For years, the Golden State Warriors contended for a championship behind the mantra of “Strength In Numbers”. But during the 2023-24 season, that mantra has gone by the wayside, with Stephen Curry now having to bear the weight of the world on his shoulders in the scoring department.

During their Sunday night loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, a familiar story once again plagued the Warriors. Curry, who remains at the top of his game at age 35, scored 38 points, but none of his teammates were particularly proficient from the field in support of him. Klay Thompson was the team's second-highest scorer with 16 points, but he shot the ball poorly, going 5-16 from the field in what has been a worrying trend for the Dubs.

Just to put in greater perspective how prolific Stephen Curry has been in scoring relative to his more offensively-challenged teammates at the moment, the Warriors star has outscored his teammates by at least five points in all of the team's 11 games thus far to start the year, the longest streak since Michael Jordan accomplished the same in 1987, according to ESPN Stats & Info. Moreover, it was the fifth time this season that Curry doubled the output of the Warriors' second-highest scorer in a single game, which, as Kendra Andrews of ESPN pointed out, was already more often than he did in all of last season.

Klay Thompson and Andrew Wiggins simply haven't been good enough this season, with the former falling prey to familiar efficiency woes and the latter experiencing more of an overall decline in his play, perhaps still reeling from the rib injury he absorbed during last season's playoffs. Those factors have put the onus on Curry to carry the offense, which he has done, but it simply hasn't been good enough to get them victories against some of the league's toughest teams.

The loss of Jordan Poole may have given the Warriors bench mob more stability thanks to the arrival of Chris Paul, but it has come at the expense of the team's sheer ability to put the ball through the hoop and create offense out of nothing. The Warriors' players will have to step up lest it necessitate a move from the front office to give the team some more offensive firepower.