This is Ready Set Bet with Matt Brown and Mike Somich on Fieson, the SportsBetting Network.

Hey, it's Ready Set Bet here on a Saturday, Matt Brown and Mike Samich coming to you for the next three hours joined by Adam Burke.

He will talk some Major League Baseball with us. We've got Aaron Halterman. Whatever Aaron wants to talk about, we'll see. I'm sure you guys have some horse opinions. We'll get to your horse opinions a little bit later as well with everything that is going on out there. And then Luf and Ocaro going to join us to talk some UFC as we have. We can't say pay-per-view anymore. It's a numbered event,

Mike. It's a numbered event. I think they're all numbered, too, though. So we have to say like it's a main numbered because they say fight night X, you know, whatever number. So they're all numbered, but it's the big number, the big numbered event. It's a championship event. We got two belts on the line tonight, right? There we go. We've got a championship event.

Okay, that's what we'll say from here. Yeah. You know, because they're all on Paramount Plus now. No more paying for these things, although you still are paying for them. You're just paying for them in a different manner. But it is nice to have a big fight night back here as we've got NHL playoffs, NBA playoffs, got some horse racing, a little bit of everything on today's show. A little bit of everything. We have as football. If you want to stick around and see what we think of, you know, the big schedule release coming out on Thursday. And yeah, you pretty much know,

what teams, you know, are going to have easy schedules or hard schedules. But is there a crazy

weird run where there's, you know, a lot of travel or, you know, back-to-back roadies that are across, all kinds of stuff like that that we will get to next week, of course, as the schedule is officially released. But we do at least know which teams are projected to have the hardest and the easiest schedules. We'll talk about those a little bit later in the program,

but getting to what we did see last night, Mike Sommich over there in the NBA, the Knicks

get it done over the Sixers. The Sixers were actually favored in this game, not only favored,

but getting some love. We go from one and a half to two and a half out to three and a half

at points, but did not matter as the Knicks just overcome.

And honestly, if you sit there and you watch that game without OGM, it's, it's a, it's a Sixers team that with Embedeeds slowed down through the multiple injuries that forced him to miss the game, the previous game, Mike.

It's just he's, when he's good, he's good. He's actually not, not that. When he's good, he's great. He is absolutely great. There's no doubt about that. But you kind of watch what's going on out there with all the injuries and he's just kind of loafing around. He can't really move. and it just without a healthy

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one in this series.

And I was kind of talking about this last week

when we were on air as to how I thought they were live. And, you know, you look at all this talent that they've got. But with him all beat up, I think that they're, I think that ship has sailed. Yeah, it's kind of comical at this point where you have people jumping in with the expectation that you're going to just get magically a month of health from Mb here to get him through the Eastern Conference. Like it's we saw it in Boston, how big of an impact he can make in a series. If he is healthy, if he is ready to go, we saw him play very well down the stretch of that series. But we see this at weeks at a time, not months at a time anymore.

And you need months at a time to be able to be consistent enough to make a run in the playoffs. And you've got these other pieces that fit well. You've got Edgecombe. You've got Maxie. You've got Paul George who's been playing some of the better basketball we've seen from him in the last four to five years. But Ambide is that linchpin. He is the one that you have to have out there and have to be able to see him consistently get points, get rebounds, be able to protect the rim. And you're, to your point, like, he doesn't even look like he did a week ago. That's the wild part about all this to me is that you can visibly see this is not the same player that we saw in game five and game six against

Boston. And it's been a week. I don't understand how people expect him to be able to make it a month, let alone to be able to get through this next series. Yeah, it's kind of like one of those, even if they were, you see it now. And I guess I just kind of got caught up in the whole thing because of how good they look when everyone is out there and playing at a high level.

You can see at least what the ceiling is for that team. And then you

also realize what they actually really are when you watch a game like you saw where he's just

kind of lumbering around and he is a shell of what he was even like you said a few days before. And

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