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Warriors Cooking with Familiar Recipe to Reclaim Regular-Season Identity

The Golden State Warriors' 98-78 bulldozing of the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday was a study in reclamation.

The Dubs' latest win, which gave them a 3-2 series advantage, felt in some ways like an extension of the Game 4 victory that contained many elements of their regular-season dominance—but not all of them. That contest saw Stephen Curry get loose, the defense pick up and order generally restored.

But the real storyline of Game 4 was the defensive tweak the Warriors made to effectively eliminate Tony Allen from the series: ignoring him entirely on offense and kick-starting a swarming defensive attack that fueled the offense.