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So 1 those idiots who believe in analytics,

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Thanks for making us part of your morning. It's Kill

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Alexander. It's Kelly

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VSiN. Hello? A fully rested

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Kelly Badlin. Kelly got some sleep yesterday

1:40

ladies, gentlemen. So he is energetic.

1:43

I I kinda just yelled in the ears of everybody

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on the crew and Kev, our great

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audio

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guys, not very happy with me right

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now. Kevin, Kev. Yeah.

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He

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he didn't happy. Kevin Trask. No joke.

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No relation to Kyle or Amy. Okay.

1:56

Crack Man Unscripted later this

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show, hour number two, as you know, on a

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Thursday. Dan Weston will join

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us from across the pond across the

2:05

pond to talk Australia VSiN. We

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pushed on the Magna Liddett plus five

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games match last night.

2:12

Against Irina Saboleca. What you have on the ladies side now

2:14

is Saboleca versus Rebakina. That

2:17

is the ladies final at the Australian

2:20

VSiN. I have a Rebakina Jokovic

2:23

Exactive that I got a

2:25

couple days, three days ago, which I mentioned on the show

2:27

I did that along with a Paghula.

2:30

Jokovic Exacta. So

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I am in the Rebakana camp. I will probably

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have a bet on Rebakana for sure in the finals

2:38

plus one fifteen. That's what it's looking like that. I might

2:40

even put that in before the show ends. And

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then I am pondering a

2:44

Sisopast hatched off over

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in one of the men's semis tonight

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over in games. We'll find out what Dan

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has to say. Jokovic, Tommy Paul, the other

2:53

1. Jokovic is gonna roll. Sorry

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about that, Tommy Paul. So that's where we in the Australian

2:57

open. We'll talk to Dan Weston about it coming

2:59

up. But 26 at least the Republican match was

3:02

pretty awesome last night against Astra VSiN. Basketball.

3:05

We're crescendoing the football. Basketball.

3:08

Crescendoing. Basketball yesterday.

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If you think what a what a night for the NBA

3:14

that was? Mhmm. One in Portland. Damian

3:17

Lillard droppings sixty, tickling

3:19

the strings to sixty balloons as we use

3:21

the same basketball camp. Yeah. Don't ask.

3:24

For the fourth time in his career, during

3:26

last night's one:thirty four to one:twenty four went over

3:28

the jazz. He made history

3:31

though with that sixty four performance with his efficiency.

3:33

He needed just twenty nine shot attempts

3:35

and ten free throw attempts to score

3:38

sixty. Putting him in a league company,

3:40

just two other players, Carl Malone, you

3:42

remember that game, Kelly? Twenty six

3:44

VSiN nineteen ninety. And James

3:46

Harden with twenty four talking about twenty

3:48

nineteen. Reaching sixty points on fewer

3:51

shot attempts, but both scored a higher percentage of

3:53

their points at the foul line, taking twenty

3:55

three free throws apiece. Otherwise

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put, and I think this is the best way to put the efficiency

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for Dame Lillard last night. What

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it was was a eight ninety

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eight true shooting efficiencies.

4:07

That way they call it eight ninety eight true shooting percentage.

4:09

So that it's just an unbelievable performance. Sixty

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points as efficient as could possibly

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be. Congratulations to him. Do you have

4:16

anything on that game? Yeah. I actually got in on the

4:18

Blazers live in the second quarter. They were trailing

4:20

Utah after the first.

4:23

So yeah. I I got in lasers live. I

4:25

was watching that game mainly

4:28

while I know you were watching the Warriors. I did

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have the Warriors on another screen. But,

4:32

yeah, I was I watched that game 26 the end.

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Yeah. I mean, Dane was incredible. I and there's really

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not much more to say about that game. Yeah.

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But they yeah. They were they were trailing. It was a

4:41

good game. But yeah. Dame took over, man. It

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just felt like he wasn't missing

4:45

anything. He ended up being a one thirty four,

4:47

one twenty four win for the Blazers pretty

4:49

easy Highest true shooting percentage,

4:51

a measure of combined efficiency on shot attempts and

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free throws ever in a sixty point game,

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eight ninety eight. About the warriors. Warriors

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beat the 1, one twenty two to one twenty.

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Steph Curry got ejected for throwing his

5:03

mouthpiece with just over a minute

5:05

and a half left in the game, in a tightball

5:08

game, and he threw it out of frustration because

5:10

the Warriors got an offensive rebound with twelve

5:12

seconds on the shot clock, Jordan pool decided

5:15

to just hoist, like, a twenty

5:17

eight footer. And so Curry on the

5:19

way back down the court was like, I can't take this anymore.

5:21

There was a second ticket, so he was ejected

5:24

So ended up with a Clay Thompson

5:26

hitting a big go ahead three with

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fifteen seconds left. Grizzly's

5:31

came down on a great Jamal

5:34

Iran assisted tie it, and then the warriors

5:36

ended up losing the ball out of bounds and with two seconds

5:38

left in a tie game from

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underneath the basket. Dante

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DeVincenzo VSiN Jordan

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Pool make eye contact, Zaire Williams

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was playing Jordan

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Pool very

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poorly. In terms of where he had his body

5:52

position. And so

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pool just went to the hoop.

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VSiN hit him and pool made the layup. Oh,

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yeah. That was the best example. But, man,

6:00

there were few ugly, just backdoor

6:02

cut -- Oh. -- easy buckets in the NBA

6:05

last night. That I mean, that that was

6:07

the most obvious 1. In the magic

6:09

game had bet on, there was end of the third

6:11

quarter with one second left of the third quarter.

6:13

1 thugs goes like full

6:16

court pass, the former quarterback.

6:18

Just rockets it, and Frode's Wagner's

6:20

just like sitting under the basket, catches

6:22

it easy laying. They won by

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six. So that was big to covering. And

6:26

then the Sixers and the Nets last night.

