With The Miami Heat Range Struggle, More Duncan Robinson Can Certainly Help
Neither of them are above the other defensively, if you’re being honest with yourself. Duncan struggles more as an on-ball defender, but Max struggles as much as an off-ball defender.
And where Max Strus is an amazing outside shooter, he doesn’t do it like Duncan does it with movement, which is an approach to outside shooting that also massively helps the whole team. Nobody—and that means nobody outside of Stepehen Curry, tilts and bends defenses like Duncan Robinson still does because they are scared he is going to rain threes on them.
And for clarity, this isn’t saying he should be playing over Strus. They should actually share the floor more together but at worst, have a better minute distribution between them.
With Strus struggling a bit recently, with the aforementioned facts about defense and the types of shooters they are, with the Miami Heat being a bottom-of-the-league team as far as three point percentage goes, and with Duncan still being the best range shooter on the team, from an output to opportunity ratio, they should again and at least, be more evenly splitting the minutes.
Needless the say, that’s why the headline stands as it is. Duncan Robinson’s returning confidence and prowess as an outside shooter should be leading to more opportunities and pronto, as the Heat are struggling to produce points and he will only make more if he’s allowed to take more.
Outside of the , hopeful, anomaly that was last season, that’s how it’s always gone with him.