You're an NBA Coach. How do you stop Steph Curry?

[cleanface coney]

you can't stop him in this offense lol

you gotta have some athletic bigs and 2 or 3 nikkas that can break the defense down

also don't play fast break ball with these nikkas…. its gone be over quick

other than idk y'all…these nikkas is unstoppable i really thought okc was gone beat em last night, i still think they the only team that can beat em in a series

 

[jadillac]

use the "goon" technique. But without the violence.

Start ur 3rd string PG on him and have him hound him full court press in the 1st qtr til ur PG is tired. Then mix in ur 2nd string and starter PG doing the same thing.

If you keep him off balance for the 1st half, maybe he'll never get in a rhythm.

 

[CACarot]

If you have a top notch defender or active scrub guy with unlimited energy , I would have him stick with him non stop and never let him breath. Those times on defense you think you can even slightly let your guard down, you can't do with steph. I would have my most offensively talented player at the wing positions have steph work his ass off to defend making him less useful on the other side.

 

[cleanface coney]

stop them from doing those gay ass screens

yea until he take ya ass off the dribble and pull-up from 35…plus he can get to the bucket

 

[cleanface coney]

use the "goon" technique. But without the violence.

Start ur 3rd string PG on him and have him hound him full court press in the 1st qtr til ur PG is tired. Then mix in ur 2nd string and starter PG doing the same thing.

If you keep him off balance for the 1st half, maybe he'll never get in a rhythm.

nikka a robot bro…20 year nba vet at only 27 yrs old…he den seen it all lol

aint no goon technique, no defense, etc gone stop him

in a 7 gm series, MAYBE you can contain him for 1-2 games

 

[holidayinn21]

You can't even appreciate that you're seeing some all-time great shyt. Disgusting.

Steph ain't your daddy. fukk off his dikk. Jesus.

Lol at "appreciating" anything, when you're the biggest fukking hater around these parts on everything not named "Golden", "State", "Warriors", "Steph", "curry", "draymond", and "green".

Tell me again how Kawhi didn't deserve DPOY.

I'll also wait til the playoffs for you to make a long-winded argument on how the warriors lost a game because they "just missed shots", not because you couldn't "appreciate" good defense.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

So you're telling your players to get flagrant fouls

Whatever it takes A dub is a dub

 

[HiphopRelated]

fukk his wife

 

[King Poetic]

double teams period........just lose the game by letting killa klay go off or another player

there's no way really with league rules

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Steph ain't your daddy. fukk off his dikk. Jesus.

Lol at "appreciating" anything, when you're the biggest fukking hater around these parts on everything not named "Golden", "State", "Warriors", "Steph", "curry", "draymond", and "green".

Tell me again how Kawhi didn't deserve DPOY.

I'll also wait til the playoffs for you to make a long-winded argument on how the warriors lost a game because they "just missed shots", not because you couldn't "appreciate" good defense.

Do you enjoy watching the Warriors play

 

[Joe Sixpack]

You have to be in tremendous physical condition and you have to basically just expect to foul out by the 2nd quarter

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

Physically he can ware down Memphis and Cavs did it too him. Other than that u can't

 

[Ironman]

Steve Kerr was just asked if he knew how to defend Curry and said, "Maybe, maybe not. I'm not gonna give it away." in a dead ass serious tone like he really knew Steph's kryptonite.

With that said, how would YOU defend him?

You left the part out where he said you should ask the older players because they seem to have the answers. I saw this interview yesterday his answers were entirety sacrasm. There is no way to stop this guy Chef Curry. Like Wilt, Jordan, Shaq, Magic, Kareem and other players before him he's now changing the game whether people like it or not.

 

[Blackrogue]

I'd think more about beating golden state than beating an individual player
the guards klay and steph provide the scoring while dray, Iggy and Barnes provide solid defense, versatility, playmaking and rebounding.

My first focus is how those forwards help out. I would focus on shutting down drays play making and defensive rebounding leading to him leading fast breaks. force the play making to come from curry and he's not a pure pg.

Iggy and Barnes won't put up numbers but they will help on the rebounding tip and defense. I'd fight them on rebounds and force Klay to step up. Tire him out because when you look at his box scores he does not rebound or assist at a high rate. So his lack of versatility in having a complete floor game like the forwards is what I'd focus on.

finally on curry, you let curry be curry but in that particular game he will have to be the primary playmaker, he'd have little help offensively from klay and I'd put a scrappy defender or someone long like kawhai. Force him into the paint and bump him everytime cause he doesn't live at the free throw line. he's also not physically imposing too.

