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Daniel Gibson's separated shoulder is causing line up headaches for Mike Brown. Gibson - one of the club's best perimeter shooting guards - will need a minimum of one week to recover. He has been instrumental in all Cavalier's successes in last and this year's postseason. He scored 31 points in last year's Eastern Conference finals, having an amazing 25 point second half, helping the Cavs to advance to their first finals on the expense of Detroit Pistons. This season, he had a very good Game 4 performance, scoring 14 points and helping the Cavs tying up the series 2-2. Cleveland coach will have to decide between the following options: play with either Damon Jones or Devin Brown in place of Gibson or increase the minutes per game load on Sasha Pavlovic. As usual, "on court coach" LeBron James will have to organize the "troops" accordingly.

Strangely enough, for the third time in these series, we have a situation when Boston is a 3 point underdog despite the fact that the probability for their win stands at 57%. Well, the machine has been wrong in both playoff games between the teams played in Cleveland so far. Then too, a win probability figures were absolutely ignored by the bookies posting the game lines favoring Cleveland to win. And, all this despite the expected - sooner than later - first away playoff win for Boston Celtics (to remind you - the best regular season away team) after loosing all 5 postseason away games.

Will this Boston Celtics away win happen tonight, eliminating the Cavs in process? We do not think so. James is too tough a player to surrender the series at home.

Pick : Cleveland -2.5
Odds : 1.94
Stake : 7 / 10
Bookmaker : Canbet
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Date : 2008-05-17
Match Result : 74-69
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