Duncan Robinson Sets Another NBA Record
Duncan just hit his 226th three-pointer of the season early in the 1st quarter tonight. That's the most three pointers in a season by an undrafted player in NBA history.
This guy shows what hard work can do for you. Good for him. I hope he sticks long enough to sign a huge contract.
I think he has one more year, then he'll probably get 20+ million/year if he keeps this up. I wouldn't be surprised if the heat extend him after this year for at least 60+ million. Crazy I'm saying all that about Duncan Robinson, but I feel like those numbers are low, if anything.
Just set the single season 3 pt record for a 2nd year player, and the the single season record for the Heat.
why ya godda hijack my duncan robinson three point record OP?
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good stuff, go blue.
Glen Rice hung around there for a good while. I imagine that their shooting records are pretty respectable. D Wade wasn’t too bad either.
D Wade was a subpar at best 3pt shooter (29%). He made 549 total three's in his career. Duncan will have half that this season nearly.
Yep, game has totally changed due to analytics. Centers are now shooting 30% from the 3 point line, you have 7ft stretch forwards shooting 35% from the 3 point line, and players like Curry, Lillard, Young are shooting from 10 ft outside the 3 point line.
Wade, Koby, McGrady came through when the mid-range was still considered the holy grail for 2 guards. For better or worse, this is to where the game has evolved. I would not be surprised if they add in a 4 point shot, like 12 feet behind the 3 point line to add some more excitement to the game and reward the truly elite shooters in the game.
I remember Laimbeer and Rasheed being the oddity bigs shooting high % 3 balls, secrets out now, I guess.
Single season record for the Heat in early March is crazy. Trust me i know about shooters that played for the Heat. Although if Kevin Willis could pass out of a GOTDAMN double team my boy would've averaged an extra 6 points a game.
Who would have thought when we were groaning about his defense (before he somehow transformed into a lockdown senior) that we would be talking about multiple NBA records for Duncan?
Well, since they only play defense in the NBA sporadically and the last five minutes of a close game, Duncan fits right in.
The "No Defense NBA" is a popular take-but also a very bad one. Indeed the NBA does value offense...and for multiple good reasons. When a team has to defend 5 outstanding offensive players each defender is placed on an indefensible island-given the spacing those five present. In basketball, individual play actually becomes easier as the skill level increase because as your teammates' skill increases the amount of help your defender is given decreases. Here Duncan is a bright, shining star-an invaluable complimentary piece.
The defense is not played night in and night out like it was in the 90's and early 2000's. That said, I believe some of it is effort and culture, and a lot of it is simply the game's spacing has changed with the focus on 3 point shooting and stretch bigs.
That said, when the playoffs roll around, you will see a much higher level of defense played. This is the very reason that many believe the Clippers to be the favorites for the title, because they have the longest and most interchangeable defense 1-5 in the league. Offenses will only improve so much in the playoffs due to increased effort, but defenses will be night and day from what we have seen.
Yes, he was a genuinely miserable defender for a while. And then his shooting, which had been lights out, went kinda meh. Then a light went on for his defense, and a light has gone (back) on for his shooting.
I do wonder how much of John Beilein's success was tactical, how much of it was teaching, and how much of it was scouting. Forget about Robinson being undrafted, because it looks like Beilein saw something in Duncan Robinson that 300 other D-1 coaches missed.
I mean beilein also missed it. Duncan took a prep year just to get the Williams interest. Glad it worked out but got lucky his coach knew beilein and sent the tape
Is Beilein the only coach he sent tape to? Honest question. I would bet the answer is no.
Everyone "missed" it because he was an average HS player on an average team.
"Snacks" might give Duncan some competition
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He didn’t seem to take a lot of deep 3’s at Michigan. Imagine if he had this kind of confidence his senior year.
One game like what he's been doing with the Heat. That's all I'd care for. One particular game.
Yeah, when you compare DiVincenzo's shooting in the NBA with Duncan's shooting, you would've thought that it was Duncan who went off in the NCAA Championship game.
Duncan had foul trouble in that game. That ginger fuck is also much more athletic and isn’t just a shorter
He's ginger....Satan decided that game before it was even played.
