Kevin Love

Cleveland Cavaliers' Kevin Love dunks the ball during an NBA scrimmage basketball game Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

(Tony Dejak)

CLEVELAND, Ohio – LeBron James has a new quarterback to throw him the deep ball.

Kevin Love showed off his two-handed outlet passes in the Cavaliers' Wine and Gold scrimmage Wednesday night and the message was loud and clear: take off and he'll find you.

"There's no one in the league that does that like him. No one," James said after the game. "He has the ability to get a rebound and look up the court with his outlet passes. The two-hand chest pass from 94 feet, there's no one like him.

"I played with D-Wade (Dwyane Wade), he threw the football pass or the baseball pass full court. He was very, very good at it as well. So to have a guy like Love is great."

In the first quarter of the scrimmage, Love took the ball out of the basket and stepped out of bounds. He saw Kyrie Irving up the court and Irving hit Matthew Dellavedova with a double-move and Love let that ball fly.

An open Irving caught the ball in stride and sailed in for the dunk. That wasn't a designed play. That was just a playmaking gunslinger letting it fly for an easy two.

"I just continue to tell these guys to keep running," Love explained. "I think they saw that in the first quarter that if they would like, they're going to have four-on-three, three-on-two, two-on-one, one-on-one, one-on-zero situations for them and if that can lead to easy transition buckets, so be it. That's really going to help us."

For a team with this many offensive weapons at their disposal, it's going to be borderline unfair for them to pick up extra points from 94 feet away. Transition is going to be a huge weapon and Love's arm is going to have a lot to do with it.

"I really love the fact that Kevin is so capable of throwing his kind of outlet passes even though it's not something that specifically we even worked on," head coach David Blatt said. "He's just a brilliant outlet passer and our guys have the kind of IQ to understand who is Kevin Love and what they need to do when the ball is in our possession."

Although it was only a scrimmage, the first-team unit of Irving, Dion Waiters, James, Love and Tristan Thompson looked good together. That group is filled with energy, athletes and speed, a perfect combination for transition style of play.

Blatt maintains that he hasn't "locked in" on a starting unit, but if that's the lineup he's leaning towards, it's going to be scary for the opposition.

When asked if this is the best receiving corps he has had in his NBA career, Love laughed.

"I think so, but my game has evolved," he said. "That pass for me has also evolved and has gotten better every year. They're going to make me look pretty good this year, I hope."