After game three of the NBA Finals, we profiled Kyrie Irving, looking alternately at his strengths and his greatest failing as a player. Irving’s strengths are to be found in his amazingly good ball handling skills, and in his shot-making ability, which is somehow even better than the handle. His ability to make ridiculously difficult shots even when well defended is almost unrivalled league-wide, perhaps rivalled only by other players in the series; conversely, his knowledge of this ability, and his desire to try and do it even when he shouldn’t, is what resulted in the Cavaliers’ penultimate offensive possession that cost them game three. In game four, however, it was all the good with none of the bad. Irving scored 40 points on 27 shots, including seven made three-pointers, normally coming from a step-back with a hand in his face. Irving’s scoring explosion to begin the game set the tone for a dominant, historic Cavaliers offensive performance, and were the perfect catalyst to a completely ludicrous game that is already in the annuls of history amongst the other great NBA Finals games.