There is some level of luck to the Warriors’ defensive approach. The Mavericks will continue to chuck an obscene amount of 3s. They attempted 48 in Game 1 and 45 in Game 2. That’s 93 total. The Warriors have taken only 57. That is where these 2018 Rockets comparisons gain legs. If Dallas is hot, the Warriors are cooked. If the Mavericks go cold, the Warriors will run away from them. Kerr said he told the Warriors at halftime, after Dallas made 15 3s, that he’d “pat them on the back” if they did it again because if anybody makes 30 3s in a game, “they deserve to win.” “But when you go 2-for-13 and you rely on the 3, you can die by the 3,” Jason Kidd said. “We died in the third quarter by shooting that many 3s and coming up with only two.”