SAN ANTONIO — Apparently, it’s obvious to Victor Wembanyama.
He was unwavering in his confidence.
“Everybody thinks — everybody knows,” Wembanyama said after Spurs practice on Friday, “that we’re going to do it.”
Victor Wembanyama expects the Spurs to come back from 3-1 deficit. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin
He was talking about the Spurs locker room, not necessarily everyone on the outside watching these Finals. He was asked if he and his teammates actually believe they can overturn their 3-1 Finals deficit.
After the Knicks’ miraculous comeback in their 107-106 Game 4 win Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, Wembanyama said that the Spurs’ collapse would either divide or unite the locker room. Two days later, he is confident that it is the latter and that they share that common belief.
And he thinks the Spurs have moved past their historic Game 4 choke.
Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs have to win three straight against the Knicks. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post“We’re very confident,” Wembanyama said. “I wouldn’t say it was so hard to, like, shake it off. Harder than any other game before, by far, for sure. I mean, now we’re over it. It’s the playoffs. There’s no time to regret things for too long.”
Only one team has come back from a 3-1 deficit in Finals history — the Cavaliers in 2016.
“I feel like we’ve made history all year, and we’ve proven that with our backs against the wall that we can step up,” Stephon Castle said. “So I don’t really expect this to be any different.”
Both Spurs coach Mitch Johnson and his players have expressed a sentiment that it has been them that has decided all four games of this series. They pointed to their double-digit leads in all four games.
It has been their own shortcomings when they have those leads, they say, not anything the Knicks have done that has dictated the end results. That’s why they are so sure that this series is still within their control.
“I think just our confidence,” Castle said. “We’ve had a 10-plus point lead in every single game. Just trying to stay poised throughout that and try to keep our foot on the gas really. I feel like once we get those leads, we start to play a little bit different, take our foot off the gas defensively. I just feel like we have to stay aggressive but be smart through it.”
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They are not looking at the totality of needing to win three straight games, though. Their eyes are solely on Saturday’s Game 5, back home at the Frost Bank Arena.
“I feel like we need to isolate that one game and take it one game at a time,” Wembanyama said. “I think it would be a mistake to waste our energy on multiple games. It’s one game at a time.”
