From the cheap seats in Lloyd Noble Center, you can nearly see everything — albeit, a small bit of everything. Still, senior guard Danielle Robinson stood out on the hardwood during the team’s final tune up before hosting the Missouri Tigers last Saturday.

There are only a handful of athletes who have donned the crimson and cream who can keep up with No. 13. As a basketball player, that list gets shortened quickly.

Since high school, she has been touted as one the nation’s premier guards. She’s won championships at every level and still she wants more.

To watch Robinson play the point guard position for Oklahoma is to watch Gustavo Dudamel conduct Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony; it is witnessing one of a few people on Earth who perform his or her job a little bit better than you perform your own.

Robinson’s hands are always active while she coordinates the offensive sets and whenever she gets low to smother opposing guards with man-to-man defense. Her teammates read her body language with ease, and she reciprocates their comprehension with pin-point passes and verbal praise.

Near the end of practice Friday, coach Sheri Coale called the last drill of the day: 35-point.

The drill involved four groups of three players executing a predetermined amount of passes before shooting the basketball. The goal for the team was to score 35 points at one end of the floor in a pair of two-minute periods for a total of 70 points.

The team had not reached the mark all season. Then on Friday, with the game clock running down the last seconds of the period and a team barrier broken on the line, Robinson helped lead her team to the 70-point mark.

When the buzzer went off, coach Coale was dancing on the court and her team was ecstatic. Right in the middle of it all, leading her team in celebration, was Robinson.

And that was a practice.

Robinson is a point guard’s point guard. She sees the floor with the sort of vision that can’t be taught, can’t be learned. She is excellent at getting her teammates involved in the game.

And like the great floor generals in the game today — Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Durant — Robinson can take over the game whenever she is needed.

“I think I take it to a new level on the court,” Robinson said. “I do have this competitive nature when I hit the floor — really anytime I play basketball.”

For the 2010-11 season, sophomore guard Whitney Hand, senior guard Carlee Roethlisberger and Robinson were voted Oklahoma team captains. Robinson said she was honored to be named one of the team’s captains, but noted the title comes with an exceptional amount of responsibility.

“I think Coach Coale does a great job of explaining that a captain has to lead, not only on the court but off the court as well,” Robinson said.

The pressure of having 12 teammates look to her to score the winning basket at the buzzer or hit two clutch free throws to ice the game doesn’t faze Robinson, nor do the off-the-court circumstances of life or helping her teammates deal with the pressures of being a student-athlete.

“I think [Hand, Roethlisberger and I] embrace it. Of course it has its moments. We have had to handle things this season that shouldn’t be involved in basketball.

“But having those 12 people count on you whenever, whatever time they need you — I really enjoy it,” Robinson said. “You got to take that and run with it, and I think that’s what all three of us do.”

Robinson wears the captain’s “C” patch boldly and powerfully on her uniform, even going as far as describing the attributes of a captain for the Sooner women’s basketball team.

“A captain is a person who shows up to class on time, does well academically, is in the gym before anybody else, leaves the gym after everybody else,” she said. “They’re that person that is willing to take the blame when things aren’t going well.

“They lead in celebration and defeat on and off the court.”

At the center of Robinson’s description is communication. Communication is a staple on the Oklahoma bench and one Robinson said Coale has preached from the onset.

Robinson talked about calling out the screens for her teammates, getting the team situated for set plays and defensive assignments. Robinson said that kind of communication is at the heart of what Oklahoma does as a team.

“Communication is the foundation of this program,” she said. “It develops trust. And I think it’s what leads teams to championships.”

Oklahoma beat Missouri 69-47 last Saturday. Perhaps Robinson is right.