Lakers' failure to close out the Rockets opens up real (and scary) possibilities

HOUSTON — No team in modern professional sports has ever erased a 3-0 series deficit without doing what the Rockets did Sunday in Game 4.To come back from 3-0 — to be the first NBA team to ever do it and just the sixth in major North American pro sports — first, you have trail 3-1.Pick your cliché or your favorite idiom: take it one game at a time; it’s the first to four, not the first to three; the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time; it’s not over until it’s over and so on. It’s simple.Advertisement