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Look of the Day for 5/17: Time to get aggressive
Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton. Trevor Ruszkowski-USA TODAY Sports

Look of the Day for 5/17: Time to get aggressive

We nailed our Look of the Day on Thursday at +140 odds, and we're aiming to close out the week with back-to-back winners. Let's do just that with our favorite prop bet for Friday night's playoff game between the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers.

Look of the Day: Tyrese Haliburton over 3.5 threes (+124 FanDuel)

Knicks at Pacers, 8:30 p.m. ET

We cashed on a plus-money prop on Thursday, so we're going right back to the well for another one on Friday.

Tyrese Haliburton has been oddly passive too often in this second-round series against the Knicks. The Pacers point guard attempted only nine shots and four three-pointers in Game 5, and he put up just six field-goal attempts and five threes in Game 1. Both of those games did come on the road in a raucous Madison Square Garden, though. We're chalking that up to a young player feeling the nerves of his first big-time playoff series in a tough environment.

Haliburton has been better and much more aggressive at home in this series. In two home games against New York, the 24-year-old is averaging 27.5 points on 20.5 field-goal attempts and 13.0 three-point attempts per game. He drilled 10 total threes in those games and went over this 3.5 line in both of them. 

The Pacers will need Haliburton to be that aggressive version of himself in a must-win Game 6. We're confident the volume will be there for the rising star. 

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