NBA Playoff Pick-a-thon Day 49: You Know What They Say About Small Hands and Small Feet

Small gloves and small shoes. AND...and it's an important one - better chance of the basketball leaving your fingers before the twenty four second shot clock goes off. Had Kawhi Leonard taken that shot late in the game, not only would the shot clock have expired but I would have had time to make myself a cappuccino, bake some homemade cookies, and put my daughter to bed before it left his fingertips. The hypothetical result - twenty four second violation, turnover, Miami Heat ties the game in regulation, and inevitably win and cover in OT against the deflated San Antonio Spurs. 

                     

Fortunately for the San Antonio Spurs, it was The Little Frenchman Tony Parker - affectionately known as Holly MacKenzie in the locker room - who scrambled from his seated position fifteen feet from the basket and somehow managed to bury the shot and the Miami Heat only hundredths of seconds before the horizontal red light on the backboard lit up. Although "It's a game of inches" was an expression originally used in horseshoes, it was later usurped by the NFL during a cold December battle in 1945 between the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Rams, and is now commonly used to describe nearly every sport from basketball to baseball to hockey to backgammon. As such, I refuse to recycle that garbage cliche, because the truth is basketball is a metric game of centimeters.

                   

The non-hypothetical, very real result - shot counts, four point lead, home court advantage stolen, San Antonio Spurs three games away from another NBA title. Oh, and Marco and I continued our undefeated streak of NBA Finals picks. And by continued I mean started.

POST-SEASON RECORD TO DATE: 49-29 ATS 

NBA FINALS: 1-0 ATS and SU

KYLE'S NHL PICKS TO DATE: 50-36-1

KYLE'S MLB PICKS TO DATE: 154-120-9

Short but sweet. Happy Friday everyone.

Vinny and Marco

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KYLE'S CORNER: Sports Betting vs Gambling

For those of you who have been following me recently, there's something you have to understand about system sports betting versus gambling. While both can be a bit of a roller coaster, system sports betting is inherently less risky and the troughs should always be less frequent and with less depth than the crests. A big mistake often made by novices is to let the dips or losing streaks veer them away from the system, instilling their opinions or "heart picks" as Vinny likes to call them, which essentially turns system sports betting into gambling. Here's a great article for anyone out there who's just beginning.

http://www.sportsbettingsystemreview.com/sportsbettingforbeginners/

Now that we've weathered the latest storm, looks like blue skies filled the horizon yesterday afternoon. Minus a close miss on the NHL under the rest of the day was finally a clean sweep, about time. 




NHL: Overall: 50-36-1

MLB: Overall: 154-120-9*

*Includes Wednesday's totals I missed updating*

Thursday

MLB: 4-0 *Finally broke the cold streak.
NHL: 0-1, under was 4.5& score was 3-2 unfortunately.

Friday's Action
NHL:




Pittsburgh @ Boston: Pittsburgh to win, Rask to make >30 saves. Malkin >2.5 shots. (No way they will let themselves get swept)

MLB:

Pitchers To Back:



DET:   Verlander (7-4, 3.70 ERA)
BAL:   Hammel (7-3, 5.43 ERA)
NYM:   Harvey (5-0, 2.17 ERA)
CHW:   Sale (5-3, 2.44 ERA)
PHI:   Lee (7-2, 2.45 ERA)
COL:   De La Rosa (7-3, 3.10 ERA)
NYY:   Kuroda (6-4, 2.59 ERA)
ARI:   Corbin (9-0, 2.06 ERA)
LAD:   Ryu (6-2, 2.89 ERA)

Overs:



NYY:   Kuroda (6-4, 2.59 ERA) Team over 4.5
TEX:   Tepesch (3-4, 3.44 ERA) @ TOR:   Rogers (1-2, 3.77 ERA) O9.5
LAA:   Hanson (2-2, 4.19 ERA) @ BOS:   Doubront (4-2, 4.88 ERA) O10.5
BAL:   Hammel (7-3, 5.43 ERA) @ TB:   Archer (0-1, 11.25 ERA) O8.5

Good luck!

Kyle