1st of all I apologize for sounding stupid but how does Vegas or anyone off shore come up with a halftime line?
Being court side at Fridays afternoon and Saturdays afternoon basketball games La Laf vs Texas St it seemed like the lines were all wrong. 1st of all Texas was favored in both games and lost outright. My system had Laf favored in both games by a point or two. But the halftime lines has me totally intrigued . In both games Laf had the lead and led in both games. Never did Texas have the lead. I think maybe they tied it once or twice on Friday .. But like I said Cagins front line was big led by 6'10 Akwuba and the kid from Sengal Gueye at 6'9. Bobcats have Sule who for every good move he makes a dumb one. Gueye is 6'9 and was guarding Harrell the 5'8 pt gd. It wasn't until in game 2 did I realize why a 6'9 230 pound kid could gd one of the best pt gds in the Sun Conf. Gueye on a dead ball out of bounds put the ball on his foot and had maybe 4 or 5 kept up the up by kicking it back to him then lightly kicked the ball to the ref. The ref laughed but I realized this kid is a soccer player from Sengal and only because he grew to 6'9 he probably gave up soccer. But that is why he has such great lateral movement. In game 2 he hurt his ankle with 4 minutes to go at he half. He was carried off the court.. But in 2nd half he didn't warm up much but with about 4 minutes in the 2nd half he went over to the coach and told him I'm ready. In the mean time Harrell had a career game scoring 25 points. The night before Gueye had locked him down on defense.
The game ending was unreal. Russell drives into the middle with Laf down by 1 73-72 and is called for an offense foul with 3.4 seconds on the clock. All tex st has to do is inbound it and game over. Tx St calls timeout and everyone is celebrating on the bench. Ball inbound is under Laf basket. Laf player on the ball gets a deflection and Butts who came off the bench for Laf picks up the ball 2 feet from the basket and lays it in. Laf now up by 1 with .04 on the clock Baseball pass intercepted by Akwuba Buzzer goes off Tex St devastated.. You can't celebrate to early fellows and you never throw the inbounds pass under their basket. It made no difference to me because I had Laf +3 and +4.5 at halftime. I just didn't want over time.
but getting back to the original question who made Tx St a favorite at half time. I can understand the original line they make but how did they make them a favorite in the 2nd half. I know I have an advantage sitting court side so who calls up Vegas and says " Tex st is coming back lets make them the favorite. I think in both games that's 80 minutes Bobcats might have had the lead for a few minutes ..you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see Laf had the 2 best players on the court.. There is no home crowd with maybe 200 people in the gym. 6 band members
6 cheer leaders and 5 dancing team all sitting in the stands far away.
Is it all statistics to predict half time lines. How do they come up with a number and line. Do they know Gyeye hurt his ankle and might not come back? I won big on the games big time plus the 2 halftime lines. Then driving home I'm thinking why didn't I put more down being greedy.
Laf coach did realize Russell was being ignored on friday night. This kid can play and was a LSU recruit . How he got to Laf is beyond me. But the coach put him at the pt and he handled the ball , About 2 minutes of him playing the pt he took 2 NBA 3's and swished them just as tex made a run..
Laf coach subs way to much. He has 1 starter on the floor with 4 bench kids. You can see the continuity wasn't there. At one point with 5 minutes left in the game he puts in a player who looks like the waterboy and a 2 pt game. He played about 3 minutes and thank god never touched the ball He looked liked the deer in headlights . He was sitting at the end of the bench when he was summoned to sub in.. He actually looked at the coach and pointed to himself and must of said " me" since it was a 2 pt game.
anyway with the c-19 and no games I had a blast. Its also nice when you win the game and halftime line
But would like to know how do they come up with a halftime line They were wrong this weekend in Sam Marcus but were right probably everywhere else.
Being court side at Fridays afternoon and Saturdays afternoon basketball games La Laf vs Texas St it seemed like the lines were all wrong. 1st of all Texas was favored in both games and lost outright. My system had Laf favored in both games by a point or two. But the halftime lines has me totally intrigued . In both games Laf had the lead and led in both games. Never did Texas have the lead. I think maybe they tied it once or twice on Friday .. But like I said Cagins front line was big led by 6'10 Akwuba and the kid from Sengal Gueye at 6'9. Bobcats have Sule who for every good move he makes a dumb one. Gueye is 6'9 and was guarding Harrell the 5'8 pt gd. It wasn't until in game 2 did I realize why a 6'9 230 pound kid could gd one of the best pt gds in the Sun Conf. Gueye on a dead ball out of bounds put the ball on his foot and had maybe 4 or 5 kept up the up by kicking it back to him then lightly kicked the ball to the ref. The ref laughed but I realized this kid is a soccer player from Sengal and only because he grew to 6'9 he probably gave up soccer. But that is why he has such great lateral movement. In game 2 he hurt his ankle with 4 minutes to go at he half. He was carried off the court.. But in 2nd half he didn't warm up much but with about 4 minutes in the 2nd half he went over to the coach and told him I'm ready. In the mean time Harrell had a career game scoring 25 points. The night before Gueye had locked him down on defense.
The game ending was unreal. Russell drives into the middle with Laf down by 1 73-72 and is called for an offense foul with 3.4 seconds on the clock. All tex st has to do is inbound it and game over. Tx St calls timeout and everyone is celebrating on the bench. Ball inbound is under Laf basket. Laf player on the ball gets a deflection and Butts who came off the bench for Laf picks up the ball 2 feet from the basket and lays it in. Laf now up by 1 with .04 on the clock Baseball pass intercepted by Akwuba Buzzer goes off Tex St devastated.. You can't celebrate to early fellows and you never throw the inbounds pass under their basket. It made no difference to me because I had Laf +3 and +4.5 at halftime. I just didn't want over time.
but getting back to the original question who made Tx St a favorite at half time. I can understand the original line they make but how did they make them a favorite in the 2nd half. I know I have an advantage sitting court side so who calls up Vegas and says " Tex st is coming back lets make them the favorite. I think in both games that's 80 minutes Bobcats might have had the lead for a few minutes ..you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see Laf had the 2 best players on the court.. There is no home crowd with maybe 200 people in the gym. 6 band members
6 cheer leaders and 5 dancing team all sitting in the stands far away.
Is it all statistics to predict half time lines. How do they come up with a number and line. Do they know Gyeye hurt his ankle and might not come back? I won big on the games big time plus the 2 halftime lines. Then driving home I'm thinking why didn't I put more down being greedy.
Laf coach did realize Russell was being ignored on friday night. This kid can play and was a LSU recruit . How he got to Laf is beyond me. But the coach put him at the pt and he handled the ball , About 2 minutes of him playing the pt he took 2 NBA 3's and swished them just as tex made a run..
Laf coach subs way to much. He has 1 starter on the floor with 4 bench kids. You can see the continuity wasn't there. At one point with 5 minutes left in the game he puts in a player who looks like the waterboy and a 2 pt game. He played about 3 minutes and thank god never touched the ball He looked liked the deer in headlights . He was sitting at the end of the bench when he was summoned to sub in.. He actually looked at the coach and pointed to himself and must of said " me" since it was a 2 pt game.
anyway with the c-19 and no games I had a blast. Its also nice when you win the game and halftime line
But would like to know how do they come up with a halftime line They were wrong this weekend in Sam Marcus but were right probably everywhere else.
