CLEVELAND — Before we get to hand-wringing season in Cavstown, and to be clear, it’s coming, can we just pause to remember the New York Knicks were in the conference finals last year?And didn’t win?And are on the verge of taking the step this season they couldn’t take a year ago?It feels as if the Cleveland Cavaliers are a million miles behind the Knicks. In a way it should, because the goal is to win and advance, and no one in NBA history has done that after falling behind 3-0 in a playoff series, though many have tried. I am here to tell you Cleveland won’t be the first to do it.But is there such a thing as a series being “closer” than 3-0 might indicate?“I don’t feel like we are overmatched,” Donovan Mitchell said after his team was ripped at home in Game 3 by the Knicks, 121-108.“I hate to harp on it, but we were up 22 (in the fourth quarter of Game 1),” Mitchell said. “So it’s on us. It’s on everyone in that locker room. We know that, we feel that, and we have an opportunity to get Game 4 and go from there.”To be clear, abundantly clear, the Knicks are the better team in this series. But Mitchell said something prescient after Game 2 of this series, when he said it all “feels worse” when you miss as many shots as the Cavs are missing. They were 12-of-41 from 3-point range and 12-of-19 at the foul line in Game 3. Can’t do that at home.Entering Game 3, Cleveland was shooting 8 percentage points worse than the analytics say it should have been shooting, based on the quality of shots. Mitchell scored 23 points but was 3-of-10 from 3-point range. Evan Mobley led the team with 24 points but was 1-of-6 from 3. James Harden was 1-of-7 from deep and Max Strus was 4-of-11.In English, that means the Cavs are getting good, open looks and simply clanking them off the rim, while Cleveland, at least in Game 1, had a hand in the faces of the Knicks for a lot of that infamous fourth-quarter collapse — but their shots went in anyway.“I think we won the expected (shooting percentage) all three games,” coach Kenny Atkinson said. “But, you know, there is expected and there’s real.”