INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- After practice on Wednesday, Cavaliers head coach David Blatt didn't deny a report stating LeBron James calls plays by himself.

He said it's quite common in the game of basketball.

"When the game is going on and you're in the heat of the battle, sometimes you can't get a message through or you don't want to stop the flow. So we have sets that we know what we're going to use going in, have a package we're going to use going in," Blatt said.

"At times according to the flow of the game, somebody may call out a play. I don't think that's unusual, no. Certainly if you know what you're doing, you have a plan going in. That's obviously not an all-the-time case, but it's going to happen during the course of the game, sure."

Blatt, named the Eastern Conference's Coach of the Month for March on Wednesday, was asked if he encourages James to dial up his own plays.

"Why not? Especially if it works," he said. "It can happen. It's not an all-the-time thing, but certainly."

James reveals he isn't the only player calling plays.

"If I see something, I have the right to call plays. Kyrie [Irving] as well," James said. "We kind of do the play-calling. Coach Blatt does the play-calling obviously throughout the game and timeouts, but it's great to be able to have some type of freedom out there with Kyrie to be able to call sets that we feel best suit our team."

When the media entered the practice facility on Wednesday, James was seen introducing Blatt and the coaching staff to a couple of new plays he suggested they consider implementing.

The coaches were spread out on the court and James was directing them in where the ball should move. Blatt along with assistants Tyronn Lue, Jim Boylan, Larry Drew and Phil Handy were paying close attention.

James says he's fortunate that the coaching staff support his willingness to dabble into the X's and O's.

"I have a feel for the game," he said. "I think I know what helps our team and we have great minds. Our coaching staff is great. I thank them that they allow me to give some input on what I think we should do at times, but ultimately it's their call so it's great to be able to just get different sides of the game with so many great minds that we have."

This isn't anything new according Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat, the Cavaliers' opponent on Thursday. He told reporters that James called plays in Miami too.

"Sometimes on the floor, you just have to be a player and call certain plays," Wade said. "It's not like, 'Oh, he's the coach.' It's not that. You have a feel of the game. You see how the defense is playing. You know what can work."

Despite the ruckus the report stirred up, everyone seemed to be on the same page and at the end of the day, that's all that matters.