Cup of Cavs for May 10, 2022

Some thoughts on being nominated vs. winning awards.

Happy Tuesday, everyone! Draft lottery is a week from today.

The first sip

Have had this thought ping-ponging around my head for a while, so let’s just lay it out here.

I get being bummed that J.B. Bickerstaff didn’t win Coach of the Year or wasn’t even a finalist. I get not loving that Tyler Herro won Sixth Man of the Year over Kevin Love and feeling that Darius Garland didn’t win Most Improved Player. I especially get being annoyed that Evan Mobley didn’t win Rookie of the Year. I also feel for the players and coach themselves, as I’m sure they’d have liked the recognition. That’s only human.

But I also think this can lead to missing the first for the trees in that the Cavs having so many people in contention for awards is really cool and a sign of how far they’ve come in a year. This is a team that has really leveled up in a short amount of time. The fact that they have people in talk for awards shows that even if they didn’t win them.

That’s it. Not a deep thought, or worth a full column. But perhaps worth sharing here.

Read this

ICYMI last week, read our own Mike Anguilano on picking between LeVert and Sexton

Links of the day

What a weird situation for Mike Brown (and get well soon Steve Kerr)

Bummer about Ja Morant

Monty Williams won Coach of the Year while J.B. Bickerstaff finished fifth

Today’s Tankathon

Alas, again! I suspect this will be a theme of this exercise.