Stephen Curry, the NBA’s reigning MVP has picked up where he left last year, leading the Golden State Warriors franchise to a historic start early in the 2015-2016 NBA regular season, which brings us the question: could anybody or anything slow down Curry?

Curry has undeniably become one of the NBA’s best at scoring, may it be in the paint or beyond the arc. The “Baby-faced Assassin” has surprisingly gotten even better this season and is making a strong statement as the league’s best player with improved overall skills.

Evidently, teams have not found any formula to stop Curry’s streaky shooting from the field. However, according to Business Insider’s Scott Davis, the “Hack-a-Curry” could spell the beginning of the reigning MVP’s magical season.

Hacking a player has been used for a couple of years now in the NBA, particularly intended to big men with worst free throw shooting abilities. It simply works by intentionally fouling a poor free throw shooter to stop the game and bails out the defense. The strategy could certainly neutralise a team’s momentum, which for Curry, his hot shooting during games.

“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,” Davis wrote. “For a player like Curry, this is borderline unprecedented, but it may be something teams experiment with when he gets going.”

According to ESPN, Curry is shooting 92.3 per cent from the charity, which could probably give the Warriors an automatic two points when fouling him intentionally. However, Davis argued that the strategy would potentially stop the flow of the Warriors' offense and would take Curry out of rhythm.

As noted in the report, Curry’s streaky scoring also fires up the team, his teammatessc and the home crowd. That is why the Warriors are able to put a franchise record of 25 straight home games ever since losing to the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals.

In the Warriors’ close win against the Los Angeles Clippers, Curry scored 13 points in five minutes in the fourth quarter, which propelled the defending champs to rally from a late deficit. Curry’s hot streaks are no-doubt game-changers, especially when the action is down at crunch time.

In addition, Donnovan Bennett of the Sportsnet stated that Curry’s three-point attempts are breaking normal defensive rules and how he has not sacrificed efficiency in service of getting his points.

“Bigs are taught not to chase guards too far away from the paint when they get caught switching on the pick-and-roll,” Bennett wrote. “The problem with that strategy against Curry is that his comfortable shooting range extends to about 30 feet.”

Curry’s improved game has been a testament to the league of his dominance in today’s basketball generation. Implementing such strategy would hardly slow him down and would only bring the NBA champ into uncharted waters.

Curry’s amazing season has just started and it may continue just as Warriors fans visualize it unless something or somebody stops him.

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