Over\/Under<\/strong>: 192.5<\/p>\n***A member of the Mavs radio broadcast team was suspended for using a racial remark about Mexicans on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n
***Did we mention that Dallas now has to win three straight games to advance in the Western Conference playoffs? ![\"Online](\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/impressions.asp?btag=a_3953b_41\")
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Sure, Dallas didn\u2019t catch a break when it had to take on the rested-and-ready Spurs in the first round, but there are no easy outs in the West, and it\u2019s really no one\u2019s fault but the Mavs\u2019 own that they barfed up home-court advantage in Game 2.<\/p>\n
What to do about it is another issue. The Mavs think they can still win this series, figuring that they won\u2019t lose twice at home in a 7-game stretch, and if they take care of business in North Texas, then they can steal the series with one win in San Antonio. Wishful thinking, maybe.<\/p>\n
Dallas coach Rick Carlisle draws a pretty good paycheck to make adjustments, and he hasn\u2019t got much time left to figure out a way to beat Spurs double-teams on Dirk Nowitzki. The big German was held to 17 points on only 10 shots in the Game 4 loss, which would have been OK were it not for the fact that the rest of the team is hardly shooting lights out.<\/p>\n
San Antonio, meanwhile, has been hitting on 16s and drawing 4s and 5s. George Hill\u2019s 29 points in Game 4 came out of the blue and just adds one more brick on the Mavs\u2019 backpacks as they start to head up a steep incline. Dealing with Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker and Tim Duncan is tough enough, but Hill\u2019s energy throws Dallas\u2019s defensive game plan into the trash bin. <\/p>\n
Spurs vs. Mavs Free NBA Prediction<\/strong><\/p>\nThree unders and a push have dropped the O\/U number to 192.5 after four straight games in the 194-194.5 range, which provides a slight opening for players of the over. <\/p>\n
Dallas is 13th out of 16 playoff teams in points per game, with only 91.8, and the Mavericks have to be concerned that they are scoring 10 fewer a game than during the regular season. <\/p>\n
San Antonio\u2019s solid play has a lot to do with it, but you have to wonder why the Mavs are just not the same team they were over 5\u00bd months during the regular season. <\/p>\n
Dallas figures to circle the wagons at home for one last time; San Antonio, playing with house money and with a huge margin for error, probably won\u2019t go all out in this one. Take Dallas and lay the 4.5.<\/strong><\/p>\nCLICK HERE TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT AT SPORTSBOOK.COM AND GRAB A HUGE NBA PLAYOFFS SIGNUP GAMBLING BONUS!!<\/h3>\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\u2026Wednesday on the hardwood we get the San Antonio Spurs vs. Dallas Mavs for game 5 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":[4045,5595,3426,14111,20992,20991,12357,9273,9921,27878,13296,27719,27720,27721,27722,24772,24773],"class_list":["post-21651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-free-nba-picks","tag-free-nba-predictions","tag-game-5","tag-game-five","tag-nba-parlay-betting","tag-nba-parlay-picks","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-selections","tag-online-nba-predictions","tag-san-antonio-dallas-picks","tag-san-antonio-spurs-vs-dallas-mavericks","tag-spurs-mavericks-odds","tag-spurs-mavericks-picks","tag-spurs-vs-mavericks","tag-spurs-vs-mavericks-predictions","tag-tuesday-night-nba","tag-tuesday-night-nba-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21651","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=21651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107160,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21651\/revisions\/107160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}