This all started when a reporter asked Garland to explain the key to playing clean basketball -- i.e. not turning the ball over -- against the Heat. "Pick on Tyler Herro and take care of the ball," Garland responded. "Don't play in tight spaces and pick on their weak defenders. Go at them."

After Garland said the Cavaliers' strategy was to pick on him, Herro said Somebody that doesn’t play defense shouldn’t be talking either."

Fear The Sword's Jackson Flickinger also explained how it's reductive to say Cleveland is only going after Herro. Head coach Kenny Atkinson and his staff want their players to seek out mismatches across all of Miami's defense.