The Golden State Warriors are having a rough season. After a bright 12-3 start to the season and the No. 1 seed in the West, the team has crashed back to reality in brutal fashion. They have gone 10-20 over their last 30 games and currently sit as the No. 11 seed in the West with a 22-23 record. It’s a season of disappointment in Golden State, but their struggles even left Stephen Curry shocked.
After their 118-108 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, Curry was informed by a media member that the team is 1-20 in games where they enter the fourth quarter as the trailing team. Curry was shell-shocked by the statistic and explained what’s gone wrong.
“What? Sheesh. I didn’t know that. We are 1-20 what?… Some of the games have been because we couldn’t score…I’m sure 1-20 is for a lot of reasons, but one of those anomalies that we’ve got to figure out.”
REPORTER: "On the year you guys are 1-20 when trailing after three quarters…"
STEPH CURRY: "What?!" pic.twitter.com/V7KRsEW4nF
— KNBR (@KNBR) January 26, 2025
The sole Warriors fourth-quarter comeback this season came during a 109-105 win over the Phoenix Suns, entering the fourth down by five points before coming back to secure the win through a strong defensive effort.
The fact it was their defense that won them that game shows that the roster isn’t equipped to pull off come-from-behind wins, especially relying on Curry who is at his most fatigued in the fourth.
Curry is averaging 22.3 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 6.4 assists this season. While he’s been named an All-Star starter, this is the worst version of Curry that fans would remember over the last decade. He just came off a scoreless second half in a loss to the rival Lakers while having plenty of game-scoring under 20 points.
At this point in the Warriors season, it doesn’t even make sense to say that they are one move away from contention. They need an offensive co-star who can take the load off Curry given the player’s struggles this year when it comes to carrying the team’s offense as a whole.
Even adding a co-star won’t suddenly make them contenders but will probably make them a Playoff-caliber team again. This is a championship-winning organization that might just be willing to spend this season in the lottery to re-tool coherently in the summer and build a competitive core around Curry. Or, they’re going to continue stockpiling young players on the roster as the post-Curry contingency plan.
Steph doesn’t want the Warriors to be stupid but they’d definitely want them to be active and try to get some reinforcements into the roster. That looked tough this season, as the Warriors aren’t going for any major acquisitions outside anything they can get done with multiple second-round picks.
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