He doesn't defend well so offensively I'd go at him. again would klay switch to take pressure off while rebounding and taking playmaking responsibilities off? I'd welcome that. In the meantime the offensive player has to be high activity.. I'd also run him into physical screens.

 

[Ironman]

"Hack a Curry"


There are of course some parameters which would need to be considered during the game depending on the situation itself in order for this to possibly work (as I don't agree with the entire plan as the author has laid out), however I think there is some merit to this & maybe the only way that GS/Steph Curry momentum could be stopped to where it allows other teams to beat them in close games.

I really don't give a fukk if your a Warriors/Steph Curry fan or not (I don't have a personal bias one way or the other), so overly emotional types who have problems giving their opinions without acting like bytches on their monthly cycle can kick rocks! Analyze this concept & give your thoughts


Stephen Curry has become so good that the NBA might begin using one of the most radical strategies to stop him


Stephen Curry is turning the NBA upside down

Curry is so good now that teams are going to have to get creative when he gets hot and that could mean the birth of the Hack-A-Curry.

Coming off an MVP season and a championship, Curry has somehow gotten even better, staking a strong claim for best player in the NBA while improving all of his skills.

It's not that Curry is doing anything new — he's still a lights-out shooter with impossible range, a hypnotizing ball-handler, and clever passer — but he's simply gotten better at everything.

Through ten games he's leading the NBA in scoring, averaging 33 points per game with a ridiculous 53% shooting, 47% from 3-point range, with five rebounds and five assists per game. Additionally, his efficiency is through the roof: He has a ridiculous 65.9% eFG (effective field-goal percentage, weighted for three-pointers), higher than any other starting point guard in the NBA and eighth among players who play at least 20 minutes per game. (Curry has also taken more field-goal attempts than any of the players above him.)

As anyone who's ever watched Curry knows, this is an astounding number for someone who takes some of the most ludicrous shots in the NBA. According to the player-tracking feature atNBA.com, Curry has 56 more points on pull-up shots than anyone in the NBA, and he's hit 49.5% of his pull-up attempts. This coincides with his league-high 52 possessions in transition, in which he's scored 1.67 points per possession. To put that in perspective, LeBron James and James Harden are second and third, respectively, in transition possessions, averaging .96 and 1.06 points per possession."

Yet when teams push up on Curry or send multiple defenders, he can either bust by them and into the paint for a higher-percentage shot, or kick the ball to an open teammate for another high-percentage look.

One idea that's been casually mentioned, but never implemented (to our knowledge) is the Hack-A-Curry, where defenses could intentionally foul Curry, put him on the free-throw line, and get the ball back. Intentionally fouling is one of the most divisive strategies in the NBA. It brings the game to a halt, bails out the defense, and drives fans crazy. It's been used with several other big men who are bad free-throw shooters as a way to slow down offenses, most recently with the Clippers' DeAndre Jordan in the playoffs last season.

For a player like Curry, this is borderline unprecedented, but it may be something teams experiment with when he gets going. As was the case against the Clippers this season, when Curry scored 13 points in five minutes in the fourth quarter, rallying the Warriors from a late deficit. His hot streaks can be game-changing.

Teams can try to run Curry off the three-point line, but he's proven so adept at getting any shot he wants, or breaking down the defense within the three-point arc that he often just creates another good shot. NBA TV's "The Starters" briefly mentioned this on a podcast, noting that teams may have to start fouling Curry hard to throw him off or simply just give up the two instead of three-pointer. Not only is a three obviously worth more, Curry's onslaughts from downtown fire up him, the team, and the crowd.

Curry is shooting 94% from the free-throw line this season, so intentionally fouling him more than likely will result in two points. This strategy isn't about the math as much as it's about the intangible effect — stopping the flow of the Warriors offense and taking Curry out of a rhythm.

There are still a few hurdles to clear before the NBA would likely to turn to this. First, teams may look to foul a worse free-throw shooter on the Warriors than Curry. However, fouling away from the ball — that is, fouling someone like center Andrew Bogut — only works for so long. The Warriors would likely sub out Bogut and go with their deadly small-ball lineup if he was getting fouled, and after a certain point in the game, rules prohibit teams from fouling away from the ball. If they do, the team that was fouled just gets the ball back after the free throws, thus negating the point to the strategy.

If Curry keeps up this torrid pace, it's worth monitoring how teams begin to scheme against him. Defenses are in uncharted waters with Curry; there isn't a more dangerous player in the NBA with the ball in his hands. When Curry gets on a hot streak, single-handedly changing the momentum and demoralizing opponents, teams may try the Hack-A-Curry just to slow him down."


Stephen Curry has become so good that the NBA might begin using one of the most radical strategies to stop him

Hacking a 91% free throw shooter? That'll work