Smart has a good shot motion and an slightly quicker relase than Bradley I think. He sure has much room to improof having that solid base to built on. Rondos shot never looked that good.
Early in the season he showed that he can get to the rim but he nearly allways went to slam it down just to discover that NBAs bigs can not be overpowered that easy. In result he was blocked in nearly every attemp.
That combined with his injuries and the resulting lower physical form make him shying away from goining to the basket to score. He will have to improof on his penetrations and finishing around the rim without beeing blocked. With his strong frame he has to tools to bully a lot of defending players and force himself to the line amd opponents into foul trouble. He has shown his potential in that regard. If opposing players have to foul him to stop him he really can't be to slow to play PG. Even if he can't beat one of the faster defending PG he should always be able to lose him using picks and then keep his wide frame between the ball and the guard. His arsenal of layups with eighter hand has to increase for sure. Havent seen much of that yet. His staight line dunk attemps are just too easy to block for bigs or result in offensive fouls.
The only part of his offence I'm having a problem with is his ballhandling and passing. He is overthinking things which slows the offence down and takes away opportunities and good passing lanes. Having him playing the point after Rondo will allways make him look weak in that regard - one has allways have to keep that in mind. Also Rondo was doing a lot of high risk - hi reward passes. At some nights that resultet in 5+ TO but it also enabled him to goble up 10+ assist per game and made it easy for his team mates to score. I whished he was traded on a later point in the season so Smart would have had the chance to learn more from him.
His D is at a level he can be really proud of - he should concentrate primerly on improofing his offence. Its too early to call him a bust imo - at age 20 and after only close to a 3rd of the season with him beeing injured twice its way too early to pass the final judgement. In Nelson he now has a expierienced PG which resembles (not in size but in speed and body structure) his play much better than Rondo's did to learn from. If he is working as hard as ppl say I don't see why he shouldnt be able to quickly improof at playing the PG role.
Hopefully he can stay healthy. Some ppl compared him with TA. I hope not. Tony was allways good on D but awkward on the offense - his shoot ing was bad and his attemp near the rim way to often disrupted by bigs cause he wasnt able to score after adjusting his shoots. Sure there are a lot of simularities but Smarts outside shot allready looks better - his 3P% will catch up to that. And even if Smart allready got injured twice I hope he can stay healthy in general. I hope that was just bad luck. TA never played thru long stretches wearing green. Every time his offence showed signs of improofment he was injured again. You just can't improof your game if injuries keep setting you back. Hopefully Smart isnt that unlucky/injury prone. I would really start to worry about him if he gets injured again in the near future other than that I think ppl should just be patient with him. Many of the guys who allready complain about his game had way to high expectations. Saying he will be the cornerstone of the Celtics Team, the team leader, a All-Star even before the season started was again a mild case of wishfull thinking. Comparing Smart to these unrealistic dream constructs will always make Smart look bad no matter how he plays because in your minds eye you see a LeBron wearing a Smartskin. Its not gonna happen anytime soon so better stop dreaming
Give the kid more time and lower you expectations to realistic proportions and you will feel sad less often.
Same goes for Young - if he was remotly close to the level of Turner, Bradley or any other guy manning the SF or 2 guard spot he would be getting minutes. I don't think BS would do him a big favour if he would give him major minutes. Playing time could help him improof but getting owned night in and night out could as well totally take his confidence and bring his improofment to a hold. When Oly started at Center this season it only took a couple of games until he totally collapsed offensivly because he struggled so hard on D that it took all his confidence. He knew his D was awefull and that carried over to his offence. Instead of shooting he keeped passing up wide open shoots after stoping himself in midmotion because his mind keeped telling him that he was playing awefull. Everyone keeping a close watch on him could see that he was really bothered with the way he played. Putting him on the bench took so much presure of his shoulders - I think it worked even better than BS was expecting it would. I still trust BS to make the right moves in regard of the young players and their development. So if Young doesnt get minutes I asume he hasnt reached a level where he can take profit from them.