For roughly 28 minutes, the Warriors team shuffling around the hardwood at Oracle hardly resembled the dominant force the league has come to expect.
Shots clanked in every direction, bodies weren’t moving much, and the general flow and rhythm to the game was more disjointed than that Davidson rap song featuring one Stephen Curry.
But midway through the 3rd quarter, the Warriors finally managed to shake off the malaise that appeared to travel back with them from the Staples Center, and surge past an upstart Atlanta Hawks team that played better than their record may have advertised.