00:00this morning i you know sort of just poke around and see who people like in the games is kind
00:03of
00:03what i do i don't i form my own opinion on these because i don't watch it as closely as
00:07some others
00:07doing baseball every night uh it seems to me this game in particular calves pistons that i am getting
00:14a 50 50 split i got a lot of people saying detroit wins again and covers i got a lot
00:20of people saying
00:20cleveland maybe wins maybe covers too it is right down the middle from at least the community that
00:26i am checking so i would love your opinion on what happens tonight in detroit man oh man craig i
00:33don't want to touch this spread with a 10 football i lean with the pistons here i think that this
00:37is
00:37the better team and i think now that boston's out of the eastern conference they're still my favorite
00:41to win the east and represent them in the nba finals even with how good new york is playing so
00:46do i think that affects this game tonight yes but to me the x factor on the other side is
00:51james harden
00:51has to play better basketball for the cleveland cavaliers if they want to win this game tonight
00:55if they want to compete in this series seven turnovers in the last game it got well documented
00:59and talked about that he has to play better but donovan mitchell has also not played very well
01:02either he needs to be more efficient offensively and that leads to both of these superstar players
01:07playing better and playing up to their potential to challenge this youthful and impactful pistons team
01:13at home so i don't like the spread either way i guess if you had to make me choose i
01:17would take the
01:18calves and the points just playing a little bit more desperation basketball and i do lean with harden
01:22playing a little bit better which is why i have a prop in this game um and it is on
01:26james harden
01:26he actually hit this prop in the last game even though he didn't play fantastically like i said with
01:30all those turnovers but i took his rebounds and assist line at 11 and a half i think that this
01:35line
01:35is just a little bit too low in this compare in this situation and again i think that this is
01:39one of
01:39those situations where you can rely on your two veteran guys rely on your two superstars to come in
01:44correct the things that they saw in game one and try to take advantage of some of the stuff
01:48that the uh the deepest detroit pistons were doing um on defense so i really like harden's ra line i
01:54think harden's also going to score tonight and i do think they're going to correct the turnovers and
01:56again if you gave me a unit and said put it somewhere have some fun gotcha i think i'd lean
02:00a
02:00little bit more with the calves but i don't want to bet against this piston team i really like the
02:04way
02:05they play and again they're my team to kind of i think i came on i don't remember if it
02:09was with
02:09you or somebody else here on sports grid but i said that it was a great dark horse team even
02:13when they
02:13were the number one team in the eastern conference at 17 to one to win the entire thing so
02:17that's looking like a nice price right now we'll see if that comes to fruition but i think that
02:21tonight we see if the calves can really kind of settle things down and get back into this series
02:26tonight
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