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As mentioned Aaron Dolan will swing by later on to answer your betting questions across the NBA both for tonight and tomorrow. So make sure you get those betting questions ready. But for right now we're talking to MLB DFS and we're starting things off with Jason. Jason on YouTube is correct. He's saying looks like there is a lot of rain in Detroit and Chicago and indeed there is. We pull up the forecast here from Kevin Roth over at Rotogrinders and as you can see things are not great. He did update it and it sounds like he is viewing there to be a decent amount of rain for Houston and Detroit which is kind of what I originally expected where this thing might be a little bit dicey. As far as Chicago he does not list any risk there. There is some rain as we go over here to the dark sky weather forecast over on number fire. I guess I would guess that game is good to go based on what Kevin said. Let me refresh this quick to see if he's had any updates on that game specifically. Yeah. So just isolated showers and thunderstorms he says there. So looks like we should be to go in Chicago. I am pretty wary of Detroit versus Houston right now. So I am not proceeding as if that game won't play but I am making alternative plans around that one for sure. Let's talk to you better odds underscore NJ. Do you play DFS? That's what we're here for. We're here to talk some DFS of course you know. Gotta get that action in otherwise I'd have a very boring night after I get done signing off in the air here at 430. Let's talk to you Mike. Do you still live in Bellinger? Oh believe in Bellinger. I was like I never lived in Bellinger. Is that a place? Do I believe in Bellinger? So for me with guys who are hurt coming back from an injury I always want to check their recent numbers and I put specifically value in plate discipline numbers coming off the Angelus. I want to see if they're seeing the ball well because timing matters a lot. It's tough to come off the aisle and immediately jump back into things and play very well. So two starts back Bellinger does have a couple of strikeouts across eight plate appearances. That's not too bad. Let's see what the balls he's put in play have been doing. I guess yeah. So he walked every time yesterday but the day before that a couple walks there as well. So only a couple balls in play for Bellinger. Not a whole lot to go off of. So I guess I would say yes. I do believe in Bellinger. I think it's fair to like downgrade him obviously but it's still broadly I believe in Cody Bellinger. So yes the answer to that is yes. Jason I have a picture for you today. Mike Miner. Okay. So Jason is asking about Mike Miner. So let's pull up the pitching sheet over here. Mike Miner facing the Rangers. I like Mike Miner. I think he's pretty good pitchers. So in general I am good with Mike Miner. The reason I'm probably not going to be quite as high for today is because there are other guys I like more. That's not to say I dislike Mike Miner. This is over his three starts with decreased fastball movement. So it doesn't look he is one of those guys who may have been doctoring the baseballs a bit but a 3.58 skill interactive ERA 25% strikeout rate 3% walk rate. He has still been very good. The Rangers not that great versus lefties with the 85 WRC plus. So yeah I think Mike Miner works. He's on the road which is always I mean I don't outside of Coors. I don't think many pitchers get an upgrade when they go on the road. So to me I would say he's an option and I'm okay with him not actively seeking it out but I do think that he is an option for today. Let's talk to Dennis is asking about Yanis and his 35 points. That'll be later on. We'll talk to Erin about that and get her thoughts on some player props for tonight. Jeremiah says you've been on the money the past few weeks. It's been a good few weeks. I had a rough patch there at the beginning like May or so but the past few weeks have been better. I'm not sure if it's because of like the sticky stuff and paying super close attention to that or what it's been but it's worked out well. So no complaints here for sure. Jackie over on Twitch. Welcome back Jackie. Smart move to stay away from my Cardinals yesterday. Pitiful. I said not to stack the Pirates and that you know I should have done that I guess apparently. Adam Frazier. Someone asked about Adam Frazier and he went off. So kudos to everyone who asked about Adam Frazier. I was not there. Very much so. The Cardinals. It's rough. Kim does a good job expressing our contact. So hopefully Jackie you can get back in the wind column for today but not a game I'm turning to for DFS for tonight. Let's talk to Nick. Quiung Kim against Pittsburgh or Gonsolin against the Cubs. Start which one? Preferably neither because Kim doesn't get enough strikeouts for me to consider him for DFS also facing a low strikeout team. So not enough upside there. Gonsolin coming off of a shoulder injury. He got hurt. I don't know if he got hurt during the game or what but he left after 46 pitches. He's going to start but his velocity was way down. So I would say neither if you can avoid it Nick. Jackie what's your best value pitcher or pitchers for today? I think there are two who great out well. I define them as being value pitchers because basically they're not Carlos Rodan. But the two guys I like for today are Chris Paddock against the Diamondbacks and then Pablo Lopez against the Nationals. Very scary to use someone who is facing John Lester or not John Lester. John Lester is not a threat at the plate but Kyle Schwarber is. So that's scary but something Lopez grades out well. My preference is for Paddock. Facing Arizona they love to lose. I guess this is the best way to phrase that. 80 WRC plus versus righties, 130 ISO, 25% strikeout rate, great matchup, good weather for pitching for today as well. And Paddock has been better. He's been increasing his curveball usage over his past seven starts kind of giving him a third effective pitch and he's worked, he's done well. 29% strikeout rate, 3.21 skill interactive, he already 4% walk rate in that time for Chris Paddock putting that in a good matchup. He grades out well. The reason I still prefer Carlos Rodan over Paddock and Lopez is Paddock doesn't go super deep into games. He'll go 90 to 95 or so. Past five or past four has been 93, 94, 84, 87. That's not great. So I prefer Rodan who will go like 116 or so. But I do think that Paddock works if you can't get to Rodan from a salary perspective. Let's talk to DJ. Did you use the Cubs excuse note from Twitter to get out of work? Go Cubs. Wait. Oh, go Cubs. Sorry, I thought you said go cats. It's subliminal messaging here isn't wearing my Northwestern shirt. I did not use a Cubs note