« Reply #128 on: November 13, 2021, 02:25:32 PM »
I have a feeling Smart was going to be the/a captain and then his behavior so far this season has taken that option off the table so Ime has just shelved the idea.
Or Smart wasn't going to be the captain and Udoka saw how not naming Smart the captain could cause Smart to become a problem, so decided against naming any captain.
Is there any reason for thinking that?
Smart's calling out of the team's stars and his general attitude as seeing himself as more than what he is, whether that as a player or a locker room leader. Smart has tenure and he might not react well to having to call someone like one of the Jays his team captain, especially when he clearly thinks he should be in that role.
I'll grant you that Smart might have a greater sense of his own important but I don't understand where you get the impression that he thinks he's entitled to the captain role. I also don't understand why you think he'd be uncomfortable calling Al, Jaylen, or Jayson captains when the J's are much better players (and Smart knows that) and Al is Al.
I actually can't understand how you can't see the entitlement or the issue with calling younger players captain. To me, that's perplexing.
6+ years of listening to him in post game pressers and his vocal antics and actions on the court, to me, demonstrate a guy that thinks he is a leader(but isn't, at least not a good one) and wants that position. And he clearly has issues with others calling out his bad play privately when he went postal after being called out by coaches and wanted to fight Jaylen for telling him to calm down and stop with his tantrum, but no issue doing it to the guys he might have had to call captain.
Yeah, Smart is obviously a very emotional, volatile guy. I don't understand where the entitlement take comes from? He's crazy but he's never been selfish.
As for him going postal because coaches called him out... I don't remember that happening?
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