Sometimes basketball isn’t about X’s and O’s. Sometimes it’s about Newton’s First Law—an object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an external force. And tonight, with Steph Curry watching from the sidelines, the Warriors need 19,596 screaming fans to be that force.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: without Curry’s gravitational pull warping defensive schemes, the Warriors are conducting a different kind of physics experiment. Can sheer kinetic energy (the kind that comes from 10,000-watt crowd noise and desperate fourth-quarter stands) compensate for the absence of a two-time MVP?