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I am calling it ride or fade.

I'm looking at the top 14s so far this season who are killing it against the spread,

and the four teams who absolutely suck.

Let me tell you, there are some shocking surprises.

What should we make of these teams?

Should we continue to ride these trends, or should we continue to fade them?

Let's get into it and drop that beat.

Thank you. and drop that beat. So we're getting to the end of like, let's, I don't want to do more awards because I think MVP is kind of like too early.

I think coach of the year is too early.

Defensive player of the year we did last week, I think that's probably what we can say. There's some level of certainty too. So I was looking at just the first eight games or so. And I thought to myself, what does Vegas have figured out? And what have they been shocked by? So we're basically what, 10 games in the season?

Just enough of the sample size to make a couple of judgment calls.

We're going to be looking at four NBA teams that I am going to either ride and four teams

that I am going to fade based on how they're playing so far this year and what I think

will continue.

Let's start with the teams that are not just good against the spread,

but surprisingly, shockingly good against the spread so far this year. We start in my hometown,

Portland, Oregon. As we talked about this earlier in the week, what in the hell is going on in Portland?

Blazers are six and one against the spread. There were times last year

where they weren't going to get six against the spread in a 30 game span. That is tied for the

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