The defending NBA champions, who visit the Wolves again on Friday, take long two-pointers with greater frequency and success than most foes.
Warriors guards Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry represent modern basketball more than any player in the league except for perhaps Rockets guard James Harden. When they have even a sliver of daylight from three-point range, sometimes less than that, they chuck it. They are the standards in this analytical wave of basketball that embraces the three-point shot and eschews most other two-pointers except those around the rim.
But over the past few seasons, the Warriors, who return to Target Center to face the Timberwolves on Friday in the midst of a tight battle with the Nuggets for the top spot in the Western Conference, have embraced the shot once considered an analytical albatross — the midrange shot — more than almost any team in the league.