The Golden State Warriors played another good game despite being shorthanded again on Saturday evening when they gave the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder a run for their money. Despite Steph Curry, De'Anthony Melton, and more not taking the court due to injury, the Warriors kept it close for almost the entire game, eventually falling 107-94.

They also got a glimpse of what the team could look like moving forward as trade deadline acquisition Kristaps Porzingis came back from the illness that kept him for two and a half weeks. Though Porzingis didn't shoot the ball well, he contributed in multiple different ways on both offense and defense and demonstrated the wrinkles that his size and ability can add to the Warriors' offense, particularly when Curry comes back.

After the loss, Draymond Green spoke in his press conference at length about how Porzingis can positively impact the team when he remains healthy.

In particular, Green dove into how Porzingis' presence will improve the Warriors' offense when answering a question of how Porzingis opens up a high-low dimension to the playbook.

"(High-lows will be) very useful. Especially when Steph's out there, he's going to take two people out of the play. When you can get those advantages and as we create those advantages, people will help more and more, and it's either a quick swing or (dribble handoffs). Trying to read all of those things, just trying to find ways to get us some easier buckets within the flow where the offense doesn't stop. If teams are going to switch on (Porzingis), then we got to make them pay for that. Usually, they'll go help with my man, so if I'm in the far corner, that's a far pass. KP saw one today, but KP is 7'3. For everyone else, it's hard to see that pass, so just trying to make myself available to make the next play."

A lot of attention in the NBA right now is on Victor Wembanyama for his presence as a 7'4 alien that can do just about everything on the court, but people forget that Porzingis was the original "Unicorn."

Porzingis has been a quality three-point shooter for his entire career, and thoroughly improved his post game while he was in Boston to benefit off the supreme spacing the Celtics provided him. In Golden State, both of those aspects should still be in play.

The Warriors might not be as prolific a three-point shooting team as the Celtics at their peak, but the mere presence of Curry weighs so much on opposing defenses, as Green said. Porzingis should get plenty of opportunities to go to work on a smaller defender, or with a cleared-out side for himself, just by virtue of all the movement and attention that Curry can draw, let alone the rest of the Warriors' offense predicated on off-ball movement and finding the soft spots of the defense.

Porzingis should also be a great threat inside for Curry to dump the ball to. The Warriors haven't had a true 7-footer that can do damage inside in a long time, and Porzingis adds that element when defense typically has to prevent most, if not all, of the Warriors' players from taking shots from downtown.