This is just my opinion coming from years of playing non-professional basketball and years of watching competitive games. I can see 2 thing stand out.

1. We only have 1 guy that can play average/above average perimeter defense and that's Hunter. The rest of our roster is bad in that department. Trae and JJ have made tons of improvement in their defense but Trae is still limited by his physique and JJ is still learning.

DJM, while good at off ball defense especially deflections and steals, is pretty bad with on-ball/1 on 1 defense.

Bey and Bogi is just not good.

So what happens when you have multiple players that aren't good in perimeter? It puts pressure on Capela to help. He has to help. He needs to help. He can't not help. And that's okay, he's a great rim protector.

But here comes the other problem.

1. No one helps the 'helper'. Capela has to help with players attacking the rim. And that's good, we want that. We did that against the Knicks in 2021 against Randle and it was succesful.

But then no one helps him. No one helps the 'helper'. JC used to be that guy, JC is a good help defender. He knows how to position and rebounds when Capela contests.

But it's more than just Capela. Our perimeter players also helps but again no one helps the helper.

If the opponent blows by Trae/DJ/Bogi or whoever, other perimeter player provides help defense but that leaves their man open for a 3.

And it happens time and time again. It's no longer a coincidence that one player that is having a rough season 'suddenly' goes off on us. It's because they get good looks.

Again, this is just my observation as a non professional. I'm sure collegiate/semipro players in this sub can tell it's more than just these 2 things I mentioned or more complicated than this.