Duncan Robinson’s three-point percentage continues to rise for Heat. What’s fueling surge?

Duncan Robinson doesn’t wish a shooting slump on any player. But watching arguably the greatest three-point shooter ever in Golden State’s Stephen Curry endure his own slump in recent weeks has served as a lesson for Robinson.

“It’s always a reminder of like we’re all human beings and you can do something to an elite level and still have stretches where you just can’t figure it out,” Robinson said, with the Heat set to continue its homestand on Friday against the Los Angeles Clippers (8 p.m., Bally Sports Sun). “That’s kind of the beauty in the struggle and the beauty in the madness. It gives you an appreciation for once you do find it back again.”

After a slow start to the season, it seems that Robinson has found his three-point stroke again. The Heat’s starting forward totaled a team-high 25 points on 7-of-11 shooting from three-point range in Wednesday’s win over the New York Knicks at FTX Arena to remain at the top of the Eastern Conference.

Robinson, 27, is in the middle of his best stretch of the season. He has shot 18 of 32 (56.3 percent) from three-point range over the last three games.

Zoom out even further and Robinson began trending in the right direction weeks ago, as he has shot 40.3 percent on 8.2 three-point attempts per game in 24 games since the start of December. He shot just 32.8 percent from beyond the arc before that point over the first 21 games of the season.

“I don’t care,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said when asked about Robinson’s hot stretch. “It’s probably a better answer coming from him. It’s more about how your offense is functioning from my seat. Are you getting shots in your wheelhouse? Are you playing to your strengths? Are you doing it consistently enough? Those kind of things.

“I liked the shots that Duncan was shooting all along. That’s what he’s here for is to create that space, create triggers for us, create overreactions. He has been able to do that consistently all year long. I don’t really have all the time to try to educate people that it’s not just about whether the ball is going in or not. There were a lot of other good things going on even when he was missing.”

It’s not a coincidence that Robinson’s most recent surge began when starting center Bam Adebayo returned from a seven-week absence because of thumb surgery. In the five games that Adebayo has played in since coming back from injury, Robinson has shot 23 of 45 (51.1 percent) from three-point range.

Adebayo has assisted 11 of those 23 threes during that five-game stretch. The Adebayo dribble-handoff-and-screen helped free Robinson for four of his seven made threes in Wednesday’s win over the Knicks.

In total, Adebayo is responsible for 175 of Robinson’s 640 assisted regular-season threes (27.3 percent) since the start of the 2019-20 season. That’s the most assists on Robinson threes during that span, as Jimmy Butler is second with assists on 123 of Robinson’s three-point makes.

“You can’t even quantify it,” Spoelstra said when asked how Adebayo’s return from injury has helped Robinson. “You just see the comfort level of Duncan just skyrocket because Bam knows how to get him open and get him just two or three easy looks, and that can mean everything for a shooter. When it’s open and in rhythm.

“Also, the synergy between the two of them, they’re just connected. Sometimes there’s an energy to that. This goes back three years ago when they were just constantly working on these things in practice, training sessions, summer sessions and all that stuff. Right now, these aren’t play calls. It’s just unscripted, which makes it much more dangerous.”

Battling back from a few early-season shooting slumps, Robinson’s three-point percentage is above 36 percent for the first time in a long time. He’s shooting 36.6 percent on a career-high 8.6 three-point attempts per game this season.

Robinson also entered Thursday ranked fifth in the NBA with 142 made threes this season, behind only Curry (209 threes), Sacramento’s Buddy Hield (171 threes), Toronto’s Fred VanVleet (160 threes) and Brooklyn’s Patty Mills (152 threes). Among the 14 players averaging at least eight three-point attempts per game this season, Robinson owns the sixth-best three-point percentage.

“Anytime you can get hot and kind of get it going, obviously that sort of stuff can be momentum building and contagious in that sense,” said Robinson, who signed a five-year, $90 million contract with the Heat as a free agent this past offseason. “So you just try to maximize it when you’re going through a stretch like this. But it doesn’t necessarily mean you change anything. Just continue to maintain.”

The bottom line is when Robinson makes threes, the Heat is hard to beat because of the offense it creates for himself and the space it helps create for others. Miami is a perfect 6-0 this season and 24-6 since the start of the 2019-20 season when Robinson makes more than five threes in a game.

Robinson’s Heat teammates understand his value.

“Guys are super unselfish,” Robinson said. “[P.J. Tucker], for example, is like yelling at me that he wants to get me shots. To have a teammate like that and a guy like Bam, both of them, Jimmy, Gabe [Vincent], Kyle [Lowry] when he’s in. Everyone is just super unselfish and trying to get me looks. For me, I just try to do my job and just let it fly.”

The issue for Robinson is he set historically elite shooting standards for himself. He made an incredible 44.6 percent of his threes in 2019-20 and 40.8 percent of his threes last season, with only Hield (553) and Portland’s Damian Lillard (545) totaling more made threes than Robinson (520) in those two seasons.

But Robinson didn’t allow the shooting slumps to eat away at his confidence and he doesn’t plan to let all the recent three-point makes take away from the edge he has played with this season.

“Whether things are going well, things are going poorly, you just maintain the same level of consistency, continue to show up,” he said. “Things are never as good as they seem, things are never as bad as they seem. So just try to keep it even-keeled throughout the highs and lows.”