 The NBA playoffs are in full swing and we have three elimination games on the schedule tonight. So it is win or go home for some of these playoff teams. These tubes have been incredible. Thanks for hanging with us. You're watching Fandalsports with more ways to win. I'm your host Lisa Kearney and welcome inside our sportsbook here at the middlelands in New Jersey. And we have of course our experts breaking down all the NBA action for you. Dave Weaver and Ed Egros are inside our Los Angeles studio and of course as always Andrew Philpone joining us from Pittsburgh. What's up guys. We're breaking down tonight's matchups along with the upcoming playoff games. Our guys are picking winners betting player and game props for you as well as dishing out some futures bets including NBA champion. All bets you can hit up right now on the Fandalsports book app. You can take all our experts information use it to place your bets from your phone. 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And I thought in this game six it would be the Celtics that would be facing elimination but unfortunately for Toronto they lost a home game in game number three and that very devastating overtime loss but I don't see them losing two games at home in this series. I think they do make it three in a row. And one of the reasons they won game five so easily is they prevented Philly from getting inside. They forced them into a series. I thirty seven threes in that game and the sectors only made 10 of them and overall they only shot 38 percent for the field. I think they can once again defensively just put too much pressure on Philadelphia and force us into a game seven like Toronto personnel is going to matter a good bit in a game like this. And I do not think we're making a big enough deal about Matisse Thay bowl not being available for Philadelphia. He's not available to play in this game and he's an outstanding perimeter defender and he's a really good closer for the sixers. And so now who's going to be that guy to kind of shut down Toronto possibly shooting on the outside. I'm not sure there really is one you know Joel and beads you know usually playing down low for the most part. And so that's going to be a problem and I get Toronto not having Fred Van Flee is going to be an issue for them offensively. But look the closer not being there for Philadelphia is going to matter a good bit. But this half court offense matters a good bit when it comes to Toronto past Calciacum. Oh gee a new Anuobi. They've been great in transition and then the other guys have been excellent supplementing that half court offense. To me I think Toronto can win this game and force a game to win. We'll see how this one plays out going to be a great one there. And of course in addition to betting the spread you can also bet the total for this game that over under sitting there guys at two 10 and a half. And I'm going to start with you here. Are the 76ers and Raptors going over or under that number two 10 and a half. I love the under in this spot. And what's interesting is you think about some of the big guys who can play for Philadelphia. Well it turns out they're the worst team in terms of offensive rebounding rate. They're not getting those shorter possessions those shorter shot clocks and both teams played a slower pace of play anyway both in the regular season and in the playoffs compared with everyone else who's made it this far. So slow pace no offensive rebounding take the under we've seen a lot of totals in these playoffs in the two 30s. This one's two 10 and a half for a reason. This is just going to be a low scoring game. Toronto's best chance of winning is something like 105 to 99 something like that both games in Toronto have gone under and one of them has gone over time and still went under. So I just think they know that they need to control the tempo of this game keep it slow win it in a low scoring game. I like the under as well. And I too much green. What's going on too much. Yeah right. Let's get that. Let's get to some props here then. We got your picks for the spread. Got your total there. Take a take on that. Let's have now choose some really fun player props for this matchup and Dave got to start with the player props with 76ers all star center Joel and you guys talked about him already. Is he going over or under thirty nine and a half points plus boards. What do you think. Wow that really dropped with that number like 46 and a half when we covered him in game one. The market has adjusted and for good reason he has not been getting to the free throw line as much as he was during the regular season in this series. I mean that seems low actually thirty nine and a half compared to where it was. I don't think he's going to get it though. I'm going to go under. OK. Let's get to the Raptors top score there in Siakam and over or under twenty four and a half points for him. Just points there at twenty four and a half. Keep in mind again Fred Van Fleet is probably not going to play in this game and so the shots have to come from somewhere else. Not to mention Fred Pascal Siakam loves to drive the basketball scoring in a variety of ways has a high usage rate already that should go up in an elimination in elimination game. Elimination game say that and at home I think there are enough reasons to take the over. I try to avoid saying that word. All right Dave James Harden is the average nine point two assists in this series. His total set here at nine point five. How do you play it. Yeah he only had seven in his last game. I think baskets