Kevin Love dampened by Cleveland Cavaliers' poor opening to NBA season

Kevin Love lets it out will be a "development year" for the Cleveland Cavaliers after he was left frightened by their most recent thrashing in the NBA.

The Cavs are still without a win after Sunday's 133-111 misfortune to the Atlanta Hawks which left them 0-3 for the beginning of the season.

Losing LeBron James to the Los Angeles Lakers in the off-season has left head mentor Tyronn Lue depending on his new kid on the block stars.

However, Love, who covered 16 and 17 bounce back in Monday's misfortune, has seen some alarming patterns.

Cleveland's issues seem, by all accounts, to be far more profound than never again having the amusement's best player. The Cavs aren't playing proficient level protection and have surrendered 116, 131 and 133 in their initial three diversions.

"We didn't hope to be 0-3," said Love. "The last seventy five percent were quite damn disturbing. Premiere night at home we hope to play better. We hope to play better before our home group. I don't know whether disturbing is the correct word yet it beyond any doubt sounds right, just with our exertion level.

"Our exertion level wasn't there, particularly shielding the three-point line. It's simply going to be a development year for us. We must improve. They were simply gunning and we weren't getting into them, we weren't physical."

Cavs veteran Tristan Thompson called the execution "humiliating", including that their fans "could never anticipate that for us will turn out that way, particularly at home".

"No lack of regard to the Hawks, yet those folks, their mindset this season is for their young folks to get reps, deal with their diversion and simply go out there and contend clearly at an abnormal state, yet comprehend it's not about the wins and misfortunes, for them it's about the long adventure to return to where they need to get to.