SAN FRANCISCO -- Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said his team wouldn't change its plan from Cleveland's 109-108 win over Golden State on Christmas, which could mean Iman Shumpert will guard Stephen Curry in the rematch Monday.

Though Lue said he wasn't sure yet who would defend the two-time defending MVP, it was DeAndre Liggins who matched up with Curry on Dec. 25 and hounded him all over the floor.

Shumpert has since been inserted for Liggins in the starting lineup, and in the 2016 Finals he guarded Curry when he (Shumpert) came off the bench.

Lue's other option would be to start Kyrie Irving on Curry -- which is what Lue did in the Finals. But that was in a series when the Cavs had several days to install a defense in which they switched on every screen and could adjust from game to game.

Whomever the Cavs have assigned to Curry, the plan has largely worked. They'd like that to continue when the latest installment of the Cleveland-Warriors rivalry commences at 8 p.m.

"We just put a lot of pressure on him to physically take the punishment all game," Shumpert said. "We put a strong, athletic guy on him. When we guard him, guarding him up the floor, trying to get into his legs.

"Throughout the game if you consistently guard somebody that way at the end of the game, if they're last five minutes isn't as up to par, you feel like you did your job because you wore on him the whole game."

Curry scored 15 points on 4-of-11 shooting on Christmas against Liggins, who pressed Curry behind halfcourt and made him dribble up the floor against pressure.

And in Game 7 of the Finals -- a series in which Curry was playing with nagging injuries -- he scored 17 points on 6-of-19 shooting with four turnovers.

Curry was miserable in the fourth quarter of Game 7, shooting 1-of-6. He was actually 2-of-3 in the final quarter on Christmas, but the Warriors blew a 14-point lead and Curry couldn't help bail them out.

Curry was the NBA's top scorer at 30.1 points per game last season, and he also obliterated the 3-point records he set in 2014-15. This season, his production has dropped in nearly every major statistical category, though a part of that has to be the addition to the roster of Kevin Durant -- a former MVP who demands the ball.

But when Lue draws up his defensive plan for the Warriors (keep in mind, they have Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, too), he said "a lot of it" is focused on Curry.

"He's in the pick-and-rolls (and) if you're big's not aware, not up, that's a 3-point shot and he's gonna make it 9 times out of 10," Lue said. "So you always have to be aware of where he's at, have to be aware of their bigs when they're setting screens because they spread the screens. And we just gotta be aware."

Dating back to Jan. 5, 2015, the Cavs and Warriors have played 18 times. Curry's averaging 23.55 points in those games, shooting 43.2 percent (he's a 47.7 percent shooter for his career). He's had four 30-point games during that stretch and drained seven 3s on four different occasions.

"Putting bigger guards on him has worked in the past but, we said it works and he's still averaging (23.55) points," Lue said. "But just try and wear him down, try and keep a big body on him because we know he can score in spurts, he can score fast. So we just want to try and wear him down as much as possible."

That would seem to be the job for Shumpert. He's 6-5 and is known first as a defender. Lue said Liggins would also come off the bench and guard Curry.

Shumpert scored 16 points Friday in just his second start this season. If it is indeed his assignment to chase Curry all over the court Monday, he not have the legs to shoot 6-of-9 like he did against the Sacramento Kings.

But the Cavs can live with that.

"You just gotta stay consistent with guys like that because they have the ball so much that no matter what you do they're going to get in a rhythm," Shumpert said. "You just gotta survive their runs they go on and hopefully you've done your job as far as getting in to him and applying pressure the whole game. You see the effects of that pressure in the last few minutes of the game."

The other issue, one Cleveland didn't have to contend with in the first 17 meetings of the rivalry, is Kevin Durant. He scored 36 in his first game as a Warrior against the Cavs.

"When you're able to have Steph have a bad game, which is not very often, they have a guy who can go get it one on one," Lue said. "We've tried to do a good job of taking Klay out, taking Steph out, taking the 3-point shooting out. If you do that nowadays, when Kevin is here now he can go one on one, he can go score 40.

"So, that's a different dynamic they have on their team."