*** Play In Discussion Thread ***
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I'll have thoughts today but Lakers are a good bet (ats or ML in a parlay).
KJ
Bump. Set. Shuma!
Wolves are a train wreck, hard to see them really stoked to play any more games
Inspekdah
My man, Michael Jordan!
Yeah there’s not great incentive to be a 10 seed vs a lottery team in all honesty. This isn’t March madness. They need to tweak it.
Inspekdah
My man, Michael Jordan!
It’s looking like that worst trade in NBA history. Fortunately they have Ant who is going to be unbelievable. Maybe a top 5 guy. I would have gone the other route last summer and traded D Russ and Kat for 7 first rounders and told Ant to recruit 2 of his buddies in the next couple of years.
These are my basic Minny thoughts...
Lakers side, I want to see some defense. The trades improved that part. The coach sucks, otherwise they could actually develop a plan that shields LeBron (horrible team defender now).
Overall, Lakers should win this by 10+ imo. I think they will be highly motivated.
Minnesota can't see much success past this, I just don't see it.
I did play the side before the Gumby news came out.
I'll likely parlay them ats (Philly fits the bill)... And play live as well...
For reference...
That girl behind Rahm and Brooks has gone viral for being so cute. Dancer from Texas Tech. It's funny - I totally noticed her watching live thinking wow she's cute. Guess I wasn't the only one. Surprised those 2 didn't talk to her waiting for Cantlay. LOL
Watch a lot of Lakers here in LV as all their games are on TV here. Tend to agree with you though 6.5 a bit tricky - plus Minnesota plays better without Gobert so no real help there. Thinking maybe LAL and Mia ML parlay maybe.
guaranteeed
Pretty much a regular
They've been very good since trade deadline, havent seen all the games since lebron came back but it's mostly been defensive improvements
Not sure what it ended up but I remember reading a few weeks ago they had highest d rating in league since deadline
Vanderbilt allowing AD to roam more disrupting passing
Reaves is a legit good player now too
No McDaniels too, right?
Inspekdah
My man, Michael Jordan!
Pulled a Lebron and broke his hand. Idiot.
number2
Pretty much a regular
Played Reaves point props last week of the season and the P.R.A. too…..quite profitable
Along with Luke Kennard 3 point props too….
number2
Pretty much a regular
Austin Reaves point prop at 15.5 and pra at 23.5….both seem kinda high……3 point prop at 1.5 +114…….
I’ll rather play the 3 point prop as it’s 1.5 even though he don’t shoot a lot of 3’s….hopefully he’ll go 2-3 from 3…..might still play the points prop too…..heck…..play all 3 separately and then parlay them 3
I’ll rather play the 3 point prop as it’s 1.5 even though he don’t shoot a lot of 3’s….hopefully he’ll go 2-3 from 3…..might still play the points prop too…..heck…..play all 3 separately and then parlay them 3
KJ
Bump. Set. Shuma!
Well it opened 5.5 and moved to 6.5 pretty quickly...then after the Gobert news it moved to 8.5 and has stuck around there.
Couple ways you can play, either parlay the ML with something you like or the way Lakers defense has been playing the Minny tt under is in play although no Gobert means they probably score more.
Between infighting and punching walls in the last week there's just nothing inspiring about them
Hulu
#3DownNation
Second best record in the league post ASB. Only Bucks were better by a half game
Hulu
#3DownNation
Heard today that 7/8 of the first round of play in games have gone under over the past 2 years. And 1Hs were more under than the full game.
2 chances to middle and 1 complete buy off...
Line changed by submission.
So, hope for a late bevy of three's and FTs.
jedi ninja
Larry the liberal
I'm obviously missing something here....but every team had a positive free throw differential? How does that work?
That's a great question.
I've seen the top 5 etc thrown around for a few weeks so I put this up basically to highlight the two stat muse did.
Sorry for that. I glanced top and bottom.
Interestingly enough, I looked through some quote tweets and replies and not one person mentions this.
jedi ninja
Larry the liberal
I ran the same search on statmuse and didn't get this answer.
It doesn't seem mathematically possible for every team to have a positive differential does it?
The Kings are also 7th in the league in FTs attempted this season, so it makes this stat even more confusing.
jedi ninja
Larry the liberal
I also looked through and didn't see anyone else asking. But the comments were mostly just Laker fan boys or haters just talking about them. A couple said it was misleading and then posted the total FTs attempted by each team.
jedi ninja
Larry the liberal
Well yes, theoretically the positive differentials and the negative differentials would equal zero. Just like it would with goal differential in the NHL, run differential in MLB, and point differential in the NFL.
jedi ninja
Larry the liberal
But now I'm REALLY curious to see what that tweet is all about and what's it's supposed to actually be saying.
Alright, hold on @jedi ninja ...
We both looked at this wrong.
FT Differential
1st Lakers
2nd Kings.
Each number there is 10 higher/lower than the other.
We both looked at this wrong.
FT Differential
1st Lakers
2nd Kings.
Each number there is 10 higher/lower than the other.
jedi ninja
Larry the liberal
Ahhh, okay. Someone did ask that in the comments...does this mean Sacto was second in the differential.
So that was just filler to show how big of a gap there was between first and second. They could have added (1) and (2) after each team to make it easier. Hehe
Absolutely.
I'm blaming outside factors for not noticing that
. 32 sets of numbers, so it was close enough to appear that way.
jedi ninja
Larry the liberal
Absolutely.
I'm blaming outside factors for not noticing that
32 sets of numbers, so it was close enough to appear that way.
I knew that I was obviously missing something. I'm blaming myself for not realizing the numbers were just 10 less all the way to the Kings.
Espeically since it was a statmuse tweet, I figured it was a stat (and tried to run it myself). Was an odd tweet to put out the way they did considering how their site works.
jedi ninja
Larry the liberal
At least I noticed it didn't make sense (as did you) that every team couldn't have a positive differential. Lol.
