With 2:37 left to go in the game, the score being 100-90 in Cleveland’s favor, the Thunder only had a 1.6% chance of winning the game. This according to ESPN.
Last year the Mavs had a choke like this.
Those odds were dumb tbh, as someone who bets almost every night I’ve seen people jumping to take the bulls game 1 and the cavs last night but this team is good enough now to compete on any given night. They are no longer that shitty rebuilding team they are now in the phase where they are a competitive young squad.
I don’t know how, when you’re up by 10 with just over 2 minutes left, you don’t just do everything you can to run down the shot clock. It’s tough to pass up an open shot if you have it but if they just hold the ball they can run at least a minute off the clock and hell maybe they still make a shot or two. Then you force the opponent to scramble on their possessions.
It’s like once Okc hit that first 3 pointer the Cavs tried to match their pace and there was just no reason for it.