Until the Cavs can trade for somebody else (a possibility, but not a given; especially not until later this month, after many more players around the league become tradable), Okoro is it.
Lamar Stevens is pretty much an Okoro clone except he's a better shooter. For the season Stevens is shooting 37% overall and 37.5% on 3's. His last four games he's 4-for-8 from deep.
Okoro is at 35.9% and 21.8%. He's 12-for-55 on 3's.
Jrue Holiday said the Bucks' game plan was to take away Garland's 3-point shot and pack the paint. Which means they were giving up the 3's from Cedi, Love, Marky, Okoro, and Mobley. Love and Marky did fine from deep (9-for-20) but Okoro, Cedi, and Rubio combined to shoot 2-for-15 on 3's. That's what cost us the game in an 8-point loss. Just 33% from that group gives us 9 more points.
Not revealed in the stats are the times when Okoro has an open 3-point look but hesitates, then decides to attack the rim, resulting in a missed layup against a big or a pass out to the perimeter with the shot clock expiring and nobody open.
So am I suggesting Stevens start for Okoro? I'd continue to start Okoro for now but if he starts off 0-for-6 like he did against the Bucks I would bring in Stevens for the second shift and let him finish the game.
By the way, the Cavs are 10.4 points per 100 possessions BETTER when Stevens is on the floor; second highest on the team to Garland. The Cavs are 7.4 points WORSE per 100 possessions when Okoro is on the floor; second worst only to Sexton. That's a 19-point difference.
Breaking it down, the defense is actually about 3 points better with Okoro than Stevens, but the offense is almost 22 points better with Stevens. One big difference is the offensive rebound rate - the Cavs are 7.2% better with Stevens on the floor against 2.3% worse with Okoro. That puts Stevens in the 97th percentile among wings when it comes to improving the offensive rebounding. Okoro is in the 26th percentile. Stevens is a monster on the offensive glass. If he could also knock down 50% of his uncontested corner 3's he would not be a zero on the offensive end. So far this year Stevens is 4-for-9 from the corner, or 44.4%. Okoro is at 22%.
In fact, the Cavs 3-point shooting as a team improves a whopping 8.9% with Stevens, highest on the team and in the 99th percentile among NBA wings. For some reason when Stevens is on the floor the Cavs' 3-point shooting soars. Maybe he's in with Cedi a lot, who is shooting 43%. But that can't be the only reason.