Pistons (19-16) at Celtics (19-15) Game #35 1/6/16

[34truth]

People are right on criticizing Stevens, but he is still not responsible for Smart's shot selection or Turner's bad team defense. Do think it's scary that this year he doesn't seem to have an answer to any run other teams have

[jpotter33]

What a **** pathetic game from Smart.

Five straight negative posts on Smart later, but you're not a hata...

Is this little boys ymca game were we can't criticize?

I never blamed him for that play. The missed free throw and then hooking the guy is what I prob commented on.

No, it's called being fair. The Johnson three was clearly a mistake on Turner's part, but since you have an agenda against Smart, you blamed him. It's called confirmation bias.

You said "Smart not getting over the pick." How is that not blaming him for that play? Perhaps you do expect too much out of him, because he's probably top five in the league at getting around screens.

[max215]

Im tired of people defending Smart. There's no argument against them. He can go 0-20 every night and commit mistakes on the defensive side and they will still say he hustles it out, and he is the heart of this team.

I love Smart. He's my favorite player on the team. He played a very poor game.

[jpotter33]

People are right on criticizing Stevens, but he is still not responsible for Smart's shot selection or Turner's bad team defense. Do think it's scary that this year he doesn't seem to have an answer to any run other teams have

Smart's shot selection wasn't bad tonight, he just missed shots. There's no excuse for him missing those shots - he just missed. But with him not really being a knockdown shooter anyways and just now getting fully healthy for the first time in an injury-plagued season for him, it's going to take some time for him to get into rhythm and start shooting better.

[BudweiserCeltic]

We didn't deserve this win after how we played and shot free throws. Once again, Stevens deserves blame, too, with his freaking reluctance to change that ridiculous lineup to start the fourth. I'm really getting tired of having to question Stevens' rotations dang near every game.

Well, when you don't have a core lineup the team can lean on (which is exacerbated by Bradley, a stalwart of the offensive system, out with an injury), it's hard to settle on a set rotation or consistent lineups. 

Brad does have a frustrating tendency to tinker, but I think it all plays into a bigger picture where he figures out what works and what doesn't.  On an individual game basis it can be annoying.

Just not sure what he sees in Jerebko that warrants him getting playing time ahead of either Zeller or Lee and forcing us to go small unnecessarily.

For once I'd like Stevens to go big and force the other team to adapt to US.

[34truth]

Does any team values Smart as much as the Celtics do? Cause if that's the case please ship him out immediately and we're gonna have much better assets with NBA ready offensive games.

[Ilikesports17]

Does any team values Smart as much as the Celtics do? Cause if that's the case please ship him out immediately and we're gonna have much better assets with NBA ready offensive games.

Marcus is a beast. Watch the games

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

Boston does stink on offense a lot of the time, but the main problem tonight was giving up 33 points in the fourth quarter.

[KeepRondo]

What a **** pathetic game from Smart.

Five straight negative posts on Smart later, but you're not a hata...

Is this little boys ymca game were we can't criticize?

I never blamed him for that play. The missed free throw and then hooking the guy is what I prob commented on.

No, it's called being fair. The Johnson three was clearly a mistake on Turner's part, but since you have an agenda against Smart, you blamed him. It's called confirmation bias.

You said "Smart not getting over the pick." How is that not blaming him for that play? Perhaps you do expect too much out of him, because he's probably top five in the league at getting around screens.

which is why I made the comment. I was surprised that he wasn't getting over those picks.

[BudweiserCeltic]

Boston does stink on offense a lot of the time, but the main problem tonight was giving up 33 points in the fourth quarter.

Didn't want to say it, but yeah.

[alldaboston]

People are right on criticizing Stevens, but he is still not responsible for Smart's shot selection or Turner's bad team defense. Do think it's scary that this year he doesn't seem to have an answer to any run other teams have

Smart's shot selection wasn't bad tonight, he just missed shots. There's no excuse for him missing those shots - he just missed. But with him not really being a knockdown shooter anyways and just now getting fully healthy for the first time in an injury-plagued season for him, it's going to take some time for him to get into rhythm and start shooting better.

His shot selection was bad. He really needs to stop taking those threes with the man in his face. I cringe more watching smart shoot threes than watching Turner shoot threes.

[alldaboston]

Also smart really struggled getting around screens. I don't watch every game, but in the ones I do, it seems he always gets stuck.

[34truth]

Does any team values Smart as much as the Celtics do? Cause if that's the case please ship him out immediately and we're gonna have much better assets with NBA ready offensive games.

Marcus is a beast. Watch the games

He's great defensively, and brings a lot of good intangibles. I just think he is WAY too overvalued by Celtics fans. He wouldve work better back in the day when you could stil play non shooters at the guard spots and be OK

[jpotter33]

People are right on criticizing Stevens, but he is still not responsible for Smart's shot selection or Turner's bad team defense. Do think it's scary that this year he doesn't seem to have an answer to any run other teams have

Smart's shot selection wasn't bad tonight, he just missed shots. There's no excuse for him missing those shots - he just missed. But with him not really being a knockdown shooter anyways and just now getting fully healthy for the first time in an injury-plagued season for him, it's going to take some time for him to get into rhythm and start shooting better.

His shot selection was bad. He really needs to stop taking those threes with the man in his face. I cringe more watching smart shoot threes than watching Turner shoot threes.

Watch them again. Most of his threes tonight were due to the shotclock running down or the offense stalling and him having to shoot it.

Look, he's played like crap offensively since he's been back. But did anyone really suspect him to be shooting lights out four games after a major injury?

[34truth]

People are right on criticizing Stevens, but he is still not responsible for Smart's shot selection or Turner's bad team defense. Do think it's scary that this year he doesn't seem to have an answer to any run other teams have

Smart's shot selection wasn't bad tonight, he just missed shots. There's no excuse for him missing those shots - he just missed. But with him not really being a knockdown shooter anyways and just now getting fully healthy for the first time in an injury-plagued season for him, it's going to take some time for him to get into rhythm and start shooting better.

His shot selection was bad. He really needs to stop taking those threes with the man in his face. I cringe more watching smart shoot threes than watching Turner shoot threes.

This man just said his shot selection wasn't bad... Im done with celtics blog for the night. If Jeff Green had this type of shot selection you would throw Powerades at him