6:29

Sixers beat the Nets. Was

6:31

it one thirty eight to oh, oh, excuse me. One

6:33

thirty seven to one thirty three. In

6:36

a game that's soared over over the total

6:38

of two twenty five. But that game was marred by

6:40

forty five fouls. Seven

6:43

technicals, six on

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players, and a seventh on a delay of game penalty,

6:46

sixty three free throws, and twenty seven

6:48

turnovers. Yeah. IIII

6:51

watched some of this game Gil, but it

6:53

was I it felt like every time

6:55

I was it was on one of my TVs. It was flipping

6:57

back and forth between different games. Every time

7:00

I flipped it, 1 felt like they were at the foul line.

7:02

And then it was, you know, I like

7:04

to verify that later when I was looking at the

7:06

box score. I was like, oh, they did shoot that

7:08

free

7:08

throws. It did feel like an obscene

7:10

amount of free throws. It was obscene. And here's

7:12

what I wanna get to though for for you, Kelly,

7:14

though, because you represent NBA

7:16

Betters. You love to bet the NBA. So

7:19

about an hour and a half before the Nuggets game,

7:22

we get the news that Michael that the Nikola

7:24

Yolked Jamal Murray Michael Porter

7:26

Junior and KCP all out.

7:28

And

7:29

then we had a similar thing with line 26 in the Lakers

7:31

game where we just find out the Lakers lineup, you know, an

7:33

hour and a half, less than an hour and a half before game

7:35

time. Betting the NBA

7:37

pre flop ATS is a a

7:40

journey in Planco to begin with, let

7:42

alone not having this information, this

7:44

close to tip-off. Yeah. How frustrating

7:46

has this become for you? It's tough.

7:50

I

7:50

don't know. It's not it's if you do this

7:52

every day, it's not frustrating because you gotta

7:54

know this stuff this stuff happens and

7:56

can happen. What's frustrating is it basically

7:59

means if you're gonna do this right and you're

8:01

gonna and you're gonna bet anything pregame or

8:03

have, you know, have have a strategy of how you're going

8:05

into a game live with the injury information.

8:08

You'll basically need to be on Twitter about twenty

8:10

four

8:10

seven.

8:11

Twenty

8:11

four seven. Yeah. Alright. Eleven

8:13

AM Pacific time's usually when you get to first

8:15

wave injury reports. And then somewhere between

8:17

there and two thirty, you're gonna get more updates

8:19

on guys. And that's what happened. We had we

8:21

had Drew on yesterday. No use on the

8:23

nuggets. Gotta cover in the end. It actually

8:25

cashed that ticket.

8:26

Yeah. But, you know, he comes on with

8:28

us. Nobody's on the injury port, really? I

8:30

I both Highland and and Michael Porter junior were

8:32

questionable at that

8:33

point.

8:33

We're too early, man. Right.

8:34

And then two hours later, it's it's they

8:37

basically tag the whole team as questionable.

8:40

It is one of those it is one of those

8:42

you can kinda read the tea leaves though. When they

8:44

go and do that, you know there's a likelihood.

8:46

Most of those guys are gonna get downgraded to

8:48

not playing. Especially when it's 26 it's

8:50

a second, you know, back end of a back

8:52

to back situation like that was last night for

8:54

Denver. You can kind of start

8:56

reading the tea leaves to I don't know if if Drew bought

8:59

off his bed or anything like that. Obviously,

9:01

it did start to end up covering in the end.

9:04

It makes it tough. I think it's another

9:06

reason though of you know,

9:08

and and maybe this is a bit of AAA

9:10

semi pro tip. How about that, Gil? It's it

9:13

it emphasizes, I think, for newer betters,

9:16

even more the value of life betting.

9:18

Right? That you don't you don't have to be like me or

9:20

trade ins that can be looking at injury reports

9:22

all day long if you don't have

9:24

26. You can wait until the start of the game,

9:26

knew who's playing and who's not. Yeah. And choose

9:28

to get in live. That's a that's a big

9:31

that's a big transfer of thinking for people to make,

9:33

but it would help a lot of people because -- Yeah. --

9:35

what you said before is correct. Twenty the

9:37

gig pre flop is a twenty four seven

9:40

gig just of just following this

9:42

who's got the time for

9:43

that? Most people don't. Right. And look,

9:45

I think that these it's it's for

9:47

me, it's being very selective with what you're betting

9:49

pregame. I'm usually splitting up

9:52

you know, pieces of my bet between tree

9:54

game and live. But there are still games,

9:56

even the Magic are an example last night.

9:58

If you wanted to get in on the magic, there was

10:00

no chance that you were entering that game VSiN it

10:03

with your strategy of hoping to get in on

10:05

them live because they did lead from

10:07

from Wire and Wire. Only ends up being a

10:09

six point win and barely covering,

10:12

but they led by seventeen points at

10:14

the end of the first quarter. There was no chance

10:16

really for you to get in live during that game.

10:18

So, though, that is why I still do

10:20

it a bit pregame for games like

10:22

that. But, man, I absolutely

10:24

the value in the NBA's believes betting it.

10:26

Alright. Biggest news of the day yesterday, Patrick

10:28

Mahomes. Full participant

10:30

in practice yesterday for the Kansas City Chiefs.

10:32

Full participant he says he's ready to go.

10:35

That's a quote. Reded ghost is feeling

10:37

much better than he thought he would. And

10:39

so, how has this line shifted? Remember

10:42

from Sunday night where the Chiefs were

10:44

favorites? then the doubts

10:46

around Patrick Mahomes' injury, the bangles

10:48

became the favorites as much as a two point favorite

10:50

yesterday morning. And now while

10:53

the bangles are still favored in some spots, we are

10:55

now seeing pickums and the Chiefs, being

10:58

favored after the Mahomes news from yesterday.

11:01

So those of us who got in on the bangles

11:04

niners, teasers, which

11:06

I did on Sunday, six and a half

11:08

point teaser, by the way, to make the bangles seven

11:10

and a half, and the niners, eight and a half. We

11:13

may see this go all the way, VSiN and by the way,

11:15

I won't need to have a free fly play on the niners

11:17

Eagles game because I already have niners futures.

