Over\/Under: 179<\/strong><\/p>\nGarnett was injured again in the middle of this season and has not had more than a handful of games at full efficiency.<\/p>\n
The problem for the Celtics is not the mere absence of Garnett, but the lack of talent they have to replace him. Rasheed Wallace, who has stolen paychecks all season, will probably get the start, miss a few 3-pointers, pick up some quick fouls, get hit with a T and head for the bench yapping at anyone and everyone. <\/p>\n
Out-of-shape Glen Davis will then huff and puff his way through some ineffective minutes. After that, who knows?<\/p>\n
Despite it all, Boston is still a slight favorite to win and go up 2-0 in this series. Miami feels that its own athleticism will take over in this series, but when it counted in Game 1 the Heat shooters felt their scrotums tightening. ![\"Online](\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/impressions.asp?btag=a_3953b_41\")
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Dwyane Wade had 26, but Jermaine O\u2019Neal, Carlos Arroyo and Michael Beasley finished with a combined total of 20, and that won\u2019t get the job done.<\/p>\n
The players and fans realize that this is a game that Miami has to have. Garnett will return for Game 3 rested and breathing more fire than ever. Boston is a good road team and has shown it can beat the Heat. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s now or probably never for Miami.<\/p>\n
FREE MIAMI HEAT VS. BOSTON CELTICS GAME 2 PICK<\/strong><\/p>\nBoston -1.5 and the Over<\/strong><\/p>\nYou\u2019d have to look long and hard to find an O\/U number slimmer than the 179 that this game opened at. It\u2019s down 5.5 from Game 1. But both teams shot poorly in Game 1, Miami scoring only 10 in the fourth period. That happens once in a series. Without Garnett, Miami figures to take the ball to the basket early and try to get Boston\u2019s other bigs in foul trouble. <\/p>\n
The Heat then would not have to resort to its outside game in the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n
The parlay play here is obvious<\/p>\n
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\nLawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling and travel expert from Massachusetts.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our experts weigh in with this week\u2019s best Round 1 NBA Playoff picks for gambling on all the action\u2026Tuesday on the hardwood we get the Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics for game 2 of their 7 game series…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4045,5595,2886,13109,23683,23684,27975,23685,23686,27834,23681,20992,20991,12357,9273,9921,24772,24773],"class_list":["post-21356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-free-nba-picks","tag-free-nba-predictions","tag-game-2","tag-game-two","tag-heat-celtics-odds","tag-heat-celtics-picks","tag-heat-celtics-spread","tag-heat-vs-celtics","tag-heat-vs-celtics-predictions","tag-miami-boston-picks","tag-miami-heat-vs-boston-celtics","tag-nba-parlay-betting","tag-nba-parlay-picks","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-selections","tag-online-nba-predictions","tag-tuesday-night-nba","tag-tuesday-night-nba-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107144,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21356\/revisions\/107144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}