Is the Warriors comeback from down 3-1 to a great OKC team the greatest comeback...

[OldSchoolBBall]

The Thunder beat themselves more than the Warrior came back. Big difference. if I felt like GS really TOOK the series from them, it would be different, but OKC just imploded repeatedly.

[hold this L]

The Thunder beat themselves more than the Warrior came back. Big difference. if I felt like GS really TOOK the series from them, it would be different, but OKC just imploded repeatedly.

They imploded for 5 minutes in game 6, the choke part is getting overblown. This isn't the first time the Warriors come back and beat a team, they have done it all year.

[CuterThanRubio]

The Suns were the 2nd seed and the Lakers were the 7th seed and had zero business even winning a game against the Suns.

The Lakers started Kwame Brown, Luke Walton, and Smush Parker.

That comeback doesn't compare.

I said 2nd best

Fending off a prime Kobe who was in the zone was no simple task, they were one rebound away from advancing regardless.

[Duffy Pratt]

68 Celtics vs. Sixers. Sixers had a better regular season record, and were defending champs. Celtics had to win game seven in Philly. But of course, this is ISH, so 1968 isn't part of "all time".

[LAZERUSS]

68 Celtics vs. Sixers. Sixers had a better regular season record, and were defending champs. Celtics had to win game seven in Philly. But of course, this is ISH, so 1968 isn't part of "all time".

Of course the Sixers' roster that just crushed the NBA in the regular season, was nowhere near the injury-decimated roster that somehow lost a game seven by four points to the much healthier Celtics.

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...1&postcount=14

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...6&postcount=13

It was a minor miracle that the Sixers beat the Knicks in the first round. And again, it was huge miracle that they were able to take that series to a game seven.

[Bawkish]

i'll give an A for effort, but seriously doe, that comeback could've been a great achievement if the Warriors were the underdogs. As a team with a record breaking wins in a season, it's more of an embarrassment actually

[SouBeachTalents]

As for the thread at hand, I'd say the '81 Celtics, '95 Rockets & '68 Celtics all had more impressive comebacks. The '81 Celtics won their final 3 games by the narrowest of margins, winning by 2, 2 and 1, much closer contests than any the Warriors had during their comeback.

While the Rockets & '68 Celtics had to come back from 3-1 while needing to win Games 5 & 7 on the road, an infinitely tougher task than needing just 1 road win and having Game 7 at home

[RoseCity07]

It would have been better if they won two road games. They really only needed to win one tough game because the two home games were locks.

[livinglegend]

Has a team ever cameback from a 1-3 deficit while having games 5 and 7 as away games?
It's much easier to comeback when you have 2 of the 3 games on your home court.

EDIT: just saw southbeachtalents' s post

[Duffy Pratt]

Of course the Sixers' roster that just crushed the NBA in the regular season, was nowhere near the injury-decimated roster that somehow lost a game seven by four points to the much healthier Celtics.

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...1&postcount=14

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...6&postcount=13

It was a minor miracle that the Sixers beat the Knicks in the first round. And again, it was huge miracle that they were able to take that series to a game seven.

Cunningham was hurt. Who else? And the "scrub" who replaced him was Johnny Green, a four time All Star - in seasons both before and after that season. That's how stacked good teams were back then.

Also, it's not a miracle to take a series to a game 7 when you go up 3-1. It's pretty much the opposite.

[imdaman99]

It was a nice comeback, but hardly unexpected. You expected it, I remember a thread you made. A couple of Lebron stans expected it. Warriors won 73 wins, their only tough win was game 6 in OKC. That is all they had to overcome because they were not getting sent packing at home.

[PAOK]

06 heat-mavs?

losing 0-2, and trailing by 13 with 6 mins left in the 3rd game

against an 60-22 team, in the nba finals

[JohnnySic]

It was a nice comeback, but hardly unexpected. You expected it, I remember a thread you made. A couple of Lebron stans expected it. Warriors won 73 wins, their only tough win was game 6 in OKC. That is all they had to overcome because they were not getting sent packing at home.

