The Cavs' top threat in the East? It looks like the flying Miami Heat

Miami Heat can't miss, so it's no surprise they're up 2-0 in their first-round series with the Charlotte Hornets.

Through two games, the Heat are shooting 57 percent and averaging 119 points per game.

And while the Heat were a strong shooting team in the regular season, making 47 percent of their shots —€” fourth in the NBA —€” but this is a different level.

This level of offensive efficiency is shocking.

This is the kind of output that makes the Heat look like the top contender to knock off the Cavs in the Eastern Conference.

Two games it, it hardly seems like a fluke, either. The Heat are flying and their ball movement has found a new level in the postseason.

In the first half of Wednesday's game, the Heat only missed 10 points in the first half. The Hornets missed 8 shots on their first possession of the second half.

This level of offensive domination is particularly jarring because Charlotte is not a bad team. This matchup was supposed to be the closest series of the first-round. We've only seen a slight glimpse of that —€” when the Hornets clawed back in the fourth quarter of Game 2 (the Heat were shooting 63 percent through three quarters but allowed the Hornets to get within 7 with 3 minutes remaining thanks to 38 percent shooting in the fourth quarter.)

But the Heat re-took control of the game with ease.

Much of the Heat's mojo is coming from Dwyane Wade, who scored 28 points in Game 2, coming two points shy of his first 30-point playoff game since 2013. He also dished out eight assists and was a game-high plus-15 in the contest.

In the Heat's new dribble-drive offense, Wade has thrived. It's simple basketball, drive, and dish or drive and score, and the Hornets, despite knowing exactly what's coming, can't stop it.

Hornets coach Steve Clifford is one of the NBA's best defensive coaches, but even he's befuddled:

"You have to look at how they're scoring... it's one-on-one penetration, allowing the ball middle... It's as simple as this: If Dwyane Wade's got room, he's getting in the paint against anybody. So the nights when those other guys make shots, you gotta still... otherwise, you [give up] both."

It's gibberish, because the Hornets aren't going to change much defensively, and they just lost one of the their key defenders, Nic Batum, to an ankle injury (probably for the rest of the series), and the underlying truth is if you're getting beaten one-on-one, there's not much you can do to scheme that problem away. 

It's hard to imagine the Heat staying this hot, but it's equally hard to imagine that this kind of offensive output will subside. The Heat are hardly reliant on the 3-pointer and there aren't disproportionate splits regarding contested and uncontested shots so far in this series.

The Heat might just be this good for the remainder of the playoffs —€” the winner of the Indiana-Toronto series is certainly going to have a hard time keeping up with this level of offensive execution —€” and considering how easy the Cavs' path to the Eastern Conference Finals looks, we might want to start bracing for a LeBron-Miami series today.