Stephen Curry Having Fun Setting Picks For LeBron James On Team USA: Good Luck Trying To Stop Us

NBA legends LeBron James and Stephen Curry have been running a play they call “too small” for Team USA at the Olympics. 

It’s an action where Curry sets a screen for LeBron. 

“I’m a good screener and can cause some confusion for a guy like (LeBron) having the ball,” Curry said, via The Athletic. “We do it a little bit in Golden State where you have somebody else having the ball and me setting it, and I have a lot of different actions you can run, but if you get (LeBron) going downhill, good luck to anybody trying to stop him and having me come off into space. 

“Just try to make teams make decisions and the more decisions you can make a defense make the better chance you have to create confusion.”

Team USA went undefeated in the exhibition series against Canada, Australia, Serbia, South Sudan and Germany.

The Americans then went 3-0 in group play against Serbia, South Sudan and Puerto Rico. 

LeBron has been Team USA’s best overall player, while Curry is struggling to find his shot, although Curry will likely snap out of his shooting slump soon. 

“The whole challenge for our team is everybody to remain locked in on when your opportunity comes, whether it’s a flurry of shots and a short segment of the game or whether you don’t touch it or get a shot off for a whole quarter, you still got to be ready for your next opportunity because you don’t know where it’s coming from,” Curry, the best shooter in NBA history, said. “For me, I want to shoot the ball better obviously, but you just still have to be a threat to space.

“I know at a certain point somebody’s got to get hot in a close game, and whoever that is, you got to be ready for your moment. So whether that’s me, whether it’s whoever, that’s the challenge of this team, to be ready because every other team has a pretty much-defined pecking order of scoring.” 

Team USA plays Brazil in an Olympic quarterfinal on Tuesday.