NBA pundit Charles Barkley reckons the destination of the NBA title will be decided by the non-superstars on each team.
Both sides have superstars who will be almost guaranteed to find their scoring groove on a night-to-night basis and rotation contributors who can get hot, but not all the time.
The regularity with which those players can manage to get dialled in will decide who lifts the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy in the coming weeks.
"Whoever gets help is going to win this series," said veteran pundit Barkley. "On Sunday night, Kawhi didn't get any help and they lost. Klay and Steph got help.
"It's going to be very interesting where these Toronto guys, these bench guys, travel. Sometimes we 'X-and-O's' this stuff a little too much - we have these analytics idiots out there... it's not X's and O's, it's Jim's and Joe's.
"And Golden State's Jim's and Joe's showed up tonight, and the Raptors did not. You can just look at the stat sheet and it's simple, Toronto's bench and role players played great in Game 1 and they were up one.
"Tonight, Golden State's bench players played fantastically.
"At some point, we think about this game so much, it comes down to playing well most of the time and whoever's bench and role players play the best is going to win this series. You saw it in the first two games and that was it."
Fittingly for the Warriors, the mantra for Golden State during Steve Kerr's five seasons with the franchise has been 'Strength in Numbers'.
It is emblazoned in plenty of places for all to see, even on one shoulder of Stephen Curry's grey sweat suit, with the NBA Finals logo on the other side. But it seems it is more than just a franchise hashtag or a marketing slogan.
Indeed, it is hard to imagine a time where it means more to the Warriors than right now, when the only thing being tested more than their mettle is their depth, particularly with both Kevon Looney and Klay Thompson picking up injuries in Sunday night's contest.
The champions are heading home off a win ailing, but not trailing. Whether it was DeMarcus Cousins playing 28 minutes, or Quinn Cook tying a playoff career-high with three 3-pointers, or all 13 Warriors getting into the game - some of them for only four seconds - nonetheless the two-time defending NBA champions found a way.
Game 2 is in the books. Golden State 109, Toronto 104. Series tied at 1-1. Now it's off to Oracle Arena in Oakland, California for Game 3 on Wednesday night.
"When you get to this stage, our DNA shows up," Curry said. "It's not just something you just throw out there to have nice shirts and give out to the crowd at Oracle and have all this marketing stuff. It's literally how we approach every day from training camp to June. How we support each other, how guys stay ready throughout the year, it shows itself over the course of a season."
Game 3 takes place in Oakland in the early hours of Thursday morning (2am) live on Sky Sports Arena.