I’m primarily looking at it from the perspective of:
- most of his times this season have been +10.0
- 9.88 is his PR so far this season
- the proximity in which the 10.42 was performed relative to the 9.88
- and, it seems as if everyone is agreeing that he is still structurally impaired (ankle) thus it would stand to reason that he and his coach might get as much as possible out of sub-max work until his readiness is actually in a position to tolerate the maximum of his current capacity.
I state that because I think we all agree that he had more in the tank on the 9.88 performance.