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00:00So now let's go to tonight's Eastern Conference where Indiana is at Boston again, Indiana
00:07nearly stole game one, but the odds makers are telling us probably not going to happen
00:13in game two.
00:14What do you think Jacob?
00:15Nine point favorites Celtics tonight, total of two 25, man.
00:19I'm not an over guy.
00:20I always think the values on the under, but my gosh, there's just, I don't see any scenario
00:24where I could ever go under with the Indiana Pacers playing.
00:28And even if they don't shoot 67% or 65%, it's, it just seems like the way that they
00:33play is conducive to an over here, but I don't know how I'm really feeling about this game
00:40tonight.
00:41I sort of feel like another close game is possible.
00:44And is it, is it also possible Jacob that Boston has just simply overrated in terms
00:49of where these lines are here?
00:50Like should the line be five and a half, six, is this too much?
00:54I do think this is a little too much just because of what we know about the Celtics
00:57as a team, they tend to lack killer instinct.
01:01They get up big in games.
01:02They're up 13 in game one and they tend to blow it and get into these clutch time situations
01:07that you know, they should pull out of more often than not, but they tend to tense up.
01:12They tend to take difficult shots.
01:13They play some hero ball.
01:15They don't have a true play-making passer, like not a Luka Doncic type as a passer.
01:21I think that kind of hurts them here.
01:23And the other thing I'm looking at, just from what I saw in game one, Al Horford is going
01:27to be at a disadvantage in this series.
01:30He's a great defender typically, but the pacers have such size with Miles Turner and speed
01:36with all their other players that if they get Al Horford in the pick and roll, if he
01:40tries to do drop coverage, he's going to be late to come out and defend the three.
01:44And then if he tries to defend the three, they're going to be able to blow by him.
01:47He's just a step slower than these guys, which you'd expect from a guy in his late thirties
01:51who has a lot of NBA miles on the tires.
01:53So I think that they're missing Kristaps Porzingis a lot right now.
01:58So I think as long as Porzingis remains out, I'm not going to trust the Celtics as massive
02:03favorites.
02:04And I agree with you.
02:05I like the over here.
02:06It doesn't feel right to be betting that in an Eastern Conference Finals game, but both
02:10of these teams can score and the Celtics seemed willing to play into the pacers and where
02:14they want to play a fast pace.
02:16So if that happens again, I think this is going to go over.