Healthy Bogut provides critical presence for Warriors

The game started, the Oracle crowd roared and Andrew Bogut, out in the center circle to jump against Anthony Davis, didn't even think about the significance.The key factor for the Warriors playoff run isn't considered to be Stephen Curry or Draymond Green.The Australian brings an inside physical presence, defensive muscle and a toughness that the "jump-shooting finesse team" from a mythical place called Golden State needs.Bogut, of course, missed the 2014 playoffs with a broken rib, perhaps the primary reason the Warriors lost to the Clippers in seven games.Jackson, who earlier this season on a broadcast belittled Bogut's role on the team as a "rim protector," happened to be courtside broadcasting for ESPN and able to witness just exactly what he and the Warriors did not have last April.In Game 1, Bogut scored 12 points, more than once setting a screen for Curry and then rolling to the basket, unguarded.Bogut, who averaged less than 24 minutes a game in the 67 games he played in regular season, played over 30 minutes on Saturday.The blocks, rebounds, the points he scored for us.There was a stretch in the fourth quarter, after the Pelicans had gone on a 14-0 run to cut the Warriors...