MEMPHIS — As the Golden State Warriors gathered their belongings in the visitors’ locker room at FedEx Forum on Monday night, a staff member announced that the first bus to the airport would depart at 11:50 p.m. The Warriors had evened their Western Conference semifinal series with the Memphis Grizzlies at two games apiece, and they were headed home.
But before Stephen Curry rediscovered his shooting touch and before the Warriors regained their rhythm on offense and before they reopened their lines of communication on defense, they had spent nearly two and a half hours in a conference room at their hotel here studying foreign material: everything they had been doing wrong.