11:20

But I if I like the bangles,

11:22

which I do here, I'm just going

11:24

to wait and see if more chief's

11:26

money comes in if I wanna make a straight play on

11:28

the

11:29

bangles.

11:29

Yeah. I mean, I have two bets in on these games

11:31

already, but they are small bets I am

11:33

talking. I mean, I don't

11:36

know about you, Gil. And then I think I have about one

11:38

fifth of the action that I had on games

11:40

last week. Like, they are tiny bets,

11:42

more for -- Yeah. -- more for fun purposes

11:44

this weekend because I think all four of these

11:46

teams are damn good. All four could

11:48

win the Super Bowl. But I'll be a guy and tell you

11:50

right now. I think I'm I'm gonna end up with being one

11:52

of those people that got a terrible bangle's line.

11:54

Because I took a money line minus one fifteen

11:57

when it started to swing that bangles

11:59

VSiN. And now it's swinging

12:00

back, you could get, you know, you could get a better number

12:02

right now, that's for sure. Yeah. And

12:04

we're also at the board of the season again, where if you're fortunate to

12:06

have futures going, you can just sort

12:08

of you can work with those if you want.

12:11

Right? You can try to lock

12:13

in some cash either way if it if it works

12:15

out for you in terms of who you have a future if

12:17

the line sort of allows you

12:19

to do that or if you're not

12:21

if not someone who wants to lock it VSiN really trust

12:23

your conviction. He's like, I made this bet for a VSiN.

12:26

I believe in it. He just rolled with it. So so

12:28

what do you got diners doing the NST and Super

12:30

Bowl? Niner's win the NFC, niner's doing Super Bowl,

12:32

a couple MVP Super Bowl niners

12:35

of course the Brock party to win to

12:37

win rookie of the year. So I'm all about the

12:39

niner. Hearing a lot of people with

12:41

a lot of Eagles conviction this

12:43

week, though. I'm on the Eagles. I don't have that much

12:45

conviction. Like, I can't sit here and

12:47

argue with you about, like, how

12:48

about, you know, much better of a side that is

12:51

this week? The right four teams are there. That's for

12:53

sure. Alright. We'll come back. Sports

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15:41

ask her the big guest was. So we'll see

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about there a new weight loss challenge between

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he and Todd Wishnow. It's

15:46

exciting. Well,

15:47

I mean, he's in 26. I'm assuming

15:48

He would be in studio. Okay. For

15:51

So not quite as easy for for

15:53

Todd and Jeff to cut off. Well,

15:58

There's already a there's already a pool on interruption.

16:00

Oh, really? Oh, okay. Okay. Three and a half

16:02

is good. Glad to

16:03

hear.

16:03

I like betting action on on anything

16:05

in life. Before we do the context on

16:07

the NFL playoffs, courtesy of SportDOT's history,

16:10

one college football

16:10

note, did you see this cavalier LSU? Oh,

16:13

yeah. Accidentally,

16:15

Accidentally -- Yep. -- overpaid

16:17

Tiger football coach VSiN Kelley by

16:19

one million dollars. During

16:21

the first year of a ten year one hundred million

16:24

dollar contract, but discovered the error and

16:26

has moved to correct

16:27

it. The Louisiana legislative auditor's

16:29

office said on Wednesday.

16:31

Really disappointed and Brian

16:33

Kelley that he wouldn't bring himself. So this

16:35

is exactly my question. This is exactly

16:38

my question. What do you

16:40

do in that circumstance. before everybody rushes

16:42

to say, you don't say anything. Don't

16:45

say it that quickly because you

16:47

don't want that to come back to haunt you.

16:49

Yeah. Because then there because then

16:51

you'll have some tax implication that you didn't know

16:53

about. You'd already have spent it in some

16:55

cases. I don't know. Do you like,

16:58

it's kinda he had to

17:00

know. Right? He had to know. So okay. So

17:02

the the story is is that

17:04

and I don't know. Maybe he had this stuff split

17:07

up Originally, but one of them was going

17:09

to his, like, charity foundation, I

17:11

believe, or or like, or some kind of foundation.

17:14

I see. And then one was go what So they

17:16

were basically doing double payments. Right? And

17:18

1, he was getting his normal paycheck

17:20

like he'd normally get. I see. And then

17:22

one was going to, like, the VSiN Kelly,

17:25

I don't know. LLC, LLC

17:27

or something like that or foundation, whatever. Right.

17:29

But it was a separate entity, so

17:31

I don't really know But then

17:34

but then put yourself in

17:35

issues. Right? If let's say you get a

17:37

call from the

17:39

person running that foundation or LLC

17:41

or whatever, like, hey, VSiN, we're getting

17:43

payments over here. They look a little weird.

17:46

Would you be like, well, I

17:48

can guess what that is, but I'm not gonna

17:50

bring any attention to it till they It's an interesting

17:53

thing. I think you do say something. I'm serious.

17:55

I know people are like, you gotta be crazy.

17:57

You gotta take

17:58

them. No. You don't. It it'll be worse

18:00

later. I mean, it's always gonna it like,

18:02

eventually, it's gonna come out. Right? I mean, yes.

18:04

Am I shocked that it took this long for LSU

18:06

to realized that they had overpaid him one

18:09

million

18:09

dollars.

18:09

Well, sounds like it wasn't LSU. It sounds like it's

18:11

Louisiana legislative auditor's office that figured

18:14

it out, not LSU. Okay.

18:15

Yeah.