are going to be hard to come by. I don't think it's going to be fast break points where he usually gets a lot of his assists on the break. I think he's going to have to maybe be more of a score in this game than a passer. I just don't think he's going to hit that number. I'm going to stay under. All right should be an interesting one there in Toronto. Let's move on now and get to the second game on this schedule tonight. We have Phoenix and New Orleans taking on the Pelicans. This one tipping at 7 30 Eastern time on TNT. The Suns are up three two in this series but are still without their star. I'll start guard there and Devin Booker. Dave and Pony only one game in the series has been decided by less than eleven points. Been phenomenal basketball to watch here tonight. We have game six. Suns are two point road favorites. Pony give me your pick in this one. I would download the Fandall Sportsbook as quickly as you can and load up on Phoenix minus two. I think Pelicans their time has come that they are finally going to come back down to earth. I'm watching Zion Williams and do all these three sixty dunks and war buffs but they won't clear them to play. Booker is very close to returning and even without them they were able to go to New Orleans and win a game and I think they'll do the same thing here. Two points way too low. Take the best team in the NBA the Phoenix Suns. Yeah it's taking a lot longer than I thought it would for Phoenix to get this series done. I thought they would sweep them and I got to admit the Pelicans have been very pesty especially Alvarado against Paul. The main positive I think that the Pelicans have had in this series is Valetunas has been the leading rebounder in all of the playoffs and he's been a little bit better Nathan on the boards but outside of that I just think Phoenix is so much of a better team and we talked about it throughout this show over the weeks that Phoenix is the best team on the road. I think they have no problem going to the smoothie king arena which is going to be rocking but they'll get the job done. I'm with you. Download that Fandals sportsbook app and do what Pony says. I know you guys have been high on the Suns for quite some time. I tailed off those regular teasing games so let's roll out now our prop party and everybody is invited as always guys Pony coming right to you for this one over or under 32 and a half points plus assists for Suns guard Chris Paul. What do you think you would have gone under that number in three out of the five games that we've seen in this series so far and you got to give it a minus thirty six years old. So when you have an inflated number like this not a back to back situation but still a lot of games in a condensed period of time. I think Paul paces himself so I would take the under. All right Dave this one's for you. Let's move to the Pelicans Brandon Ingram here. Will he go over or under 25 and a half points. I think this is a bad line. He's averaging twenty eight point two is two home games. He's had thirty and thirty four. He's going to need to bring it throughout. He's a very good second half score. He's clutch in the fourth quarter. If he gets any sort of a decent start you should get twenty six easy. All right Pony let's get to the Suns big man who had had a great series here over or under ten and a half boards for Deandre Aten. Well he averaged ten in the regular season. He hasn't averaged that many in this series but one of the things I like for this prop to go over is the increased playing time eight minutes per game have gone up from twenty nine to thirty five because of what Dave's talking about. You got Val and Chewness and Nance and got some bigger bodies there for New Orleans. I think that helps him get over because of the increased playing time. All right finally Dave over under two and a half three pointers made for CJ McCollum. It's been one of my favorite bets all year long with this guy. It's always his number two and a half and he usually goes over and I think he'll do that again in here. He's averaging nine threes attempts in the series and three point two made so that math tells me he's going to get three. All right now let's get to third game six tonight. We've got Dallas and Utah tip scheduled ten p.m. Eastern time on TNT Dallas is up three games to two and looking to close out the series after a twenty five point win at home in game five Mavericks are giving one a very tight line here at how do you feel about that number. Here's the deal. Do not succumb to recency bias. I get the Dallas had a phenomenal defensive outing in game five but a lot of that involved what they did to Donovan Mitchell and yes he may not be quite a hundred percent in a game like this but in all likelihood he's going to go out there and play keep in mind too that bringing in Luca Doncic after injury coming back that's not helping this team defensively he can do a heck of a lot of things offensively in isolation but defensively actually take a bit of a step back when he's on the floor and so to me this is going to be a great opportunity for Utah to kind of get back to their bread and butter shooting a lot of corner threes I think they'll hit a lot of them I like Utah on the money line and forcing a game seven. So do I think a lot of betters just look at that line and get hoodwinked by what happened in the last game. Look the jazz shot three a 30 from three that was a first in NBA history they're not going to shoot it that bad. I think there's a narrative out there that the jazz players don't like each other that