00:00and we'll get into tonight's game in the nba and so kevin is here with us to preview the knicks
00:05and calves where the knicks are six and a half point favorites total of 216 and a half which
00:11obviously looks low based on the knicks playoff run and into the season run but cleveland did
00:17play very well kevin in the first game and so i do want to give some love to the cavaliers
00:22naturally
00:23you got some time before you have to make an official pick on game time decisions but uh based
00:28on what you saw in game one boy this seems like a tough handicap for me you know the total
00:33craig
00:34i'm glad you brought that up because so i didn't bet the total in either of the first two games
00:39but you ended up with game number one going over the total in the second overtime it didn't even
00:47get there in the initial overtime if wendy missed the 30 foot three in the first overtime the game
00:53probably goes under then you get game number one of knicks calves goes to overtime again and it gets
01:00over by a point so now you're sat there if you're somebody who capped these games first two games you
01:08said under under you were right you were right and you lost both of them in pretty difficult fashion
01:17what happened with the books though is they agreed with your initial process maybe some of it was spot
01:25but how do they match up this thing leans under they dropped yesterday craig the total on close of
01:34okc san antonio by almost eight points flies over the number so here we are now knicks calves this total
01:44has dropped about four points i'm not so sure that's exactly how it should go as someone who
01:50has been a little bit interested on the knicks on the spread in this game i'm wondering if it's maybe
01:56safer is not the right word but maybe more palatable for me to bet a knick team total and not
02:05worry about
02:06them covering or even winning the basketball game just getting over especially if we can maybe grab a
02:11109 and a half at some point yeah i think that's fair let's play the cleveland side just for all
02:18intents and purposes we we live in a what have you done for me not lately but this second moment
02:24and uh the i personally i talked about this early on the show i don't think the calves even get
02:29to this
02:30point without making that trade i know garland's a good player but you know clearly harden got them or
02:35helped them get there to this point and then all of a sudden you know his plus minus on the
02:39court at the
02:40end of the game and really you know everyone's saying that he cost them the game in the end
02:43atkinson defends him uh does harden have to have a great offensive game for calves to win or is it
02:50just simply put he has to do just enough on defense they have to have him on the court in
02:53these games
02:54i mean it's it's silly to say that he should be off the court in the end of the game
02:57in overtime right
02:58yeah i mean atkinson better defend him because it was far more atkinson's fault than harden's fault
03:03like you're allowed to coach like you don't that we don't just send five guys out there and say
03:08whatever happens happens and he wasn't really coaching in the end of that game i think harden
03:14will have one great game craig in this series i tend to believe it's one of the games in cleveland
03:21i think his rebound assist props interesting they dropped that down to 10 and a half after only seven
03:27uh in the opener here so i don't mind some looks at harden i'm not sure if he goes for
03:32that 25 30
03:33point performance just yet
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