CRISIS IS A RELATIVE TERM when a team is 31-5, but on a Friday night in January, the Warriors are struggling with issues of identity. Having watched their 23-point lead over Memphis dwindle to two in the closing minute of regulation, they simply don't know what kind of basketball they want to play.
From the moment Kevin Durant sizes up Zach Randolph at the top of the floor above the arc, Draymond Green never moves from his plot in the left corner. Hunched over, he clutches the hems of his shorts. And why not? Everyone in the building anticipates what's about to transpire:
Inside of 30 seconds remaining, Durant pounds the ball into the hardwood at Oracle Arena, even though his effective field goal percentage in the clutch this season coming into tonight is 34.