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We’re just beginning to realize the impact of the NBA’s embrace of new ideas. The style of basketball is more pleasing, though the extreme reliance on three-point shooting is a bubbling issue. Even during a Finals featuring two stellar defensive teams, the beauty of the game is evident amid all the muck. Kerr’s motion offense has revolutionized the way NBA basketball looks. It’s a hybrid system that borrows wrinkles from classic systems such as the triangle offense, the Princeton offense and Jerry Sloan’s Utah Jazz system, but it becomes its own transcendent thing because it’s built around the multidimensional shooting and playmaking ability of Stephen Curry and the elite complementary skill set of Klay Thompson. With skilled players and shot creators all over the floor — and a power forward with a point guard’s court vision in Draymond Green — the Warriors play both a free-flowing and a thinking man’s game. It’s a chess match in which decisions must be made at an incredible pace. After nearly a decade of trying to keep up with the Warriors, teams aren’t just hoping to copy some of their offensive principles. They have devised defensive systems that are far more versatile and better at utilizing the current positionless culture of basketball.