This Cleveland Cavaliers outfit certainly is not the result of solid planning, according to Chris Tomasson of the Beacon News.  They have gone for experience, then youth.  A novice coach, then experienced.  Long term contracts, then short.  They traded for an extra draft pick.  Then traded it away.  Could someone please tell us if the Cavs are coming or going!?!

One player who might be going is Andre Miller, the teams star point guard who leads the NBA in assists.  Now don't jump to conclusions, the Cavs like us all love the guy, but would a player like Duke's Jason  Wiliams make him expendable?

Coach John Lucas believes that his team needs more ball handlers, and Williams would obviously be the ultimate.  But Williams is expected to go first in the draft, top three minimum, and the Cavaliers are most likely to have a mid-lottery pick.

The reason why Miller would be used as bait is because he is now eligable for a contract extension.  The Cavaliers were hoping to sign Miller for less than the max salary, but with his elite play of late that would seem almost impossible now.  Williams would make much less on a rookie contract, and who says Miller would sign an extension anyway?  "C'mon man, why you bothering me?'' is Andre's response when asked if he wants to remain a Cavalier.  

With the team's track record in max contract players, Shawn Kemp and Zydrunas Ilgauskas, one ballooning while the other with feet like chalk, there is no wonder why the Cavaliers are hesitant.

If the Wiliams scenario falters then Cleveland will still try to aquire a multi-position perimiter player who can also backup Miller at the point via free agency.  But before that the Cavs still have another option.

``There could be a scenario in which we trade the pick on draft day and get a veteran like Atlanta did last year to get (Shareef) Abdur-Rahim.,'' Paxson said.

Cleveland also are considering retaining guard Ricky Davis this offseason, the team seemingly willing to match ' any offer sheet that is not outrageous'.  The team also has qualifying offers on both Michael Doleac and Brian Skinner, but if they get an offer sheet from another team the Cavaliers are not interested in matching.

Trajan Langdon, Jim Paxson's other lottery pick in 1999, is dead in the water.  As Tomasson so delicately puts it 'a three-second violation couldn't even be called during the amount of time the Cavs will spend negotiating with him'.