Cavaliers fired head coach Bickerstaff: It is difficult to keep the position in the playoffs for two consecutive years and is interested in the Warriors' assistant coach

Yuwen basketball

2024-05-23 22:38Posted in Guangdong sports field creators

According to WOJ, the Cavaliers will fire the team's head coach, Bickerstaff. Although Bickerstaff helped the Cavaliers advance to the playoffs two years in a row, winning 99 games in the past two years, bringing a lot of changes and development prospects to the team, it is still difficult to escape the fate of being fired.

The Cavaliers' president of basketball operations, Kobe Altman, and general manager Mike Gancy, will begin screening for the head coach position in the coming days. One candidate to keep an eye on in this list is Warriors assistant coach Kenny Atkinson, who coached Jarrett Allen and Caris LeVert with the Nets and helped the Nets reach the playoffs together.

Bickerstaff began the '19-20 season as an assistant coach with the Cavaliers, then took over as head coach in the middle of the season, and has been the head coach of the Cavaliers for the past four and a half years, with a 170-159 record and a 51.6% winning percentage. The Cavaliers have been the fourth seed in the East for the past two years, losing to the Knicks in the first round last year and losing 4-1 to the regular season champions Celtics in the Eastern Conference semifinals this year.

Firing Bickerstaff may be the first step in the Cavaliers' reshuffle. Because the team did not play the expected performance after trading for Mitchell, it was always a certain distance from the championship. In the face of huge salary pressure, the team may consider sending Mitchell or Garland away to challenge for the championship again by adjusting the roster. This offseason, we could see a major shake-up to the Cavaliers' roster.

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