They’ve improved the ball movement quite a bit since Kyrie’s departure. I don’t have the examples but if you watched games like today, the Boston game, most of the moments the second team is out there w Wade taking charge, the rock is moving a lot more. May be still more dry stretches than I’d like, where you revert to Bron up Top for too long then he just kicks it out to some shooter, but once they get Cedi Osman involved, get hopefully Isaiah involved, this team is gonna have a wealth of facilitators and people who adeptly move off ball. Like I said, may not get them the ring they are looking for, but it has made this team more of a joy to watch fundamentally
Edit I forgot to add that the number of slashers they have now probably is a factor here. Wade and Jeff Green have been about as good as ever (or reasonably expected at their age) at getting to the cup plus love has shown a newfound vigor at moving to the rim w/o the ball. Another area where I think an Osman or Derrick Williams (RIP) would shine at