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00:03 All right, so the Cavs covered the big spread in the last game.
00:08 And Jacob, it certainly is set up again for that tonight.
00:11 It's more or less the same team playing.
00:13 We don't know if Mitchell's gonna play, but
00:14 the Celtics are 14 and a half point favorites.
00:17 Total is 205.
00:19 I don't feel like the Cavs are done.
00:22 I think that they can hang around in this one.
00:25 But man, it would be shocking to see Cleveland win again with a point spread of
00:28 this nature, wouldn't it be?
00:29 >> It would be, but I'll say this about this Celtics team.
00:34 And I felt that I'm from the Boston area.
00:36 I've grown up a huge Celtics fan.
00:38 I watch them play all the time.
00:40 This team seems to lack a killer instinct and just kinda smell that blood in
00:44 the water at times where you look at them and say, yeah,
00:47 this is a game that you should win.
00:48 This is a game you need to win.
00:49 Even last game, it was Donovan Mitchell was out, and
00:51 you said to yourself, the Celtics should dominate this game.
00:55 It was close down the stretch, and I know the Cavs played pretty well and
00:58 stepped up and had a lot of good role players play well.
01:01 Max Struess had a really good first half.
01:03 Darius Garland came alive after a quiet first quarter.
01:06 But the Celtics have the better talent, and
01:09 they need to step up at home, shut out the series.
01:13 But I just don't have faith that they're gonna do that.
01:16 So this one's a stay away from for me cuz I don't know.
01:20 I just have seen them too many times have that big lead late and
01:23 they kinda tense up in that last five minutes during clutch time.
01:26 So they scare me a bit.
01:28 Maybe that's my inner fan talking and trying to hedge my own bet,
01:31 the fact that I'm rooting for them.
01:33 But man, they are a frustrating team to bet at a big number sometimes.
01:38 >> Yeah, this is not a seven point spread either.
01:40 I mean, it's 14 and a half.
01:41 All right, so final game of the night, Dallas at Oklahoma City.
01:45 It's coin flip city for me, Jacob.
01:47 I got no feel whatsoever on the series.
01:49 Total is 213, Oklahoma City minus four.
01:53 Has Oklahoma City played better in the series than Dallas?
01:57 That's probably the only thing that I can say here is they have played better in
02:00 the four games.
02:00 But that doesn't mean that they're gonna win tonight.
02:02 It certainly doesn't mean that they're gonna cover.
02:04 If Luka goes off like Jokic did,
02:06 I think Dallas is gonna win the game tonight.
02:08 What do you say?
02:08 >> Yeah, it's so hard.
02:11 This series, I agree with you, complete coin flip.
02:15 I always look at the team with the bigger star power.
02:17 I think Luka Dantic can put the team on his back a little bit.
02:20 So that leads me to wanna go with Dallas at this plus four number cuz I'm saying to
02:25 myself, this probably comes down to the last shot.
02:27 Then you're playing the free throw game though and
02:29 if Oklahoma City wins, you probably don't cover.
02:31 So I probably would stay away from this one too.
02:35 But if I had to go with either side, I just think Dallas,
02:38 they have the experience.
02:40 They have Kyrie Irving and Luka Dantic, a little more star power.
02:43 I think the Thunder need to take some more lumps before they're ready to be
02:46 a finals team.
02:47 Similar to the Timberwolves, I think both of them get eliminated eventually.
02:51 So I'm gonna go with the Mavericks here.
02:53 >> All right, take the points, tough game to call, I would agree.
02:56 This series has been really tough.
02:57 All right, Jacob, enjoy the rest of your week.
02:59 Thanks again for coming on Newswire.
03:00 I'm sure we'll be chopping it up about the NFL schedule next week.
03:03 Thanks for coming on.
03:04 >> All right, thanks for having me, Craig.
03:05 Take care.
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