who cares about the numbers of Payton - with his haircut he clearly doesnt belong in the NBA
you all should accept that cause its me telling you - I'm not just violent & might hurt you but I'm also very wise
(who is that guy anyways - he is not playing for the C's - he could be posting 100ppg for all I care as long as he doesnt against the C's - he just wasnt drafted by Ainge for a reason - at the day he if is owning Smart with his drives he will get my attention. Its not like Smart will alow too many of those and if he gets past him there is allways Oly waiting to commit the foul.)
Smart can drive but many think that he is still comming back from his injuries. Yes he has blocked often before he got injured - I have seen that but that was so early in the season and maybe just maybe he wasnt ready for the NBA bigs at that point. Right now he shows what you expect from a guy with the desire to win games. He doesnt become a volume shooter and he doesnt try stuff he knows he isnt doing the team a favour with. He is the backup PG right now. His role on the team right now is not to lead in scoring - even on the bench there are guys who can do things on offence so there isnt a burdon on him to do so. He can concentrate on the things he does well. If you look at his stats you see that he doesnt commit many turnovers, he shoots a good enough 3 even in key moments, he passes better as the other guards on the team and drives opposing players insane with his D. All the other guys fail regulary on something (Turner, Zeller, Bradley on passing, Oly, Sully, Thornton on D). Bass alone next to Smart plays rock solid by sticking to his stenghts (ok, ok he made 2 3s this year I know but its not proofing me wrong). Scoring isnt the issue atm. If the other players could just fix the bad part of their games we would win a ton of games all of the sudden. We normally don't lose on the offence end (as long as we stay away from 3-P-land). Smart is doing all the things most of the other guys don't really shine in thats what I want of the bench. I need a 3 late - I bring Smart - he can make em - my team struggels on D - again I bring Smart. He has a role right now - BS doesnt bring him off the bench to score in bunches, its just not his role. He isnt even automaticly manning the PG position when he comes in. He has to play SG too. Again he gets inserted not to score in bunches at that position eighter. If BS wanted that he could bring Thornton instead.
If you keep that in mind you will find it hard to compare Smart to a pg that has a starting spot.
Smart will not put on that PG spot as long as his ability to get inside does not improof because if Smart and Bradley play alongside you end up without a guy who is trying to get inside. That would hurt the offence as a whole so BS sticks to Turner, dispite his bad passing and weak D.
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