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Scal looks pretty confident with this. I am sold
 
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Nice writeup. BOL
 
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Quote Originally Posted by santa813:

I'm not going to be able to wager on this game because I'm stuck at work, but I'll be pulling for you Scal. Good luck 
Appreciate it.


 
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Quote Originally Posted by PeachyRider:

You forgot to mention that OKC-LAL game was the final game before the All Stat break. OKC appeared to be on cruise control the first 3 quarters (maybe looking ahead). But they turned it on late and there was nothing LAL could do. I expect OKC not to be in cruise control today until they're up big.

They on cruise control against the Suns when they up SIXTEEN last game.

And then guess who dropped FORTY ONE ON THEM.

GERALD GREEN, a guy who was ditched by too many teams to name, including the Nets who could use him badly.

And not only that, he scored twenty five points in ONE QUARTER.

Do you know why? No interior D. No Thabo or Perk inside. As bad as they are offensively, they give you legit D on the other end. Now they are both gone. 

And a guy who was going to be out of the league not too long ago, dropped 25 on them, in a quarter!

Don't think the Lakers, who just got as hot as they ever got, against the Kings, can't start dropping points on the Thunder. They can.

And we get a dozen to boot.



 
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Quote Originally Posted by instinctpicks:

Always a great write up, but I'm going to have to disagree here bud. I think saving face should've been playing against the team that represents their same city. I guess we all know who now is the superior between the la teams. Only person that really impresses me is Pau Gasol within that lakers roster and no one else. Everybody in OKC impresses me so I'll take the huge favorite tonight against the hapless lakers. GL with yours bud.

The Lakers roster is not meant to impress. There is a reason you are getting a dozen. But they are back home in front of the same fans that saw them get dismantled in the worst way in their history, against the one team they didn't want to (if it was Lebron and the Heat, it would have been like falling on a sword out of mercy, instead it felt like they got beheaded by the Clips). They HAVE to give more than getting blown out here, which the 12 is more than generous enough to handle, at home. 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by thegambler37:

sounds good but ONLY A FOOL would PUT MONEY on the lakers...GET THE darn OUTTA HERE WITH THAT BULLSHIT!! OKC$$$$$ BIG!!

Enjoy laying an unconscionable amount of chalk on the road to a team that isn't the Sixers. Far far from it....

All for the right to take OKC? That's quite a price tag you are paying.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by bet-lag:

Scal looks pretty confident with this. I am sold

Even a guy who doesn't like me much is with me. When the haters even join, and this is key, against the public (and they are POUNDING OKC right now), you know you have made a convincing argument and there is something to it.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by bullmoose:

Nice writeup. BOL
Thanks!
 
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Remember this Blake Alley-oop?

THAT moment RIGHT THERE, was the absolute bottom, possibly in Laker history (Maybe more than Magic getting HIV!).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoL7FTgNlEg#aid=P-TNbKTIYko


Now they are back home for the first time, in front of the same fans.


You think, after a forty eight point drubbing, after that dunk, after all the pain and anguish of losing that game and then having to go to the altitude in Denver, 

now with a day of rest to let it all sink in...

You think the Lakers are going to just roll over today? 

No matter who they play? You think they won't come to play????

Oh hell no! 

And the books are saying, here's a dozen and half along with all of that! All because the Thunder are coming off a loss??? A legit one on the road to a very good team fighting for a playoff spot??? 



Ok sign me up baby!



VIVA LOS ANGELES!!!
 
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No offense So Cal..I'm a grown man make my own decisions but your opening night Blazers over Suns cosyed me a nice package..it was very convincing.My problem with ur Mode of thinking..its just too much emotion involved..I am generalizing but u think just BC a has to win they are going to.I appreciated your Cowboys pick but I has that one in.I will take the Heat coming off 2 losses@bulls than betting on maybe the worse team in the West..I play more emotion with CFB...I'm just not taking the Laker+20 againstvOKC...then u talked me into horrid Knicks pick at 1%...that Blazer game...Its all.good..just don't like your they got to win.


 
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And I gave you a novel as to why they will come to play and how they will do it in the OP.

And how, the Thunder are 2-4-1 in their last seven with Westbrook in the lineup and how a previous poster noted, Perk and Thabo are out and how one of those three  was against the sixers who you can't spot enough points to right now.


That is not too impressive and looks more and more like the horrid Pacers ATS in a smaller sample size if ya ask me.

 
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Quote Originally Posted by scalabrine:

And I gave you a novel as to why they will come to play and how they will do it in the OP.

