Is Cavs head coach J.B. Bickerstaff the right person for the job?

Is Bickerstaff the right person to lead the Cavs?

So yes, I’m worried as a Cavs fan and exactly where this team is headed under Bickerstaff’s lead. The discussion two years ago was that Bickerstaff would be good at communicating and bringing a more cohesive approach to his young team.

When you listen to Bickerstaff discuss his team, his players and how they all are all trying to get better you certainly believe that those concepts and ideas are being addressed. But the team has continued to struggle and simply is not winning.

I’ve written before about the youth on this team and that being a good thing but also a troubling thing because there is so much that has to be done on the mental and emotional side of things. I believe Bickerstaff is probably a good head coach but sometimes good head coaches, regardless of their efforts, just aren’t the right fit.

That’s where I think we are with Bickerstaff and the Cavs. There is still time this next season to showcase what some thought Bickerstaff’s strengths were as a head coach when the Cavs handed him the nice contract. I think the Cavaliers organization is desperate and so badly wants that continuity for its players in having Bickerstaff coach the team. I think that’s a good plan, but I also think that plan wasn’t completely looked at well enough last year.

Bickerstaff came to Cleveland after subpar years of coaching at Memphis, where he was an associate head coach prior to that, and even before that in a brief stint with the Houston Rockets, where he was a longtime assistant coach previously.

There are reasons to be hopeful going into this next season, especially getting another high draft pick in the upcoming NBA Draft on July 29.

But this next year for Bickerstaff is big for him and trying to improve on what the team did last season under his direction. The Cavs front office should be willing to part ways with Bickerstaff especially if the winning part of the process doesn’t start showing up.

The training wheels on the bike and the leg braces need to come off. The NBA is about winning and its time to start seeing that with the Cavs.