Phil Naessens 
Welcome to the Saturday edition of Cash with Flash Best Bets! We have tennis, NBA & NCAAB hoops on tap so let’s get after it!
Glad to see you and I hope that your sports betting endeavors are going well. It’s been difficult handicapping professional sporting contests during the pandemic but if you’ve been tailing me, listening to my show, or read my books then you have been making money.
Cash with Flash Best Bets has 2020-2021 season-long totals of 66-53-1 for NFL football, 48-21 in NCAAF, 44-34 for NCAAB, 16-9 in NHL, 67-38-1 in the NBA, and 109-49 for tennis this season.
Had you wagered $100 dollars on each pick we offered you’d be ahead of the game by about $11,900 since September 8, 2020. That’s not too shabby making money off of someone else prowess.
Friday was meh as we finished 2-2. That leaves us with a 16-12 record through seven days of this column. Stay in this space and I not only will make you money but do it in a responsible way that won’t lead you to the poor house.
Last week we won three units and that is our goal each week. We need to win three units over the next couple of days and I’m pretty sure that we will.
You are doing it all wrong if you aren’t practicing some sort of money management system I discuss a couple of them in my books and I will be sharing little tidbits here in this column at Win Daily.
Managing your cash is numero uno. Hiring someone to pick winners is an easy thing to do but if you don’t have the discipline to manage your money correctly then wagering on sporting events for long-term success won’t likely be successful.
Novak Djokovic vs Daniil Medvedev
There’s this little event tonight at the Australian Open. Novak Djokovic meets Daniil Medvedev and this match is essentially a “pick-em” as both are -108 at DraftKings for this important match. Craig Doyle and I are 109-49 for this event but we disagree on this match. I will be the one making the prediction for this match.
Medvedev has won twenty consecutive matches and has won a dozen consecutive matches against top-ten opponents. He’s fourth in this event in aces and has seventeen double-faults during this event. The lanky Russian has been victorious against Djokovic in three of their past four meetings including two hardcourt wins. Medvedev leads the tournament with 35 breakpoints won and he will need all of this tonight against Djokovic.
Djokovic has won everything there is to win in tennis except for the adoration of the fans. He suffered some sort of abdominal injury in his third-round victory that was supposed to be serious enough to withdraw from the event. Oddly enough, he leads the event with 100 aces and is third in break point opportunities during this event. Both would be difficult to do with a serious core injury such as what has been claimed.
Take Medvedev to win this match.
We have five games on the NBA schedule but Cash with Flash is only interested in a couple of these contests.
Miami Heat vs Los Angeles Lakers
The Heat is 4-1 ATS over their last five against the Lakers and that doesn’t bode well for a Los Angeles team missing both Anthony Davis and Dennis Schroeder for tonight’s tilt. The Lakers are going to have to have LeBron James run the entire show but he has one less scoring option and outside of Kyle Kuzma, the Lakers aren’t very consistent offensively. Miami allows an average of 112.2 points per game over their last five and enters this game on their sixth consecutive road game but enters this contest healthier than they’ve been all season. Take the 3.5 points and roll with the Heat in this one!
Washington Wizards vs Portland Trail Blazers
Two red-hot teams in this one with the Wizards riding a three-game winning streak and the Trail Blazers looking to extend a six-game winning streak. Both sides will be playing on three days rest and that bodes well for a Trail Blazers offense scoring an average of 128 points per game over their last five contests. Washington has been good too; they are allowing 116 points per game over their last five while dropping in an average of 114 points over those same five games. Portland is hot and I’m going to lay the points and roll with the Trail Blazers to cover tonight.
Cash with Flash likes the following NCAAB matchups for today.
Notre Dame vs Syracuse
Notre Dame has won six of their last eight games and is a 2.5 point underdog when they meet a Syracuse side with a 5-3 record over their last eight games. Syracuse has an above-average offense that is much better than the Irish defense and the Orange is the better free throw, shooting team. This will be a close one but lay the points and go with Syracuse to cover.
