Cash with Flash Best Bets had a rough day Friday, going 2-4 on our NBA “leans” and we have some work to do in order to prevent the first losing week Cash with Flash Best Bets has experienced since joining the Win Daily Sports team in September.
Not much fun to have a losing week but it does give Cash with Flash Best Bets an opportunity for a teaching moment.
What is a Lean?
In handicapping terms, a lean is where a handicapper is strongly considering a specific game but is waiting for more information before recommending a wager.
Why a Lean?
Cash with Flash Best Bets is usually published before 10:00 am ET and that’s well before the injury information is released. It would be impossible for us at Cash with Flash Best Bets to know who is playing at that time because the teams don’t begin releasing information until after morning shoot-around in basketball and the morning skate in the NHL. That makes being definitive on either sport difficult and why we don’t recommend “units” on a lean and we don’t suggest wagering on a “lean” either.
A lean is a lean and I’m sorry I wasn’t more specific with you. Sometimes we forget there are newbies here and Cash with Flash Best Bets needs to be mindful of this.
Why we Took a Loss on a Lean
Cash with Flash Best Bets still took the loss because we didn’t come back and change the Pistons -3.5 to a Pistons minus two when word that Blake Griffin would miss Friday nights game with Chicago. Detroit covers the two points if they shoot closer to the 41 percent they shot from downtown over their previous five games as opposed to the 20 percent they shot Friday from downtown against the Bulls and until last night Chicago had one of the worst defenses against the triple and the Pistons minus two was a good bet with or without Griffin.
What to Do When You See a Lean
Last night the Milwaukee Bucks-Orlando Magic opened at 216 points and it didn’t matter who was in or out, that was too many points. Orlando hasn’t scored 100 points or more in any one game this season and the Bucks defense hasn’t been the suffocating force as it was last season. Milwaukee allowed the Boston Celtics to go on a 26-7 third-quarter run and eventually lost the game and you can bet the Bucks players heard about this from Head Coach Mike Budenholzer. Up until Friday, the Magic allowed a total of 93.8 points per game and the likelihood the game goes under the total is greater than it going over. The total settled at 214 points but anyone who hopped on the 216 points train wound up cashing while the 214 point bettors wound up with a push.
Whenever you see a professional handicapper like Phil Naessens suggest a lean, it would be in your best interest to do a bit of investigation into why Phil is leaning a certain way. What was just described for you in the paragraph above took all of five minutes and had you spent five minutes to do your own research, you would have taken the 216 points to the counter and cashed a ticket.
Cash with Flash Best Bets gave you the lead, you followed through and cashed the ticket and that’s exactly how to use this column and Win Daily Sports.
NHL Picks for Today
Today’s slate begins at 1:00 pm ET and Cash with Flash Best Bets likes a couple of games that are worth ONE Unit and they are as follows.
St Louis Blues +100 over Minnesota Wild
Boston Bruins -1.5 Goals over Ottawa Senators
NBA Picks for Saturday
Cash with Flash Best Bets likes the following ONE UNIT NBA wagers for Saturday.
Golden State Warriors +2.5 over Charlotte Hornets
Washington Wizards -2.5 over Minnesota Timberwolves
Portland Trail Blazers -1.5 over Philadelphia 76ers
Denver Nuggets -4 over Orlando Magic Over 201.5 points
Nets-Pistons Over 222.5 points
NBA Lean for Saturday
Detroit Pistons +1.5 over Brooklyn Nets (only if Griffin plays)
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