LeBron James says Kevin Love will get his touches, but it’s an adjustment

Last season LeBron James had to carry the Miami Heat offense, despite the other stars on that squad.

Kevin Love was cornerstone of the Minnesota Timberwolves attack last season.

Kyrie Irving was the Cavaliers offense.

Now all of them are on the same team and they are trying to figure out how three guys used to the ball in their hands can play nice together. Coach David Blatt’s offense helps, there is spacing and good ball movement (at least through the preseason), but still they are not used to letting others have the ball in their hands.

Already Love is saying he needs more touches in the paint. LeBron told Chris Fodor of the Plain Dealer Love will get his but everyone needs to chill a little.

“I think we are all going to go through an adjustment and less touches than we would like. Anytime one of us says something it will get blown out of proportion and I think that got blown out of proportion,” James said following practice on Friday. “I read the clips of what he stressed. The first thing you see is Kevin Love wants more touches and is unhappy, but I’ve had zero reaction.”

LeBron is right, it’s going to be an adjustment for everyone in Cleveland.

It took LeBron’s Heat team basically a season and a half to find its identity, they made it to the Finals but lost in that time. We may see something similar here in the sense the Cavaliers are going to be unquestionably good but teams like the Spurs, Bulls and Thunder have their identity locked in. They know who they are and what they want to do.

We’ll see if the Cavaliers can get there by the start of the playoffs in April.