duncan robinson

[JD Scott]

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POY/COY. Congratulations to Naz Hillmon, the Big Ten's women's basketball player of the year. Hillmon averaged 25 and 11 while shooting 65% from the floor. That'll do. Congratulations are also in order for Juwan Howard, the Sporting News MBB coach of the year.

Yes I will link a retrospective of Trey Burke stealing the ball from Keith Appling. This is a thing I will do:

“As soon as we turned the ball over, I started thinking of ways to get the ball back, like, ‘we’ve gotta get the ball back, or they’re gonna hold for the last shot,’ ” Burke told the Daily in a phone interview this week. “My mind automatically went to getting the steal.”

Matched up against Keith Appling, the Spartans’ star guard, Burke knew what to look for. Appling dribbled the ball up past half-court and turned his head towards Michigan State coach Tom Izzo. As Appling asked for a play call, his right hand was exposed. Despite the Spartans being in the double-bonus, Burke went for the steal.

“I had gotten it on a few other guards that year, but Keith Appling usually wouldn’t leave the ball there,” Burke said. “He usually would spin with the ball in the right hand, with his outside hand, so you can’t get it.”

It's Duncan Robinson content Tuesday. First, a preview of his interview with one half of Men In Blazers cites one DFW:

I was initially surprised by this and then created a mental list of athletes most likely to cite David Foster Wallace. "Guy who went to Williams" for a year topped it.

Second, how Robinson went from the G-League to an NBA record-setter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tOjr9OJxQI

He also tops the most unlikely pro star list.

[After THE JUMP: in which the common sense of the hockey committee is relied upon]

a good shot [Marc-Gregor Campredon]

The locations. Five Fifth Factor Plots, Michigan's shot locations against the Badgers:

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Now delete five of those midrange shots (one of them was the long Zeb Jackson make) because they came from the Kenpom Kids. Hot damn. UW entered this game forcing midrange shots at a top-20 rate and allowing just 52% at the rim. Michigan hit 70% at the rim and got to the rim 23 times.

As I've said before, the really exciting thing about this team is the sustainability of the things they're good at. They get to the rim against everyone and convert there; they force a ton of horrible shots. They are currently 8th at forcing long twos and eighth at defending them. Wisconsin: 6/12 at the rim, 5/25(!) on farther twos.

That's how you can have the best 2PT in the country and a top five FTA/FGA rate.

[After THE JUMP: charts of less auspicious character]

starter, closer, eastern conference champion [via Robinson's Instagram]

"New Hampshire born/raised. Michigan Alum."

That's how the "about" section of Duncan Robinson's LinkedIn profile, a real thing that exists, begins. He eventually lists his current job status.

The full-time guard/forward for the Miami Heat since July 2018 added a significant accomplishment last night: starter and closer on an Eastern Conference Champion.

The details of how Robinson got here have been covered, well, everywhere at this point, and repeated every time he becomes the focus of an NBA game—which, these days, is a frequent occurrence. Duncan Robinson started out in Division III has become a more reliable broadcast staple than John Beilein has never been an assistant coach. Finish your drink if they mention Robinson came off the bench most of his senior year. You will finish your drink.

[Hit THE JUMP for some remarkably endearing texts, highlights from last night, and emoting.]

the ringmaster! 

just casually breaking records set by the splash brothers, hbu

hyperbolic geometry is trippy but also Duncan Robinson is an NBA revelation so it all evens out

two stu-sized moes or one moe-sized stu?

be nice, self isolate

shockingly, Isaiah Livers's presence is rather important to Michigan's success

you can capitalize your team nickname only if you retcon it into an acronym

in Burundi Michigan hit 43% of their threes in the 2018 title game 

The Ringmaster takes his show to Miami (and Sioux Falls).

Oh, just Duncan Robinson and Moe Wagner protecting NBA rims, nothing to be concerned about.