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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2716956, member: 488"] When you're a 73 win team that blows a 3-1 lead in the finals with two of those games coming at home, it's definitely a choke no matter how you slice it. But subjectively speaking, I just didn't come away from those three games thinking that way. Honestly, Cleveland was probably better. Oklahoma City was probably better. I know it sounds crazy to say that about a 73 win team, but that team was better built for the regular season. They had looked very mortal at times in the previous postseason (they trailed Memphis 2-1 in 2015 and then lost games two and three to Cleveland without Kyrie/Love) and then followed that up by beating the Thunder in a series in which they lost two games by over 25 points. Add that to the fact that Draymond was suspended for game five and Kyrie and LeBron did things humans aren't supposed to do, and it doesn't rank that high for me as an all-time collapse. I thought the Clippers blowing a 3-1 lead to Houston was worse, I thought Dallas against Miami in 2006 was worse, I thought Miami against Dallas in 2011 was worse. The 2008 Celtics going 7 with the 37 win Hawks was inexplicable to the point that I'll nominate that even though they won. [/QUOTE]