With only a few more hours remaining until game four of the NBA Finals, the Cleveland Cavaliers will try and avoid the sweep, while the Golden State Warriors will be trying to finish the playoffs with a perfect record of 16-0. Additionally, the Cavs face the historical 0-126 record teams face while down 3-0 in a series.
While that may be the case, Cavs’ small forward Richard Jefferson has not given up hope but expresses how important a championship win is for this season.
Following from Baxter Holmes of ESPN.
“I still do not feel like we’ve reached our potential,” Jefferson said Friday after the team’s shootaround at their practice facility. “We’ve said it all along — it doesn’t matter if we lose in Game 7, what happens with tonight: If we don’t win a championship, then the season was unsuccessful. That’s it. It’s the same for them.
Jefferson takes a realistic approach, points out that other successful teams have the same mindset, and coming up short just won’t cut it.
“It’s probably the same for three teams in this league every single year. And it’s true. If we don’t win a championship, it’s unsuccessful. Nobody would be surprised at the end of the day if before this series you said the Cavs won. No one would be surprised if someone said San Antonio won a championship at the beginning of the season. No one would be, like, mind blown.
“So for the three, four teams that are in that position, regardless of how it ends or whatever, if you don’t raise that banner the next year, then it was unsuccessful.”
