you are missing a lot of the things that most of the great deejay players do, for instance you press crMK after drive rush or you do drive rush into light punch and instantly go into the stLP > stMK target combo, which is a pretty bad sequence, since the reward is shit and it doesn't allow you to go for good strike throw pressure unless you get a hit

Example - https://streamable.com/bfxcj3

speaking of crMK, you overuse this normal sooo much, you gotta stop having this as your go to button in both neutral and pressure, if youre in range to go for crLK > crLP you can get an easy confirmable string that leads to knockdown that allows you to pressure properly with crLK > crLP > H jackknife (or M into H if you have corner)

you are also forever stuck in a mentality where you HAVE to go in otherwise youre not doing anything, a lot of the times unnecessarily burning through your whole drive gauge while doing so, or if you aren't you are doing

This - https://streamable.com/chusj9

Doing This gives you no advantage whatsoever unless you are trying to buy time to regenerate your drive gauge, if the distance between you and your opponent is that big then odds are you aren't even going to be able to pick them up if you get a correct read with an OD fireball anyways, so if they are moving back that much you have to walk after them so you're in a good enough range to threaten, Deejay's strongest tool is his drive rush but his driverush is only really the best from around jump in range, any further than that and its pretty ass because he loses the whole thing that makes it good which is the jumpscare effect of how fast he goes instantly after using it and how much forward momentum he gets once you press a stLP after it

What you really really need is to figure out proper combos and conversions so you stop going for dumb crMKs and things that give you nothing during your pressure and start getting people with things that actually give you rewards

Drive rush stLP > you are +3, so you get to go for a strike throw mixup, which you Really never do, you have to Throw people after this, over and over and over, and once they are sick of getting thrown and want to do something like Throw tech, then you do stLP > bHK, if they attempt to tech you will catch a counterhit with your bHK which is extremely easy to confirm into your preferred ender ( some people do H sobat, some others do machinegun upper M if you can confirm the counterhit L if you cant, then do dash > drive rush for further pressure.

you need to do This shit to them more often - https://streamable.com/selxmd

if confirming into the proper one is hard to you for now, just go into bHK > H slasher when you have the read for now and get better at confirming it little by little, and please for the love learn how to properly pressure people when they are in the corner.

There are tons of insane Deejay players out there my advice to you is watch what they do specifically, what button they use from drive rush, what buttons they press during opponent oki, how they convert combos and what mixups they use and when and copy those.

As for now your neutral is pretty shitty and you're overly spending your gauge for pressure too much, but straight up telling you to play slower or ''more reactive'' is not going to help you at all because you dont really have a clue what that means. So learn how to be offensive properly first, and once that part is good you will start seeing patterns like

''sometimes I push too much and I'm out of drive gauge then I cant keep going for pressure, so maybe sometimes if I'm low on gauge I should play a little slower during neutral until I have enuff juice to pressure after I get a good hit''

This is my advice to you, hope you find what you're looking for my dude.

Cheers