For each National Basketball Association team, the goal is the same: end the year as champions. At least that was the goal until the summer of 2016 when former MVP Kevin Durant changed the landscape of the NBA for the foreseeable future by joining the Golden State Warriors.

This made them favorites to win the championship for the near future. Fast forward two years later and the team has met all expectations, boasting an 8-1 record throughout the past two NBA Finals while looking as dominant as any team ever has. As if that wasn’t enough, they went out and filled their biggest need, a true center, by adding perennial all-star Demarcus Cousins.

The rest of the league has now gone into a panic: how could anyone assemble a team ready to even challenge the real-life Monstars?

The answer is far from simple and takes much more than just adding as much star power as possible onto a team. Here are the four keys to building a team to dethrone the Warriors.

With the Warriors now having five of the league’s best players, a team looking to beat them has to be able to play 48 minutes of high-level, high-intensity basketball. That means having 9-10 players that can be relied on to not just stay afloat but continue to tire out the opposition.

A good example of this is the Boston Celtics, who made it to game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals without their two best players, Gordon Hayward and Kyrie Irving. In the upcoming season, they will potentially have a team with starting-caliber players such as Terry Rozier and Marcus Smart on the bench. That makes for a roster deep enough to compete with the league’s best.

With the NBA turning into a league where players who can do a little bit of everything are heavily valued, there is no doubt this would be a necessity, especially on the defensive end. Almost every screen, on or off-ball, is switched, it is important to have bigs capable of staying with quicker guards and guards who can body up bigs. Players such as Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kawhi Leonard and Anthony Davis, who can defend any position, serve as a Swiss army knife and are invaluable when it comes to defeating the Warriors.

In order to hang with the Warriors, you must be physical. Looking back at the 2016 Finals when a Cavaliers team without Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love took the Warriors to six games, Matthew Dellavedova’s physical play was bothering Steph Curry. When playing against Golden State, teams must be sure to grab the jerseys of shooters as they come off of screens, bump anyone who comes through the lane and always make your presence known.

Having a great coach is another major component; it is much more than drawing up plays and encouraging players. Looking back at game one of the 2018 Finals, there were 4.7 seconds left in the game and the Cavs had a timeout when J.R. Smith grabbed the infamous rebound. That means Tyron Lue had time to call a timeout and draw up a play for the best player in the league rather than leave such a pivotal moment in the series in the hands of a player who has had more hiccups than highlights.