People keep saying that. It was a very bad SERIES, not postseason, and that's important because literally every star has at least one of those.

He averaged 15/10/9 in the first round. His averages over his 4 previous postseason series were 15.8/8.2/7 so pretty dead on.

He DID have a terrible series vs the Hawks with 9.9/6.3/8.6 - absolutely. And they should not have lost that series. But Ben is who he is.

And yeah Doc probably could have at least not totally bumbled that response, which of course is "Yes, Ben is an all NBA caliber player. Of course he can be the PG on a title squad. We need to get better as a team." Whether or not he believes it, that was the answer to give publicly.