JesseDark wrote:Seems like he was affected by the returns of crowds. Can he keep up his play of the regular season next season when crowds are restored. I’d still keep him for next season.
Too many variables but that's hard to ignore.
Randle could have been injured. Some players hide their pain and not playing would have hurt him more contract wise than playing. Randle could be burned out. This past season was far too many games in that type of time compression. Both the owners and NBPA got greedy beyond reason. We don't know how Randle's PEDs testing cycled through this season. When his "random" tests occurred. Superstars get their "randoms" out of the way very early (hence the periods where some star players look almost totally broken early in the year) but everyone else gets spaced out the way the league wants it.
Randle carried a pretty heavy burden all year long.
Something to consider is non Delete 8 teams were very likely beat up badly early in the season because of the short turnaround and not getting a break like the Knicks and GSW and etc, etc. You had the Knicks, fresh and rested, against teams that might have still been reeling from the season before.
One of the things no one talks about ( they tend to focus on more space around the basket and no fans moving behind the backboard) is the issue of noise. Without fans, you can hear things you wouldn't hear otherwise. If I was able to play offensive line WITHOUT crowd noise, that changes everything. If I could hear the movement and not be distracted by the deafening roar. A lot of times, people blow assignments because they can't see all of the hand signals and can't process the voice commands on the field.
The refs and umps also shift with the difference of having crowds or not. If you don't think they aren't impacted by the booing or having batteries thrown at them, then you are forgetting that they are just human beings like the rest of us.
6/12/2021 8:33 AM
