Pretty big game in the NBA tonight, as the Celtics travel to Cleveland in a potential Eastern Conference Finals preview.  The Celtics attribute their recent 2-6 slide to poor defense, but their offense has been no great shakes, either, as they’ve scored fewer than 90 points in 5 of those games.  Slumping Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo had a only a single assist in the first 3 quarters in Wednesday’s home upset loss to Houston.  Rondo has been sloppy, with recent games in which he committed 7 and 9 turnovers.   He’s been doing a poor job both distributing and scoring during this tough stretch.

Cleveland’s Zydrunas Ilgauskas is more involved in his team’s offensive flow than most big men, and his ankle injury isn’t good news for a Cleveland team that can expect peak defensive intensity from Boston.  These are the #1 and #2 teams in the league in defensive efficiency, and with reason to think that their offenses will not be at a peak, as well as with playoff-level intensity, the under may be the way to go in Cleveland tonight.