NEW ORLEANS — The Warriors’ dud games are often predictable. Anyone who watched them regularly this season can probably sense them coming like an arthritic knee can predict a storm.



The reverse is not always the same. Not this season. When the Warriors are on, they are an unstoppable force. It’s hard to get a read on when they are going to be on. Steve Kerr must have the button, maybe somewhere under his seat.



“It’s like Dr. Evil when he pushes the button and the guy flips over and he goes into the shark tank,” Kerr said, mixing an Austin Powers reference with an old school James Bond scene. “It’s that easy.”



Kerr wishes it were that easy, press a button and unleash the piranha in his players — yes, those were piranhas in “You Only Live Twice” starring a young Sean Connery, and Dr. Evil is really Ernst Blofield, head of SPECTRE. If Kerr has such a button, it’s probably worn out from...