Cleveland Cavaliers: Mo Williams Back In The Return, Take 2

Mo Williams is back, baby. Back to being part of the Cleveland Cavaliers, where he was once an All-Star (2008-09) courtesy of LeBron James. Now he can pick up right where he left off, matching his headband game with James’ every single night. Or maybe he’ll stop wearing one now … ?

All jokes aside, Williams is just what Cleveland needed. He fills one of their few holes as a legitimate backup point guard. Matthew Dellavedova is a decent (I even cringed a little typing that) player, but he’s not worth playing near 20 minutes a night.

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Williams has been in the league for 13 seasons, and provides a veteran presence. He’s played with LeBron before and knows how this all works. There should be little to no problem with getting him to fit in.

He’s the classic point guard: he can handle the ball, call plays, shoot it and make the correct pass. He might be 32 years old, but he can still ball with the best of them.

Last season with the Timberwolves, Williams dropped a career-high 52 points (along with seven assists and four rebounds) on 57.6 percent shooting from the floor and 54.5 percent shooting from deep in the greatest game of his life versus Indiana.

Take it for what you will, but Williams is still a worthwhile player to hang on to, despite his journeyman past (he’s played for seven different clubs).

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In fact, he got traded last year from Minny to Charlotte. He still averaged 14.2 points, 2.6 rebounds, 6.2 assists and 34.2 percent shooting from downtown for the season.

Williams will suddenly be playing for a contender again after being stuck with relatively weak teams for the past few years. With LeBron around, getting good looks will become far easier, and he’ll need to prepare his shot for all of the spot-up threes he’ll have the chance to take.

Just imagine if it had been Williams taking all of those treys in The Finals instead of Delly. Oh, man.

He might not be someone that pushes the team over the edge to a title, but he’ll help in various ways. If the Cavs are good from the get-go this coming season (which they should be), the plan to give LeBron fewer minutes will hopefully be set into motion.

Williams can handle the ball while James rests, since LeBron does almost all of that while he’s in the game.

Coach David Blatt will also no longer have a heart attack when he needs to rest Kyrie Irving and James at the same time. Instead of having no one to handle the ball and run things, he’ll have Mo. This should probably give Irving more chances to rest as well, since he’s injury prone.

There were times last season when guys like Kyrie and Kevin Love would keep playing even though they should really have been recovering from injuries. But because the Cavs always seemed to have multiple players injured and really weren’t that deep, they either weren’t able to rest as long as they needed to or at all.

When you have someone who can control things on the floor in times of need, it really helps.

Williams always seems to try hard and he should be stoked to be returning to his old stomping grounds where he’ll get another chance to run toward a title with James. The Cavs, likewise, seem pretty pleased to have him aboard. And they should be.

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