The dress rehearsals are over for the Warriors, and they return to meaningful games with zero wind at their back.The Warriors closed the 2025-26 NBA regular season by losing seven of their last eight games, the last coming Sunday in Los Angeles with a 115-110 loss to the Clippers at Intuit Dome that inks their record at 37-45, the worst since finishing 15-50 in 2019-20.The two teams will meet in the same place Wednesday night in the NBA play-in tournament, with the winner advancing and the loser concluding its season.Four Warriors scored in double figures, Sunday led by Stephen Curry’s 24 points. Kristaps Porziis had 12 and Brandin Podziemski 10. Charles Bassey led bench scorers with 14 points. Charles Bassey gets the hoop and the harm pic.twitter.com/l735lv7quG — Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) April 13, 2026 The tenor of the game undoubtedly was affected by the Warriors playing without their best defender, Draymond Green, and the Clippers were without star Kawhi Leonard.Here are three observations from Golden State’s latest choppy performance:Too Little Help for StephWithin this game was far too much of something the Warriors do not want to...