No team has escaped a 3-0 deficit to win an NBA playoff series but the Cavs made the greatest NBA Finals comeback a year ago from 3-1 down to beat the Warriors.
Andre Iguodala #9 of the Golden State Warriors drives to the basket against LeBron James #23 and Kevin Love #0 of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second half in Game 3 of the 2017 NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena on June 7, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio. "He's been huge for our success the last three years, and they did a - they have done a great job of putting him in the game plan and neutralizing what he does best, and that's offensive rebound and giving us extra possessions", James said of Thompson afterwards. No team had ever squandered a 3-1 lead in the Finals and lost.
But Irving mentioned it and James said some players in the locker room had it on their minds.
The Cavs flew to Oakland on Saturday afternoon where they'll face the Warriors on Monday night for Game 5.
Around this time previous year the Cleveland Cavaliers suffered a loss to the Golden State Warriors on Home Court. You know emotions are flowing when the two best players on the court and maybe in the league are getting involved in the talking. This technical however was given to Warriors coach Steve Kerr, and Green remained in the game. Yet it didn't take too much out of the game. You got the game f-ed up with that one.
But in the 126 instances where National Basketball Association teams have fallen behind 3-0, none have recovered to win the series.
"It was one of those nights where we just did not have anything clicking", said Curry.
"I said that over and over again, that he's always been built for the biggest moments, and (Friday) he showed that once again", James said.
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"We have a golden opportunity going home on Monday to close this thing out".
It's hilarious that he just knows/asssumes it was Green who said it. In both Game 3 and Game 4, the crowd waited for Green to lose his cool.
There were seven technical fouls, including five during a short stretch in the third quarter.
James, who is averaging a triple-double in the 2017 Finals (32 points, 12.3 rebounds, 10.3 assists), and the Cavs edged the Warriors in Game 7 previous year after falling behind 3-1, becoming the first team to ever overcome such a deficit in the Finals. James and Golden State's Andre Iguodala jostled for space, and the referee had to step in to reset them.
Although the Warriors went home for Game 5 last year, up 3-1, guard Stephen Curry won't compare their situation now to last year's. We came out and this was as close to a 48-minute game as we played in the post-season.
The intensity of Game 4 between Warriors and Cavaliers is never seen before.
"Ain't no tech going to stop me from being me", he said. We're ready to live in it. "So our mindset is try to go up there and get one".
And fellow All-Star forward Draymond Green last season was serving a suspension during Game 5, a Warriors loss that sent the series back to Cleveland, where in Game 6 the Cavs tied it - the very act the Cavs are trying to repeat.
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