Player Justin Robinson

[torontoduke]

Would you pick JRob over the chance to shower with Kelly LeBrock?

 

[rome8180]

Hell yeah, I'd shower with J Rob.

 

[DurhamSon]

Michael Sav, tell your coach/grandfather this guy is better at playing basketball than whatever the hell the flailing and loafing O'Connell does is considered

 

[CMon85]

Really wish he could be on next years roster. With all the young boys we have, he’d be a good leader and would get some PT.

 

[Slap the Floor]

"He's a young man I would like to see stay around here in coaching in some way. I know if any of my guys got jobs coaching (referring to one of the assistants leaving for a HC job) or whatever. J-Rob really understands the game and people. Everytime he talks in practice, people listen to him. He runs our scout team, that's every game you're putting in a new offense and he knows everything. He's really very smart, and he's been a great upperclassman for Vernon and everyone"

Would love to keep this guy around the program in a coaching role.

edit: The quote is Coach K from the post-game press conference.

 

[rome8180]

Wants him to coach. Doesn't want him to play in basketball games. Would rather play the mighty DeLaurier despite JRob's 80% block rate and ability to hit an open three.

 

[rhfarmer]

Yeah, mystifying he sits behind Javin and the corpse of Jack White.

 

[deepdarkblue]

Maybe he has some rare disease that causes him to lapse into a coma if he exerts himself for more than five minutes.

 

[krsmith16]

Choked his poor ass off on the first 2 meaningful 3s of his career.

Displayed enough, however, to make you wonder what he’d look like if there was ever an attempt to develop him as player.

 

[rhfarmer]

Yeah, the rim protection and floor spacing are so valuable. He could have been a stretch 4/5 last year after Jack White died.

 

[DurhamSon]

I'll go to my grave thinking we'd have been better off developing him instead of wasting two years trying to make Javin happen.

 

[rhfarmer]

I'll go to my grave thinking we'd have been better off developing him instead of wasting two years trying to make Javin happen.

Or Jack

 

[krsmith16]

Welp....

 

[krsmith16]

But really. It’s too bad duke doesnt have any tall, athletic players who might could’ve bothered the UVA oaf that destroyed them tonight.

 

[sjsj2448]

Would you pick JRob over the chance to shower with Kelly LeBrock?

I love Kelly LeBrock. She could have brought down the Roman Empire in her day.

 

[Pantone287]

What in the goddamned fuck has this fellow been doing on the bench.

This team has treated him like a funny victory cigar, putting him in at the end of blowouts and laughingly cheering for him like he's a make-a-wish kid. What a joke.

 

[Slap the Floor]

Where has this guy been all year?

 

[sjsj2448]

Where has this guy been all year?

Coach K thought Jack White and Alex O'Connell merited more playing time than this beastly scion of an NBA Hall of Famer.

 

[Slap the Floor]

If he replaces anyone's minutes it should be Jack White, O'Connell and Baker.

Assuming we continue to run 2-3 zone, you can easily play Justin Robinson and Javin together. Javin still has some value backing up Vernon at the center spot, and then Jrob just moves outside.

 

[Pantone287]

K needs to swallow his damn pride, stick to the dumb JV zone, and start Robinson and play him 25 mpg.

I feel like we've been dancing around this all year because it seems like backup QB syndrome given how deep he's been buried on the bench, but all he does is block shots, hit threes, dunk, and play harder than everyone else. That's the profile of one of the potentially most positive players on the team. He's like a rich man's version of Marshall Plumlee during the Okafor Theory era. Just play him already.