The Spurs led 55-36 at halftime last night in Game 4. You could look at that and probably give good arguments about whether the fault lies with the Heat defense or offense.

The numbers say the defense.

The problem is that the Heat never get a rest on the floor. Teams like the Pacers, who they faced just last round, had a good starting five, much like the Spurs do. However, when those guys went out, you could bring in offense for defense. You could let pic.twitter.com/0cX2OTtlTd

— SpankHer Ware (@sideeyespecial) June 13, 2014

Conclusion

Historically, teams have about a 4% chance of coming back from a 3-1 deficit in the playoffs. However, I'm not the type of person to count out the best player in the world.

Over the past two games, the Spurs have jumped out to huge leads in the first half, and then LeBron has taken over in the third quarter to try to cut into the lead and give the team a chance to comeback in the fourth. That's going to have to start earlier in Game 5. He has to be aggressive from the first minute.

Wade will have to be a lot better as well. He did well getting close to the rim, but then missed about every shot once he got there. That can't happen.

Other than that, perhaps we just accept that the Spurs are the better team (and perhaps historically great), and that the Heat will finally have to completely retool if they want to continue their Finals runs.

This thing is over. Well, unless LeBron turns Boston-Celtics-Game-Six Superhuman again. Then, well, we all win.