Honestly, I think everyone needs encouragement to do the best that they can at things they struggle with, especially someone who a second later can exhibit that he's better than everyone else on the other end of the court. Dame has terrible lapses of concentration and effort on defense. Also, I think Dame has the perfect personality to take harsh criticism from coaches. This is all conjecture though, maybe the reporters, the times he's been miked up, the post game press conferences, the time's there has been audio at practices and training camp and all of the other proof is not indicative of Stotts' coaching style and he is into giving harsh critique to his players in order to make real time adjustments and reinforce the things he requires of them as their head coach. Also maybe Dame is an uncoachable premodonna. My hunch is that Dame is coachable and Stotts is the softest coach in the league.
CJ also often passes up fairly open 3’s and instead opts himself into having to create a midrange 2 vs multiple defenders. Pre-injury he had shed that tendency and was taking those 3’s.
I hadn't really noticed the change IIRC, over that first dozen games he had a 3pt attempt rate above 55%. Now it's dropped down to 48%. Still much higher than his career mark of 35%, but it has dropped pretty substantially. If my math is right it's 44% since he came back
