Kevin Durant Explains Why Warriors' 2018 Postseason Is More Difficult Than 2017

The Golden State Warriors lost exactly one—one (!!!)—game the entire 2017 playoffs.

They've already dropped five times as many this postseason and were one legendary JR Smith mistake away from a sixth in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

So, what's changed? According to Kevin Durant, not much. Teams are just doing a better job of understanding how to limit the seemingly unstoppable force of their roster.

“Usually the new thing is hard to stop,” Durant told Michael Lee of Yahoo Sports. “I don’t think it was easier. I just think it was new. The newness of it all threw a lot of opponents off guard sometimes, threw a lot of coaches off guard sometimes. Now, they’ve got a whole, full year to scout more,…