Monday's Best Bets + Rant

Good way to close the week with a 2-1 Sunday. Today’s all-around sports window is a little light and no conventional systems are noteworthy. I’ll step out a bit, thanks to our friends at StatFox and present a 80 percent system in college basketball, focusing just on the first half of the game, which has scintillating results this season. The Top Trend comes from the NBA and looks after how the Sixers play at home this month. Good Luck.

I’d like your opinion on something I noticed that started a couple of years ago in college basketball and is common place today. A few years ago, the coaches thru the NCAA rules committee changed the timeout status to include a grand total of six timeouts per team plus media timeouts. (There are specific rules in place for when a coach calls a 75-second timeout as opposed to 30-second, which eliminates media timeout. Yes, it is confusing) With all these timeouts the flow of the game is interrupted on a continual basis and virtually every coach will call a time out at the first hint the opposing team will go off on 6-0 run.

This really makes the game choppier and is another example of young people being coddled. Ben Howland of UCLA was the first coach I really noticed calling several timeouts in the first half of a game. Though I agree in principle with the idea you can’t necessarily win the game in the first half, but you can certainly lose it, the players need to learn to fight through a bit of adversity to become better players and team, instead of the coach calling time out at the first sign of trouble.
Besides the flow, these coaches who are paid to win, will often now overuse timeouts to stay in games and will have just one or two once the under four minute media timeout is taken.

Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to have three or possibly four timeouts in the final minutes, when the game is really on the line? The coaches are so consumed with getting to winning time; they waste a valuable commodity when they need it the most.

Consider a tight ball game could have a tie-score with a minute to go and had been close throughout. Because of the nature of basketball, runs occur and each team might have had a lead by seven points as some juncture, yet the head coach needlessly had so little faith in his players to fight thru a dull period, he kept calling timeouts and now with the game in the balance, he’s got one T.O. left.

Do you agree, disagree or could care less. Chime in.

Free Basketball System-1) PLAY ON road underdogs like Kansas, vs. the first half line (Kansas +2 presumably), off three straight wins against conference rivals, against opponent off two or more consecutive road wins. The record on this unique system is 44-11 ATS and white hot at 7-0 this season.

Free Basketball Trend -2) The Philadelphia 76ers are 10-0 ATS in home games in February games over the last two seasons.

Free Basketball Selection -3) With nobody I would describe as hot in wagering at the moment, three Left Coast Connection consensus plays. The Missouri Tigers at 75 percent and the Calgary Flames and Charlotte Bobcats at 100 percent. (The latter two each had five bettors)

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