Ty Lue makes his feeling clear on hardest player to game plan for and it's not LeBron James 

Monday's episode of the Draymond Green Podcast with Baron Davis featured LA Clippers coach Ty Lue as the special guest. Lue has been a coach since 2011-12, when he began as an assistant with the Boston Celtics. He later took the role of head coach with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2015-16.

Lue has had some experience game planning against the best players of the past decade. It was perhaps this experience that prompted Davis to ask him who is the toughest player he's ever had to game plan against.

Without hesitation, Lue gave his answer, and it's not LeBron James.

"It's always been Steph (Curry)," Lue said. "Steph is one of the hardest guys to game plan for because of everything he creates. He creates everything off his movement."

Ty Lue has gotten familiar with Steph Curry's game as an opposing coach. From 2016 to 2018, Lue's Cleveland Cavaliers battled Curry's Golden State Warriors for the NBA Title.

Then starting from the 2020-21 season, Lue became the head coach of the LA Clippers, which is a division rival for the Warriors.

While it could be a headscratcher to some that Lue did not name LeBron James as a response, there could be a simple reason behind it. Lue coached James. Perhaps Lue knows how to gameplan for James even though it's a difficult task from his experience being on the same side as him.

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Ty Lue shares his opinion on what the most crucial moment was from Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals

Ty Lue's first foray into head coaching was not an easy task. He was called up as the replacement for David Blatt, who was fired in the middle of the 2015-16 season despite leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Finals in 2015.

Lue prevailed over the challenges of taking over a team with championship aspirations and led them back to the Finals. In the Finals, they faced off against a determined Golden State Warriors squad that had won 73 games in the regular season.

The Cavs went down 3-1 but stormed right back to force a Game 7 and in that game, two legendary moments were born. First was LeBron James' chase-down block on Andre Iguodala to keep the Warriors from taking the lead.

A few possessions later, it was Kyrie Irving's clutch three that ultimately decided the game. However, according to Lue, the most crucial play of Game 7 was neither the block nor the three.

Ty Lue, the best play of the game happened with over 40 seconds left on the clock with the Warriors down by three.

"(Kevin) Love when he switched out on Steph," Lue said. "It's crazy because it wasn't supposed to happen." (19:02-19:18)

Lue admitted that the switch was not planned. But when it did happen, Love was able to prevent Steph Curry from getting a shot to tie the game or cut the lead to one.

While it was not the final play of the game, the Warriors failing to score in that possession helped ice the game in Ty Lue and the Cavs' favor.