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The former Cavs guard details how chasing the Warriors\u2019 shooters was a survival mission that forced him to abandon other defensive duties.<\/div>\n
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Iman Shumpert<\/a>\u00a0has gone up against some of the best scorers in NBA history, but he says nothing compared to the challenge of guarding Golden State\u2019s Splash Brothers. The former\u00a0Cavaliers<\/a>\u00a0guard revealed that defending\u00a0Steph Curry<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Klay Thompson<\/a>\u00a0felt like a survival mission, where losing track of them for even a second meant disaster.<\/p>\n

“Whole game I\u2019m elbowing, hand connected, hand on back. People thought we were punking ’em,”\u00a0said Shumpert on the ‘All-In’ podcast<\/a>. “No, it was a real strategy. You can find plays of Klay grabbing my face like get off me. I blew my other assignments because I’m NOT letting ’em get a shot off. But I’ve never felt that kind of like \u2018I\u2019m in danger if I can’t see him.\u2019 The danger I felt if I lost them was like no one else.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Iman Shumpert is a 10-year NBA veteran most known for his stint on the\u00a0Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>. In the 2014-15 season, he joined\u00a0LeBron James<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Kyrie Irving<\/a>\u00a0as part of a new Eastern Conference superpower. While Shumpert played a minimal role on the Cavaliers, he got to experience their most successful stretch ever: from 2014 to 2018, during LeBron’s second stint with the franchise.<\/p>\n

They made four straight Finals during this stretch and even\u00a0won the franchise’s only championship in 2016<\/a>. Throughout the entire run, the\u00a0Golden State Warriors<\/a>\u00a0were the Cavs’ biggest obstacle and the only thing that held them back from total domination.<\/p>\n

When Stephen Curry won his first title in 2015, it marked the start of a new era in the NBA, one defined by three-point shooting and a dynasty in San Francisco. Alongside Klay Thompson, the duo made a potent backcourt that was almost impossible to defend.<\/p>\n

As the great shooting duo in NBA history,\u00a0the Splash Bros inflicted an unparalleled degree of fear<\/a>\u00a0in their opponents. Leaving one of them open was always punished and had teams scrambling to find solutions.<\/p>\n

What Curry does particularly well is off-ball movement. When his defender is caught up or distracted for a brief second, Steph is great at using the opportunity to get a clean look, and it’s how he keeps his opponents on their toes.<\/p>\n

Between Steph, Klay, and later\u00a0Kevin Durant<\/a>, the Warriors had an extremely effective scoring trifecta. They beat the Cavaliers three times over four years and then won the championship again in 2022 over the\u00a0Boston Celtics<\/a>\u00a0after Durant’s departure.<\/p>\n

While many teams have tried to replicate the Warriors’ formula,\u00a0nobody has been able to replicate the level of anxiety<\/a>\u00a0one would feel when leaving one of the Splash Bros. open. To this day, Shumpert remembers the horrors, and it just goes to show how powerful their shooting was.<\/p>\n

Steph and Klay were more than a test of your defense; they tested your focus, your stamina, and even your sanity. For Shumpert, that challenge was unlike anything else he faced in a decade-long NBA career, and it\u2019s a reminder of why the Splash Brothers\u2019 dominance will always stand out in league history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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