As the year went on last year, I felt like Johnny was expending more and more energy playing to the refs. Even before the playoffs I felt like it was starting to distract him from the game, and impacting his performance.
Then in the Colorado series I think that the refs deliberately put their whistles away on him, and it completely got in his head. It seemed like he doubled down on complaining after whistles and when he got crickets from the refs he kind of fell apart.
I don't know if that's a thing or just something I was reading in, but I think that's a contributing factor to whatever between-the-ears issues he's having.
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