We’ve lived with Steve Kerr’s motto for years now, and we know what “Strength in Numbers” means: everybody plays, everybody gets involved in the offense, and the team is bigger than any one person. It also means we get to enjoy the likes of Anderson Varejao in crucial Game 7 minutes — sometimes you take the bad with the good.
Isolation basketball, well. The numbers involved there are “one” on “one,” which is the same number twice. Not very strong, and not something we’re accustomed to in Kerr’s offensive system. Yet at times, the grueling series between the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets was defined by — one might even say marred by — mano a mano stagnation.