For about the first 10 games of his sophomore season he was a +50% 3-point shooter. Then he cooled off and never again was quite the same marksman - still good, but not insanely good like he is now.
Did we misuse him or what? I mean, a guy that is breaking records in the NBA wasn’t even starting here. Just seems like another “what could have been” situation.
Miami seems to run an offense where two people stand in the corner and the other three cut, run pick and rolls, etc. Duncan is one of those 3. I feel like at Michigan he was the guy standing in the corner. Plus he is just WAY more accurate now.
I believe he was underutilized a bit but not as much as it seems. He said in college he was only a spot up 3pt shooter and that once he got on the Heat Wayne Ellington taught him how to run into shooting 3 pointers and that's why he's taken off
That's interesting. Beilein never really had people running into a shot, so maybe that's a hole in his teaching? Nonetheless, Duncan was an absolute liability on defense for most of his UM career. It wasn't until the last half of his senior season, under Yak's tutelage, that he became a decent player on both sides. He earned a lot more PT when he was reliable on both ends.
The idea that coaching and development stops in the nba is bullshit. He got time to work on coming off screens and got great coaching and it’s paid off
Duncan is putting on a show on ESPN.....all the Commentator talk is about Robinson with Zion on the same court.
They've talked about him way more than Zion too. It's crazy.
Too bad NO(an awful defensive team) started defending him. He would’ve hit 3 more. He’s very one dimensional.
Yeah, I’m sure Miami is pissed he only shot three pointers. 8 for 14 is terrible, right?
Lol, as you said DR was 8 - 14 from three, however, his teammates were a combined 1 - 19 tonight.
Just imagine that future headline when Beilein snagged him from Williams. Nobody would have believed it.
Duncan is the best 3pt shooter in the league and its fucking bonkers
Who could have seen THIS? I wanted the Pistons to put him on a 2 way but I didn't expect he'd be even half this good.
Check out the +/- stats in the box score for tonight's Miami Heat game... always one of my favorite stats. Duncan was +15 in 39 minutes; his team was therefore -21 in the NINE minutes he wasn't on the floor. Beyond his scoring, that helps convey his overall value on the floor. Pretty amazing stuff -- and one of my favorite Wolverines. But when will they restart the Dak & Dunc podcast??
Has to be the best come out of nowhere story in the NBA since Jeremy Linn
Kyle Korver has earned $63M in his NBA career. What with inflation and all, if Duncan keeps shooting like this he should easily make $100M over his career.
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I picked the wrong career to focus on.
No offense but you probably chose the right career, whatever that may be. There have only been 54 NBA players all time who have made more than $100 million in their careers. Interestingly Steph Curry made this much in the last 2.5 seasons alone ( $40.2M this year, $37.4M last, and $34.6M in 2017/18). That $34.6 in 2017/18 was the most any NBA player made in a season since Michael Jordan made $33.1M way back in the '97/98 season. That same year, Patrick Ewing was second with $20.5M, and Horace WTF. Grant was 3rd with $14.2M, ahead of Shaq, David Robinson, Alonzo Mourning, and yours truly Juwan Howard, who was 7th at $11.2M.
Are you in the 99.9th percentile for outside shooting among human beings and tall enough to get your shot off against people who are well over six feet tall?
In that case yeah, you might have chosen poorly.
Imagine someone telling you this thread title 4 years ago lol
If he makes another one, he could break his own record.
At the rate he's going, he'll put that record really far out of reach.
Unreal.
I heard he’s not just a shooter.
Putting that in perspective. Here's the list of all time 3 pointers made in Heat history.
- Tim Hardaway 806 (367 Games)
- Eddie Jones 712 (387 Games)
- Glen Rice 708 (478 Games)
- Mario Chalmers 657 (525 Games)
- Goran Dragić 490 (334 Games)
- Dwyane Wade 481 (948 Games)
- Voshon Lenard 473 (249 Games)
- Wayne Ellington 433 (164 Games)
- Josh Richardson 419 (259 Games)
- Dan Majerle 414 (278 Games)
Duncan Robinson 243 on 554 attempts (78 Games) - On pace to set Miami Heat career 3 pointers made record in his 271st game.
Ironically, he made 237 on 565 attempts in his career at Michigan in 115 games.