Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics have turned this best-of-seven NBA Finals into a best-of-three. With the series tied with Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors, both teams will have a chance to take a commanding 3-2 series lead on Monday night.

In Game 4, Stephen Curry arguably had his legacy-defining performance, dropping an efficient 43 points with seven 3-pointers to tie the series up. Now, both teams face immense pressure with the winner of Monday night's Game 5 getting just one win away from an NBA Championship.

The ‘legacy' talks and the pressure that comes with those, however, aren't on Jaylen Brown's mind ahead of Game 5.

“There's no pressure,” Brown said. “It is what it is. We know why we're here. We know where we're at. We know it's the Finals. We know the severity of the game. There's no need to say things that are already understood. We know how important this game is and the energy that we need to come out with and how we need to set our team up and how we need to make plays and how we need to guard and defend. We know all the ins and outs. We've just got to come and do it and let everybody watch and witness.”

At this point in a series, both teams know each other very well. There aren't many, if any, adjustments left to be made. It really comes down to who can execute their game-plan better than the other.

“I think anytime you get to this point in the season, there's not many huge adjustments you can make,” Draymond Green said ahead of Game 5 on Sunday. “Like I've said before, they know who you are, you know who they are. You're not going back to reinvent the wheel. You're not going back to change your playbook. You're not going back to change your personnel.

“I think in understanding that, you have to do what you do to the best of your ability. Both teams are attempting to do that. I think we pose some challenges for them that they have to overcome. They pose some challenges for us that we have to overcome.”

Stephen Curry has been, by far, the best player in these NBA Finals. So much so that some are picking him as their NBA Finals MVP even if the Warriors don't win this series. He's been that much better than the field.

Through four Finals games, Curry is averaging 34.3 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.8 assists, and 2.0 steals per game on 50 percent shooting from the field and 49 percent from three. The next highest scorers in this series are Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, who are both averaging exactly 22.3 points and 7.0 rebounds per game.

The Celtics have been able to withstand a Steph Curry explosion seemingly every game, and are tied 2-2 despite him averaging 11 more points per game than the second-highest scorer in this series. Jaylen Brown believes there's a positive to take away from that.

“Yeah, you can take positive out of anything,” Celtics talent Jaylen Brown said. “Obviously, I think we can be in a better position than we're in, but we're not. It's 2-2. Still nothing to hang your head about. A lot of great basketball still in front of us. We take our mistakes and learn from them and you apply it as best you can going forward. I still think we are in a great spot.”

This is the 31st time in league history that the NBA Finals have been tied at 2-2 through four games. In the previous 30 instances, the team that wins Game 5 has gone on to win the series 73.3% of the time (22-8). Additionally, the Celtics are 7-0 this postseason in games coming after a loss. All this is setting the stage for a pivotal Game 5 on Monday night.

“I'm excited to see how we respond over the next couple of days,” Jaylen Brown added. “I mean, it's exciting. It's the biggest stage in the world. I'll take our group, our guys, versus anybody. So I'm looking forward to it.”

Celtics-Warriors Game 5 is set to tip off at around 6:07PM PST on ABC/ESPN.