Ghost in the small ball machine - Warriors poised to embrace Nellie ball as never before

Get ready for the Small Ball (or Death) Squad

Before it led to a super cool anime, the term Ghost in the Machine was coined by famous philosopher Gilbert Ryle as a way to shoot down the notion that mind and body are distinct things that could be separated. Rather, he argued, they exist simultaneously - distinct, yes, but part of the same whole.

And so it goes for the Golden State Warriors, a team t…