Miami Heat: Have we been spoiled into unrealistic expectations by Duncan Robinson?
The Miami Heat are having an issue generating offense right now. While it was an issue in their loss at Utah on Saturday, it reared it’s ugly head again in Los Angeles.
Though they couldn’t stop anyone from beyond the arc either it seemed, they also had stretches where they couldn’t’ buy a basket if Jimmy Butler wasn’t the one generated it or scoring it himself even.
Last season, this wasn’t so much of an issue, as the Miami Heat’s shooting made up for lulls. You could even say that this isn’t typical either, with Goran Dragic having been out the last few games, a main offensive cog for the Heat.
With all that in mind though and with respect to the Miami Heat’s lack of the same shooting vigor that they had last season, that turns the attention to Duncan Robinson. Some might say that he isn’t the same guy anymore and they might be right.
However, that doesn’t mean that he isn’t a great shooter, still. Did Duncan’s showing last season spoil everyone into unrealistic expectations from the sharpshooter?
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The Miami Heat need Duncan Robinson to get back to last season’s three point form, but can he?
Last season, Duncan Robinson shot a whopping 44.6 percent from deep on 8.3 attempts per contest. This season and on those same 8.3 attempts per contest, ironically enough, he’s only shooting 39.3 percent through 27 games.
Now, for the record, we use only modestly here and that’s only by Duncan’s lofty standards. 39.3 percent is still good and to show you how much, it’s about three percentage points higher than the league average of 36.8 percent.
Now, we think he can be better and get back to where he was last season, if the Miami Heat get creative again with how they’re going about getting him open as the things that were working last season, aren’t an longer. But even still and when you look at him now, he isn’t shooting the ball bad.
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Because he shot it so well last season, we are holding him to that standard and I am not saying that is totally wrong, what I am saying though is that he isn’t shooting the ball poorly right now. We need him to be better though, still, because that’s one of the things that could potentially help the Heat most right now when it comes to getting things back on track.