Isiah's Disinterest of Nate Robinson

The golden boy can't always stay golden. A once worshiped, blogged about, and successful college player Nate "the Great" Robinson has fallen on hard times with the New York Knicks.

It has been a rough season for the Knicks' guard. The Ex-Husky has seen his role with the Knicks drastically cut by Knicks coach Isiah Thomas. Over the past month, Nate has averaged only 12 minutes per game over the past 2 months, and DNP 8 times over that time. Much of his minutes have come in bunches, like Sunday's game against Toronto when Nate played 27 minutes (Nate did have 19 points last night in a loss to Dallas). Nate's previous 5 games look like this, 15 min., 11 min., 4min., and 4 consecutive DNP's. What has happened to Nate in New York? Could we be seeing the end of Nate as a Knick?

Since the 10 game suspension for fighting the entire Denver Nuggets team, Nate has struggled to regain his place amongst Knick guards that seems over-crowded with Maybury, Balkman, Francis, and the injured Jamal Crawford. Unlike the revolution that Brandon Roy is causing in Portland, Nate continues to find his place in the NBA. The energy, charisma, and character that Nate played with everynight in college when UW played only 2 games per week, has been absent at times, and it has shown in Nate's struggle to make an impact. Nate this season is only making 42.6% of his FG's, and only 34% of his 3's.

Man, I loved watching Nate at UW, it is a shame to watch him rot on a bad team. The picture above is my favorite Nate moment when at UW. I was at this game and the roof got blown off HEC ED when Nate threw this one down. The student section where I was standing fell over, and it was deafening in the arena for about 5 minutes. All of a sudden the "UofA" chants stopped, and you just knew UW was going to win.