Yup, I expected them to come back. The real shocker was that they fell down 1-3 to begin with.

[coin24]

Yes cause the NBA championship was at stake......

Warriors and thunder were playing for the title.. Both would wipe there asses with the cavs.. Although durCant would try his best to go full servant mode

[LAZERUSS]

Cunningham was hurt. Who else? And the "scrub" who replaced him was Johnny Green, a four time All Star - in seasons both before and after that season. That's how stacked good teams were back then.

Also, it's not a miracle to take a series to a game 7 when you go up 3-1. It's pretty much the opposite.

I guess you didn't take the time to read those two articles, did you?

First of all, Cunningham averaged 18.9 ppg in the regular season, and then was averaging 20.7 ppg in the first round when he broke his wrist in game five. "All-Star" Johnny Green averaged 5.3 ppg in the regular season, and then upped it all the way to 8.0 ppg in the playoffs, and then to 8.1 ppg in the EDF's. A drop off between 10-12 ppg...in a series in which Boston held a +2.5 ppg margin.

Chamberlain? Your guy Glass Curry missed over two weeks of the playoffs with a grade 1 sprain, which usually requires 1-2 weeks of recovery for an average individual. Wilt had a tear in his calf, which usually requires 1-2 weeks of walking with crutches, and then 4-6 weeks of recover. How much time did Wilt miss in that seven game series? ZERO minutes. In fact he played EVERY minute of that series with a NOTICEABLE LIMP. And all he could do was hang a 22-25-7 series.

As for the rest of the injuries...

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...6&postcount=13

The Philadelphia 76ers could be billed as the best touring troupe In basketball. All they need is a doctor to complete the cast.

Going into the fourth game Sunday of their National Basketball Association playoff series with the Boston Celtics, the 76ers are hurting from head to toe.

So what's new? Injuries have plagued the defending NBA champions since the opening of the season.

"Alex Hannum says this is the most courageous team he's ever coached," says Harvey Pollack, the 76ers' statistician. "The locker room looks like a hospital ward every time I walk in."

Pollack ticked off some of the cases, which read like a medical diary:

-Wilt Chamberlain (partial tear of the calf muscle in his right leg, a strain in his right thigh and an injured right toe):

-Wally Jones (injured knee cartilage):

-Luke Jackson (pulled hamstring muscle):

-Hal Greer (bursitus in his right knee):

-And, Billy Cunningham (broken right wrist).

"That's not mentioning (rookie) Jim Reid who had a knee operation after injuring it the first game of the season," said Pollack, "and Larry Costello," the veteran guard who tore an ankle tendon after one-third of the season was gone.

The most recent injury was to Chamberlain in Friday night's Eastern Division playoff contest with the Celtics. The dipper was given whirlpool treatments for the calf muscle tear, but Pollack wasn't sure how he'd respond.

The 76ers have nine men in uniform for the best-of-seven playoffs, which they lead, two games to one. But whether they'll have anybody left for the finals against the Western Division winner is anybody's guess.

The team's troubles multiplied in the Eastern Division semifinals against the New York Knickerbockers. Cunningham broke his wrist, knocking him out for the season, Jones and Jackson suffered their injuries and Chamberlain aggravated his perennial toe injury.

And when Boston thumped the 76ers in the opening game of their playoffs here last Friday, some predicted a quick knockout of the injury-riddled champs.

But Philadelphia whacked Boston two straight, including Thursday where an injury actually helped the 76ers cause, points out Pollack.

How so?

"Well, Chamberlain was hurt and he couldn't turn around to score-so he kept feeding Greer, and he scored 31," explained the statistician.

It was a MIRACLE that the Sixers went up 3-1, and a MIRACLE that they lost a game seven by four points to a much healthier and deeper Celtics team.