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Vegas,last time we made you crawl. Now we put you on a leash and make you bark. Cavs@Hawks! WRITEUP!

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knicks was cash money sorry i didnt comment on that earlier imma die hard knick fan was at the game,,  ferry's comments tell u all u need to know Cavs rolllll…
 
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Quote Originally Posted by begginerboy:

Just to finish my thought, during the Knicks game, for instance, Van Gundy went on a diatribe about Ferry's comments regarding "winning no being the goal." He basically called him out and said this puts a black stain on the entire league. That night the Hawks lost to the Bulls (which everyone expected). But won't they have to give a better effort tonight, against a team they are supposedly fighting against for a playoff spot? If they don't show up then everyone will be talking about the tanking business again. That concerns me and maybe Scal can address it. If I'm right and the Hawks (for appearance sake) give it their all (including the coach) then the only way to justify this bet is to say that the Cavs are the better team period and will win regardless of whether the Hawks are tanking or not. I could certainly buy that argument and would even be willing to put money on it, but maybe not as much as before (since theHawks might try to win just to save face).
Its really not about effort at this point...... 

The hawks WERE CLEARLY A GOOD TEAM to start his season..... they lost pretty much EVERY GAME since JAN 1st..... and they are still in the playoff race... thats feckin pathetic.... lol..... these guys actually had a real legit crew.... legit to win the east? FECK NO..... legit enough to smack around everyone else not named Miami or Indy.... yes.... for that reason they balled hard when they had a real crew and they are still alive in the playoff hunt. 

At this point I thik they understand its a meaningless season..... and judging by the comments they make they seem like a proud organization built on commitment and future. So... with tha said if they make the playoffs it will be bad.... they will probably put a up a worse fight then last years bucks injured and depleted it will be an embarassment..... plus they are a smaller market....

COMPARED TO WHO????? The MOFKIN NYKNIZZLES...... ballin out basketball capitle of the world with coach LOOK AT ME ALL ABOUT ATTENTION PHIL JACKSON..... prime time big time money maker..... you best believe you need to fade ATL at all cost right now ....... and bang on the knicks....... plus knicks are steam rolling ATL is folding..... 

here is your situational CAP.... for the next week.... you dont even need to do anyhting..... yah heard?  

ATL has no roll player nther where as the KNICKS have solid legit starting players trying out for a contract next year in SHANNON BROWN AND EARL CLARK.... these dudes aint no feckin d leagueres... they can play.... and they have a lot to play for... as do the knicks.... pay attention....

Crossing my gfingers for INDY KNICKS PLAYOFFS..... pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
 
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Posted: #53
Wouldn't it be something if the Cavs make it to the 8th playoff spot and knockoff Mia in the first round. Can't script it better than that! 
 
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Thoughts on Knicks-Wizards game?
 
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thats a F*#@IN masterpiece once again,scalabrine......not much to add,in agreement and was already eye-balling this even before realising wat is truly going on with atlanta...hadnt heard those reports and comments and have been very surprised at just how bad they have been in this stretch.
not sure if anyone else notices this but speaking broadly the hawks seem to more often than not get extremely bloated home lines as favourites...this has stuck out to me for quite a long time and i hardly ever back them as home faves and tho i dont know their ATS record in that spot i dare say it wouldnt be great going back 2 seasons or so....they win their fair share but wudnt be covering the sumtimes absurd spreads they get i wud think....anyhow i just mention this to give weight to the notion that it wudnt be in the least bit surprising(to me at least) if cavaliers were given +4 or even more.
 in general,seems awfully strange tho that books arent really catching on to wat the cavaliers have been achieving of late..they still seem to be seen as simply a rag-tag bunch of over-achieving scrappers that just get by on spirit and determination and are lucky to be in most games.........where-as in reality they are performing like one of the hottest tickets around,as detailed in your write-up.and of course being fueled by desperation dont hurt neither.

wat exact point in time do you believe the notion of flagging the season occured to this organisation scalabrine???.....for the longest time they have just been stuck in no-mans land,too good to ever miss the playoffs(and hence have a shot at a good lottery pick)..but yet too incomplete to ever seriously challenge for even an eastern conference championship.and this season seemingly shaped up in pretty much the same way,with a solid sort of squad looking at another playoff berth in the horrible east........with horford intact in the middle and no serious injuries to speak of is there any chance that this would be happening rite now???and so was there a point in time where it was decided-"this is a lost season anyhow,lets try a different route"...and wen was that??they stayed pretty strong after horford went down for quite a while....then the injuries.
pretty safe to say that a core line-up of horford,milsap,antic,korver,teague,lou williams and brand cudnt miss the playoff cut even if they tried in the weak,weak east....so was it simply circumstance and fate in the form of health/injuries that changed the direction of their season and forced their hand as they saw it??
 
