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OAKLAND – The Warriors have won a season-high 10 games in a row despite being so short-handed. The main reason? Their defense.

After Stephen Curry sustained a sprained right ankle injury in a game against New Orleans on Dec. 4, Warriors’ coach Steve Kerr called a team meeting. He told the players their focus needs to shift and sharpen.

“Last year, KD went out for 18 games and we were No. 1 in the league in defense and it was because we had a sense of fear that, oh man, we’ve got to play otherwise we’re in some trouble,” Kerr said. “That meeting was about the exact same thing — Let’s be the best defensive team in the league from now until Steph gets back.”

In their six games without Curry, the Warriors have only allowed opponents to score 100-or-more points twice.

Kerr, however, said that he shouldn’t exactly be credited with coming up with this magical idea.

“I’m sure a lot of coaches are saying, hey, play great defense,” Kerr said. “It’s not like we figured this out after years of study. It’s pretty basic stuff. But our team is capable of it.”

In the Warriors’ 97-84 win over Memphis on Wednesday, they were without five players, including Curry, Draymond Green (right shoulder soreness), Zaza Pachulia (left shoulder soreness), Shaun Livingston (right knee soreness) and Andre Iguodala (flu-like symptoms).

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Kerr said that even the Warriors have been winning, it hasn’t been pretty.

“We’re just not as efficient,” Kerr said. “We’re not setting as many screens. Everybody is a little out of position. We don’t have the same precision. The game happens so fast, everything really needs to be precise. And we’re really not precise right now.”

That being said, Kerr said that the Warriors have been handling this bit of adversity with a lot of maturity.

“You can tell we’re a little disjointed, but I’m really proud of those guys.”

Kerr, however, went on to joke that it’s not totally out of the question for the short-handed Warriors to sign consultant Steve Nash, a two-time MVP, to a G-League contract.