18:15

Yeah. Okay. Even better they who knows how

18:17

long it might have taken them to figure it out. But,

18:19

like, yeah. I don't know how many

18:22

how how many millions would you like to be in

18:24

the whole to LSU. Right? Let's

18:26

go through some of these. This is our buddy Blake over at

18:28

sports odds history dot com. And some of these are gonna

18:30

be like before the playoff started, but we'll we'll

18:32

get it to current day here before the championship

18:34

games. Preseason odds from

18:36

Bet MGM of the twenty twenty two divisional

18:39

winners. The biggest chalk

18:41

on the board was Tampa Bay because it was such a

18:43

weaker division. Right? Minus two fifty

18:45

in the NFC South, and it barely got home

18:47

at eight and nine, really a six

18:49

and eleven team at eight and nine clothing. And

18:51

the biggest dog was Jacksonville at plus seven

18:53

fifty. Jacksonville was plus seven fifty

18:56

to win the AFC South. And that must

18:58

have been like early I'm gonna say because

19:00

it was them in Tennessee. It was a two horse

19:02

race. Right? mentioned Or VSiN

19:05

apples was in there 26, I guess, some I guess, they need

19:07

apples, had a lot of juice. The preseason 26. But

19:09

plus seven fifty, that courtesy of Bet MGM

19:11

threw

19:12

Bulldog. I mean, Indianapolis was, like, even

19:14

money or worse to win that division. I

19:16

know because I had tickets on

19:17

them. Yeah. But, man, I don't remember

19:19

the jags me that wall. Let's roll through

19:21

these guys. Let's let's motor through these as much cake,

19:24

so we wanna get present day. But these are just sort

19:26

of contextualizing the

19:28

post season in in in total.

19:30

This is from sports odds history as well. Preseason

19:32

odds This is from FanDuel for the best and worst

19:34

regular season records, best record.

19:37

Kansas City was nine 26 one, Philadelphia

19:39

was sixteen to one. Both of them

19:41

ending up with the same record VSiN worst record Chicago

19:44

plus six fifty, the dead heat rule

19:46

applied for the best record. So the payout

19:48

cut in half and then there's some other math.

19:50

It's not just cut in half since two teams

19:52

were tied for the best record, so that was

19:54

pretty interesting. Season win total notes

19:57

Atlanta, Carolina Detroit and The Jets,

19:59

their firstovers for all those franchises since

20:01

twenty seventeen. Jacksonville and The

20:03

Giants, with only their second

20:05

overs in last twelve seasons. Kansas City

20:08

nine overs in the last ten seasons.

20:10

That's incredible. You can't make their season

20:12

wind total high enough. And then the Under's Cleveland,

20:14

twelve under's in the last fifteen seasons.

20:17

I was surprised to see that one. Denver

20:20

six under's one pushed since twenty sixteen.

20:22

Good good god. And Tennessee, they're first

20:24

under since twenty fifteen. So

20:27

the one time that Mike VRAebel and Company were

20:29

below expectation. In terms of season

20:31

wins, How about Washington? They improved to eight, eight, and one,

20:34

clench the over on their season went total bet.

20:36

The final week of this season, all the teams in the NFC

20:38

east went over. 1 in the NFC east

20:40

went over. They almost all made the playoffs. Washington

20:43

didn't quite get there, but all of them went over their

20:45

season win total. All teams in the division have gone

20:47

over their win total only four other times.

20:49

Since two thousand two. The twenty sixteen

20:52

NFC, twenty fourteen NFC North,

20:54

two thousand seven NFC South and the two thousand

20:56

two NSC stuff. Who could forget

20:58

that? Alright.

21:00

A few more of these from sports odds history. Preseason

21:02

odds from Bet MGM on finishing is the number one

21:05

seed. Kansas said he was six

21:07

26 one and the AFC Philly was ten to one

21:09

in the

21:10

NFC. I wish we

21:12

had those to bet on here in Nevada.

21:13

Yeah. That's six to one. It feels like

21:16

easy money. You're looking at that. This one

21:18

was some of this was about some of the individual leaders

21:20

from the twenty twenty 26 regular VSiN,

21:22

stat leaders. Pachual Holmes was eight to

21:24

one to have the most passing yards, which he did.

21:27

He was eight to one to have the most

21:29

touchdowns, which he did.

21:31

Most

21:31

interceptions VSiN this came down to the wire.

21:33

Remember, Davis Mills and DAC

21:35

Prescott. DAC Prescott was fifty to

21:37

one. They did heeded those two guys.

21:40

But if you had deck, that was still a good cash

21:42

for your deck. Good cash. Especially especially

21:45

considering he missed more games in all his

21:47

ass. For one seed. Kansas

21:49

City was six 26 one and the AFC Philly was

21:51

ten to one

21:53

in the NFC. I wish

21:55

we had those to bet on here in Nevada.

21:57

Yeah. That's six to one. It feels like

21:59

easy money. You're looking at that. This one

22:01

was some of this was about some of the individual leaders

22:03

from the twenty twenty 26 regular VSiN,

22:06

stat leaders. Patricia Holmes was eight to

22:08

one to have the most passing yards, which he did.

22:10

He was eight to one to have the most touchdowns, which

22:13

he did. Most interceptions, and this

22:15

came down to the wire. Remember, Davis Mills

22:18

and DAC Prescott. DAC Prescott was fifty

22:20

to one. They dead heated those two guys.

22:23

But if you had

22:24

deck, that was still good

22:25

cash for you deck. Good cash. Especially especially

22:28

considering he missed more games at all.

22:30

Yeah. Yeah. Josh Jacobs was forty

22:32

get the most rushing yards, Jamal Williams,

22:34

was not even listed for most rushing touchdowns.

22:37

Justin Jefferson eight to one for

22:39

seeping yards this year. It was eight to one

22:41

for receptions or nine to one rather.

22:43

Davonte Adams for touchdowns

22:46

cashed also at nine to one. Defense

22:49

Nick boasts a fourteen to one of Saxx. Was

22:56

that I was was gonna have a twelve to one?

22:59

For tackles. Make a fit to Patrick,

23:01

Justin Simmons, CJ Gartner Johnson, 26

23:05

Whelan, all who was not

23:07

listed, by the way, Whelan's case but Patrick

23:09

mister Fitzpatrick was forty to 1, Justin Simmons,

23:11

sixteen to one. CJ Gardner CJ Gardner

23:13

Johnson was in there as

23:14

well. They did he did for receptions. We

23:16

did finish with, like, seven I believe

23:18

so. And then Jason Myers most, you know,

23:20

most points, kicking points, a

23:22

hundred to

23:23

one. That was the biggest

23:25

one on the board this year. And there's

23:27

also no way I would have guessed that he finished

23:30

the season with the most

23:31

points. Obviously, it's always a kicker, but

23:33

again, things we what was kicking points? Things

23:35

that we weren't offered here in Nevada anywhere. Okay.

