The layoff of over four months did not affect the filming of Duncan Robinson. The former Michigan basketball player scored 18 points at the team level out of five scored 3 points for the Miami Heat on Wednesday night.
Robinson started and played 20 minutes (out of 40) on the first day of scrimmages to restart the NBA in Orlando, Florida. The Heat, the designated home team, beat the Sacramento Kings 104-98.
Robinson scored the first six points of the game on a pair of 3 and made four triples in the first six minutes.
In the third quarter, he had a dizzying sequence: pump the defender on the right wing, dribble in the corner, go to the post, recover the ball and empty an unbalanced 3 to beat the stopwatch. He finished 5 out of 8 from the field (all 3) and made all three of his free throw attempts by adding two rebounds and an assist.
In his 65 games before the suspension of this season in March, Robinson was third in the NBA with 243 points to 3. He scored 44.8 percent of his attempts: only one other player in the top 20 of the 3 was like this accurate.
Robinson arrived in Michigan after a season at Williams College of Division III. He sat outside for a year before making his Wolverine debut in 2015-16. Sometimes it started; other times he was the sixth man. Either way, he shot down 3 seconds. It ranks fourth in the history of the show in that category (the first among players who haven’t played in four seasons).
Not drafted in 2018, Robinson compared a Summer League appearance with Heat in a two-way contract. His fledgling performance earned him a guaranteed contract for this current season. He was averaging 13.3 points per game during the regular season before COVID-19 stopped the action.
The games that matter for the leaderboard will start next week. Miami’s first official game to restart is August 1.
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