It was late in a close game, and they were facing a formidable foe in the defending champion Lakers. That means it was time for the Warriors’ bread-and-butter play. By their bread-and-butter players.
The last time you might vividly remember this probably comes from the 2019 playoffs. They used it to put away Houston and to torment Portland, and five years of mastering it made it like clockwork.
Monday in Los Angeles, it was time to dust it off. The game was tied at 108 with just inside of three minutes left. A once-19-point deficit was erased and it was in play for the Warriors to leave Staples Center with a win. So they turned to their tried-and-true set: Draymond Green screening for Stephen Curry.
“It was kind of weird,” Curry said after the game. “It was like a blast from the past — ’14-15, pick-and-roll at the top of the key, me and him.”
Curry took the screen, dribbling to his right enough to draw his…
