One of my main concerns about this team was whether Marcus Smart would overreach this year. His aggressiveness is usually an asset, but it is starting to cause problems. He's becoming more belligerent, shooting way to much and his defense has badly deteriorated in the last few weeks.
He has one month to pull it together.
Here are his splits for the year.
His TS% is about the same as it has been all year. I calculated his FGA and 3PFGA:
G GS FGA/g 3PFGA/g
Oct 4 1 10.8 7.5
Nov 14 12 11.3 6.6
Dec 4 3 8.0 4.0
Jan 16 10 11.8 7.1
Feb 10 8 12.6 7.0
Mar 3 3 17.7 11.3
It's only been the last 3 games, which have been against Brooklyn, Cleveland and Utah. Obviously with Brooklyn we were missing Tatum and lost Hayward and had Kemba on a minutes restriction, Marcus attempted 15 shots of which 14 were 3s. Against Cleveland where we were missing Hayward, Kemba and Brown he attempted 15 shots of which 5 were 3s. Against Utah where we were missing Hayward, Brown and had Kemba on a minutes restriction and Tatum was getting doubled where he attempted 23 shots of which 15 were 3s.
So we're talking about a period of 3 games where we're missing at least two key players, and of those 3 games it's really been just the last game vs Utah where he has shot significantly over his average. Tatum has been getting doubled since the Lakers game. I'm not too worried about any change in behavior on his part.