for today. I woke up to the notification that I threw the combined no hitter. I am too old DJ to stay up for that late watching games. So I'm washed and I will fully admit that. Diffuse. Are you high on the reds at all? They're facing Drew Smiley and Smiley is a guy I have targeted with stacks quite a bit so far this year, but he's been changing things up a lot. He has been altering his pitch mix pretty dramatically and it worked really well back on Sunday, I believe it was when he was starting. So the hard contact against Smiley has been down over his past four starts with less movement. So the reds are a consideration because Smiley does let up fly balls and in the passes allowed hard contact. I am lower on them because Smiley has made gains with the bad ball suppression over the past couple of starts. So I think that they are an option, but I'm not super high on them personally. Let's talk to Alvin. Do you like the Marlins? Is they stack or a one-off? Not there personally because John Lester does a good job with contact suppression and it's a bad park. Also not a great offense versus lefties. Lester is someone I am broadly okay stacking against if it's a really good offense. Marlins aren't quite that. The reason that I'm hesitant with Lester is that 37% hard hit rate allowed. This is over his five starts with more sinkers and more curve balls. 33% fly ball rate allowed. So he's keeping the ball from, you know, they're not whacking it against him basically. So I think that I'm okay being lower on the Marlins. You mentioned one-offs Alvin. Alvin, I think I'd be more okay with one-offs than stacks. So that's a consideration, but not high on my list. Jackie, I heard you mentioned in Shwerber yesterday. That would have been a solid pick. So like I was answering a question about Shwerber and someone else's on him. I mentioned him in passing. So the true credit goes to, I can't recall specifically who was talking about a national stack. They wanted Shwerber, Turner and Soto. Kudos to them. Shwerber is disgusting. So the congratulations go to them for sure. Let's talk to Conrad Lopez or Paddock. I'll go Paddock over Lopez by a bit because of the matchup. I think that Lopez has a fine matchup despite the Shwerber presence, but I do think the Paddocks is better facing Arizona who has not won a game on the road since I'm pretty sure was 2008. So it's been a bit. So I'll go with Paddock over Lopez, but they're definitely the top two guys for me after Carlos Rodin. I would say though that if you get the all clear on the weather with the Houston, Detroit game from our Valdez and we have my number two pitcher behind Rodin for tonight. Let's talk to Sonny. Can you offer some home run predictions for tonight? Okay, so let's get some home run predictions for tonight. I want to get to a good park for hitting Ronald Lacuna juniors back in line for tonight. So we could consider that against Drew Smiley. Griffin Canning, what's up a lot of impactful contact for the Angels facing the Rays. I talked about Austin Meadows on the solo shot this morning as a being guy I would turn to. Padre's in a good spot versus Corb more, but not the best park for hitting Dingers there. So if I'm going to narrow things down, I guess I probably do want to go to Blue Jay. Talk this morning about Marcus Semian as being my a Dinger pick for the Blue Jays and I'm kind of inclined to stick with that. I know Semian was a pick here on the show earlier on Semian batting leadoff for the Blue Jays for today. His numbers versus righties, a 48% fly ball, right? 257 ISO. So I'm going to go Marcus Semian, Kevin Bijio's betting sixth. So that's, I thought he bats seventh. That's better than expected. 39% fly ball, right? Not enough to get me to go off of him, but I'll say Marcus Semian for one. Number two, if we want to do one that's a bit more fun. I did talk about, who was it this morning that I talked about? I don't remember my second home run pick. Oh, it was Austin Meadows. Okay. So it was Austin Meadows this morning. I kind of want to go with the, with our, no, I don't want to go with the Reds hitter. Let's go with Semian and Meadows. I think I'll keep with those for right now as the Dinger picks for today. Very indecisive as you can hear. Let's talk to Jason. Top stacks for today. Reds, Jays, Marlins. I like the Jays a lot facing Matt Harvey, not as high in the Reds or the Marlins. I'm fine with the Reds, against Smiley, but not super high in them. I would say the Jays are number one. The Astros are up there if they can play. Like, if that game is able to play through the rain, I would say it would wind up being probably Astros one, Blue Jays two. I like the Yankees a lot against Martin Perez. He has struggled a bit since the sticky stuff discussion began. As you can see here, a 6.47 skill interactive ERA in three starts in June, more walks and strikeouts, and is bad at ball suppression not as good as it was previously. I think the Yankees are a pretty good stack for tonight and one that I would like to go to for sure. For me right now, it's Blue Jays, Astros, Yankees. Then if you need a fourth one in there because of the question marks around whether or not that Detroit game will play, I would go with San Diego number one. I know I saw Matteo earlier on asking about them. Matteo, I am on board the Padres as well. Kyle asking about thoughts on a Tampa Bay Rays stack. So the Rays are facing Griffin Canning. Talked about this this morning, but he lets up a lot of impactful contact, and the Rays can make hard contact as well. Crossfore starts for Canning with more curveballs. He has allowed a 49% hard hit rate, a 51% fly ball rate. So, Kyle, they are strictly for tournaments because they will strike out. Canning can get strikeouts, but I think if you're okay with that risk, they're a good stack. So, yeah, I like the Rays for today. I think that they tend to set up pretty well. They're not going to get us a lot of value for today if we're trying to get to Carlos Rodin. And also, lineups are a little funky with no Brandon Lau, so that kind of stinks too. So, the absence of Lau makes me kind of sad, but I think that they're still an option. Yanni Diaz is not a guy I tend to use versus Wright. He's just not enough loft there, but the Rays, I think, are okay for today. DJ Valdez or Minoah and same teams for Stack. So, Valdez, if he plays, I love him. I think he's great. He's a good real-world pitcher facing a team that will strike out versus lefties. So, I think Valdez would be great. So, hopefully, we get Valdez. As far as stacks, I would say if that game plays, Astros buy a hair over the Blue Jays, but it's close. Both those two teams will be my top two stacks for tonight. Mateo, love the Potter's offense. What do you think? You mentioned