Championships are very hard to win; you just have to keep rolling the dice and getting to the playoffs every year
I'm also a big believer in like, championships are very hard to win. Just having a consistently good team that gets to the playoffs and deep runs in the playoffs. Like you just keep rolling the dice... The playoffs is the goal. What happens after that? There's a lot of like bounces and weird shit that happen.
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View episodeBetting on the Heat to win the series while up 3-0 was a 'sharp' bet based on expected value and ROI
It was a plus expected value on the bet, by the way... I was getting 10% return on investment. It should have been about 5% given the history of the NBA in three-nothing leads. So it was a sharp bet. I don't regret anything. I'm a process guy, not a results guy.
If the Celtics win Game 6 in Miami, Game 7 at home is a guaranteed win
Game six is definitely a tossup. But if you win Game six, game seven at home is ours.
Joe Mazzulla visiting a hospital before Game 5 is 'Gary V adjacent' and psycho behavior
He said watching a girl dying and smiling and enjoying her life, that's what it's really all about. So he gained some perspective. It's kind of some psycho shit, but I guess it's nice... it is Gary V adjacent what he's doing. He's just reminding, he's trying to force himself to work harder by looking at people who are dying.
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View profileMichigan was definitively the better team in the National Championship and it never felt like UConn was in danger of winning.
Michigan was the better team. We all saw it. It never felt like [the game] was in danger. Like the only moment that I was like, oh, UConn might have a chance, was when there was like maybe five and a half minutes left and Mullens missed that three to cut it to four.
Michigan was the best team all year — outside of Duke, who would have won the championship by a lot
They were the best team. They were the best team all year outside of Duke. 'Cause that actually was my other big takeaway — Duke just completely, Duke beat this Michigan team a month and a half ago.
Danny Hurley is 18-1 against the spread in his last four NCAA tournaments, which is insane
Danny Hurley remains 18 and one in the last four tournaments against the spread. How insane is that? Furman is the only one that they didn't cover. That was the first round this year.