Alex Monaco, host of the “The Bettor Half Hour” on MSG Networks and the “Sports Gambling with Moneyline Monaco” podcast, joins Cheddar Bets to give his last-minute tips before tonight's slate of games starts.

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Mhm Welcome back to cheddar beds brought to you by bet. Mgm Before we ring our closing bell tonight we wanted to send you off with your bet slips into the night with some tips that you should feel good about and who better Yes, pun intended to help us than Alex Monaco, host of the better half on msg networks and of the sports gambling with money line, Monaco podcasts, Alex what's up? How you doing? Hannah, thanks so much for having me. Just ready to wind down this N. B. A. Last slate before we get a little break on the all star game and all festivities. So looking for was that you playing the violin. All your hopes and dreams. Exactly. There you go. Alright, we're gonna play a couple of new games with you tonight. First up we are cheddar. So you know, we got to keep it a little finance themed, it's a game called bullish or bearish. So first up, what are you bullish or hot on tonight? Well I'm loving this heat team on the road here against charlotte Hannah, they lost a tough one at home against Dallas a couple of days back when they lose, they typically come back pretty motivated. They're 13 and seven after a loss. This hornet's teams kind of Jekyll and Hyde, they play excellent offense, they play no defense. The heat have been top five and defense for the majority of this season and as you know, they're finally starting to get healthy if we can get bam. Lowry of course, jimmy B I don't know, Heroes will go tonight, but they got 456 guys that play excellent defense and in an NBA today's modern NBA where you don't see a lot of team D. This is a team to look out for especially after a loss. I like them to win and cover tonight against the hornets. Do you think they have long term potential after the all Star break? The heat? That's interesting because they're they're not really getting that much respect. I was just talking about on my show there at the top right there with Chicago and east but they're still around plus 5 50 to win the east pending where you shop there clearly in the better conference. But you know we saw them go to the course finals in the bubble so they're capable. It really just comes down to I think health and a lot of the N. B. A. Is timing and it's tough because you don't know what that huge Brooklyn Sixers shakeup blockbuster trade Brooklyn may have very well got better defensively of course the sixers got better offensively so they're they're climbing up Everest a little bit but I think they're gonna at least win a series and make a second series competitive in the playoffs. How do you like the overs tonight with the last night before the break. See that's interesting that's that's where I would go uh little you know a little embarrassed because you don't know obviously the NBA is such a fickle sport Tibet, you have scheduling you always want to look into because there's of course trap bets all over with back to back. You saw what the T wolves just yesterday with the raptors coming off the overtime game, the game prior raptor rested win as far as defense tonight I would say I'd probably lean over just because these guys are halfway home on second base ready to get to a break. So I don't see a lot of defense and as you know, Hannah the all star game, they play zero defense. So if there's a theme of today moving into the long weekend, I'd say the over is the black. Well we know you studied the board tonight. So what are you seeing out there that you are bearish on and that you want to stay away from a little bit. It's tough. I'm I'm staring at this Milwaukee bucks game against the sixers. The sixers literally were down a Johannes 50 burger against the Celtics just the other night, which was terrifying. I do like the fact that Milwaukee's 20 and 10 as a home team but whenever and this is where the ego's factor in right. This isn't something you really can see at the sports book, but that line is right around 6, 6.5 you get a team that's just been dismantled and they come back, Their egos are all in check. They want to prove that obviously they're not what they were the other night. And then just to show you how difficult it is a bit on the NBA, the pistons best. The Celtics last night after the Celtics beat the sixers by almost half a century. So I'm gonna probably stay away from that. I mean, and B there's a double double seven of his last eight is an absolute lock. I would probably lean away but mike my flirt with Milwaukee on a little cupcake parlay tonight because spreads kind of scare me, especially last game going into the break. Oh absolutely. And before I let you go, who is your absolute ironclad can't lose bonafide lock that we can take to the bank tonight. I'm gonna probably go Dallas here against the Pelicans. I know they reshuffled the deck as well getting mccollum, but this Dallas team again, a very pesky squad got better I think with that Porzingis trade getting him out clearing the lane for luke a little bit. They're nine and three is in a way favorite on the season. It's a small number, it almost feels trapped because it's less than three. For some reason the Pelicans are still the Pelicans and I think Dallas coming off that win against Miami. I mean the grizzly success in their division is putting the pressure on them to try to keep up. So I'm gonna go with Luca and the boys tonight as a lock over the pelicans on the road there, down in new Orleans. Well, thank you Alex for joining us today and that is going to.