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Feels like to me certain teams need a win to right the ship: Conn, Dall, Sea. Would love to play some unders as I think we get some "playoff" type atmosphere games but it seems whenever they start lobbying for All Star ballots then some high scoring 4th qtrs. ruin an under by a bucket or 2. Will wait on ref assignments before pulling the trigger.

Conn/Atl: The brutal road sched caught up to darling Conn. Thomas and Ogwumike didn't play in b2b vs Phx so bet at least Ogwumike shows up in Atl. I have a feeling if Hayes doesn't play Conn will dominate and lock Atl down as I don't see Atl scoring 82 on 7FT again. Maybe a Atl TT under play.

LA/Dall: Man LA brings the D. Seems like every year Wings beat the bottom teams then miraculously show up every blue moon to beat a top team. If Diggins focused on basketball as much as she tweets maybe this could be the game. LA went on a 2 game east coast roadie then back to dominate Indy then on the road for a single. This could be their letdown spot and I will be taking Dall ATS, ML and definitely TT over. Hope we get a good ref crew as I can see a 92-89 Wings win and we get tasty low totals and good ATS on this one.

Wash/Chi: meh, Chi is so bad, pass.

NY/LV: Aces already beat NY in NY on tail end of a b2b after OT as well and are coming off a huge upset against Sea at Sea. ESPN2 game in Las Vegas? I smell a rat.NY has looked lost offensively but perhaps this is the game they find some offense, maybe a NY TT over play as LV has Minny on deck. Could be an OT game.

Ind/Sea: Indy off a curb stomping at LA and Sea off an embarrassing home loss to LV, no play, total seems high can Sea ever play defense?

Minn/Phx: Phx has def overperformed and somehow got a cupcake sched until now. Was hoping this would be Phx -3 but a pk em. Minny is finding their groove and maybe they want to play spoilers and get revenge here. Depending on ref crew maybe we get a good old fashion playoff type game w/ Minny coming out on top 82-77. Will be playing Lynx for sure. Hope Taurasi whines and gets ejected in 1st minute of play.

StraightWagers · Answer

Feels like to me certain teams need a win to right the ship: Conn, Dall, Sea. Would love to play some unders as I think we get some "playoff" type atmosphere games but it seems whenever they start lobbying for All Star ballots then some high scoring 4th qtrs. ruin an under by a bucket or 2. Will wait on ref assignments before pulling the trigger.

Conn/Atl: The brutal road sched caught up to darling Conn. Thomas and Ogwumike didn't play in b2b vs Phx so bet at least Ogwumike shows up in Atl. I have a feeling if Hayes doesn't play Conn will dominate and lock Atl down as I don't see Atl scoring 82 on 7FT again. Maybe a Atl TT under play.

LA/Dall: Man LA brings the D. Seems like every year Wings beat the bottom teams then miraculously show up every blue moon to beat a top team. If Diggins focused on basketball as much as she tweets maybe this could be the game. LA went on a 2 game east coast roadie then back to dominate Indy then on the road for a single. This could be their letdown spot and I will be taking Dall ATS, ML and definitely TT over. Hope we get a good ref crew as I can see a 92-89 Wings win and we get tasty low totals and good ATS on this one.

Wash/Chi: meh, Chi is so bad, pass.

NY/LV: Aces already beat NY in NY on tail end of a b2b after OT as well and are coming off a huge upset against Sea at Sea. ESPN2 game in Las Vegas? I smell a rat.NY has looked lost offensively but perhaps this is the game they find some offense, maybe a NY TT over play as LV has Minny on deck. Could be an OT game.

Ind/Sea: Indy off a curb stomping at LA and Sea off an embarrassing home loss to LV, no play, total seems high can Sea ever play defense?

Minn/Phx: Phx has def overperformed and somehow got a cupcake sched until now. Was hoping this would be Phx -3 but a pk em. Minny is finding their groove and maybe they want to play spoilers and get revenge here. Depending on ref crew maybe we get a good old fashion playoff type game w/ Minny coming out on top 82-77. Will be playing Lynx for sure. Hope Taurasi whines and gets ejected in 1st minute of play.

Casey163 · Answer

Agree with a lot that you said. Not so sure about NY though. They are however one team I can never seem to figure out. I really can't imagine that LV would be looking ahead to Minn. I think seattle best defense is their offense... I think they took defense off their playbook, just hoping to score more than the other team. Dallas I feel is in a great spot. Depending that the line is, I can see myself taking them. Can see a close game them. Assuming Dallas is going to be getting a few points.

Minn looks to have found its stride, but not sure if I can back them or not. We've all been waiting on the DT meltdown FOREVER! It's bound to happen eventually! lol

Good luck, though! Lines should come out soon.

