CLEVELAND: On the night Iman Shumpert made his season debut in December, he immediately began speaking differently.
Shumpert missed the first six weeks recovering from wrist surgery and returned in Orlando talking about being more aggressive, not trying so hard to fit in and expanding his tool box in an effort to do more.
The only problem was that the Cavaliers didn’t need more from him, they simply needed him to defend like an animal and consistently make 3-pointers. In other words, become the prototypical 3-and-D player the league now craves.
“It’s just a mentality, developing a more aggressive mentality,” he said in December.