Again - terrific work. It's so easy to simply lay out the statistics and let the Lloyd Christmases of the world exclaim "so, you're sayin' there's a chance!" Actually watching the games themselves - or reviewing them in depth - produces great insights beyond the numbers. Impressively, you take us through each of the 5 and find the little things that made it happen.
What you often find by rolling up your sleeves and descending into the details is that for the outliers, those things that made a difference are noticeably absent in the case before you now. So, while anything is certainly possible, Lloyd Christmas is just a fictitious film character and maybe there isn't really a chance after all.
I think Dallas' best chance is if Kyrie takes the pressure off Luka the way he did for LeBron in 2016, and the Mavs make Tatum be more of the focal point (but this is extremely difficult, they clearly wanted to do that last night, and it didn't matter -- Holiday and White made the key plays anyway). But there's no easy way to replicate what some of these other teams did, because Boston is deeper than many of the other teams on this list who blew 2-0 leads.
Again - terrific work. It's so easy to simply lay out the statistics and let the Lloyd Christmases of the world exclaim "so, you're sayin' there's a chance!" Actually watching the games themselves - or reviewing them in depth - produces great insights beyond the numbers. Impressively, you take us through each of the 5 and find the little things that made it happen.
What you often find by rolling up your sleeves and descending into the details is that for the outliers, those things that made a difference are noticeably absent in the case before you now. So, while anything is certainly possible, Lloyd Christmas is just a fictitious film character and maybe there isn't really a chance after all.
Kudos again.
Thanks!
I think Dallas' best chance is if Kyrie takes the pressure off Luka the way he did for LeBron in 2016, and the Mavs make Tatum be more of the focal point (but this is extremely difficult, they clearly wanted to do that last night, and it didn't matter -- Holiday and White made the key plays anyway). But there's no easy way to replicate what some of these other teams did, because Boston is deeper than many of the other teams on this list who blew 2-0 leads.