Lakers (5-5) at Celtics (9-2) Game #12 11/8/17

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

BYE BYE FAKERS!

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

great team effort by all with many starters out. great mental toughness.

[SparzWizard]

This is why you step on teams neck and crush them when you have them down. Shame on CBS for not calling timeout to stem the Laker's comeback.

Lakers are gonna win this sad to say. No consistency. Where's the D man.

!remindmein2hours

Sick prognostication brah. THE SKY IS FALLING!

Please.

sigh...........i tried telling posters to RELAX all game.

It was pretty bad that the Celtics were up by 21 and then it became a 3-point deficit.

But a win against the Lakers that I'll take haaah. Aron Baynes straight dominating tonight.

[Csfan1984]

Ugly win but a win. Felt the mistakes on defense affected the offense tonight. This should have never been close. Morris, Theis, and Baynes had good games the rest of the guys not so much.

[Eja117]

Clarkson is a much better player than Ball. The Lakers blew the game by taking him out down the stretch.

Supposedly he can't play defense but he had twice as many steals as Smart despite 8 less minutes.  And he had the same number of rebounds (so far) despite all of Smart's intensity

Pretty sure Kyrie leads the league in steals so far. By this logic, he's then clearly the best defender in the league. 

Only a fool would make the implication that Clarkson is a better defender than Smart.

Let's say Clarkson is playing Smart one on one to 100. Clarkson shoots 51% and Smart shoots 31%. Quick. Who played better defense?

Clarkson shoots significantly better from 3 point land than Smart shoots overall. He's that much better.

One guy doesn't drag his team down. The other does.

Lol you sound senile bro.

Smart isn't letting Clarkson shoot 51% on him in one on one, and Smart is going to take him to the post and shoot 60%.

Quit hating on Smart, I mean come on.

I don't get it. I'm supposed to tune into a game, see the young pup Lakers giving us a game on our own court, see Smart is 1 for 8 (surprise surprise) and I'm supposed to be like "hey this is great! Let's give him a huge extension! Oh his intense defense! It's so apparent!"

I mean...wow

[Roy H.]

Enough with the insults and the “bro” talk.

[RockinRyA]

Clarkson is a much better player than Ball. The Lakers blew the game by taking him out down the stretch.

Supposedly he can't play defense but he had twice as many steals as Smart despite 8 less minutes.  And he had the same number of rebounds (so far) despite all of Smart's intensity

Pretty sure Kyrie leads the league in steals so far. By this logic, he's then clearly the best defender in the league. 

Only a fool would make the implication that Clarkson is a better defender than Smart.

Let's say Clarkson is playing Smart one on one to 100. Clarkson shoots 51% and Smart shoots 31%. Quick. Who played better defense?

Clarkson shoots significantly better from 3 point land than Smart shoots overall. He's that much better.

One guy doesn't drag his team down. The other does.

Lol you sound senile bro.

Smart isn't letting Clarkson shoot 51% on him in one on one, and Smart is going to take him to the post and shoot 60%.

Quit hating on Smart, I mean come on.

I don't get it. I'm supposed to tune into a game, see the young pup Lakers giving us a game on our own court, see Smart is 1 for 8 (surprise surprise) and I'm supposed to be like "hey this is great! Let's give him a huge extension! Oh his intense defense! It's so apparent!"

I mean...wow

Who's telling you to praise his shooting?

[wayupnorth]

Clarkson is a much better player than Ball. The Lakers blew the game by taking him out down the stretch.

Supposedly he can't play defense but he had twice as many steals as Smart despite 8 less minutes.  And he had the same number of rebounds (so far) despite all of Smart's intensity

Pretty sure Kyrie leads the league in steals so far. By this logic, he's then clearly the best defender in the league. 

Only a fool would make the implication that Clarkson is a better defender than Smart.

Let's say Clarkson is playing Smart one on one to 100. Clarkson shoots 51% and Smart shoots 31%. Quick. Who played better defense?

Clarkson shoots significantly better from 3 point land than Smart shoots overall. He's that much better.

One guy doesn't drag his team down. The other does.

Lol you sound senile bro.

Smart isn't letting Clarkson shoot 51% on him in one on one, and Smart is going to take him to the post and shoot 60%.

Quit hating on Smart, I mean come on.

I don't get it. I'm supposed to tune into a game, see the young pup Lakers giving us a game on our own court, see Smart is 1 for 8 (surprise surprise) and I'm supposed to be like "hey this is great! Let's give him a huge extension! Oh his intense defense! It's so apparent!"

I mean...wow

This assessment of each players play truly confuses me.

Smart is a quality creator. There is a reason we have him on the ball so much.

Brad doesn't do that on accident.

[BringToughnessBack]

Clarkson is a much better player than Ball. The Lakers blew the game by taking him out down the stretch.

