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pokoko said:
TheGoldenBoy said:

Even after having a 3-1 lead?

Doesn't make any difference what the order is.  Being up 3-1 guarantees nothing.  It's no different than each team winning every other game.  4-3 is still 4-3.  Each game is completely separate.  Choking is when the other team has no hope unless you mess up and then you mess up.  It's not simply getting beat, especially by a better team.

You're right it's not a "guarantee," except for the fact only 10 teams have done it out of 230. That's about as close as you can get to a guarantee in the NBA.

As for the no hope, it could be easily argued that after losing back-to-back blowout losses in games 3 and 4, the Warriors had no hope of winning this series.