WNBA Playoff Best Bets: Full Tuesday Slate of Games

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00:00live right here on the early line on sports grid. We will get

00:06to the final week of this MLB regular season in the actual

00:09game breakdowns that begin the penultimate second to last

00:13series of this regular year in MLB. Joe those teams hoping to

00:18get to the playoffs day number two of WNBA playoff action on

00:24this Tuesday, a double header of action in Las Vegas and in

00:28Brooklyn between the two teams that played in a WNBA

00:32championship set just a season ago. Let's start with the two

00:37time reigning WNBA champs looking to become the first

00:40team since the Houston Comets won the first four WNBA crowns

00:45in its league history back in 1997 through 2000 to win three

00:51in a row. The aces at home tonight on the strip at the

00:55Michelob Ultra Arena against Seattle. Just a seven and a

00:59half point favorite against the storm total at 158. Joe Las

01:03Vegas won game number 17867 covering as a nine and a half

01:07point home favorite total went under 161 and a half. We are

01:11seeing a three and a half point drop off from the pregame

01:14number on Sunday afternoon. Why did the total stay under

01:18Seattle scored not three not four not one but two two total

01:23points in the fourth quarter as the aces pulled away for that

01:2711 point victory. What do you think we see here in game two

01:31by the way best of three series in the opening round in the WNBA

01:36postseason. So this could be the series clincher for Vegas

01:39tonight. Yeah, and I guess experience does matter Ben

01:44right. It's what we've been harping on for a while now and

01:47not just in the WNBA, but didn't Seattle just blow their

01:52best shot at actually taking down the champs here. How in

01:56the world they didn't have their starting center. They

01:58were held to nine points in the first quarter. Asia Wilson

02:02missed her first. What seven of eight shots Kelsey Blum

02:06couldn't get water out of a boat. They were out rebounding.

02:09They took a lead into the fourth quarter and what happens

02:12man they lose by double digits. Why because the experience

02:16matters in the WNBA and Vegas proved that I think this is all

02:21but over at this point. I would completely agree with you

02:24Joe. I think Seattle had their best shot. I'm not sure why the

02:28line is working against Las Vegas. I'm trying to find one

02:31of my favorite player performance doubles of this

02:34year that they're not posting. It's really kind of rude. I

02:37wanted Asia Wilson to record a double double and Las Vegas to

02:41win because Asia Wilson's only minus 290 to record a double

02:45double unless my eyes are not seeing it. I do not see it

02:48posted yet on the FanDuel Sportsbook. She had a bad game

02:52by WNBA MVP standards Asia Wilson who was one two of those

02:57three trophies in the last three years. 21 points eight

03:00boards. It was really Tiffany Hayes off the bench for Las

03:04Vegas. That was their scoring and offensive spark plug. She

03:07had 20 points. Vegas scored nine in the opening quarter.

03:11Seattle only scored two in the fourth quarter and we're seeing

03:15the total drop by three and a half. Joe, it's been an

03:18interesting year for Las Vegas. The two-time reigning

03:21champs. The first team to win two in a row since the LA

03:24Sparks did so in 01 and 02. They were the heavy title

03:28favorites entering 2024. They had lost three straight four or

03:32five. They started six and six matching their overall loss

03:36total from a season ago when they were 34 and six. They

03:40still ended the year winning five straight games in the

03:42regular season and nine of the last ten. Las Vegas with that

03:46championship pedigree and the WNBA MVP and best player on

03:50planet Earth Asia Wilson rounding into that title form

03:54once again. But the favorites to win a WNBA title that would

03:58be the New York Liberty handling the Atlanta Dream on

04:01Sunday by fourteen in the opener even covering as a

04:04thirteen and a half point favorite. The Liberty led by

04:08eighteen points at the break and it was a little bit closer

04:11in the second half but still a comfortable win for the Liberty.

04:16Twelve and a half point spread for tonight. 156 and a half

04:20against Atlanta. I think the Liberty make it a sweep at only

04:23two games. Joe, what do you think for New York? Yeah, and

04:27they did it where I would a little bit of a new starting

04:30look there to the rotation and it actually worked out pretty

04:33well here. They listen. There is no reason to doubt the

04:37Liberty at all. There hasn't been all season long. I don't

04:41see any reason. Again, experience matters. They have

04:44plenty of it and they also have some amazing young players on

04:49this team. It just feels like they're going to steamroll

04:52their way to another championship possibility once

04:55again. Joe, Leone Phoebus was that new starter. She had a

05:00game high twenty-one points for New York on Sunday. Four for

05:04four from deep and Brianna Stewart still twenty points and

05:07eleven boards. I would keep an eye on the total tonight in

05:11Brooklyn. You saw there the Liberty the title favorites at

05:13this moment but the ace is a compelling plus 280 price at

05:19this moment.

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