Player Facts
Height: 7'0"
Weight: 240lbs.
Date of Birth: April 1, 1998
College Experience: Western Kentucky (N/A-1 year)
Selections
All Star: 0
All-NBA: 0
All-Defensive: 0
Player Grades
Speed/Explosiveness: 5
Physical Strength: 9
Positional Size: 10
Positional Wingspan: 10
Paint Scoring: 9
Midrange Scoring: 2
Three-Point Scoring: 1
Dribbling: 2
Passing: 3
Perimeter Defense: 5
Interior Defense: 9
Rebounding: 9
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STRENGTHS
Intro
The Florida native is a bouncy seven-footer with a sprawling wingspan. Robinson uses his immense radius to swat layup attempts, catch lobs, and to be hyper-active on the glass. Excessive fouling can limit his court time though.
Long Rolling
Mitchell Robinson is, offensively speaking, a throwback big. A component of this traditional style is his propensity for hard rolls. He starts this by screening well for his teammates like Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges, Josh Hart, and OG Anunoby.
Robinson’s teammates know the high pass is the optimal choice when he dives to the cup. The pivot can not only catch, but also finish, seemingly way-off passes. This widens the margin for error for his playmaking guards.
The advanced stats love Mitch as a roll man. He landed in the 92nd percentile for his productivity on the back end of this two-man action (2021-2022). He shot 72.8% on his chances that year. 2023-2024 then had him in the 74th percentile.
Frequent Flushing
Mitchell is also a tremendous option to position in the dunker spot. He is capable of taking 1-2 power dribbles before rising up. This is often not even needed, as he is bouncy and long.
Robinson perennially connects on three-quarters to four-fifths of his shot attempts at point-blank range. Specifically, he was at 77.7% in the charge circle during 2021-2022. He had 179 made dunks on the year. More recently, an injury-riddled 2024-2025 saw him still convert 67.9% of his shots at the tin.
Mitchell will also run the floor hard and with purpose. He is a top-end option leaguewide as a rim-runner. Delivering the ball to him in or around the paint is best for the seven-footer.
Second-Chance Merchant
Offensive rebounding has been one of the largest growth areas for Mitchell. This has allowed for the burgeoning of a reliable source of ancillary offense via the second-chance bucket (plus kick-outs and resets). He shows extremely high energy after the shot goes up and lets his athleticism do the rest.
Robinson had the second-best offensive rebound percentage in the Association in 2021-2022. That same year, he tied Clint Capela for the second-most offensive boards per night. All this helped culminate in a league-best 3.8 putback points per contest that season.
Bloated Blocking
He is a prolific blocker of shots. He does so in several different fashions and against a wide variety of players/play types. He is consistently a top-5-to-10 finisher for per-36 minute swats.
From less than 6 feet of the hoop, oncoming slashers/finishers shot an insane 10% below their expected clip with Mitchell there patrolling (2021-2022). That does not even encompass all the shots he alters with a lengthy 7’4” wingspan. 2024-2025 saw him still put up a strong 2.2 blocks per-36 minutes.
One metric that does tally some of the not-blocked shots Robinson alters is two-point shot contests. According to this stat, he amassed 455 of these in 2021-2022. In a very close number of minutes played, this mirrored the figure of the rim-defending Robert Williams III.
P&R & Post-Up D
Robinson’s pick-and-roll defense is strong. His footwork, mobility, and instincts have all improved as he’s matured. He can be cast in different styles thanks to him being relatively athletic for his build.
Added bulk into his 20’s has allowed Mitchell to match up better with the bulkier bigs out there. Players like Joel Embiid, Nikola Jokic, and Domantas Sabonis will now be met with a strong, long counterpart in Robinson. His post-up defense has been elevated because of this (0.94 points per play against in 2021-2022).
D-Rebounding + Switching
Increased sturdiness has also materialized in his rebounding/box-out game. He can now wall off opposing players at times rather than exclusively looking to out-jump them. This helps him save energy and stay fresh for longer during his stretches of play.
Mitchell rounds out his defensive repertoire with some useful switchability given his archetype. 13.8% was the proportion of time he spent against guards in 2021-2022. Sliding his feet and stretching out his arms, he fared well here – 40.3% opposing guard FG%. 2024-2025 saw this statistic look akin to 2021-2022’s - 40.5% shooting for opposing backcourt players.
WEAKNESSES
Zero Range
Mitchell Robinson has some well-documented warts to his game. Unfortunately, he has thus far not done much to inspire confidence that he’ll shore up these areas.
Starting on the offensive side, Robinson virtually shoots from one area and one area only – at the basket. Even from as close at 5-9 feet, his shot volume remains skeletal. This makes him extremely predictable as a dive man.
His egregious lack of range constricts the spacing of certain lineups with him in them. His off-ball scoring game is entirely limited to shallow cuts around the paint. Even if he were to flash to the high post, his defender can stay sagged back with no threat of a push shot.
Medium-sized defenders can switch actions with Mitchell Robinson, stress-free. This is because, aside from some quick duck-ins, he struggles to capitalize on his (often huge) size advantage here. He notched only 17 post-up possessions in 2021-2022 (and has not risen much in this capacity since), providing a meager 0.77 points per chance here.
Robinson cannot be a cog in any sort of perimeter offense. While he is a good screener, he is rendered a full non-threat once he has the ball up top. He tends to post even-to-negative AST/TO ratios.
Line Liability
The pivot is one of the league’s worst foul shooters. His field goal percentages routinely outpace his clips at the charity stripe. Given this, opposing coaches will gladly instruct their players to hack Robinson when possible or else when he does anything even resembling a shot attempt.
Bad Fouling Habits
Defensively, his glaring hole is that commonly known extreme hack rate. This stems from a few different things, but at the core it is due to an overzealousness to record the block. Robinson would benefit from shifting his focus from pure shot-blocking to the broader rim protection and verticality.
His huge foul totals limit his play time. That diminished floor time in turn hampers his potential as a player.While an extremely productive per-minute rebounder and shot-blocker, it is hard for him to even reach 30 minutes in a game due to this crippling fouling issue.
Mitch hovers around 4 personal fouls per-36 minutes. Robinson has accrued far more fouls than blocks in each of his NBA seasons thus far. Cleaning this massive weakness up could lead to him becoming one of the greatest shot-blockers of all time, full stop.
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