before, I think they're probably like, depending on whether the Astros play third or fourth ranked stack for me for today. If the Astros go, they're ranked fourth. If not, they're ranked third. Facing Corbin Martin, who has struggled both in AAA and the majors. The only reason they're not higher on my list is because of the Park. 69 degrees in San Diego for tonight. Nice overall, but not nice for hitting. So, they do want to blow her as a result of that, but they're still high. Third or fourth is still pretty high for me. Dennis, Sean Minoah. Not quite there because he's facing a team with a lot of righties. Minoah's strikeout right versus righties goes down to 20% compared to 30% versus lefties. I will use him against a team that has a couple more lefties like you're facing, the Mariners or the Rays. I'm there against the Giants. Not so much because they are so good at getting out platoon type guys. Mike, who is the best waiver wire pickup, Monday, pitcher and batter? I'm bad at season long. Sorry, Mike. I'm not going to know there for sure. DJ. DJ was the one talking about Shorber yesterday. DJ, kudos to you. Let me know who to use for today because, clearly, you should be hosting this stream, not me. Let's go here. DJ is asking about Valdez. We talked about that before. Alvin, how do you rank the blue Jays bats? The blue Jays. Let's go over here. We had, I think there was someone who was out of the lineup for today who I was not expecting to be. Actually, all the usual dudes are in there. We are good to just rank them however we want them. I'm going to go Vlad1. Shocker, I know. I'm being bold here. I am being bold by putting Vladimir Guerrero Jr. number one among the Jays. Marcus Semyon 2. He can get steals, a lot of power. No questions there. Bo Bichette will be number three for me. Then we dip down to the other guys here. Because Matt Harvey struggles so much with lefties, I'm going to bone Kevin Vigio up to number four for tonight behind Bichette Semyon and Guerrero. He's number four. Then it's between Gritchick Hernandez and George Springer. Because Springer has struggled still coming off the injured list, I feel like I'm going to wind up favoring Gritchick and Hernandez over him for today. Now, that's tough because Springer is batting fifth and Gritchick is batting seventh, but I think Gritchick is kind of the one guy who gets you some salary savings on this Blue Jays team. Let's pull up the salaries here over on FanDuel. Gritchick's salary $3,000. Actually, it's not a whole lot, but it's lower than Springer. Springer is $4,000. I think that's a lot for a guy who has struggled so far off the IL. I'm going to go with Vlad Semyon, Bichette, Vigio, Pioskar, Gritchick, and then we'll go with Springer after that. Let's see here. Dennis Rodan, eight strikeouts. If you're talking about like betting player props, if Rodan's number is eight, yes. I was on the morning after on sports grid this morning with Ariel Epstein and Ben Stevens, and that was one of the guys we talked about there. I said that like if Rodan's number was anywhere under like 28 and a half strikeouts, I'd take the over. Obviously, a slight exaggeration, but also not really. I think that if you can get it at eight, I think that's tremendous. Rodan has been really good even when he's been pitching with the after the sticky stuff. He's had a 30% strikeout rate in all three starts in June. If we look at his six starts, the more sliders, a 39% strikeout rate. The Mariners, 28% strikeout rate versus the lefties. Rodan has been 106, 103, 106 pitches over his past three starts. Rodan, number one pitcher for DFS, and if you can get him at eight, I would say hit the over there. Conrad, Vladimir Gutierrez, ERA is in suspect based on how he's pitching thoughts in Atlanta bats with Akunya being back. It is suspect because as he's gotten stretched out, the things he's been doing well have been coming back to earth. The big thing he did well was suppress hard contact, but over his past three starts of this pitch count being fully up, his hard hit rates up to 33%. That is still better than Lee Gavridge. Lee Gavridge is, let me check here, it is 39%. So he's still better than Lee Gavridge there, but it's been sliding back. And the problem with Gutierrez, it doesn't have a lot of wiggle room there because if that number comes down or goes up, I should say, he's going to get in trouble. Let's have a lot of fly balls. Doesn't have the best play discipline number. So I think the Braves are in play for today. Good park as always. So I would say the Braves, especially if you need salary savers to get to Carlos Rodan, I think the Braves great out really well. Very okay with that. Dennis asking about Minaya to getting the six Ks. I would not be there personally as a result of the platoon numbers we talked about before. Let's talk to DJ Valdez. Oh yeah, talked about that before. Okay. So let's talk to David on YouTube. Minoa is starting after he was suspended for throwing at the Orioles revenge game. Yeah. So revenge game narrative in play here for sure. I thought it was weird that they didn't let the suspension go through. Usually, I mean, they're appealing. It's like they're appealing. But like, I feel like they should just let the suspension go through rather than having to face the worlds once again, because like, I downgrade pitchers and they're facing a team for a second consecutive time. So I would say I'm going to downgrade him as a result of that. If anything, maybe the Orioles get revenge game against Minoa. I don't know. I think that I'm a bit concerned about going there as a result of this being a repeat matchup. So not super in a Minoa tonight. I've been on Minoa previously. We'll be there again, but not for tonight personally. DJ, what do you think about canning against Tampa Bay? Not there personally too much hard contact for him. Good team. And I just worry about the potential for them to take him deep. Dennis is asking about Joey Gallo one hit against Mike Minor. No, I'm not super, super into that one. Jason likes Reese McGuire. Okay. So I believe he's betting ninth. Yeah, betting ninth. Okay. So Reese McGuire versus Rides, 141 iso. It's not terrible. Luckily on Fandley, you don't need to use a catcher so I can avoid it pretty easily. McGuire, $2,200. Would I be shocked if you homework tonight? No. So if you want to go there, I'm not going to talk you out of it. I probably won't personally just because I'll probably have better lower salary options. But hey, I think that, you know, Jason, that's not a terrible idea. I'll say that for sure. Jonathan, should I stack the Rangers lineup against Kansas City? No. I think Mike Minor is pretty good. So I would not go there personally. Jackie, I just locked my lineup. I'm still in the beginner