Philo, since you cannot see the in' forest for the trees, here's a summary (it's all you really need to know):
"The assists shows that there's not a lot of ball movement on that team. It's one pass and a shot, or just a shot. The reason the Spurs don't have a single player with a high number of assists per game is because they move the ball around and the assist just happens to go to the last guy who passed to the best shot option. It's not like Curry is creating opportunities for his team.
So yeah, that is chucking, to take 20 shots when you're shooting poorly and you have better options. If you look at the play by play for either game, you'll see some 30ft shot attempts, plenty around 27 feet as well. No legit team plan includes passing to a guy 30 feet from the basket for a shot. That's a chuck shot. Dude is in constant heat check." -DMC circa 2013
And then...
"Last season, the Warriors offense was often stagnant, and it frustrated Jerry West in particular. He couldn’t understand how a team blessed with shooters like Curry and Thompson, and passers like Bogut and Lee, could be last in the NBA in passes per possession.
That was Jackson’s preferred style of play, though, which resembled classic NBA basketball from the 80s and 90s – isolation and pick and roll.
Kerr’s approach has been a stark contrast.
Many first-time head coaches begin their career by mimicking a mentor. Think of Erik Spoelstra in Miami or Budenholzer in San Antonio. But Kerr has the advantage not only of multiple Hall of Fame mentors but also a respected offensive sidekick in Gentry, whom he hired last June. Together, they created what Gentry calls a “melting pot” system on offense.
Watch Warriors games and you’ll see the high-post action of Phil Jackson’s triangle offense, the drag screens and sideline tilts favored by Mike D’Antoni’s Suns (where Kerr served as GM from 2007-08 to '09-10), the low post splits from the old Jerry Sloan Utah handbook, and, most prominently, the motion offense and loop series of Popovich’s late-generation Spurs.
The result is a system in which the only sin is standing still. “Ball movement and people movement,” is how Gentry describes it. The bigs use dribble hand-offs, the shooters curve and cut in a continual churn and everyone, eventually, gets to touch the ball. To Kerr, who had the advantage of watching the Warriors up close as a broadcaster, this was the best way to utilize a roster stocked with bigs who are better-suited to passing than diving to the rim (in particular, Kerr calls Bogut “a witch with the ball.”)" -Sports Illustrated circa February 2015
Here are basketball pundits recognizing what I saw 2 years prior: that the Warriors did not move the ball and that although Steph was becoming an offensive threat in the NBA, it was at the expense of the rest of the team.
Now focus again on some minutiae and come back and Philo again, since you cannot boil down.
Boiled down: I'm right, you're wrong. Deal with it.
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Fatneck bastid! 
