Cavaliers ride Ty Jerome heater to Game 1 win over Heat

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CLEVELAND -- When the Cleveland Cavaliers first assembled for this season there was a collective shock at the trash talk coming from Ty Jerome, a career role player who played just 15 total minutes last year because of a bad ankle injury.

"He was talking his s---," Cavs All-Star Darius Garland remembered. "[I was like] 'slow down buddy.'"

"[The players] laughed at him because first he was this bit player and he still doing the swag stuff," Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson said. "And they're kind of like 'who's this guy think he is?'"

Sunday evening the Miami Heat felt that side of Jerome, who ran his mouth and flexed on them as he scored 28 points in just 26 minutes off the bench…