you know, they don't do anything in
the or they let the other team do whatever to
come cover the number. It's hard to I'm not betting
against okayc right now. I'm not, especially with this lackluster
Pelicans team. Could be missing Zion, et cetera. So it's
simple under another for me, and I think I will
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be out the way, you know, anything for you here.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, they just beat him by thirty one. I don't know,
a couple of weeks ago, November two, so around the
seventeen fifteen days ago beat this team by thirty one
and after not really winning by margin to start the
season ski then all of a sudden they hit the
gas and started to win and cover games. So, okay,
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season really good form right now. New Orleans, it's hit
or missed when they shoot the basketball. That's the problem
with them. Always looks tempting to take some points with them,
but they just don't shoot it well enough. In fact,
James Brego, head coach of New Orleans, actually said he
hopes his team shooting level matches its defensive intensity when
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the Pelicans play Oklahoma City tonight. So I don't like
New Orleans much at all on either side of the floor,
especially if you're not going to get zion from an
offensive standpoint. So it'd probably be the Oklahoma City Thunder
or nothing for me. Again, I won't get involved with
with laying this big of a price. And I'm gonna
contradict myself a couple of games further down the board here,
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but I generally don't like to lay this type of number.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Yeah, I will not be laying this number. All right.
We'll keep going down the list. And this one we
did have somewhere guys getting rolled out. So for Minnesota
w without Terrence Shannon Jr. Then for the Mavericks, no
Nimhar Lively, Irving gafferd Exhem, Anthony Davis all out. For
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this MAVs team, man, you know this one still went
from two twenty seven and a half as I as
two thirty one and a half. I mean, I guess
that's a lot of im protection you're missing from this
Dallas side. But this Dallas team just struggles to score.
And we know how good, how capable the Timberwolves are
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on defense. It is second of a back to back
for these Mavericks, just the third and four for the Wolves.
And if I'm not mistaken, the Mavericks did also play
an overtime game, so I could very easily see them,
you know, running low on energy, running out of gas,
however you want to call it. And it's very hard
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to look any other way than team total under for
this Mavericks team. Top five defense for the Timberwolves last
five games, bottom five offense for the MAVs. We know
what they looked like all season. This is actually interesting
now I'm looking at it here. Mavericks first half team
total is five and zero to the under, but the
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full game team total is four and one to the
over for the Mavericks. So I guess they're just starting
to slow out the gate and figuring it out, and
maybe these numbers have begin to get a little bit
too low. I think the Mavericks struggle to score here.
Only way I can can't think about this game. How
are you seeing it? You know?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Well, the way I see everything ski through that over
lens and to me, Minnesota's team total will go over.
So we're probably saying the same thing. One twenty two
and a half is the t Wolves team total Dallas
off overtime, Dallas without all three centers, how are they
going to stop anybody? And Anthony Edwards could probably go
to the rim all day, all night. Randall should be
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big at the rim here. As far as scoring is concerned,
the t Wolves, for what it's worth, have been putting
up some pretty solid numbers as far as points scored
our concern, and Dallas has been giving it up all
season long. Dallas likes to play quick, just increases the
amount of possessions here. Minnesota is not going to shy
away against this team. So for me, it's gonna be
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and it already has been. Minnesota team total over one
twenty two and a half one of the couple of
things I played today. But I don't see any way
Dallas holds them under one twenty five.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, I could see that Timberwolves offense that's been solid lately.
Let me just do another glance here at their numbers. Yeah,
I mean they've been putting up like one twenty every game.
What's thirteen total for tonight?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
One twenty two and a half.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
On twenty two and a half. Yeah, I mean I
could see them getting their maps have been giving it
up too. They've given that up in their last three games.
It looks like right there, So I think that could
be a solid way to play it there, you know,
all right, Bobby says, easiest pick of the year by
far was how games Jazz Bulls over? That was a
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good one yesterday. I did have an easy one yesterday.
Nice to get those easy ones every now and then.
Let's talk about those Bulls playing again. Today opened up
with the Nuggets minus ten and a half. And if
you saw we're watching the game last night, you know
this line was gonna skyrocket after the first overtime. Then
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again after the next overtime. You now see the Nuggets
minus fourteen and a half out there. Total has come
down two forty four was the opener as low as
two thirty nine and a half. Let's take a look
at injury report as of right now. Kobe White will
be out, you know, Zach Waller, I'm sorry, Zach Collins
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is doubtful. And then you have Trey Jones questionable for
this Nuggets team. Yo Kich is probable. Cam Johnson and
Julian Strauter are questionable. Brawn looks like he's out. This
is a Nuggets team you know that has been you
know a lot of times I say I don't like him. Defensively,
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they have been playing some pretty good defense. Don't want
to forget to mention it first game home off road
trip for them, although they do have the rest advantage
tonight obviously with you know, Bulls on the back to
back double overtime game. But yeah, Nuggets, I'm sorry. On
the season, wow, number three offensive rated and number three
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defensive rated last five games, still top five in both categories.
I mean, it's very very hard for me, robo to
think that the Bulls don't run out of gas here
in this game. And the Bulls defense, I mean, it's
also falling off a cliff. Maybe the Nuggets just name
their number in this one. The only way I think
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the Bulls get over their team total tonight is if
the Nuggets are scoring one forty and just don't care anymore.
