BetQL betting experts weigh in on where you should place your money on the upcoming NBA games
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00:00Welcome to the BetQL Daily Boost.
00:06I'm Lucy Burge of BetQL, and I'm joined by Kate Constable and Amir Tyree.
00:10And we have an NBA odds boost for all of you today.
00:14Not the cup, regular NBA games.
00:16This is on the Pacers, Celtics, Cavaliers and Clippers to all win, boosted to plus $7.50
00:22at Caesars.
00:23What do you think of this boost?
00:24Yeah, this is a fun one.
00:25I mean, seven plus $7.50 is a good, nice big number.
00:28And then if you look at the games that are within this boost, the Pacers over the Magic.
00:33I know the Pacers are on the road and just slight favorites, but the Magic, yes, they've
00:39been playing decent.
00:40They just haven't been beating good teams.
00:42The Pacers are a good team.
00:44Paulo Banqueiro is still out for Orlando, so that's a blow to their offense.
00:48I think the Pacers can win that.
00:50Celtics over the Nets.
00:51The Celtics just lost last night to the Atlanta Hawks without Trey Young, a terrible loss
00:56in their first NBA cup game.
00:58And they went to overtime against the Nets just last week and only won by four.
01:03So I have a feeling the Celtics are going to be ready to go here.
01:06That is a win I'm not too concerned about.
01:08Same with the Cavs.
01:09They're playing the 76ers.
01:10Cavs are on the road, but the 76ers should be without Joel Embiid because this is one
01:14of the back-to-backs and he played his first game last night, so I don't anticipate Embiid
01:19playing tonight.
01:20And then you have Clippers and Rockets, and this is the game I'm probably most concerned
01:23about for the Clippers.
01:24Rockets, four and a half point favorites.
01:26I think they're the better team right now, but hey, I mean, anything can happen on any
01:30given night in the NBA.
01:31And for plus $750, I kind of like it, Amir.
01:35Yeah, definitely.
01:36You know, the first three games, I agree with you that for the most part, like nothing's
01:39a lock in the NBA as we saw from the NBA Cup yesterday.
01:42But at the same time, like those all have to be games that you're comfortable with.
01:45And then, you know, even with the Clippers, like they 45 points from Shea Alexander.
01:50It was a two-possession game from what's arguably the best team in the Western Conference.
01:54So if they can say two possessions with them, it's conceivable for them to win against the
01:59Rockets as well, because they're both hovering around 500.
02:01So it's like one upset, get plus $750 odds.
02:04I don't see what's not to like.
02:06Love that.
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02:44Favorite bets for today, I'm going with the Pacers, minus one and a half to cover, again,
02:50the Magic.
02:51The Pacers have covered in three of their last four games, and they are three and three
02:55against the spread on the road.
02:56They're also averaging 116.5 points scored per game, while the Magic are averaging 108
03:02points scored per game.
03:03So I'd like the Pacers to cover here, minus one and a half against the Magic.
03:07Love it, Lucy.
03:08I'm going to go to the Timberwolves and Blazers.
03:10These two teams played last night, and the Blazers just kind of smoked the Timberwolves.
03:15Blazers shot, what, in the first half, 60% from three.
03:19They hit 12 threes in the first half, finished with 18 on the game.
03:22I don't think that's going to happen two nights in a row, especially against a pissed-off
03:25Minnesota team.
03:26So I'm going to take the Timberwolves in the first quarter.
03:30Lowest line I'm seeing right now is minus three.
03:32I think you jump on that if you like Minnesota early.
03:35They have gotten off to slow starts in games this season.
03:38That's kind of been a problem, but in the game following a slow start, which is what
03:43they had yesterday, they only scored 17 points in the first quarter.
03:47Minnesota is ready to go.
03:49So I'm banking on this being a game where they looked really bad yesterday.
03:53They know they played bad yesterday, but they're going to be locked in from the start and ready
03:55to go.
03:56Plus, against the exact same team they played last night, that's not going to sit well for
04:00them.
04:01So a little bit of a revenge angle here early on.
04:03I'll take the Timberwolves in the first quarter, minus three.
04:06Yeah, definitely love both of those.
04:09I made a play on the over when it came to Timberwolves-Blazers.
04:13I thought it was going to be the reverse of the over, still hitting with the Timberwolves
04:18It was still ugly, just because the NBA cover was like, oh, point differential matters.
04:21It could be weird, very thrown off.
04:23But I am also on the Pacers game.
04:25I'm on Benedict Catherin, over 18 and a half points.
04:28I saw it at minus 105.
04:31He's started in the last five games of the Pacers, averaging 23 points per game.
04:35They're down two starters, Aaron Neesmith and Andrew Nembhard.
04:39He's only not hit 20 once in the last five games, which he had 16.
04:43He's coming off a 38-point game.
04:45So I really like that.
04:46And then I also saw, I think, his alternate line for 20-plus points was also minus 105
04:51at BetMGM.
04:52So I was like, OK, if you could get 18 and a half, why could you not get that over the
04:5520?
04:56So I think I definitely like that.
04:57He's running high.
04:58Very nice.
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