Here are five observations from the Warriors’ 115-86 win over the Rockets on Saturday night in Oracle Arena, pushing this dramatic Western Conference finals to a winner-take-all Game 7 in Houston on Monday night.



1. Pushing the pace



Saturday night’s Game 6 included some of the uglier fastbreaks of this golden Warriors era: the 2-on-1 Steph Curry fumble to erase a should be layup, the 3-on-1 when Draymond Green had his choice between passing to Curry or Klay Thompson and instead threw it to James Harden, a number of rushed, missed bricks. I mean, look at a pair of these.



But within the blunders was an obvious strategic tweak: The Warriors wanted to quicken the pace in Game 6, push the ball after makes, misses, turnovers, whatever. Their halfcourt offense had been getting pummeled by the physical Rockets. It was time, at all opportunities, to scatter around their big bodies, giving them moving targets to corral, not stationary bodies to...