So it turns out that all Jerome Robinson needed to succeed was…a team where all his teammates are scrubs and where there’s not really a clear-cut first option on offense. That’s not a situation that comes up often in today’s NBA. In fact, it’s not a situation that comes up EVER, because no matter how bad a team is, there is always a guy who becomes “the man” and shoots twenty shots a game en route to twenty wins.
But the bubble has thrown a certain amount of teams into uncontrolled chaos, the Wizards being among those teams, and Robinson is taking advantage. He had never really shown a whole lot of promise before everybody got hermetically sealed into the germ-free bubble, but he’s showing that promise now.
All that said, there’s probably not a single Clippers fan in existence who is sad about not having Robinson on their team anymore. He’s just not the kind of player that you get sad about losing. If anything, trading the 13th overall pick just a year and a half into his career is an admission of failure. That’s the only thing sad about it. That the Clippers whiffed hard and Michael Porter Jr. was drafted with the 14th pick immediately after.