3 ways Cavs trade acquisition Caris LeVert will help the team

#2: Bench gets stronger

With LeVert likely being inserted into the starting lineup that will mean players like Isaac Okoro and Dean Wade will be coming off the bench, likely. Normally, Kevin Love and Cedi Osman have been the two main players coming off the bench first and they’ve often been outstanding; Osman has had starts of late, but more often this season and still at times recently without Lauri Markkanen, Wade has still gotten starts, anyhow.

Either way, it seems that Cavs head coach J.B. Bickerstaff usually plays an eight or nine-man rotation. So that will mean a couple of players might not be in that rotation moving forward.

Bringing players like Wade and Okoro off the bench will only add to the Cavs strength as a team, in some instances Osman gets starts. In that case, both Okoro and Wade are also outstanding defenders so that second unit of players will help take advantage of that defense and hopefully be able to extend leads against opponents’ second teams as the season moves on.

You go back and look at the output the bench put out in their recent win against the Indiana Pacers, and you can see how that part of the team has had a lot to do with the team’s current surge. The bench scored 62 points of the team’s 98 points on the night. A very solid night for the bench. That won’t always be the case, but this Cavs team is so deep when you consider they have seven players averaging in double figures.

Now adding LeVert, who is averaging 18.7 points a game, will make things easier for Bickerstaff to mix players and rotations because he’s added a scorer. And if Bickerstaff were to not insert him in the starting group and instead have him come off the bench that would be another option to help keep that part of the team very strong.