Other than that, I don't. I don't see the Bulls
having enough gas in the tank. Who knows how many
people will be available tonight and in elevation. I like
Bulls team total under That's what I bet at one thirteen.
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But at the same time, see the Nuggets putting up
as much as they want, So I'm thinking like that
the Nugget should cover Nugga's team thought all over, How
are you feeling about this one? You know?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, I just said about five minutes ago that I
was gonna contradict myself where big numbers are concerned, And
this is where I do contradict. Don't like to lay it,
but I laid it here. Ski. Not only is it
back to back, but it's back to back still in altitude.
You played double overtime in Utah and then go to
Denver and you got three starters that played over forty minutes. Obviously,
Kobe White's already out. He played thirty minutes last night,
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so he's out of this game. But a Koro Busovich
and Giddy all over forty minutes. I don't know how
you hold up for four quarters against Denver. Like you say,
their offense has been outstanding all season long. The defensive numbers,
I guess are a little bit deceptive because it doesn't
always look like they're playing really good defense. But to
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be ranked three is pretty good. And I just don't
know the Bulls hit on this last week. I think
once or twice. You know, the erosion of the Bowl
defense after Billy Donovan. They started the year so good.
He was chanting defense, physicality. It just hasn't held up,
and I don't think it holds up here honestly, with
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the guys they're gonna put on the floor tonight. This
could be one of those just you know, lay down games.
I'm not so sure. Sometimes those happen on the road
with road teams that are in these on these trips
and in these types of situations. But Denver doesn't have
a lot of problem beating people by fifteen when they
have this kind of advantage. So I'm there. I laid
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fourteen points with the Nuggets. I guess the only thing
you worry about is maybe, you know, late third quarter
they unload the bench, but even still the bench will
be fresher than the bulls. So give me Nuggets minus fourteen.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I mean, I'm with you on that. Bobby E says
you got to should offer a combo package. Come on,
why you talk, Let's do it. You know, if you
reach out to the customer service, I'm pretty sure they'll
put something together for you. But we'll also, you know,
we'll talk to him. We'll see what we can come
back with in the near future. You know. All right,
I'll say I have another stet but I guess I'll
save it for for best bets. You know, we do
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have a Monday night football game. I don't feel the
strongest about this one, but I will say, yeah, it's
supposed to. I mean, first of all, the opener fifty
one came down to forty nine. Side hasn't really moved
too much a three and a half. But you know,
my bad for not having the name. But this is
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the Cowboys first game after one of their players passed away, right,
so probably a really emotional game for them. They probably
played really, really hard, you know, for him. And you know,
these these emotional spots is it's hard to say quantify,
I guess, but I do think it will be a
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thing so because of it that it is hard to
play against the Cowboys. Here, the number looks funny, you know,
the Cowboys I pictured him putting up as many points
as they want, especially versus Raiders defense. I'm just curious
how how well the defense will play. At the same time,
we know Gino can give it right back to them.
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He probably will the interception, and I'm thinking things like
that can lead to more points in this game. I
think I'm in disagreement with the line coming down. I'm
trying to get there with some kind of over. I
know the Cowboys and these teams have been opposite. Cowboys
so far in the first half, eight and one to
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the over, Raiders eight and one to the under. So
what side is gonna win that battle? We shall see,
But I want to think points will be scored in
this game. Anything from you on Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Raiders, Yeah, I isolated its ski. I played Cowboys team
total because they left it underneath the key number twenty seven.
I got twenty six and a half. I think twenty
six and a half is still available. A couple of
reasons why I did, and the main one is that
Dallas's pass protection, for what it's worth, has been really
good this year, and the Raiders don't sack the quarterback
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Max Crosby or not. Their pass rush hasn't been there.
They're down the bottom of the league in sacks. And
if you don't get to Dak with Pickens and cde
Lamb and they're tight end Ferguson running around the field,
it's gonna be difficult, so I thought Dallas would score theirs.
They did make some defensive acquisitions at the trade deadline.
We'll see how much they help. And to the to
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the point of Marshaw and Neeland, I think if this
game was played the very next day, that you know,
their minds might not be in it. But they've had
a lot of time eight days or so to you know,
absorb everything that's going on, and like you say, maybe
use it as a dedication game and come out fully focused.
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So I can see that as well. Their last offensive
game wasn't really a great one out of them, but
they've scored twenty seven or more in most of their
games last five or six, So I'm there. I played
over twenty six and a half Cowboys team total. I
just at this point in time, I don't trust the
defense enough. We'll see how the new pieces fit in.
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Maybe they get better.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Okay, team total could absolutely be a good way to
go there. Vegas Hike Life says Raiders only allowed six
yards per Why is everyone hating on their defense? First half?
Unders on their games have been money they have they
have we shall see, I mean because of how the
Raiders have played the first half. I'm hesitant on the
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first half over because it's been almost automatic for the Cowboys.
We know what they're gonna do. They're gonna score. The
defense is not gonna do a whole lot of stopping anybody.
