Have the Warriors Improved Since Steph Curry's 'Mid' Comments?

For a team like the Warriors that’s built on dynasties, it can be hard to admit when you’re average.

For Steph Curry, the moment came after a loss against the Cavs on December 30 when he said, “As the kids say, we’re very mid right now. We’re just very average.”

His longtime teammate Draymond Green couldn’t agree more, and is hoping that Curry’s comments will help motivate the Warriors.

“Listen, when [Curry] said that and I read it, I was like, ‘Oh’. And I sat and started thinking about it,” Green said on The Draymond Green Show. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, I get what he’s saying. I get where he’s coming from. We are definitely right at .500, right in the middle of the pack, very mid.’ And we heard him, and I think we’ve played a little better since. But again, it’s still got to equal stacking wins together, and we haven’t done that. …

“Like he said, when you’re going through it, you never want to really accept that you’re mid or that you’re not a good team, or whatever it is. It’s a hard pill to accept, and we haven’t accepted it because we still think we’ve got a chance that we could right the ship, but it’s tough. So for him to just come out and say, ‘Hey, it’s a real elephant in the room — we’re mid right now.’ Like, all right. So now what? Now that we can acknowledge that, what [do]we got to do to figure this out and get better.”

Unfortunately for the Dubs, the team are still crazily mid, as they’ve gone 3-3 since Curry’s comments.

But Draymond thinks that the sooner the Warriors accept their mid status, the better off they’ll be.

“Another thing that it does is it can also give guys confidence, because it gives them that freedom to be like, ‘Yo, yes, no pressure. It’s what we need to do. Yeah, right,’ ” Green said. “And so then they don’t have to live up to the pressure that’s been created by what we’ve done, you know? Because that’s a thing — you come [to the Warriors] and you feel like you need to live up to the pressure of what we’ve been, and that’s not a realistic thing, man. And so I think that that also helps with that.”