Moon Robinson

[clevelandfalcon]

With the foul that should have been called against Ohio I believe that it was a foul. I was watching ESPN today and the play was just like the Duke @ Boston College game. The BC player went up for the layup to either tie or win the game and Sheldon Williams put's his body on him and they win the game. To me, there should have been a foul on both Duke and Ohio. Granted I'm a Duke fan as well, I believe that some fouls should be called. I mean if a guy is getting knocked down then how can there not be a foul? Some officials need to get their heads out of their a__es and just worry about officiating the game. Sometimes it makes me sick.

I agree. That Duke-BC non foul call was awful.

[OhioBobcat]

What does it matter if they would have called a foul on Robinson's shot on that play anyway? He can't shoot to save his life and he'd have missed both free throws and you would still have lost the game. He bricked both free throws he took earlier in the game and he shoots like 50% from the line. Robinson should major in construction management because he’s a damn good brick layer.

[BGDrew]

You haven't answered my question OhioBobCat, is it hard to operate with a spike that far up your ass? I mean I could never contemplate how much it would hurt but you seem to be perfectly ok with it.

[jacojdm]

What does it matter if they would have called a foul on Robinson's shot on that play anyway? He can't shoot to save his life and he'd have missed both free throws and you would still have lost the game. He bricked both free throws he took earlier in the game and he shoots like 50% from the line.

well, then, he'd have made them both. he's not a 0% FT shooter.

[BleedOrange]

What Moon did in the previous five games is irrelevant. What Moon has done throughout his career is largely irrelevant. IMHO, if you have that kind of an opportunity to get to the basket you have to take it. I'm all for players staying within their limits, but that is a very different thing than being afraid to take a shot when the defense is overplaying everything else.

If your afraid to shoot, you don't belong on the floor.

That's been my beef for a while. If a player's no threat to score, he gives the defense a break and cripples the other players' effectiveness. A characteristic of Dakich's teams is that shot attempts have been way too concentrated in the hands of too few. This also explains why we always seem to be precariously deep in the shot clock. Stacey, Reimold, and McLeod made their livings off of those situations. It drove me crazy watching Eyink and Pardon pass up shot after shot after shot while out on the perimeter.

With Moon, I've been hoping that it's a simple confidence/experience problem. I've hoped that at some point Moom, like David Greer, would find his confidence and assert his scoring more. I'm still hoping.

[JWEIII]

What does it matter if they would have called a foul on Robinson's shot on that play anyway? He can't shoot to save his life and he'd have missed both free throws and you would still have lost the game. He bricked both free throws he took earlier in the game and he shoots like 50% from the line. Robinson should major in construction management because he’s a damn good brick layer.

FINALLY! This resembles a valid basketball point! Congrats, there might be a brain in there, after all.

I was thinking the same thing. Even with the foul, Moon needs to make the throws. Mabey he makes 'em, but...

[OhioBobcat]

Well, I see your boy Robinson went 0-3 from the line again tonight and has now not scored in six straight games. Why doesn't Dakich have some of the players on your women's team teach this kid how to shoot? Because he obviously can't shoot a lick to save his life. I saw his bio said he averaged 21 ppg in high school one year?! Who was he playing against, the School for the Blind? Never mind can't make a jumper, he can't even hit a free throw. Like I said before, if he would have drawn a foul the other day on that play against us, he'd have missed the shots too. Robinson is the worse shooting guard in the MAC and it's no wonder why he doesn't take shots. But to be that poor of a shooter even on free throws, that's just bad. This kid should be shooting hundreds of free throws every night, or have some of your women's team players show him how to make a shot.

[orangeandbrown]

He played in the Chicago Public League, which I think has a good reputation. He played some wicked D tonight.

[Bleeding Orange]

You know, its like I said in the chat room earlier tonight - the fact of the matter with Moon is that while he has not shot well at all lately, he has proven stellar on defense and in helping to at least control the game on the offensive side of the court. No one around here may want to admit it, but shooting is the easy part in that it is fixable, learnable. Good defense and court presence, however, is much more difficult to learn, and in many ways is natural. I don't know if anyone has mentioned this in this thread (I haven't read it all), but we really do have a defensive gem in Moon. If, and when Moon can get his shooting ability under control, we may very well have one of the best point guards in the conference on our hands.

Don't let some ignorant Bobcat fan fool you with his simplified "how did this kid get a DI scholarship?" talk. The hard part came pre-packaged in Moon. I'll give our small-membered friend this, though - some practice time with Kate Achter and Liz Honegger would be very valuable for Moon.

[BGSU33]

There was a quote in The Blade today that said: "We've been working on [free throws] all weekend and all week, because our games have been very close," (Steven) Wright said. Yet, Robinson still went 0-3 last night. I guess I never really realized how much he does struggle from the line before this thread, but he is only 19-37 from the line this year and was only 9-24 last year which gives him a mark of 28-61 from the line for his career for a .459 percentage. OUCH!!! That is a terrible percentage for any player at any level. I'm surprised teams haven't started going to a "hack-a-guard" technique on us when he's on the floor. Maybe a few shooting lessons from our women's team wouldn't be such a bad idea.

[OhioBobcat]

There was a quote in The Blade today that said: "We've been working on [free throws] all weekend and all week, because our games have been very close," (Steven) Wright said. Yet, Robinson still went 0-3 last night. I guess I never really realized how much he does struggle from the line before this thread, but he is only 19-37 from the line this year and was only 9-24 last year which gives him a mark of 28-61 from the line for his career for a .459 percentage. OUCH!!! That is a terrible percentage for any player at any level. I'm surprised teams haven't started going to a "hack-a-guard" technique on us when he's on the floor. Maybe a few shooting lessons from our women's team wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Robinson is shooting 46% from the line for his career???!!! HA HA HA! That's a figure even Shaq could laugh at! I and probably every one of you on this board could shoot better than 46%. That's got to be one of the lowest percentages in the country.

[Flipper]

46 is a low number, but it's still higher than your IQ, SAT score and properly functioning brain cells. It is however, lower than the number of men you are legally allowed to call "daddy" in at least 35 states...

[OhioBobcat]

What does it matter if they would have called a foul on Robinson's shot on that play anyway? He can't shoot to save his life and he'd have missed both free throws and you would still have lost the game. He bricked both free throws he took earlier in the game and he shoots like 50% from the line.

well, then, he'd have made them both. he's not a 0% FT shooter.

You sure about that? He bricked three more attempts to go 0-3 from the line last night. I guess when you shoot 46% for your career like Robinson does, they shouldn't call them free throws, they should call them improbable shots.

[Rightupinthere]

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[Dayons_Den]

"Who cares about women? Men is where it's at." OhioBobcat in the chatroom 02.05.06

Ahhhhhhh RUIT that signature is awful!!! Ending a sentence with a dangling preposition!!!???? Oh the humanity.