It dawned on Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, and now it's dawning on Kevin Love: Playing with LeBron James offers a massive payoff, but it comes at the cost of touches, stats and individual glory.
Love had to know sacrifice was a prerequisite—just like everyone observing from the outside did. And yet, for all the lessons of recent history, we've already got signs of Love's mild discomfort with his role.
"My entire life I've played the game from inside-out," Love said, per Chris Haynes of Northeast Ohio Media Group. "So the more touches I can get inside to get myself going, the better. I'm not accustomed to starting out a game shooting a three."
We should be careful not to read too much into this. It's early in the process in Cleveland, and there were bound to be some less-than-smooth transitions into new roles. Love wasn't even really complaining—just speaking to the way he's used to getting the ball.
Nothing wrong with that, James told Chris Fedor of NEOMG:
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 wi ...
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Kevin Love Already Learning the Sacrifice of Playing with LeBron James
October 28th, 2014 by Grant Hughes Leave a reply »
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