After insisting he would lean heavily into the Warriors’ roster depth while mixing and matching the starting lineups, coach Steve Kerr seems finally to have settled on a permanent unit.
Call it the do-all lineup.
Kerr added newcomer DeAnthony Melton to the group of regulars – Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Andrew Wiggins and Trayce Jackson-Davis – and watched as that quintet set the tone and paced Golden State to a 127-116 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night at Paycom Center.
The victory, their eighth in their last 10 games, improved the surging Warriors to 8-2 in the Western Conference, half a game behind the Phoenix Suns.
On a night when Curry had his usual superstar performance with 36 points and Andrew Wiggins aggressively piled up 18 points, Melton stepped up for his first start in a Warriors uniform and made up for slow scoring nights by Draymond Green and Trayce Jackson-Davis by pouring in a …