The defending champions entered the All Star break statistically and spiritually mediocre.
The Warriors are 29-29, never going above or below .500 by more than three games throughout the first four months of the season. That’s good for the ninth seed in an equally mediocre Western Conference. Continue at this pace and they’ll be competing for a chance at the play-in game. This is not the kind of season the reigning championship team envisioned.
It’s not all bad, though. They’re a win streak and a conference foe’s losing streak away from erasing a 2.5-game gap between a play-in seed and a fifth or fourth seed.
