Game 4 felt like a must-win game for the Thunder, and they were able to rise to the occasion.
The Thunder tied up the series at two games apiece despite doing something an NBA Finals team hasn’t been able to do in a win since 2010.
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What shocking stat did the Thunder have in their Game 4 win?
In Game 4, the Thunder shot 3/17 from three-point range.
That’s just a 17.6 3P%.
Their three-pointers made total was an impressive stat here.
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You might be wondering why it’s impressive, but the impressive part is winning in today’s NBA with that little production from behind the arc.
We haven’t seen a team win an NBA Finals game with three or fewer threes in a game since 2010 (StatMuse).
It actually happened several times in this Lakers/Celtics 2010 NBA Finals that teams didn’t shoot the three-ball that much.
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Games were much more lower scoring then, and there was less of an emphasis on getting threes up like there is today.
That’s what makes the Thunder’s win today so improbable because even though what they did hadn’t been done since 2010, much of the era where that happened it was way more common to occur.
The Thunder’s worst quarter in the series has been the fourth quarters, which tonight they were able to outscore Indiana 31-17, improving in that area which they previously struggled in.
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They were “climbing an uphill battle” as the announcers said, but were able to hang around long enough to pounce on the deficit when it mattered most.
With at least two more games guaranteed to happen in this series, we will see if these trends continue, or change as the series now goes back to OKC.
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