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Hey scal  how do you rate this pick 1 to 5, 5 being the best 
 
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Posted: #57
Quote Originally Posted by Hoops1487:

Scal you always beat me to it. I agree, it's the right call cavs +whatever
 Glad you're on board.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by Jailbait7127:

hey scal... u should already know my question hahahah 

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Quote Originally Posted by begginerboy:

Scal, what, if anything, did you decide about the Knicks? Is 3.5 too much to lay?

I have a STRONG opinion on the Knicks ML being a good one and ML parlayed that several places and ultimately I bought the hook and took the Knicks -3. . -3 is MUCH better than -5 which I thought for certain it would be it. The line makes little sense being this low in this spot not only for what I think of the Knicks but for the national TV beating of the Nets which should have drove the squares to the Knicks side in droves even more than usual.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by evilsilence:

I don't want to do anything with your record. I was just curious as to what it actually was....and how such useful piece of information should stand out every time every time you start a mentally engaging post....it would be nice if you ALWAYS stated such factual records before your plethora of transcribed knowledge is released upon your fellow gambling patrons.  

 

Thanks for sharing. Keep doing ya thang too...It appears that covers is therapeutic for you.


If 'severe lack of sleeip' falls under the definition of therapeutic, then yes i agree. 
 
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scal you are the man!! you are the most dedicated gambler i have ever came across i never seen anybody put so much time and effort in betting one game its unreal i really hope one day i can put half the time and effort of what you put in when capping a game i probably would be better off , i cant say enough how much i admire your hard work  , thanks for all the hard work and for not being selfish to share with us your pick i appriciate it a lot
 
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Quote Originally Posted by smallwagaaman:

Yikes Scal!!! Quite a bit of info and play angle on the game thank you  I will be making a wager B.O.L. to everyone on this game

I had even more info and said that was enough.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by begginerboy:


I certainly think Scal is on to something (with the Hawks tanking) but with all the media attention on them they might have to show up in this one. On the other hand, even if they show up the Cavs (right now) are the better team. I'm gonna sleep on it.

This write-up is precisely to draw attention to the official tank (that isn't a tank in the truest sense of the words) that has permeated the culture of the tank.

Now they have one of the hottest and most motivated teams (a team fighting for it's playoff life while the Hawks have been 'fighting' for such a thing for the last 8 of 9 and lost every one) coming into ATL and there won't be much they can do to muster a win.

It will be close but ATL's play and CLE's play have been on different planets in the last half dozen.

If you bet ATL here, you are assuming the Hawks show up for one reason and one reason only, to counter all the national tanking talk.


I am here to tell you this: that is NOT enough against this Cavs team.

For god's sake it almost wasn't enough against the Sixers for 2.5 quarters and that was after they came off the mountaintop with their first win. 

If this was even a good team coming in here with a locked up playoff spot, the Hawks may have a chance to stop the bleeding.

But is anyone here, with all that is in the OP, and the OP goes FAR FAR beyond just a cultural tanking that the Hawks are allowing to infest their team, the Hawks are going to end the Cavs season tonight? The Cavs will be 3 back with 5 to play and two teams to leapfrog (and a tiebreaker complication).

Their season will be over tonight...

After having won 5 of 6...

After failing miserably the whole season in a season where they had one goal...make the playoffs...

And this Hawks team is going to derail them when a Knicks team that had won 8 in a row and was up 15 at the half couldn't?

No way. Not tonight.

And furthermore, even if the Hawks lose, their season is FAR from over.

I don't think the Knicks will lose but the Hawks don't know that while the game is going on for the most part (they will be playing their own and this should be a good game).

