During regular time, there's no need to worry about attacking, which for Durant means one less shackle on his stamina! And it's the heaviest one!
This situation was not anticipated during their preparation. The strategy Kobe helped devise, focusing on limiting Durant and the Warriors' regular-time offense, has largely become useless!
Zhang Yang, while watching the replays, didn't see Durant release the ball so early before.
Or rather, Steve Kerr didn't treat Durant like 'one of their own' in previous games, but purely as a workhorse.
Zhang San: Wait… could the Tsunami Combination be emulating us?
He suddenly realized that in regular time, they didn't attempt strong plays or overuse one point, when Harden was limited, DeRozan would step up, and if DeRozan was also limited, he would take over.
