Cavs: 3 reasons Koby Altman should be done as general manager

The culture

Culture is a fun buzzword for many in the American-English lexicon but in sports, it has a whole different meaning. The culture of a team is the expectations of its players. How they play, practice, handle the media, and fanbase as a whole. It’s about finding guys who fit well, mesh well, and gel together. Building a team of guys with similar team mindsets and team-based goals.

The Cavs have failed at this. From the top-down, the organization has a history of bringing in troubled players, who only cause problems. This is not new, more recent fans will point to the arrival of Shawn Kemp. Modern fans will notice guys like Derrick Rose, Isiah Thomas, Kevin Love, J.R. Smith, Kevin Porter Jr., Andre Drummond, and even to a lesser degree Collin Sexton have all come in and made waves be it big or small.

For Porter, it was running afoul with the law, for Sexton, it was liking social media posts that took digs at teammates. Not the same thing in the level of severity, but both examples of immaturity.

This is directly on Koby Altman. He values talent over character and this is where the team has ended up. That’s not to take a shot at everyone, as Darius Garland and Isaac Okoro have actually been well-behaved, hard-working, young players. They also fit J.B. Bickerstaff’s system quite well. Of all of Altman’s picks though, of which there three others, they’re the only ones who do.

Some guys, like Cedi Osman and Larry Nance Jr., seem like the kind of guys you can work with, but at the end of the day, there are too many misses to warrant keeping Altman around.