Supposedly he can't play defense but he had twice as many steals as Smart despite 8 less minutes.  And he had the same number of rebounds (so far) despite all of Smart's intensity

Pretty sure Kyrie leads the league in steals so far. By this logic, he's then clearly the best defender in the league. 

Only a fool would make the implication that Clarkson is a better defender than Smart.

Let's say Clarkson is playing Smart one on one to 100. Clarkson shoots 51% and Smart shoots 31%. Quick. Who played better defense?

Clarkson shoots significantly better from 3 point land than Smart shoots overall. He's that much better.

One guy doesn't drag his team down. The other does.

Lol you sound senile bro.

Smart isn't letting Clarkson shoot 51% on him in one on one, and Smart is going to take him to the post and shoot 60%.

Quit hating on Smart, I mean come on.

I don't get it. I'm supposed to tune into a game, see the young pup Lakers giving us a game on our own court, see Smart is 1 for 8 (surprise surprise) and I'm supposed to be like "hey this is great! Let's give him a huge extension! Oh his intense defense! It's so apparent!"

I mean...wow

Smart offense is tough to watch! Love everything else he does though. I am doubtful he evers develops offense like Bradley.

[positivitize]

Tatum walking in a boot "as a precaution"

What would this team look like without Hayward, Horford, and Tatum? Are we basically Kyrie + the defenders?

[Eja117]

Clarkson is a much better player than Ball. The Lakers blew the game by taking him out down the stretch.

Supposedly he can't play defense but he had twice as many steals as Smart despite 8 less minutes.  And he had the same number of rebounds (so far) despite all of Smart's intensity

Pretty sure Kyrie leads the league in steals so far. By this logic, he's then clearly the best defender in the league. 

Only a fool would make the implication that Clarkson is a better defender than Smart.

Let's say Clarkson is playing Smart one on one to 100. Clarkson shoots 51% and Smart shoots 31%. Quick. Who played better defense?

Clarkson shoots significantly better from 3 point land than Smart shoots overall. He's that much better.

One guy doesn't drag his team down. The other does.

Lol you sound senile bro.

Smart isn't letting Clarkson shoot 51% on him in one on one, and Smart is going to take him to the post and shoot 60%.

Quit hating on Smart, I mean come on.

I don't get it. I'm supposed to tune into a game, see the young pup Lakers giving us a game on our own court, see Smart is 1 for 8 (surprise surprise) and I'm supposed to be like "hey this is great! Let's give him a huge extension! Oh his intense defense! It's so apparent!"

I mean...wow

Who's telling you to praise his shooting?

We're being told to look past his shooting.  We shouldn't do that. It would be a little like ignoring that a QB throws for 44% or that a WR drops every 3rd pass or that a pitcher throws a wild pitch every single game.

[RockinRyA]

Ugly win but a win. Felt the mistakes on defense affected the offense tonight. This should have never been close. Morris, Theis, and Baynes had good games the rest of the guys not so much.

Theis was a victim of a couple of bad calls tonight.

[liam]

Marcus had a rough 3 quarters but he did show up in the 4th and help put the game away. The whole team looks a little tired. Without Horford this team doesn't run the same.

[positivitize]

Clarkson is a much better player than Ball. The Lakers blew the game by taking him out down the stretch.

Supposedly he can't play defense but he had twice as many steals as Smart despite 8 less minutes.  And he had the same number of rebounds (so far) despite all of Smart's intensity

Pretty sure Kyrie leads the league in steals so far. By this logic, he's then clearly the best defender in the league. 

Only a fool would make the implication that Clarkson is a better defender than Smart.

Let's say Clarkson is playing Smart one on one to 100. Clarkson shoots 51% and Smart shoots 31%. Quick. Who played better defense?

Clarkson shoots significantly better from 3 point land than Smart shoots overall. He's that much better.

One guy doesn't drag his team down. The other does.

Lol you sound senile bro.

Smart isn't letting Clarkson shoot 51% on him in one on one, and Smart is going to take him to the post and shoot 60%.

Quit hating on Smart, I mean come on.

I don't get it. I'm supposed to tune into a game, see the young pup Lakers giving us a game on our own court, see Smart is 1 for 8 (surprise surprise) and I'm supposed to be like "hey this is great! Let's give him a huge extension! Oh his intense defense! It's so apparent!"

I mean...wow

Who's telling you to praise his shooting?

We're being told to look past his shooting.  We shouldn't do that. It would be a little like ignoring that a QB throws for 44% or that a WR drops every 3rd pass or that a pitcher throws a wild pitch every single game.

Yeah. Because the only thing guards do in the game of basketball is shoot...

[hwangjini_1]

well, just for fun, here are some interesting stats on smart's 3 point shooting.

if you include preseason, smart is 21/55, which is .382 from 3. he's also shooting .359 from 3 since the season opener.

super small sample size to be sure. i need to see a lot more to be convinced he can do it consistently, but, just thinking positive for now.