Team USA Olympic Basketball Betting Strategies: Fade the States?

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00:00team USA still remains a hefty favorite to win yet another gold medal at minus 400 Becky let's

00:09start with this question first and foremost are you going to be betting on Olympic basketball and

00:15if so what's the handicap you take I will be betting and I actually spoke to Kevin about this

00:21over the past couple weeks I think there's gonna be opportunities to fade Team USA against this

00:26right simply just take the opposing team because I think their lines are just gonna be inflated

00:30everyone you know wants essentially something else to bet besides baseball or golf on a weekly basis

00:34they want something else so these lines are reflating that's kind of what we saw with South

00:38Sudan if you're willing just to take the points with the underdog some of the inconsistencies

00:43we've seen from Team USA not just this year but over the past however many times they played in

00:47FIBA yes it's not the same roster but they generally start a little bit slow so I'm confident that the

00:51win the gold I actually want to see them win but I think taking the points with the underdog is

00:55probably the safest route to go and it does leave you some ability to hedge in game if we see the

01:01team get out to a big lead which we saw South Sudan they were up by 16 at halftime I think was

01:05the other night you can hedge out cash out there and you're still rolling with Team USA potentially

01:09come with a smaller victory as we saw