There aren't many obvious ways of beating the Warriors, but one of them certainly is to contain Steph Curry. Much easier said than done.
Teams around the league have come to terms with the fact that they will never truly stop Curry completely. A bend-don't-break style of defense is crucial to limiting those signature Curry Flurries that so many teams have been on the receiving end of throughout his NBA career.
After the Warriors' 129-114 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves at Target Center on Tuesday night, T-Wolves coach Chris Finch explained how his team was able to prevent Steph from going nuclear, despite still scoring a team-leading 34 points.
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SIGN UP HERE "When you play these guys in general -- and Steph [Curry] in particular -- you just gotta try and not let them have three in a row," Finch said. "He might get two in a row but if you can keep him from getting three in a row, then those are the knockout punches. So you just gotta try to do whatever it takes to not let him have a couple in a row. It looked like for a little bit there he was going to have a big quarter.
"Everybody who has been in the league has been on the bad end of a really good Steph Curry quarter."
Timberwolves guard Jordan McLaughlin was tasked with guarding Curry on Tuesday night, and his goal was very simple.
"Just trying not to let him touch the ball," McLaughlin told reporters. "He makes things happen on the court at all times so just trying not to let him get the ball and make everything tough for him."
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Even though Curry scored 34 points, Minnesota didn't allow the Warriors' star to string together backbreaking 3-pointer after backbreaking 3-pointer. When Steph gets hot, the rest of the team feeds off that momentum.
With Klay Thompson recovering from an illness that has sidelined him the previous two games as well as Draymond Green's extended absence, opposing teams know exactly who to attack.
Continued struggles from Andrew Wiggins and Jordan Poole don't help either. Opponents are going to throw everything they have at Curry, and so far it's working.