It's been five and a half months since the NBA's 2025-26 regular season tipped off back in late October. To begin the season, the Warriors had high hopes, bringing back much of the same team that closed the 2024-25 season on fire and exited in the second round of the playoffs, at least partially due to a mixture of injuries to Steph Curry and Jimmy Butler.

However, as this season went on and the playoffs approach, the Warriors have found themselves dealing with even more severe injuries and having to adjust their expectations. With a couple of devastating season-ending injuries to Butler and Moses Moody and lengthy absences for key players like Curry, Kristaps Porzingis, Al Horford, and more, things didn't end up quite as they were hoping.

With the Warriors' 115-110 loss on Sunday night to the Clippers on the final day of the regular season, they officially finished 8 games under .500 at 37-45. Now, they'll turn their full attention to the Play-In Tournament, where the Warriors will return to the arena they just were at, Intuit Dome, to play the 9 vs. 10 matchup against the Clippers on Wednesday.

Ahead of this game, Curry voiced his desire to play closer to his normal minutes total, around 30, and got his wish granted by being out there for 29 minutes.

After the loss, Steve Kerr gave his thoughts on how Curry looked out there in the most minutes he's played since the face of the franchise returned from the long 27-game absence caused by his lingering knee issue.

"Steph looked good. He got to blow it out a little bit today, which is good. First time he's gotten to that many minutes. I asked him during the game how he was feeling. He said it felt really good. That was a good step for him."

In his 29 minutes, Curry scored a game-high 24 points on 7-14 shooting from the field and 4-9 shooting from beyond the arc, adding 6 rebounds and 3 assists. It wasn't any earth-shattering, but it was a solid performance in which Curry moved well on the court.

Despite the loss, it was a promising showing from the bulk of the Warriors' main rotation.

With Draymond Green out for injury management, Kerr opted to start Porzingis and Horford together at the big positions, and filled the rest of the lineup with Brandin Podziemski and De'Anthony Melton.

Though both Melton and Horford couldn't muster up more than 4 and 5 points, respectively, the plus/minus stats recorded by the starting lineup and the two primary players off the bench were promising.

Podziemski was +16, Curry was +13, Horford was +10, Gui Santos was +8, Porzingis was +5, Melton was +4, and Gary Payton II was +2 — the first seven players to see the court all ended up positive in a 5-point loss.

Of course, single-game plus/minus stats aren't the most reliable, and Kawhi Leonard being out for the Clippers changes things greatly, but to know that the primary rotation played well together and won their minutes is a good sign for what needs to happen on Wednesday.