That tournament run was a lot of fun. Starting from the B1G tournament where they had the emotion of playing after the near disaster on the runway, playing in their practice uniforms. To the absolute shootout with Oklahoma State and then the joy of getting some revenge on Pitino. Oregon game obviously didn’t go our way, but that was still a really entertaining game.
Happy to see Derrick getting and capitalizing on his shot in the league. He deserves it.
https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nba/miami-heat/article238629313.html
Duncan Story and his NBA tryout with the HEAT!
GRIII…3D
More GRIII…
And highlights of his career-high:
Duncan Robinson with another normal game. 6/10 from three for 18 points.
His NBA success doubles down my conspiracy theory about how the refs were out to get us in the 2018 national title game with his BS box out foul call.
Duncan Robinson 6/6 from the field and 4/4 from three so far tonight. 16 points in 18 minutes.
Coincidentally Trey Burke is playing in the same game and is a perfect 4/4 so far as well.
Duncan is a healthy +15 even though he has 5 fouls. Has only played those 19 mins so hope he is ok. Burke is a +13 in just 17 mins and 2nd highest on his team.
Edit: Burke starting in OT, Duncan not.
I believe Duncan played only half a second out of the last 20+ minutes despite being a perfect 6/6 from the field with 16 points. The Heat won in OT anyway, but is my opinion that they wouldn’t have lost the lead if they played Duncan some time in the fourth, despite him having 5 fouls.
Trey Burke played a most of the minutes down the stretch too, he finished 5/9 for 11 points.
Duncan and Trey weren’t the only Wolverines with a hot hand tonight: THJr. had 25 points (in 23 minutes) on 9-13 shooting (6-8 from 3) in the Mavs win over the Warriors.
THJ has been hot lately. Really in a groove.
DUNCAN…
5. Duncan Robinson continues to prove he’s one of the league’s top shooters.
The Heat’s second-year forward scored 16 on 6-of-6 shooting from the field and 4-of-4 shooting on threes against the 76ers. Foul trouble helped to limit Robinson to just seven minutes of playing time over the second half of regulation and overtime.
Robinson, who played under a two-way contract with the Heat last season, has made 53.1 percent of his threes over the past 10 games.
Robinson is tied with Washington’s Davis Bertans for sixth in the NBA with 105 made threes this season. Among the 23 players averaging seven or more three-point shot attempts per game, Robinson owns the league’s top three-point shooting percentage at 46.5 percent.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nba/miami-heat/article238770298.html#storylink=cpy
Don’t know if you watched any of it, but Duncan battled foul problems all game, and by the time came for him to come back in, Derrick Jones had made a number of good plays, so Spoelstra rose the hot hand.
Their prior game, Duncan played the last 10.5 minutes of regulation in a nail-biter, so I think Spo is really just going game to game outside of “Jimmy and Bam play 35 minutes”.
Yes, that’s why I also said “despite him having 5 fouls.”
Duncan usually doesn’t come in for Jones Jr, but rather Herro or Dragic. Neither of those two were playing particularly well, and so I do believe that Duncan wouldn’t have let the lead slip. Whatever the circumstances are, you usually don’t see a 6/6 for 16 points guy not get any run in the last 22 minutes of the game, especially when the other guys are slowly letting the lead get away.
I’m not complaining though, Spoelstra is a great coach. I’ve seen him play Duncan 40 minutes when he’s having bad games so I’m assuming his rotations and lineups are much more based upon matchups rather than hot shooting, which is fine as a principle.
Coach Beilein and the Cleveland Cavaliers won yesterday despite a NBA season high 29 turnovers.
“Never, ever, ever,” coach John Beilein responded when asked if he could recall winning a game despite committing that many turnovers. “I’m trying to put it all together. It’s not like we shot the lights out either, but our defense was the difference.”
Miami at Washington on NBC Sports Washington and/or the Sun network tonite at 7p. Might be a good chance to see Duncan and Mo at the same time.
FYI, Moe has been in a walking boot and hasn’t played in three weeks.
Duncan’s career has progressed quickly… he already getting the NBA superstar treatment