Miami Heat: Does Duncan Robinson Need To Play With Hands Behind Him?

Miami Heat: The Team May Have To Eventually Mention The Duncan Thing…

The first occurred on a trap on the far-side of the court, where two Miami Heat defenders and one being Duncan Robinson, trapped an opposing player. While the trap seemed like good defense, after a second or so, the whistle was blown.

It wasn’t a foul, to be clear but due to the contact that comes with a trap on defense, you can see how that call might be justified by an official. There is no win or loss there and especially with the subjectivity of it all.

That includes possible subjectivity in the positioning, line of sight, the defense it, and the act of refereeing in itself… perhaps, among other things. But again, that wasn’t a foul though, but this next one is egregious.

There was an instance where Duncan Robinson was, simply, gathering and positioning himself to try and grab a rebound, where he was outrebounded by a guy that could outjump him to be clear, but was still called for a foul there… somehow and some way?

It just doesn’t make sense. Is Duncan Robinson going to have to start playing defense the way guys started to play James Harden a few years back?

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Is he going to have to play with his hands behind his back to avoid egregious and erroneous foul calls? Listen, he needs to be better and smarter, that’s admitted and agreed upon.

He knows this is a real thing but at the same time, what more can the guy do?

Hopefully, the Miami Heat begin to make a thing out of it soon, because for as bad as it is that he has yet to fully find his shooting rhythm, he’ll never find it if he can’t stay on the floor for foul trouble.