How The Kings Defense SHUT DOWN Steph Curry

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This is how you guard Steph Curry. Davion Mitchell is laser focused on Steph, not even looking at what’s going on behind him.
Fights through the screen and stays attached so as Curry gets the ball, you see that Mitchell is all up in his grill. A great switch with Sabonis on the fly, and eventually this leads to a contested floater by Klay and a miss.
Again, follow De’Aaron Fox here and watch how he’s only worried about the guy in front of him.
He’s absolutely glued to Steph right here as the Kings game plan was to let anyone else beat them except Curry. He chases him down throughout the entire half court and as the shot clock expires Wiggins takes a turnaround fadeaway and misses.
Sacramento came out with a defensive masterclass on the best shooter in the league, and we gotta analyze it. Let’s get into it.
(3ca switch na curry) Check this out as this is the best defensive possession of the game.
Davion is hounding Steph right at half court, and as the high screen comes, Monk is right there ready to switch. Another quick guy who can bother him. We got another screen and Barnes goes up as high as he can to both contest the shot and guard for the potential roll by Draymond.
Steph fires away from way downtown and airballs this shot. Probably affected by all that chasing and running.
(Contested floater) Notice the communication on the switch as Davion signals to Monk here to take over. Malik chases him off of the three point line and we gotta stop it right here to point out the perfect split of this gap by Mitchell bothering both Steph, and being close enough for the potential pass.
Curry is forced to drive and pull up for a contested weird looking floater from the elbow that doesn’t go in.
To quantify how great of a defense the Kings played, they allowed 101.9 points per 100 possessions in game 2 compared to 116 that they allowed during the season as the 24th offense in the league.
This number from game 2 would actually be by far the best in the NBA. That’s how crazy this was.
Having multiple guys to throw at him and chase him around is key for Sacramento. Malik Monk, De’Aaron Fox, but special shoutout to one of my favorite players in the league Davion Mitchell for absolutely suffocating Curry on some possessions.
(Mitchell great contest) I mean look at this. He picks him up full court, chest to chest, following every step, and this is as good of a contest as you’re going to get as this shot misses again.
Steph shot 3-13 3PT (23.1%) and had 5 turnovers. The Warriors committed 22 turnovers overall and shoutout to Mike Brown for this amazing game plan, and to the players for the execution.
Brown however was a bit reserved in the postgame, as if they could have done an even better job.
If you’re Golden State, you have hope in the fact that you played 2 tight games on the road where you’ve been horrible all season, so it’s not unrealistic to be able to win 2 at home and tie the series. But Sacramento shocked everyone with this 2-0 lead and the phenomenal play despite having a lot of doubters. Including myself. But they’ve definitely convinced me. How about you guys? Let me know in the comments. Talk to you in the next one. Peace out.