So we'll see what side wins the battle in this one,
all right, you know, I think we did a good
enough job, talked about NBA, talked about Monday Night football,
and I am actually unsure what we have going, So
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you anything else you would like to promote, and then
if you have a best bet for the show, we'd
love to hear it. If you don't, so good, I
got one cooking today.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I think the only other special that's still live SKI
is the longer term one, the five hundred dollars off
and in one hundred and twenty or some I forget.
I don't want to say it because I forget, but
there is a longer term special that's still active that
we've been posting. Ski's been posting here on the show.
So three choices to choose from if you want to
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get involved. Let's get to tonight's basketball top play. I think,
in my mind is going to I got a decision
here between two. I want to make sure I kind
of leave the right one for the for the chat.
I played two games, guys, you know I'm both, but
I'm going to leave you with Minnesota Timberwolves team total
over one twenty two and a half. Just don't see
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anyway there's a bounce back out of Dallas with three
centers out of this game. Rim protection is so I
guess PJ Washington becomes your de facto type, you know,
interior presence, which is matched by more than two Timberwolves here.
So for me, they've been scoring a lot lately. I
don't see any problem getting to one twenty five years.
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So it's gonna be Minnesota team total over one twenty
two and a half is the best bet.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Good stuff from Vino and Uh for myself, I'll go
back to that Bulls game. We're gonna go with Bulls
team total under one thirteen and we'll shot this out
really quick. I mean, we all know what situation they're in,
but double digit, double digit unrested road dog off a
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double overtime game. They have only cleared this. I mean
it's ten and two to under, but they've only the
highest scoring team was one O six out of all
these games in the database, one O six. They're just
gonna run out of gas. This is a Denver team
who's top five defensive rated team, last five games allowing
close to one O eight. I mean, Chicago after that
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double overtime traveling going into elevation, it's out a good spot.
They're going to run out of gas in this game,
or at least that's what my money says, so Bulls
team total under one thirteen will be my best bet
for the show. You know. Good to be back rocking
with you on the show about eighty five ninety now,
so I'm feeling a hell of a lot better, in
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a better mood. Hopefully it can translate to you know,
winning some of these tickets. So appreciate you taking it
time to break the games down with this. Everybody in
the chat, we appreciate you as well. Good people, good
cappers and uh, like I always say, we're all just
trying to help each other win. So we'll be back
again tomorrow. Until then, best of look everybody on all
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your action
It was good. Everybody. Welcome into another episode of Profit Picks.
If you are new. We always start this show by
being transparent. And there were no shows over the weekend.
Didn't end up doing a Friday show, so I guess
a lot this happened. Is the last time we've talked NBA,
you know, one five of them, my last seven NFL
over the weekend. It was a lot of back and forth,
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and I think the Chiefs game may me be slightly losing.
So NBA has been good lately. NFL back and forth
maybe a little a little down there with the Chiefs game.
How's everything been for you? You know? And good to
be back with you.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Good to be back with you. Ski. Yesterday actually the
first losing day I've had in football, and it was
the Chiefs. Had a five percent play on the Chiefs
yesterday and it did not get home. So we're number one,
was number one at Wade your talk in the NFL.
Not sure that that holds after yesterday. Don't want to look.
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College basketball been good two and one over the weekend.
Houston first half didn't play it, Ski, but it pushed
yesterday against Auburn minus four.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
When you got.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, you could have got four and a half and
lost right in that one I did.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, four was they don't put those numbers out on
the West coast so early. You know, they're scared to
put them out. They want to wait and see which
way the line was.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We can't have that, So yeah, we're looking to get
back at it today with it. It's pretty big NBA slate,
I have to say, for a Monday, So we got
a little bit to talk about.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
All right, let's get to it. Big decent slate, going
rotation order like we always do. Clippers and Sixers opened
up four and a half point favorites. For the Clippers
looks like five and a half totally, one from two
nineteen and a half as high as two twenty one.
When I look at the injury report. Bogdanovich is now
questionable for the Clippers. No Kawhi obviously, Dereck Jones is out,
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Miller out for the Sixers, no oubre Embiid or Bona,
and then Paul George is probable. Looks like he's gonna
be making his debut here tonight. For the Sixers, they
are the more rested team. I think they've had two
days off before this game. Clippers. It is a back
to back for them, third and four, fourth and sixth,
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all that good stuff. And Clippers haven't been looking good
in general. You know, I joke around. I don't know
if it's Tylu haven't gambling dead, or it's just these
old guys with the tennis balls with the Walkers. I
don't know what it is, but the Clippers have not
looked good so far this year. For the Sixers, they've
been really good, especially in the first twenty four minutes.
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For like those third quarters they're struggling. So my first
thought here, even though they have rest advantage, will be
six Ers early. And I'm curious how you see this game.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, I'll go from from the Sixers standpoint. They had
a little discussion, team discussion after the loss to Detroit
the other night. You know, Detroit didn't have Kid, Detroit
didn't have Jalen Durham. Detroit basically threw the B team
at them and Philly couldn't hang on. And Tyree Smaxi
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and DJ Edgecombe probably the two most vocal, not that
it got into any kind of a screaming match or anything,
but the two guys who really are focused on forty
eight minutes for the Sixers. It's been that way all
season long.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Ski.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Either they fall behind early and come back late, or
they get ahead early and fade late. In that game
against Detroit it was a fade late. They lost a
fourth quarter by eleven. So they're looking to put everything
together here. I don't put it past them to do
so against a Clippers team on back to backs. Like
you mentioned, short bodies to begin with. The Kelly u
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Bray loss, I think is somewhat of a deal here.