section for fantasy games. Good luck. Again, we always talk about like specific questions here as, you know, talking about that specific slate, but you know, you can always ask process-based questions too. So like if you're confused like, hey, what do you look for in pitchers? What do you look for in stacks? Stuff like that. Or what is a stack? Feel free to ask that too. More than happy to take process-based questions as well throughout the show for today. Let's talk to David. Revenge game for the Orioles. Going to light up Minoa. Yeah. So that's what I was thinking. Like I think that the Orioles might be more mad at Minoa than he's mad at them. So I think that I'm not going to stack the Orioles, but it's enough where I'm not going to stack or use Minoa either. So good process-based question here from DJ. What is ISO? ISO is isolated slugging percentage, which means it is their slugging percentage minus their batting average. Basically, it's a measure of how much power you have. And the reason I care about that for DFS is because like singles don't do a whole lot for you. And I'm accounting for strikeout rates in general by, you know, looking at trying to target pitchers who don't get a lot of strikeouts. So let's take the blue jays here as an example. You see their WRC plus that accounts for their walk rate that accounts for their strikeout rates that accounts for on base percentage, all that stuff. Like it takes into account everything that you do as a batter. I don't care about a lot of that stuff. I care about balls and play and power. So to me, I want to sell out to maximize the ISO of the batters on my team because I want guys who if they make contact are going to do well. So that's why I focus so much on ISO. It's a huge thing for DFS. And DJ, I'm glad you asked because it's an important thing for you to know as you, you know, get further into DFS. ISO is a thing you want to maximize. You want as many extra base hits as possible because extra base hits are your pathway to having effectively. Edward, should I use Mike Minor? Much of before I think I'm okay with him personally, like I'm not like actively seeking him out, but he's not a bad option. The Rangers, obviously not great versus lefties. Minor can get the job done. 25% strikeout rate in three starts with decreased fastball movement, 3.58 skill interactive ERA, decent matchup. He's on the road. I do downgrade pretty much all pitchers on the road, but I think he works. Again, I'd rank him below Patek and Lopez, but I think he works for sure. Jackie, of course, my phone freezes up right when you put my comments up. Sorry about that, Jackie. Just put more comments in. There you go. Problem solved. We can always find ways around that for sure. Dennis, Molina, or Vato, home run. They're facing Will Crow. Crow does a good job of suppressing hard contact, so I would not be in on the Reds here personally. Cal is looking at Mike Minor after stacking Toronto. Cal, go Chris Patek. Come on. We talked about this. Go Chris Patek as your pitcher. DJ, stack the Giants against Oakland? No. Like I mentioned before about how I'm not in on Maniah because of the platoon numbers, but the platoon numbers, the struggles versus righties are not big enough where I'd want to stack them. Maniah is a good pitcher. It's also super cold there today, as always. 57 degrees in San Francisco for today, so I will not be stacking the Giants despite the fact I don't want to use Maniah as a pitcher. That's the main thing for me so far for today. Jackie wants to go at the Rangers pitcher for tonight. Jackie and Cal are on the same team, I believe. Cal is in Mike Minor too. Jackie and Cal both in the same team here, going with Mike Minor for tonight. For me personally, I'm going to go with Carlos Rodan. I haven't talked a lot about him. He's $11,200. That is definitely not easy to get to, but it's also not super hard. 29.75 left. Let's see if the Yankees line up isn't yet. Cal's on paddock. We're good to go here. Carlos Rodan, we're going to go Yankees. See if the line up is in. Is it in over here yet, or did I just refresh too late? Let me refresh one more time here to see if the Yankees line up is in. No line up yet, but I know we've got likely Luke Voight available. Hopefully, Gio Urchella is able to play. If we go with those two guys, we're up to 30.83. Gabor Torres doesn't have a lot of power so far this year. Let's check out Miguel Andujar. See what he's done versus lefties since he came back and see if we can have any faith in him as a lower salary play. Maybe he plays, I guess, hopefully he's not a third base, but maybe a spot opens up if Urchella can't play. Let's see here what he's done. Andujar, 51-played appearances. Oh, 61 ISO. That's not great either. Torres, 0.75 ISO versus lefties. This is pretty rough. So I would try to get to some value on the Yankees. That should make it easier to get to Carlos Rodan. I feel like they're kind of one of the more logical places to go for value. Braves are the other place, I would say, to look for some value. You've got Riley, Almonte, Swanson, William Contreras, I think is actually not a terrible option. So all four of these guys could work as value plays to make it easier to get to Rodan. And I would try whatever you can do to get to them for tonight. Got a question over on Twitter. We've got to wait for Aaron. This dude is only MLB. You're right. Aaron's going to be talking NBA here in just a bit. So do not fret. Aaron will be up with you to talk NBA in just a little bit. She'll be on very soon. A couple more questions here before we hand it off over to Aaron. DJ, Jonathan India, question mark. Yeah. I think that you're looking for a value play. You could take Smiley Deep. I think that is an okay way to go. Jackie needs a big day for Mancini, Machado, Donaldson, Albies and Frank Franco. I'm not super into the Orioles personally. I have a lot of respect for Minoa, but that's where I'm at for that. Alvin, your Blue Jays rankings factor in salary for Rodan are just in general. That was in general because I feel like I'm probably not going to be able to stack the Blue Jays with Rodan. But if you're trying actively to get to Rodan, that means you're probably looking at Bizio, Gritchick. I know Gouriel had a grand slam a couple of nights ago, but not super there. So Alvin, what I would say is stack the Braves to get the salary savers and then see what you can get to on the Blue Jays to see if you can make that work there. So I think that's where I would be there. That is all that we have for the MLB side of things for today. We're going to transition over now to talk some betting with Erin Dolan. She was here yesterday, had a lot of fun. So we're bringing her back on one more time. At least I had fun listening to Erin. So it's