Pacers Favored as Bucks Face Playoff Struggles in Game 5

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00:00let's start in indy the pacers an eight point favorite against the milwaukee bucks we got

00:04official confirmation yesterday that sadly and unfortunately for dame and the bucks he suffered

00:10a ruptured achilles in game number four not only of course is he out for the remainder of however

00:17long this playoff run lasts for milwaukee but his status for 2025 26 is certainly in doubt so

00:25tonight's game five really could be the end of an era for the bucks a failed experiment of two seasons

00:32with dame and yannis in milwaukee if it comes to a close tonight the pacers an eight point favorite

00:39drs at home inside the game bridge field house do you give yannis and the bucks much of a chance to

00:45even keep this game close here's a tough one and again we look for correlations which we think will

00:50make sense we thought that the houston rockets like there's no way they can win that basketball game

00:54if jaylen green doesn't play well he stunk they actually still covered the spread which was pretty

00:58impressive you take a look at the miami heat game last night where would the correlation be in that

01:02one hey look if you're gonna have any heart in this game it better be in the first half here and

01:05tyler hero slash bam out of bayou better have great games tyler here was a minus 44 in that game

01:10i don't expect that same type of output for yannis anthony cupo because i think he truly is a dominant

01:15player and no matter what happens around his team his statistics will be there so for me looking at the

01:20point spread and saying donna you're confident that the pacers can cover eight points not

01:24necessarily because i still think there is a dna for the bucks it's like we're world champions we

01:29won it a couple years ago i'm yannis anthony cupo i'm still a top five top 10 player and put this on

01:33my shoulders i'll be able to ball out you look at his price point here for his points prop at the

01:38fan blue sports book then it's 33 and a half he could score 33 and a half in this game without

01:42damon lillard and then still get beat by double digits and go home that's me that's the correlation

01:47like i'd rather just take yannis and say i know this guy ben is going to shoot 25 times tonight

01:53i know he's going to shoot 18 free throws can he make them sure i know he's going to shoot three or

01:57four three-point shots can he drop a few of those so my correlation tonight is not necessarily loving

02:02the bucks it just said i know i'm not going to get a tyler hero performance tonight at a yannis

02:07anthony cupo i can trust the greek freak tonight to get into the 30s or close to the 30s to give me a

02:13legitimate chance to hit his points prop in this one that's the way i go and also understand this

02:18some of the other bench guys better get involved as well because damon lillard when he's healthy and

02:22playing 30 plus minutes that's 15 plus shot attempts or more in a game those shots will now

02:27be able to be spread out is it a bobby portis is it a game that gets out of reach where still the

02:31bench players are playing in the late third quarter and fourth quarter but for me it's centered around

02:35yannis yannis to be in the 30s i would be shocked if he winds up with 25 or less in this game tonight

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