We'll see what Paul George can even bring to the
table in his first game of the season. But to me,
I think, you know, just watching the Sixers all season long,
I've said it before, their legs never really look tired.
I think what happens to them, and according to Maxi
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and Edgecombe is they just lose focus more than get fatigued.
So if they maintain focus, tonight should be a Philadelphia game.
I could be apt to play their team total over
just because I don't think that the Clippers can keep
up for forty eight minutes. The Clippers did give up
a bunch yesterday, especially from three point range, to the Celtics,
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so I'm going to look at the Sixers in some
capacity haven't played it yet, but they've been bet up
to five and a half. Like you're saying, totals now
sitting too twenty and a half.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I like Maxie rebound in that one numbers too low
in my opinion, three and a half. He's been clearing
that game, damn there, especially since e beat has been out,
So I do like that in that game. Next we
have Pacers and Pistons and opened up eight and a
half all the way up to eleven total open two
twenty eight and a half. That's gone up too. I'm
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seeing this how as two thirty one and a half.
These Pacers, Hey, look they just season looks like over
probably you know, that's what looks like for this Pacers team.
For the Pistons, they're sitting at eleven and two. They've
had a couple of days off before this game. It
is the first of a back to back. But man,
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I mean you mentioned it the Pistons. I mean, it
hasn't even mattered who's been playing. They've still been able
to get the job done. Tonight we do have Cage
still questionable, sorry Thompson questionable, No Tobias, no Ivy no Sasser,
no Clintman during its probable for the Pacers, though a
lot of guys too, Mattherin's questionable, no Furfee, Jackson Jones,
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n Smith or Topping just missing a whole lot for
his Pacers team, and it seems like it's been too
much to overcome. I would like to think, you know,
they played more up tempo and and TJ, but the
offense is just so bad. I don't think it's translating
the points. Detroit has been playing good defense. I mean this,
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when is Detroit a passed for me? I even considered
a Pacers team total under? How are you doing Pacers
at Pistons?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Well, I think you have to like Detroit in this
game ski for the Pacers, it is it's two steps forward,
two steps back, right. You get your point guards back
them hard and McConnell just recently and now no will
be topping nowhere in Nie Smith and I think they are.
In Nie Smith thing is extended. Yeah, so maybe a
month or over a month on that injury to him.
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So those are two guys that are offensive igniers mostly
off the bench, that helped this team score. Without them,
you're depth shy for sure. We're scoring his concern o
Johnny Furfield a little lecture. He hasn't played in six games.
It's just it's hard for Indiana to overcome all of this.
And back to the point about the sixers. After their
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game against Detroit, they made mention of how physical Detroit
is and how physical Detroit tries to be with their opponents,
and I really don't know that Indiana matches up from
a physical standpoint against this team, especially if Jalen Duran's
back in the lineup. Underneath this, you know, Indiana is
kind of a finesse team and Detroit seems to be
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one that's on the mission. When you start winning games
like they did in the fourth quarter with your backups predominantly,
that's a pretty good indication here. So I would probably
played Detroit. I could see your point about Indiana team
total under game has pushed a little bit toward the
over as far as full game total is concerned. But
I don't think I have a lot of fear of
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laying points here with Detroit. Indiana's shown the ability to
be blown out this year. So if Kate is back, especially,
you gotta play Detroit.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
We'll keep going down the list here. Bucks and Cavaliers
open seven and a half still looks like seven or
seven and a half. Total went down from two thirty
eight and a half as low as two thirty four
and a half. Garland, Strus Entyson are out, Giannas is probable.
No Porter or Prince for the Bucks like they have
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been playing a lot of games lately. Actually, both teams
playing a lot of games lately. Third and fourth for
the Bucks, fourth and six for both teams. The Bucks
did lose to these Cavaliers already the season, so it
could be a chance for some revenge. Also coming off
with loss a spanking. I think it was versus the Lakers.
So this is one where I faded the Cavaliers over
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the weekend with the Grizzlies, and the main thing was
the Cavaliers haven't been playing good enough defense to be
laying in so many points. So I do think the
Bucks we'll be able to score. It's just, uh, I
don't really trust a bunch of defense at the same time,
so I don't know. And not at the same time
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as that, I mean no Garland, no Strews. That is
some offense missing. It's tough. I want to say, maybe
an over but don't feel too strong about this one.
Anything appealing for you, Yeah, real quick.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I think the last time we talked, it was Cleveland
Toronto that night. Right and Toronto have been playing pretty
good defense, and Donovan Mitchell was on his own at
point guard because Lonzo didn't play that game. But Lonzo
did come back and play in the Memphis game and
they still didn't cover it. Just seems like they too
get They definitely get too offensively focused the Cavalies. Both
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teams do, which really makes it surprising that this number
would come down from two thirty eight and a half
to to thirty four and a half. Money must have
thought that it was just too high to begin with,
but it's hard to feel that way with these two teams.
