Everything has changed for the Warriors from last June to now. This season might just be a pause in the run of championship-level play or it might be the end of the dynasty. In this series of stories over the next few weeks, Dynasty Interrupted,The Athletic Bay Area is taking a detailed look at how the key remaining members of the Warriors are dealing with this turn of events and what the team is doing to remake and restore itself for the future. This is thefourth story of the series.

In Kawhi Leonards early San Antonio days, back when he was a mid first rounder with a raw skill set and an unknown NBA future, Gregg Popovich used to dial up occasional play designs that deliberately forced Leonard to catch the ball up top, take a dribble or two and swing it to the opposite wing.

Leonard was just an ancillary part of those specific plays, but Popovichs strategy was grander, the picture bigger. Leonard, even as a rookie, could defend and score well...

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The development of Eric Paschall, already in progress, is essential to the Warriors' future - The Athletic