23:39

Here we go. Play off teams that were not favored

23:41

to make the playoffs. Seattle was six to

23:43

one not to make it. They were the longest shot to Nymaker.

23:45

Remember, people thought they were the worst team in

23:47

the NFL. It was the only coach of

23:49

the year ticket I had was Pete Carroll. Should

23:52

I not feel a little robbed? Non

23:54

playoff teams that were not favorite to miss the playoffs,

23:56

Green Bay was the longest shot. They

23:58

were plus three thirty three to miss the playoffs

24:00

over at Bet MGM. Alright.

24:04

And here we get now towards today, if we could

24:06

throw in a couple more of these here at the end. These are all

24:08

getting courtesy of sports odds history dot com.

24:11

Annual reminder how the Super Bowl favorite entering

24:13

the playoffs has fared since two thousand five.

24:15

And remember the Kansas City Chiefs were the Super

24:17

Bowl favorite this year prior to the VSiN, losing

24:20

the Super Bowl, only

24:24

thing more common than that was losing in the division

24:26

round. Eight times it's happened.

24:28

Since two thousand five had a Super Bowl

24:30

favorite entering the playoffs. As

24:32

far as since two thousand five lost in the division

24:34

around eight times lost in the Super Bowl six times.

24:37

1 the Super Bowl only twice the twenty thirteen

24:40

Seahawks, the twenty sixteen Patriots, lost

24:42

the conference championship only once. By the way, from

24:44

seventy four to two thousand four, the

24:47

three decades before that. The Super Bowl favorite

24:49

went on to win the Super Bowl sixteen of thirty

24:51

one times. So again, that's the difference

24:53

in eras in the NFL. The team that

24:56

was best headed into the

24:57

playoffs, got there more than half the

24:59

time. Yeah. That's pretty incredible.

25:01

The amount of times losing in the division round

25:03

that way in that 1.

25:04

Wow. That's how it is now. And

25:07

assuming these spreads don't reach three points this

25:09

week, this would be the third time. Only the

25:11

third time, both conference championship games were

25:13

less than three points. Nineteen

25:15

eighty two, Dolphins were one point favorites.

25:18

A. J. Dewey and the Dolphins Against the

25:20

Jets, and Dallas was a two point favorite

25:23

at Washington, and the greatest game in skin's

25:25

history. I was there. Washington,

25:27

Miami 1 to the Super Bowl. Washington ends up winning at

25:29

Super Bowl seventeen. And then in ninety seven, Denver was

25:31

only a two and a half point favorite at Pittsburgh. Green

25:33

Bay only a two and a half point favorite at Stanford's

25:35

Cisco. Both Denver and Green Bay

25:37

did advance the Super Bowl

25:40

as favorites. Was that

25:42

all? Was that the last one? Or was there

25:44

one more? I think that might be the

25:46

other. Here we go. One last one. Kansas

25:48

City, the first team since Philadelphia in the twin

25:51

in the two thousand two VSiN, and

25:53

the second team since nineteen eighty nine, these

25:55

chiefs this year, to enter the playoffs VSiN

25:57

a Super Bowl favorite, win in the division

25:59

and not be the favorite entering the conference

26:02

championship. So

26:05

again, just context or what we

26:07

got going on here. this

26:09

year's conference, championships, and then the

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Super Bowl beyond. Thank you to Sports Dot's history

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go Alexander. Kelly Bitalin the Hissey.

27:12

Super Bowl Exact And Kelly, we

27:14

just put this out for 26

27:16

be thorough about everything available

27:19

out there. But we talked about this before

27:21

the post season and really

27:23

Can I just say this not to kill the segment here, but that

27:25

ship has sailed? Oh, yeah. We said

27:27

bangles. If you if you have conviction on the

27:29

bangles,

27:30

Specifically, that was the time to bet it,

27:32

because you could get twenty five to one's minimum.

27:35

Look at that. Right? So wait for wildcard

27:37

over the niner thirty two to one. Right? Like

27:39

that'd be a nice ticket to have in your pocket.

27:41

Right?

27:41

Right now, though, plus six forty. Yeah.

27:45

Right. I'm not running to make that bet right now. That's

27:47

right. But this is great. Thank you to Aaron Osser

27:49

in the Surface Sports team.

27:51

Sending this stuff over last night. I think it's always

27:54

interesting to look back at this stuff. Know, so you can

27:56

really beat yourself up

27:57

properly. That's, you know, one of those bets you didn't

27:59

make. Yeah. 26 got longest shot before

28:01

the playoffs of these four of

28:03

these four teams. Was eagles over bangles

28:06

at thirty four 26

28:06

one. That how and that now is tied

28:09

for the short shot. Yeah. And

28:11

I have bets on the eagles and the bangle since

28:13

we it. The guy would kill to have that taken.

28:15

Yeah. Anyway, available

28:17

at circus still at current odds with the

28:19

Chiefs over the diners and the diners over the Chiefs being

28:22

current long shots at eight to one. Let's talk

28:24

some tennis. Ladies and gentlemen, he is

28:26

the analyst for tennis or pinnacle? And, of

28:28

course, at Bedford Fair as well, you could follow him on

28:30

Twitter at tennis ratings. It's

28:32

Dan VSiN, ladies and gentlemen. How are you doing,

28:35

Dan? Yeah. am good,

28:37

Gil. How are you? I'm doing very well.

28:38

Oh, you got? Bengals, Chiefs, what do you got? Niners.

28:43

How many times do 26 I'm trying to explain how you're

28:45

not I know we are. He's

28:47

like, niners. What are you talking about? Okay.

28:50

It's Rebakana and Stabilaka in the ladies

28:53

final, and we have some men's semis tonight

28:56

in the Australian VSiN. I'm

28:58

going to assume there is no Djokovic

29:00

Tommy, Paul, bet of any kind. Maybe I shouldn't

29:03

assume that.

