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Gooooooooo CAVS!
Gooooooooo dpogs! GSW FTW!
I think there will be a Game 7 on Monday. Cleveland will be the third team in Finals history to force a Game 7 after being down 1-3. Pero kutob ko GSW pa rin in the end. Playing on your homecourt for Game 7 with the championship on the line is a huge advantage (ex. Lakers, 2010; Miami, 2013). Wala pa yatang road team na nanalo sa Game 7 in the Finals. I know the Warriors just got embarassed on their court in Game 5, but I just don't see that happening again. "More than that, though, it comes down to homecourt advantage. Since the NBA instituted a 2-3-2 Finals format in 1985, 15 teams have gone down 3-1 in a series. Eleven of those 15 entered the series with the worse record, meaning they had to win the last two games of the series in a row on the road against a superior team. It's an incredibly daunting task. That's not to say a team like LeBron's Cavs can't win three straight games, including two away from home, to seize a title from the jaws of defeat. But in such a small sample size, it's not surprising that every team has failed.That still leaves four teams who faced a 3-1 deficit but had two home games remaining. Why were they unable to overcome the seemingly insurmountable? Well, two of those squads -- the 1993 Phoenix Suns and 1998 Utah Jazz -- were up against Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls. So we can scratch them off the list right away; they were never going to beat Jordan three straight times with a title on the line. Another, the 2004 Los Angeles Lakers, fell victim to one of the most toxic locker rooms in NBA history and famously collapsed against the Detroit Pistons.As for the final team? The 2012 Oklahoma City Thunder won Game 1 at home, then watched our old friend LeBron help lead his team to four straight wins and his first NBA title. What a nice bit of serendipidity that is."http://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/cleveland-cavaliers-golden-state-warriors-finals-3-1-comeback-061516
Tristan Thompson is much more valuable than Kevin Love. HahaSent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk