The Cleveland Cavaliers season is off to a rocky start and the team is appearing to suffer from some chemistry woes. Reports suggest that Irving and James had a tense exchange after their loss. Hit the jump for details.
Via ESPN:
“There’s a lot of bad habits, a lot of bad habits been built up the past couple years,” James said to the media moments after the exchange. “When you play that style of basketball, it takes a lot to get it up out of you.”
James addressed Irving to discuss the way he’d been dominating the ball in the early going of the season. Irving is averaging just 3.8 assists thus far. He scored 34 points in the 102-100 loss Wednesday to the Jazz but had no assists in 45 minutes of playing time.
Irving hasn’t had an assist in more than six quarters, and he’s taken 36 shots in that span. The Cavs tied a franchise-record low with six assists, four of them from James, against the Jazz.
“For us, it was a growing process that we have to go through,” Irving said Wednesday. “It sucks right now. For us, we’re still young, and I’m still learning what’s going on.”
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