8/22/20 Best Bet: Tonight I’m on the Heat to take care of the Indiana Pacers. The conventional wisdom would be to be on Indiana, as the Heat are up 2-0 and have covered the spread both times. “If the zig-zag theory didn’t work last time, it’s definitely going to work this time!”. While this type of logic sounds good, it doesn’t factor in intangibles. One of those intangibles is Jimmy Butler. Basketball, unlike other sports, tends to depend on one or two key players. When one of those players is an alpha like Jimmy Buckets, even better. The Heat are just the better team and with an off-looking Oladipo, the Pacers just don’t have the fight (or the manpower: no Sabonis) to keep up with MIami.