Cleveland Cavaliers look to be starting the same way as the Miami Heat did in 2010. LeBron James was in his first season with those same clubs, and rightfully, there were chemistry problems.

The Heat got a lot of media attention in the early stages of the 2010-11 NBA season; the Cavs are getting the same as well.

WAITERS: DOESN’T WANT TO BE CATCH-AND-SHOOT 

Cleveland Cavaliers’ Dion Waiters has fought for his place on the starting line-up. But it’s obvious that he wasn’t happy with something.

Via the Akron Beacon Journal:

It has been made clear to me in recent days by Cavs deep thinkers they’d like Waiters to really concentrate on two areas: defending like crazy and shooting catch-and-shoot 3-pointers. Waiters’ catch-and-shoot numbers last season were much better than I would’ve predicted: He made 42 percent of his catch-and-shoot 3-point attempts last season (72-for-173). That ranked 35th in the league (minimum 100 attempts), which was higher than Kevin Love (40 percent) and [Kyrie] Irving (32 percent).

So when Waiters stayed behind after the team’s morning shootaround Tuesday and worked out for another 40 minutes, after the bus and rest of the players were long gone, it wasn’t surprising to watch him working primarily on catch-and-shoot 3-pointers. Yet when I asked him about focusing on that this season, he dismissed it.

“That’s not my game,” he said. “I can do it, but you know what I’m effective at: pick-and-roll and things like that.” 

LEBRON: THE TEAM HAS A LOT OF BAD HABITS 

It took a devastating 101-82 loss to the Portland Trailblazers to bring out the media attention. It might be a bit early in the season, but the media attention is there.

A 102-100 loss to Utah has only added to that attention.

Like he had with the Miami Heat in 2010, LeBron knows there are bad habits.

Via the NOMG:

“There’s a lot of bad habits, a lot of bad habits been built up the past couple years,” James said. “When you play that style of basketball, it takes a lot to get it up out of you.”

“I’m trying to do other things, to try to instill what it takes to win,” James said. “My mission is not a one-game thing. We have to do multiple things to win. […] I think a lot of people get it misconstrued on what it takes to win, you know just scoring or just going out and trying to will it yourself,” he added. 

“A lot of guys that’s gonna help us win ultimately haven’t played a lot of meaningful basketball games in our league,” James said.