It appears the Cleveland Cavaliers will make a change to something they’ve been doing for the entire season.
Or, rather, not doing.
Star center Kevin Love said head coach Tyronn Lue recently told the team that he plans to fit more practices into its schedule, per Nikki Goel of ClutchPoints.
This development is interesting because the Cavaliers, for the entire season, have not been ashamed of saying that they did not hold very many practices, becoming a well-known fact around the league.
This is an NBA team. So to know that the team doesn’t practice in by far the toughest basketball league in the world doesn’t make much logical sense. But thinking about the aging roster that the Cavs have, it stands to reason that rest will be incorporated into the schedule more than other teams in the league.
But so far, that approach hasn’t been working. The team is awful on defense, and it just got Derrick Rose and Isaiah Thomas back into its regular rotation.
A team needs practice to figure all that stuff out if it wants to reach its goal, which is winning an NBA championship.
Cavs fans should be happy that Lue is finally reversing his position on practices, even if it’s only somewhat. The Cavaliers won’t beat anyone in the playoffs on their current trajectory and with their current bad habits.
Teams in high school and college, and even more so NBA team hold practice as the place where players build good habits that help them win.
