All the recent talk about superteams is an ironic referendum on what winning basketball has become. The dawn of the superteam started with the Celtics in 2008, quickly transforming into the Heatles with LeBron, and culminated in the KD Warriors run before everyone started to arm up and play top-heavy. What’s ironic about it is that the Warriors are now 4-0, but their team is closer to their first two Finals runs than it is to the KD years.

It’s been a rough start to the season for Andrew Wiggins. Battling some conditioning issues that popped up at the end of last season due to a knee injury, he’s looked slow and passive to start the season. Tonight against OKC, however, Wiggins looked somewhat more like his normal self, aggressively attacking the basket to the tune of 50% from the field in spite of going 0 for 5 from three. The Warriors offense needs his driving attack to put pressure on the rim, something he hasn’t been as keen on (usually around half his shots are threes) so far.

The 14-15 and 15-16 seasons for the Golden State Warriors were defined obviously by the offensive juggernaut that was the Curry-Thompson-Green trio, but they were also defined by a phrase which gave the bench mob and non-star members of the team the credit they deserved: Strength In Numbers. The two best examples of the bench guys who moved from starting roles their whole careers to bench leaders on the Dubs were David Lee (now retired and spiritually succeeded by Nemanja Bjelica) and Andre Iguodala (who last year didn’t look like he was going to be in the league much longer).