The Cleveland Cavaliers may have stumbled onto something truly special, and it all started with a plate of food and a conversation — no iPads, no PowerPoints, just Donovan Mitchell and Kenny Atkinson hashing out the future with a saltshaker as their pick-and-roll screener,

Atkinson knew the Cavs could be great when he took the coaching job last summer. But first, he needed to win over Mitchell.

Cleveland played the New York Knicks in their third game of the season. The Cavaliers have struggled to grab rebounds against New York for the past few seasons, and that trend continued in the first half of that matchup, with New York outrebounding Cleveland by eight in the first half.