The 2020-21 season was a chaotic one. The short recess before it, the COVID-related rescheduling that forced teams to play with little to no rest, the injuries that seemingly resulted from it — they all conspired to make it a unique year that is hard to contextualize.
It’s just hard to tell which developments actually meant something and which were products of the circumstances. The teams that already have their blueprints for the future will get to write off most of what happened, but others will have to enter an important offseason with fewer reliable data points with which to make decisions.