29:04

No. No. I think that's their assumption to be fair.

29:06

Yeah. Yeah. Your

29:07

doctor, which is just a class above anyone

29:09

and and and, ultimately, David,

29:12

it's Tommy Paul. You know,

29:15

Jack Rich is Every

29:17

very heavy odds

29:18

on, and there's no real argument for that.

29:20

What about Yeah. What about Citibas

29:22

and and Hatching off? Or Citibas is a minus two

29:24

seventy five favorite Hatching

29:27

off is one of these guys. If you're not a, you know, the

29:29

the casual sports fan. Right? Who's

29:31

listening to this? They know about Djokovic, they know

29:33

about in the dollar, they know about Federer. They probably

29:35

know about Cicipas even. It's probably

29:38

coming to their sphere at some point.

29:41

Corrent hatchet off is not somebody that

29:43

casual sports man would know about, but yet

29:46

he's sort of been just on the heels

29:48

of elite tennis for a long time

29:50

now. And has sort of quietly

29:52

moved into his first slam semi.

29:56

Maybe there's no dog play on him here. Is

29:58

there Is there a sets

30:00

play? Is there a games play? Is there a totals

30:02

play? Where he could keep this somewhat

30:04

close to you? Well, obviously,

30:07

from a kind of a big big tournament

30:09

perspective, Olympics is the

30:11

one where what what VSiN has

30:14

had some exposure at the

30:16

highest level. And you would hope

30:19

that that's gonna help him out

30:21

overnight with this, you know, the

30:24

the big the big match in the semi finals

30:26

of the or Grand Slam. Look,

30:29

what you've spoken lot about, it's a us how

30:31

I I find him really overrated. And

30:34

and he's he's ridden this

30:36

incredible variant, train this tournament

30:38

where is thirty three out

30:40

of forty nine break points. think it is at the

30:42

moment, which is just absurd and

30:44

unsustainable. But it's got

30:46

into this stage it's got into this stage against

30:49

player who's lower up on him. So

30:53

yeah. It's frustrating because

30:55

don't think he's as good as as a lot of

30:57

people think. The problem

30:59

for me is if we're looking at opposing sets

31:01

of paths, is that he

31:04

has a really, really dominated VSiN

31:06

in all of their head to head matches.

31:09

So he needs five in the series, but

31:11

it's not just a five mil series. It's VSiN

31:14

absolute dropping across

31:17

those five matches with

31:20

this is the past that I need to drop in two sets

31:22

in five matches. Winning fifty

31:24

five percent of points, sixty

31:26

one percent of games are holding

31:28

almost ninety percent of time actually

31:30

putting some pressure on on the server

31:32

portion of who which

31:35

you wouldn't expect from a Cisco pass is very server

31:37

oriented. But, yeah, that's

31:39

what puts me off little bit is is this

31:42

insane head to head advantage that

31:44

says it has. So

31:46

nothing for you here. You're staying away.

31:48

Yeah. I think so. Yeah. If

31:50

it was anything, it would be the underdog. But

31:52

yeah. Just put off by

31:55

that the fact that that I I think

31:57

I think 26 person might have his

31:59

number. Head to yeah. Head to head doesn't typically

32:01

matter until it's so drastic that you can't

32:04

ignore it at all is what you're saying, I guess.

32:06

Yeah. Pretty much. And

32:08

the fact that the three of them have been

32:10

in the last two years as well is

32:12

is another another factor where

32:15

they're all

32:15

aware. And then those three three

32:17

some more recent matches, the

32:20

the the two players are kind of at where

32:22

they're at now in the rankings as

32:23

well. So it's not like one player is

32:26

dramatically improved or declined. It's kind

32:28

of kind of like where they're at right now

32:30

as well.

32:31

We don't have a line yet. If if it is a

32:33

potential Jokovic Chitzapaz final,

32:35

we don't have line for that. But let's just say that

32:37

is the matchup. Yeah.

32:40

Is there anything that you think it in

32:42

advance VSiN prior to you just sort of looking

32:44

at this closer? Is there anything

32:46

in your head right now that is that is saying to yourself

32:48

that 26 could grab a set or

32:50

keep it even more competitive than that?

32:54

Again, it's Jacobich. Well, he's

32:56

gonna need to just be so cluttered on those

32:58

break points again as he has been all tournament.

33:01

And serve extremely well to put himself

33:03

in those high variance spots. The

33:06

odd break point here or there on return

33:09

that's gonna have to be his game plan. He's gonna

33:11

have to play the big points extremely well

33:14

to have any chance against Docker VSiN

33:16

unless, obviously, Docker which is injury

33:19

resurfaces. Alright. Ladies

33:21

final, I'm hoping we're gonna be on the same side

33:23

of this. I

33:25

I'm gonna be on Rebocata here at plus

33:27

one fifteen. In fact, I just put in the bed on

33:29

the break here. You?

33:31

Yeah. I'm sorry. You have to.

33:33

I'm just right. I'll be riding up my my bet

33:35

first stuff or men's over

33:37

to tonight then women's tomorrow. And

33:40

and, Rob, I can Rob, I can know is this just

33:42

seems to be the obvious play

33:44

here. We've spoken a lot about this

33:46

opposition of Sabolanga.

33:48

And I think the the it makes sense.

33:51

Realistically looking at data, six month

33:53

data, twelve month data, whatever you

33:55

wanna look at, surface data and

33:58

stuff. Yes. That's just there's

34:00

no reason why it sounded like this should be favoring

34:02

as much.

34:03

You know, it's that simple? Could

34:06

she win it, of course, but she should not be favored?

34:08

And Rebochen at plus one fifteen is is

34:10

a fine number right here. What a what a final

34:12

that should be? Does Abilene could try to win her

34:14

first slam? Rebach gonna try to win her

34:17

second one. And, hopefully, if she does, she'll

34:19

she'll actually show some emotion this time

34:21

when she does. Because she

34:22

yeah. Which is interesting to think because,

34:24

obviously, Sabolone had never

34:27

even registered a slam semifinal before

34:29

-- Right. -- tournament. So so right

34:31

back us got this experience of

34:33

winning a slam now at one point in last

34:35

year

34:37

and possibly might be a little bit more composed

34:39

on the big stage haven't had that experience,

34:41

but I think the prices are the wrong way around

34:44

here. Last thing. French

34:47

VSiN, Wimbledon, US Open.

