The end of the Golden State Warriors' 2017-18 season is so close you can taste it.
It's a strange combination of relief, frustration, excitement, anxiety, familiarity and unknown. It's good, but not quite what you'd expect from Chef Curry and Co.
For the first time under head coach Steve Kerr, the Warriors don't have the NBA's best record or the Western Conference's top seed. They also don't have a healthy Stephen Curry heading into the postseason, but time only knows the extent of that concern.
These are still the defending champions, they just haven't always resembled what we're accustomed to seeing.