WNBA Best Bets: New York Liberty vs. Indiana Fever

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00:00big game in the wmba as the defending wmba champions new york liberty take on the biggest star

00:18in the wmba and caitlin clark at one o'clock and it's going to be an interesting game folks

00:23a new york liberty team that's played relatively well to start the season

00:26at two and oh two block win uh wins versus the indiana team that little up and down splitting

00:32their two game set with the atlanta dream and when you look at this matchup you got to look strictly

00:37at the superstars and that is obviously caitlin clark and then on the other side uh sabrina

00:43in regards to what you expect out of them new york liberty right now three and a half uh the four

00:49point favorites but when you look at these two superstars to me it's also going to be based on

00:54how they guard right for instance do i see sabrina nescu with a points prop at 16 and a half

00:59uh over now two and a half made threes remember sabrina nescu had the wmba record for most

01:04consecutive games with made three she missed out on that in the opening night win versus

01:11obviously the las vegas aces so i'm looking at her to go over two and a half made threes

01:15in this matchup as i expect her to get loose when you go to the other side you look at caitlin clark

01:22caitlin clark that's now the minus money favorite to be the league mvp points profit 21 and a half

01:27over uh over under three and a half made threes nine and a half assists five and a half rebounds

01:32to me it's going to be based off the matchup you're going to see i think caitlin clark lives

01:37for these moments she's had she had a rough shooting game last game only having i think

01:4011 points so this points prop could be implied but i want to see especially if you're going to bet

01:45this game live is who guards caitlin clark to me i would not be sending sabrina nescu on her

01:51i would be looking at someone like natasha cloud to be guarding uh caitlin clark because of her

01:57ability to create off the bounce a really big time matchup with these two teams and this is why the

02:03wmbi and kevin and i have done this for so long well we've knocked this league for some of the

02:08scheduling they got it right saturday one o'clock there's you know i mean i'm not watching the mets

02:15play tonight but they're probably gonna lose anyway because they stink uh but then you start

02:18looking at no nba until 8 30 tonight this is a big time matchup uh with the liberty minus three and

02:24a half versus the indiana fever kev yeah it absolutely is and you think about these are two

02:33teams that when they met last year the liberty consistently would poured on indiana one of the

02:42turning points of the season for the fever though was when they finally beat the liberty and it felt

02:46like they had kind of arrived their meeting today though is not supposed to be the champs up against

02:55you know this up-and-coming group it's the champs and a team that believes that they can take that

03:01title this year two teams that are priced like they can win the championship during this w nba season

03:10in order for that to be true for the fever they're gonna have to clean up i think some of the defensive

03:17stuff that game number one we saw had a lot more to do maybe with the sky than the fever the liberty to

03:24win the championship they're gonna need consistency out of their superstars we're still waiting for it from

03:31sab but i've liked what i've seen from brianna so far to open the season here tom i expect her to

03:36have a great game i know you do as well yeah i do as well you know we were we weren't on air last

03:41week for the the start of the liberty game but we you know we came in right at the end of that

03:45they obviously looked great taking down the the vegas aces in the win and you know looking back at

03:51their most recent game obviously in chicago a team that coach you were talking about is maybe one of

03:55the worst teams in the league the bottom teams in the league but ultimately stewart didn't have

03:59to do a whole lot four other players in double digits obviously cloud knocking down threes which

04:04is is great to see um this has to be i don't want to say a bounce back game because again she didn't

04:08play bad the competition that they they had him in arms reached the entire time so we'll get into

04:12some of the props later eight field goal attempts from stewie is just far too low on a on a game by

04:18game basis the double double potential is there for her on a game by game basis as well kind of you know

04:23foreshadowing for what i do like for her points and rebounds which we will get to i expect this to

04:28be a higher scoring game i know you like the points as well well you know we've had some producers in

04:32the background saying they like indiana outright half whatever it might be i want to stick with

04:37stewart getting some points and rebounds we'll get to that later though yeah i think this is going to

04:41be such a big match i think for the fever this is an important game for them because if you remember

04:47kevin was talking about that game in the second half i felt like when they won that game at home and it

04:52was a big comeback if i'm not mistaken kevin a fourth quarter we're like they've arrived

04:56in order for indiana to compete today the wanna bonner has got to be better than what she's been

05:02she was brought in to be an experienced factor but someone that's not afraid to take the big shot

05:07she struggled a little bit for the new york liberty yes they got to get stewart involved uh they got to

05:12kind of figure out how they want to use natasha cloud she's had the ball on her hands a lot this is

05:17someone that can create i think it's kind of led to a little bit of a regression in regards to sap

05:23because sometimes that ball would be in sap's hands now he's running the offense versus cloud

05:27the matchup to me that's going to be key to this game is the four five it's brianna and john quell

05:36versus natasha howard and aliyah boston and you know kevin and i were talking pre-show about the fact of

05:42you know who does aliyah boston guard because i if i'm if i'm uh stephanie white i don't want her

05:48guarding stewie i just think that's just way too much but then you go on to john quell a john

05:53quill johnson can step up from the three-point line right and shoot the three which now brings

05:58aliyah boston which now can create driving lanes for a cloud to get to the basket and kick out for

06:04threes i think indiana's going to have problems defensively but i do think the liberty may have

06:10problems as well kevin i really think this game is going to push way over to 173 and a half i do

06:14believe it's right

06:15right

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