Klay was a bum in the finals, but not agreeing to include him in any deal for Love last off-season proved to be a bridge worth dying on.
I thought they were nuts if that is all it was going to take as the centerpiece, but apparently their GM knew what he was doing.
Steve Kerr backing out of the Knicks job to goto GS at the last minute also proved to be a defining moment for them.
It was essentially the same team as Marc Jackson had but they were a much better team under Kerr and they really learned to defend. I thought it was all advanced metric hokum about them really being a good defensive team, but they surpassed defensively what I thought they were capable of (even taking into account our limited squad). The offense gets the hype, but defense won them the title.