exciting to have her back here once again. Erin, we got a big NBA game tonight. Another one going on tomorrow. How are you doing? Yes. I'm great. How are you? I'm watching your show right before this. Very good. Have I gotten you hype enough to actually do some MLB DFS? Can I get you on the train? Or are we still just betting here? I'm still just betting for now. You got to get me on a train. I feel like the NFL season is a good time to start that up. Okay. Well, this is now my new life goal is to get you to play MLB DFS. Oh, that's a tough sell for me. I know. I get it. It's a tough sell for a lot of people and I totally get it because there's a lot of weird stuff that goes into MLB DFS. So many. I get it. But my new life goal is to get you to play MLB DFS. And I'm excited to work towards that. But I'm also excited to hear your thoughts on tonight's game. How are we feeling about the NBA tonight? I'm feeling a little mixed emotions. I feel like tonight's a big prop night just because I last game I was like the box are going to go off. They're going to go off in Atlanta one. And as you know, they absolutely devastated me in the series before. So I think the box do win tonight. But there's just a few things that are kind of freaking me out a little bit. Okay. Well, I'm going to let you talk through that and take some questions about NBA betting and get set for that game tonight. Aaron, good luck tonight with your bet. Yeah. Of course. Have a good weekend too, Jim. You as well. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. Have fun. Yeah. All right, guys. How is everybody doing? Great to be back once again. I saw there was already some questions kind of filtering through as Jim was passing it off. So I'm just scrolling up just to see some of these. Let's see. All right. I know a lot of people are going to want to be coming at me for the one thing with the eight and 10 rebounds off the bat. Just going to say it's based on NBA stats and we're not going to have to worry about that in this show because there's nothing we can do because it's NBA stats. But anyways, big game two tonight between the Hawks and the Bucks. As you know, for game one, the Hawks were able to win by three points. A lot of the player props that I liked did pretty well, but I was really adamant about Drew Holiday shutting down Trey Young, which absolutely did not happen. So I was taking the under on his points prop there, but unfortunately, that's not going well for me because he had 48 points. So it's really going to be important for this game from Milwaukee one to shoot better from the three point line. That was terrible. They shot terrible all around, especially everybody besides for, of course, the Greek freak, Giannis. The team's definitely going to have to step up and figure out which direction they're going to go, especially in terms of defense. I feel like they tried to figure out a way to shut down Trey Young just was not working. He was absolutely just shimmying on them. And then of course it opened up the doors for other players like Clint Capella to be, you know, scoring a lot of points when they're kind of had their eyes focused on Trey Young and solely on him himself. So in general, tough game one for the Bucks, but not too surprising that Atlanta won. I know that line had opened at seven and a half moved to eight throughout the few days leading up to that. Cause obviously the lines aren't posted the morning of like the normal typical NBA schedule since we are in the post season, they're posted about two days before. But the line basically looking the same, which is what freaks me out a little bit right down the Fandalsports book. As you can see for the spread minus eight and a half, this just jumped up half a point within the last half hour and the total also dropped down. It was two 26 and a half down to two 25. Now for the spread, the reason I'm freaked out about it is because if you go to odds fire, you can find whatever game that you were looking to bet on. So let's go to NBA and you find the game. And as you can see, 85% of the money and bets right here for the spread or 85% of the money, I should say, sorry, 61% of the bets are on the Atlanta Hawks. So why in the world is the line moving out in favor of the Bucks in the last half hour, if more money is pouring in on the Atlanta Hawks, that to me makes absolutely no sense and screams to me. If I was going to play the spread in any type of way, I would take the Hawks plus eight and a half. Another thing that I had mentioned, first half spreads, the Bucks always cover the first half spread. It's minus four and a half. Once again, I took that last game, they ended up covering it at basically the last second. But if you want to take the Bucks on the spreading, you feel more confident in one of the others, I would definitely go with the first half spread, especially since they played terrible in that first half. They had a lead at the majority of the time in the first half, but still, it was just, it was an ugly sight, I think for the Bucks. I think they just obviously all around played terrible. And then you can also see for the total here, money coming in on the under as well as more bets coming in on the under as well, which so that's not too surprising seeing that come from 226 and move down, that makes sense. But again, for the spread, that makes absolutely zero sense. So I'm staying completely away from it. And if I, if I had had to pick, I would definitely take the Hawks plus eight and a half. Let me get into the comments Collins over nine rebounds. I'm going to get into some of the player props that I like, but that is one that I do like it's nine and a half on the Fandall Sportsbook. He had 15 last game. I've been taking him for the majority of the playoffs in terms of rebounds and it's always been working out for me. I'm kind of surprised it's not been adjusted to higher than nine and a half for this game, just given he had 15 last game and he continues to keep hitting the overs in terms of his rebounds. But hopefully the books don't notice that maybe they're watching the stream and then they're going to switch it up. But let's get into some of the, I guess, markets for this game. For usual, these are the most popular markets. I mentioned the first half spread four and a half. As you can see, not the best value there. Also another thing that I mentioned is playing these points match bet A and B. I actually like Trey Young for this and Drew Holiday. So what's interesting about both these players, of course, Trey Young had 48 points last game. He absolutely annihilated everybody in that game, but had way more points than Yanis. So if you think that's good value there, I don't know what the bucks are going to do to shut him down, but Trey Young