His 27.9 assist ratio is a career high, and when you look at his offensive numbers with passing Smart jumps from the 7th percentile to the 51st. Smart has a career-high usage rate, and the problem with that is it has led to a career-high turnover ratio at 14.
This is a take the good with the bad scenarios. Stevens will live with some Smart turnovers because he knows he will make some great passes as well. Here is the number that sums it up. Smarts assist to usage percentage according to Cleaningtheglass.com is 1.10, one of the best marks among all guards. His turnover percentage is 16.8 percent, one of the worst marks among all guards. But despite the turnovers, Smart always makes the extra pass.
The Celtics are 9.6 points better when MS-36 is on the floor. Smart accounts for 36% of our total assists as a team, so you can make the educated guess and assume Smart's contributions on the floor, via defense, passing, screen-assisting, and intangibles cannot be defined.
I suspect you might be mistaking this figure?
Off Rtg and Def Rtg represents the number of points per 100 possessions a team scores / allows while a certain player is on the court, so for offensive rating higher is better, for defensive rating lower is better.
Smart has an offensive rating of 92 and a defensive rating of 103. That means while Smart is on the court, Boston is scoring 92 points per 100 possessions and allowing 103 points per 100 possessions. We are being outscored by 11 points per 100 possessions with him on the court.
By comparison Terry Rozier has an offensive rating of 107 and a defensive rating of 102, so boston is outscoring opponents by 5 points per 100 possessions when he is on the court.
Smart's overall real-plus-minus is +0.37 which ranks 22nd among all NBA PG's - barely scraping the top 30. Rozier's RPM of +1.2 ranks him 15th among PG's.
With the exception of total assists generated, Terry Rozier is outdoing Smart in practically every single statistical category (both advanced and simple) - not only has he been the better player this year, but he's also show far more progression over the years compared to Smart - he is essentially the exact same player he was 4 years ago.
If anything Rozier plays even better when his opportunities are increased, and Marcus Smart is in the way of that because for some irrational reason he always gets gifted the extra minutes when they are available.
I don't understand the Smart love, and I will be well and truly shocked if Boston offers him a double figure extension after this season given the way he's playing. He's in the perfect system here because Boston has so many quality shooters that the team can somewhat cover for his horrendous shooting ability - so the version of Smart that we all see right now is the best version anybody will ever see. If he goes to any other team (with less shooters around him) his career will instantly collapse and he will immediately be demoted to defensive role player off the bench for the rest of his career, since that is effectively the only thing he can do at an exceptionally high level with any kind of consistency.