(01-01-2021, 05:59 PM)Kammrath Wrote: BUT my eyes see a Luka this year who is slower, heavier, not as sharp, and whose legs look tired. I am not seeing that because I WANT to, I am seeing it despite my bias. It freaks me out. I am confident he will figure it out, but it is still scary seeing my favorite player not take his training as seriously as my previous favorite player did (Dirk).
What you see might be right, although at a fear of being called a contrarian again, I think you are overreacting. What you don't see is what Luka actually did or did not do and how seriously he was or he wasn't training. Those are just your conclusions based on what you want to see.
Luka came back in great shape last offseason. So he must have developed his bad habits in this last year. Or did perhaps a fact that this was a very strange offseason had something to do with it. Slovenia is in a lockdown since October with all public sport facilities closed, season restart was planned several months later. Not to mention that in this social media time there is not a single picture of Luka partying this offseason out there while there are a lot of offseason Luka training photos. I don't know what Luka did or did not do, but that sure doesn't mean I will just accept a theory based on pieces of internet information.