Knockonwood Sun. Plays!!!

[knockonwood]

Det. minus the pts. and smaller on the Over!!! Have a good one! Knock!

[Baseball_Nut]

knock wayne pred

we are on opposite ends here

atleast one of us will win


btw - - can you guys post your late plays before 3 pm

i have to go to my girlfriends house for easter

thanks

da_nut

[wass21]

nut

all my guys have the lakers -2.5. i unloaded on the twolves very big.

[wayne1218]

I think the T-Wolves are a SUCKER bet.:D :D

[SPORTS TIPSTER]

I think the Lakers are a suckers bet------that's why everyone is on Lakers!!!!!!!

[wayne1218]

The public might be on the Lakers but it seems most people here are on the T-Wolves and i think the public hits this one . Good Luck TIPMASTER!:D

[knockonwood]

B_Nut, I told you the other day I would have a Monster Play on Sun.! If so many people wearn't jumping on Minn., I would make it a Monster Play but we're just going to call it as close to a Monster Play as you can get! Take Minn. at home plus the pts. over the Lakers!!! Hope you have a Happy Easter!!! Knock! I don't think the Lakers go all the way this year, even though this one game has nothing to do with that.

[voskuhl43]

don't know, wayne

If the public hits this one, I think we're going to see a couple of books fall. The line is up to Los Angeles -3 at some sights. Last Sunday, same thing with the Blazers, also the Lakers aren't that great on the road and the Wolves are pretty good at home.

[wayne1218]

Who knows it's gambling but i'll take Kobe and Shaq over KG and Wally any day and the Wolves will be emotional early but i think experience and Kobe the "Creator" win late...... I only played it -135 on the ML earlier but after KG there isn't much on the Wolves you can truly count on.

[4breakout]

tsp write up


LA LAKERS (50-32 SU/42-40 ATS) at MINNESOTA (51-31 SU/43-36-3 ATS)

