This is why Rah Rah coaches are a risk

You get a rah rah guy up front and instead of hiring actual X's and O's coaches to support him, hire more players' coaches with poor to little X's and O's coaching, and this is the result.

When the team is healthy, you can somewhat get around it, but with injuries, you make limited adjustments, horrible rotations, and see very little player improvement.

It is not a shock and while Griffin is not an awful GM, he's really not that good either. He's made some bad moves that he has bought his way out of with capital that he had to waste, and made bad decisions with guys like Hayes when they needed more fundamental guys. He went for a boom or bust physical player, when many much better/safer prospects were there.

It is what it is. This team simply doesn't have the right drivers on the bus, and are going to gift the Lakers a play-in spot.