Celtics vs. Knicks Series Preview: Odds and Predictions

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00:00but if we do take a look now at the series prices as we line up and start here with the Boston

00:05Celtics and the New York Knicks, boy, is it a heavy favorite here, Joe, a minus 1,000 price

00:11for the Boston Celtics. If you want the dog price in the Knicks, that sits at plus 660.

00:16When you see those numbers, what comes to your mind? Yeah, no shot. That's what it is. My hope

00:23here, if you're looking for the Celtics, is that the Knicks come out and punch first and maybe win

00:29again. Now, listen, I don't think the Knicks are going to get swept by any stretch here, but it

00:34does have five games written all over it here. I think that looks to be, I think, the best price

00:43we're seeing there on the board. It looks like, you know, 4-1, maybe 4-2 if we're lucky, but I don't

00:51think we're getting a game seven in any way, shape, or form in a series. I got to go get,

00:56like, because I see the two and a half and I always get excited about that, like the Detroit

00:59Pistons series against the Knicks. Like, man, I love the two and a half. Now, it was a little bit

01:02creaky where they had to steal a game number five in New York just to get at the game number six,

01:06but they did get there and it did cover. And it's funny because when you look at it and say,

01:11yes, the Celtics are going to win this year. Donnie, any chance that the New York Knicks win the

01:14series? I don't really think they can. So, usually they say, well, why would you build a scenario

01:17around you covering some sort of line with the New York Knicks? Because it could end in four games.

01:22It could end in the gentleman's sweep and you wouldn't get the cover at plus two and a half.

01:26Also, the Celtics opened up as a minus 700 series price here against the Knicks and ballooned up

01:31to that minus 1,000. If we're looking for a puncher's chance out of the New York Knicks,

01:36like, what has to happen in your mind in this series? Is it just that Tatum doesn't play well

01:41or Brown doesn't play well, the three ball doesn't go down and Brunson scores 40 every night?

01:45What's the game plan for the New York Knicks against the Boston Celtics for you?

01:49Got to win with defense. We saw that with Orlando, right? The Celtics had a harder time with the more

01:58physical teams there. And when the threes aren't falling, the Celtics are beatable. But the problem

02:05is the Celtics have way more depth than the Knicks. That next group of guys that they can bring in

02:11Pritchard and company off the bench, they're just as lethal shooting the ball. So, the Knicks are going

02:17to have to find. It's got to be somebody else. Somebody else has to step up outside of just

02:22Brunson and hoping Cat doesn't disappear. Somebody else has got to get there. Where's Bridges been on

02:29a consistent basis? You either have to go toe-to-toe from three with the Celtics, or you got to be

02:35physical enough to give yourself a chance to win it ugly. And I think that's the Knicks' best chance

02:41to win this series is by making it ugly.

02:43Happy Red Bull.

02:45Happy Blue

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