I keep hearing murmurings about how Duncan Robinson needs to become a better defender before he can take the “next step” as a player, before the Heat can take the next step as a team. And those are the murmurings I want to address right here, right now:
Shut up about defense. Nobody cares about defense. Did you just see what Duncan Robinson did? He hit NINE THREE POINTERS ON TWELVE ATTEMPTS and literally didn’t do anything else. And the Heat blew out the Magic by three points. Does that look like a player who needs to add anything to his game? No. No it does not. Robinson is just fine the way he is. In fact, he’s better than just fine, because, in case you missed it, he made NINE FRICKIN TRIPLES IN THIS GAME.
Imagine what would happen if Robinson had to expend all his energy just to stop being a net-negative on defense. He would have no energy left to shoot threes. Is that what you sickos want? For Robinson to be so tired from exerting himself on defense that he can’t even make, let me remind you, NINE THREES ON TWELVE TRIES, and THAT’S NOT EVEN HIS SEASON HIGH IN THREE-POINTERS MADE IN A SINGLE GAME.
You people make me sick. Absolutely sick.