It may be different for actual Warriors fans (the ones that haven’t gone into hibernation, that is), but I’m finding this current Warriors incarnation very fun. In years past, you knew what you were going to get for the most part, the only question was which superstar scorer was going to go off and how hard the going off would be. Nowadays, it’s totally random. Role players appear and disappear in the rotation at a frenzied pace. Basically the entire roster (except Kevon Looney, he’s broken now) is a threat to be the team’s leading scorer in any given game.
Tonight, the role players du jour were Alec Burks and Damion Lee, with a smattering of Marquese Chriss and Jacob Evans. I would’ve had to wait until the very end of the season with previous season’s Warriors teams to get role player action like that, and now I can have it every night. I’m like a kid in a candy store, except I’m an adult (nominally) and the candy is actually NBA players who aren’t very good.
Unlike Burks, whose nice scoring performance was born from a deep desire for revenge, Lee had no reason to score a bunch of points except for that scoring points is fun. The best reason of all! If the psychological pull of balls going in holes weren’t so strong, I doubt anyone would even bother with scoring, but the pull is there and it is primal, so Lee went ahead and scored 21 points.