CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Most NBA teams run a play called "floppy," a basic but effective action designed to run shooters around multiple screens and create confusion for the defense.

It's especially effective for players who can catch and shoot on the run; players like Ray Allen, Richard Hamilton are perhaps two of the three most successful players running floppy over the past 15 years.

Until about three weeks ago, the Cavs didn't run it. Now they do, because now they have one of the best in league history at running floppy. His name is Kyle Korver.

And that's where the discussion starts, where one should begin when trying to explain why Korver -- one of the all-time great 3-point shooters -- hasn't quite clicked yet with two of the NBA's great creators in LeBron James and Kyrie Irving.

"I thought it would be an adjustment," Korver said Friday night, after scoring 14 points in the Cavs' 124-116 win over Brooklyn. Korver, 35, in his 14th season, went over 10,000 career points in the game.

"It depends on what of role I guess you want me to play," he said. "I think part of the reason they wanted me to come was to try to create some energy and some movement, help create some offense, take some of the pressure off of LeBron and Kyrie to make all the plays. But that kind of changes everybody's game a little bit.

"If you just want to stick me in the corner, that's an easy way to adjust. But if you want to try to incorporate a little bit more movement -- I think it's a little different than what they've run here than kind of in the past."

The Cavs host Oklahoma City Sunday (3:30 p.m., ABC) in what will be Korver's 10th game with Cleveland. In the first nine, he's averaging 8.8 points on 43.3 percent shooting overall, with an average 2.2 made 3s per game on 43.3 percent shooting from deep.

When Cleveland traded Mike Dunleavy, Mo Williams, a 2019 first-round pick and some cash to the Hawks to acquire Korver on Jan. 7, the Cavs were slapping fives over how many open 3s the 8th-best 3-point shooter in league history was going to take, and how difficult it would be to guard a team that already had James, Irving, and Kevin Love (three All-Stars), with Channing Frye coming off the bench as a sharpshooter and J.R. Smith eventually getting healthy.

Those open 3s have come, but they haven't fallen with quite the regularity the Cavs had hoped. Moreover, the team is 3-6 with Korver, and in the first three losses they failed to score more than 92 points.

"Everyone wants instant oatmeal," James said. "You got to cook it, got to let it simmer and then figure it out from there."

The offense has improved over the last five games. The Cavs have scored at least 112 points in each contest, and their 2-3 record speaks in part to problems on defense that we'll get to shortly.

Korver's production has fluctuated. After two duds in his first two games with the Cavs, he scored 18 points against Sacramento back on Jan. 13. And then in his sixth and seventh games with Cleveland -- losses to the Spurs and the Pelicans -- he attempted three and four shots, respectively.

Korver has taken what the NBA considers to be 24 "wide open" shots out of 67 total. He's made 11 for a .458 shooting percentage. He's taking a higher percentage of those kinds of shots (a defender is at least six feet away) and missing more than his average.

"I have gotten more kickouts, I would say, like, corner 3s, then I've gotten in a really long time," Korver said. "I've had, probably a couple every game, like a corner 3, where it's a catch-and-shoot corner 3. I haven't had those in a really long time. It's kind of an adjustment for me to get ready to shoot that shot again."

So the adjustment is not just on the Cavs. Korver needs to acclimate himself not only to an offense where, by its nature, he's going to be standing in the corner catching a pass from James or Irving because the entire defense has collapsed on them trying to stop a drive. (That is, essentially, why the Cavs never ran floppy before Korver's arrival).

Korver is also trying to learn a new defense, as Cleveland guards the pick-and-roll differently and uses a new terminology from what he had grown accustomed to with the Hawks.

Before Friday's game against the Nets, at morning shootaround, coach Tyronn Lue assembled a number of players on a far court for a defensive walk through. The primary purpose was to take Korver through defensive rotations and get him used to how the Cavs guard certain actions.

Korver calls the defense his "biggest adjustment," while Lue admits it's been trickier than he thought to incorporate Korver into his schemes.

"But it's my job to work on it and figure it out, so that's what I've been doing," Lue said. "The coaching staff been working on it also, so, we'll figure it out."

Lue said he would like to play Korver 27 minutes per game (right now, he's at 24.9). Lue needs to consider defensive schemes, how to balance using Korver with Iman Shumpert, who's been starting at shooting guard and performing admirably, and to make sure Korver is on the court with not only James but Tristan Thompson, so opponents can't use a smaller lineup to neutralize Korver on the perimeter.

In the meantime, the Cavs are going to continue to run (and, when they aren't playing, practice) the floppy and other offensive sets with movement, because that's what Korver does best. He sprints around screens, darts to a spot and shoots almost as soon as he catches it. The Cavs haven't played that way for nearly 21/2 seasons. Now they have a player who forces them to.

"You acquire someone that specializes in certain things, it makes no sense not to continue to run it for him," James said. "You can't just have him sit in the corner."

Added Korver: "You don't want to just scrap, this team won a championship last year. We just want to try to add to what they've done and try different lineups and try to maybe create a little bit more movement, a little more opportunity for guys. Try to make things a little bit easier."