Over\/Under<\/strong>: 186<\/p>\nPerkins took some heat for that comment, but turns out he might have been closer to the center of the target than anyone wanted to admit at the time. <\/p>\n
Boston limped through the rest of the regular season with bizarre losses at home and on the road, but takes an almost-unbeatable 3-0 series lead over the Heat into Game 4 Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The defense that Boston brought to the table almost every night during its title run in 2008 has returned \u2013\u2013 at least temporarily \u2013\u2013 and if the Heat players, coaches or front office personnel have any answers, now might be a good time to share them.<\/p>\n
Miami\u2019s problem is that the Heat have the best player in the series . . . and not a hell of a lot else. Quentin Richardson can\u2019t back up his tough talk, Udonis Haslem has done a slow fade, Jermaine O\u2019Neal looks like he\u2019d rather be anywhere else but on the court, and point guard Carlos Arroyo is outplayed by Rajon Rondo every time they are on the court together. <\/p>\n
And don\u2019t even bring up the spooked Michael Beasley. ![\"Online](\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/impressions.asp?btag=a_3953b_41\")
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Boston has had great success stopping single scoring threats. The Celts kept LeBron James under wraps somewhat in the Eastern semis two years ago, and did the same thing to Kobe Bryant in The Finals. <\/p>\n
When teams have balanced scoring (Chicago and Orlando last season) Boston\u2019s help defense is less effective. <\/p>\n
With Wade a one-man show, the result of this series is obvious.<\/p>\n
FREE BOSTON CELTICS VS. MIAMI HEAT GAME 4 PICK<\/strong><\/p>\nPlay here is Boston +1. <\/strong><\/p>\nWhat is going through Dwyane Wade\u2019s mind right now? Certainly he knows that the Heat will not regain their composure enough to win four straight games. Does he have enough mental strength to gather himself for one more game and lead his team to a victory in what may be his final game ever as a member of the Heat? If Boston gets a lead in Game 4, the Heat will likely fade into oblivion. Who leads them back? Jermaine O\u2019Neal? Quentin Richardson?<\/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\u2026Sunday on the hardwood we get the Boston Celtics vs. Miami Heat for game 4 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":[11552,28156,28151,28152,28153,28154,28155,4045,5595,3045,13304,20992,20991,12357,9273,9921,13102,28233],"class_list":["post-21574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-boston-celtics-vs-miami-heat","tag-boston-miami-picks","tag-celtics-heat-odds","tag-celtics-heat-picks","tag-celtics-heat-spread","tag-celtics-vs-heat","tag-celtics-vs-heat-predictions","tag-free-nba-picks","tag-free-nba-predictions","tag-game-4","tag-game-four","tag-nba-parlay-betting","tag-nba-parlay-picks","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-selections","tag-online-nba-predictions","tag-sunday-nba-picks","tag-sunday-night-nba-pick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21574","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=21574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107156,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21574\/revisions\/107156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}