WNBA CONTEST << ROUND 1>> THE PLAYOFFS

Current standings                *( last graded wager )

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Curry is this contest open to anyone or a select group?

good stuff curry

   sorry it is only left to those who are already in the contest from the begining  you are mor than welcome to post your picks/thoughts if you wish

Thanks Curry. 

Get 'em guys!

Thursday
Game 1

STARS +10.5

over 141  Wash/Indy
I absolutely love this matchup bt/w 2 of my favorite coaches. I remember their epic series when Thibault was coach of Conn and were withing a few second of taking out Indy in what ended up being Indy's Champion winning playoff run. Indy had just won 2-1 against Atl in the Conf semis and faced Conn in the 2012 Eastern Conf Finals and quickly went down 0-1 in a loss @ Conn so came back in a must win at home in the 3 game series. Thru a myriad of close plays Indy missed a layup with 2 seconds left and somehow Zealous ended up with the ball and hit a game winning 14 footer for the win and as they say the rest is history as Indy went on to finish off Conn and then Minn in the Finals. One thing I took from that series is that each coach knows the importance of each and every win and are not afraid to have their girls push early to establish lead and rhythm, much like the NBA philosophy. And also these teams can suffer a putrid 30pt qtr and still go over.
Their last matchup where Wash went to Indy and won 74-61 is absolutely no indication of what might happen in this game, you can throw that game out the window. Admittedly Indy came off a long tough west coast rd trip and played a very physical game against Minn and then came out and practiced too hard the next day and were spent and had no legs when Wash came to town, watch Coach Dunn interview from that game and she'll tell you. Now they are rested and have come out guns ablazing in every game since then except NY where they rested starters. Bottom line for me is that this total is way too low to start a playoff series taking into account the coaching match ups, the energy that both will come out with, the proclivity of Indy to start fast, the fact that defense usually shows up later in a series and once again the low total. I believe there is a 65-60 game in this series I just don't think it's the 1st one. The one goucher could be one team comes out and shoots like total crap and we get a 38-30 1H, and that could happen and I'll lose. But I'd hate to be on the sidelines with no money on it when they get 79 1H and 146 and the game goes over. GL fellas

I wish I was more active to up the 57% win rate, which put me in 7th place. A good thing about hitting 57% and coming in 7th place is that you're surrounded by geniuses hitting higher win rates. There's one thing for sure, if someone were to restrict themselves to betting only the picks from this thread, they should be up a decent amount.

Agree with Wagers and TooHigh

Under_141-wash-fever

with the limited docket to choose from, id have to agree

over-minn-155

Friday

shoot I'm going to have to put in my play last second to win this thing

Tell you one thing, I'm looking forward to the College Football version of this. I don't know a thing about College Football but I will be tailing some of the dudes on that contest thread...

Werd werd

over 155.5 Chi/Atl  very similar to my write-up of the Indy game yesterday in that you can throw the past 2 games these teams played against each other out the window and coaches play a heavy hand in this outcome. I love the fact that when these teams met on July 25th and Aug 10th both games went under giving us this tasty total today. If you look closely at those meetings both teams were not at the level they are now: Atl was recently without their head coach and beggining their slide while Chi had no EDD nor VDS and the game went under, they met again when Atl was at the tail end of a brutal rd schedule having played 4 games in 6 days sending them from Phx, to LA, to Sea and then all the way to Chi makes me tired just thinking about it and the game went under. Now we get 2 healthier teams with scorers all over the floor, Atl hammering the rock down low and rebounding for 2nd chance points and Chi having sharp shooters and the great ability to get to the FT line. Like I said yesterday, this series does have a 72-63 game in it it's just not today. I was really waiting to see how the games played out yesterday b/c of this unusual condensed season that finished nearly a month earlier than normal, and what I saw is a ton of 2H points in both games as everyone realized the impact of a short 3 game playoff series so threw defense out the window and cranked up the offense 2H as going down 1-0 is almost a death sentence. The clincher for me is Atl is going to be blacked out and rocking as they really haven't had a big home game in a long time b/c they were either on the rd or playing at the Georgia Tech arena AND most importantly is Michael Cooper as he has preached conditioning and running all season long so that his team can simply wear down any other team in the 2H b/c they will try to run you out of the building, I love that fact for this over b/c I feel even if we get the typical slow going 70pt 1H we surely can get the 90pt 2H with the 50+pt 4th qtr  to secure the win. This is dicey for me b/c I built my empire on unders and will switch very soon in these playoffs but I cannot ignore the past results having no true indication, the pace of the game the coaches will set, the proclivity of early games being defined by offensive rhythm at some point and the amount of good shooters all over the floor and once again this low attainable total. I'd be shocked if this was a 74-70 grinder and it would cost me if it is but my money says we get a game that goes over with 2 minutes left in the 4th and Hayes will be the reason. GL peeps

The line is at 154.5 right now, Wagers.