There’s an old fable about a frog in a boiling pot of water.

It suggests that if you toss a frog into already hot water, it’ll jump out immediately. But if you instead put the frog in cold water and heat it, it’ll stay in the pot and be boiled.

Well, it turns out that the parable is a myth. Time and time again, it’s been proven that a frog will jump out of the pot when the water becomes too hot.

But you could have fooled me: I watched the Warriors lose to the Celtics on Monday.

The most jarring aspects of Monday’s 40-point home loss to the Celtics was how easy it was for Boston and how the Warriors slowly but surely let it happen.

The Dubs were the frog in the pot, with Boston steadily heating up the water as the game progressed. The Warriors never jumped out.

Fitting, no? This problem wasn’t isolated to one bad (albeit highly indicative) game. No, it was the culmination of two bad seasons — two campaigns of Steph Curry’s greatness wasted.

And while the Warriors don’t see themselves as “desperate,” they sure look like a team that cannot maintain the status quo. You can’t sell me on a squad that relies on Gui Santos, Lindy Waters, Gary Payton, and Moses Moody. Sure, there are injuries, but you find me the healthy team in professional basketball.

So yes, it can and will get worse from here.