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pokoko on 31 May 2016
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TheGoldenBoy said:
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.

How many of those 230 teams were obviously inferior?  Seriously, that stat means nothing unless you factor out teams that were outmatched.  The Warriors being down 3-1 is completely different than the Charlotte Hornets being down 3-1.  As for having no hope, that's not true at all.  Not even close to being true.  They were 73-9 over 82 games.  Having to win 3 games in a row is impossible?  They obviously had hope.