The Golden State Warriors started showing signs of mortality for the first time last season, looking unmotivated and at times scoffing at the importance of the regular season. Injuries late through the 2017-18 campaign caused them to finish below the 60-win mark, with a 58-24 record seven wins behind the West-leading Houston Rockets. Draymond Green has heard all the hoopla surrounding their current odds at a championship, yet those words have all gone to the land of forget when it comes to results.

“I think we were more vulnerable last season, in the regular season,” Green says of the Warriors' 58-24 regular-season record in 2017-18, their worst record since Kerr took over in 2014, according to Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN. “They said that going into the playoffs last year. We beat everybody's asses.”

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The Warriors were pushed to a seven-game series for the first time since losing the 2016 NBA Finals, but effectively swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in a four games to bring their rivalry to a close.

Golden State sports a 32-14 record with 36 more games left in the season, and even if they are to struggle through the back half with an uber-competitive Western Conference — they will ultimately be judged by their success in the playoffs and their pursuit of a three-peat.

The Warriors will lose some games while trying to adhere DeMarcus Cousins to the fold, but these growing pains will only set the way for playoff success, an issue of utter importance for this team with plenty of them to address in the offseason.