The big story in the Cleveland Cavaliers' 114-90 matinee win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday wasn't LeBron James scoring 27 points or Kevin Love looking more involved than usual. It wasn't J.R. Smith displaying sound shot selection. It wasn't Channing Frye burying catch-and-shoot treys or Kyrie Irving mixing facilitation in with his score-first instincts.
The big story was all of those things happening at once. It was about the Cavs' pieces fitting and, predictably, their resultant easy domination of a Clippers team that fancies itself a contender.
This big story is particularly big because having the talent to do all those things—to get myriad contributions from so many sources—has never been the issue in Cleveland. Instead, the source of the Cavs' woes—to the extent that a No. 1 seed has any—has been a pervasive sense of discomfort, a lack of harmony.
David Blatt got the axe because players reportedly didn't like him. James has criticized Irving and Love with varying degrees of subtlety all year. Love and Irving have bristled in turn.
The pieces have ...
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