Wemby believes San Antonio can still win NBA Finals
Goforitradio Staff
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In Game 4, the San Antonio Spurs blew a 29-point lead and lost to the Knicks 107-106 at Madison Square Garden. Now, San Antonio is down 3-1 to New York in the NBA Finals.
Game 5 is Saturday night in San Antonio.
Only one team in NBA history has come back from 3-1 in the NBA Finals, and that is the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers, who came back from 3-1 to defeat the Golden State Warriors.
Spurs rookie guard Dylan Harper remembers that series.
“Yeah, I definitely watched that series,” Harper said after practice on Friday. “That was probably a series to remember. The only one to ever do it. My biggest takeaway was the performances, obviously LeBron(James) and Kyrie(Irving), that they put on just to have that comeback. That was probably the latest series that I remember.”
In the Western Conference Finals, the Spurs trailed the Thunder 3-2, but San Antonio overcame the deficit and defeated OKC on the road in Game 7.
However, 3-1 is a little more daunting than 3-2.
If you want to accomplish anything in life, you have to believe, and according to Spurs star Victor Wembanyama, the Spurs believe they can still win this series.
“Yeah, absolutely,” he said. “Everybody thinks, everybody knows, we’re going to do it. I don’t know if I agree with you. I feel like we need to isolate that one game and take it one game at a time. I think it would be a mistake to waste our energy on multiple games. It’s one game at a time.”
Harper added, “Yeah, we’ve always got hope. I think our biggest thing in the locker room is keep having that belief and having that belief and having that belief and not letting anyone take that away from us, because that’s how we ultimately got here.”
The Spurs have led by double-digits in all four games of this series, but they’ve had miscues down the stretch. which has prevented them from closing out games, but Stephon Castle believes San Antonio can fix those mistakes.
“Yeah, it’s definitely hard looking back at it and thinking about what the series score could be based off self-inflicted mistakes,” he said. “But the reality of it is we’re here now, and it’s not too late to fix those mistakes. I think we can do it. Looking back at the OKC series is a whole different series, whole different game plan, way different team. Just the pressure side of it probably could help us with that series. But I think, internally, I feel like just going game to game and taking it a game at a time with this series is going to help us to try to close this out. Like I said, I think we’re pretty confident we can do it. Each game, we’ve been up and pretty much controlled the game for most of the game. So just trying to stay composed and poised through that.”
Can the Spurs come back from 3-1? Anything is possible, but when you blow a 29-point lead, which is the largest blown lead in NBA Finals history, that is tough to come back from, but again, anything is possible.
