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

[Blackrogue]

Curry doesn't always bring up the ball, he plays off the ball a lot so u can't force him to be the primary playmaker. Iggy and Dray initiate the offense alot

I basically want curry to assume pg duties instead of dray. if he passes it off I'm playing ball denial.

I think the forwards are the versatile ones filling in the gaps and the guards are the scorers. I'd invert their system and make the guards have to be the versatile ones and the forwards the scorers.

I'd take away drays playmaking and then I can match him in other areas.
klay scores in bunches. only other duty he has is defend some people on Steph behalf. he can't play make or rebound at a high rate. I want him too tired to help run up the score.

none of GS forwards are defensive liabilities. I think the key is go hard at Steph while trying to take away what versatility the forwards bring you

 

[street heat]

i wonder if anyone has tried talking shyt to him

and not just your typical trash talk, but some honey nut cheerios type shyt.

 

[fifth column]

I basically want curry to assume pg duties instead of dray. if he passes it off I'm playing ball denial.

I think the forwards are the versatile ones filling in the gaps and the guards are the scorers. I'd invert their system and make the guards have to be the versatile ones and the forwards the scorers.

I'd take away drays playmaking and then I can match him in other areas.
klay scores in bunches. only other duty he has is defend some people on Steph behalf. he can't play make or rebound at a high rate. I want him too tired to help run up the score.

none of GS forwards are defensive liabilities. I think the key is go hard at Steph while trying to take away what versatility the forwards bring you

That's a tall task

 

[rapbeats]

I basically want curry to assume pg duties instead of dray. if he passes it off I'm playing ball denial.

I think the forwards are the versatile ones filling in the gaps and the guards are the scorers. I'd invert their system and make the guards have to be the versatile ones and the forwards the scorers.

I'd take away drays playmaking and then I can match him in other areas.
klay scores in bunches. only other duty he has is defend some people on Steph behalf. he can't play make or rebound at a high rate. I want him too tired to help run up the score.

none of GS forwards are defensive liabilities. I think the key is go hard at Steph while trying to take away what versatility the forwards bring you

i can see by this man's lack of daps yall dont know defensive basketball.

Thank you kind sir. this is exactly what i said you do to the warriors.

Turn curry into a POINT guard, if draymon wants to play Point forward. back wayyyy up off of him and make him a scorer. sure he can shoot 3's. but not like curry. not for an extended period of time. I dare draymond to beat me in a 7 game series. if he does. then that means the warriors have 2 or 3 legends on their team. id ont believe dray is THAT good even though i like his all around game. watch the batch scores. its almost ways the same. curry and/or klay goes off while dray has 12 or less with 8+ assist. i would make klay the primary play maker.

 

[Milk N Cookies]

Tonya Harding

Literally came in here to post this. Get Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly on the case, and hope to God they don't get caught this time.

 

[Illuminatos]

"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

You nikkas mane...

 

[O.G.B]

You nikkas mane...

" overly emotional types who have problems giving their opinions without acting like bytches on their monthly cycle

Slow your roll ho. I ain't the one!

 

[Scholar]

For starters I would tell my players to stop going under the screen instead of over. I'd have my point guard d him all the way up the court

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

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.

When you going to stop lying -

No I'm not because I already told you that the Grizzlies did a great job defensively in games 2 and 3. I specifically said that one of the main reasons for the Warriors offensive struggles was because they were trappin/heavy hedging Curry - limiting his options. This had very little to do with Allen, because Klay was losing him in the halfcourt but Curry hardly ever gave him the ball. This is what this revolves around. I never discredited what the Grizzlies defense were doing as a whole. Look at how many defensive miscues Allen made against the Warriors (yes I'm posting this video again) -



Allen wasn't shutting him down though. That was my WHOLE point. Most of Klay's missed shots had nothing to do with him - he either missed his rotation, wasn't guarding him or he wasn't on the court.

