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I'm Dustin Sweetelson, coming to you, as always, from the Circus Sportsbook in downtown

Las Vegas. Broadcasting, as always, Sirius XM Channel 158, YouTube TV, the Visa Watch app,

and radio affiliates across the United States of God bless America.

Half time in Los Angeles, the Lakers, leading 54-51 over the Houston Rockets.

Houston, though, still a two and a half-point favorite. Total, two, ten and a half. We saw this one around four and a half, five-and-half for the last couple days here. And right now, the Lakers with the lead, but still underdogs in this spot. To help us find some live wagers, also look ahead to the slate on Wednesday. We're going out to the progressive guest line. Welcome in one of the sharpest dudes out there when it comes to betting the NBA. He's Michael Fiddle, NBA handicapper. At Fiddle's Picks, you can find him over on X. NBA betting with Fiddle available on his X page as well. Monday, Wednesday, Friday with the shows at 11 a.m. Eastern time. And Michael joins us now on the

progressive guest line. Houston are the Lakers led by as much as 15 in the first half. They're up by

three at halftime. Betting market, as I mentioned, still is Houston favorite at minus two and a

half. Michael, do you think about doing anything here at halftime? At half time, it's got to be a

Houston or nothing type of play. You look at the Lakers shooting 10 for 20 from three, so shooting

well above expectation, rockets, five for 17 from three, a little bit below expectation. Now,

shouldn't expect that to necessarily even out because Lakers are better

shooters and they're filling in with Conard and Smart and Rui Hachamora. And then the rockets are

shooting with, you know, Amin Thompson, Tari Isan, Jhabari Smith, who does have some trouble in the big

moments historically. So you don't expect it to even out, but you do expect it to kind of improve for the

rockets and regress a bit for the Lakers.

I also highly value shot quality dusted and there's shot quality metrics out there,

which are available, which says, okay, if this person is a 50% shooter from this spot and they take a two-pointer,

we should just count this as one point regardless of what actually happens in the results.

And they generate a live shot quality score.

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