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Five fast thoughts for the Warriors’ quick turn-around elimination game against the Suns in Phoenix on Friday …

It took 99.99% of all cumulative energy and fervor for Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, and every other Warrior to squeeze past the Clippers in the 9-10 play-in game, then all of them burned another 299% during their deserved celebration festivities.

Which sets up the obvious question: What will they have left 48 hours later in Phoenix?

Maybe not that much. We’ve seen the Warriors gain momentum while moving from tough series to tough series through a postseason, but that was back when Curry and Draymond were in their 20s.

On Wednesday, Curry played 36 minutes — his fourth-highest total of this season — and obviously was at his best at the very end, so maybe he wasn’t so worn down by the experience.

But this can accumulate, as the Warriors and Curry know all too well. Just last year, Curry played 42 minutes in Game 6 and 46 in Game 7 to finish off that series victory over Houston — which featured the most recent Warriors clinching jubilee.

Then Curry hurt his hamstring in the first half of Game 1 against Minnesota two days later and didn’t play the rest of a five-game Warriors defeat.

And many Warriors people believe that blowing Game 6 at home with a chance to clinch against the Kings in 2023, which forced them into a Game 7 in Sacramento, added too much emotional and physical wear and tear and led to their eventual six-game loss to the Lakers in the second round.

It’s not just Curry, either. Draymond played 35 grueling minutes defending Kawhi Leonard, Brandin Podziemski registered a game-high 41 minutes, Al Horford chipped in a perfect fourth-quarter closing run to tip the scales, and Kristaps Porzingis is listed as questionable with right ankle soreness after his bouncy 28-minute performance.

The potential good news for the Warriors is the Suns, who lost at home to Portland in the 7-8 game, are probably a slightly more favorable matchup than the Clippers were. Devin Booker is tremendous, but he’s not as deadly as Kawhi and Darius Garland combined for the Clippers.

Still, Steve Kerr might have to expand the tight eight-man rotation he used so effectively on Wednesday. Will Richard, Pat Spencer, and Seth Curry were all DNP-CDs and all could see at least cameo time on Friday and almost certainly in any series against Oklahoma City, if the Warriors get that far.

I think that was part of the rush of emotion after the final buzzer Wednesday; Kerr, Curry, and Draymond probably didn’t expect to want it this bad until it was right there in front of them.

And I’m very sure Kerr didn’t expect to play Curry that much. But they wanted it, they went for it, they celebrated it like a full series victory, and maybe they’ll pay the price for it with some dead legs on Friday.

Still worth it. And given what we just saw, even with the fuel gauge on red, they definitely could do it at least one more time.

Green shot 14-for-29 in the Suns’ loss to Portland — scoring 35 points but also committing five turnovers — which, I’m sure, conjured warm memories for the Warriors during their film sessions for this game.

Last year, when Green was one of the Rockets’ main offensive weapons, he shot a combined 13-for-42 (30.9%) in the Warriors’ four victories over Houston last postseason and was a combined -36 in those games. (Dillon Brooks, packaged with Green to the Suns in the offseason for Kevin Durant, was -12 in those games.)

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So yes, the Warriors probably would be very happy to see Green shooting and shooting on Friday. Draymond likely will draw the Booker assignment and whoever’s guarding Green will do what the Warriors did in the Houston series — entice him try to do too much too recklessly.

Meanwhile, Brooks has had some very effective games guarding Curry quite physically through the years. But Curry and the Warriors have had some happy playoff experiences against Brooks, too.

One question going into the play-in: Sure, Santos played well this season, particularly during Curry’s long absence, but can he churn out effective, efficient minutes as a starter in a playoff environment?

Answer from Wednesday: Yes, he can. Santos played 32 minutes, including almost the entire fourth quarter, and was at his best in crunch time. He looked a little out of sorts early in the game, committing four turnovers in the first three quarters. But Santos had only one turnover in the fourth, while scoring seven points (on 3-for-3 shooting), racking up three assists, and doing some effective work in the Warriors’ trapping of Kawhi and Garland all in just the final quarter.

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I don’t think the Warriors are planning for Santos to be their starting small forward next season. But if he’s a 22-minutes-a-game sixth or seventh man who can easily step into a larger role if there are injuries or adjustments? That’s a very valuable player.

Santos is already worth the three-year, $15-million deal he signed in February, and that contract hasn’t actually even started yet.

I don’t know if that was Kerr’s exact plan going into the Clippers game, but that’s the way it turned out and it all paid off.

Kerr clearly likes the defensive tandem of Draymond and Horford to stifle opponents down the stretch. And Porzingis, if he’s playing like he did on Wednesday, is a nice offensive piece either alongside Draymond or Santos.

In a way, as Draymond has said, Porzingis can have a Jimmy Butler-like bridge effect on the Warriors’ rotation — some firepower to make sure the non-Curry minutes aren’t a debacle and a good blend with Curry to start off games.

How could that work into the future? I don’t know what Porzingis will do in free agency or if Horford wants to keep playing. But if the Warriors can keep both, a five-man frontline with Draymond, Porzingis, Butler, Santos, and Horford would be pretty interesting.

The Warriors have not been home since they lost to the Lakers at Chase Center last Thursday (April 9) — they bussed to Sacramento that night, went from there to LA for the regular-season finale against the Clippers, stayed in LA through Wednesday’s victory, and will play in Phoenix on Friday, nine days since they were last home.

And if the Warriors win this game, they’ll travel immediately to Oklahoma City to play Game 1 on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. PT. Then Game 2 in OKC won’t be until Wednesday.

In this scenario, the Warriors wouldn’t get back home until Wednesday night — yep, that’d be a 13-day, four-city trip.

But Warriors history tells us that maybe this isn’t such a terrible thing in the postseason. Curry and Draymond bring this up themselves sometimes — it’s amazing that many more of their greatest, more passionate victories have come on the road than at either Oracle Arena or Chase.

And most of their worst playoff losses have come at home, including the two potential clinching Game 6s I mentioned, the Game 7 loss to Cleveland in the 2016 Finals (and you can throw in Game 5 when Draymond was suspended), and the Game 1 loss to Boston in the 2022 Finals.

In contrast, the Warriors clinched three of their four championships on the road (in Cleveland in 2015, Cleveland in 2018, and Boston in 2022). And there are these other bright times:

In 2015: Game 4 in Memphis and Game 4 in Cleveland, both to tie the series after falling behind 2 to 1.

In 2016: Klay Thompson’s monster Game 6 in Oklahoma City to get it back to Oracle for Game 7.

In 2018: Game 7 in Houston to win the Western Conference.

In 2022: also, Finals Game 4 in Boston when Curry seized hold of that series in a 43-point explosion.

In 2023: Game 7 in Sacramento — 50 points from Curry.

In 2025: Game 7 in Houston.

And Wednesday at Intuit Dome.

We shall see if Friday in Phoenix will get added to this hoary list.