re: In hindsight, was signing Ben Simmons the downfall of CJJ?

No, his downfall was in not signing better players to play with Simmons. We desperately (still do) needed a post player that Simmons could feed from the top of the key. Robinson, Epps and even Victor did not provide this. So Simmons was forced to post up sometimes as our best player to do that and he didn't like it. He wanted to play point guard which he saw as his position in the pros but our personnel didn't allow him to do it.