Rick Kamla Joins to Discuss the Ongoing NBA Playoffs

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00:00Our guy, Rick Kamla, is finally back on Coast to Coast.

00:04Can you imagine, from Sports Ethos, what's going on with that?

00:09Like, what's that about?

00:10Before we get into these games, it's great to see you look fantastic, brother.

00:13It's great to have you on C2C again, no doubt.

00:17Scotty, my man, it's been too long.

00:19We got connections figured out.

00:21We got it all going here, man, and I'm excited to be on with you.

00:23Sports Ethos is a burgeoning fantasy sports site, man.

00:28We do baseball, we do football, we do basketball.

00:31I'm kind of helping to launch us into WNBA.

00:35I'm actually, when I get off the air here, I'm going to write my top 50 fantasy rankings for the WNBA.

00:42Obviously, with the season starting next week, I've already drafted like four teams, plan on winning all of them.

00:49But we have the best content in the business.

00:52We're not, no, I'm serious.

00:53We're not the big, you think I'm kidding, I'm not.

00:55But we're not the biggest fantasy outlet, but to me, we have the best content in the business.

01:00Y'all come over to sportethos.com and check us out.

01:03I'm just glad that you're going to win all four leagues, and I never doubted you, of course.

01:08I'm your boy.

01:09Like, I support you, whatever you're doing.

01:10If you're going to win all four, I'm all for it.

01:12Where do I cash in, is what I want to know.

01:14All right, what do you think of what the Knicks are doing?

01:18And are they in trouble tonight after they pulled off the miracle the other night?

01:23But, you know, all I've heard is how on a Celtics shot.

01:27But what I saw, you know, I was cussing, jumping up and down.

01:30I've been suffering with the Knicks for 30 years.

01:33That was the best game I've seen of a Knicks game as a fan of theirs since I've lived in New York City.

01:39I mean, literally my entire career here, I've never seen a game that I liked more to watch.

01:44That comeback was amazing.

01:47Scotty Carver, hi, you'd be proud of me.

01:50I played, when the Knicks were down 20, I threw 10 bucks on the money line.

01:54Turned 10 into 130.

01:56It's one of those, ah, I wish I would have put more on it, right?

01:59But I would have jinxed it at that point, right?

02:01Threw a little 10 spot on it, and they made the comeback.

02:03I was like, is this really going to happen?

02:05It did.

02:06So, look, man, are they in trouble tonight is how you started this conversation.

02:10I don't think so.

02:11Like, my whole deal is, you know, Boston's laying 10 and a half, 10, 11, whatever the number is right now.

02:18The pattern historically is great home team, loses game one.

02:23Game two, it's a 20-point beatdown every single time.

02:26I just, I can't do that to the Knicks.

02:29They're too good.

02:30They're too gritty.

02:31I don't think they're going to be sort of in that, oh, well, we got one.

02:35We did what we came to do.

02:37I don't think they think that way.

02:38I don't think they're wired that way, Scotty.

02:40So, I don't think they're just going to let go of the rope and go, all right, we already got our one.

02:45We'll just go back to New York at 1-1.

02:48That's just not how these guys are wired.

02:49So, I'm live betting this game.

02:51I am not.

02:52I also don't feel great about taking the 10 with New York because Boston may bludgeon them tonight.

02:58I want to check the tenor of New York.

03:00How greedy are they?

03:01How badass are they?

03:03How motivated are they tonight knowing that they've already got home court advantage back?

03:07So, that's how I'm approaching this game.

03:08I definitely don't think the Knicks are in trouble.

03:11I think they are a live dog once again here tonight.

03:14Denver pulled it off in game one at Oak City.

03:17They're at the Paycom again tonight.

03:18Gordon's been spectacular in a couple of game-winning shots against the Clippers.

03:22And then the other night, the three ball on the wing.

03:25They're tough.

03:26Nobody can stop Joker.

03:28Everyone around him, including Brown, is a better player because he's on the floor.

03:33He had a 42-22 burger with extra sauce on it.

03:37What do you think of the Nuggets here giving the Thunder problems?

03:42We could copy and paste a lot of what I said about New York and Boston to this.

03:47Historically, OKC, well, first of all, they're the best team in the league.

03:51And I don't think it's debatable.

03:54It's debatable, will they beat Boston if they play in the finals?

03:57That's debatable.

03:58To me, it's not debatable who the best team in the league is this year.

04:00It's OKC.

04:02So, they lose game one to Denver.

04:04Why?

04:04Because Denver is a fantastic team.

04:09And they've got championship DNA.

04:11And they have been head up with OKC for, like, the last five years.

04:14This year in the regular, it was 2-2.

