From an immediate on-court basketball perspective, the Warriors must once again scramble to figure out how to beat the Raptors. They defeated Toronto on the road in Game 5, but they barely pulled that off after Kawhi Leonard scored 10 straight points in the fourth quarter and 12 of the team’s final 16. . Draymond Green got a piece of Lowry’s shot, and the Warriors won by just one point. That is an extremely thin margin. The two teams have played 20 quarters of basketball this series. The Raptors have won 14 of those and tied two others.The Warriors quite clearly needed Durant all along, and they looked so much better with him on the floor. Anecdotally, the ball seemed to move better offensively. And the Warriors, who struggled to score at times in the Finals in his absence, were happy to have him back to make much-needed buckets early on. Durant scored 11 points in 12 minutes and made all three of his 3s. He also forced Nick Nurse and the Raptors into a difficult decision about who would guard him. Nurse chose to start the game with Kawhi Leonard on KD. That was a tough call. The Raptors have needed Kawhi to carry them at the offensive end all postseason. Tasking him with also defending Durant was a big ask.

Warriors for all the same reasons we saw over the first four games: How much offense can they squeeze out of Curry and Klay Thompson? Who’s going to guard Leonard? How deep does Kerr need to go with his rotations now? How many minutes can they steal with guys like Boogie (who has hurt them at times in the series) and Kevon Looney (who is just plain hurt)?

well the answers to these questions might be in Game 6 of the NBA finals .Both coaches have a great oppurtunities to make history and none of them will like to make their chances slide.