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WNBA Playoff Best Bets: Full Tuesday Slate of Games
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9/26/2024
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live right here on the early line on sports grid. We will get
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to the final week of this MLB regular season in the actual
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game breakdowns that begin the penultimate second to last
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series of this regular year in MLB. Joe those teams hoping to
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get to the playoffs day number two of WNBA playoff action on
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this Tuesday, a double header of action in Las Vegas and in
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Brooklyn between the two teams that played in a WNBA
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championship set just a season ago. Let's start with the two
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time reigning WNBA champs looking to become the first
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team since the Houston Comets won the first four WNBA crowns
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in its league history back in 1997 through 2000 to win three
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in a row. The aces at home tonight on the strip at the
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Michelob Ultra Arena against Seattle. Just a seven and a
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half point favorite against the storm total at 158. Joe Las
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Vegas won game number 17867 covering as a nine and a half
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point home favorite total went under 161 and a half. We are
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seeing a three and a half point drop off from the pregame
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number on Sunday afternoon. Why did the total stay under
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Seattle scored not three not four not one but two two total
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points in the fourth quarter as the aces pulled away for that
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11 point victory. What do you think we see here in game two
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by the way best of three series in the opening round in the WNBA
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postseason. So this could be the series clincher for Vegas
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tonight. Yeah, and I guess experience does matter Ben
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right. It's what we've been harping on for a while now and
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not just in the WNBA, but didn't Seattle just blow their
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best shot at actually taking down the champs here. How in
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the world they didn't have their starting center. They
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were held to nine points in the first quarter. Asia Wilson
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missed her first. What seven of eight shots Kelsey Blum
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couldn't get water out of a boat. They were out rebounding.
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They took a lead into the fourth quarter and what happens
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man they lose by double digits. Why because the experience
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matters in the WNBA and Vegas proved that I think this is all
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but over at this point. I would completely agree with you
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Joe. I think Seattle had their best shot. I'm not sure why the
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line is working against Las Vegas. I'm trying to find one
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of my favorite player performance doubles of this
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year that they're not posting. It's really kind of rude. I
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wanted Asia Wilson to record a double double and Las Vegas to
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win because Asia Wilson's only minus 290 to record a double
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double unless my eyes are not seeing it. I do not see it
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posted yet on the FanDuel Sportsbook. She had a bad game
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by WNBA MVP standards Asia Wilson who was one two of those
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three trophies in the last three years. 21 points eight
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boards. It was really Tiffany Hayes off the bench for Las
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Vegas. That was their scoring and offensive spark plug. She
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had 20 points. Vegas scored nine in the opening quarter.
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Seattle only scored two in the fourth quarter and we're seeing
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the total drop by three and a half. Joe, it's been an
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interesting year for Las Vegas. The two-time reigning
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champs. The first team to win two in a row since the LA
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Sparks did so in 01 and 02. They were the heavy title
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favorites entering 2024. They had lost three straight four or
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five. They started six and six matching their overall loss
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total from a season ago when they were 34 and six. They
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still ended the year winning five straight games in the
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regular season and nine of the last ten. Las Vegas with that
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championship pedigree and the WNBA MVP and best player on
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planet Earth Asia Wilson rounding into that title form
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once again. But the favorites to win a WNBA title that would
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be the New York Liberty handling the Atlanta Dream on
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Sunday by fourteen in the opener even covering as a
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thirteen and a half point favorite. The Liberty led by
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eighteen points at the break and it was a little bit closer
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in the second half but still a comfortable win for the Liberty.
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Twelve and a half point spread for tonight. 156 and a half
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against Atlanta. I think the Liberty make it a sweep at only
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two games. Joe, what do you think for New York? Yeah, and
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they did it where I would a little bit of a new starting
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look there to the rotation and it actually worked out pretty
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well here. They listen. There is no reason to doubt the
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Liberty at all. There hasn't been all season long. I don't
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see any reason. Again, experience matters. They have
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plenty of it and they also have some amazing young players on
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this team. It just feels like they're going to steamroll
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their way to another championship possibility once
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again. Joe, Leone Phoebus was that new starter. She had a
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game high twenty-one points for New York on Sunday. Four for
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four from deep and Brianna Stewart still twenty points and
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eleven boards. I would keep an eye on the total tonight in
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Brooklyn. You saw there the Liberty the title favorites at
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this moment but the ace is a compelling plus 280 price at
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this moment.
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