The Golden State Warriors are fading quickly. Just two months ago, they were 6 games above .500 and in striking distance of not just the 7-seed, but potentially a top 6 spot in the Western Conference that would allow them to avoid the Play-In Tournament.

However, things have simply fallen apart in almost every way possible since then. Now, the Warriors find themselves firmly in 10th in the West, 1.5 games behind the Trail Blazers for 9th and 2 games behind the Clippers for 8th. The Suns in 7th are now 6.5 games away, and a top-6 seed is an insurmountable 10.5 games ahead.

With 11 games left in the regular season, the Warriors are bound for the Play-In, and the goal right now is to be somehow find the strength to secure the 8th seed, giving them two opportunities to make the playoffs.

On his podcast, The Draymond Green Show, Draymond Green was brutally honest about his feelings towards the Play-In Tournament and the Warriors racking up the frequent flyer points to that postseason destination.

"The Warriors are bound for the Play-In, which ultimately makes three years in a row. I'm sick of the Play-In. It seems like we're a Play-In magnet. That is the reality for us, we're not moving out of the Play-In. But I feel like every year, we're coming in saying that we want to stay away from the Play-In, and I feel like the Play-In attracts us."

Green likened it to a NASCAR analogy, citing the advice that if your car is spinning, you should look where you want to go, not at the wall. He says the Warriors are just "looking at the wall and spinning to the wall."

It doesn't seem too far off. The Play-In looked potentially avoidable this year, but everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong, and now the Warriors are fighting for their life to even have a solid chance at the playoffs.

The Warriors have made it to the Play-In in the past two years and encountered two wildly different results.

Last year, the Warriors were one-and-done, in a good way. As the 7th seed, they were allowed to host the game against the 8th-seed Memphis Grizzlies. Behind heroic performances from the dynamic duo of Steph Curry and Jimmy Butler — the former had 37 points, 8 rebounds, and 4 assists to go with 6 triples while the latter had 38 points, 7 rebounds, and 6 assists on 60% shooting from the field — the Warriors advanced with a 121-116 win.

However, the year prior was one-and-done in a completely opposite way. Highlighted by the infamous 0-10 performance by Klay Thompson, the 10th-seeded Warriors went out in sad fashion, losing at the Golden One Center against the Sacramento Kings, 118-94, to bow out of the postseason hunt. They allowed the entire Kings' starting five to drop 15+ points, led by Keegan Murray's 32, and finished off a very disappointing year.

If the Warriors finish as the 10th-seed, there's a chance this season ends the same way. The Warriors will need to try to improve and reflect last year's finish, rather than the 2023-24 season.