Complaining about Smart tonight really sounds as out there as complaining about Brady's first half of last year's Superbowl after the Patriots won and after Brady led the team back from 25 down in the 3rd. It makes zero sense. Smart was a major factor in the Celtics winning this game. Enough with the Smart hate on a night like this.
The difference is that Brady is the GOAT. He almost always plays a superb game. He has zero flaws in his game and he has had to win multiple rings with a hand tied behind his back by a league that keeps taking draft picks from him for non infractions and is well known as the hardest worker on his team year in and year out. Smart is a guy that shows up and doesn't contribute in the single most critical part of the game (offense) and then shows up for the last 2 minutes of the game.
What would happen if Brady kept throwing INTs every game and then snuck the ball for one yard at the end of the game each time?
I know some people would love it and say a win is a win and that he's a great late game QB and that he makes winning plays and that's their right.
Others would say something different and get labeled haters.
I don't hate Smart. I want to see this from him all the time for 48 minutes. I want him to come back a little better every year like Brady. I want him to have great games for the whole game all the time.
It's time for him to raise his game and his consistency and it really really is because it's a contract year for him.