Of all the Heat players who have been making the Bucks’ lives miserable in this series, Duncan Robinson has not been one of them. In the three games before this one, he put up the following statlines (OFFICIAL DTB WARNING: the following statistics are not to be viewed by the infirm or the faint of heart):
Game 1: 4/1/3 on 1-of-4 shooting
Game 2: 13/3/0 on 4-of-9 shooting
Game 3: 6/4/2 on 2-of-8 shooting
He played roughly 28 MPG in those three games, and started all of them, but still failed to make much of an impact, and that’s not even considering his known inadequacies on the defensive end of the ball. Add in a couple of dud games from the Pacer series and it becomes clear that Robinson hasn’t quite been contributing at the same level that he was towards the end of the “regular” regular season in March.
That said, his mere existence strikes fear into the hearts of opposing coaches because when he starts hitting shots, sometimes the only recourse is to take your team back to the locker room, give them the cyanide-laced Gatorade bottles, and wait for the end. Any end is preferable to the end where Robinson ends up with thirty points on ten three-pointers and gets benched in the fourth quarter because his team is up by twenty.