Celtics vs. Knicks: High Stakes Clash on Opening Night

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00:00It's a matchup on night number one of the two teams with the two best numbers to win

00:07the Eastern Conference crown.

00:09The Celtics well in front and the Celtics a five and a half point favorite for Banner

00:14Night in Beantown.

00:16Total now at two twenty three and a half.

00:19Of course there will be the celebration.

00:21There will be the atmosphere of anointing a champion.

00:24What do you expect the actual basketball game to look like?

00:28I expect the over tonight again.

00:30I expect these teams come out firing specifically from the Knicks side of things.

00:33And as I mentioned in the last segment, I felt I expect the Celtics to be the best version

00:38of themselves, like a version we haven't seen because that pressure the championship is

00:41off of them.

00:42I expect to be totally free flowing.

00:43Yeah.

00:44Well, they go through some hiccups early in the season, especially on the defensive side

00:47of things.

00:48That's what I'm expecting.

00:49So I want to actually focus in on the Knicks tonight.

00:52As I said, we want to be betting on the Knicks and I want to start off with Jalen Brunson

00:55over thirty seven and a half PRA last year.

00:58He was up at a thirty two point nine percent usage rate.

01:00They added Carleton Towns.

01:01Of course, that's a big story for the Knicks.

01:03We have to figure out what that offense is going to look like.

01:05I don't want to say like I want to buy into a storyline of Brunson having like a sour

01:09taste in his mouth because he got hurt at the end of that Indiana series last year.

01:13But I'm expecting Brunson to come out on fire tonight and especially the early portion of

01:17the season.

01:18He's going to lead this team with his usage and all those numbers be exactly the same

01:21with Carleton Towns in the mix this season.

01:23No, but I expect tonight to be a big night for Brunson.

01:28How does that change your handicapping, you know, for the better is coming to Christ's

01:32first couple of weeks here in the association?

01:33Are you looking more towards the big names more so than the glue guys, especially going

01:38into a hostile environment like this, just just because you can know that they're going

01:41to be bankable and get that production?

01:45You would like to think so.

01:46And that's obviously different from a team team by team perspective, like adding Carleton

01:49Towns, a player that should be touching the ball X amount of times that should be pushing

01:53towards a double double every single night.

01:54You have to take that by a team by team basis.

01:56That said, I think there's a lot of opportunity on teams that do have these massive changes

02:01because if you are like seeing something in preseason or coach speak, wherever might be

02:05that there's going to be a change in role and the markets haven't been adjusted.

02:09There's a lot of opportunity to jump on a young player that's going to be seeing more

02:12time than rotation to fade a vet that may not be playing as big of a role like I don't

02:16expect.

02:17If Paul George was fully healthy, I would be taking unders on him because I don't expect

02:20him to play a big role.

02:21I've been taking unders on Tobias Harris in Detroit because they should be trying to develop

02:25their young talent and not getting a vet the ball X amount of times.

02:29So those are the storylines you can absolutely make some serious profit on early in the season.

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