J.B. Bickerstaff: Next season we want to be a a playoff-contending team

Cleveland Cavaliers coach J.B. Bickerstaff talks with Cleveland.com about his plans for the next season:

“I think our responsibility is to keep improving. You always look outward. You’re always doing your job to see what players you’re going to get in the draft, what free agents may be available, but for us as a coaching staff, our priority is developing the guys that we have here and who we can identify to take the biggest step to make us that team that we want to be. And that’s a playoff-contending team”

“That’s what our focus is right now. I trust our front office. They work tirelessly and are prepared. And, again, it was a small sample size, but if you look at the way we competed over that stretch, there’s no reason why we can’t have that conversation about achieving that goal for next year”

Before the suspension the Cavs had the worst record in the Eastern Conference with 19 wins over 65 games.