OAKLAND — There are moments in every basketball game that are imperceptible to those of us at a distance.
It’s the look a point guard might give a teammate to start the machinations of a screen, or the eye contact a big gives to inform the ball-handler he’s going to curl toward the rim to receive an alley-oop.
NBA players often talk about chemistry in nebulous and even mysterious terms, but this is what they mean. It’s the anticipation of how a play is going to develop. It’s the freedom of a point guard to not just adapt to an opposing defense but to know that his teammates will, in turn, adjust their positioning accordingly.
When chemistry is at its most organic, it’s invisible to outsiders and impossible to stop.
This is the challenge that awaits the Warriors this coming season. They’re still in the first throes of a process that, for the most part, revolves around integrating Kevin Durant’s game into that of a trio of pre-existing All-Stars.
The sooner they figure that out, the sooner they’ll became the bane of every op ...
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Article written by Erik Malinowski