To your point about the earlier meeting, Cavs win one
eighteen one thirteen, little Bucks revenge and Bucks off a loss,
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I've kind of leaned that way towards Milwaukee here. Not
to steal your phrase, but again we're talking about bad defense.
If you can't get stops, can you win by eight?
Not sure that can happen here barely one by eight
against Memphis the other day. So for me, it'll probably
be Milwaukee as the dog here plus seven and a
half or nothing. But I am a little bit surprised
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that the totalists come down as far as it has.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
All Right, I'm getting some injury news here on one
of these later games, so I'll keep that in mind
and we can keep going down the list. Here, Robin
Nicks and Heat opened up minus one for Miami seeing
one and a half or two, the total goes up
from two forty one and a half to two forty
four and a half, regardless of brunts and being out
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and Og being out for this next team on the
other side, no Bam, no Hero, and of course no
Terry Rose here. You know, when I think about the
Knicks minus Brunson, I like to think the offense struggles.
So now without Og, you are losing a defender for
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those Knicks over there as well. So I don't know, Bam,
I like to think you're losing some defense and rebounding.
This is a tough game. I think I would trust
the Heat being a little bit more healthy. I mean,
the Knicks minus two starters, I only have some some
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other guys you know, they picked up this year. They're
little bit more of a deeper team. But that's just
gonna affect the bench. And when you're playing a heat
team that just wants to run, run, run, run, run,
you don't really want to be short guys. So look
towards the heat in this one. I can also understand why,
because of the pace, why the total continues to go up.
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How are you viewing this one?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You know, well, can I break out for the first
time this year? I'm going to break out potential points
for you Ski. How about that game that these two
teams played Friday night up in New York. Two hundred
and seventy two points. No Brunson, no og, no bam.
None of the guys that are out tonight played in
that one. They took one hundred and ninety nine shots
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from the field one hundred and ninety nine field goal attempts.
Inside of that, one hundred and two of those were
two pointers. That's two hundred and four possible points. Ninety
seven threes, forty four by Miami, fifty three by the Knicks.
That's possible two hundred and ninety one points, sixty three
free throws. All told, that's five hundred and fifty eight
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points that could have been scored in that game.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
They did manage to score quite a bunch, just under
forty nine percent of those went through the hoops, so
we got what we got. There are two hundred and
seventy two point game. I can understand why people bet
this thing up from two forty one and a half
to two forty four and a half because other than
the venue, what's really going to change. You're probably gonna
get the same pace. You may not get one hundred
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and ninety nine shots, but you probably get one hundred
and ninety and the Knicks were just jacking threes like crazy.
What I don't think will happen here ski is I
don't think you get thirty six points out of Landry
Shammon tonight, which is what they got Friday, and he
played a really big role. Cat had thirty nine. You
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get a lot from the bench. Clerkson had twenty four.
But I don't know if those bench numbers are repeatable
here in this game. So to me, I like Miami
a little bit. The NIXT show that they'll play to
Miami style Friday night. Don't know why they wouldn't play
to Miami style here tonight, So for me, it'd probably
be Miami I think the price is in a pretty
good spot. You can still get one and a half's
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out there too. Some markets are slow to move on
this game. We see a few twos and two and
a half's, but a lot of one and a half
out there still. So I'd probably lay it with Miami.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
What Casey's saying here, Mitch got ten rebounds in like
sixteen minutes and still filed out. I think, you know,
I mean, you have guys calling out where Kaleil where,
and just saying he needs to do a better job of,
you know, not letting Mitchell Robinson dominate the game. I
think he had eight offensive rebounds in that game. I
was thinking, maybe bet Mitchell Robinson rebounds under like that's
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gonna be an emphasis for his team not to let
him kill them on the boards. Tonight could look at
it another way and say, maybe Khalil where rebounds a
little bit better. He has been pretty good without Bam
out there. He only had ten last game. His numbers
ten and a half. Considering both of those, whether it's
Khalil over, whether it's Mitch rob under. Looking at both
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of those props, Jose Perez looking at Miami here, Mark
likes Miami money line, also taking Maxi rebounds and assists.
Good stuff on that. Our next game of Hornets and
Raptors opened up Raps minus seven and a half. Looks
like eight and a half. Total went up from two
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thirty eight and a half, beside as two forty and
a half. Injury report for Charlotte. Josh Green, mcneey, Miller
and Williams are out for Toronto. Abaji's doubtful battle is questionable.
I have to go back to what I was saying,
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you know, I mean Raptors play some defense in that game.
Remember I was saying, maybe it's who they've played, or
I mean they played defense against the Cats in that game.
Look damn good. Now you get a Hornets team that
has been struggling to score, but a lot of those
games has been without LaMelo. LaMelo obviously is going to
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increase the pace and help the offense for them. Man.
I think the Hornets hit this one of their last
five or six games as far as their team total tonight,
the Raptors only giving it up I believe one of
their last seven or something like that. Really, considering Hornet's
team total under here, just wanting to continue to trust
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the Raptors defense. Obviously, you know LaMelo is going to
change how the Hornets have been looking lately. Anyway, any
reason you know to talk me off of Hornet's team
total under here, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Ski. I'm just at first I'll give you a quote,
and then I want to get this something else here.
