NEW ORLEANS — Steve Kerr played the long game not the small game on Friday and on the way the Warriors lost a game.



All basically as a setup, it seems. All leading to the next interesting moment in Warriors playoff history, and when the Warriors come to a turning point, you know what that usually means for this franchise:



It’s time to move Draymond Green to center, speed everything up with a large dose of the Hamptons 5, and see what happens, starting with Game 4 here on Sunday.



It’s all lined up and relatively key now, after the Warriors’ sluggish Game 3 loss to the Pelicans at Smoothie King Center, which narrowed the Warriors’ series lead to 2-1.



You could say that the Warriors have never really needed this more — not necessarily specifically for this series, but for the rest of the postseason. They’ve never been this short at center in the Kerr era, and I’m not talking about size.



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