NBA Tips: LA Clippers -3.5 & Over Against the Lakers
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00:00 Man, I, uh, my favorite play tonight is going to be the Clippers minus three and a half.
00:08 I also like the over in that game.
00:10 We got no, uh, Paul George tonight.
00:13 I actually weirdly think, I mean, obviously that's not better for them, but they're just
00:16 going to slip a mere coffee in there.
00:19 That makes me, that definitely does make me like the over coffee's not near as good of
00:22 a defender as George, but maybe more importantly, it's going to mean that Kawhi has more responsibility
00:27 on offense, so he's going to be a little bit less locked in on defense.
00:32 Just have to expend a little bit more of that energy, but I sort of feel like the Lakers
00:36 are getting it done via smoke and mirrors right now.
00:40 They are up to 31 and 28, but they've been winning some of these real close.
00:45 They got smoked by the sons.
00:46 They got smoked by the warriors.
00:48 They barely got a win against the Spurs.
00:51 They still don't have Jared Vanderbilt.
00:53 They still don't have Christian Wood.
00:55 So their rotation is getting pretty, pretty thin.
00:58 You know, a lot of Rui Hachimura in there, although Dinwiddie has been, I think a real
01:03 upgrade for them.
01:05 So I like that spot and, uh, I mean, come on.
01:08 I always like, I always liked the Denver Nuggets.
01:10 The Nuggets are in the midst of a really important run right here.
01:13 They've got like five, uh, important games for the standings in a row concluding with
01:19 the Boston Celtics on Thursday, I think.
01:22 So there is a, there's a pretty important run that they're going right here.
01:25 And my guess, Carver, they're going to super go for it like the next two weeks to figure
01:30 out if they can get the one seed or not.
01:32 And if they, if they just, you know, they drop a bad game here, drop a bad game there.
01:36 I think we're going to see a lot of, and they're just gonna be like, we'll take the five seed.
01:39 You know, we don't care.
01:40 Yeah.
01:41 They're one of those teams, especially listening.
01:43 They won last year.
01:45 They know what the deal is.
01:46 I don't think it matters to them.
01:48 And think about who the ones in the twos potentially are going to be Davis.
01:52 Like you think Denver's going to be worried about going to OKC or going to Minnesota or
01:57 going to even the Clippers.
02:00 I don't think that would scare them at all.
02:02 It's not like you have the Lakers stacked or Phoenix stacked up at the top.
02:07 I think Denver knows that they can go on the road and win in any of those places.
02:12 And that's why they ain't as scared if that does happen.
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