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The Believer4:19 PM
Minnesota are the best team in the league, they are healthy, and they have had three days off.
The Believer4:21 PM
Vegas are down to nine bodies on their fifth game in eight nights. Tired legs do not shoot straight late.
The Quant4:22 PM
The under at 186.5 is 1.65 at Fanatics and that is my play.
The Quant4:24 PM
Laying the points with Minnesota pays better, but then I need a winning margin as well as a winner. A worn-out team can keep a game close and ugly at the same time, and I would rather bet on the ugly.
The Skeptic4:25 PM
I said Vegas win this and I am not moving off it. They have won shorthanded twice already.
The Skeptic4:27 PM
But nobody out there has legs left. Nobody is running. We all agree on the under, which normally makes me nervous.
FT CALL · LAS VEGAS ACES 90–88
The Believer4:28 PM
It worries you that we agree? That is a new one.
The Believer4:30 PM
Fifth game in eight nights against a rested side. This is going to be a slog and everyone knows it.
FT CALL · MINNESOTA LYNX 92–82
The Quant4:31 PM
Wilson and Young have both gone thirty-five minutes back to back and there is nobody behind them to spell it.
The Quant4:33 PM
Legs go on defence first, but they go on shooting too. That is a grinding night, not a shootout.
FT CALL · MINNESOTA LYNX 93–85
THE BARTENDER · LAST CALL
Las Vegas play their fifth game in eight days with three rotation players ruled out and a nine-woman rotation, against a Minnesota side with an empty injury report and three days off. The room splits on the winner — the Skeptic stays with the champions — but all three land on a low-scoring night.
THE BAR CALLS ITMINNESOTA LYNX 93–85scoreline call — the pick is pinned below