In the end... Its the players... Not Muss.
RA had the same troubles last year (actually a worse record if I remember right) before the Ron-Ron honymoon came. That is little spark/honymoon period is over now.
RA also had the same problems Muss has - he's afraid to go into the post as a viable offensive option. He refused to change his offensive scheme to suit his players and his team's record suffered because of it.
We did the same thing last year that we did this year - we annointed three perimeter players to be the keys to our team. Peja, Bibby and Miller. When it didn't work, we blamed Peja for not hitting shots --- but he wasn't getting the ball in positions he's good at scoring from.
It is not muss. Get us some a real #1, a real PF then bash muss if things don't work out. The type of play out there, especially O is not a muss style offense. I think he is catering to what he has.
Muss is catering his offense to his players? I highly doubt that.
We don't even run an offense for the most part, so if that's what you mean then I agree.
Other than that, our "strength" is plain vanilla. It's inside scoring. That's the area we have players who can create from. We've got a 20PPG inside threat in SAR. We've got a bull named Artest who is basically a mismatch any time he's down there. It may be boring, but it's what we're strong at. Yet we avoid it like it's cancerous.
Our "outside shooting" is similar to last year. We've got a streaky Mike Bibby (except he's hurt). To get him good shots we need to basically let him dominate the ball and set high pick after high pick. We've got a dead-eye shooter like Peja was in Martin, but just like Peja ... he's not the best at creating for himself. He shoots best when he gets the ball on kick outs. We've got Brad Miller, who can bury the outside shot but can be shut down by token coverage.
We also don't have players that are adept at creating for others from the perimeter, which makes penetration passing much tougher and less effective. Most of our players penetrate to get their shot.
As for not having a #1 option, a lot of that is coaching. Do we have a KG, Kobe, Shaq? No. But most teams don't. We've got decent enough players to have roles assigned and an identity. But, the coach hasn't assigned it. He's letting the players dictate their own roles and everyone is on a different page.
That's a coaching problem, by my count.