Cavaliers sign Ty Jerome

  The Cleveland Cavaliers aren't finished with their attempt to improve the players around their core after adding Georges Niang and Max Strus as they signed guard Ty Jerome away from the Golden State Warriors to back up Darius Garland at the point.

The two-year agreement is valued at five million for Jerome, best remembered for leading Virginia to the 2019 NCAA championship.

Last season was Jerome's first with the Warriors after spending the previous two seasons with the Oklahoma City Thunder, playing in forty-five games for Golden State.

Jerome averaged just under seven points a game and three assists in eighteen minutes a game.

Jerome shoots the ball well, shooting 48.8 percent from the floor and 38.9 from three-point range last season

Jerome turns twenty-six next week so he should be the fifth guard for Cleveland in a similar role that was played last season by Raul Neto and the one that he played with Golden State, which had him playing between fifteen and twenty minutes a game depending on the roster situation at the time.

I like Jerome, a player that has proven to be effective if used in limited doses, and think he can help the Cavaliers in those situations but I do wonder if they may have overpaid a bit.

I would have thought a player similar to Jerome could have been signed to a one-year contract rather than two, and two and a half million also could have been a bit high but Cleveland clearly liked Jerome and thought the value was locking him up for two seasons.

Cleveland likely has completed their free-agent shopping for their bigger ticket items but I wouldn't be surprised to see them sign a lower-priced backup big man and/or a wing player that can- wait for it, shoot well from the outside.

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