The Golden State Warriors dropped to 16-16 in this 2024-25 NBA season after a 113-95 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers at Chase Center on Monday. Stephen Curry was asked about the Warriors heading into 2025 with a .500 record in his postgame press conference and admitted they are just a mediocre team.
“How do the kids say it? We’re very mid right now,” Curry said. “We’re just very average and I think we understand that better days can be ahead. You’re not in that big of a hole in the Western Conference if you look at the standings.
“You go on a five, six-game run, to us that sounds like a lot, but it is the numbers,” Curry added. “You can make up a lot of ground pretty quickly. And it’s a tough task but that fine line between losing hope and confidence and understanding one good week (and) you’re kind of back in it. That’s where we are.”
A reporter stated that Curry had called the Warriors an average team around this time in the last couple of years as well. He wondered if the two-time MVP was getting some deja vu now.
“There’s a little deja vu but I think it’s different just in the sense of how we started the year,” Curry stated. “It’s kind of like the 22 year but it’s obviously totally different where we had a rough January through April that year but we started 18-2.
“The last two years has been kind of the opposite where we had slow starts and had to chase a little bit and finish the year strong,” Curry continued. “This year we started 12-3 and that’s flipped on its head so it’s an emotional roller coaster for sure. It’s frustrating because you’re losing games for all different types of reasons.”
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While there are plenty of reasons why the Warriors have gone 4-13 after a 12-3 start, the one that stands out the most is their struggles on offense. It was on full display against the Cavaliers here.
The Warriors went 33-99 (33.3%) from the field and 9-38 (23.7%) from beyond the arc in this blowout loss. Following that horrific shooting display, their field goal percentage for December dropped to 42.2%, the lowest in the NBA. That’s incredible, just in a very bad way.
Curry certainly has to take a lot of the blame for these struggles. The 36-year-old put in a woeful performance against the Cavaliers with just 11 points (4-14 FG), two rebounds, three assists, one steal, and one block, and we unsurprisingly gave him a terrible grade when rating Warriors players after this loss.
Curry just hasn’t been himself this entire month. The 10-time All-Star averaged 21.5 points per game on 40% shooting from the field in December and that’s terrible by his standards. Unless Curry starts playing better, his team will continue to slide.
The Warriors were 44-38 in 2022-23 and 46-36 in 2023-24, and it’s now looking a bit doubtful that they’ll even be able to match those win totals in 2024-25. They brought in Dennis Schroder with the hope that he’d give them a much-needed spark but he has failed to do so thus far. It’s early to call the Schroder trade a bad one, but the early signs aren’t great.
Perhaps the new year will lead to a change in the Warriors’ fortunes. Their first game in 2025 isn’t an easy one, though, as they face the resurgent Philadelphia 76ers at Chase Center on Thursday at 10 PM ET.
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