Through games 1-3 Allen was responsible for around four missed shots of Klay's. Four/five missed shots across three games - that's all Allen was responsible for. Klay had 10+ made field goals when guarded by Allen or missed rotations by Allen.

Video evidence -

NBA.com/Stats
NBA.com/Stats
NBA.com/Stats

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Injure him.

Any other way, not happening.

We've been saying this the last year, people just weren't listening. But now they see it.

If Greg Popovich doesn't have the answer, nobody on this forum will either.

this... and this is what older players are talking about... these teams are just letting him do this


you get some bum ass goon on the bench... and clip him in the fukking mouth with a hard fukking elbow... yea he gonna get suspended... but hey... he wasn't doing shyt anyway

you get a jalen rose type a nikka to slide a foot under him when he's shooting a jumper

you get some 12th man to get him 6 hard as fukk fouls... then have the 11th man do the same thing

you pull that russell westbrook shyt... where dude dove at his knee for the ball... but really just dove at his knee and got him out of there for a couple months





i think you'll see it come playoffs... they not trying to play their hands right now...

just watch... when that game slows down... when the fouls get called less.... somebody is going to go out there and play rough house with these nikkas

 

[Arris]

the entire team can erase a lead at the snap of the fingers. if your up in crunch time (5 min left in the 4th) make curry an offer he cant refuse, make the midrange or dribble drive so enticing that he takes it. and stay home on the outside, you cant collapse on him or dray driving so there are open shooters behind the 3 point line. force him to beat you by going in the paint and getting 2 at a time instead of 3, which he is more than capable of doing.

not sure if this would work on curry as he still made some ridiculous shots from 3 against okc but even he wont shoot like that every game.

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

this... and this is what older players are talking about... these teams are just letting him do this


you get some bum ass goon on the bench... and clip him in the fukking mouth with a hard fukking elbow... yea he gonna get suspended... but hey... he wasn't doing shyt anyway

you get a jalen rose type a nikka to slide a foot under him when he's shooting a jumper

you get some 12th man to get him 6 hard as fukk fouls... then have the 11th man do the same thing

you pull that russell westbrook shyt... where dude dove at his knee for the ball... but really just dove at his knee and got him out of there for a couple months





i think you'll see it come playoffs... they not trying to play their hands right now...

just watch... when that game slows down... when the fouls get called less.... somebody is going to go out there and play rough house with these nikkas

So basically you're advocating bush league tactics. That's what we have to resort to?

It's one thing to nail a guy driving to the basket but to purposely injure a player is just criminal.

Guys are hard wired to not foul jump shooters and it's one of those unwritten rules to not do what Jalen did to Kobe. It's just not basketball.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

So basically you're advocating bush league tactics. That's what we have to resort to?

It's one thing to nail a guy driving to the basket but to purposely injure a player is just criminal.

Guys are hard wired to not foul jump shooters and it's one of those unwritten rules to not do what Jalen did to Kobe. It's just not basketball.

ummmm yes

it worked for the first 100 years of basketball.... it will still work

anthony mason clotheslining nikkas on the way to the hole is no different than sticking an elbow in the chest of a jump shooter

shyt shaq and mutumbo was elbowing the fukk out of nikkas less than 10 years ago... why you think all these dudes hate this new league... nikkas is cupcake soft LETTING dudes beat them by 40 then going out for drinks


dr j was out there going to war with larry bird for hitting too many threes



trust me... playoff time... we gonna see it

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

ummmm yes

it worked for the first 100 years of basketball.... it will still work

anthony mason clotheslining nikkas on the way to the hole is no different than sticking an elbow in the chest of a jump shooter

shyt shaq and mutumbo was elbowing the fukk out of nikkas less than 10 years ago... why you think all these dudes hate this new league... nikkas is cupcake soft LETTING dudes beat them by 40 then going out for drinks


dr j was out there going to war with larry bird for hitting too many threes



trust me... playoff time... we gonna see it

This board continues to bring the comedy.

 

[Malta]

These are over a 7 footer -







Nothing you dudes come up with is stopping that kind of shooting touch.