they're not conditioned for playoff basketball while Dallas flew a three two series leave last year and they're the worst scoring team in these playoffs go by the number so I'm going to take the jazz to force a game seven two. All right great stuff guys. No player props listed for the jazz at the time of the taping the show so we're just going to go ahead and focus on a couple Mavericks props and a game prop for this matchup. Let's get to both of you to pick out of this one out here. Over or under forty eight and a half points plus rebounds plus assists. You guys talked about looking at this earlier and I'm going to have you go first. So when it comes to Luca keep in mind that his usage rate has been fifth highest in the playoffs is again coming off of injury and that's only going to go up because of his usual workload that you expect from him also to Dallas is probably going to play a good bit of small ball because it's tend to work against Utah in the playoffs and so the rebound number is the key for me. I think Luke is going to be the one collecting a lot of those boards. That number will go up. You can expect a good points and assist number from him as well. I like the over. Yeah I'm going to go under here at this third game coming up an injury. I want to see how his body responds. He would say from an intensity standpoint this is going to be the highest level of play we see from the jazz. If it's not then they should blow the whole thing up. So because the game is in Utah I expect we get the jazz's best effort and I think that drives the Dodgers number down. And I need you to talk to me about Dorian Finney Smith here. We're going over or under 12 and a half points for him. I think there are too many paths for the under here partially because Luca could be creating a lot of his shots and could go off for 50 points in a game like this. Also Dorian Finney Smith could be more of a facilitator in terms of finding Jalen Brunson finding Spencer Denwitte or he could just not play that many minutes too many paths I'm going under. OK Pony how about this game prop for you. What is the win margin of this one. You see the four betting options on your screen there. How do you play this one. I'm a big fan of big payouts. I like rolling the dice. I'm a better. That's why I like the Utah jazz to win this game by 11 plus 400. Now this should be Donovan Mitchell if he doesn't play I will be absolutely shocked. I would be floored if he sat out an elimination game and I think they'll shoot the three ball so much better and hey they can score better than the Mavericks and I think they'll have a hard time keeping up. So I love you you're a risk taker Pony. I love it. All right. That's a look at all of tonight's games. We talk spread totals and even player and game props for you hit them all up now on your Fandals Sportsbook app or even better everyone gets a full service experience right here at the Fandals Sportsbook at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. Take a look inside if you're in the tri-state area and this is the spot to be and check it out two levels of bars food service dozens of massive screens playing all the games. So you can bet and watch your favorite teams and players right here with us. So grab your friends and family and check out the Fandals Sportsbook here at the Meadowlands open seven days a week. You've got to get here and check it out. We absolutely love being here. I'm right now we're going to get you back to the NBA playoffs and focus here on Friday's action guys just one game on the schedule. We've got the second seed to Grizzlies taken on the seventh seed to Timberwolves this game in Minnesota tip nine p.m. on ESPN that is Eastern Memphis up three two in this series past two games have been decided by a combined three points. I said at the beginning of the show we've had some great basketball here Minnesota getting one and a half points at home. Dave do you like the T Wolves in this spot. No I don't. You mentioned the last two games have been very very close but the first three games of this series have been blowouts whether it was Minnesota or Memphis winning. I think we're back to a blowout here maybe not a blowout but a pretty handy win for Memphis who is Jamerat going to dunk on in this game. He has just been so phenomenal. You know the Minnesota Timberwolves do have offense at times they were the best scoring team in the regular season but I think Memphis has them figured out and they're going to be able to defensively stop what the Timberwolves want to do and that is score 130 points. I think Memphis offense it's just that much better right now just too much firepower Grant Bain has been incredible. So I'm going to say that this game is not going to be too close and Memphis moves on. I don't know who John Moran is going to be dunking on in this game but I do know that I'm going to dunk on you for this pick because I am taking Minnesota here on the money line in large part because Minnesota is an incredibly streaky shooting team and going up against Memphis you know I have not trusted this Memphis half court offense for a long time usually it's been about offensive rebounding for them. They haven't been very good as far as that's concerned in the playoffs against this team at least and yeah John Moran has been able to produce a lot but Minnesota's streakiness means that they are probably due for some positive regression to the main. Look at these playoffs series 81st percentile in shooting in game one all the way down to the ninth percentile in game three they