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Typically, NBA teams hold a shootaround — a light, generally unstructured practice — the morning before a game.

It’s a chance to get some shots up and go over some last-minute preparations a few hours before a contest. It’s more about getting players and coaches into the right mindset than anything else.

But the Warriors did not have a shootaround Thursday, as coach Steve Kerr opted to cancel it.

If the Dubs’ 126-113 win over the Timberwolves Thursday night at Oracle Arena is any indication, the Warriors won’t be needing to hold another shootaround anytime soon.

Led by Kevin Durant’s 10th career triple-double, the Warriors shot 54 percent from the floor and 58 from beyond the arc in Thursday’s win — one of the best offensive performances of the season by a squad that might go down as the greatest offensive team in NBA history.

Here’s what I took away from Thursday’s game:

‘Talent wins’

Following the Warriors’ win Thursday, Kerr said one of the most confident things I’ve ever heard.

It wasn’t meant to be boastful, or cocky, or arrogant, but the quote can easily be read that way. The fact that this was delivered with a smile and a general “well, it’s obvious to everyone” attitude is indicative of how incredible this Warriors team is:

“Our guys are so talented, they lit up the scoreboard. They can win a lot of games without being totally dialed in and without defending at a high level,” Kerr said. “It wasn’t our best effort but, again, talent wins.”

There’s your 2017-18 Warriors season, wrapped up in two words: talent wins.

It doesn’t matter if they’re trying as hard as their opponent: talent wins.

It doesn’t matter if they take a night off from playing respectable defense: talent wins.

And frankly, no matter how hard the rest of the league tries, the Warriors are likely to lift the trophy once again in June because, well… you get it at this point.

Golden State came out of the gates so offensively hot Thursday night, it’s surprising the net didn’t combust into flames.

And because of that, the Warriors decided that defense was optional. Paired with Minnesota’s terrible defense (they were trying…I think), stretches of the game had an All-Star vibe to them. (Particularly fitting, considering that the All-Star teams were picked Thursday.)

But think about how incredible the Warriors’ decision to not play defense Thursday was: The Warriors, playing a team that’s currently in fourth place in the Western Conference standings, effectively came to the conclusion that they are so good offensively (and the Timberwolves are so helpless defensively) that only playing hard on one side of the court would be enough to win.

Whether that decision was made consciously or not, it was certainly bold. And then the scoreboard vindicated it.

And given the success, I imagine there will be a lot more efforts like Thursday’s in the final 30-or-so games of the season. I bet the Warriors win a vast majority of those games, too.

Talent wins, after all.

That talent is certainly showing up on offense:

Per Basketball Reference (there are differing calculations) The Warriors have an offensive rating of 115.4 this season, 0.2 points per 100 possessions off the all-time mark, set by last year’s team and the 1986-87 Lakers.

They also have an effective field goal percentage of .580 this season, which, if held, would shatter their own record — .563 (set by both the 2016-17 and 2015-16 teams) — which just so happens to be the league record.

But defense takes energy, and the Warriors are trying to conserve that energy for the postseason — when the competition will be stiffer and the stakes infinitely higher — after all. Add in what might be the greatest offense in NBA history and there’s not much incentive to try on the defensive end every night.

And Kerr might not love that reality, but he’s learning to live with it:

“I think that’s been our mindset many nights this year. I’m completely willing to understand that and accept it, because of our circumstances — because it’s January,” Kerr said.

Eventually, the Warriors will have to try on the defensive side — they will need their top-flight defense in the postseason and they should try out playing good defense, just for practice, before the end of the regular season.

“We can’t expect to play like this all year and be really successful in the playoffs — at some point, you have to guard and these last couple of weeks have not been good for us defensively,” Kerr said. “But I know that we will get that turned around when the time is right.”

When will that time be? My bet is that the Warriors return from the All-Star Game in February, coast through a few games and then Kerr calls on them to ramp up their defensive intensity. The Warriors will find top gear on both ends of the court for a week or so in the final week of February, the first week of March, and then go back to coasting until April (or even the first round of the playoffs).

The craziest part is that nothing will be jeopardized by the Warriors generally half-assing the majority of their games this season.

Talent wins, and the Warriors have a borderline unfair amount of talent on their team.

But don’t think just because the Warriors are playing well, despite their lack of defensive energy, that Kerr is going to make canceling shootarounds a regular occurrence:

“I’m going to remind them that we go over defense at shootarounds.”

The Warriors are playing the beautiful game once again

The Warriors registered 37 assists on Thursday, marking the 150th time in the last four seasons that the Warriors have dished out 30 or more assists in a game.

The Warriors’ record in those games: 140-10.

And while Thursday’s assist total wasn’t all that abnormal for the Warriors, the team’s passing is worth noting because they were truly whipping the ball around the court. It was as good as I’ve seen it in the last four years.

