Why the Warriors’ greatest adversary is perhaps their own success

The Golden State Warriors had become victims of their own regular-season success so much that coach Steve Kerr, believing his voice was resonating like one of those mumble-mouth teachers on a Charlie Brown television special, decided to combat the malaise by putting his players in charge of calling plays during timeouts of a recent 46-point win against the lowly Phoenix Suns. The dry-erase board didn't go to any random, end-of-the-bench rookie or the swaggiest of P's, but to Andre Iguodala, David West and Draymond Green, the guys whose basketball IQs were such that they could most likely handle the responsibility. Green drew up a play that he was certain would lead to an easy layup for Klay Thompson — and he watched it get ruined before his eyes.