are due to come back at home I think Minnesota forces another game in this series. I got posterized Lisa. Yeah I was going to say I mean Ed is tall I bet he can dunk. All right you guys the total for this one is much higher than all of tonight's games of right now it's set at 229 Ed is this game going over or under 229 what do you think well because I think Minnesota is going to win this game outright it's in large part because you have a lot of guys like Anthony Edwards Carl Anthony Towns who are able to produce a lot either on their own or with some pick and rolls things like that so for that for Minnesota to win it has to be a higher scoring game and so a bit of a parlay so to speak I'm going over. You're going under. Oh are you going over. Yeah you're going over. Yeah sure I'm going over because this over has gone 230 points in this series three out of five 229 is actually a little bit low for what we've seen in this matchup and it's elimination game. You're going to have those you know intense fouls maybe at the end if it's a five six point game. I say this hits the over to all right. I didn't know if there was like some uncertainty but yeah like we're all going to go over. I'll go over to why not. All right some big name players in this matchup as well so we're going to hit some of the props from these guys. We got to start with John Ran. I just talked about him he's really showing off his skills on a national stage. Happy for this guy is a prop of thirty six and a half points plus assists Dave over or under over that take the assists out. I mean this guy that on any given night can score 36 or 40 let alone the assists that he's going to pick up. You know he's going to dunk on a lot of people. That's a 20 points right there 10 dunks. What's he need another 16 points and an assist. Easy Ed easy little low hanging fruit there OK. Pick it up everybody. For Minnesota Anthony Edwards is their rising star here Ed over or under 23 and a half points for him. He is a data scientist best friend. He is an analytics BFF. Look at his shot chart. It's all about threes or getting layups or dunks down low that's exactly what you should be doing to heck with the mid-range game because he is efficient. I'm going over. I need to get you a t-shirt that says that I love that and analytics BFF. All right from a number one overall pick in the in the draft to another here we've got Minnesota's Carl Anthony Towns as a prop of 36 and a half points plus rebounds Dave. I think he gets this you know that's the same number as job except it's rebounds that it says obviously he's going to be able to have a pretty good game on the board but he's another guy that he scored 60 and he came this year so 36 and a half points and rebounds let's go over. Yeah let's take it all right you guys right now only one second round matchup is set that's the second seat of Boston Celtics taking on the third seat of Milwaukee Bucks these two teams will play game one of their series not until Sunday tip time 1 p.m. on ABC and the line at the Fandle Sportsbook is Bucks plus five so we're going to get everyone's take on this matchup Dave I'm going to start with you who do you like here on Sunday Bucks plus five John Sheeran had a few too many pints shouldn't this line be maybe two and a half three five okay Middleton is out that's fine I'll take the plus one sixty eight on the money line I think that the Bucks win this series and win this game get things started that line is out of whack to me. Do I have to dunk on you again Dave I guess I will because I'm taking the Celtics I'm laying the points in this one if you look at all the different five man liners in the playoffs so far the most efficient one offensive and defensively belongs to Boston and keep in mind like yeah I know the Nets got swept but that was really stiff competition for Boston to get in round one absolutely sweat them look dominant there's a reason for that that five man lineup with Jason Tatum you know it's it's been just incredible you know Marcus smart all those guys it's been fantastic I think Boston covers well I think the Nets didn't care about playing defense I mean defense was optional for them they didn't travel with their defense at all that series I think the Bucks are not a great defensive team but we know the effort will be there and look as far as the Middleton situation goes I'm shocked how well Grayson Allen has played he's come up the bench for Milwaukee he's made a ton of threes he's been such a microwave player for them so I think he covers that loss I'm taking Milwaukee plus five Lisa and I'm taking them plus one sixty eight to win game one outright yeah Grayson Allen he's out scoring opponents bench by himself all right you guys that's a breakdown of every NBA playoff game currently scheduled but we have much more including our guys picks for the NBA champion also NBA finals MVP that's coming up in just a moment but before we get to that I want to tell you about a fun and free new weekly contest kicking off just this week and you can win cash just by making a few predictions about Saturdays major league soccer games check it out it's the free MLS pick them contest presented by captain Morgan you'll get points for each correct prediction and can win a share of the three thousand dollar prize pool this is a weekly Saturday contest so make sure you log on each week for your chance at all that cash here's the website to enter fandall dot com slash free games slash captain Morgan that's fandall dot com slash free games slash captain Morgan and remember it is