Three Washington Wizards we want to see play better post all-star break

3. Jerome Robinson

One of the new guys, Jerome Robinson has had spots where he’s impressed Washington Wizards fans already. But he hasn’t done it consistently just yet, and we’re going to desperately need him to do so.

It’s all about shooting with Jerome Robinson, as he’s going to be depended on to complete the play when he gets the pass off the initial drive. So far with the Wizards he’s only shooting 33.3 percent from the field, but he’s shooting 37.5 percent from behind the arc.

It’s incredibly rare for an NBA player to shoot better from three than overall field goal percentage, but we’ll take that three-point percentage all day. He just needs to pick up his other shooting.

Perhaps most impressive is the fact that he’s putting up 4.3 rebounds per game from the guard position. As a 6’4″ guard, he’s often got nice enough size to do something like that but he wasn’t really known for that dimension of his game in L.A.

Without a real backup to Bradley Beal, the star shooting guard has been logging heavy minutes since the trade deadline averaging 35.1 minutes per game since Jordan McRae was shipped out. The remaining 13 minutes at the shooting guard position have been divvied up between Shabazz Napier, Jerome Robinson, and at times Troy Brown, for the most part.

Jerome Robinson needs to step up decidedly into that role and give our star the confidence to sit a spell if we want to sustain our good play over a stretch of 29 games. If he doesn’t Garrison Matthews may eventually fill that role, or we’ll be in big trouble if neither pans out.