Camryn Justice is a reporter at News 5 Cleveland.
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — The Cleveland Cavaliers ' season ended after a Game 5 loss to the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Semifinals, the furthest they'd been since 2018, before the rebuild. Still, the team has loftier goals, and they have already taken steps to reach them, including firing J.B. Bickerstaff from head coaching duties.
Altman also shared that he and his front office don't have a list of candidates just yet, but that is something they plan to work on over the weekend. The team will work through criteria and attributes that they feel will help lead the Cavs forward and begin reaching out to coaches who fit what they're looking for.
"We haven't had a search for five years. We've had real continuity here, front office, bench, and so we haven't had a search in five years. That search five years ago is completely different than this one. This is a very highly specific job requirement in terms of the questions we're going to ask," Altman said."Very, very specific to the talent level. Very specific to how we can achieve even more than we have.
Mitchell will obviously be a major factor in the search for a head coach and the Cavs will want someone that will work well with their star player. That's not to say Bickerstaff did not—another point Altman made. Altman said that Mitchell did not play a role in Bickerstaff's dismissal.Last season saw some struggles throughout parts of the year for some of the young core of the team, including Darius Garland and Evan Mobley.
"I think that's overblown. I'll say this. I think there's way more data that speaks to it works than doesn't in the last two years combined because they've been together for two years, there's a lot of data that we can look at. And so over the last two years, including the playoffs, there are net positive, +5 together on the floor.
"In terms of Darius, Darius knows he needs to have a major off-season. Him seeing the physicality of that series—of both series, really—is something that I think he's going to grow from. He had a tough year in terms of the injury piece, losing all that weight from the jaw injury, never regaining that. Trying to ingratiate himself to a team that was rolling as well was hard for him. And I think he knows this needs to be a big off-season for him.
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