ESPN's Most Disappointing Rookies and Sophomores

[34truth]

Why did you cut out the section about Marcus smart ?

Seriously, what enjoyment do you get out of rooting for the C's?

All you do is dog on the Celtics, while cheering on our division rivals.

No I don't.  I celebrate the parts of this team worth celebrating.  I never cheer for any division rivals.

Marcus Smart has been disappointing.  Considering he came into the NBA with labels of being NBA ready and with a floor described as Tyreke Evans... I don't know how you can look at an injury plagued guy averaging 8.5 points, 2.7 assists, 3.5 rebounds on 32%/21%/69% shooting and not say it's anything but disappointing. 

If they left him out of the article, it was an oversight.  That's not to say he hasn't shown signs on the defensive end (though his defense might actually be a bit overrated)... but an article pointing out Andrew Wiggins "disappointing" over someone like Marcus Smart?  That's pretty dumb.  Embiid, Exum and Smart should all be on that list.  Jabari Parker too, probably.  Maybe Smart isn't on there, because he ignored all the injury prone guys.

Great post. Not afraid to speak the truth.. every other player in the celtics roster can be criticized except Marcus, I'll never get that..

Smart has been criticized plenty of times, no one is afraid to offer a crtique to other players.

Nope. A bunch of guys I know from this blog and friends of mine that are celtics fan just ignore Smart's woes but critique everyone else. Just look in threads, whenever you say something about him a bunch of people get butt hurt and go after you

[guava_wrench]

Of all those guys, the only one I'd be really worried about is Okafor.  He's so good offensively that teams could let him get away with sucking on defense for years before he's held accountable.

Mike

Need to surround him with defensive minded players.

Additionally, he needs teammates that, even if they aren't great on defense, at least understand team defense and can rotate.

[jpotter33]

Smart has helped a team win games. That's more than you can say for the vast majority of the rookies and sophs.

The problem I have with this thread is that it comes across incredibly smug and dismissive of other team's prospects

The lack of self-awareness demonstrated in that sentence is stunning.  Even if one grants it fairly describes the attitude of other commenters, CELTICS FANS on a CELTICS MESSAGE BOARD being "smug" and "dismissive" about players on other teams is the most normal thing ever.  Someone who claims to be a Celtics fan being "smug" and " dismissive" about Celtics players while being insistently enthusiastic about garbage players on other teams is flatly abnormal.

Mike

TP!

[AngryAndIrritable]

In no way shape or form does Smart deserve to  be on this list and whoever has brought him up in this thread to draw attention away from their 'pet projects' deserves all the contempt it is possible to muster. He does exactly what it said on the tin coming out of college. Elite D,  offensively a bit of an omnishambles.

[Moranis]

Marcus Smart averages at 21
8.5 points, 2.7 assists, 32%/27%/69%

Kyle Lowery averages at 21
9.6 points, 3.6 assists, 43%/25%/70%

Rodney Stuckey stats at 21
7.6 points, 2.8 assists, 40%/19%/81%

George Hill stats at 22
5.7 points, 1.8 assists, 40%/33%/78%

Mike

what were they the year before?