This is the Raptors head coach Darko Rodjakovich. He says,
I'm really satisfied with than four out of five on
this road trip. I think we played some really really
good basketball, and it's still part of the process. I
still believe there are areas for us to continue improving
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and get better. So coach likes what he sees, thinks
they're going to get even better. And we've noticed obviously
the defensive side of the Lord where they've been really
really good. One thing real quick here on scheduling. If
I'm right, this would be the Raptors first game back
off of that five game road trip. It is generally
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we don't like to play aside the home side in
that particular situation. Doesn't mean they won't bring the defense,
just makes it a little leery of playing the Raptors.
Makes me a little leary of playing the Raptors here,
some of those games that you mentioned with Charlotte hadn't scored,
not only no LaMelo ball, but no Colin Sexton for
maybe one or two of those as well. He had
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been hurt a little bit. So I don't know. With Charlotte.
They're always going to push pace when LaMelo's in the game.
That's what scares me off of anything involving Under. But
the defensive prowess of Toronto so far has been really good.
So can't talk you off it. I don't think I'll
be on it. Probably let this one go. I would
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like if it wasn't the first game back after a
five game trip, I probably would have found some way
to play Toronto.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I like that Horners team total under that's calling my
name right there. I think that pretty sure I'll play that.
Next will be Oklahoma City and New Orleans not gonna.
I mean seventeen and a half were looking at Zion
is questionable. Total came down from two twenty six to
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two twenty four. Murray nopool then for okay, see Caruso's
questionable topic. Wigainst Kenrick Williams, Jay dub also out Man.
You know Okay seek and win by forty and thirty
until I bet on him. I mean I went to
and won that day, but I bet Okay. See, all
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of a sudden, you know, they don't do anything in
the or they let the other team do whatever to
come cover the number. It's hard to I'm not betting
against okayc right now. I'm not, especially with this lackluster
Pelicans team. Could be missing Zion, et cetera. So it's
simple under another for me, and I think I will
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be out the way, you know, anything for you here.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, they just beat him by thirty one. I don't know,
a couple of weeks ago, November two, so around the
seventeen fifteen days ago beat this team by thirty one
and after not really winning by margin to start the
season ski then all of a sudden they hit the
gas and started to win and cover games. So, okay,
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season really good form right now. New Orleans, it's hit
or missed when they shoot the basketball. That's the problem
with them. Always looks tempting to take some points with them,
but they just don't shoot it well enough. In fact,
James Brego, head coach of New Orleans, actually said he
hopes his team shooting level matches its defensive intensity when
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the Pelicans play Oklahoma City tonight. So I don't like
New Orleans much at all on either side of the floor,
especially if you're not going to get zion from an
offensive standpoint. So it'd probably be the Oklahoma City Thunder
or nothing for me. Again, I won't get involved with
with laying this big of a price. And I'm gonna
contradict myself a couple of games further down the board here,
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but I generally don't like to lay this type of number.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Yeah, I will not be laying this number. All right.
We'll keep going down the list. And this one we
did have somewhere guys getting rolled out. So for Minnesota
w without Terrence Shannon Jr. Then for the Mavericks, no
Nimhar Lively, Irving gafferd Exhem, Anthony Davis all out. For
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this MAVs team, man, you know this one still went
from two twenty seven and a half as I as
two thirty one and a half. I mean, I guess
that's a lot of im protection you're missing from this
Dallas side. But this Dallas team just struggles to score.
And we know how good, how capable the Timberwolves are
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on defense. It is second of a back to back
for these Mavericks, just the third and four for the Wolves.
And if I'm not mistaken, the Mavericks did also play
an overtime game, so I could very easily see them,
you know, running low on energy, running out of gas,
however you want to call it. And it's very hard
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to look any other way than team total under for
this Mavericks team. Top five defense for the Timberwolves last
five games, bottom five offense for the MAVs. We know
what they looked like all season. This is actually interesting
now I'm looking at it here. Mavericks first half team
total is five and zero to the under, but the
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full game team total is four and one to the
over for the Mavericks. So I guess they're just starting
to slow out the gate and figuring it out, and
maybe these numbers have begin to get a little bit
too low. I think the Mavericks struggle to score here.
Only way I can can't think about this game. How
are you seeing it? You know?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Well, the way I see everything ski through that over
lens and to me, Minnesota's team total will go over.
So we're probably saying the same thing. One twenty two
and a half is the t Wolves team total Dallas
off overtime, Dallas without all three centers, how are they
going to stop anybody? And Anthony Edwards could probably go
to the rim all day, all night. Randall should be
(22:34):
big at the rim here. As far as scoring is concerned,
the t Wolves, for what it's worth, have been putting
up some pretty solid numbers as far as points scored
our concern, and Dallas has been giving it up all
season long. Dallas likes to play quick, just increases the
amount of possessions here. Minnesota is not going to shy
away against this team. So for me, it's gonna be
(22:57):
and it already has been. Minnesota team total over one
twenty two and a half one of the couple of
things I played today. But I don't see any way
Dallas holds them under one twenty five.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, I could see that Timberwolves offense that's been solid lately.
