Because the people around them always said, "You tried your best, the poor performance is the team's fault, what more can you do?"
This kind of excuse isn't entirely wrong. Sometimes, it's completely accurate because basketball is ultimately a five-person sport, and one person, no matter how strong, can only guarantee the lower limit for the team.
However, Griffin's lower limit was leading the team twice into the lottery zone, so even compared to the lower limit, it was a pretty ugly one. And what was Yu Fei's lower limit since his rookie season? It was the divisional finals. From the results point of view, the divisional finals meant being in the top four for the season. Such a lower limit had already been the best performance many known stars could lead their team to achieve.