always seems to figure it out clearly considering the Sixers as well in the series before. And as for Drew Holiday, he had, let me see, he had 33 points last game opposed to Chris Middleton having 15 points. So I actually liked that a plus one 62 as well. And then to record a triple double, we have Yanis a plus seven 50. He almost did that. He needed one more assist last game, and he would have hit that, but I don't like anybody in this market tonight to have a triple double. And then of course we had the same game parlay as the next tab. This is unique to FanDuel and I'll give you a same game parlay at some point in this segment, but just wanted to mention that player points. Obviously, I feel like a lot of people like to do to score 25 plus, 30 plus, 35 plus, but of course all the top guys are going to be, you know, plus money for 35 plus, but like a Trey Young at 30 plus, you're not going to get obviously the best value. So sometimes if you want to just play them straight up, his points prop is 30 and a half for tonight. For him, let me find this one fact I have about it. He has scored at least 30 points in six road playoff games so far this year. So considering I was so adamant about taking a Trey Young under points last time, I feel like I have to say over for this 30 and a half. Yanis, let's see what he's at. He's at 33 and a half yet 33 last game. So that's not surprising right around there. But yeah, the points perhaps are not always my favorite ones. I feel like sometimes like I mentioned in the last broadcast I did, it's kind of over inflated just because of some of the players like a Yanis or a Trey. But yes. All right, player rebound since we mentioned John Collins, that was one guy that I did like in terms of this. I know a lot of you guys are going to be probably commenting about the eighton thing. I get it again. NBA stats has nothing to do with Fandal. That needs to change on their end. Tweet at them. Don't tweet at Fandal. There's nothing Fandal can do. But yes, John Collins rebounds over nine and a half minus 112. Very, very much so like that. Also, Clint Capella, he's another one, 13 and a half last game. He had 19. And I feel like John Collins and Capella both had so many rebounds because they were just crashing the board non-stop and they were able to do that to do that because the Bucks were so focused on trying to stop Trey Young. And honestly, I feel like that's more so on Drew Holiday. He could not figure it out. And that was just honestly embarrassing for him. I'm just going to go back to some of these comments. Yanis over 34, over 33 and a half. Who's your favorite long shot to score 20 plus tonight? Let me go back. 20 plus points. So if you're going to do this, you mine as well. Let me see. Looking at last game. John Collins had 23 last game Trey Young, 48. So I feel like if I was having to go with someone because everybody else was 13, 12, they were basically nothing. I would say it would have to be John Collins at plus 200. That's not even considered really a long shot. So I feel like the best shot at a long shot might be Clint Capella at plus 890. It might just be him because I feel like if you're going to take a long shot, you got to have it higher odds than that. Brooke Lopez should get more points. Yes. Good point. Good point. But I probably wouldn't take Brooke Lopez for, for much. I feel like they were ripping him apart as well. He had seven points last game and he was kind of embarrassed as well. But let's keep it moving into some of the other markets. So points, player rebounds, player assist, same game parlay popular. When you go on to the Fandals Sportsbook, obviously you see all this, but I don't know if you've noticed for maybe somebody that's newer to the Fandals Sportsbook. If you hit more, you can find player threes, player combos first half, first quarter, all these other markets that are really fun to play into. But I'll click on a random one, for example, like margin. If you think they're going to win by a certain amount, there's a ton of plus value in these markets. It's just something that you have to dig into to find because obviously it's not going to be on the popular page. In terms of one other prop that prop, excuse me, that I really like. So Chris Middleton, he went 0-4-9 from beyond the arc. So I like him over two and a half, made threes for tonight. That was another player prop. And then in terms of player, I don't know, you've got to find it, you've got to find it, the doubles, player combos. So I was looking at Yanis, you can see like this is points plus assist, for example. But I'm going to go to points and rebounds. I like the under for this because he's averaging 13 and a half rebounds per game, 29 points per game. But for some reason I just have an instinct that he's going to go under this tonight. Under that 47 and a half, he did hit under this number in the last game as well. But there's a ton of fun markets like this, if you want to bet on, you know, just alternate points. And it's like, that's crazy that we even have markets that are available like this. So you can definitely dig into some of these markets depending on who you think is going to have a great game in terms of some of the different performances they could have. And then as well for this game, you can, I can keep commenting questions because I will keep going back to these. I like the player performance doubles on the popular page. Also very true. There are some of them on there. But quickly, I wanted to go into some of the other fun things that we have for the NBA going on. We have boost available for tonight, one of them being the three by two, you know, we usually have this for the TNT games. So basically we just need two, three pointers made in the first three minutes. This was brutal to watch last one. I'm going to be honest, it didn't hit last time. And that was because both sides were just chucking the ball up. They were not scoring any threes. Both teams shot terrible from beyond the arc for the entire game. So I like the three by two for tonight. It's plus 140. That's a super boost. And then we also have Yana Santicupo to score 35 plus points and the Bucks to win game two, that's at plus 220. So if you think Yana is going to go off again tonight, I feel like that's great value plus 220. And those are the two boosts that you can take advantage of tonight on the Fandals sports book. But yeah, start guys dropping some more comments in so we can talk more about the game. I feel like I kind of mentioned some of the player props that I like. We also talked about the numbers and how I feel since more money and bets is coming in on Atlanta and then you see the line shifting still in favor of the Bucks. That's a little slightly scary for me. This happened last game