pokoko said:
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.