"He needs to get back to where he was 7, 8 weeks ago when everyone felt he was stacking good days. He's stacking days in the wrong direction now," he said. "I get it with some young players. You sometimes subconsciously play poorly to say, 'Hey, I'll play poorly until you play me the minutes I think I deserve, and then I'll play well.' That's not how it works."
""I didn't articulate that in a great way and that wasn't fair to [Kel'el Ware]," Spoelstra said. "I wasn't even frustrated (with him). What I'll say is that I'm fully invested and invigorated about the opportunity to develop Kel'el. And our staff feels the same way."
""We're going to give him everything we have to make sure he becomes the player he wants to become and that we need him to become.""
After a 119-114 loss to the Boston Celtics, head coach Erik Spoelstra addressed limited minutes for second-year center Kel'el Ware, who played nine minutes. Spoelstra suggested Ware had been "stacking days in the wrong direction" compared with seven to eight weeks earlier and hinted young players sometimes "subconsciously" play poorly to earn more minutes. Spoelstra later said he did not articulate his remarks well and called them unfair to Ware. Spoelstra added he was not frustrated with Ware and expressed full investment, saying the staff will give everything to help Ware become the player the team needs.
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