Inside HOKIE SPORTS | Vol. 11 No. 3 | January 2019

30 Inside Hokie Sports he averaged 14 points per game and finished with more than 100 assists for the second straight campaign—all on his way to earning second-team All-ACC honors. This season, he is shooting the ball at career-best percentages and set a milestone when he handed out his 500th career assist. Only three other players (Bimbo Coles, Malcolm Delaney, and Jamon Gordon and) have scored more than 1,200 points and dished out 500 assists in their careers at Tech. Robinson should break the record for career assists this season. “He has allowed us to coach him, and I think that the metamorphosis in our program runs parallel, in the same trajectory, as 5’s [Robinson’s] metamorphosis,” Williams said, referring to Robinson by his jersey number. “Almost to the point that when he has a turnover, we all think the world is coming to an end because the expectation and standard of him and how he leads our crew is at a really high rate. “I’m really excited for him, for his growth. I think he has continued to take steps that you see good/mature players take specific to how he cares for his body, how he spends time doing extra in the film room. He just sees the game a lot faster with each of those steps.” Also, like all the great ones, Robinson has taken advantage of opportunities to get better, both on campus and from outside sources. He received an invitation this summer to attend Chris Paul’s CP3 Elite Guard Camp—his third such invitation. Paul, an All-Star guard for the Houston Rockets, only invites the top 20 high school point guards and the top 10 college point guards to his elite camp in Winston- Salem, North Carolina each summer. Paul works with the guards, both in on-court drills and in the film room. On the court, he and Robinson were matched up on several occasions during pickup games, and Robinson held his own. “It’s hard to say,” Robinson smiled when asked who got the better of the matchup. “Yeah, I scored, but at the same time, in a situation like that, I don’t like running and gunning. I’m more of a player to slow my team and set us up and get a great shot. But don’t make him mad. I know that much. It’s going downhill.” Robinson takes on a similar mentality, particularly in some of the Hokies’ biggest wins throughout his career. A year ago, he scored 20 points and dished out seven assists in the Tech’s overtime upset of then-No. 2 Virginia, and he scored 19 points to go with five rebounds and four assists in the win over then-No. 10 North Carolina. This season, he finished Continued from page 29 Justin Robinson has started more than 100 games since arriving on campus and is one of just four players in Tech history to score more than 1,200 points and hand out more than 500 assists.