Also, once again, what is the deal with the schedule? Nothing Saturday and then 5 games Sunday?

masterkush · Answer

Liberty are hard to gauge.....    line set really low.... hmmmm

BIGDTITLE · Answer

GL SW

StraightWagers · Answer

thanks people...I&#x27;m going to grab that over 156.5 LA/Dall at 5 bets as other books are starting to post lines/totals and I&#x27;m seeing it go to 160 soononce Dall TT comes out (77pts) that&#x27;s a 5 bagger too

StraightWagers · Answer

weird Bovada still has Wings at &#x2B;6.5 and &#x2B;240ML grabbing both at 5 bets each as sbrodds.com shows 3 other books just released LA -3...someone must be out for LA, like Dall initially and grabbing these Bovada lines before they switch

inthepaint-34 · Answer

I like your thoughts on the Dallas game wagers

StraightWagers · Answer

good ref crew for Dallas, hopefully that means they keep it close and we get the overs too which I loveDall TT over 79 5 bets

BIGDTITLE · Answer

Total now at 163.  Doesn&#x2019;t take much to move these lines

scalabroni69 · Answer

Hey BIGD, what&#x27;s the best play tonight?

StraightWagers · Answer

This NY/LV has me intrigued, so I did a little more digging to find the rat. Roll up your sleeves boys and girls cause this is some serious handicapping, take notes:

Since Lamebeer unceremoniously left as Coach of NY last offseason, NY had to move to a Podunk 2,000 seat venue in bumfruck Egypt and the owner put the team up for sale. That had to leave the gals kinda sour. Then to top it all off, the old Coach comes back into town with his young squad from Las Vegas and even though they were on a b2b and OT to boot manage to humiliate NY 78-63, ouch. That's extremely embarrassing for the newly minted Hall of Fame Coach Katie Smith and the entire NY team. NY had 1 player score in double figures, were outscored in all 4qtrs and took only 6 FT!

Fast forward to tonight. Aces are coming off a huge 10pt road dog SU win at Sea. They have some swagger going. This is arguably the biggest game thus far for LV as this is their debut on ESPN2. In the 5 WNBA ESPN2 games televised thus far this season we have seen some fireworks and some shady shitte, all high scoring. We've also seen some shady endings to Aces games in LV and why the heck not if you are going to have a pro sports team in Vegas might as well go all in on the shade.

So we get a NY team that can't find their offense coming to town in a big game on national tv against their former coach who embarrassed them last time in their own house? LV is a fast track, they avg a ton of FT for both teams. ESPN2 games are entertaining: the 1pt LA win @ Minn, the 102-94 Ogwumike sister battle, the big Phx win @ Minn, the Storm annihilating LA in LA as +200 dogs (I had Sea ML), and Conn coming from 30 down to almost beat Wash. Something tells me Sue Blauch the Danny Crawford ref of the W sets us up an exciting game. Even road wearie Wash and offensively challenged Atl managed to come to the fast track of Las Vegas and find some rhythm. With these 2 teams very familiar with each other and their plays and coming off that big under I bet we see a fast pace at some point, some fireworks and I bet NY comes out balling and maybe our 1st OT game on the deuce.

NY TT over 82 5 bets

over 160.5 3 bets

BIGDTITLE · Answer

I&#x2019;m not the expert here Scal.   SW and Aussie are.

StraightWagers · Answer

like a hot knife thru butter....&#xA;Minn ML &#x2B;115 3 bets it&#x27;s time for the Champs to get back to .500 and no better place than at Phx against Spy vs Spy looking Taurasi and her girlfriends, kaboom!

AussieDownUnder · Answer

As the NBA Jam commentators used to sayHE&#x27;S ON FIRE Was just about to post the Lynx ATS as my next play. The Lynx have owned the Mercury for the past 3-4 seasons and that win in Min was the Mercury&#x27;s first win against the Lynx in over 13 attempts I think. I think we see Minny get aggressive from now until the end of the season. Heck, Vegas still has them as 2nd favs to win the league.

StraightWagers · Answer

Objects in the mirror are more winning than they appear&#xA;GL to us Oz

StraightWagers · Answer

adding NY -1.5 3 bets more as insurance that they shut LV down

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under 84 2nd half Wash/Chi  3 bets

StraightWagers · Answer

could be setting up for a great 2nd half over in the land of Sin

StraightWagers · Answer

just my thoughts but live line won&#x27;t budge on NY even even though they are stagnant and down 4, the books know NY win this game, should be a great 2h play comin up

HaroldG · Answer

Have not seen a more disgusting sports match than between ny/lv bricks and turnovers nothing else, that over for me would not hit even with three overtimes :(

StraightWagers · Answer

there it is&#xA;over 77 2nd half NY/LV 5 bets good night now

PhoTauBay · Answer

&#xA; &#xA;WIth you, hope to salvage the Over full game : (

StraightWagers · Answer

have faith my young coke fiend friend

packersbackers · Answer

&#xA;You do realize Ingame odds are based on a computer programmed algorithms right?&#xA;The books are not fortune tellers looking into a magic crystal ball which knows the outcomes of any game...please tell me youre only joking with us

StraightWagers · Answer

not 1 thank you, only "salvaging"...love this place

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