For a dystopian decade (2015-2024, RIP), the entire league worked to replicate the three-point offensive efficiency first perfected by the Warriors’ Splash Brothers. Steph Curry built the spacing locomotive that tore through the entire NBA, as its competitors scrambled to catch up to Golden State's revolutionary three-point math. Only in Houston, where James Stepback Harden managed to streamline the three-or-guaranteed system (get a layup, get fouled, or jack a bomb), did the formula itself (3>2=TRUE) almost close the gap in talent between the peak Warriors and the field.
Other teams made lesser copies that dulled our senses with stubborn, familiar success.