Best of Straight Outta Vegas with RJ Bell: 08/18/2020
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🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
RJ Bell, Steve Fezzik, and Jonas Knox are joined by special guest Matthew Holt. former bookmaker with CG Technology. The guys break down the mindset and strategies of the bookmakers, using the Magic's upset of the Bucks as a case study of the bookie mindset. RJ explains why he likes Oklahoma City to take their first round series against Houston, despite OKC having a questionable motivation. RJ demonstrates how Portland is being overrated ahead of the start to their series with the Lakers. Plus, in today's NFL season preview, the guys look at the Los Angeles Rams!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:04.0 | The 1-8 matchup in the Eastern Conference |
| 0:07.0 | and it tipped off earlier today |
| 0:09.0 | and it did not go the way that many people expected. |
| 0:11.5 | It was the Orlando Magic, the the eight seed taking out the one |
| 0:14.9 | seed in game one of their series one twenty two one ten the final earlier from |
| 0:19.8 | Orlando in the bubble okay so how big of an upset is this? |
| 0:23.7 | So going back, and our playoff database is not as good, but going back to 2003, it's the biggest |
| 0:30.9 | upset, or wait, the second biggest upset in the NBA playoff since 2003 |
| 0:37.8 | 17 years second biggest that's big |
| 0:41.2 | Let's put it in context of the regular season. |
| 0:44.7 | So if you have favorites between, let's say, 13 and a half and 15, just to kind of get in the range, |
| 0:49.4 | remember Orlando was a 14-point underdog in this case. To lose outright by 10 plus happens about 1% of the time, 1.2%. |
| 1:01.0 | Okay, so if you look at it, there's 834 games that fall in the category, regular season playoffs, |
| 1:08.0 | and the Bucks are the 10th team to lose outright by double digits when they're a favorite this big. |
| 1:16.4 | 10 team out of, wow, 834. |
| 1:21.0 | So rare, rare, rare. |
| 1:23.0 | To lose by double digits. |
| 1:24.0 | To lose by double, I mean, it's rare to lose that. |
| 1:27.0 | I mean, I guess we haven't had that many underdogs that big in the playoffs, but still, it doesn't happen all that often like we said |
| 1:34.9 | especially to lose convincingly all game I mean from the opening tip all the |
| 1:40.1 | way on I mean Orlando handled them so here's the question I'm at you had this information I think it's stunning so you know part of US integrity you called around and said all right what's this thing we're to put up the Milwaukee Orlando adjusted series price. What's it going to be? It was a shocker. |
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