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00:00Team USA men's basketball off to a great start yesterday 26 point win in the
00:08opener against Serbia covering is a 13 and a half point favorite minus 550 is
00:14the price on the Americans to win their fifth consecutive gold at the Olympic
00:19Games who's better than that team USA women's basketball they've won seven
00:23consecutive gold medals the hefty favorite to make it eight in a row and a
00:2822 and a half point favorite in their Olympic opener against Team Japan today
00:34I'm mad at myself DRS 19 and a half the spread when we looked at this line ahead
00:39of the opening ceremonies on Friday we have said it often Team USA will not be
00:44judged by winning gold they will be evaluated by how much they hammer teams
00:48the international gap in women's basketball still much wider at this
00:53moment than what we see on the men's side 19 and a half on Friday what CLV we
00:59could have had if we bet the number they're under 20 yeah 22 and a half now
01:04160 and a half the price point here at the fan blue sports book it should be a
01:07runaway and also the same thing Ben that I talked about with Team USA from the
01:11men's side show up in that first game show your dominance send that message to
01:16the rest of the Olympic field that you're not playing any games in this
01:19point so I take a look at this and say we need a 20 plus point victory just to
01:23set that tone not whatever it's like hey looks like there might be beatable the
01:27WNBA all-stars handled their business going up against Team USA ended after
01:31this we don't want to have any talk where maybe teams can approach the
01:35women's team and say you know what we're gonna win the gold medal not you stop
01:39the madness blow them out today blow away Japan absolutely so and again Team
01:45USA is going to be fine the last time they did WNBA versus USA at the all-star
01:51break in the W was 2021 WNBA won what happened for Team USA they won a gold
01:59medal easily for their seventh in a row Team WNBA all-star would be maybe right
02:05behind Team USA in a gold medal contention standpoint if Team USA was
02:11gone and they entered Team WNBA all-stars as Team USA they might be
02:16minus 2850 to win a gold medal not the minus 3,000 price that Team USA is as of
02:23this moment PRS you see 22 and a half and those of course the odds for where
02:29things stand from the perspective in the gold medal hunt I do believe it is worth
02:35noting some of those props that are out there look juicy
02:39Sabrina you'd ask you nine and a half points plus money the over Asia Wilson
02:45and Brianna Stewart by for the highest points props in this game Wilson twenty
02:49and a half yeah that's spot-on Stewie who was about the only good performer
02:53for Team USA in that WNBA all-star game in Phoenix a couple of weekends ago
02:59sixteen and a half yeah that makes sense too but Sabrina you'd ask you's been one
03:03of the best players in the entire WNBA all season long but especially in a
03:08month of July nine and a half I know there's a lot of mouths to feed on this
03:12team but I'm going over that points prop and by the way you take a look at
03:16Inescu there three-point shots made it is a little juicy here over one and a
03:19half at a minus 140 price so if you look at that nine and a half it's almost like
03:23saying well is she gonna make four three-point shots actually get that no
03:26doubt in my mind she should be able to make two three-point shots in this game
03:28because the Olympic game again it's look three-point shooting obviously
03:32international game pro pro game here in the United States similar there but more
03:37of an issue or sort of an impact from that three-point line on the
03:40international game that's the way I look at it so if I'm approaching this game I
03:43want three-point shots here Inescu over one and a half you take a look there
03:46Brianna Stewart over one and a half and also Tarassi just depends on how much
03:49juice you want to pay at that point but Inescu he's gonna shoot more than three
03:53or four three-point shots here she should be make two of those here I would
03:56assume I would keep an eye on Alyssa Thomas as well four and a half rebounds
04:01three and a half assists of course for the Connecticut Sun she has the most
04:04triple doubles in the history of the WNBA she has double digit triple doubles
04:08the only player that has more than five in her career she will do everything for
04:14the Americans and of course a send-off for Diana Tarassi the most decorated
04:19women's basketball player in Olympic history five gold medals looking for
04:24number six has been a part of Team USA women's basketball since the 2004 summer
04:29games in Athens Diana Tarassi who had 14 points in Phoenix in the all-star
04:36game expected to do a ton at the age of 42 nine and a half her points prop she
04:43is perhaps the most decorated women's basketball player in the history of the
04:47sport collegiately professionally here she will be in Paris of course for Team
04:52USA as well yeah and I'm looking forward to what it should be nice little blowout
04:57scenario coronation and by the way is anybody even gonna come close Ben like
05:01if I had to tell you right now and say you know what each and every game does
05:05somebody get within single digits of Team USA hmm what would you say to that
05:09now because you you figure there's gonna be some adversity but I got a good
05:14feeling like Team USA embarrassed in that startup matchup I guess you could
05:18say in the all-star game going up against the WNBA all-stars I think we
05:22might be on a mission right now for the Team USA women's team that's what I
05:26can't wait to see Donnie it's how much they beat everybody down by the odds
05:31aren't or actually we do have the the odds there right Spain 24 to 1 France 25
05:37to 1 Australia 30 to 1 Belgium at 35 to 1 you can see how drastically long the
05:42odds are even compare it to the men's gold medal race where Canada has always
05:46hovered around a 10 to 1 price now in three digits alongside the Americans
05:51it's just so drastically different here you would have to assume based on the
05:55odds that Spain is a favorite to medal France a favorite to medal as well you
06:02would think let's say a gold medal game is Team USA versus the host nation in
06:06France it's going to be a French crowd it's going to be crazy I would still
06:10think the Americans are at least a 15 point favorite be my guess yeah yeah no I
06:16would agree with you there I think again double digits all the way through and
06:20I'm expecting it sometimes it's unfair to say let me just get a quick glimpse
06:24of game number one but we told you before the men started let me see what
06:28they do against Serbia it looks like they're in gear right now and Kevin
06:31Durant's back and everybody's healthy and it looks great at this point I want
06:34to see the USA women's side of it really get off to that jump like but give me a
06:38sort of like 40 to 11 in this game at one point right like whoa like they're
06:41really in it let's see what they could do yeah absolutely it would be a lot of
06:46conversation around if that happens and of course those will make comparisons to
06:52the players left at home during this long Olympic break but we just focus on
06:57what Team USA women's basketball can do in its hunt for an eighth consecutive
07:02gold medal Diana Taurasi again would become just the third ever Olympian to
07:07win six gold medals in a single event that would be crazy Asia Wilson with the
07:14Olympic glasses at the opening ceremonies they have the favorite at
07:17minus 180 to be that jumpy or the MVP of Olympic back