Let me just do another glance here at their numbers. Yeah,
I mean they've been putting up like one twenty every game.
What's thirteen total for tonight?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
One twenty two and a half.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
On twenty two and a half. Yeah, I mean I
could see them getting their maps have been giving it
up too. They've given that up in their last three games.
It looks like right there, So I think that could
be a solid way to play it there, you know,
all right, Bobby says, easiest pick of the year by
far was how games Jazz Bulls over? That was a
(23:50):
good one yesterday. I did have an easy one yesterday.
Nice to get those easy ones every now and then.
Let's talk about those Bulls playing again. Today opened up
with the Nuggets minus ten and a half. And if
you saw we're watching the game last night, you know
this line was gonna skyrocket after the first overtime. Then
(24:10):
again after the next overtime. You now see the Nuggets
minus fourteen and a half out there. Total has come
down two forty four was the opener as low as
two thirty nine and a half. Let's take a look
at injury report as of right now. Kobe White will
be out, you know, Zach Waller, I'm sorry, Zach Collins
(24:31):
is doubtful. And then you have Trey Jones questionable for
this Nuggets team. Yo Kich is probable. Cam Johnson and
Julian Strauter are questionable. Brawn looks like he's out. This
is a Nuggets team you know that has been you
know a lot of times I say I don't like him. Defensively,
(24:53):
they have been playing some pretty good defense. Don't want
to forget to mention it first game home off road
trip for them, although they do have the rest advantage
tonight obviously with you know, Bulls on the back to
back double overtime game. But yeah, Nuggets, I'm sorry. On
the season, wow, number three offensive rated and number three
(25:13):
defensive rated last five games, still top five in both categories.
I mean, it's very very hard for me, robo to
think that the Bulls don't run out of gas here
in this game. And the Bulls defense, I mean, it's
also falling off a cliff. Maybe the Nuggets just name
their number in this one. The only way I think
(25:36):
the Bulls get over their team total tonight is if
the Nuggets are scoring one forty and just don't care anymore.
Other than that, I don't. I don't see the Bulls
having enough gas in the tank. Who knows how many
people will be available tonight and in elevation. I like
Bulls team total under That's what I bet at one thirteen.
(25:58):
But at the same time, see the Nuggets putting up
as much as they want, So I'm thinking like that
the Nugget should cover Nugga's team thought all over, How
are you feeling about this one? You know?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, I just said about five minutes ago that I
was gonna contradict myself where big numbers are concerned, And
this is where I do contradict. Don't like to lay it,
but I laid it here. Ski. Not only is it
back to back, but it's back to back still in altitude.
You played double overtime in Utah and then go to
Denver and you got three starters that played over forty minutes. Obviously,
Kobe White's already out. He played thirty minutes last night,
(26:33):
so he's out of this game. But a Koro Busovich
and Giddy all over forty minutes. I don't know how
you hold up for four quarters against Denver. Like you say,
their offense has been outstanding all season long. The defensive numbers,
I guess are a little bit deceptive because it doesn't
always look like they're playing really good defense. But to
(26:54):
be ranked three is pretty good. And I just don't
know the Bulls hit on this last week. I think
once or twice. You know, the erosion of the Bowl
defense after Billy Donovan. They started the year so good.
He was chanting defense, physicality. It just hasn't held up,
and I don't think it holds up here honestly, with
(27:15):
the guys they're gonna put on the floor tonight. This
could be one of those just you know, lay down games.
I'm not so sure. Sometimes those happen on the road
with road teams that are in these on these trips
and in these types of situations. But Denver doesn't have
a lot of problem beating people by fifteen when they
have this kind of advantage. So I'm there. I laid
(27:37):
fourteen points with the Nuggets. I guess the only thing
you worry about is maybe, you know, late third quarter
they unload the bench, but even still the bench will
be fresher than the bulls. So give me Nuggets minus fourteen.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I mean, I'm with you on that. Bobby E says
you got to should offer a combo package. Come on,
why you talk, Let's do it. You know, if you
reach out to the customer service, I'm pretty sure they'll
put something together for you. But we'll also, you know,
we'll talk to him. We'll see what we can come
back with in the near future. You know. All right,
I'll say I have another stet but I guess I'll
save it for for best bets. You know, we do
(28:14):
have a Monday night football game. I don't feel the
strongest about this one, but I will say, yeah, it's
supposed to. I mean, first of all, the opener fifty
one came down to forty nine. Side hasn't really moved
too much a three and a half. But you know,
my bad for not having the name. But this is
(28:35):
the Cowboys first game after one of their players passed away, right,
so probably a really emotional game for them. They probably
played really, really hard, you know, for him. And you know,
these these emotional spots is it's hard to say quantify,
I guess, but I do think it will be a
(28:58):
thing so because of it that it is hard to
play against the Cowboys. Here, the number looks funny, you know,
the Cowboys I pictured him putting up as many points
as they want, especially versus Raiders defense. I'm just curious
how how well the defense will play. At the same time,
we know Gino can give it right back to them.
