Jaylen Brown appears to have fixed Duncan Robinson’s shooting woes…
It’s easy to forget, but there were a couple NBA games on the day of the Super Bowl, with one of them being a rivalry renewal between the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat. During that contest, Duncan Robinson and Jaylen Brown, players who’ve featured prominently in the two team’s playoff tussles over the past few years, got into a bit of an altercation after the Celtics star appeared to yank Robinson’s arm after the two got physically entangled.
While that play could have been dangerous, it seems to have worked out in the Heat’s favor, especially when that arm-yank looks to have jolted Robinson’s sharpshooting ways back to life. On Tuesday night, with Miami in need of someone to step up amid the absences of Jimmy Butler and Terry Rozier, Robinson dropped 23 points on 8-12 shooting and 6-8 from beyond the arc to lead the shorthanded Heat to a 123-97 win over the Milwaukee Bucks.
This got fans on Twitter (X) excited; fans were pumped to see Duncan Robinson be the flamethrower he’s proven many times he can be on a more consistent basis, thanking Jaylen Brown for bringing out the best in the Heat guard. Some fans even went as far as to compare Robinson to the peak version of Reggie Miller and Ray Allen, two of the greatest movement shooting guards in league history.
“So apparently Jaylen Brown pulled Duncan Robinson’s arm back in socket. He is now 5 of 6 on 3s,” Ira Winderman, Heat beat reporter for South Florida Sun-Sentinel, wrote.