The Golden State Warriors got some good news ahead of tipoff that Steph Curry was on his way to returning the court and may be back by the end of March.

However, though the idea that their star player might be back to lead the charge soon was nice, it doesn't change the fact that the Warriors are still heavily injured, sending out a shell of their full roster every night.

That showed again on Wednesday evening as the Warriors went into TD Garden for a contest with the Boston Celtics. In Kristaps Porzingis' first time back in Boston since he was traded in the offseason, the Warriors got behind from the opening jump ball and eventually lost, 120-99.

With the loss, the Warriors dropped to a spot that's been unfamiliar to them for a while: the 10th seed in the Western Conference. With the Dubs now at 33-36 on the season, the Trail Blazers hold a 0.5 game advantage over them.

With their position in the West, Steve Kerr has accepted their fate destined for the Play-In Tournament. He talked about what he needs to see from the Warriors moving forward after the game.

"What I'm most interested in right now is, can we prepare ourselves for the Play-In? We're going to be in the Play-In. We know that, one way or another. So we have to prepare. We have to be prepared for when we get guys back, when Steph is back and Moses, and how if we're prepared when they get back, we can do some damage and go on a run. But we cannot gameplan mistakes, we have to build better habits ... our guys are playing hard and I'm really proud of them. Shots didn't go in tonight, but what I'm most interested in is our process, and I thought it was lacking in some areas tonight and we've got to tighten some things up."

With their record, it's good to know the Warriors are understanding where they're at in relation to the rest of the Western Conference and have their sights set on an attainable goal: being prepared to make a run in the home stretch of the season into the Play-In games.

The offense hasn't exactly been pretty since Curry and Jimmy Butler went out, and that unfortunate fact reared its ugly head once again on Wednesday.

The Warriors shot just 40% from the field and 23.3% from three-point range, paling even in comparison to the Celtics' somewhat middling final percentages of 47.8% from the field and 35.9% from beyond the arc.

Though six Warriors ended up scoring in double figures, the Dubs' leading scorer clocked in at just 14 points from Gary Payton II and Pat Spencer.

Notably, Payton was the only one of the six that shot better than 50% from the field, as he went 7-11, even though he missed all three of his three-point attempts. Brandin Spencer shot 5-11, Draymond Green and Gui Santos went 5-12, Kristaps Porzingis shot 4-13, and Brandin Podziemski made just one of his eight shots.

Despite his subpar shooting, Porzingis still managed to finish as the only Warrior with a positive plus/minus, finishing as a +3 in his 23 minutes of action.

It was a tough matchup from the start to face the second-best team on the road with such an injured roster. It won't get any easier, though, as they'll head east to the Great Lakes region on Friday to face the No. 1 team in the Eastern Conference, the Detroit Pistons.