Cavs: 3 reasons Koby Altman should be done as general manager
By Chad Porto
Building a team that doesn’t fit
There’s a lot of talent on this team but they don’t fit with each other. Collin Sexton can’t share the court with Darius Garland. Garland is an overall better player, but Sexton is a better scorer. The problem is, for Sexton to get points, he has to have the ball. For Garland to facilitate the offense, he has to have the ball. Before we even talk about the issues with their defense, that right there is the issue with the offense. There is no true off-ball guard who’s working to get open.
For what J.B. Bickerstaff wants to do, Isaac Okoro makes sense but he was an over-reach at the fifth spot in the 2020 NBA Draft. He, Larry Nance Jr, and Jarrett Allen make sense as the starting five. Kevin Love does not. Don’t factor in his horrid attitude, which everyone is making excuses for, his poor offensive play, or the fact he can’t stay healthy. Ignore all that. He’s an offensive-minded, stretch-four, who has never played good defense in his career.
And you go and sign a defensive-minded coach.
You have a shooting guard who hates playing defense and a power forward who hates playing inside these days, and you sign a defensive-minded coach? This is like selling sand to a man dying of thirst.
What are you doing, Altman?
The best part, those two players don’t even seem to like each other! Sexton has outright liked comments mocking Love and Love has to constantly field questions about one another.
This team has no real identity on the court because Altman keeps playing hopscotch with the talent around them. That’s why the signing and trade of JaVale McGee really didn’t make sense, as he was the perfect complement to what Bickerstaff wanted to do. Isiah Hartenstein has potential but even he ended up on the bench and hardly used near the end of the year. So that didn’t help things much, either.
Altman hasn’t kept true with a single plan other than “get high draft picks.”
It feels like that episode of South Park where the gang finds out there are underwear gnomes, stealing people’s underwear to sell for a profit. Only, they have no idea how to sell the stuff. That’s the Cavs. “Draft Players High + ? = Championship.”