Phil Hersh's article focuses on Nathan's Team SP performance:
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2018/02/09/266183266
Good grief Phil Hersh! You the one who seems 'unsettled.' Why let stand the blaming of two young athletes for yet another young rival's small turn-out on a jump? All three young guys btw were thrown into their first Olympic games by starting out on Day 1 in a team competition at an ungodly hour, and neither situation are they normally used to skating under. Even in the best of fall opening season situations, skaters have nerves and make mistakes. Gain some perspective yourself. Skaters aren't always able to perform on a dime. It's a very different sport than skiing, snowboarding, luge, speedskating, et al, because it combines additional pressures of performance with technical precision and athleticism, not to mention debilitating body pounding on hard sheets of ice in boots that haven't kept up with the sport's demanding physical advances.
So many factors are involved, including as Charlie White noted: an absence of energy in the rink with few people in the seats at that ungodly hour -- just so NBC can present it in primetime back in the states.
Not to mention the off-putting deep purple color backdrop plastered around the rinksides with a blue band on top! Who knows what the ice conditions are like? Did you ask any of the skaters? Why do I need to tell you these things, Phil? Where's Jackie Wong when we need him?
You should have challenged Numero Uno for blaming the other two guys for his turn-out on the quad flip. Meanwhile, Uno is sitting like the cat with the cream in first place in team comp with over 100 points for a flawed skate due to his usual overdone PCS marks -- he's just so precociously mesmerizing, and granted he didn't pop or actually fall. But he hasn't been perfect either all season (except for his first outing of the season). So therefore, Uno's showing in Pyeongchang is not very atypical. He wasn't perfect at 4CCs either, which allowed Jin Boyang to edge him for the win. Who is Uno blaming for his 4CCs performance?
Try to get a grasp and think a bit beyond the surface. Yeah I know it isn't that easy when you're on deadline. But try.
Do you think Shoma Uno would say he was 'unsettled' by Kolyada and Nathan if those two had skated lights out!
The last part of your article was more on point and interesting. At least you did mention the ungodly hour! But still, I don't think you need to paint it as Nathan searching for answers. Just add everything up, and I think we can make common sense conclusions of our own. Athletes definitely are not going to tell us everything that's going on with them, nor should they. And please tell NBC to stop with having the cameraman follow Nathan to the bathroom!
ETA:
I want to correct the fact that I initially referenced Shoma Uno as a teenager. He began the season as a teenager, but he turned 20 in December, so despite his childlike stature and looks, Shoma is a year-and-a-half older than Nathan and nearly three years younger than Kolyada (who thus is also no longer a teenager).
Godalmighty, no! Please don't tell Nathan that. 
- Nathan is one of the 4 Winter Olympic athletes featured in a special fold-out section in today's NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/insider/winter-olympics-spins-jumps.html