34:49

Each its own surface moving forward. Is

34:52

there I mean, these numbers are

34:54

available. Is there a bet out

34:56

there that you look at it? don't know if it's

34:58

Looks like an ego in a French open now is

35:00

all the way as a minus one ten. She's basically,

35:03

you know, the odds on she's she's gone

35:05

from being thirty to one in twenty twenty.

35:08

To what was it? It's four plus four fifty

35:10

last year. They can't remember what she

35:12

was. They didn't play it. No. Pardon me. I

35:14

can't remember what she was the year before. But

35:17

now in twenty twenty three, she's minus one ten.

35:19

She's four to one at Wimbledon, a Surface she's

35:21

never won a tournament on. Maybe

35:24

on the men's side, Carlos Alcarez. Versus

35:26

Rafael this time around. Carlos Alcarez, obviously.

35:29

The the word is out if you will. You

35:31

can't get the same numbers you used to. Is

35:33

there a player matched with a certain tournament?

35:36

Maybe it's the US VSiN on the men's side that you

35:38

already are looking at

35:39

you. Like, I I'll bet that right now. Not

35:42

so much French, in

35:44

particular, which is the next the next slam on

35:47

the on the calendar. And and, ultimately,

35:49

I think a lot is gonna depend on how Raffa

35:52

recovers from these injuries and loss

35:54

of former he's had. I think we 26 see

35:56

a lot from him in the

35:58

Walmart event, you know, the

36:00

Monte Carlo VSiN Ryan, for example, Barcelona

36:03

perhaps. And if

36:05

if we do see that then

36:08

the the higher price the balance is obviously

36:10

obviously big. But what that's far from

36:12

a given, we don't know what his level's gonna

36:14

be, and we don't know what what what sort of fitness

36:16

network is gonna be either. So that's tough.

36:19

I'll just check check yours on bed fair for that, and

36:21

Jacobich is actually favorite, ahead of Alcaraz,

36:23

ahead of Nadal. So

36:26

that's that's gonna be a fascinating tournament

36:28

for sure. Long

36:30

shot for that, could Casper Root do something

36:33

maybe?

36:34

Could we could be something to look up? Again, these

36:36

warm up tournaments are gonna be so huge. Yeah.

36:38

So huge. Casper Root who just got absolutely

36:41

rolled by Nadal in the finals last year.

36:44

One would one would think that that experience

36:47

would would advance him this time

36:49

around, but who knows? I mean, like that he just

36:51

looked the stage was just too big for him last

36:53

time. Yeah. The thing is,

36:55

I think they've kind of got

36:57

closer ability since then. Yes. So

37:00

that's gonna have to be positive. Okay.

37:02

Dana, we always appreciate it. Thanks so much for

37:04

joining us as many times as you have, and then

37:06

let's go Elena Rebakina tomorrow night.

37:10

Absolutely. 26 Gil. Take care. 26, Dan,

37:12

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37:17

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Yeah. -- or on on most improved, most

42:31

valuable VSiN six

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man. So this got

42:34

it this seeped into my timeline last night.

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Well, I gotta ask you. Todd Wishbone's

42:38

here in Vegas. And I'm

42:40

back Pittsburgh. He'll be here on the megapot. was

42:42

weird because when I first saw this video from

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his Duquesne game last night -- Yeah. --

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I I thought that Todd respectively must be

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at the game. Who was ordering

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Postmates to the game.

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So this is a guy who is

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at the Duquesne loyalist cargo

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game with a put with a McDonald's

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And he's asking where's my postmates

43:01

delivery? He's asking who are the postmates?

43:03

Alright. This is clearly a

43:04

bet. But I clearly is

43:06

clearly a hoax. It is. Right.

43:08

Why do I did a deep investigation on

43:10

it earlier? He is wearing a lovelier mic

43:12

you can kinda see at the top of his collar.

43:14

Which is those little mics that just clip on your

43:16

collar. So he's doing it for someone and

43:18

apparently all the students in the stands had

43:20

their

43:20

theirness. There you go, isn't it? See how so a

43:22

little black thing

43:23

Nice job. Nice job. Yeah. Good job.

43:25

So he's wearing a mic. So it's for 1.

43:28

But you know what? I'm gonna applaud the guy. Usually, this

43:31

is the this is

43:32

the, like, if it's a streaker situation, you don't

43:34

wanna show him because you don't wanna promote this

43:36

activity. But here's here's thing here

43:38

between literally as the game is

43:40

being played, I'm just gonna look at him.

43:42

He's just casually rolling on the court. He

43:44

could pat the player on the back. Oh,

43:46

yeah. Totally. Totally. Yeah. So so to have

43:49

that kind VSiN at

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here, he's just rolling out. That's cool.

43:51

This could be He was talking about the other side. Filing.

43:54

He's like, I just made think college kid is

43:56

probably, like, I made a hundred and seventy five

43:58

dollars. That was like, you've never been you've

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never been at Vegas and you're walking around

44:02

one of these hotel casinos and you're, like, see

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one of the bike ballrooms has some event

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going on. And I'm always like, I'm gonna go check

44:08

this out. Like, let me go dip VSiN real quick and

44:10

see what's going on. Because the worst thing that's gonna

44:13

happen is 26 of this is to say, Who

44:15

are you? And what are you doing it here? And I'm gonna be like,

44:17

oh, man. I didn't even know what this was.

44:19

Sorry. I'll get out of here. Boy,

44:21

these kids the day, man. Onions.

