The Miami Heat are about to face their toughest challenge yet this season as they are scheduled to go toe to toe against the defending champions, Golden State Warriors.

Heat coach Erick Spoelstra knows full well that playing a loaded team like the Warriors isn’t going to be easy, and he underscored that sentiment by saying Kevin Durant and company look like a team who can also excel in another discipline, per Tim Bontemps of The Washington Post.

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By their own lofty standards, the Warriors are off to a slow start, going 7-3 in their first 10 games, but they are starting to pick up the pace, which was evident in the way they destroyed their last three opponents, beating them by an average of 22.3 points. That puts Miami as the possible fourth-straight victim of the freight train that is Golden State.

The Heat are coming off an ugly 104-101 win on Sunday against the L.A. Clippers in which they squandered a 25-point lead. That kind of performance won’t fly against the Warriors and Erik Spoelstra fasce the tough task of keeping his men focused for an entire contest opposite the surging Golden State squad.