Celtics vs Knicks Game Preview: Betting Tips & Insights

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00:00If we start with the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks, as I teased before the break,

00:04you see the price point, minus 10.5 as a favorite towards the Boston Celtics,

00:07and a total of 211.5. I don't necessarily, Joe Ranieri, want to take this game full game and say

00:12Boston should win this going away. If they're mediocre from three-point range,

00:16maybe they do win by 10 to 15 points and cover that spread. The one thing I need to know,

00:21though, and I need to see for the Boston Celtics, we can't leave any doubt. And I don't mean by

00:25winning the third quarter and winning the fourth quarter. I mean the first quarter and the second

00:29quarter. On the FanDuel Sportsbook, minus 6.5 earlier today was the price point for the first

00:35half spread between the Celtics and the Knicks. If I'm putting my money on a game tonight and I want

00:39to center it on the Boston Celtics, I expect dominance in the first half and maybe you cruise

00:45in the second half. I don't want to be left where a Carl Anthony Towns 3 goes down when they're down

00:4911 points to make it 8 points at that point. I want to make sure my team is engaged off the bat,

00:54and I believe they will because they understand the task is you can't go down 0-2, but you can dig

01:00yourself a grave in the first half that could be hard to dig out of in the second. Give me minus

01:046.5 in the first half for the Boston Celtics against the New York Knicks. How are you playing

01:09this game tonight, Joe? You know what, Donnie? I don't hate that look. Also, you know what? I wouldn't

01:15mind taking a first quarter shot with the Boston Celtics laying probably two and a half, maybe three

01:23points in that spot there. This is a team that will come out and will continue. Anybody thinking

01:29they ain't going to, you know, they missed 45. They attempted 60 threes in game one. They're not

01:36going to change the way they play. They're too good a shooting team. The percentage of threes they make

01:42will go up. It'll probably happen early, so I like that play, and by the same time, if I'm expecting

01:49the percentage of made threes to go up, not a whole lot of less volume, then we're going way over this

01:56total of 2.11 and a half. I would even take it further to say I'll take the Celtics team total

02:02up and over 1.10 and a half here tonight, Donnie, because if what we both know to be true, if there's

02:09going to be some positive regression here, I don't see how they're not scoring close to in the, you

02:16know, the 115, closer to 120 here, because those threes will fly here tonight again for the Celtics.