as well, where the Bucks kept taking it or the line kept moving, excuse me, in favor of the Bucks, despite more of the money coming in on Atlanta. So I was very worrisome about that last game, but I thought the Bucks were going to dominate at home. But as you know, I feel like I didn't think it happened with the Atlanta hops and other stat that I came across in terms of Atlanta, six and two on the road this postseason. And they've won their last three games as guests after the game one win. Very scary stat that I read this morning, because that insinuates that they're going to win today and possibly the Bucks go down two games just like they did against the Brooklyn Nets and then we'll be having a totally different conversation. I'm sure the next time that I'm on here about that, maybe an overtime game tonight. It's Mr. Jackie Moon. You know, sometimes I feel like that market is fun to bet into whereas there's always, so yes, 15 to one, no minus 7000. So this is always something I was thinking about. If you just throw $10 on this, will there be an overtime multiple games in a series? Eventually you're going to get your money back, I always think, because these odds are always so insane. But overall, this is going to be another exciting game, very crucial in terms of how the Bucks are going to stand. Obviously, the Suns had surpassed the Bucks in terms of the favorite to win it all. Now, the Suns plus 140 Bucks plus 150 Clippers plus 650, great win for them last night, Hawks plus 750. And then obviously we still have the NBA finals exact result, which you can bet on as well. But for this game in particular, Mr. Jackie Moon, I would say that there isn't just a follow-up on that going to be an overtime tonight. But we might as well answer some of the questions as well that you guys have asked me on Twitter for today. I said I was going live obviously at this time for 30 and to drop any of the questions that you wanted. So when will the rest of the country wise up and allow online betting hopefully sooner rather than later? My major at PSU, how did you get your job? I was a broadcast journalism major, this has nothing to do with betting. I apologize. And I got my job by working local news then switched to the sports betting realm and I love it. A lot of fun. Will the Hawks or excuse me, will Bucks beat Hawks in five or six? So before I was like definitely five, I was riding five. But now after seeing that first game, honestly, I think I'd switch to Bucks beat the Hawks in six. What are the odds? Ben Simmons opens next season up in a new uniform and where the favorites to land him. Don't know where the odds are, but in general, he better be out of here because as a six year span, I'm not going to tolerate that much longer. Trey and Yanis over points prop feeling. I mentioned already over for Trey. As for Yanis, I honestly don't like ever really taking him in terms of the points prop. As I mentioned, I like the points and our points and rebounds prop that I had mentioned taking the under on that I believe was it 46 and a half, 47 and a half. But yeah, so we'll kind of keep going through these. Of course, everybody's still mentioning the NBA stats thing. Nothing Fandle can do about that. Do you want Ben Simmons back next season as the last one I will show here? Absolutely not. I feel like we need to drop that conversation. Now that's for the same game parlay. I had mentioned this already. We're going to build one in a few moments here. But just in general, if you are on the Fandall sports book or even on the Fandall regular main account on Twitter or on Instagram, you'll see some of the major parlays that people have hit. And I just want to know when I'm going to be lucky enough to hit one of these. This is so wild. So this one was $10 turned into $2,155. You could see this was from last night's Clippers Suns game. So that's pretty awesome. That is a five game parlay there. Awesome. There was another huge one that I saw. This one was not for the NBA, but just $10 into $92,000. Could you imagine? I wonder if this person, because in my mind, this is what I would think. If you had just put $15 on it, had you just put $20 on it, just an extra 10 would have made all the difference in how much money you would have won here. But this was absolutely an unreal parlay to win. That was not a same game parlay. That was just a regular parlay. But yeah, we love when you guys send in some of the parlays because then we'll obviously post these and whatnot, but just all around. You got to love the same game parlay. So why don't we build one together? So I feel that when you are going to make a same game parlay, you want the odds to be as high as you possibly can make them. Of course, you could take a bunch of things that you think are going to hit at minus money and you will of course get it at better odds. But I feel like it's fun to try to build one that's going to kind of pay out a ton of money if you possibly can. So let's see. I kind of built one out already on my desktop here. So we'll kind of fill this in. All right. Let's go to the same game parlay tab. So the first one is going to be to record eight plus assists. I'm taking Yanis for this last game. He had nine assists. He's only averaging six assists in the postseason. And I do understand that. But I like this a plus 240. It's a good way right off the bat to kind of beef up your same game parlay. As I mentioned, you could totally take some of these, for example, if you liked your holiday minus 128, that's not terrible to throw that into your parlay. But some of these other players like Chris Middleton at this number to score down plus points, like you don't want to add that into a same game parlay. That's not going to do you any, any good. Okay. So I liked that another random one in terms. Let's find it. Chris. Chris Middleton made threes over two and a half. I already kind of said that I like that as a regular prop, but I just wanted to throw that in there because I felt pretty confident considering he went 0 for nine. And I feel like he really has to step up this game. And he always plays well at home, which is why I was kind of surprised he played so terrible on that game one, because I would have liked him for a lot of the props for game one, just because of how well he played against the nets at home. He didn't play the best against the nets when he was at the Barclay Center, but just at home was definitely a difference maker. Where was the other one that was at some money? Let me see. Sorry guys, there's so many markets in my eyes are not that great. I definitely need to go to see an eye doctor. Where are our points? All right. Well, I have it on my desktop. It's Pat Cohns and under six and a half points because that's a plus money as well. And this