The San Antonio Spurs and Portland Trail Blazers are playing Game 4 of their NBA playoffs series on Monday night and the matchup on TNT and streaming online starts up at 10:30 pm ET and has the Spurs leading 4-0 in the series and they have the chance to sweep in the west semis and it comes as Tony Parker and company are playing some fantastic ball.
The Oklahoma City Thunder and LA Clippers are in a very tight series, while the Spurs have been dominant over the Blazers and Portland has not even had the chance yet to win any game. The matchup at the Moda Center comes as a last ditch effort for the Blazers, who basically now have no chance at all to advance, as the Spurs are the best team in the west and no one has come back from 3-0 like that and while the Blazers had a nice run, it will be a short one after they defeated the Houston Rockets in the previous round on one of the best shots ever in the postseason from Damian Lillard.
The Spurs have been an excellent road team this season and while the Blazers have played well at the Mode Center, Game 3 was not it and now they have one more chance to at least salvage the series. The Blazers have been dominated at every turn and while they have very talented players in Lillard and LaMarcus Aldridge, they have been no match for the Big 3 of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili and on top of that, the Spurs bench has been much better as well. Aldridge was averaging around 30 points heading into the series after dropping back to back 40 point games against the Rockets, but he has not been able to get to the hoop like that against the Spurs.
The Spurs looked like they may get upset in the first round against the Dallas Mavericks when Vince Carter put the team up on his improbable three pointer, but that never came through and now the Spurs have won every game but one since then and it has included all three against the Blazers. The Spurs will not coast, but history is on their side, as no team in the NBA has ever been able to make the comeback from 3-0 down and while the Blazers are talented, they are not going to be the first ones to do it, especially with the way the Spurs are playing.
Tony Parker has been playing the best of the big three and he is one reason why the team is up 3-0 in the series, as he is averaging over 20 points and five assists during the playoffs and he has been the most consistent player for the Spurs. Parker added 29 points in the last win and had six assists, while Kawhi Leonard has continued his growth as an important player and he had 10 rebounds in the game and now the matchup on Monday could be the last of the series and that would make San Antonio the first team into either the west or east conference finals.
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