This is what separates the Miami's of the world from other organizations. They are good at understanding when they have made a mistake and organizationally, have a willingness to move on and give someone else a chance.
The Cavs are the opposite. The just KNOW these guys can be successful, they just need more time......they need a different system, they need to just push the ball more, yada, yada, yada.
Miami would have let Hood walk, traded Clarkson for a 2026 second round pick, played Cedi 30 minutes a game, played Sexton 30 minutes a game, taken their lumps but understood what they had in their young players.....and crafted a clear path forward.
Just look at their season vs. ours......Richardson being thrust in to a leading role is a good example of that. The Heat want to see if he can handle it because they are going nowhere. Maybe they back in to the playoffs but that is a secondary goal to roster assessment. They want to know if Richardson is a 1B, 2A, 2B or 3 when it comes to roster hierarchy. Knowing that is far more valuable to how they move forward than chasing a specific result (low playoff seed), in an effort to be "competitive" for one season. They have bigger goals than that.
The Cavs just have a front office and ownership group with no actual plan. And if there is even a semblance of a plan communicated to the general public or team, it can change 3-4 games in to it. That is underscored by our highest paid (and best player) not understanding what it is the team is doing. He doesn't understand why certain players are and are not playing and he is publicly stating that he thinks the organization is ignoring some of the lessons that have (or maybe better stated, should have) been learned while they were winning. That should be alarming to fans.
Instead, too many people are focusing on individual production on a game by game basis and missing the bigger problem here, that maybe our organization is just generally a dumpster fire that was temporarily extinguished by immense luck (Kyrie lottery) and good second chance fortune because of birth proximity (LeBron).