04:16It was, like, 8-8 over the previous 16 meetings.

04:19So, Denver's like, OKC, fine, bring them on.

04:22Other teams are like, oh, my God, OKC, all their defenders.

04:25And Denver's like, who cares, so what?

04:28So, that's really, really powerful here.

04:30And it's keeping me from going back to that historical pattern, the badass team loses game

04:36one, game two at home, is a thrashing.

04:38It's a boat racing.

04:40But I can't do Denver that way.

04:42If they were just a team, if this was Houston or Memphis, maybe even Minnesota, because I

04:50don't trust their psyche in Minnesota, like, I'd be playing OKC, like, three units going

04:56into the game.

04:57I wouldn't even play the sort of live betting cop-out card on you.

05:00I'd be totally bullish going in.

05:02But because it's Denver, with the championship DNA, and again, I am going to live this game.

05:07I'm going to check the tenor and pulse of the Nugs.

05:10How serious are they about this game, too, OK?

05:14And then you diagnose the moment of truth, and you make your live betting decision.

05:17But I can't just blindly and butt naked go, yeah, I'll lay 11 with Oklahoma City after

05:25what I saw the other night, because I saw Denver take a major punch from OKC and punch

05:30right back and win the game.

05:32So what happens to the dubs over the next three games, let's say, without Curry?

05:38I already talked about what healed.

05:39He's got to give me 18-plus automatic every night.

05:42But we've seen him have a zero spot on top of having a, you know, night where he hit nine

05:47threes, then he had zero, then he had eight, you know, he had 24 and hit five more.

05:53He's hot and cold.

05:54They got to get him, Pazimski, everybody's got to get involved without Curry, because

05:57he's gone for a week.

06:00Yeah, but, Scotty, I don't think that's going to work.

06:02You know Buddy Heald, man.

06:04He's a yo-yo, OK?

06:05And, you know, I'm a big guy.

06:07I fade dudes coming off of monster games.

06:09And it's a very, very high percentage of correctness.

06:15Buddy Heald defied that going from game seven to game one.

06:18I don't believe he's going to do that in game two.

06:20I think Buddy Heald's going to be dreadful.

06:22I think he's, and I don't dislike Buddy Heald.

06:24It's just the numbers and patterns and law of averages.

06:27I just don't think he's going to do it again.

06:29And Golden State is in a really, really tough situation here without Curry.

06:33They can't not have Curry and beat Minnesota, in my opinion.

06:37I know Minnesota look like dog doo-doo in game one.

06:40They're going to fix that, OK?

06:42They're too good of a team.

06:44They were in the West Finals last year.

06:46They're not some little team, upstart team.

06:48No, they're a legitimate championship contender.

06:51I think they're going to take care of Golden State.

06:53It might go seven.

06:55But without Curry, Golden State's not beating Minnesota.

06:58Yeah, I don't think so either.

07:00And I've been on the Pacers the entire playoffs.

07:04I still like them from last year.

07:06I think they're 10 deep.

07:08I think they've got two rotations.

07:10I love their coach.

07:11I like their bigs.

07:12I like their guards.

07:13I like the way they play.

07:14I think they play, you know, 45 hard at least a night where they go after it.

07:21They got two in Cleveland.

07:23They're not going to have this up at the field house, are they?

07:27Probably not.

07:28But I'm really, really dubious of Cleveland minus one and a half in game three.

07:33And, Scotty, what I've found out over the years is that when there's a WTH point spread, when you go with the woe, you win.

07:43The woe is Cleveland is laying points with Garland, Hunter, and Mobley.

07:49Very questionable going into game three.

07:51How?

07:52Why are they favored?

07:53It doesn't make any sense to me.

07:55So, weirdly and ironically, that's why I like Cleveland minus the one and a half in game three.

08:01It's just like a personal sort of betting angle I've developed.

08:04And it's very hard to quantify and tell humans about it publicly.

08:07But that's where my head is at.

08:09I'm a weird dude.

08:11Indiana should win this game.

08:13There's no doubt.

08:14But, as you guys know, what happened the previous two games does not automatically guarantee what will happen in the next game.

08:20And that's kind of where I'm at.

08:21God, isn't it great?

08:23Mafia, get the tequila out and my pills.

08:25It's great having Rick Campbell back on Coast to Coast.

08:30Rick, it's good to see you.

08:31Check out sportsethos.com, I think.

08:35I hope I got that right.

08:36And, obviously, you know, it's just a blast.

08:39Check them out at Rick Campbell Sports as well.

08:41And, actually, good to see you, Rick.

08:43All the best.

08:44Stay home.

08:44Take care.

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