Cavs shouldn’t and realistically, can’t be too active in 2019 free agency

The Cleveland Cavaliers seemingly won’t have free agency as a key focus this summer, and they reportedly won’t have that be the case, anyhow, which is how it should be.

Cleveland Cavaliers general manager Koby Altman and the team’s leadership are amid what will still seem to be a long head coaching search, and we’ve touched on the reported names involved as candidates, along with the reported names that have already been interviewed for that job here at KJG.

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With the head coaching search and the team’s two draft picks in the 2019 NBA Draft appearing to be the major focus of this summer/offseason, it doesn’t appear that Cleveland will and should be too active in free agency.

Altman, as we’ve noted, did a good job over the course of the 2018-19 season of accumulating future assets, as he acquired an additional five second-round draft picks in coming years, along with two first-round draft picks, from trades involving veteran players.

The Cleveland Cavaliers and Altman seem to be fully aware that with the team’s full-rebuild situation at hand, it’s imperative that they improve their outlook internally.

Given that Cleveland is not going to pull in marquee free agents by the boatload, making savvy trades to accumulate draft picks is clearly the most logical way to get better over the long-term, combined with the next head coach and their assistants developing those draft picks properly, of course.

With the strides that Collin Sexton, even in one season in the NBA, made last year, that’s a good sign for Cleveland in the coming years with their player development approach, and Cedi Osman, combined with Ante Zizic (who put up 7.8 points on 55.3% shooting and 5.4 rebounds in 18.3 minutes per game last year, per Basketball Reference) to a large degree, were solid examples of why fans should be optimistic with Cleveland likely having an internal outlook, too.