The Lakers open up a seven game series with the Timberwolves in Minnesota. After three consecutive NBA championships, the Lakers have had their down year, revealed their weakened sides, played themselves to the nubs of their regular-season competitive urges. The other 28 teams had their shot at the Lakers, and now it's the other 15, in an NBA postseason that starts this weekend in some places Saturday and some Sunday, including Minnesota, where the Laker dynasty opens as the fifth-seeded team in the West. In the Shaquille O'Neal-Kobe Bryant-Phil Jackson era, defined by strife followed by success three years running, the Lakers might never again be as vulnerable as they are today, with 50 wins and on the eve of their fourth postseason together. Now they know. Sixteen wins away from a fourth successive championship, and the 10th ring for coach Phil Jackson, the Lakers understand very clearly why no team has won four in a row since the Boston Celtics of the 1960s, and why only one coach in NBA history -- Red Auerbach of those same Celtics -- can match Jackson's nine rings so far. On November 22nd, the day Shaquille O'Neal returned to work after delaying toe surgery until mid-September, the Lakers were 3-9. On Christmas Night, after losing at home to hated Sacramento, the Lakers were 11-19. Friends of O'Neal suggested that he intentionally delayed the surgery to make the run for four more challenging, and the hideous early record definitely did. Now, because of their intermittent interest in the tedium of the regular season, the Lakers have to be the old Celtics. They must re-enact the feat achieved by Bill Russell's last title team, in 1969, when Boston beat mighty Philadelphia, New York and the Lakers without homecourt advantage in any series. They are also trying to complete the journey Seattle tried in 1977-78, when the Sonics opened 5-17 and made it all the way to a seven-game Finals before losing to Washington. For the record, the Wolves' 0-6 record in playoff series is the worst in NBA history, trailing the L.A. Clippers (1-6), the Cleveland Cavaliers (4-13) and the Toronto Raptors (1-3) among existing teams. (The St. Louis Bombers, Sheboygan Redskins and Cleveland Rebels were a combined 0-5 in playoff series way back when, and look where that got them.) Their 5-18 record in games (.217 winning percentage) is worse than the Nets (20-39, .339), the Cavaliers (28-49, .364) or the Clippers (13-22, .371). They have been so stymied in the first round, you'd think the little sign on Harry S. Truman's desk read, "The Wolf stops here." Now they are bigger underdogs than ever, even as a higher seed for the first time. When Portland (1993-98) got bounced from the first round six years in a row, the bosses there at least tried to change the mix, switching coaches and key players. The Trail Blazers also had reached the NBA Finals in 1990 and 1992, mitigating the futility. The Wolves have stuck with the same basketball boss (Kevin McHale), the same coach (Saunders) and the same superstar (Garnett) through all half dozen of the heartaches. But Saunders did have a point -- much of the cast around them changed, even though the circumstances (low seed, road games) and the outcomes did not. Anthony Peeler has been around for five of the Wolves' playoffs. From there, based on this spring's playoff roster, it drops off: Rasho Nesterovic four, Smith and Wally Szczerbiak three each, Gary Trent, Marc Jackson and Loren Woods just last year's downer against Dallas. Troy Hudson, Kendall Gill, Rod Strickland and Mike Wilks know nothing, first hand, of Minnesota's first-round futility. Qualifying for the playoffs is no given and gaining the fourth-best record in this current Western Conference isn't easy. Just getting there should mean something: The Trail Blazers (21 years) and the Jazz (20) have incredible active streaks of consecutive playoff appearances. Yet the Wolves' seven-year run is longer than any other team's except the Lakers'. The Lakers ended the season on a roll, going 8-2 SU and 6-4 ATS in their last ten games, while Minnesota ended the season 5-5 SU and 4-6 ATS - but they did win their last three games of the regular season. The two teams split their season series 2-2 SU and ATS. However, Minnesota's two SU and ATS wins came earlier in the season, while the Lakers won the two later meetings. The Lakers are 6-4 SU and ATS The last ten meetings with the Timberwolves dating back to April 8th, 2001. The Lakers won the most recent meeting in Minnesota on March 14th, winning 106-99 as -1 point road chalks. Will go with the Lakers in this one as they seem to turn it up a notch in the playoffs.

[voskuhl43]

You've also got to factor in...

Shaq's emotional state. His grandfather just passed away and his girl/wife/whatever just had her baby late Saturday morning? (I think so, not sure). Not saying that it will be that great of a factor but I bet the Hack a Shaq gameplan would work good today as Shaq might lack the concentration he needs (and he needs plenty) to be consistent on the line.

[knockonwood]

Like B_Nut, I've got to leave about 4:30 to go to a Easter dinner with family and Friends! I will say this, if both Dogs hit the first two games, you might want to think about taking the Fav. the last game because the odds are all the Dogs want hit! That is the only thing that worries about Minn., which I will play Minn. but usually in a Double header a Dog and a Fav. will hit. Just something to Think about.
I want to thank Nut, Stallion, Sports Tipster and Wayne, EZ Winner for some of the Plays today that I played and *** seams like we're always on the same Plays! I'm sure a couple of more people I missed. I hope everyone keeps posting and we can all be WINNERS!!! Happy Easter Everyone!!! Knock!

[knockonwood]

Minn. and the Under!!! Have a Good one! Knock!

[knockonwood]

Liked Orlando all Wk. and then switched up!!! That's how it goes! 1 and 1 for the day! Best to Everyone! Knock!

[knowlez]

OH SHIT WHO DO IPLAY TIPSTER LIKES T WOLVES WAYNE LIKES LAKERS. FUCK A MAJOR DECSION COMING UP IN THE NEXT FIVE MINUTES. DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO THINK I WILL GO BACK TO THE CATHOUSE THAT WAS FUN THANKS AGAIN TIPSTER. MY LEGS ARE COMING BACK TO ME.:D