Stephen Curry admits that the Warriors are just a mediocre team following a blowout loss against the Cavaliers.
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 unsurprising 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 Phil
