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."

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.

The trash talk on the court, that’s cool, part of the playoffs, Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro said Friday. But making it personal on camera, that, Herro said, crosses a line. In the wake of his Cleveland Cavaliers moving to a 2-0 lead in this best-of-seven opening-round Eastern Conference playoff series,