“There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know.”
― Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown
In this case, we have a combination of all three in play.
We know Novak was knocked off stride by the AO debacle and that Rafa is near impossible to beat on clay.
We don't know the issues that caused the splitting with his longtime coach and we don't know the extent of Rafa's injuries, only what we've been told.
The Unkown Unknowns are the reasons Novak played as he did, since he may not even know them. And the same goes for how Rafa can play with pain injections and seem normal in movement because we don't even know if Rafa is human to be able to do that if what we have been told about his injury is accurate.
It seems that most of this situation consists of things that we don't know and and those we don't even know we don't know.
