SAN FRANCISCO — Basketball might be played by athletes of the highest order, but its games are still won with intelligence. And for most of the last decade, no NBA team has been more intelligent than the Golden State Warriors.
This season, the Dubs’ basketball intelligence has ebbed and flowed — as evidenced by the team’s middling record. But with the team’s season on the line Tuesday night against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Warriors showed that they still have the kind of next-level thinking that makes them a formidable — if not nearly unbeatable — playoff foe.
Two of these sparks of brilliance came from familiar sources: Draymond Green and Steph Curry.
