This is Veson by the books on Veson, the Sports Betting Network.

Rolling along on a Monday edition of Veson by the books, Jensen Lewis, alongside Mark Palousis,

in for Super Dave Ross. Super Dave checking in watching the show this morning.

Good to see you, buddy.

By the way, nice master's card for Super Dave. We were in studio last week, Mark down at the Mint in Franklin, Kentucky.

A lot of different markets as far as top nation, top region. So some great tickets if you tailed Super Dave on that. Always a good decision

financially to tail our next guest, one of our favorites here, senior editor at vizan.com. And of course,

hosts of the Hardwood Handicappers Podcast, none other than Zachary Cohen. When he's not

handicapping the NBA, he's handicapping a little temptation island.

But we welcome in Zachary Cohen on the progressive guest line. Buddy, great to be with you.

We have our seeds. We now have meaningful basketball. We might have some defense to speak of when we

get underway for the play in tournament tomorrow. How did you assess how the final day, the regular

season, ended up and maybe some top line thoughts as we head into the second season starting

tomorrow? Yeah, I thought there was some crazy decision making by some of these teams. I don't know

why the Hawks all of a sudden decided that they wanted to face the Knicks. And we saw all these

teams play about a week ago. And New York beat them in Atlanta in a game where the Hawks shot better from three. Knicks had more turnovers. I do think New York is a much better team than Atlanta. Maybe some of that had to do with them preferring to play, you know, somebody else in the second round. But when you're a team that is going to struggle in the first round, you do not want to kind of set your mark like that.

And I do think the Knicks are kind of a prideful team that will not like that they tanked for them.

So I do think that that was a really interesting decision.

Also, Spurs had a chance to, you know, go out there and potentially avoid the nuggets in the second round, but decided not to do that. I actually

liked that decision, I think. It was tough from like a strategy perspective, but I think that,

you know, when you get into tanking and, you know, trying to avoid teams, that's when you kind

tempt the basketball gods to go in another direction. So I like that the Spurs decided that, you know,

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