<div align="center"><u><font size="5"><font color="#0A355E">INDIANA PACERS</font> @ <font color="#B84056">CLEVELAND CAVALIERS</font></font></u> <u><font size="3"><font color="#B84056">PROJECTED STARTERS</font></font></u> <u><font size="2"><font color="#B84056">CAVS</font></font></u> <font color="#B84056">C Zydrunas Ilgauskas PF Drew Gooden SF LeBron James SG Larry Hughes PG Eric Snow</font> <font color="#0A355E">C Jermaine O?Neal PF Austin Croshere SF Stephen Jackson SG Jamaal Tinsley PG Sarunas Jasikevicius</font> <u><font size="2"><font color="#0A355E">PACERS</font></font></u> <u><font size="3"><font color="#B84056">MATCHUP BREAKDOWN</font></font></u></div> <font color="#B84056">Zydrunas Ilgauskas</font> v <font color="#0A355E">Jermaine O?Neal</font> ? Despite being taller than his Indiana counterpart, Zydrunas Ilgauskas will really have a tough time in this matchup. Jermaine O?Neal is averaging 22-10, to go with nearly 2 and a half blocks, proving that he can score, crash the boards and reject shots. Unless Ilgauskas finds a way through the 6?11 O?Neal, he has a major problem. <font color="#B84056">Drew Gooden</font> v <font color="#0A355E">Austin Croshere</font> ? A pretty even matchup in terms of height, weight and floortime, and their stats are fairly similar too. However, the 10-8 Gooden should be able to surpass the 8-6 Croshere without too much trouble. <font color="#B84056">LeBron James</font> v <font color="#0A355E">Stephen Jackson</font> ? LeBron James should be able to easily counter Jackson here. Don?t get me wrong, Jackson is a pretty good player; but he is no match for LeBron in any statistic, nor in any intangible. LeBron averages 30-5-5 whilst Jackson lies at 14-3-2 ? not match for the King of Cleveland. <font color="#B84056">Larry Hughes</font> v <font color="#0A355E">Jamaal Tinsley</font> ? Larry Hughes scores better than Tinsley, whereas Tinsley passes better than Hughes. It should be an interesting matchup, with Hughes coming out on top due to height and other skills. <font color="#B84056">Eric Snow</font> v <font color="#0A355E">Sarunas Jasikevicius</font> ? Sarunas Jasikevicius definitely has the potential to cause the Cavaliers problems with his outside shooting. However, if Eric Snow digs down on defence, he should be able to prevent him for doing too much damage. Thus, there may well not be too many statistics to see from these two players. <div align="center"><u><font size="3"><font color="#B84056">OTHER NOTES</font></font></u></div> <ul> [*]The Pacers lead this series 7-2 since LeBron entered the League. [*]The total score in this time period is 879-808 in the Pacers? favour. [*]LeBron averages 24-5-4 against the Pacers. [*]The Cavs are 15-9 overall and 5-5 in their last 10. [*]The Pacers are 15-8 overall and 6-4 in their last 10. [/list] <div align="center"><u><font size="3"><font color="#B84056">SCORE PREDICTION</font></font></u></div> <u><font size="2"><font color="#0A355E">99</font> - <font color="#B84056">96</font></font></u>
It was a nice game, Gooden played really well. Cavs lead got cut by a lot I the 4th but they held on.
