How did Nate Become Great?

How cant someone like the way little Nate Rob plays. His energy and enthusiasm just electrifies the crowd every night. Nate Robinson came to the Knicks on a draft day trade which sent Kurt Thomas to the Suns for the Suns 21st pick which was Nate Robinson and Quentin Richardson.

Nate's first wasn't to good and people were annoyed with his style of play. Nate did not play with his head and made numerous mistakes in key situations in the NBA game. Nate played out of control and sometimes didn't know where he was going with the ball. This lead to him getting benched. He was the same way in college at the University of Washington. The question wasn't if he was good enough it was if he can control his self.

The New York crowd became in love with 5'9 point guard. However they also had no idea what he was doing on the court at times. It all comes with maturity and time to adapt to the NBA game.

Also Nate had an attitude problem and would sometime show up his team mates on the court which was unprofessional. In the summer of his rookie year Nate new that he needed to work on his game management abilities and his Personality on the court. He use to try to show up the other teams players when he scored on them or caught a highlight reel dunk which was amazing.

In Nate's sophomore season he became more mature. However he still at times was out of control. Nate also gave the city to talk about because the Knicks were losing he was the talk of the town . Nate also won the slam dunk challenge that year.

When Mike Dantoni was hired as the Knicks head coach Nate Robinson was one of those players who minutes and production was sure to go up because of the type of offense Dantoni runs.
Robinson came into this previous more focus and level headed. He now played under control enough to rum the point guard position, and with the departure of Jamal Crawford and Stephon Marbury, Robinson became the Knicks go to guy at the end of the game.

Robinson averaged 17 points 4 rebounds and 4 assists in the 08-09 season. he also won his second Slam Dunk Challenge.

This year Robinson is a free agent and will command a lot of money on the open and will receive a lot of money because his evolution of being immature on the court to being mature.