free so check it out right now and each and every week you must be at least 21 years old to enter good luck and have fun all right y'all let's turn it back to hoops the NBA here let's focus on some futures bets we're going to fast forward here to the very last match up ahead of us and pick the team so we're representing each conference in the NBA finals you guys good with that all right let's start in the east you can see the odds on your screen right here I want to get all of you to give me your pick days your first I'm going to Milwaukee now they need to get past Boston obviously without Middleton but if they do that he potentially should be back for the rest of the playoffs or at least let's hope he will but I think they could get through this series Grayson Allen Pony pointed out he's having a good series but Pat Connaughton I mean he's another guy that's been very effective off the bench drew holiday needs to make a lot more shots than he has been he's streaky he was not very good in his last game and they still won but if he makes shots we know John is going to do what John is does I think Milwaukee is the team I like Miami here at nearly two to one path matters in terms of getting to the finals and yeah we can have a nice spirited debate in terms of who's going to win the series between Boston Milwaukee but guess what that just means the series is going to go for a while meanwhile Miami is going to get a depleted Philadelphia team or a depleted Toronto team they're going to have an easier path probably fresher fewer possibility for injuries I think Miami can get to the finals yeah I'm a big believer that in today's NBA it's offense that wins not defense so all the old heads out there that say defense wins championships frankly I think they're wrong with the modern NBA and Milwaukee is the best offensive team they score more than anybody in the east they shoot the three better than the Celtics and they've got Yanis the most complete player I'm taking the box wow I feel like that's a safe play all right you guys same drill except for the West now we're going to go around the horn again Dave who's your Western Conference champion oh it's the Suns and they're not even favored anymore everybody's on Golden State no thank you the road goes through Phoenix they had a great regular season they're going to have the home court and I think the odds are great right now that they're not even the chalk I was on Golden State if you recall so I'm basically pot committed at this point talked about the great line up the Golden State has it remember dream on Green and Steph Curry not played much in the regular season kept together but now that they have unbelievable I've always been a value better I think that Utah is going to come back to beat Dallas so if Dallas is five to one right now Utah is 32 to one if they win that series it flips so give me the team that's 32 to one right now and is going to make it to the second round all right guys so now we have the teams you think we'll be playing in the finals let's get to the end of that series and see about which team will be the crowned NBA champion when it's all said and done here once again odds right there on your screen Dave who do you like and why I'm sticking with Phoenix they've been the best team by far throughout the year a little bit of hiccups with the Devon Booker going down but he'll be back and I think they're offering great value right now they're a plus two seventy when the playoffs began and now they're up to almost plus four hundred thank you going with chalk in Golden State at three to one I'm expecting a Warriors heat NBA finals and I don't think that heats vaunted zone defense is going to do very much against that death lineup of Golden State even the second tier in terms of Jordan pole and Andrew Wiggins they're capable of producing a lot of offense on their own I just don't know how Miami can stop everybody all the second highest scoring team in the NBA is Memphis so what I do here is I look at the teams on that graphic and I ask myself how many of them can win an NBA championship I think the top six so I'm going to take the team with the best odds there Memphis ten to one to win the championship. All right great stuff got you by you guys let's focus down which player will shine during that final series of handle sports with odds for finals MVP are on your screen right now Dave you going chalk are you like a long shot here. No I like Devon Booker he was plus nine fifty yesterday I think that plus seven fifty is a great indication that his hamstring is getting better day by day and he's looking to play maybe a game seven if they need it which I don't think they will but he'll be ready to go for the next series give me Booker. I have Golden State winning at all but I'm going to go with Drayman Green getting MVP honors in large part because if Miami the final I'm expecting slows that series down that it's going to be an individual defensive stopper who may stand out a good bit more than say one guy who's shooting lights out and Drayman Greens defense we know some of the best that we've seen in NBA history I think he is the finals MVP well can someone explain to me if the Suns are still such a popular pick why is eight and so low. I mean he's very capable through rebounding and being a double bubbles machine of becoming the most dominant player for the Suns in an NBA finals victory so I just don't understand why he is so far down the board. I think he's amazing value I would bet him. 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