It wasn’t more apparent than with 6 minutes, 10 seconds left in the first half when he took a pass inside, pump-faked and slammed a dunk over several defenders, drawing a foul in the process. “He leads the league with 100-and-something dunks.
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“Truthfully, my secret is watching Dwight Howard play,” said Adrien, who posted his 23rd career double-double with 12 points and 14 rebounds and played with consistent energy in the paint. But the Orlando Magic’s Dwight Howard didn’t have to say a thing. Like Robinson, Jeff Adrien also took some advice from an NBA star. He’s maturing (and) growing, and I think he’s going to be a terrific player if he keeps working hard.” “I think Stanley’s steered his way through that. “No one takes in account the social aspects and the transition coming from Birmingham, Ala., and coming all the way up here to the Northeast and making friends and fitting in (in) a whole different style of life,” he continued. “I think people just assume - college basketball fans, writers, coaches, we’re all guilty of it - you say, ‘Oh yeah, Stanley, he’s a top-20 player in the country and he’ll come up here and immediately hit the ground running,’ ” Moore said. Perhaps it was just a coincidence then, that on the same day the area was hit with some of its worst weather of the year he continued to make some of his biggest strides.īut Robinson has a believer in Moore, who was UConn’s recruiting coordinator when he was there. I’m loving my teammates, loving the atmosphere.” But I’m getting comfortable and making the best of it.
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“Coming in with all the weather and everything, I just had to adjust to it. “Last year, I had to make myself a home,” Robinson said. Robinson showed a better sense of that as well, holding Quinnipiac’s leading scorer, DeMario Anderson, to 10 points on 5-of-16 shooting.īut Robinson, perhaps more than any Husky a year ago, had to make the biggest adjustments as a freshman, coming from Alabama and trying to transition to both the college level and a new atmosphere. He’s always active and he can really become a defensive force once we start getting him to force people more to the baseline (and) sideline.” “Rudy is a dynamite two-dribble, pull-up shooter and that’s we’re trying to get Stanley do to,” Calhoun said. Along the baseline, in the paint and even from 3-point land - when taking 10 or more shots, Robinson hasn’t shot better this season than Sunday.Īnd suddenly, he has four straight games with 10 or more points for the first time as a Husky, making nearly 57 percent of his shots (22-of-39) in the process.
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The rangy 6-foot-9 swingman killed the Bobcats with pull-ups from all over the court. Those are jumpers Gay was referring to, and they looked pretty good coming from Robinson. “And Rudy said, ‘Mid-range, mid-range, mid-range.’ ” “He just got an e-mail from Rudy Gay,” Calhoun said of Robinson, who scored 15 points, grabbed four rebounds and shot a tidy 6-of-10 from the floor Sunday in the Huskies’ 82-49 win over Quinnipiac and former UConn associate head coach, Tom Moore. It helps when you’re getting advice from someone who may be able to do even more.
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When asked, Jim Calhoun agreed that Stanley Robinson can do a lot of things on a basketball court.