The value of Marcus Smart

[gouki88]

Smart has played 17 games this year.

The Celtics are 9-8 with Smart in the line up. They are 4-5 without.

Having Smart back will certainly help but let’s not act like he’s the savior of all saviors.

He'll turn us from a .400 team into a .563 team!

[Goldstar88]

Smart has played 17 games this year.

The Celtics are 9-8 with Smart in the line up. They are 4-5 without.

Having Smart back will certainly help but let’s not act like he’s the savior of all saviors.

He'll turn us from a .400 team into a .563 team!

I would take it at this point. And just think, if the C’s could move Kemba for a player(s) that can contribute on both ends of the court, that percentage could potentially go to .700? 🤔

[gouki88]

Smart has played 17 games this year.

The Celtics are 9-8 with Smart in the line up. They are 4-5 without.

Having Smart back will certainly help but let’s not act like he’s the savior of all saviors.

He'll turn us from a .400 team into a .563 team!

I would take it at this point. And just think, if the C’s could move Kemba for a player(s) that can contribute on both ends of the court, that percentage could potentially go to .700? 🤔

Yeah, I would take it for sure. I would take anything resembling a good run of health at this stage...

[Somebody]

Smart has played 17 games this year.

The Celtics are 9-8 with Smart in the line up. They are 4-5 without.

Having Smart back will certainly help but let’s not act like he’s the savior of all saviors.

He'll turn us from a .400 team into a .563 team!

I would take it at this point. And just think, if the C’s could move Kemba for a player(s) that can contribute on both ends of the court, that percentage could potentially go to .700? 🤔

You mean another superstar? We're not getting a .700 record in this kind of season without a stacked team.

[Ogaju]

Smart has played 17 games this year.

The Celtics are 9-8 with Smart in the line up. They are 4-5 without.

Having Smart back will certainly help but let’s not act like he’s the savior of all saviors.

It’s not going to solve all of their problems, but it would help quite a bit..Let’s not forget that the Celtics were 8-3 to begin the season with the Smart, Brown, Tatum, Theis, Thompson starting lineup for most games. Season started to go south as soon as Kemba came back.

the reason for that is you know have three ball stoppers instead of two.

[Goldstar88]

Smart has played 17 games this year.

The Celtics are 9-8 with Smart in the line up. They are 4-5 without.

Having Smart back will certainly help but let’s not act like he’s the savior of all saviors.

He'll turn us from a .400 team into a .563 team!

I would take it at this point. And just think, if the C’s could move Kemba for a player(s) that can contribute on both ends of the court, that percentage could potentially go to .700? 🤔

You mean another superstar? We're not getting a .700 record in this kind of season without a stacked team.

You’re right. Too manny losses for that. Fortunately the East is weak and there is still time to turn things around. Hopefully they do so over the next few weeks and if they don’t, Danny better have a contingency plan.

[Indocelts]

Before Kemba returned, the team played best when Smart embraced the facilitating role, being the assist leader, deferring to others to take the shots (mainly the 2 Jays).

When Smarts took more than 10 shots per game, we lost the games. He is not an efficient volume shooters and it was demoralizing to see him jacking up 3s afer 3s or difficult shots around the basket.

Since Kemba returned, he became the main PG. But, for some reasons, he could not facilitate the team. He assist per game is much lower than Smart's. And much worse, he took lots of shots with low accuracy. Basically, he becomes like Smart ver.2, and the result was eerily similar. The Celtics lost games after games.

I argue (again), that if we want to make the 2 Jay's our team backbone, the they must be supported by a pass first PG. Not Kemba type PG or jacking-3s-version-of-Smart type of PG. We need a rebounding and dominant Center with efficient FG% to complement them.

We should trade Kemba for a center and let Smart be the PG, but with a restriction on the number of shots he takes per game. And Brad should be willing to enforce this.

Otherwise, it's gonna be a long season.