If the Thunder go up 2-0, the Heat have a long way to go to climb back, especially in the 2-3-2 format. Hard to imagine the Heat taking three straight from a team this good even in Miami, and anything less sends the series back to Oklahoma with the Thunder needing only to get one win in two home games to win the title.
Isn't that what everyone said last round when the Spurs went up 2-0, that there was no way the Thunder could win 4 of 5 from a team that had won 20 in a row?
Yup. Still not sure how they did it.But my point was that the 2-3-2 makes it seem even tougher psychologically, even though obviously it's the same number of games at each site. In the usual format they'd have that Game 6 at home waiting for them out there as a reward for extending the series, which means if they get to 2-2 the
worst they can do is have a home game for the chance to get to Game 7. In this format, if they lose tomorrow they either have to win three straight from the Thunder and steal one in OKC, or win two straight on the road in OKC.
I know it's technically all the same, but those options just
sounds like a tremendous uphill battle.