He's not even in the top 400 in field goal percentage. This would be like calling Isaiah Thomas a rim protector after he got a single block.
Marcus Smart is an exceptional defender. His offensive game is garbage slow-cooked in a crock pot for 24 hours until the garbage is literally falling off the bone. Maybe it improves.
What is your issue?
Or, as I suspect, do you feel the need to troll all the time. It gets very old reading garbage posts like this, from someone who is clearly more intelligent than what he wrote.
No Smart is not Kobe Bryant on offense, but he certainly isn't "garbage".
What a complete joke.
No issue. Just feel it's good to temper your enthusiasm when the guy is literally one of the worst offensive players in the league so far this year (400+ players with higher FG%). We all hope Smart turns the corner and suddenly becomes an offensive weapon, but who knows what might happen. We're 4 years into Ricky Rubio's career and he still can't shoot. Rubio's dreadful rookie offensive numbers were superior to Marcus Smart
Rookie Rubio (21 years old): 10.6 points, 8.2 assists, 4.2 rebounds, 2.2 steals, 36%/34%/80%
Rookie Smart (21 years old): 7.9 points, 3.3 assists, 3.5 rebounds, 1.4 steals, 36%/34%/65%
So about as bad as Rubio, but with worse free throw shooting.
Sure, maybe Smart gets it together. Judging by the careers of Rubio and Rondo, I'm certainly not holding my breathe... despite Smart's one big game. Even with that big game, Smart is shooting 33% this month. I'll hope for the best, but I'm certainly not overreacting to a fluke game where Smart hits 7 three pointers. Smart's an impact defensive player, though. He's going to have a career. It's just not clear yet if his career will be limited to defensive role player.
Context is kind of important in these comparisons...
Smart is shooting two more 3's per game with two less total shots per game than Rubio, so OF COURSE his shooting percentage is going to be skewed. 60% of Smart's shots are 3's; whereas, only 24% of Rubio's shots were 3's. You can question his shot selection, sure, but it's ridiculous and illogical to present those two as an analogy and not mention the context it's in.
Also, Rubio played 8 more minutes per game, which would definitely affect his higher numbers across the board than Smart.
Furthermore, below are Noel's numbers for the season:
Nerlens Noel (20 years old): 9.3 points, 1.9 blocks, 7.8 rebounds, 1.8 steals, 45%/0%/61%
For someone that's been riding and praising Noel so hard, I don't see that much difference offensively between Smart and Noel, and Smart is on a MUCH better team. His 45 fg% looks nice compared to Smart's 36 fg%, until you factor in that Noel shoots the vast majority of his shots in the paint with only a couple of shots outside of the paint each game. With Noel shooting 75% of his shots in the paint and Marcus shooting 60% of his shots from 3, that distance between the two is hardly impressive given the context.
You clearly give the benefit of the doubt to other teams' players while routinely criticizing ours to a fault. Like I said, criticize his shot selection all you want (which I still hold was probably a ploy by Stevens early in the season to make his shot better), but it's illogical to post two players' numbers as an analogy when their situations and shot charts were much different. That's a false analogy.