The ball movement was so impressive that it seemed as if the Wolves were literally dizzy. The slightest fake — even the mere thought of a pass — sent Wolves flying. Could you blame them?

You want to talk about gravity? Watch Jeff Teague on this possession. Totally abandons KEVIN DURANT to make sure Curry doesn’t get the ball. pic.twitter.com/bfvfgWUMLp — Dieter Kurtenbach (@dkurtenbach) January 26, 2018

So much of this ball movement and defensive vertigo revolves around Curry and the chaos he creates for defenses when he’s on the court. The Warriors have an offensive rating that’s close to 120 when he’s on the court this season — that means that when Curry is playing, the Warriors average 1.2 points per possession — which is a patently absurd number.

Could you imagine what that number would be if the Warriors weren’t so careless with the ball on what seems to be a nightly basis?

While Minnesota’s downright horrendous defense played a factor in Thursday’s offensive performance, the Warriors’ offense is truly beautiful to watch right now. This is offense the way it’s supposed to be played.

And it’s not just Curry making things happen — everyone seems in on the act.

Shaun Livingston, in particular, has been making some spectacular passes as of late. Thursday’s game was no exception.

Thursday’s game was the 29th time this season the Warriors went over 30 assists in a contest, surpassing the 2014-15 Warriors’ mark a month before the All-Star Game.

Golden State has 77 assists over their last two games, and if the Warriors keep that kind of passing up, it’s possible that they surpass the 1984-85 Lakers for the most 30-assist games in one season in NBA history — Magic Johnson and company had 52 that year.

Even if the Warriors don’t get to a half-century there, they can go for it in another way: The Warriors already set the franchise record for assists in a game this season, when they had 47 against the Lakers in November. Can they get 50 in a game? That’s something that hasn’t been done by any team since 1990 (and only six times in the history of the NBA.)

The record, by the way, is 52.

The way the Warriors were passing Thursday, and with a little help from the official statistician, I like this Warriors’ team’s chances to get 53.

Tempo over everything

The Warriors had 39 fast-break points in the first half Thursday, the most in a half since the NBA started tracking the stat in 2002.

A big factor behind all of those fast break points wasn’t missed shots — the first half didn’t feature too many of those — but rather the Warriors, particularly Kevin Durant, pushing the ball down the court, hard, at every single possible opportunity.

“I thought Kevin, offensively, was pushing the ball like crazy in transition, which really set the tone,” Kerr said. “He had a couple of plays where he raced the ball down the floor, which puts the defense on its heels, and then you get the movement from there. I love a really good push up the floor, rather than walking the ball up the floor. I thought Kevin was the key guy in that regard tonight.”

The Warriors have been deadly in transition all season — for a variety of predictable reasons — but Kerr’s praise of Durant is well deserved: he was, indeed, the man who made things happen Thursday.

It’s incredible that a 7-footer has the capability not only to shoot the way that Durant does — he’s one of the best shooters in NBA history — but to also dribble and pass the way he has this season. His playmaking ability has always existed, but it’s being utilized and tested more this year than any other, as far as I’m concerned. It’s almost annoying how good Durant is at facilitating, because I have no idea how on earth any team — even an All-Star team — could defend a possession that begins with a long-legged shooter running downhill, typically two of the greatest shooters in NBA history flanking out to both wings. It doesn’t even matter if two other players are on the court for the Warriors — I bet they’d score with just KD, Curry, and Klay in transition.

It’s a cheat code, and one you should expect to see more and more this season — particularly in games against good opponents.

Kudos

• To Andre Iguodala, who was shooting with confidence Thursday, going 3-for-4 in the first quarter and even doing this:

• To Zaza Pachulia, for playing his 1,000th NBA game Thursday. Zaza commemorated the occasion with a solid nine-point performance.

• To Stephen Curry, for going over 14,000 points in his career Thursday.

• To Karl Anthony Towns, for being downright unstoppable on offense Thursday. Towns had 31 points on 24 shots against the Warriors, who had no answer and at times seemed content with Klay Thompson guarding him — no, Klay was not going to stop Towns, but no one on the court was…

Yeah… About that…

• Draymond Green’s elbow apparently doesn’t hurt him — it’s just fluid — but I think everyone who looked at this video grabbed their elbow and felt some phantom pain.

• The Warriors wore their Chinese New Year “City Edition” uniforms Thursday. Generally, I’m a fan of alternate jerseys, but the mixture of yellow, blue, teal, white, and red was a bit too much for me. Now, I would be in favor of a less ornate yellow jersey with The Bay across the front. I understand the Warriors are trying to market to the Asian markets — and who am I to tell them how to market their team — but let’s see what that jersey looks like when we get rid of the dragon, fellas.

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