(29:19):
He probably will the interception, and I'm thinking things like
that can lead to more points in this game. I
think I'm in disagreement with the line coming down. I'm
trying to get there with some kind of over. I
know the Cowboys and these teams have been opposite. Cowboys
so far in the first half, eight and one to
(29:41):
the over, Raiders eight and one to the under. So
what side is gonna win that battle? We shall see,
But I want to think points will be scored in
this game. Anything from you on Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Raiders, Yeah, I isolated its ski. I played Cowboys team
total because they left it underneath the key number twenty seven.
I got twenty six and a half. I think twenty
six and a half is still available. A couple of
reasons why I did, and the main one is that
Dallas's pass protection, for what it's worth, has been really
good this year, and the Raiders don't sack the quarterback
(30:15):
Max Crosby or not. Their pass rush hasn't been there.
They're down the bottom of the league in sacks. And
if you don't get to Dak with Pickens and cde
Lamb and they're tight end Ferguson running around the field,
it's gonna be difficult, so I thought Dallas would score theirs.
They did make some defensive acquisitions at the trade deadline.
We'll see how much they help. And to the to
(30:38):
the point of Marshaw and Neeland, I think if this
game was played the very next day, that you know,
their minds might not be in it. But they've had
a lot of time eight days or so to you know,
absorb everything that's going on, and like you say, maybe
use it as a dedication game and come out fully focused.
(30:59):
So I can see that as well. Their last offensive
game wasn't really a great one out of them, but
they've scored twenty seven or more in most of their
games last five or six, So I'm there. I played
over twenty six and a half Cowboys team total. I
just at this point in time, I don't trust the
defense enough. We'll see how the new pieces fit in.
(31:19):
Maybe they get better.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Okay, team total could absolutely be a good way to
go there. Vegas Hike Life says Raiders only allowed six
yards per Why is everyone hating on their defense? First half?
Unders on their games have been money they have they
have we shall see, I mean because of how the
Raiders have played the first half. I'm hesitant on the
(31:44):
first half over because it's been almost automatic for the Cowboys.
We know what they're gonna do. They're gonna score. The
defense is not gonna do a whole lot of stopping anybody.
So we'll see what side wins the battle in this one,
all right, you know, I think we did a good
enough job, talked about NBA, talked about Monday Night football,
and I am actually unsure what we have going, So
(32:09):
I think this one is still going. We'll talk about these,
we'll talk about this one. Actually, full core pass. I'm
pretty sure that should still be going. You can get
a three day all access college Basketball and NBA only
forty nine dollars both Rob you know and myself. That
will be available for us, and then I think they
have the ten days of pitch plus and ten dollars
(32:30):
per day. So if you like to be involved, it's
a good way to check us out. Like somebody mentioned
in the chat earlier, if you are interested in you know,
something for both Ravino and myself. I'm pretty sure customer
service will we'll take care of you, but we'll ask
and we'll see what we can come back with. All right,
you no best bets, I'm gonna ask if there's anything
(32:54):
you anything else you would like to promote, and then
if you have a best bet for the show, we'd
love to hear it. If you don't, so good, I
got one cooking today.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I think the only other special that's still live SKI
is the longer term one, the five hundred dollars off
and in one hundred and twenty or some I forget.
I don't want to say it because I forget, but
there is a longer term special that's still active that
we've been posting. Ski's been posting here on the show.
So three choices to choose from if you want to
(33:25):
get involved. Let's get to tonight's basketball top play. I think,
in my mind is going to I got a decision
here between two. I want to make sure I kind
of leave the right one for the for the chat.
I played two games, guys, you know I'm both, but
I'm going to leave you with Minnesota Timberwolves team total
over one twenty two and a half. Just don't see
(33:45):
anyway there's a bounce back out of Dallas with three
centers out of this game. Rim protection is so I
guess PJ Washington becomes your de facto type, you know,
interior presence, which is matched by more than two Timberwolves here.
So for me, they've been scoring a lot lately. I
don't see any problem getting to one twenty five years.
(34:07):
So it's gonna be Minnesota team total over one twenty
two and a half is the best bet.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Good stuff from Vino and Uh for myself, I'll go
back to that Bulls game. We're gonna go with Bulls
team total under one thirteen and we'll shot this out
really quick. I mean, we all know what situation they're in,
but double digit, double digit unrested road dog off a
(34:36):
double overtime game. They have only cleared this. I mean
it's ten and two to under, but they've only the
highest scoring team was one O six out of all
these games in the database, one O six. They're just
gonna run out of gas. This is a Denver team
who's top five defensive rated team, last five games allowing
close to one O eight. I mean, Chicago after that
(34:57):
double overtime traveling going into elevation, it's out a good spot.
They're going to run out of gas in this game,
or at least that's what my money says, so Bulls
team total under one thirteen will be my best bet
for the show. You know. Good to be back rocking
with you on the show about eighty five ninety now,
so I'm feeling a hell of a lot better, in
(35:17):
a better mood. Hopefully it can translate to you know,
winning some of these tickets. So appreciate you taking it
time to break the games down with this. Everybody in
the chat, we appreciate you as well. Good people, good
cappers and uh, like I always say, we're all just
trying to help each other win. So we'll be back
again tomorrow. Until then, best of look everybody on all
(35:38):
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