So if the Cavs win and in their mind's the Knicks could lose (and in their mind's that is a distinct possibility and yes the Wiz are no pushovers), the end result is that they remain in the exact same spot they were in before this game, tied for eighth and the Cavs are 1 back.

That is NOT a do or die spot for the Hawks.

It is definitely a do or die for the Cavs.

That extra motivation alone makes the Cavs favorable tonight even if my entire OP didn't exist, especially getting points!
 
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Quote Originally Posted by lmb4321:

Its funny..but every other game has a line...but not this one..HM???

Yup. 8:30 am and still no official line on many sites.

The books are worried about setting a line here given the way the Hawks have handled things down the stretch and if they are not, they should be.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by Brando_Bragansa:

Write-up's good, Scal. Shed a light on me about this game. Will pound Cavs for sure. Thanks, man! 
glad you are on board
 
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Quote Originally Posted by examine:

The thing is, the cavs played 2 more game so far and are still behind the hawks...

Injuries for the hawks have shaved off some wins but your right, its anybody guess on who will make the playoffs ...

The cavs... well the cavs are the same old same old... glad I loaded up on under 42 season wins ... Its a custom to lose in clevland! Its cultural!! lol

GL but I will focus on the Heat and another cover I hope  !!

 


Congrats on your under bet but this Cavs team right here is not the same old one you saw all year. They are winning everything and paying everyone!
 
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Quote Originally Posted by lmb4321:

Thanks BB...looking forward to your thoughts tomorrow...Ps Scal serious thinking a Big bet here....


 Sounds good man!
 
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@jailbait - actually let me get an official line before I set a star rating
 
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Quote Originally Posted by ByTheBay:

betonline, sportsbetting, and topbet are showing +4 as well




TANK you very much 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by joepa510:

Pretty sure your picks aren't going to make Mr. Vegas crawl...

Another guy who never heard of the word satire...
 
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Quote Originally Posted by begginerboy:

Just to finish my thought, during the Knicks game, for instance, Van Gundy went on a diatribe about Ferry's comments regarding "winning no being the goal." He basically called him out and said this puts a black stain on the entire league. That night the Hawks lost to the Bulls (which everyone expected). But won't they have to give a better effort tonight, against a team they are supposedly fighting against for a playoff spot? If they don't show up then everyone will be talking about the tanking business again. That concerns me and maybe Scal can address it. If I'm right and the Hawks (for appearance sake) give it their all (including the coach) then the only way to justify this bet is to say that the Cavs are the better team period and will win regardless of whether the Hawks are tanking or not. I could certainly buy that argument and would even be willing to put money on it, but maybe not as much as before (since theHawks might try to win just to save face).

The hawks jumped out to a nice lead in that bulls game and ulimately succumbed to a better team so for that one game, van Gundy is off.

The same thing will happen here. The hawks will have a lead and it may be a nice size. But in the end, they will fall. They will not end the Cavs season tonight and theirs won't end if they lose anyway.

After losing 21 of 28 and 7 of 8 will the playoffs on the line and only a win over the horrid Sixers, Jeff Van Gundy is not going to light enough of a fire under this team to beat a team playing with more fire than they've had all year.

This thread is precisely written to move away from Van Gundy and what's on the floor, and what's on the floor is a culture of losing and a severely underperforming roster vs. a talented one that is doing anything it can to win, and is succeeding.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by Icemunger:

Fuk the novel and stop posting leading people to pick wrong

I guess you were on the nets
 
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[Quote: Originally Posted by HungerforMoney]


He has a point about hawks might give it all to save face.
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They will play better tonight but it's too late.

You don't start a 35 page term paper two hours before the class it's due in.
 
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Hey Scal

Great write-up as usual, I'll follow you tonight!
Any idea when the lines open?
 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by joeale:

Hawks won four of last five games with Cleveland.
I'm going to take who ever gets this +++

I'm aware. That includes one of the best games of the year (for bad teams): a double overtime127-125 Cavs loss in Cleveland on December 26th.  That was a better hawks team with horford and a worse one with a ragged Bynum on the Cavs. Kyrie dropped 40 that night.


And if the Cavs won a single one of those 3 or that one above, they would be ready to jump into eighth tonight.

They will succeed doing that here...
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