Will Steph Curry & Golden State Warriors UPSET Nikola Jokic & Denver Nuggets? NBA Picks | Buckets

Will Steph Curry & Golden State Warriors UPSET Nikola Jokic & Denver Nuggets? NBA Picks | Buckets

What’s really good my people welcome into buckets Action Network daily NBA betting podcast we’re in the workshop Thursday NBA slate you know the deal AC Albert win analytics Capper is with me no J Money is money he’s getting over a little sickness I am your host Sean

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Right right now you know the deal we’ll give the play give the cap get you guys out of here it’s a little Twan weave and I got some making up to do for yesterday AC and J Money it’s a little sweatless for the most part W’s and then I took

The Timberwolves and they got smoked so I got to bounce back AC analytics Capper give me your best bet for the Thursday NBA slate this one’s gonna be another gross one I’m taking the Spurs first half plus four and a half against the Bucks I’m going Nika yic over 25 and a half

Points it’s only two games so we got to touch on both of them we’ll break them both down for you guys all right AC the Bucks are on a backto back playing the Spurs in San Antonio I will say this the Bucks may just be happy they don’t have to play the Pacers

Anymore that’s four of five losses against the Pacers if they have to play those guys in a playoff series I’m telling you right now it is going to be very very tough series they got that’s just a bad matchup for the Milwaukee Bucks flat out I think it’s really

Interesting too I was at the Knicks game as they took on the Bulls I was talking to a couple folks and the the really interesting thing about the Bucks is that everyone’s like yeah the pick and roll no one’s going to be able to stop it offensively

But more times than not Giannis isn’t too interested in setting screen I I don’t want to set screens and play pick and roll so it it’s a very interesting element that everyone’s that’s paying attention to the Bucks to keep an eye on the the pick and roll is Unstoppable

When they do run it on offense but Giannis isn’t interested in running the pig and roll as much as I believe I thought coming in it would be it should be common sense to just run the pick and roll all day especially when it comes down in crunch time but

You bring game to run game time but Giannis doesn’t want to let him run game time because Giannis wants to be the man and the man doesn’t set screens coming down the stretch so keep an eye on that in Milwaukee but this is a really interesting matchup the number has went

Down with uh the bucks on the back toback AC talk to me about why you’re on the San Antonio Spurs here in the first half yeah I mean I’ll talk about the Bucks you you mentioned some of the really good conversation points about you know pick and roll how to close

Games things like that I hate the whole the old adage about you know defense wins championships but def no defense definitely loses championships so we can talk about you know we can talk about their pick and roll offense we can talk about who’s going to end games is it

Gonna be Giannis in the iso is it gonna be Dame time it doesn’t matter if they can’t play defense and this team just doesn’t play defense so it kind of Segways into this this pick for me I don’t think they can I was looking at their record so they’re 24- 10 second

And East they are one of the best teams in the NBA like no doubt when you have Giannis when you have Lillard you’re going to be one of the best teams in the NBA that’s like that’s already bar none but out of their 24 wins less than 10 of

Them have been wins uh where they’ve won by double digits so they don’t really blow teams out they may score 150 on you but at the same time they’re going to give up 145 so that’s why I don’t like how big this number is I know San

Antonio is struggling they’re only 5 and 28 but Milwaukee is on a second night of a back-to-back where they have to travel from Indiana down to down south to San Antonio so I think they’re going to go off and get off to a sluggish start so

Instead of going you know the Spurs plus 10 or plus n plus n and a half depending on what book you’re looking at I’m just going to focus on that first half because I think the Spurs energy their youth the pace that they play with I

Think they’re going to be able to score a ton of points on Milwaukee and I think they’re going to keep within this number so I like the Spurs first half yeah last five games for the Spurs two and three against the spread two and three to the over so recently they have

Been keeping it tighter then a lot of the experts or the books may think yeah the the Milwaukee Bucks are just a really interesting spot overall I’m interested to see how they respond after coming off of another loss against the Pacers even though it’s a backtack yeah from the especially from

The Eastern side of the board they’re just trying to keep Pace with Boston that’s the measuring stick for those guys they want to keep Pace to try to potentially get that number one seed I’m interested to see how they bounce back the the Adrian Griffin at the head

