Cavaliers can Chris Grant

The Cleveland Cavaliers suffered a humiliating loss on Wednesday night.
On Thursday,that loss might have pushed general manager Chris Grant over the edge as Cleveland relieved Grant of his duties.

The loss to a Lakers team with seven players,missing their stars and having played an overtime game on the road the night before had to have been the final weight on the back of Grant and Dan Gilbert pulled the trigger and removed Grant.
Cleveland currently notes a 16-33 record in a season that had playoff expectations by most after some veteran additions and the top overall pick in the draft in Anthony Bennett along with a mid-season trade for Luol Deng from Chicago.

Grant most positive effect on the franchise will be taking the salary of Baron Davis and the Clippers first round pick in return for Mo Williams and Jamario Moon.
The Clippers pick would win the draft lottery and allow Cleveland to take Kyrie Irving ,which I at the time,slightly preferred Derrick Williams due to Irving's injury history.

Grant's trades worked out better than his free agent signings and with the exception of his 2012 draft,his drafting,but the final dagger may have been his role with returning his friend Mike Brown to the head coaching position after Brown was fired by first Cleveland and then the Lakers.
Brown was touted as being able to return the Cavaliers to the defensive teams of the past under Brown,but instead returned Cleveland to the time of give the ball to the star and see happens era.
Browns also has been said to have issues in the locker room in dealing with the ego of the teams top star,Kyrie Irving in much the same fashion that he did in his previous stint with LeBron James.
Since Brown's return was Grant's idea,when the team struggled,it was Grant that was going to swing for it.

I would have drafted differently than Grant as it appears his ideas for building a team are clearly not based on a team chemistry basis.
Tristan Thompson has not been a bust,but I still would have drafted Jonas Valancunias as centers are harder to find than power forwards.
Had Grant made that decision,his choice of Anthony Bennett as the top pick last year would have plugged a hole instead of overloading the 4 spot.
I would have passed on Dion Waiters too,but Waiters has done what he has been expected to do.
The problem was that Grant did not see that Waiters and Kyrie Irving both need to have the ball to be effective,making them as a backcourt pairing less than as expected.
I still would have preferred Harrison Barnes or Andre Drummond at the time,but Waiters hasn't been a bust.

Chris Grant consistently drafted players that did not fit the system or the teams needs.
Why Bennett if you have Thompson?
Why Sergei Karasev,who seems like the antithesis of the Mike Brown player?
Why Waiters with Irving when both need the ball?
So many questions that it just leads to more questions..

I understand why the move was made now.
The Cavaliers are not that far from contention and still have assets in the future (draft wise),the last thing that the team needs is for a reckless general manager to attempt to save his job with moves that smack of desperation and set the team back further with gambles.
I lived through with the Pirates and Dave Littlefield,it is not usually effective and it costs fan support as well.

In the end,Chris Grant did himself in.
Next up-can Mike Brown
save his job with an unexpected rally,barring some solid moves (permitted by Dan Gilbert) by interim GM David Griffin,I believe there will be a new coach in Cleveland for the next opener...