Not consciously anyway.
It's an unconscious thing.
It's like when first round players bounce around getting chance after chance when they are clearly not up to NFL level.
He was a first rounder so he must be better than this.
Then coaches will be looking out for the good elements and disregarding other stuff - at least to begin with.
He's paid this amount of money so he must be better than we think.
Michael Lewis in his latest book, The Undoing Project talks about how this was happening time after time with the basketball draft.
How's the back btw?
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.