re: CJ is the main reason the Pels lose

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CJ is like a 13 year vet with zero basketball IQ. It’s relatively confounding bc he’s seemingly a well spoken, smart guy off the court. Yet, his basketball IQ is lower than say a 3rd year, Jalen Green type player.

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I watched his presser last night and just to be clear Im not excusing any of his horrid play recently. But it just feels like this coaching staff has put everything on CJ and they are going to live/die with the results. When hes struggling that much- thats where a coach tries to devise a play or scheme to get him or the team a better shot. Our staff does none of this ever. In fact CJ in his presser states its up to ME to get us a better shot in the closing minutes than the Herb blocked shot. Meanwhile not once does Willie take ownership that we need to help CJ and make sure we’re putting him in the best position to succeed.

To me this is the divide thats going on between the players and the staff. Its ALL on the players. When your down two key stars, your coaching staff has to help you- draw up plays, devise schemes, make advantageous lineups, etc. None of this is happening. Basically the gameplan was CJ jack up shots and we’ll live/die by that.

Finally both CJ and Willie were asked how is the locker room after this 4 game losing streak during this time of year. Willie responds by stating I am always positive and we’re handling the adversity. When CJ was asked this- he gets a bit upset and says what do you want us to say we’ve lost 4 straight basically the vibe obviously isnt great. Personally, I thought that was telling- I just don’t think the players are buying Willie’s do nothing positivity through adversity bullshite anymore.