INDEPENDENCE — When Daniel Gibson walked out of TD Banknorth Garden last week, the Cavaliers guard didn’t leave with good memories.

Two losses and two poor offensive performances left the Cavaliers in a hole in the Eastern Conference semifinals. A week later, their series even at 2-2, Gibson said the Cavaliers are eager for their return to Boston tonight for Game 5. The game tips at 8 (TNT, WZOO, WTAM).

“Everybody’s focused, everybody’s ready to go out there and try to get a win,” Gibson said after the Cavaliers practiced Tuesday afternoon before heading to Boston.

Gibson didn’t do a whole lot in Boston the first time around, but became a huge factor in Cleveland by Game 4.

“That’s the thing about a series,” Gibson said. “As it goes on you tend to get better with knowing how to play the game, knowing when to pick your spots, when to score, when to pass, when to make plays (by) just becoming comfortable with a team.”

Gibson hit a big 3-pointer late in Monday’s 88-77 win, part of a 14-point performance on 5-of-9 shooting. Last week in Boston, he made just 2-of-8 shots in two games. He has no worries about shooting there tonight.

“Any arena with a hoop, if you love the game of basketball, you can shoot there,” he said.

Most arenas, though, don’t have the league’s top defense challenging those shots.

Boston’s defense took the Cavaliers out of their offense last week. They averaged just 72.5 points a game, shot 33.1 percent from the floor and turned it over 33 times.

The turnovers stand out as Cavaliers coach Mike Brown’s biggest concern. He said if they turn it over like that tonight, “it’s going to be a long, long night for us.”

Gibson thinks playing in Boston the second time around should help.

“Once you’ve experienced an environment, going back to it, it’s kind of like we’ve been here before and we felt like we were right there to win a game,” Gibson said. “So we know what we’re capable of doing on that floor. We’re going into it with a lot of confidence and trying to get a win.”

Cleveland’s confidence is high because of what it did the last two games on its floor. The Cavaliers raised their shooting percentage 16 points, more than doubled their 3-point output and cut their turnovers nearly in half.

To keep that up on the road Gibson said the Cavaliers must have a focus.

“You have to know exactly what you want to do, know the gameplan and execute it,” he said. “You can’t have too many mistakes.”