will end up paying out 2242. Let's see if we can do this. Sorry guys, see this command F just a little here we go right here. We're going under. Sorry Pat, we're going under. All right, let's see what this pays out. There's this. All right, wait, I definitely have more in this parlay there. Okay. So the final leg of this, since I said that I would stay here from the spread, but in the same game parlay, might as well throw it in plus eight and a half. This has seemed so fishy to me that more of the money is coming in on the hops and the lines moving in favor of the buck. So this is what you would make on this. If you put $10 on this, you make $218, but $5, you make 109. If you want to put $1, you make 21. If you're putting $100 on it, you'd obviously get paid out a ton more. But I feel like, like I mentioned again, same game parlay trying to beef these up as much as possible because that's what you want to do. And again, you don't have to put, you can put two legs, you put three legs, you put 15 legs, as many legs as you possibly want. You could go through so many of these markets. There are a ton. And even if you are building one and you go to a different tab, sometimes you'll see the little SGP thing. That means you can add it to that same game parlay as well. So that's kind of just a fun thing. Of course, if Andal has that everybody should be taking advantage of as well as the odds boost. So let me go back to some of the questions now. PJ Tucker made one three-point tonight. His over under is five. He made one, is making one tonight or you're saying, or he made one in the last game? I'm going to need you to follow up there while I look for the step. He had four points last game, assuming that you're saying he made one three-pointer last game, a point five. That might be a good look. Collins point prop. I feel like everyone in this, anytime the landwalks are playing, everybody's on Collins, whether it's his rebounds points prop. Let's see, last game. He had 23 points. Yes, like I mentioned, 23 points, 15 rebounds. They're probably trying to figure out a way to shut down him and try young at the same time. So Clint Capella might have to step up in terms of, I mean, he had 19 rebounds. How much more could you possibly step up? But in terms of points that maybe look at Clint over taking John Collins, although I did mention over his points prop already. First basket is always amazing odds. Yes. First basket, I feel like everybody loves this. And I've only hit it. I hit it on Chris Middleton. My only first basket I ever did. And I did on the TNT, the group chat, Bleacher Report, a betting show. And I got very lucky, but you had to parlay it with something else. And I took him in Kauai and Kauai did not score the first basket in the game after. So that was a little disappointing because the odds were absolutely insane and amazing for that. But yeah, guys, we have like four more minutes here. So please drop any other comments that you guys have. Again, game two available right now is the Hawks the Bucks. Bucks laying eight and a half total of 225. That's come down from 226 and a half. Bucks laying the points in the first half. Yeah, first half spread. The Bucks kept covering this against the Nets as well. So that's kind of the trend that people have been following. I'm surprised it hasn't moved up to maybe like minus five and a half just considering that they keep hitting that. But last game, again, the Bucks were easily covering that. And then in the last two minutes, the Hawks came back and then they sealed the deal and actually, actually covered the spread. It was they were up by five at the half. So literally just covered that spread. Clippers value play hedge in the series. Let's see what we're out here for that. So as for the Clippers, we obviously know we have hoping them coming back from an O2 deficit. They won the game last night. They potentially won the next game. I wouldn't be surprised if Devin Booker plays a lot better than he did in that game three. Same thing. He hit his under prop as well as Chris Paul hit his under prop as well. He just did not look that great last night. Chris Paul, especially in that first half, I mean him and Devin Booker cannot score at all. I don't know if it's the face shield for Devin Booker or what's going on there, but the Suns were minus 900 yesterday. They're at minus 420 to win the series now. Clippers still good value at plus 330 if you think they're going to come back. I would just take that. In terms of winning the NBA championship, these odds plus 650 is probably going to go to plus 300 plus 400 if they win game four. And of course that game will be tomorrow. But I wouldn't hedge just yet depending on, I still feel like the after last night, the Clippers have semi a shot if they win the next game. Is that supposed to be Lopez six rebounds? I need a little more clarity on that Dennis. All right guys, two more minutes here. But I have to find the stats for him really quickly. Give me two seconds. How many assists is he's averaging 1.9 assists or rebounds? So we have to find what that would be yet for that point. So it's rebounds at 17 and a half or what was it again? You wanted rebounds and assists six and a half. To be honest, I would just stay away from that type of market. I mean it's minus 111 minus 115. If you want to take the over or go for it, I mean, if you're going to play that, I would just take the over. It's never fun to take the under, but it's just probably not something I would focus on just given all the other markets right now. He's technically hitting just at the six. So if you think he's going to play better than he did in game one, I would just take the over there. Eight and rebound. No comment. I've commented multiple times. It's up to NBA stats. It's not up to Fandall. So no matter how many times you guys tweeted us today, it's NBA stats. Nothing we can do about it. I'm staying away from Lopez rebounds. Burn me 20 times for seven footer. I feel like Stephen A. Smith was going off about Lopez for sure on first take after that game one. So I feel like a lot of people are staying away from Lopez in terms of his player props. I personally never play him in terms of any of the player props. So I'm with you on that one. All right, guys. Well, again, game, game two tonight for this, and then we have the Clippers and the Suns we playing tomorrow. So excited for that. Again, all this available right now on the Fandall Sportsbook. They have odds boost up right now. You can do your same game parlay. Hopefully Jim did great in the Q&A before and helped you guys out on the DFS side. Hopefully this helped you for, again, game two tonight. Subscribe, like, follow this page. Thank you so much for joining us in this, and we will see you next week.