And how, the Thunder are 2-4-1 in their last seven with Westbrook in the lineup and how a previous poster noted, Perk and Thabo are out and how one of those three  was against the sixers who you can't spot enough points to right now.


That is not too impressive and looks more and more like the horrid Pacers ATS in a smaller sample size if ya ask me.


yeah... but its the LAKERS. OKC will win this SU u clown
 
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Quote Originally Posted by warcameagle56:

No offense So Cal..I'm a grown man make my own decisions but your opening night Blazers over Suns cosyed me a nice package..it was very convincing.My problem with ur Mode of thinking..its just too much emotion involved..I am generalizing but u think just BC a has to win they are going to.I appreciated your Cowboys pick but I has that one in.I will take the Heat coming off 2 losses@bulls than betting on maybe the worse team in the West..I play more emotion with CFB...I'm just not taking the Laker+20 againstvOKC...then u talked me into horrid Knicks pick at 1%...that Blazer game...Its all.good..just don't like your they got to win.




Had you trusted me after that Blazer game you would have went:

10-3 (77%) and a +170 ML with those 10 wins since then.

You sold too early man.

Don't run for the hills just because the market goes down 300 one day. You'll get it all back and then some if you wait.


And I can assure you there is no single poster on this site who is less emotionally involved with a pick and doesn't provide more empirical evidence with their OP's than I do.

I will not hit 100% by the way so don't go crazy with one single pick I make.

Am I emotional in my threads? Yes. I sprinkle it with emotion.

But my OP's are MEAT not bone.

The Meat is there, you just have to choose to eat it.
 
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I'm gonna wait till gametime and see if I can get 13.....but on it as well Scal.......also on the Bulls......as always good luck to us...
 
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And the Lakers are now +13 on Bovada!!!

Books can't find squares even under the biggest rock to take the Lakers...
 
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Quote Originally Posted by Al_Capone007:


yeah... but its the LAKERS. OKC will win this SU u clown

Wow you just called OKC to win a game SU on the ML in a game where they are 13 point favorites!!! You brave capper you!
 
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Quote Originally Posted by scalabrine:


The Lakers roster is not meant to impress. There is a reason you are getting a dozen. But they are back home in front of the same fans that saw them get dismantled in the worst way in their history, against the one team they didn't want to (if it was Lebron and the Heat, it would have been like falling on a sword out of mercy, instead it felt like they got beheaded by the Clips). They HAVE to give more than getting blown out here, which the 12 is more than generous enough to handle, at home. 
The spread is correct and I wouldn't expect it to be any less but more instead. I can actually even see OKC-14 realistically. Again, GL.
 
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excellent thoughts man i think im gonna join u on this adventure of sunday ABC games
 
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 Good luck

LA Lakers plus the points

Win or lose I wont forget u man :) cheers

 
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No one expects LA to win but if were looking to cover prob is a good spot. Dantoni will have starters out there even if down 20 late in 4th n just takes a couple 3 n cheap layups to cover. LA it is.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by lmb4321:

I'm gonna wait till gametime and see if I can get 13.....but on it as well Scal.......also on the Bulls......as always good luck to us...


13 is out there now.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by instinctpicks:

The spread is correct and I wouldn't expect it to be any less but more instead. I can actually even see OKC-14 realistically. Again, GL.

I think the spread is quite generous and it just keeps going up now at 13.

You know the Lakers have been giving up 110 since the all-star break as Bill Simmons just noted.

That means, on average, laying 13 you will have to get 124, in a day game, on the ROAD, against a team that is going to do everything to make a showing today. Especially after giving up 142.

If you expect the thunder to easily score 124 on the road, what do you expect them to do to the lakers at home in the next game? Score 140? The Clippers had a vendetta, the Thunder do not.

These are unreasonable numbers. Especially on the road. It all points to a Lakers cover with everything in the OP.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by ChizzleEnt23:

excellent thoughts man i think im gonna join u on this adventure of sunday ABC games

Sounds good man!
 
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Quote Originally Posted by MonggoMan:

 Good luck

LA Lakers plus the points

Win or lose I wont forget u man :) cheers


Don't worry, no need to not forget. I'll be here posting some more.
 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by icegun98:

No one expects LA to win but if were looking to cover prob is a good spot. Dantoni will have starters out there even if down 20 late in 4th n just takes a couple 3 n cheap layups to cover. LA it is.

And D'Antoni did exactly that against the Nuggets.

Down 23 he kept the starters in and they covered the opening line of nine vs. The Nuggets. That is a tremendous backdoor cover for Laker backers.

Why doubt him, in the worst case scenario today, to not do the same as you noted? And that is JUST the worst case scenario...
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