Stephen Curry once again lit up the NBA universe when he couldn't miss during the first quarter against the Los Angeles Clippers on Thursday night. The Golden State Warriors star was a perfect 9-for-9 from the field and tallied 25 points

Warriors fans are no longer completely in shock when Steph Curry goes nuclear like this, but it's never any less exciting. But for Curry and his training team, the spotless shooting is an expectation rather than a hot shooting streak.

The Warriors guard had been working on the offseason to get even better on his shooting stroke, if that was even possible as the greatest shooter to ever exist. To make sure Steph Curry learned to be even more precise, his trainer Brandon Payne shrank the window for what they considered a made basket using technology to track the precision shots entered the net.

Via Mark Medina:

Each time Curry hoisted a shot, the technology tracked the ball’s movement, the ball’s arc and how deep the ball went into the rim. If the ball failed to drop through the middle of the rim, Curry and Payne simply counted that attempt as a missed shot. Curry and Payne also kept the same standard when he took shots on the move, an approach he took to emulate shooting against a swarming defender.

When you're the best shotmaker in the NBA, upping the ante in practice seems like the only way to improve. Stephen Curry isn't resting on his laurels one bit.

“It was a mental challenge of trying to be as perfect as possible,” the Warriors star told NBA.com “If I make 10 shots and they are outside of that window and then I have to do 10 more for that drill, it becomes a conditioning drill if you don’t knock them down earlier in the drill. So you have to stay locked in and focused. It creates a game-like situation with pressure. You don’t want to be out there all day feeling dog tired because you can’t beat the drill.”

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Revamping his offseason workouts is what helped keep the Warriors guard engaged in those empty gyms that were eons away from in-game intensity. That's a must when you probably sink 95% of the shots you take in training already.

“They know how to spark that killer instinct,” Curry said. “Unless you’re playing pickup, summers are sometimes long. The workouts can become a little monotonous if you let them. So they try their best not to allow it.”

The Golden State Warriors are looking to return back atop the NBA, a spot they held for the better part of the last decade. They'll only go as far as Stephen Curry can take them, though. The two-time MVP has put the work in to make sure he'll get them there.