For all the talk of Cleveland’s Big Three since the troika was assembled an offseason ago, it’s actually been pretty rare that all three of them have gone off in unison.
That’s not to say they haven’t all played exceptionally well over that stretch. It’s more that with a trifecta of All-Stars, one of them is bound to go off and steal the headlines. If it wasn’t working out, the Wine and Gold wouldn’t be the reigning Eastern Conference champs or tallied 110 regular season wins over the past two years.
In Sunday’s 106-101 win over the Pistons, the Big Three had their first collective postseason outburst – combining for 81 points on 29-for-63 shooting, going 9-of-21 from deep, 14-of-17 from the stripe, piling up 24 boards, 18 assists, five steals and three blocked shots.