Coaching spot is going to be a question throughout but you’re right AC the floor is now offense in the NBA but you still gotta play some d you can’t just go out there and try to score 155 every night and that’s what it looks like they’re trying to do a lot of the

Time let’s see how this shakes out in San Antonio on a nine-point number let’s see where that number actually moves because AC was locked in on the Hawks yesterday the worst cover in the NBA is the Atlanta Hawks AC sniped him against one of the best teams in the NBA last night

So let’s see where the the Spurs can show up here in a in a bounceback spot for the Milwaukee Bucks who were going to need a w going to look to put up a big number especially Giannis in this spot all right I’m going to the MVP niika yic

Or the two-time MVP niika yic I’m gonna go over 25 and a half points this is an interesting spot too this is let’s talk about why I didn’t go to the side first really quick nuggets as an away favorite are 6 and9 ATS that’s 40% they have the rest advantage

Against the Warriors in the spot as well but that doesn’t mean anything at at the current moment two three and one against the spread with the rest Advantage then you flip it over to the Warriors seven and 11 against the spread at home so we’re tracking both squads here in some

Of these ATS numbers they’re not very positive that’s why I was staying away from the side the one thing the Warriors have been covering the number is as an underdog they’re nine and four ATS overall as an underdog that’s home and away so I was like I I don’t really find

A a spot I don’t see a spot I like here on the side they played on Christmas Day and if you watch that game and go back and want to watch it it’s actually a really fun game back and forth game that Denver started the game early looked really good Golden State never

Really went away Denver then gave up the lead in the fourth then came back and closed it out and got the w yic shot 18 free throws in that matchup overall I like this spot against uh against K Looney three of the last four games he’s versus the Warriors and

Looney joic has gone over this 25 and a half Point number he’s been on the glass incredibly as of late he hasn’t been he he has he’s been coming up short on the triple double on the assist side but scoring and rebounding he hasn’t been having an issue I like this spot

For joic against against the Golden State Warriors where on the road they’re going to depend on joic a little more than they typically do in Denver I like this spot for him to score 26 AC any thoughts yeah I like that look a lot it’s not only against Koney but I

Mean Trace Jackson Davis has been getting a lot of Run for the Warriors um athletic strong strong kid but again he’s just a kid he’s just a rookie so you can’t expect a rookie to D up the two-time MVP right so and they’re both undersized they’re both 69 68 69 at most

Right so uh yoka should have his way inside and I think what we’re seeing in this game with the numbers so short I kind of lean uh Golden State here even though I don’t like Golden State as a team I think that the difference Sean between the nuggets and the Warriors is

This the Nuggets can win playing their Bame and C game like they’re good enough to win the Warriors have to play their aame to win any any team right now to be be any team so that means Steph Curry has to get hot from three or Klay

Thompson has to get hot from three whereas you know it just takes one or two guys that play that plays well for Denver just because they’re such a good team to get the W but it’s a weird it’s a weird number so I like that you’re

Staying off the side and you’re you know backing the best player in the NBA the two-time MVP in jic he’s going to have the motivation spot right it’s National TV it’s on the road um he knows he has the biggest mismatch out of anybody on his team for this particular game so I

Like it a lot yeah and the the number felt pretty right coming off the Christmas Day game last week minus three it felt like a good number and that’s why I wanted to stay away from the side and I feel like as you mentioned it’s going to be a competitive

Game and the more competitive the game is the more I like joic to impose his will and especially start to focus on where he can get baskets joic just like a lot of other guys across the League Bronson is another example they don’t want to score but recognize very quickly

When they’re going to have to put up a big number for their team to compete if this gets tight I like jic to focus on the offensive side and and and look at that like 30 plus push that 30 plus Point number against the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco all right to

Recap AC the analytics CER is on the Spurs first half plus four and a half against the Milwaukee Bucks I’m on n yic over 25 and a half points in San Francisco versus the Golden State Warriors shout out to our guy Jay get well soon hopefully I can pick up the

Squad they went two- one I was the only L let’s go two and 0 with my guy AC don’t forget it we are presented by bet MGM the king of sportsbooks Go download The Action Network app right now everything you need to know is in there as I always

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00:00 – Introduction
00:48 – NBA Thursday Best Bets
01:10 – Bucks vs Spurs Picks & Preview
06:08 – Nuggets vs Warriors Picks & Preview
10:20 – Picks Recap

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