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At some point, the Warriors’ 2018 playoff run might need a soundtrack. And according to point guard Stephen Curry, it might deserve a little Disney motivational music.

The most startling thing to come out of Game 7 in Houston was the observation by Curry that the team “could have splintered, to be honest,” during its difficult first half. Curry said there was a point where “you can have guys doing a lot of finger-pointing and blaming.”

On Wednesday, when asked again about that moment, Curry said everyone was “getting the anxiety off their chest. I think all I said was, ‘We got it off our chest, let’s move on, let’s win a basketball game and let’s do it together.’

“It sounds very Disney Channel-type movie, but that’s what we needed,” Curry said. “To turn the page and focus on the game and how we were going to win.”

Team Chemistry could splinter? Team 12 guys in one Uber? The guys who eat dinner together and golf together and take the court after saying, “Just Us”?

Yes. And none of us should be surprised.

This is a team with four All-Stars. A team making its way through another long playoff grind together. A group that has been joined at the hip for years.

There are inevitably moments of combustion. Times when the cracks will show. When they will have to dig deep to get through the rough patch.

The potential breaking moment came with 4:58 remaining in the second quarter of Game 7. Draymond Green made a bad pass. James Harden grabbed it, went down the floor for a dunk to give the Rockets a 15-point lead. The crowd exploded and the Warriors called timeout.

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“We were splintered, for sure,” Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said. “We were out of sorts with all the turnovers. That timeout was a little chaotic. We were all frustrated at that point.”

In that timeout, there was a lot of talking. And yelling.

“It was everyone,” Green said. “Steph got up in the huddle and said, ‘Stick together.’ Klay (Thompson) was talking, Andre (Iguodala) was talking, Kevin (Durant) started yelling. Everyone was pretty much yelling the same thing, and once everyone realized we were all yelling the same thing, that’s when we calmed down and started to cut into the lead there.”

The Warriors fought their way through a potential fissure. And in some ways, the difficulty, the angst and their ultimate resilience could make this NBA Finals even more rewarding than their previous three trips.

The Warriors do have great chemistry, but it’s different now. They have gotten older, added Durant, become more experienced, more famous, more feted. They still have regular dinners together, but they tend to be more spontaneous rather than planned occasions.

“We all like each other,” Curry said recently. “We respect what we each bring to the table. All our strengths really blend together and our weaknesses cover up for each other.”

We have seen other teams crumble in the heat of the moment. Durant has been on a team that did that — Oklahoma City lost to the Warriors in the 2016 Western Conference finals after being up 3-1 in the series.

“We didn’t take it personal when guys had stuff to say; we moved past it pretty quickly,” Durant said. “When stuff like that happens, you can go the other way and put the blame on someone else and that divides your team right there.”

To a man, the Warriors point to that moment in Game 7 as a critical juncture. And it will be one they remember for a long time, especially if they earn another championship ring.

“It was a special moment for us,” Curry said. “And I think one that we’ll look back on, if we get the job done over these next two weeks. An appreciation of all that goes into winning a championship and doing it by committee and making sure that every guy, whether you’re playing well or not, that we all bring something to the fold.”

It was the 2½ minutes of chaos that might have saved the season.

“We came out of the huddle as one,” Durant said. “I think that was a huge moment for us as a group going forward. Not just that night, but going forward, so we could look back on it and realize that we can pretty much get through anything if we talk it out, communicate and realize that the goal is just to win.

“We might have walked into it separately, but we came out as one.”

And that, right there, is a perfect Disney-movie lyric.

Warriors 2018, the musical.

Ann Killion is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. Email: akillion@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @annkillion