44:25

Good for him. And nothing happened

44:27

to

44:27

him. Like he said, they just shooed him off. It

44:29

went right back to the stands apparently. With his bag

44:31

of McDonald's. Awesome. Hope

44:33

he made more than 1 hundred VSiN five dollars, but

44:35

that's what I'm guessing. That's my guess on the on the

44:37

amount of money he made for that bet. Betty did

44:40

The the play by play reaction is

44:42

interesting. You should think that They did a

44:44

great job. Yes. The play by play

44:46

guy sussed it out immediately. Now he didn't realize

44:48

it was a

44:48

hoax. But he's sussed out that it was an Uber

44:50

Eats type of situation. That's a good point. actually

44:52

didn't give him enough credit for, yes, he picked

44:54

up on it, like, on nearly a medium.

44:56

Yes, he

44:57

did. Chelsea maybe means there's more

44:59

people involved in this. Oh, maybe. Yeah.

45:02

Alright. NBA awards. Let's go to most improved.

45:04

Now Kelly and I have talked about this before. Lauren

45:07

Markening of the Jazz is your favorite

45:09

minus one twenty five shake Gilles Alexander.

45:11

No relation. Plus fifteen. Everybody

45:14

else is a distant long shot. And

45:16

again, with most improved player

45:18

if you look at the history of this award, it

45:21

typically goes to an NBA player

45:24

who was already good, was already

45:26

a solid player that you know about, who

45:29

elevates to a near elite

45:31

level, if not elite. And usually in

45:33

that third to fourth year window.

45:35

It's That is Shay Gilles Alexander.

45:38

Laurie Markinnon is

45:40

not that guy. VSiN from relative obscurity.

45:42

Now I get it, we know who Laurie Markinnon

45:44

is. Good guy when he was in the Pac twelve tournament

45:47

for Arizona. He was awesome even then. We thought

45:49

he'd be the next dirk. But for the casual

45:51

NBA fan, it's abs it's

45:53

it's obscurity to being

45:56

good. That person typically

45:58

doesn't win this

45:59

award. Yes. Now, I think this

46:01

is getting interesting. I I do agree

46:03

with the odds shortening, but I I added

46:05

I added another SGA bet this week

46:07

at plus one forty. I found that number VSiN nine

46:10

1 forty. Nice. So here's your comparison.

46:13

I jotted down these notes this morning.

46:15

I'm not gonna say blind resume because kind obvious

46:17

who's who wants a big, 1 a guard. Right?

46:19

But marketing. Okay. Last year, fourteen

46:22

point eight points points per game. Five

46:24

point seven total rebounds, thirty five

46:26

percent from three. This year jumps up

46:28

all the way up to twenty four point

46:30

eight points per game, so that is a ten

46:32

point differential. Eight point seven

46:34

total rebounds. Three so improved

46:37

on three rebounds a game and is shooting

46:39

forty three percent from three. And is an

46:41

incredible level of improvement for

46:43

where he was at a year ago. SGA,

46:46

last year, twenty four point five points per

46:48

game, five rebounds, six assists

46:51

a game, a little over one steal thirty

46:53

percent from three. This year, thirty

46:55

point eight points per game, five

46:58

and half assists a game, five rebounds

47:00

a game, almost who steals a game

47:02

over a block a game and improves

47:04

to thirty six percent from three. He

47:08

fits the formula VSiN as

47:10

long as he is in the conversation for

47:13

scoring leader in the NBA and

47:15

he's top five right now, I

47:17

I just I don't see how you don't give it to this

47:19

guy. Lowry Markinnon is doing incredible

47:21

things. I also think that how these teams

47:24

end up performing is going

47:26

to it it could possibly decide

47:28

this award. And right now, you're talking about

47:30

them pretty tight. But

47:32

the Jazz are gonna Jazz are gonna move pieces

47:34

they're going to move pieces here before the trade

47:37

deadline. And the thunder or

47:39

not, I think the Jazz are continue to gonna

47:41

continue to struggle or who would struggle

47:43

even more than they have here. And the

47:45

thunder they've been good the past month,

47:47

and I don't know if they can keep up that level of

47:49

play, but I think they're still gonna be scrappy

47:52

through through the end of the regular season. So I

47:54

really like

47:54

this. If you can get plus plus money on SGA,

47:57

I think it's a good bed right now. I do

47:59

too. MVP, Nikola Yolked,

48:01

is now minus one forty. 26 three

48:04

feet. It's incredible. At MVP award.

48:06

Luca Doncic is the closest at plus four twenty

48:08

five to Yolked. In NBA history,

48:11

The only three people to win three consecutive

48:13

MVP awards, Bill Russell,

48:15

Wilt, Chamberlain, and Larry Joe

48:18

Bird.

48:19

It's wild.

48:20

That's it. I can't argue with the odds at

48:22

this point. If he if he ends

48:24

up leading the league and assists, he's

48:26

gonna win this I mean, you're talking

48:28

about the first big man to do

48:31

this. I think it was since will 26 lead

48:33

the league in assist at

48:35

one point. I

48:37

he's gonna win this award if that happens. I think

48:39

the only bet right now you could even possibly

48:41

consider is VSiN Tatum. Only

48:43

only the I mean, and this is JBT said this

48:46

yesterday, I think he said it really well. 26

48:48

Tatum's level play really hasn't fallen

48:50

VSiN, and the team is still the best team in

48:52

the NBA. So if there if there was anybody

48:54

else gonna bet in that market right now is the only bet I can

48:56

make. Six man real quick?

48:59

Yeah. This one this one's wild. We'd need

49:01

more time to go through this. Okay. West Brook

49:03

minus one fifty, but we've kinda talked

49:05

about this. I don't know if he deserves to be that guy at

49:07

the top. Where I he maybe deserves to

49:09

be the favorite, and it shouldn't be this big of a

49:11

gap, though, between everybody else.

49:12

Mark Badida, let's draw a poll of twenty or

49:14

excuse me, thirty two NBA writers from

49:16

all thirty NBA cities, didn't

49:18

even have Westbrook voted on once.

49:21

Yep. And Jordan pool now, right after

49:23

I made the

49:23

bet, Steve Kerr said, oh, he'll be starting from here on

49:25

him. It's back tweet what he after.

49:28

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