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So, here we are again, a profitable week, but most importantly, one we can learn from.

Variance- the fact or quality of being different, divergent, or inconsistent.

In this game consistency is required long term to be successful, but the variance is what you must be able to withstand to find success.

Prepare yourself for ups and downs, not letting your self fall too far either way at any moment.

Let's get some more holiday cash! Thanks for the support.

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France
Racing Strasburg vs PSG
Over 3 -1.2

UPDATE #1 440 CST

MLS

Atlanta/Portland first half over 1 (juiced but Im pounding it -180 5U) push

Atl TT over 2 ?$?$?$? push

Game over 3 5U -6

UPDATE 644 CST

ATL J. Martinez scores goal 3U +3

UPDATE 224 CST

Eagles TT over 20.5 5U MAX +5

UPDATE

49ers 2nd Half TT over 10 2U -2.2

Eagles 2nd half pk 3U

UPDATE CST 1153 CST

Everton vs Watford

Everton 1U -150 -1.5

Bears ML 5U +6.2

Bears+3 5U +5

Bears +3.5 5U +5

UPDATE 639 CST

A.Thielen pass receptions over 6½ 2U -4

TD 1U

UPDATE

Seattle first half TT over 13 5U MAX -5.5

Seattle Over 19.5 5U MAX +5

UPDATE 1035

Wolves/Warriors

Warriors TT over 120.5 3U -3.3

Game over 230.5 2U -2.2

UPDATE 1:12 CST

Inter Milan TT over 2 2U -2.4

Game over 3 1U -1.2

UPDATE 1:29 CST

Liverpool ML 3U +3

Salah scores 1U +1

UPDATE 259

Liverpool -1.5 game 2U -2.3

Tottenham +1 2U +2

+4

Last article read 274.1. 274.1 + 4= 278.1

New Plays

NBA

Nets vs 76ers over 221.5 1U

UPDATE 12:32 CST

Lyon/ Shak (Bovada)

Both teams soccer and over 2.5. 3U -135

Over 3 +105 1U

First half over 1 -170 1U

UPDATE 1:11 CST

Total of the day

Lyon/ Shak (Bovada)

Both teams soccer and over 2.5. 2U -135

Over 3 +105 1U

First half over 1 -170 1U

Update 139 CST

Goal score prop of the day

Ronaldo


UPDATE 1:50 CST

Play of the day

Juventus -1 -154 POD

Juventus first half ML -110 1U

Parlay

Parlay 1U Juventus -1

Man city over 3.5

Bayern Ajax over 3



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The Thunder beat the Rockets, 111-96. Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images.

It was midway through the third quarter of the Oklahoma City-Houston NBA Cup semifinal matchup on Saturday night. Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had just made a short jumper in the lane and, to his delight, a time-out was immediately called.

He needed it.

He retreated to midcourt, crouched down, propped himself up by his fingertips and took deep breath after deep breath. It was that sort of night. And given the way the Rockets and Thunder have defended all season long, such a game was predictable.

In the end, it was Oklahoma City 111, Houston 96 in a game where the teams combined to shoot 41%. The immediate reward for the Thunder: two days off to recover. The bigger reward: a matchup with Milwaukee on Tuesday night for the NBA Cup, with more than $300,000 per player the difference between winning and losing.

“That's what defense does for you,” said Thunder coach Mark Daigneault, whose team has held opponents to 41% shooting or worse a league-best 11 times this season — and is 11-0 in those games. “It keeps you in games.”

The Rockets-Thunder semifinal was basketball, with elements of football, rugby, hockey and probably even some wrestling thrown in. It wasn't unusual. It's how they play: defense-first, tough, gritty, physical.

They are the two top teams in the NBA in terms of field-goal percentage defense — Oklahoma City came in at 42.7%, Houston at 43.4% — and entered the night as two of the top three in scoring defense. Orlando led entering Saturday at 103.7 per game, Oklahoma City was No. 2 at 103.8, Houston No. 3 at 105.9. (The Thunder, by holding Houston to 96, passed the Magic for the top spot on Saturday.)

Houston finished 36.5% from the field, its second-worst showing of the season. When the Rockets shoot 41% or better, they're 17-4. When they don't, they're 0-5.

“Sometimes it comes down to making shots,” Rockets coach Ime Udoka said. “Especially in the first half, we guarded well enough. ... But you put a lot of pressure on your defense when you're not making shots.”

Even though scoring across the NBA is down slightly so far this season, about a point per game behind last season's pace and two points from the pace of the 2022-23 season, it's still a golden age for offense in the league. Consider: Boston scored 51 points in a quarter earlier this season.

Saturday was not like most games. The halftime score: Rockets 42, Thunder 41. Neither team crossed the 50-point mark until Dillon Brooks' 3-pointer for Houston gave the Rockets a 51-45 lead with 8:46 left in the third quarter.

Brooks is generally considered one of the game's tougher defenders. Gilgeous-Alexander is one of the game's best scorers. They're teammates on Canada's national team, and they had some 1-on-1 moments on Saturday.

“It's fun. It makes you better,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “That's what this league is about, competing against the best in the world and defensively, he is that for sure. And I like to think that of myself offensively. He gives me a chance to really see where I'm at, a good test. I'd say I handled it pretty well.”

Indeed he did. Gilgeous-Alexander finished with 32 points, the fifth instance this season of someone scoring that many against the Rockets. He's done it twice, and the Thunder scored 70 points in the second half to pull away.

“We knew that if we kept getting stops we would give ourselves a chance,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “And we did so.”

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